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[[File:The former State Cinema, Great Junction Street, Edinburgh.jpg|thumb|300px|The former State Cinema, Great Junction Street, Edinburgh, the current home of Sketchy Beats]]



'''Sketchy Beats''' is an [[Concept art|arts concept]] combining live music, improvised dancing and life drawing.<ref>https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sketchy-beats-life-drawing-tickets-30671397977#</ref> The concept has received considerable praise and coverage in the Scottish press and in Scottish art circles.<ref>Timeout (magazine): 6 October 2015</ref><ref>Scottish Television News (STV): 30 September 2015</ref><ref>The Skinny (arts magazine): September 2015</ref><ref>The Culture Trip (arts magazine): 16 December 2016</ref>
'''Sketchy Beats''' is an [[Concept art|arts concept]] combining live music, improvised dancing and life drawing.<ref>https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/sketchy-beats-life-drawing-tickets-30671397977#</ref> The concept has received considerable praise and coverage in the Scottish press and in Scottish art circles.<ref>Timeout (magazine): 6 October 2015</ref><ref>Scottish Television News (STV): 30 September 2015</ref><ref>The Skinny (arts magazine): September 2015</ref><ref>The Culture Trip (arts magazine): 16 December 2016</ref>

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The former State Cinema, Great Junction Street, Edinburgh, the current home of Sketchy Beats

Sketchy Beats is an arts concept combining live music, improvised dancing and life drawing.[1] The concept has received considerable praise and coverage in the Scottish press and in Scottish art circles.[2][3][4][5]

Sketchy Beats was conceived by Cosima Canneti an Anglo-Italian philosophy student in March 2015 and initially appeared as a monthly pop-up event in the basement of the Yellow Bench concept cafe on Leith Walk[6] in Edinburgh, with the support of Polish-born Monika Lisicka . The original format was split into three sections: live drawing of a live musician; live drawing of a dancer; and finally live drawing of a posed model. The latter sections were supported by a live DJ, who would often to continue to provide music for those who remained.

Following a crowdfunder event in late 2015[7], the concept removed to a new premises at 208 Great Junction Street in Leith and was specifically rebranded as Sketchy Beats Cafe.[8] The arts events then moved to a weekly rather than monthly cycle.[9] The specifically non-profit cafe also houses other activities such as poetry slams and music jam sessions.[10]

With a strongly international flavour, notable models include the Italian, Eve Casini, the French jazz performance artist, Ariane Mamon, Slovakian Theresa van Wald, and the Lucrezia Paterno Castello from Sicily.

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