By fay.young on May 20, 2011
It was a great day. For the full report of our Open Space event for young people in May 2011 see ‘A Question of Youth in Leith’.
Posted in Leith Open Space Events
By fay.young on May 12, 2011
Is Leith a good place to be young? This is a question for our community and we hope you will join us on Friday 20th May at The Citadel to explore other questions, opportunities and challenges facing young people in our neighbourhood.
Posted in Leith Open Space Events
By fay.young on May 10, 2011
Saturday’s art auction in Leith gallery AXO is the latest step in The Forrest artists’ collective’s energetic campaign to raise £50,000 by the end of May. “Ambitious,” says the Save the Forrest website, “but definitely achievable”.
Posted in Community arts projects
By fay.young on April 12, 2011
So, is Leith ready for the Big Society? Even as we speak, the very active Leith community theatre group, ACTive Inquiry, is working with local people to explore how communities can improve life in their neighbourhood. Then they aim to turn drama into real life.
Posted in ACTive Inquiry, Community arts projects, drama
By fay.young on April 5, 2011
Meena
A beautiful green spinach cake was a hot (literally) favourite at the World Kitchen brunch. Here Meena Bhana shares her recipe for the spicy savoury cake but first she takes us to the bustling streets of Indian cities with her menu for the World Kitchen brunch.
I put together a menu of Gujerati dishes for the [...]
Posted in Food, World Kitchen in Leith, World Kitchen Recipes
By fay.young on March 29, 2011
“Knowing what to make is not to same as knowing how to make it.” In a story full of Spanish colour, Ellie Casson explains why she chose to make Spanish empanadillas for the World Kitchen brunch – and how.
When my family first moved to Spain, we discovered in a nearby village an outstanding family [...]
Posted in World Kitchen in Leith, World Kitchen Recipes
By fay.young on March 29, 2011
thanks to Ellie Casson for the delicious chorizo stew…and for the picture too
Where to start? That was a problem facing our guests at the World Kitchen multicultural brunch which we organised with Multi-Cultural Family Base in Out of the Blue a week ago. We were spoiled for choice with the range of dishes cooked up [...]
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By fay.young on March 17, 2011
Rise and shine: marmalade cake is on the brunch menu too
Yesterday we had one of those isn’t-it-exciting-help-don’t-panic meetings. We’ve gone from worrying no-one will come to finding we are now fully booked. So all we have to do now is make sure we cook enough food to feed a big and enthusiastic crowd of all [...]
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