Volunteer Edinburgh will welcome more than 50 organisations to Scotland’s largest volunteer recruitment fair on Wednesday, 18 September 2019 between 11am and 7pm at St Paul’s and St George’s Church on York Place. Continue reading Scotland’s largest Volunteer Recruitment Fair – Wednesday 18 September 2019!
Sunday 8th September 9am – 4pm
Princes Street Gardens
Early Bird Tickets on sale at 9.30am today
History is set to come to life at Edinburgh Castle this winter, as the iconic landmark is illuminated with tales from Scotland’s past. Continue reading Edinburgh Castle to transform into ‘Castle of Light’ this Festive Season
The ninth chapter in Universal Pictures’ Fast & Furious franchise is filming in Edinburgh’s Old and New Towns this month – and, with the Festival only just finished, the city centre will once again be pretty much a ‘no go’ area for the capital’s motorists for the next four weeks.
Roads closed already include Waterloo Place, at the east end of Princes Street, off-limits in its entirety, except for local access from Regent Road to Calton Hill, and Calton Road, closed between Calton Hill and the entrance to the Waverley Gate car park. These measures will remain in place until 10pm on Thursday, 12 September.
And there are loads more to come:
Road names marked with an aserisk * are to be short traffic holds within the times stated below, with traffic flow brought to normal levels between each hold:
Waterloo Place – In its entirety except for local access from Regent Road to Calton Hill – 6am on Sep 2nd to 10pm on Sep 12th.
Calton Road – From Calton Hill to the entrance to Waverley Gate Gate car park – 6am on Sep 2nd to 10pm on Sep 12th.
Calton Road* – From the entrance to the Waverley Gate car park to New Street – 6am on Sep 6th to 10pm Sep 12th.
West College Street – in its entirety – 6am on Sep 6th to 10pm Sep 23rd
South College Street – in its entirety (except local access to the Festival Theatre loading bays) – 6am on Sep 6th to 10pm Sep 23rd
West Parliament Square/ Parliament Square and St Giles Street – In their entirety – 6am on Sep 7th to 10pm on Sep 11th.
High Street – From Lawnmarket to Cockburn Street (except deliveries from Cockburn Street to Parliament Sq) – 6am on Sep 8th to 10pm Sep 10th
Lawnmarket – From George IV Bridge to the High Street – 6am on Sep 8th to 10pm Sep 10th
Regent Road – In its entirety (except local access) – 6am-10pm on Sep 10th & 6am-10pm on 21st.
Chambers Street – In its entirety – 6am-10pm on Sep 11th and 6am on Sep 17th to 10pm on Sep 18th.
Guthrie Street – In its entirety – 6am-10pm on Sep 11th and 6am on Sep 17th to 10pm on Sep 18th.
Victoria Street and West Bow – In their entirety – 6am-10pm on Sep 11th.
Cockburn Street – In its entirety – 6am on Sep 12th to 10pm on Sep 15th
George Street (from Frederick Street to Hanover Street), Castle Street (From Rose St to George Street) and North Castle Street (From George Street to Hill Street) – 6am on Sep 15th to 10pm on Sep 17th and 6am on Sep 23rd to 10pm on the 25th.
George Street* (from Frederick St to Hanover St), Frederick Street* (From Rose St to Thistle St), Charlotte Square* (East Leg in its entirety), North Charlotte Street* (In its entirety) – 9:30am-4pm on Sep 15th and 9:30am-4pm on Sep 16th.
Cowgate – In its entirety – 5am-12pm on Sep 21st.
Mound Place, Ramsay Lane, The Mound, Market Street* (From The Mound 50 metres eastwarrds) and North Bank Street* – 6am-1pm on Sep 22nd.
St Stephen Street (From St Vincent Place to Clarence St) and St Vincent Place (From Great King Street to St Stephen Street) – 6am on Sep 22nd to 10pm on Sep 23rd.
Melville Street (From Manor Place to Stafford Street), Walker Street (From William Street to Chester Street), Manor Place* (From William St to Chester St) and William Street* (From William St SE Lane to William Street SW Lane) – 6am-1pm on Sep 23rd and 6am-10pm on Sep 24th.
Forrest Road* (In its entirety), George IV Bridge* (From Forrest Road for 100 metres northwards) and Candlemaker Row* (From George IV Bridge to Merchant Street) – 6am-12pm on Sep 21st.
Queens Drive* (from Broad Pavement car park to Holyrood Park Road), Holyrood Park Road* (In its entirety) and Dalkeith Road* (From Holyrood Park Road to East Preston Street) – 12pm-6pm on Sep 11th and 9am-5pm on Sep 21st.
East Preston Street, West Preston Street, Summerhall Place, Summerhall, Hope Park Crescent, Buccleuch Street, Chapel Street, Potterow, Teviot Place, Forrest Road, Bristo Place – all in their entirety – 12pm-6pm on Sep 11th and 9am-5pm on Sep 21st.
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Mind how you go!
The four-week filming schedule will see close to 800 crew members including 375 local hires working on location over the course of the shoot, which started filming in London in June.
