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Burns supper, Zimbabwe style

By fay.young on January 25, 2011

The internationalist Robert Burns would love it. His memory is celebrated at the Burns Supper following this year’s annual meeting of the Scotland Zimbabwe Group on Saturday 29th January. Raising money for Zimbabwe charities.

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Cross cultural winter festival

By fay.young on December 8, 2010

Christmas decorations, Chinese lanterns, henna hand painting – it sounds a great way to warm up at the end of a cold week.. A winter festival celebrating the wonderful mixture of cultures in North Edinburgh starts with a hands-on workshop on Friday 10th December and continues with multicultural food and live music at a party [...]

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Power to the People?

By fay.young on November 18, 2010

Anyone for the Big Society? Power to the People? invites you to get involved. Just like Alice, a long-term resident of Hillstone, who is inspired by the new Hillstone Empowerment Project to make some positive changes in her community. Will her enthusiasm be enough to get other people on board and to challenge the [...]

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Opening a new creative space in Leith

By fay.young on October 26, 2010

Calling all drummers, dancers, singers, poets and storytellers. Here’s your open invitation to take part in a fantastic event to celebrate Edinburgh’s cultural diversity on Monday 1st November at Fort Community Wing. You are also welcome if you would rather help out behind the scenes – or simply enjoy the show.

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Is Leith ready to join the big society?

By fay.young on October 25, 2010

If we are all to become part of The Big Society should we decide what power and responsibility we want? Should we empower ourselves to say how we want to be empowered?!
One good question always leads to another. Power to the People? The latest theatre project from ACTive Inquiry invites you to bring your stories, [...]

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Get your dancing shoes on

By fay.young on October 20, 2010

A text from Alice gets the day off to a good start. “Get ur dancing shoes on,” she says, “an cu on Saturday”. So what’s happening Saturday? Good food and great music for the Special Yendu at Tollcross Community Centre on the 23rd September from 7pm till midnight.

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Elrec’s cool chill out zone

By fay.young on October 3, 2010

“It’s cool”
What more can you say? Elrec’s Youth Zone has the seal of approval from the young people who use it but it is not just for fun. The Youth Zone in Forth Street is the only space in Edinburgh and Lothians where young people from ethnic minority communities can meet to make new friends, [...]

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The Worlds Biggest Coffee Morning (in Leith)

By fay.young on September 22, 2010

No such thing as a free cake: but make your own with the recipe below…
Smell the coffee (and make the cake). This Friday is the biggest event on the calendar for MacMillan Cancer Research and once again Mark Lazarowicz and Malcolm Chisholm are taking part in The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning. We are all invited [...]

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Louder than words: actions of the News Group

By fay.young on August 30, 2010

Confrontation – how the media simplifies a complex story [pictures by George Lamb]
Every now and then a surprised face peered through the window: this was not business as usual in the Scottish Parliament, not even during the Festival of Politics. For once the emphasis was on actions rather than words. And actions can speak volumes. [...]

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