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@hiddendoorarts

Transforming forgotten and disused spaces with visual art, music, performances and more. https://hiddendoorarts.org

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Volunteer - Hidden Door We’re looking for some friendly faces to help us with a range of tasks and activities before, during and after the event.

Volunteer to help make Hidden Door 2026 happen! πŸ’ͺ

Full details here: hiddendoorarts.org/volunteer/

09.03.2026 09:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Got some spare time? Help us do something amazing! ❀️

We're getting ready to announce our plans for 2026, and we're welcoming new team members to work on a range of projects between now and our festival in June.

Lots of options to get involved - see our website for details

09.03.2026 09:43 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Join the volunteer team making Hidden Door Festival happen! πŸ’ͺ

We're getting ready to announce our plans for 2026, and we're now welcoming new team members to work on a range of projects between now and June.

Lots of options to get involved

Details: hiddendoorarts.org/volunteer/

06.03.2026 10:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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DANCERS - apply by 23rd March to get involved!

Hidden Door returns to Edinburgh in June, and we're now inviting dance artists and performers to be part of this immersive, multi-artform festival ❀️

We're seeking two dance works to feature every night of Hidden Door 2026, running from 3-7 June.

04.03.2026 12:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Calling all DANCE artists and performers πŸ‘€

Hidden Door returns to Edinburgh in June, and we're seeking two dance works to feature every night of the festival, running from Wednesday 3rd to Sunday 7th June.

Check our website for full details

#HiddenDoorFestival #Dance

02.03.2026 13:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨 OPEN CALL FOR DANCE 🚨

Hidden Door returns to Edinburgh in June, and we're now inviting dance artists and performers to be part of this immersive, multi-artform festival ❀️

We're seeking two dance works to feature every night of Hidden Door 2026, running from Wednesday 3rd to Sunday 7th June.

26.02.2026 17:13 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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FINAL CALL - DEADLINE SUNDAY πŸ‘€

Hidden Door returns in June 2026, and we're inviting VISUAL ARTISTS to get involved 🎨

Be part of an immersive, multi-artform festival celebrating new, emerging and breakthrough talent in Scotland.

hiddendoorarts.org/call-for-sub...

#HiddenDoorFestival

05.01.2026 13:32 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hidden Door returns to Edinburgh in June 2026, and we're inviting visual artists to get involved 🎨

Be part of an immersive, multi-artform festival celebrating new, emerging and breakthrough talent in Scotland.

Full details: hiddendoorarts.org/call-for-sub...

#HiddenDoorFestival

17.12.2025 08:00 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hidden Door returns to Edinburgh in June 2026, and we're now inviting visual artists to get involved 🎨

Be part of an immersive, multi-artform festival celebrating new, emerging and breakthrough talent in Scotland.

Full details: hiddendoorarts.org/call-for-sub...

#HiddenDoorFestival

15.12.2025 10:01 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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NEWS: Edinburgh's Hidden Door Festival Announces Dates For 2026 And Opens Application For Visual Artists - God Is In The TV Hidden Door is delighted to confirm that the festival will return fromΒ Wednesday 3 to Sunday 7 June 2026. The news follows confirmation today of vital support

NEWS: Edinburgh’s
@hiddendoorarts.bsky.social
Festival announces dates for 2026 and opens application for Visual Artists -
@thedecibeldecoder.bsky.social www.godisinthetvzine.co.uk/2025/12/08/n...

08.12.2025 22:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Call for Visual Artists. Deadline 11.01.2026

Call for Visual Artists. Deadline 11.01.2026

Hidden Door returns to Edinburgh in June 2026, and we're now inviting visual artists to get involved 🎨

Full details: hiddendoorarts.org/call-for-sub...

#HiddenDoorFestival

08.12.2025 17:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🚨 Big news day! 🚨

Tonight we can announce:

🀝 major new funding from @creativescots.bsky.social
πŸ—“οΈ 2026 festival dates confirmed for next June
🎨 visual art call for submissions launched

Read the full story: hiddendoorarts.org/hidden-door-...

#HiddenDoorFestival

04.12.2025 17:46 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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More pics from the Edge of Matter exhibition πŸ‘€

Last weekend nearly 1000 visitors came to explore The Paper Factory and the work of dozens of artists. Thank you to everyone who made it down, and to our wonderful artists and volunteers ❀️

In collaboration with Visual Arts Scotland

30.09.2025 15:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We're open today and tomorrow, 11am-4pm, for the final two days of Edge of Matter, a stunning new exhibition of artwork from dozens of visual artists.

Get yourself down to The Paper Factory - just a 5 min walk from tram, train and bus routes from Edinburgh City Centre.

#DoorsOpenDay

27.09.2025 10:51 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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If you're exploring #DoorsOpenDay this weekend, pop by The Paper Factory in Edinburgh - we've got a huge visual art showcase in an abandoned industrial site! 🏭πŸšͺ

We're open 11am - 4pm today and tomorrow
1 Turnhouse Road EH12 8NP
FREE entry

Details: hiddendoorarts.org/visual-art-s...