The Council and the city’s film office, Film Edinburgh, have been working closely with the production team for the past nine months to facilitate all aspects of the production schedule and needs across the iconic World Heritage site locations. This will be one of the largest and most complex shoots ever to film in the historic Old and New Towns of Edinburgh.
One of the world’s most successful movie franchises, this newest chapter in the Fast & Furious series stars Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Chris “Ludacris’ Bridges, Nathalie Emmanuel, Charlize Theron, Helen Mirren and John Cena.
The film’s production team is making a concerted effort to minimise the impact of filming on the public while securing the required shots needed for the film. The production team has been in close contact with the Council and Film Edinburgh, alongside local businesses and residents in and around the key filming locations, to ensure the production’s shooting schedule limits disruption while ensuring public safety is the uppermost consideration.
Director Justin Lin said: “Edinburgh is such a unique and iconic location and we are incredibly excited about the opportunity to celebrate it in the Fast & Furious saga.
“The support from all local agencies, businesses and the community has been invaluable in helping to coordinate this shoot. We appreciate the entire city’s help and are excited to have such a beautiful and historic city in the film.”
Councillor Cammy Day, Depute Leader of City of Edinburgh Council, said: “Edinburgh has provided a backdrop for some exciting and high-profile film and TV productions over recent years. This promotes the city to audiences around the world, boosts the local economy and is great for us to see our home town on the big screen!
“Productions are extremely exciting for film fans in the city and the Council will continue to work closely with the production team to ensure there is limited impact on the everyday lives of our citizens while filming takes place.”
Rosie Ellison, head of Film Edinburgh, said: “Following our involvement with Avengers: Infinity War and Endgame, we could demonstrate that the city has the ability to host such a large-scale production but were nonetheless thrilled when the Fast & Furious filmmakers confirmed that Edinburgh had been chosen as a filming location for the next outing of this hugely popular franchise.
“We will continue to work closely with the production to ensure its smooth-running of the location shoot across the city.”
Smooth running, eh? There’s a first for everything!
Police are appealing for witnesses following a serious assault in a city centre nightclub. The incident happened at around 3.30am on Sunday 25th within the Cabaret Voltaire venue on Blair Street. Continue reading Police appeal following serious assault in city night club
Talks and Tales: The Childhood Writing of Christine Orr
21 August 2019 – 22 March 2020
Writers’ Museum, Lawnmarket, Lady Stair’s Close, EH1 2PA
Free admission
The Writers’ Museum is now exhibiting two beautiful manuscript illustrated magazines produced in Edinburgh by Christine Orr and friends between 1911 and 1916. Continue reading Revealed: the childhood talent of Christine Orr
The 2019 Edinburgh Festival Fringe drew to a close yesterday having brought together artists, arts industry, media and audiences from over 150 countries, including over 750 shows from Edinburgh.
More residents than ever before attended Fringe shows, with a record 856,541 tickets issued to audience members from the city. Continue reading Fringe breaks audience records once again
Waverley Mall Edinburgh is thrilled to announce the latest addition to the Centre as The Fruitmarket Gallery signs up to move in from mid-September 2019.
The move comes as plans to extensively renovate and extend The Fruitmarket Gallery on Market Street are approved, resulting in the temporary closure of the Gallery while works are completed.
Waverley Mall will become the temporary home to The Fruitmarket Gallery and ‘Bookmarket’ – an independent, award-winning bookshop run by the Gallery. With an admiration for good books at its core and a mission to help customers find beautiful, useful, and unique books, the Bookmarket pop up will be accessed via Williams and Johnson Coffee Co. just off Princes Street at the top of Waverley Steps.
It will offer expertly selected niche titles, hard-to-find arts resource texts, artist’s books, and specialist books on typography, art theory, design, architecture, and fashion, plus a curated selection of design-led products and cards from all around the world.
Waverley Mall is excited to work with The Fruitmarket Gallery, welcoming its loyal customers and introducing some new ones to the Gallery in its new home. Gallery staff will also enjoy new office space at the Centre, during this year of transition, with workshops, talks and performances happening in the space, as well as a series of pop-up exhibitions.
The first of these will be the culmination of 6 weeks of workshops on zine making by Fresh Fruit, the Fruitmarket’s peer led group of young people aged 16-25 years. Zines are quick and cheap to produce and have a radical underground history where anything goes and different voices can be heard. The results can be seen at Bookmarket from Saturday 26 October.
The addition of Bookmarket to Waverley Mall is truly reflective of the Centre’s vision for the mall as a hub of music, arts and culture in the heart of Edinburgh. The aspirations of Moorgarth Group, who own the Centre, include the offering of products, services and experiences that are surprising and unexpected and very much not what you’d find on the average high street.
The busy city-centre shopping mall has recently enjoyed a series of new store openings including Mademoiselle Macaron – an Edinburgh-based French patisserie and Clicks and Mortar – a new concept collaboration between Amazon, Enterprise Nation, Square and Direct Line for Business, who together create a space through which small, independent businesses can trade.
