Granton Parish Church raises £1100 for charity

Daffodil Tea event supports Eileen McCallum Trust 

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Granton Parish Church social group organises an annual Daffodil Tea to raise funds for a different charity every year. This year, the group decided to support The Eileen McCallum Trust, which supports Duchenne muscular distrophy, and popular actress Eileen McCallum was delighted to receive a cheque for £1100 to support the charity’s work.  Continue reading Granton Parish Church raises £1100 for charity

Many hands make light work in Muirhouse Avenue

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There’s a mighty team effort taking place in Muirhouse Avenue right now. Muirhouse Centipede Project are putting the land not currently being built on to good use and are now preparing the ground for a community amphitheatre and performance area.

It’s a lot of work – it’s a lot of space! – but volunteers from Craigroyston Community High School, Tomorrow’s People, Scottish Widows, Community Action North, Scottish Gas, the Haven Project’s Dad’s Group and North Edinburgh Arts are really getting stuck in!

You’ll already see an amazing difference … and today 130 tyres will arrive for the next stage of the operation! Get involved!

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Search for sacred in music ‘as strong today as ever’

‘Scotland, now more than ever, needs to hear a wide range of perspectives rather than a narrow orthodoxy.’ – Professor Sir James MacMillan 

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Distinguished Scottish composer and conductor, Professor Sir James MacMillan, will argue that the “search for the sacred in music is as strong today as it ever was” and is the “bravest, most radical and counter-cultural vision a creative person can have” in a lecture at Glasgow’s St. Mungo’s Museum next Thursday (19 May). Continue reading Search for sacred in music ‘as strong today as ever’

Friday is European Literature Night at North Edinburgh Arts

European Literature Night, North Edinburgh Arts

Friday 13th May 5 – 6.30pm FREE

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Come along to celebrate the most exciting contemporary European poetry with this taster session with short readings by poets including: Billy Ramsell, Christodoulos Makris, Nurduran Duman, Efe Duyan,  Asta Fanney Sigurðardóttir, Alexander Filyuta, Alessandro Burbank, Heather O’Donnell, Graeme Smith and Dominic Hale.

You can also wrote your own lines of poetry to become part of a shared collective poem.

Free Tickets can be booked here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/european-literature-night-part-1-tickets-24960390199

Childhood abuse survivors access support in their own safe place

Health in Mind’s counselling service just a free call away

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ACCESSING support anonymously can be a barrier for many adults who experienced abuse as children, particularly those living in rural and remote areas of Scotland. Continue reading Childhood abuse survivors access support in their own safe place