By fay.young on February 1, 2010
Zawadi, African women’s choir at the Diversity event in West Lothian.
“It’s getting busy,” emails Agnes Holmes in her new year greeting from Africa Centre Scotland. As always the diary is full of events and activities which is why ACS is looking for volunteers to join the management committee. Specially welcome are people skilled in money [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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By fay.young on August 1, 2009
Smell the coffee: Jerusalem Barnabas demonstrates how to make a cup of Ethiopian coffee.
A heady smell of roasting coffee greets you. Women in bright colours laugh and chat as they pass plates of African food. We’ve just dropped into a fundraising coffee morning with a difference and it feels a long way from the grey [...]
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By fay.young on July 31, 2009
Give me an ‘n’, give me a ‘y’, give me another ‘n’… Ok, this is going to take too long. Add up all the letters produced by community groups all round Scotland and it spells two verses of the Burns poem A Man’s a Man for A’ That which will be unfurled as a banner [...]
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By fay.young on July 30, 2009
Warming up: Zawadi with choir leader Rachel Milne at their first public performance in April
Great to hear the Zawadi Women’s Choir is going from strength to strength. Since their first appearance in April this year they have been collecting a growing list of requests (and some new members). If you didn’t hear them in the [...]
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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
By fay.young on May 7, 2009
Zawadi Women’s Choir rehearsing for their first public appearance – membership of the choir is open to women from different ethnic backgrounds.
At one end of the hall they are preparing a banquet. At the other end the choir is warming up for their first public performance. Rachel Milne quickly gets rid of any nerves by [...]
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By fay.young on March 20, 2009
On Tuesday it was the first meeting of a new African women’s choir in Pilrig Church. Today (Friday) its the family event in the National Library of Scotland and there is much more to come – March is a very busy month for women of the Africa Centre.
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