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North Edinburgh Arts is the venue for a practical workshop on arts and activism this Wednesday (20 February). Community Learning and Development worker Lynne McCabe tells more:

“I am writing to tell you about a practical workshop on arts and activism  which will be taking place in North Edinburgh Arts Centre  on Wednesday 20 February from 10 – 3.00 pm.  The session has been organised by North Edinburgh Social History Group, CLD  and art students from Telford (Edinburgh) College.

The social history group will kick off the morning session  with a presentation of archive material  which  illustrates how the arts have been used to support local campaigns in the past.   The students  will then do a short presentation about  the art work they created following a meeting with the group last year.      We will then have a discussion about local issues  and hopefully come up with some ideas  of how to use the arts to get your group’s message across to a wider audience.  This approach has been used very effectively  over many years by  countless  local groups  including   the western general action group, the feet first chiropody campaign, the anti-water privatisation campaign, Pilton Environment Group and different generations of   anti-dampness groups.

A free lunch will be provided for all participants at 12.00 and then we will get down to creating  banners, posters, petitions, campaign logos – anything  that you think would  help to publicise local issues and campaigns.  Some ideas already put forward by local activists include  a huge banner or piece of art work  about the bed room tax or  something which could be used to highlight the issue of  fuel poverty.   We will be assisted  in  this  process by the students and staff from the Contemporary Art Course at the College.  The College will also provide us with a range of materials and equipment to use.

This is a great opportunity for people from different parts of North Edinburgh to come together to create  a range of campaign materials which will help to generate a bit of publicity about local issues and campaigns.

Places are limited so please book your place in advance.  Telephone  North Edinburgh Arts on   315 2151 or email them  on admin@northedinburgharts.co.uk.  I hope that you are able to join us.”

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