Category: Muirhouse

Creative communities: Living Well Locally in North Edinburgh

NORTH EDINBURGH ARTS

TUESDAY 27th NOVEMBER 11am – 3pm

CCScotland Green Tease: Living well locally is taking place next week 🌿

Join us for a day of workshops and conversations about how cultural activities can contribute to creating sustainable and regenerative communities.

When: 11am-3pm, Thursday 27 November

Where: North Edinburgh Arts

Join us at North Edinburgh Arts to understand how cultural activities can contribute to creating sustainable and regenerative communities.

In particular, we’ll explore the role of culture in 20-minute neighbourhoods – creating walkable and wheelable places where everyone can access their daily needs.

The morning session will be an introduction to pre-existing place-based work in Scotland. Lesley-Anne Rose will share her reflections on the importance of culture in place planning and community work, Pippa Cook will introduce the Place Standard Tool and Rebecca Dillon-Robinson will outline the policies supporting local living and 20-minute neighbourhoods in Scotland.

At 12pm, we’ll break for a shared lunch of soup and sandwiches.

The afternoon session will involve creative mapping of Granton (North Edinburgh? – Ed.) and the places where participants live and/or work.

This is an opportunity for participants to reflect on how culture can support sustainable development or regeneration in their communities. We’ll end the afternoon by developing a toolkit incorporating culture into placemaking.

Agenda

  • 11am: Teas and coffees
  • 11.20am: Introduction to pre-existing place-based work in Scotland
  • 12pm: Lunch
  • 12.30pm: Creative mapping workshop
  • 2.15pm: Co-developing a toolkit incorporating culture into placemaking
  • 2.45pm: Feedback
  • 3pm: End

Find out more and register here: https://cultureforclimate.scot/…/green-tease-living…/

Christmas jumper workshops at Muirhouse Library

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND – our Christmas jumper workshops!

These were a huge hit last year so start getting excited now! On Saturday 22nd and 29th of November, we will be running drop-in craft sessions (2pm – 4pm).

We will provide wool, felt, pom-poms etc – please bring a spare old jumper or t-shirt if you have one! We will provide some old jumpers as well.

We can’t wait, and we look forward to seeing you all wearing your beautiful Christmas or festive jumpers throughout December!

John McNab ‘Not In Vain’ campaign

LIFT is proud to be supporting John’s Mum in spearheading her mission to ensure as many public spaces as possible have access to “Bleed Kits” in John’s name. We will be raising funds to purchase as many kits as possible to ensure lives can be saved.

If you want to donate please see information on the poster, BUT correct bank details are:

Sort Code: 80 11 05

Account Number: 00205715

Muirhouse Millennium Centre

Lisa and the LIFT staff will be undertaking training to use the kits correctly and we will supply a flyer explaining exactly what to do if you ever find yourself using one-off John’s Bleed Kits.

John McNab “Not in Vain” campaign spearheaded by Lisa and Dale supported by LIFT@ MMC

Tomorrow: Children’s Creativity Festival at North Edinburgh Arts

EVENT ORGANISED by MISSION OF INNOCENTS

Mission of Innocents warmly invites you to the 2025 Children’s Creativity Festival.

Performed by the children of the Ukrainian community, experience vibrant dancing and heartfelt singing from the voices of the innocent. Remember to arrive early to explore a beautiful art exhibition showcasing their creativity and culture.

For more information about this event, please contact the organiser:

https://www.missionofinnocents.org/

CCHS Winter Concert

WEDNESDAY 26 NOVEMBER at 6pm

The Winter Concert is a fantastic celebration of our talented young musicians, featuring performances from the Choir, Jazz Band, Mr Allan’s School of Rock, soloists and many more!

It would be amazing to see lots of people there to support our young people.

The event will start at 6pm and finish by 7.30pm.

Tickets are free – please make sure you book your tickets by scanning the QR code

🎟️

PYCP Community Garden Attacked

CRAIGROYSTON HIGH SCHOOL’S GARDEN ALSO HIT BY VANDALISM

🌿 Community Garden Vandalism 🌿

We’re really saddened and frustrated to share that nearly all of our garden beds have been damaged. The wood has been broken, and many of the plants and vegetables that young people and volunteers worked so hard to grow have been pulled out.

This garden means a lot to our community, and it’s disheartening to see so much hard work destroyed. If anyone saw anything or knows who was involved, please get in touch.

We’re determined to repair the damage and keep this space thriving 💜

#CommunityGarden

#PiltonYouth

#PYCP

#RespectOurSpaces

Craigroyston Community High School has been hit by an attack. The school responded to PYCP:

Awful 😢 We’re about to post the same thing about our garden in the SfL department. It’s so disheartening when we try so hard to keep it good and our young people are working in it 😢

North Edinburgh Arts: We are the Lions, Mr Manager!

SATURDAY 11th OCTOBER at 7.30pm

We are the lions, Mr Manager! is the story of the Grunwick Film Processing Factory Strike (1976–78) and the inspirational strike-leader Jayaben Desai, one of many newly arrived Gujarati women workers from East Africa.

⭐⭐⭐⭐“The story of Jayaben Desai… makes you laugh, feel and think… a powerful story, powerfully told.” – Clare Brennan, The Guardian

📅 Saturday 11 October, 7.30pm

🎭 Creative Captioning

🎟️ Tickets: £7 – £14

💜 Discounted tickets available for NEA Members

👉 Book your tickets now: https://northedinburgharts.co.uk/…/we-are-the-lions-mr…/

Presented by Townsend Theatre Productions