Christmas decorations, Chinese lanterns, henna hand painting – it sounds a great way to warm up at the end of a cold week.. A winter festival celebrating the wonderful mixture of cultures in North Edinburgh starts with a hands-on workshop on Friday 10th December and continues with multicultural food and live music at a party in the evening. Everyone is welcome to North Edinburgh Cross Cultural Winter Festival but its best to book in advance.
Continue reading “Cross cultural winter festival”Anyone for the Big Society? Power to the People? invites you to get involved. Just like Alice, a long-term resident of Hillstone, who is inspired by the new Hillstone Empowerment Project to make some positive changes in her community. Will her enthusiasm be enough to get other people on board and to challenge the agenda of those with power? Find out on Sunday…
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Calling all drummers, dancers, singers, poets and storytellers. Here’s your open invitation to take part in a fantastic event to celebrate Edinburgh’s cultural diversity on Monday 1st November at Fort Community Wing. You are also welcome if you would rather help out behind the scenes – or simply enjoy the show.
Continue reading “Opening a new creative space in Leith”If we are all to become part of The Big Society should we decide what power and responsibility we want? Should we empower ourselves to say how we want to be empowered?!
One good question always leads to another. Power to the People? The latest theatre project from ACTive Inquiry invites you to bring your stories, thoughts and ideas to a drama workshop on Saturday 30th October at Pilmeny Youth Centre exploring the meaning of power and empowerment.
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A text from Alice gets the day off to a good start. “Get ur dancing shoes on,” she says, “an cu on Saturday”. So what’s happening Saturday? Good food and great music for the Special Yendu at Tollcross Community Centre on the 23rd September from 7pm till midnight.
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What more can you say? Elrec’s Youth Zone has the seal of approval from the young people who use it but it is not just for fun. The Youth Zone in Forth Street is the only space in Edinburgh and Lothians where young people from ethnic minority communities can meet to make new friends, mix music, share ideas or get confidential advice on all kinds of issues.
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One of six designs raising money for art therapy in Leith.
No, it’s not too soon. Christmas card brochures are already coming through the letter box but here’s a local charity well worth supporting. Multi-Cultural Family Base (MCFB) has set up a social enterprise selling cards to fund some of their vital work with vulnerable families in Leith.
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No such thing as a free cake: but make your own with the recipe below…
Smell the coffee (and make the cake). This Friday is the biggest event on the calendar for MacMillan Cancer Research and once again Mark Lazarowicz and Malcolm Chisholm are taking part in The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning. We are all invited to join them at Vittoria Restaurant, courtesy of Tony Crolla, on the corner of Brunswick Street and Leith Walk from 10am on Friday 24th September.
And how about making some cake when you get home. Here is a recipe for a lovely easy apple cake from one of the MacMillan cook books (we treated ourself to a copy at the last coffee morning in Vittoria’s).
Last year MacMillan raised £7.9m towards cancer research. This year they are aiming to make it £8m so every coffee and cook book is going towards a very good cause. Lots more recipes on the MacMillan website.
QUICK AND EASY APPLE CAKE
8oz (250 g) self raising flour
half teaspoon salt
4 oz (124 g) butter or marg
1lb (600 g) cooking apples or tasty eating apples
40 oz (125 g) caster sugar
2 eggs – beaten
1 oz (50 g) soft brown sugar
Handful flaked almonds (optional)
Rub fat into flour and salt. Peel and chop apples into bite size pieces and mix into flour with sugar and eggs. (add a spoonful of milk if it is too stiff). Put into 8in square cake tin or pie dish (greased). Sprinkle with sugar and flaked almonds. Bake in warm oven (Gas 6) for roughly 40 minutes.
Confrontation – how the media simplifies a complex story [pictures by George Lamb]
Every now and then a surprised face peered through the window: this was not business as usual in the Scottish Parliament, not even during the Festival of Politics. For once the emphasis was on actions rather than words. And actions can speak volumes.
Continue reading “Louder than words: actions of the News Group”It’s true. In the debating chamber of the Scottish Parliament yesterday a majority voted in favour of a maximum wage, a cap on bank bonuses and renationalisation of the railways. Whatever will the News Group do tomorrow?
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