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Join the News Group and start to change the world

By fay.young on November 11, 2009

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 [...]

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Get out of town

Get out of town

By fay.young on November 5, 2009

A walk on the (not so) wild side can take you here…
Her Power Point was not working and she couldn’t lug a heavy display board on the train to Edinburgh so she had no pictures to show.  But as Pammy Johal told the audience, “I can talk,” and she showed that sometimes words are almost [...]

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Read all about it on the community noticeboard

By fay.young on April 16, 2009

Welcome to a new community website which happened almost by accident but is fast becoming a great source of local information.   Click on EH7 Community Noticeboard to find news and views of the proposed Tesco opening in Picardy Place, how to make requests under the Freedom of Information Act, or how to get council [...]

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Homage to Catalonia – in Edinburgh

By fay.young on March 31, 2009

Their call was a cry of anguish from the hearts of the people of Spain
Some paid with their lives it is true, their sacrifice was not in vain
Perhaps you have walked past the memorial stone many times without noticing.  On Thursday 2 April  Daniel Gray  hopes to bring new visibility to a modest monument in [...]

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Weekend for women

Weekend for women

By fay.young on March 6, 2009

Spring in the air for International Women’s Day
There’s belly dancing in the east and drumming in the north. In fact there’s art, music, dance and food happening in halls and community centres all over town as women gather to celebrate International Women’s Day this weekend.  For women in Leith the place to be on Saturday [...]

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What a load of rubbish

What a load of rubbish

By fay.young on February 10, 2009

Sadly there’s no truth in the myth that Inuits have 87 words for snow (according to yesterday’s radio there are just as many English words for the white stuff) but who has more words for rubbish? On Saturday while snow covered much of the UK, the sun shone on volunteers picking litter out of Pilrig [...]

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Around the world without leaving Leith

Around the world without leaving Leith

By fay.young on January 8, 2009

Grassroots, the Zimbabwean band, brings the festival spirit to Redbraes
While we are looking forward to an eventful new year we couldn’t resist taking a look back. During 2008 we travelled far and wide, visiting parts of Africa, China, India, Pakistan and Poland. All without moving out of Leith and North Edinburgh. To celebrate the most [...]

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The shape of things to come

By losgroup on December 5, 2008

Callum McLeod (on the left) tries his luck at Polish St Andrews night.
What does the future hold? Who will I marry? Will I be rich? No-one really claimed to know the answers but people of all ages had a lot of fun looking to the future through old traditions at a Polish celebration of St [...]

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Hold the Fort: world premiere

By fay.young on November 29, 2008

At 9.30 am there is only one film showing at the Vue cinema in Ocean Terminal. Sunshine beams across Leith while people stream into the warm dark for the first screening. Parents, teachers, community leaders and local politicians have turned out in force to see an extraordinary celebration of local life. But the red [...]

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Open books, open minds

By fay.young on November 19, 2008

This is London, in Edinburgh the living books wore black T shirts
Multicultural Leith produced some of the best read books on offer at Scotland’s first Living Library. We don’t yet have any pictures of the event which was probably the highlight of the Edinburgh Festival of Libraries, but these excellent images from the Living [...]

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