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New year dawns on Leith

New year dawns on Leith

By fay.young on December 30, 2008

Thanks to Tommy Perman for a picture of the sun rising on the first day of 2008. As we hurtle towards the last day of the year, here’s wishing you all the very best for 2009. Whatever challenges and opportunties lie ahead, Leith Open Space looks forward to reporting on achievements of local people in [...]

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Poetry garden comes indoors for winter

Poetry garden comes indoors for winter

By fay.young on December 17, 2008

Beautiful but cold for outdoor poetry events during the winter, fortunately there is somewhere much warmer just around the corner…
Thanks to the National Portrait Gallery, (conveniently situated in York Place) the poetry garden is coming indoors for at least some of the winter, starting with a lunchtime event on Friday 19 December between 12 and [...]

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Seasonal cheer for Friends of Dalmeny Street

Seasonal cheer for Friends of Dalmeny Street

By fay.young on December 16, 2008

Just to cheer you up, a quick look back at newly planted planters on a rare sunny summer day in Dalmeny Street Garden
It might be December but it’s already time to plan for next year’s growing season.  Join Friends of Dalmeny Street Garden at their next meeting in Out of the Blue Drill Hall on [...]

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The shape of things to come

By losgroup on December 5, 2008

Callum McLeod (on the left) tries his luck at Polish St Andrews night.
What does the future hold? Who will I marry? Will I be rich? No-one really claimed to know the answers but people of all ages had a lot of fun looking to the future through old traditions at a Polish celebration of St [...]

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Hold the Fort: world premiere

By fay.young on November 29, 2008

At 9.30 am there is only one film showing at the Vue cinema in Ocean Terminal. Sunshine beams across Leith while people stream into the warm dark for the first screening. Parents, teachers, community leaders and local politicians have turned out in force to see an extraordinary celebration of local life. But the red [...]

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Open books, open minds

By fay.young on November 19, 2008

This is London, in Edinburgh the living books wore black T shirts
Multicultural Leith produced some of the best read books on offer at Scotland’s first Living Library. We don’t yet have any pictures of the event which was probably the highlight of the Edinburgh Festival of Libraries, but these excellent images from the Living [...]

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What’s your view of Boundary Square?

By fay.young on November 17, 2008

Circling the square…
Do you walk through the square on your way home? Do you pause by the benches and wonder what the space is for? If so then Elric Honoré would like to hear from you. Elric is carrying out a public consultation for Port of Leith Housing Association to discover what people think [...]

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A warm welcome in the community centre

By fay.young on November 12, 2008

At 5pm on Monday night it’s already dark outside but inside the community centre it is warm and welcoming. There are cups of tea and plates loaded with cakes. Children play, mothers chat. Conversations alternate between two languages and I soon discover that while some people come here to improve their English others drop [...]

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How to warm up in November

By fay.young on November 1, 2008

This newsletter should get the circulation going. Here’s a sample of Scottish Asian poetry, a new Polish memorial (with or without Wojtek the bear) and a bonfire party at Redbraes. Plus our heartwarming harvest at Persevere garden, Frances Kahembwe on climate change in Africa, a Red Eye film club take on US [...]

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You can read me like a book

By fay.young on November 1, 2008

Everyone has a story to tell though not everyone is willing or able to tell it. That’s why it takes both courage and imagination to volunteer to be a Living Book. But plenty of people are doing it and you can find out why when Scotland’s first Living Library opens in Edinburgh on Saturday [...]

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