By fay.young on June 29, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in film, Monthly diary, Red Eye Film Club
By fay.young on June 28, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Poetry in St Andrew Square
By fay.young on June 24, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in Food, Leith Open Space Events, World Kitchen in Leith
By fay.young on June 17, 2009
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.
Posted in Monthly diary, Poetry in St Andrew Square | Tagged Oxfam, Poetry garden, Poetry in St Andrew Square, Refugee Week, Scottish Poetry Library, The Welcoming
By fay.young on June 16, 2009
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 [...]
Posted in africa centre, Food, Leith Open Space Events, World Kitchen in Leith | Tagged Gala Day, Leith Festival, leith open space, World Kitchen in Leith
By fay.young on June 8, 2009
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]
Posted in africa centre, Food, World Kitchen in Leith | Tagged Gala Day, Leith Festival, Planet Asia, World Kitchen