Quick thinking saves lives in Portobello rescue
The quick actions of two Edinburgh police officers have been praised after two men were saved off the coast at Portobello in the early hours of Saturday morning. Continue reading Praise for ‘heroic’ police officers in Portobello
The search is on for an aspiring Scottish artist to spend a fully funded three month residency in New York. Continue reading New York arts scholarship now open for applications
Going for gold at Spartans Olympics
Spartans Community Football Academy are hosting a Sportsday for local primary schools on Wednesday 25 May. This will be the third year of this annual event and Granton, Craigroyston, Pirniehall, St David’s and Flora Stevenson P7s will all take part. Continue reading Countdown to super sportsday at Spartans
Foster Care Fortnight starts tomorrow
The City of Edinburgh Council exceeded its foster carer recruitment target last year for the very first time. The positive figures were revealed ahead of the council’s Foster Care Fortnight which has a theme this year of ‘Time to Foster, Time to Care’. Continue reading Time to Foster, Time to Care
Dear Editor
In my many letters over many years I have always highlighted social injustices imposed by our own politicians against working people, and urged the need for ordinary people to work together in resisting further attacks.
We have helped, and have been helped, bu all people in the European Union in passing laws:
All of these laws were minimum requirements, but could be improved on by individual nations’ own parliaments. Bear in mind it was ALL the member states of the EU who cooperated and agreed these regulations, covering approximately 500 million people.
The main threat posed by those who advocate leaving the EU is to do away with all these laws on social justice and replace them with their own legislation. Why?
Two questions immediately arise:
First, why not improve the existing laws if their intention is to pass better laws – this can be done by any nation in the EU.
And second: Why did they not do it years ago?
When the world is crying out for more cooperation to tackle pressing problems of unemployment, climate change, energy supplies, water and food provision, the depletion of natural resources, those people who want to leave the EU represent the most backward step the UK could take. WHY? And WHO are they?
A. Delahoy
Silverknowes Gardens
National Smile Month 16 May – 16 June
NHS 24 is reminding people where they can get help if they have a dental problem, as part of National Smile Month. Continue reading All smiles!
Lots of local community events taking place today:
The Old Kirk & Muirhouse Parish Church are holding a Table Top Sale in the church hall in Pennywell Gardens from 10am – midday
Newhaven Parish Church is holding a Plant Sale from 10am – noon
Davidsons Mains Primary School’s May Fair is on from 10am – 1pm
and Royston Wardieburn Community Centre’s Fun Day runs from 10am – 2pm
First surgery details announced
New MSP Ben McPherson was sworn in as the new member for Edinburgh Northern & Leith MSP yesterday, one of five new Edinburgh constituency MSPs voted in last week. Continue reading Ben Macpherson sworn in as Northern Leith MSP
EUPROPEAN LITERATURE NIGHT: FRIDAY 13 MAY
North Edinburgh Arts 5 – 6.30pm
‘With the media spotlight shining so squarely on the politics of the EU referendum,’ says poet Colin Herd, ‘We think it’s important to also make space for a cultural expression of European experiences.’
Tonight, Edinburgh will welcome contemporary poets from across Europe for two events in celebration of European Literature Night.
Co-curated by Herd and Theodora Danek, in association with Edinburgh City of Literature and The Enemies Project, the poets represent some of the most exciting of cutting-edge contemporary European writing.
‘I think of Europe itself as a long never-ending poem, always emergent and always surprising, its meanings and its resonances never fixed,’ Herd says.
Following on from the success of European Literature Night 2015, this year’s celebration features 10 European and Scotland-based writers, including: Billy Ramsell, Christodoulos Makris, Nurduran Duman, Efe Duyan, Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir, Alexander Filyuta, Alessandro Burbank, Heather O’Donnell, Graeme Smith and Dominic Hale.
There will be an introductory taster event at North Edinburgh Arts Centre from 5 – 6.30pm followed by an evening extravaganza at Summerhall’s Red Lecture Theatre from 8 to 10.30pm.
As will reflect the diverse languages of Europe, some poets will choose to read in their own language (with translations) while other poets will read in English. There will also be some poets working in new media, sound and video.
Newly developed for this year, the events will also see the launch of #EuroPoem, a collective international poetry initiative, which poets and poetry-fans from across Europe are encouraged to contribute to. #EuroPoem responds to a need to explore what Europe is, means, and can be ahead of the UK’s referendum on EU membership. European writers are invited to submit two lines of poetry to the collective poem; contributions are of equal value, with no one poet setting the agenda of the poem and it will be polyvocal and multilingual.
Following its launch in Edinburgh at Summerhall, the poem will continue to emerge and evolve online through the Twitter hashtag #EuroPoem. No two versions of the poem need be the same, as poets from across Europe continue to add to this collaborative work. To join in with this unique poetry event, tweet your two lines of poetry to @edincityoflit using the hashtag #EuroPoem as part of European Literature Festival on 13th May, or email Colin Herd on europoem2016@gmail.com.
For more information and to book free tickets, follow these links:
North Edinburgh Arts Event (5 – 6.30pm)
Summerhall Event (8 – 10.30pm)
Europe, future dream!
Europe, morning to come,
borders without watchdogs,
nations with his frank laughter
thrown wide open!
‘Europa’, Adolfo Casais Monteiro
It’s Our Fun Day this Saturday 10.00am – 2.00pm.
Please come along and join us – there will be Tumbola, Raffles, Bouncy Castle, Beat the Goalie, Face Painting, BBQ, Cafe and Table Top Sales!