27.09.2025 08:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Lovely opening last night of Edge of Matter, a showcase of 40-ish artists presented by @hiddendoorarts.bsky.social and Visual Arts Scotland at The Paper Factory on Turnhouse Road, Edinburgh.

Running all weekend, 11am-4pm, take a take a tram to Edinburgh Gateway. hiddendoorarts.org/visual-art-s...

26.09.2025 10:36 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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A wonderful opening night for our showcase with Visual Art Scotland - thanks everyone who came along, and to @bellfieldbrewery.bsky.social for the refreshments! 🍻

Edge of Matter is on until Sunday, 11am-4pm at The Paper Factory, Turnhouse Road, Edinburgh

Details: hiddendoorarts.org/visual-art-s...

26.09.2025 09:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Visual Art Showcase opening tonight, 5-7pm!

With bus, tram and train connections within a 5 minute walk of our venue, there are lots of options for getting here - check out travel info here: hiddendoorarts.org/venue/

25.09.2025 11:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🎨 Visual Art Showcase πŸ—“οΈ 25-28 Sept

Zeena Wright-Al Tai is a multimedia artist and maker working across prop fabrication and textiles. Her practice blends mixed media to create fantastical environments and narrative scenes that explore themes of surrealism, solitude, folklore, and neo-colonialism.

21.09.2025 16:00 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🎨 Visual Art Showcase πŸ—“οΈ 25-28 Sept 🏭 The Paper Factory

San Zhang is a Chinese interdisciplinary artist born in Spain and living in Scotland. Existing between mythologies, languages, and cultural ghosts, they build a world inhabited by hybrid beings such as aliens, mutants and queer deities.

21.09.2025 09:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🎨 Visual Art Showcase πŸ—“οΈ 25-28 Sept 🏭 The Paper Factory

Ruaridh Litster-Campbell is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Glasgow. Working in paint, sculpture and metalwork, he examines the process of self documentation, how we storify events and the act of repeated recollections.

20.09.2025 17:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Rosie Hodgson Smith uses contemporary techniques to present speculative futures. Functioning as screens and palimpsests of the digital image age, her illusionary paintings are layered with internet archaeology utilising suggestions of image, infrastructure and user interfaces.

19.09.2025 15:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🎨 Visual Art Showcase πŸ—“οΈ 25-28 Sept

Niamh Finnigan creates sculptures and β€œ3D” paintings from materials such as cardboard, clay and discarded items. These scrap materials are assembled into crude, deliberately garish sculptures then disguised with traditional mediums such as oil pastel and paint.

19.09.2025 08:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🎨 Visual Art Showcase πŸ—“οΈ 25-28 Sept

Martha Williams' work is an experimental merging of traditional craft, construction techniques and contemporary sculptural practice. It explores how objects can become uncanny subversions of themselves, containing the potential for playful narrative & performance.

18.09.2025 09:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🎨 Visual Art Showcase πŸ—“οΈ 25-28 Sept 🏭 The Paper Factory

Maria McStay is an artist and sculptor from Northern Ireland, based in Edinburgh. Her practice uses ceramics, sound and site-specific materials to create installations inviting reflective engagement with the environment.

18.09.2025 09:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🎨 Visual Art Showcase πŸ—“οΈ 25-28 Sept 🏭 The Paper Factory

Liz McNeill applies repeated cycles of painting and modulated layering to generate large scale painting and prints. Her current work examines the concept of moral injury, a topic of increasing global concern.

17.09.2025 15:30 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🎨 Visual Art Showcase πŸ—“οΈ 25-28 Sept 🏭 The Paper Factory

Through her sculptural practice, Argentinian artist and practice-based researcher Irene Aldazabal experiments with organic materials and seeks to stay close to living organisms such as fungi or plants, attempting to learn from and with them.

17.09.2025 09:01 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Queer, neurodivergent sculptor and textile artist Holly Booth conjures installations where fabric mutates into flesh, into architecture, into threat.

Catch this stunning work at The Paper Factory 25-28 Sept as part of our Visual Art Showcase in collaboration with Visual Arts Scotland.

11.09.2025 18:02 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🎨 Visual Art Showcase πŸ—“οΈ 25-28 Sept 🏭 The Paper Factory

Fae Ross mythologises the body, embracing it as a site of transformation and transgression. She creates dark, feminised landscapes which vitalise their inhabitants / performers.

More info: hiddendoorarts.org/visual-art-s...

10.09.2025 14:04 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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🎨 Visual Art Showcase πŸ—“οΈ 25-28 Sept 🏭 The Paper Factory

Textile artist Fae Rogers works with themes of the body and the bed in soft sculptural forms. Fae repurposes fabrics and uses sewing techniques to create interactive artworks that encourage audience participation.

09.09.2025 09:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0