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With the eyes of the world on Scotland as the host of COP26, more Edinburgh-based organisations are taking significant steps not only to reduce their own business carbon emissions, but to make it easier for their patrons and team members to make positive changes. Two of these establishments, Leith based social enterprise Edinburgh Remakery, thatContinue reading “Edinburgh Remakery Teams up with Filmhouse to Help Stop Electronic Waste “

LeithLate, that began as a one night celebration of Leith in 2011, and still going strong as a multi-arts charity based in Leith, announces a multi arts event scheduled for later  this November. The full on programme comprises a mix of live music, cinema, theatre and conversation. The opening day of Friday 19th November atContinue reading “LeithLate Announces Three Day Pics n Mix Event at Biscuit Factory This November”

In a three way venture between Edinburgh International Book Festival (EIBF), The Brunton Theatre and North Edinburgh Arts, the trio will host a weekend of activities and conversations that goes under the name of Citizen Winter Warmer, presenting two days of interactive events celebrating local community voices and creating opportunities for new stories to beContinue reading “Edinburgh International Book Festival Announces Citizen Winter Warmer Weekend”

The National Theatre of Scotland (NTS), in collaboration with Kolkata-based children’s arts engagement organisation ThinkArts, has been exploring responses to lived experiences of climate change through art, science and digital technology through work with award-winning Scottish theatre makers, Shona Reppe and Andy Manley. Launching on 1st November is Millipede.shop, a playful, interactive digital art installation disguised as an online shoe shop.Continue reading “Footprint Themed Online Art Project by Shona Reppe and Andy Manley for COP 26”

Internationally award-winning dance company Corey Baker Dance is releasing a multi-media programme of work to help promote environmental responsibility around COP 26, the pivotal summit on climate change to be held in Glasgow. The 25th October sees their 3 minute original dance film BLOWN premiere on BBC iPlayer and on BBC Scotland. The film, that isContinue reading “Programme of New Filmed and Live Dance Work Released for COP26”

Kirkcaldy born poet, novelist and cultural historian, Tom Hubbard, who was the Scottish Poetry Library’s first Librarian, is delivering this year’s Seamus Heaney Memorial Lecture as an Honorary member of the Széchenyi Academy of Letters and Arts. The evening’s event will be launched by Executive President of the Széchenyi Academy, Győző Ferencz, and followed byContinue reading “Scots Poet Tom Hubbard to Deliver Seamus Heaney Memorial Lecture”

Ken Cockburn is a well-established poet on the Edinburgh scene. In recent years  he has spread his wings by leading Old Town walking tours that took in world-famous landmarks and hidden spaces, with the added bonus of  poems from weel kent names,  as well as some of his own work, being read along the way.Continue reading “Edinburgh Poet Ken Cockburn Set to Launch New Collection”

September is World Alzheimer’s Month and Edinburgh’s Capital Theatres will continue its commitment to supporting people living with the condition through the programme People Living with Dementia (PLWD).  Willy Gilder, Participant of Capital Theatres’ Dementia Friendly Projects said “I have Alzheimer’s Disease, and I think it’s time that we reconsidered how we think about ‘dementia’Continue reading “Capital Theatres Mark World Alzheimer’s Day on Tuesday 21 September”

Freedom is being drip fed back into daily lives for the majority of people as restrictions from the pandemic gradually ease across the globe. Being isolated and locked down is mostly past tense; haunting us only every so often when Covid cases spike and threaten the fragile ascension into the ‘new normal’. I recently postedContinue reading “The Female Creatives of Afghanistan”