The brains behind Edinburgh Student Arts Festival, Briana Pegado, takes us on a tour of her working life. Briana Pegado - Director, Edinburgh Student Arts FestivalSwipe / click on the arrow to begin Tuesday 1 DecemberThis is artist Valpuri Karinen – an Edinburgh College of Art student joining us for the second time for the Edinburgh Student Arts Festival (ESAF) 2016 – showing us the inspiration for the botany-inspired piece she’s producing for ESAF. I was conducting interviews today at the year-old Hill Street Design House – a studio space for graphic designers, jewellers, fashion designers and interior designers. Wednesday 2 DecemberThese are pictures from the first ever Edinburgh Artist’ Moving Image Festival (EAMIF) which launched this December. The festival was dreamed up and produced by our ESAF 2015 Visual Arts Curator, Adam Castle, and our ESAF 2015 Stall Market Coordinator, Lorna Thorne, with a team of other student artists. EAMIF was the first festival of its kind and I spent quite a bit of time over the summer lending Adam an ear while he was in the planning stages for it. Tuesday 8 DecemberI nearly forgot to take a picture of this wonderful meeting with the brilliant Jennifer Williams, a fellow American and programme manager at the recently refurbished Scottish Poetry Library (SPL), which is a light, airy, beautiful and cozy place. We discussed future collaborations, such as SPL hosting one of our artists in residence, a potential award to support performance poetry, and we agreed on collaborating for an event called ‘My Life in Poetry’ for our festival week next February. Wednesday 9 DecemberI saw Tracks of the Winter Bear at the Traverse Theatre today. It was intimate, moving and inventive. We aim to work more closely with the Traverse through our professional and creative development programme. The best perk of this job is going to a show launch and seeing new work. While managing a team, organising artists, designing our programme, engaging with our creative partners and overseeing branding for the festival are all part of the creative process, going to a show brings it back to the art. Thursday 10 DecemberAs a new company director with strange hours and some weekend commitments, I do enjoy working from my bed or having a ‘productive lie in’. Today I was looking at samples of our new branding for ESAF 2016 designed by Rebecca Archer. We aim to work with a new graphic designer or creative each year to put their spin and given take on our festival identity. Our identity last year centered on four concentric circles and Rebecca has evolved it into a yin-and-yang-resembling circle. Briana Pegado is Founder and Director of Edinburgh Student Arts Festival. www.edinburghstudentartsfestival.com Arts PeopleCross artformLink to Author(s): Briana Pegado Published: 23-12-2015 Log in or register to post comments