Calton Hill

But not on the 31st obviously.

But they hold it on Calton Hill.

And it's a huge.

Pagan fire festival.

of Edinburgh.

And then I got talking to some people before I got on the bus and they said, no, you should go to Carlton Hill because it's easier to get into town from there and you can go and see that show that you're going.

Okay, fine, I'll do that.

So they told you,

We've got a rather spectacular example of what happens when you don't do that just along the other end of the M8 motorway.

And at the top of Carlton Hill in Edinburgh stands the National Monument.

The plan back in 1826 was gloriously ambitious, a replica of the Parthenon in Athens, no less befitting Edinburgh's status at that time in the Age of Enlightenment as the Athens of the North.

Just one slight problem.

You guys are all awesome and helping this channel out a lot.

Now, we showed the obelisk, which is located at Calton Hill, right next to everything that we've shown today.

And this is when we get the connection, where we get the Robert Burns Memorial, where there is a life-size statue of Burns himself.

Burns himself.

But many of you will already know Emii's work because of her, I would say, prolific in a way, um, museum kind of support because she's, she's had, um, institutional shows at spaces like the Towner and the Henry Moore, uh, Foundation and the Hepworth Wakefield, and so many incredible international shows as well.

But most recently, she had an installation on the top of Carlton Hill in Edinburgh, looking out over the whole city.

It's like kind of high, high, high hill that has the most spectacular views, and it really was a highlight of the Edinburgh Arts, um, Festival in summer.

And, um, so many people actually keep mentioning it to me.

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good uh yeah i'm good i'm in scotland still i'm in edinburgh and it's kind of gray and rainy but it's scotland yeah it's fall and it's beautiful and i'm dog sitting and i'm drumming in this wild uh fire festival that's going to happen on sowan night which is October 31st Halloween and it's going to happen on Carlton Hill like in the middle of the city so I volunteered to be actually had an audition to be in this drum performance and of course I got in but then it was like oh I have rehearsals like pretty extensive like twice a week like four hours and one's like six like they're really long and all there's all these gigs we're doing and playing and costumes I have to make and decided to go as a punk rock hedgehog to play my drum and the night so now i have to create a non-flammable which means no synthetic material hedgehog costume to drum in and so my life just keeps getting weirder um so now i'm going i'm going to thrift stores trying to figure out how to do this with two dogs that you know in tow i'll be like you guys wait out here i have to hit this thrift store for a

Oh, I wish I was there to help you.

I

And I live in...

I- at the time, I lived in the north of, in North Edinburgh, and the nearest hill to me is Calton Hill, and it's, was our s- kind of stomping ground over COVID.

We would go up this hill, and it's amazing.

Edinburgh's an incredible city.

It's...

And the geographic, the, the landscape is just, h- honestly, it's absolutely staggering.

And Calton Hill is one of my favorite viewpoints because you're, you can see the docks.

You can see the water.