Quay Community Improvements, a social enterprise set up by Port of Leith Housing Association last year, has been awarded three new contracts to deliver cleaning services for Muirhouse Housing Association, West Granton Housing Co-Op and Hunters Hall Housing Co-op. Continue reading Quay to the door: local contracts for Port of Leith social enterprise
SYHA Hostelling Scotland (SYHA) is delighted to announce the opening of Edinburgh Haddington Place Youth Hostel, from 17 July to 2 September 2017, at a brand-new temporary accommodation complex on Haddington Place. Continue reading New summer youth hostel to open in Haddington Place
Next month sees the stage version of the 1987 cult film, Dirty Dancing, return to the Edinburgh Playhouse in a new UK production. Continue reading Have the time of your life at Edinburgh Playhouse
Police are appealing for information following a hate crime that occurred in the north of the city. The incident happened between 5.30pm and 5.40pm on Monday (8th May) in St Andrew’s Place. Continue reading Witness appeal following Leith hate crime
Active Inquiry would like to invite you to attend our Spect-Act Festival on the 20th and 21st May 2017 at the Out of the Blue Drill Hall, 36 Dalmeny Street. Continue reading Spect-Act Festival at Out of the Blue
ROOST bird box auction this afternoon
Get along to the Custom Lane in Leith’s Commercial Street this afternoon, snap up a beautiful bird box and support a brilliant local charity into the bargain!
ROOST project’s bird boxes will go under the hammer this afternoon with all proceeds going to support the work of North Edinburgh Arts. Fun starts at 12.30with the live public auction at 2pm.
Artist Lindsday Perth, who dreamed up the ROOST idea, said: “Finally we are here, the ROOST Birdhouse Auction. Preparations are underway, getting the birdhouses ready, working with the awesome venue, Custom Lane, to make this one happening event! .
“So this what is happening and when on Sunday May 7:
12:30pm – Silent Bid closes for birdhouses 0-50, winning bids announced @ 1pm
2pm – LIVE AUCTION starts for birdhouses 51 – 100.
Bids will start at £4 and increase £1. Cash and cheques accepted. I fully expect a full on brawl between bidders!
“There will be several cases of Paolozzi beer, juice, sunshine and all for a good cause. Monies are going to North Edinburgh Arts maker and crafts groups, several of which have recently lost funding. These groups are vital in supporting the community and drawing people towards place, identity, creativity and a feeling of civic pride.”
Go on … you know you want one!
Recruitment campaign targets science, technology, engineering and maths
Leith Academy Biology teacher Natalie Finlayson has joined the Scottish Government’s Teaching Makes People campaign. She recently visited the University of Edinburgh to encourage students to consider a career in STEM teaching. Continue reading Leith Academy’s Natalie explains why ‘Teaching Makes People’
ROOST AUCTION THIS WEEKEND
Custom Lane, Commercial Street
Yesterday saw Miles Tubb from the Living Memory Centre test the ladies with artefacts you would use when you went for a night out (writes James McGinty). This piece of equipment (above) was used to cure cellulite! Continue reading A blast from the past
Eduardo Paolozzi
16 February – 14 May 2017
The Whitechapel Gallery presents a major retrospective of Eduardo Paolozzi from 16 February – 14 May
Leith’s Eduardo Paolozzi (1924-2005) was one of the most innovative and irreverent British artists of the 20th century. Considered the ‘godfather of Pop Art’, his powerful collages, sculptures and prints challenged artistic convention from the 1950s ‘Geometry of Fear’ all the way through the Swinging Sixties and on to the advent of ‘Cool Britannia’ in the 1990s. Continue reading To London from Leith: Paolozzi exhibition at Whitechapel Gallery
