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All Change

Several of this year’s CAF artists are exhibiting their work at Cupar’s historic County Buildings on St Catherine Street – and what better place to find artwork responding to historical, architectural and human transformation than such a significant civic building? The buildings, designed in 1810 by prominent Scottish architect James Gillespie Graham to act as a formal entrance to the town, now house a range of services such as accommodation and registration. The site is currently undergoing some significant changes, as part of the building will soon be affordable housing – over the past few… Read More »All Change

What’s on today

Only 5 days to go until the Cupar Arts Festival launch! CAF 2016 features twenty artists from across the UK, Italy and Quebec whose work will be shown in a number of exciting locations within the town, many seldom seen before by the visiting public. Our programme also includes music, spoken word and family events. All of our events are free and booking is not required. Come along to our launch day to find out more, meet some of the artists and try out some amazing street food made from local Fife produce.

What’s on today

Only 6 days to go until the Cupar Arts Festival launch! CAF 2016 features twenty artists from across the UK, Italy and Quebec whose work will be shown in a number of exciting locations within the town, many seldom seen before by the visiting public. Our programme also includes music, spoken word and family events. All of our events are free and booking is not required. Come along to our launch day to find out more, meet some of the artists and try out some amazing street food made from local Fife produce.

From Rannoch to St John’s

From Rannoch to St John’s One of our CAF exhibitions is currently making its way to the Festival via a rather unusual route – Maris is carrying the artwork Reliquary on foot from their studio in Rannoch to Cupar, where it will be housed in St John’s Church on Bonnygate. Speaking to Jenny Messenger, Maris explained that they were drawn to St John’s Church because of the nature of their project, which reconstructs a lost work based on the ancient Celtic poem The Song of Amergin: ‘Reliquary suggested a ‘sepulchral’ or ‘sacred’ space. A dimly… Read More »From Rannoch to St John’s

It’s all coming together…

Preparations for our official launch day on Saturday, June 18 are heating up, and the Cupar Arts Festival team have been working hard to create a collection of fantastic opening events for our fifth festival. As well as our launch party at the Festival Hub at 12 noon, visitors can look forward to street food, live music, tours of the Thermos Museum, and the Caravan Obscura, which offers people the chance to step inside a world of optical illusions created by artist Kenny Bean using mirrors, lenses and light – all inside a caravan, of course. From 4pm at… Read More »It’s all coming together…