They have built robots, designed comics and dressed up as science fiction heroes – now children visiting Leith Library can take a trip to cyberspace in the last of a special series for the summer holidays. Don’t miss the chance to book tickets for Explore Quest on Tuesday 4 August. Continue reading “Holiday adventures for children in Leith Library”
Singing out loud at the Mela
Warming up: Zawadi with choir leader Rachel Milne at their first public performance in April
Great to hear the Zawadi Women’s Choir is going from strength to strength. Since their first appearance in April this year they have been collecting a growing list of requests (and some new members). If you didn’t hear them in the Festival preview on Leith FM you can see and hear them in person at the Mela on Saturday 8 August in the Garden Stage from 5-5.30pm. Continue reading “Singing out loud at the Mela”
Redbraes in bloom and ready for judging
The sun shone on the latest Redbraes open day celebrating the work of volunteers. Thanks to Becky Govier for the pictures.
Grass is cut, borders are blooming, fruit and veg are ripening fast and faces are smiling. In short, the stage is set for Edinburgh in Bloom judges visiting Redbraes Community Garden any day now. Continue reading “Redbraes in bloom and ready for judging”
On the beat with Simon Daley
Starting a new series on community, Fay Young and Nick Gardner take a walk with PC Simon Daley who challenges some popular misconceptions about young people – and the police too.
On night patrol Simon Daley sometimes turns on the blue light simply to reassure people that a police car is in their neighbourhood. By day he often thinks he is invisible. Continue reading “On the beat with Simon Daley”
Long Way from Home
Imagine you are a refugee trying to make a new life in Edinburgh. Better still, take a new look at the city with people who really are refugees. The film ‘Long Way From Home’ does just that and it is showing at Red Eye film club in Pilmeny Youth Centre at 7.30pm on Friday 3 July. Continue reading “Long Way from Home”
A passion for poetry
here, there and gone: where?
Home is a controversial word for Iyad Hayatleh, a Palestinian poet who was born in a Syrian refugee camp. “The most controversial word of my life,” he told us. He has never been to Palestine but to mark Refugee Week, Iyad read poems about home in Arabic and English as we gathered round a dead tree in Edinburgh’s Poetry Garden. Continue reading “A passion for poetry”
Thank you, thank you, thank you
Damp but undaunted: some of the World Kitchen team. From the left Jo, Pip, Balvinder, Fay, Mridu and Gordon.
We begged and borrowed and though we certainly didn’t steal we owe thanks to many friends and helpers for all your support – in cash, kind, cakes and cooking of all sorts – which made the World Kitchen in Leith such a great success despite the terrible weather on Gala Day. It’s a long list so let’s get going, here are our heartfelt thanks to… Continue reading “Thank you, thank you, thank you”
Home thoughts: poetry for Refugee Week
The ‘poetry tree’ in St Andrew Square Garden
Home is a dead tree in the garden. Well, not quite so dead now that it is fluttering with poems about home to mark Refugee Week in Edinburgh. Continue reading “Home thoughts: poetry for Refugee Week”
World Kitchen cooks up a storm
If you can’t stand the heat: a rare chance to draw breath in the World Kitchen
It didn’t just rain, it absolutely poured. Recipes and posters got washed away as the deluge battered our poor gazebos. But cooks just kept on cooking which was just as well because as soon as the rain stopped people came looking for food. Crowds of them. We might have hoped for better weather but we couldn’t have asked for a better beginning for the World Kitchen than the Gala Day in Leith Links on Saturday (13 June). Continue reading “World Kitchen cooks up a storm”
World Kitchen in Leith heats up
Find the world on your plate at the World Kitchen in Leith
Just five days to go to the opening in Leith Links on Saturday 13 June and it’s getting decidedly hotter in the World Kitchen in Leith. [See also World Kitchen Cooks up a Storm] Continue reading “World Kitchen in Leith heats up”