By fay.young on January 28, 2009
Fortune-telling in shoes: The Shape of Things to Come was one of our best read stories last year.
In Homecoming year Leith Open Space will report more stories of remarkable new and old Leithers. But first news of our multicultural discussion event for women who care in March, a campaign to get women into politics and [...]
Posted in Leith Open Space Events, Monthly diary | Tagged homecoming, leith, leith open space, lost world read, scottish politics
By fay.young on January 28, 2009
Maggie Havergal, Open Space facilitator, takes a break at our last discussion event
A new Open Space discussion event is planned for Saturday 14 March when we warmly invite women of all ages from all communities in our area to talk about their experience of caring for all kinds of needs. Please join us at Pilmeny [...]
Posted in Leith Open Space Events | Tagged leith open space, open space, pilmeny youth centre
By fay.young on January 27, 2009
Suddenly out of the darkness, out of the night, there swooped something with a swish like an aeroplane. Ed Malone in the Lost World
It’s the stuff of dreams: you are travelling in time to a place where dinosaurs crash through forests of dripping trees. Ok, so The Lost World Read won’t really bring you face [...]
Posted in Poetry in St Andrew Square | Tagged city of literature, Poetry in St Andrew Square, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, The Lost World Read, the scottish poetry library
By fay.young on January 21, 2009
Sarah Boyack MSP and Francis Kahembwe photographed between meetings on another busy day at Holyrood.
“How interesting to see kids of 9-11yrs with so much interest in politics. I was exposed to something new which I could communicate to my parliamentary friends in Uganda.” During his last few days as a ’shadow’ in the Scottish Parliament, [...]
Posted in Journal of the week, Leith Open Space Events | Tagged climate change, Sarah Boyack, scottish parliament, shadow scheme
By fay.young on January 16, 2009
Great minds think alike! We are very interested to get news of this event encouraging women from all minority ethnic communities to get involved in politics. Click on ‘more’ for details of the women’s workshops organised by the Scottish Government equalities office in Glasgow Chambers on 13 February – and look out for news of [...]
Posted in women in politics | Tagged Baroness Uddin, Equalities Office, minority ethnic women, women in politics
By fay.young on January 12, 2009
Francis Kahembwe and Sarah Boyack at the start of the Opening Doors shadowing programme which ends with three more days in Holyrood.
Francis Kahembwe returns to the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday to finish the shadowing programme he started last year. But Opening Doors will not be closing. During the coming year we hope to continue the [...]
Posted in Leith Open Space Events, Opening Doors 2008 | Tagged francis kahembwe, LINK, Opening Doors 2006-7, Sarah Boyack
