{"id":6367,"date":"2018-01-30T17:31:06","date_gmt":"2018-01-30T17:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/?p=6367"},"modified":"2025-12-26T23:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-26T23:16:10","slug":"advice-times-art-meets-social-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/2018\/01\/advice-times-art-meets-social-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Advice For Our Times: art meets social service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A date for our diaries. A timely email brings news of an intriguing event which connects art with real life. Perhaps even more importantly, it connects &#8216;us and them&#8217; with the many different people and organisations working to help those in need. A creative social service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fruitmarket.co.uk\/event\/advice-for-our-times\/\">Advice For Our Times<\/a> is a pop up event at Edinburgh\u2019s Fruitmarket Gallery on Thursday 8 February. It brings together lawyers and specialist services to share knowledge and advice on our rights under Scottish law on housing, immigration and benefits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is an imaginative extension of Jacqueline Donachie\u2019s exhibition&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.fruitmarket.co.uk\/\">Right Here Among Them<\/a>&nbsp;which explores gaps in support and services through her own personal experience. The first exhibit in the gallery is Advice Bar, both minimalist sculpture and performance space, which provides a platform for public advice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Advice Bar made its first appearance in New York&nbsp; when a young Donachie &#8216;dispensed drinks and free advice to visitors&#8217;. In similar spirit, <em>Temple of Jackie<\/em> (see featured image) transforms a camping trailer into a miniature social space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"httpss:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bkJ4Aa27AUc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Thursday 8 February, the Fruitmarket Gallery in Market Street becomes an interactive advisory forum for one day. Donachie\u2019s&nbsp; &#8216;socially engaged and participatory&#8217; work explores personal issues in&nbsp;aluminium, leather, paper and bronze,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In response, voluntary organisations, lawyers and other experts in their fields set out their stalls to share knowledge about immigration, benefits, disability, housing, employment, family law and financial law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Housing is a particularly pressing issue with homelessness and rough sleeping visibly increasing in most cities. The day&#8217;s programme includes advice from Shelter, Cyrenians and Rock Trust. The Edinburgh-based Rock Trust, providing support for young homeless people, will focus on &#8216;myth-busting&#8217; homelessness and information about the different services available to homeless young people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fruitmarket.co.uk\/events\/current\/\">Right Here Among Them<\/a> ends on Sunday 11 February<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Featured image by <a href=\"httpss:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/16497759@N07\/38475731602\/in\/photolist-21BYbwN-21BYb7j-KyFjB1\">London Road<\/a>, Temple of Jackie 2011 by Jacqueline Donachie, Right Here Among Them at Fruitmarket Gallery: CC BY 2.0<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>PS Our thanks to <a href=\"httpss:\/\/mailchi.mp\/d4c39d889633\/january-erock?e=42adbd7f78\">Rock Trust<\/a> for the timely email. We welcome news of interesting topical events across Scotland.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Advice For Our Times, a pop up event at Edinburgh\u2019s Fruitmarket Gallery on Thursday 8 February, highlights gaps in advice, support and social services for people suffering adversity of many different kinds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":6370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[706],"tags":[80,235],"class_list":["post-6367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","tag-art","tag-social-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17721,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions\/17721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sceptical.scot\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}