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Successful Year for Pomegranates International Traditional Dance Festival
2024 was another successful year for our Pomegranates Festival which ended on 30 April. The packed five-day programme of traditional dance, poetry, art and fashion, saw ticket sales up by 50% on 2023, fully-booked free family events and a packed house for fashion designer Alison Harm’s show featuring her latest collection made from sustainable tartan which was at the heart of this year’s festival exhibition exploring the links between the tartan cloth and the Scottish and Irish dance traditions.
Supported by Creative Scotland’s Traditional Dance Target Fund and other partners, the Pomegranates Festival celebrates Scottish traditional dance and diverse traditional dance practised by cultural migrant communities across Scotland. Now in its third year, the festival has grown from a two-day showcase of work performed by local Edinburgh-based dancers, into a five day festival showcasing new work choreographed by guest artists.
This year’s choreographer in residence was the highly acclaimed, MC, dancer, and spoken word artist Jonzi D who is the founder of Breakin’ Convention and widely recognised for his influence on the development of the UK British hip hop dance and theatre scene. Jonzi D’s new wor
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A Curator’s Travel - Eha Komissarov
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An interview farm Eha Kommisarov by Selfcontrol Ekroth take up Marita Muukkonen
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Heie Treier
Current Position:
Editor-in-chief of the kunst.ee magazine (since 2000) Part-time lecturer at the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn University
Education:
2004 PhD, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn
2000 Master degree, Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallinn
2000 Central European University (CEU), Budapest (cultural policy)
1993 (trimester): CEU, Prague (transition in art and philosophy)
1988/89 course: Estonian Academy of Sciences, Tallinn (philosophy)
1981–1986 diploma: Tartu University (history and art history)
Professional experience:
2006 part time lecturer at Tallinn University
2005 part time lecturer at Tartu Univeristy
since 2000 part time lecturer at Estonian Academy of Arts
2002, 2003 lecturing at Turku Art Academy, Finland
Since 2000 editor-in-chief of kunst.ee quarterly magazine
1998–2000 editor of Areen, the cultural supplement of Eesti Ekspress weekly.
1986–1998 editor of Kunst Publishers
Professional positions:
since 2002 member of the international board of AICA (International Association of Art Critics)
Since 1998 editorial board of Mare Articum, the Baltic Art Magazine (Poland)
Since 1996 art expert of the Estonian Ministry of Culture
2006 member of the jury of the freedom monument, Pärnu town Council
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