This is your turn to talk. Bring your questions – and answers too – to our Open Space meeting with Greener Leith at Out of the Blue Drill Hall on Tuesday 5 June 6-9pm. As always Open Space aims to turn words into actions so come prepared to get involved.
I translated at the Nuremberg Trials. I looked Hess in the eyes….I still didn’t know what had happened to my family. David Goldberg
The World Kitchen multicultural brunch at Out of the Blue on Sunday 1 April was inspired by the unforgettable stories in Jock Tamson’s Bairns Exhibition. If you saw the words and pictures on display during Previously, Scotland’s History Festival you will know why.
Sony’s workshop on drugs. Pictures by Nick Gardner
So, what’s like to be young in Leith? Drugs, drink, gang culture and nowhere to go were main topics of discussion in The Citadel that Friday afternoon. At first sight all the media stereotypes of youth are there on flipcharts at our Open Space event for young people. Listen to workshop discussions and you find plenty of surprises. Here’s some for starters:
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. Continue reading “What’s it Like to be Young in Leith?”
In no particular order, food, news, drama and politics played a big part in the Leith Open Space calendar of events for 2010. Come to think of it that is the right order. Continue reading “Hopes and dreams for 2011”
This recipe more or less invented itself on a cold night when the tomato soup seemed to call out for a little extra zing. Chilli and ginger weren’t quite reaching the spot but a splosh of vodka worked like magic.
“For me …politics had always existed in some virtual world far away where politicians meted out decisions that affected people’s lives either positively or negatively.” Celina Mbwiria records her reactions to a first full council meeting.
Meet Celina Mbwiria one of the first people to take part in Opening Doors Shadow Scheme in October 2006.. Since Celina wrote our first Journal of the Week Phil Attridge has retired from the City Council and grown a beard but he still works as a bus driver in Edinburgh. And Celina’s perceptive comments are still so relevant we are delighted to publish them again to celebrate our fifth anniversary of Leith Open Space. Now read what Celina discovered about local politics…
Continue reading “A day in the life of a shadow: our first Journal of the Week”
“The media has a major role to play in our multi-cultural society. It also has certain duties in ensuring responsible reporting on issues of asylum, refugees and immigration.” Paul Holleran Scottish Organiser National Union of Journalists
Flashback to 2005. The top action point, the one that gathered by far the most votes at our first Open Space event was about the role of the media in shaping public perceptions of minority communities. It is interesting to look back at the response (or lack of it) we received from newspaper editors and wonder how much has changed?
Five years ago we took a step into the unknown. We invited every multicultural organisation we could find to a meeting in a huge open space at the top of Ocean Terminal. We did not know how many people would come or what they would choose to talk about. Invitations to the event simply asked people to bring their ‘burning issues’ around the question of what it is like to live in multicultural Leith.
Continue reading “Re-opening the open space: what we have learned in five years”
