Category: Muirhouse

North Edinburgh Arts: Heading back home early in 2025

📣Coming Soon! North Edinburgh Arts is looking forward to returning home early in 2025. Our venue refurbishment and extension is nearly complete and now runs to over 2000 sq m across four floors.

The purpose-built and community owned venue will house a 96 seat theatre, 72 seat café with new welcome desk, 2 wood workshops, 5 multi-purpose studios, 6 artist studios, a music room, 4 offices, a greenhouse, and terrace, all leading out to the well-loved half acre community garden at the rear – also to undergo a makeover in the coming months.

We’re busy working behind the scenes prepping and preparing all the spaces and can’t wait to share more updates with you in the New Year!

Thanks again to our friends at West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre, Drylaw Neighbourhood Centre, and Pilton Youth and Children’s Project (PYCP), amongst others, for hosting our team, our regular programme, and special events for the past 3 years.

Find more festive updates and latest news in our latest e-newsletter at https://mailchi.mp/18beca7e4564/december2024

Visit our website for more information: https://northedinburgharts.co.uk

A Merry Muirhouse Christmas!

MUIRHOUSE Housing Association delivered a Christmas cracker filled with family fun to kick off the festive season.

The Association laid on a sparkling Christmas celebration next to its offices brimming with seasonal cheer which families flocked to. It was the perfect way to start the Christmas festivities and get everyone into the holiday spirit. 

Muirhouse Chief Executive Susan Bell said the event was a tremendous success and thanked the community for their support by coming along.

The highlight was definitely the Christmas tree lights switch-on, generously sponsored for the second consecutive year by Kerax Land Ltd, the landscaping and estates contractor for the housing association.

The event featured a variety of family-friendly activities, including seasonal arts and crafts like making “angel templates” and writing letters to Santa.

To banish the Edinburgh winter chill, attendees enjoyed free hot food with a delicious Lebanese twist from Lazeez Street Food and Catering Services, adding an international flair to the event.

A guitarist from the community singing group “Ama-zing Harmonies” led everyone in carol singing. 

Susan expressed her gratitude, saying: “We are incredibly thankful to everyone who attended. It was the perfect event to launch the festive season. 

“It was wonderful to see the community come together again, and the excitement from the children who came along was truly heartwarming. We hope everyone enjoyed themselves and wish everyone a wonderful Christmas.”

She also extended her thanks to the staff team for their hard work in organising and making it such a success.

Deborah Brown, Muirhouse’s Community Engagement Officer, said it was the perfect seasonal occasion to engage with tenants and the wider Muirhouse community.

Deliberate damage at Craigroyston

Last weekend, deliberate damage was done to our SFL garden area and a lot of mess made. This included broken fences and plant pots as well as damage to two scooters – so much so they are beyond repair 😭

We don’t mind young people hanging around in our area at all as we want them to be safe, but we ask two things:

*Be respectful so things are not damaged

*Use the bins provided for any rubbish

We hope everyone in the Craigroyston community can help support us in this! 💙💛

Author Visit to Muirhouse Library

SARA SHERIDAN: 2nd December from 6 – 7.30pm

We’re so excited to announce this! On the 2nd of December, we will be hosting hit author Sara Sheridan at Muirhouse Library!

Join us to hear from Sara about her novels, an opportunity to ask her some questions, and to eat a mince pie (or two…). Tickets are totally free, but booking is essential.

To book, please speak to us at the front desk, or give us a call on 0131 529 5651.

We will take your name and a contact telephone number, and your postcode, as for the first week we are giving priority booking to people who live in EH4 or EH5.

On Wednesday 20th November we will open out the booking to everyone.

Tonight: Youth Arts Collective

NORTH EDINBURGH ARTS at WEST PILTON NEIGHBOURHOOD CENTRE

The NEA Youth Arts Collective meets up weekly to do creative tasks (think Taskmaster!), play games, hang out, eat tasty snacks and chat about children and young people’s rights.

This term, the YAC are working with artists to select and develop a new performance to be showcased at the 2025 Edinburgh Children’s Festival family day and the North Edinburgh Community Festival.

New members welcome, so come along and bring a friend, too!

📆When: Every Thursday, 5.30pm – 7pm

Drop in any time from 4.30pm for toasties and hang out before the group starts at 5.30pm

📍Where: West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre

🙋Who: Local young people (ages 11 -13) living in areas of Muirhouse, Pilton, Telford and Drylaw

🎟Cost: Free but registration required: