Demarco European Art Foundation

Thank you to The Herald for making Richard their cover star in today's edition, celebrating the launch of the Book Festival!

ScotlandsFest: In Conversation with Richard Demarco this Thursday (12pm, 15th Aug) - join us at St Columba's, by the Castle Scottish Episcopal Church, Edinburgh. Book tickets at the link below:

ScotlandsFest: In Conversation – Richard Demarco For Edinburgh Festival and Fringe legend Richard Demarco, the history of Scotland begins in the words of the great medieval poets Henryson and Dunbar, the composer Henry Carver and the Scotichronicon, the first important history of Scotland written by Walter Bower. Demarco’s Edinburgh Arts program...

Dear Friends,

If you're attending the Edinburgh Festival this coming week, please support this Belarusian political physical theatre adaptation of Orwell's "1984". Richard is pictured here in conversation with members of the remarkable "Within Theatre Company." Performances are every day in Old Lab Summerhall until Sunday 11th August, 11.40am - 12.40pm.

The company is led by dancer and theatre director, Sofia Barysevich. Also at Summerhall in the Cow Shed, and Old Lab corridor, is an installation, and artworks related to political prisoners in Belarus.

Orwell's seminal work has never been more relevant.

Tante belle cose x

Dear Friends of Richard and the Demarco Archive,

Many of you will now be aware of the impending sale of Summerhall. The life’s work of Professor Richard Demarco must find a new home.

We urgently need to transport half the collection to a new location at The Crichton in Dumfries. This estate contains the Dumfries campuses of Glasgow University, the Open University and Dumfries and Galloway University. In the short term, we also hope to maintain and allow access to 7 rooms of art at Summerhall during this year's Edinburgh Festival.

We are now faced with raising the funds needed to facilitate an initial move of half the archive, while continuing to pay rates and rent on the remaining 7 rooms at Summerhall, until the final move to a new permanent home in the Spring of 2025.

A conservative estimate for all of the above, as well as taking this opportunity to do the necessary conservation and repairs of the works damaged in the recent second flooding at Summerhall is estimated at more than £50k.

Please, if you can, consider making a gift now to the Demarco Archive Trust so that we can continue to give life to this important and unique living work of art, and celebrate the life’s work of Richard Demarco as he approaches his 94th birthday.

Would you also please forward this page to any individual or institution you know of who might be supportive of our mission to maintain and expand this life’s work of Richard Demarco which is of national and international importance.

Help raise £50000 to Support the Demarco Archive Weʼre raising money to Support the Demarco Archive. Support this JustGiving Crowdfunding Page.

Last night, Richard and Clare Henry met with Stephen Skrynka and Sarah Martin (and Beryl!), both responsible for the pioneering Revelator project in Glasgow. Exciting plans ahead as they plot to collaborate at this year's Edinburgh Festival!

Krzysztof Noworyta a dear friend of Richard and the Demarco Archive Trust has just returned from a remarkable mercy mission to Odesa, delivering humanitarian aid with his own car! He met with the Ukrainian artist and war veteran Oleksa Koba by sheer chance. Please share this short video of Krzystof's uplifting journey:

Cherson Expedition Story of humanitarian convoy for deocuppied Cherson City in Ukraine lead by cpt. Yevgen Klymenko and Kostya Zuchenko and me.

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