Daryll Bunce, Director of New Revenue Solutions, Moorgarth Group Ltd. says: “The addition of this Edinburgh institution, The Fruitmarket Gallery to Waverley Mall is fantastic news for us as they provide a very current and relevant offering to our customers, which ties in perfectly with the overall vision we are striving for.
“This journey started 12 months ago with the opening of Williams & Johnson – Leith’s best coffee roaster in an amazing new store on the upper level of Waverley. This has become a real destination for great coffee in the city centre and following the success of this, we have established a brand new space for the Fruitmarket Gallery which continues to expand our offering and adds a whole new dimension to the mall.”
Fiona Bradley, Director of The Fruitmarket Gallery said: “We jumped at the opportunity to work with our neighbours Waverley Mall, embracing the chance to meet new audiences in this busy part of Edinburgh.
“It is great to be able to keep our much-loved independent bookshop open, and to have a space for our Engagement team to run events and workshops during our closure.”
Waverley Mall Edinburgh is continuing its successful partnership with Edinburgh based not-for-profit organisation, The Youth Radio Network with another edition of their popular monthly music showcase ‘The Waverley Sessions’.
The next instalment of this lively event, which has seen dozens of musicians of all ages, musical genres and social backgrounds take to the Centre’s stage since April, is set to take place this Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th August.
The event will kick off at 10am on Saturday on Waverley Mall’s stage and will be hosted by Keiran Harvey and the team of volunteers from The Youth Radio Network until 6pm on the Sunday evening.
This weekend’s showcase will see 18 talented acts taking to the stage across the weekend and will include a combination of solo artists, duos, groups and even a comedian – in collaboration with The Fringe Festival.
Acts taking to the stage this weekend include 20 year old Dylan Paterson from The Scottish Borders, Singer/ Songwriter Conall Adam from Dunfirmline, Edinburgh born and bred Ciara McDonald, London based comedian Joe Baines, 18 year old Amy Donald from Edinburgh, 20 year old Lisa Scotland from Fife, Glasgow based Jen Athan, 20 year old Bronwyn Riani from Newcastle Upon Tyne, 14 year old Ethan Gibb from Livingston, three-piece Edinburgh based band Einstein’s Wardrobe, girl duo ‘In The Mix’ and ‘Let The Bird Out’. The youngest performer to step up to the mic this weekend is returning act, 9-year-old Kara from Glenmavis, who will close Sunday’s show.
Waverley Mall has been working in collaboration with The Youth Radio Network on The Waverley Sessions since April this year, following two successful events hosted by The Youth Radio Network in December last year.
The Youth Radio Network’s vision is to empower, teach and entertain young people, aged 13 to 25 years, through the power of music and digital technology, opening doors to the broadcast industries, and to become more employable helping them to get the best start in life.
Their role includes teaching young people the ropes of the broadcast industry and helping to prepare them for employment through CV preparation, mock interviews and confidence building.
Through their work with Waverley Mall they are empowering young people – giving them opportunities skills and equipment as well as hands on experience in a real life setting for a future in the music / broadcast industry. By providing a platform, to perform, Waverley Mall is building on this opportunity with the chance to build personal confidence in performing in public.
Finally, The Youth Radio Network seeks to entertain their audience through music.
This edition of The Waverley Sessions (the second this month) is set to be a fantastic celebration of talent from Scotland and beyond and build on Waverley Mall’s aspirations to deliver products and experiences that are Scottish to the core.
The event offers the opportunity for Fringe-goers to enjoy some FREE live entertainment in Waverley Mall’s food court across final weekend of the Fringe Festival.
Jacquelyn Stewart, General Manager, Waverley Mall says: “We’re incredibly proud of the success of The Waverley Sessions and our partnership with the Youth Radio Network. It is so rewarding to see young people gaining experience and confidence and watch them grow and develop as musicians.
“The team at The Youth Radio Network are all young volunteers themselves, so to see how they pull together to make these events run smoothly, under Keiran’s enthusiastic and professional management is truly inspiring.”
Keiran Harvey, CEO, The Youth Radio Network says: “The Youth Radio Network is incredibly privileged to be such a big part of this amazing event. The Waverley Sessions truly does give young and upcoming musicians and bands from right across Scotland a platform to showcase their talent to the world!
“Every month we’re amazed by the level of talent that we see. We would like to thank Waverley Mall for their continued support and also to all our amazing volunteers and staff for all their hard work and dedication at the sessions.
“We look forward to continuing to showcase Scotland’s amazing talent in partnership with Waverley Mall and we would urge all musicians or bands, whether you are just starting up or have done a few gigs, to get involved. We are here to support if you need it! As the moto goes, Teach, Empower and Entertain!”
A man is in a serious condition after being hit by a taxi which mounted a pavement in the city centre yesterday.
The 59-year-old pedestian was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary following the incident on North Castle Street, near its junction with Queen Street, at 1pm. Continue reading Pedestrian seriously injured after taxi mounts pavement
