By fay.young on November 12, 2009
Great news in from the west. That’s the west of Edinburgh, where the Welcoming centre runs a terrific programme of events bringing together local communities with refugees and asylum seekers – sharing ideas and learning together through art, film, music, discussion and food. The cinema club starts again next week with an exciting list of [...]
Posted in Community arts projects, film
By fay.young on October 18, 2009
We could call it just history month, but it’s more than that. It’s about forgotten heroes and stories that we never get told at school.
October is Black History Month in Britain and has been since 1987. This year’s celebrations by Africa Centre Scotland in Edinburgh are a reminder that when it comes to history there [...]
Posted in africa centre
By fay.young on October 9, 2009
We are Remembering is a rousing song to help you on your way tomorrow. And there are lots more. The radical choir, Protest in Harmony, has compiled a song book to help the Gude Cause march in step through Edinburgh. If you want to tune up first, Chris Booth says the choir will be pleased [...]
Posted in A Gude Cause, women in politics
By fay.young on October 9, 2009
Thanks to the Gude Cause for letting us use an image from their website.
Some things change. A hundred years ago women were marching up Princes Street demanding the vote. Tomorrow perhaps more than 4000 women, men and children will be celebrating the occasion and this time they will include women who have been voted into [...]
Posted in A Gude Cause, women in politics
By fay.young on October 7, 2009
Marching in violet, white and green
A pageant of creative conviction …
Agnes Holmes answers the phone with a needle and thread in one hand. “I’m sitting here writing emails, answering the phone and stitching at the same time,” she says with her usual good humour. As always there’s lots going on at the Africa Centre and [...]
Posted in africa centre, women in politics
By fay.young on September 29, 2009
Enlightened city had let you be
till Mammon’s grasp said ‘damn the tree’;
Sometimes only poetry hits the spot. We can’t make it to the Greener Leith AGM tonight and unfortunately we also missed their great event on the Shore (a ‘car free day’ showing how streets can come to life when people have room to move) [...]
Posted in Leith Open Space Events
By fay.young on September 8, 2009
“This picture makes me feel sad and angry. They are poor and have no food even though many countries send them food.”
Here’s a picture book with a difference. Our Burma Book is written by children separated by thousands of miles and living very different lives. Yet the Edinburgh children in schools with desks and homes [...]
Posted in Leith Open Space Events
