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Annandale Street Mosque: interfaith harmony or conflict?

Are we really heading for a future of conflict between Islam and the West? Is faith a cause of conflict or can religions help to  promote world peace?   A very topical interfaith event at Annandale Street Mosque on at 7.30 pm on Saturday 30th January invites you to grapple with some of the most [...]

Your DIY guide to the Burns Super Supper

Your DIY guide to the Burns Super Supper

Here’s your invitation to host a traditional Burns Supper – with pipes, poetry, speeches and song  – for a very  inventive fundraising campaign during January and February.  “It’s a credit crunch Burns supper”, says Mary Millar of the Meningitis Research Foundation who has teamed up with Clan Radio to provide you with the essential DIY [...]

The Welcoming returns

A heartwarming glimpse of multicultural Edinburgh
There is a sound people make when they are pleased to be with one another.  Stan Reeves called it “the difference between false gregariousness and authentic comradeship” and this tiny clip of film gives you an idea of what that sounds like.  As you can hear, there was plenty of [...]

Shock horror, what's the news?

Shock horror, what’s the news?

Well, it looks like good news for the first News Group workshop anyway.  Gavin Crichton says there’s good response for the first current affairs workshop from ACTive Inquiry at Out of the Blue in Dalmeny Street on Saturday 28th Noember 10-12.  Meet in the cafe from 9.45 and bring a recent news story that has [...]

Join the News Group and start to change the world

Join the News Group and start to change the world

Don’t let it get you down – come and turn the news into community action
How do we deal with the words and images bombarding us every day?   Leith Open Space is delighted to support ACTive Inquiry in a current affairs workshop with a difference. Here’s your chance to pull the news to pieces as we [...]