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Category: North Edinburgh News
Spartans’ Girls Football Festival is great success
It was a busy morning at the Academy last Friday with around 100 girls from 5 local primary schools joining in the Spartans Community Football Academy Girls Festival – the second year we have hosted the event (writes Nichola Sturrock). Continue reading Spartans’ Girls Football Festival is great success
Broughton concert cancelled as mark of respect for dead pupil
Broughton High School has cancelled a concert scheduled to tale place this evening as a mark of respect for pupil Brad Williamson, who died in an accident in Silverknowes at the weekend.
The School announced on Facebook:
As a mark of respect to Brad Williamson, a pupil in our school community who died during the weekend, we are cancelling the Summer Concert which was scheduled for this evening, Monday 13 June. Any tickets already purchased will be honoured if the concert is re-scheduled. Anyone wishing a refund should contact the school to arrange reimbursement.
Further updates will be shared through the school website.
Pilton Youth & Childrens Project have also paid a moving tribute to the local youth:
All the staff and volunteers at Pilton Youth & Children’s Project would like to pass on our condolences to Brad’s family and friends.
Brad was a popular young man who attended lots of our clubs and groups on a regular basis and he will be sadly missed.
With love from all the team at PYCP xxxx
Rescheduled CC meeting takes place tomorrow
Dear All,
Please find attached the agenda for tomorrow’s West Pilton West Granton Community Council meeting. This meeting is out of sync due to holiday arrangements. Please note that the last meeting was inquorate so the minutes of 5th April will be re-presented.
We will be having a discussion about the forthcoming Community Council elections. Please note from the attachments above the timetable for our elections. The Returning Officer for our elections is Councillor Vicki Redpath, other Councillors are Returning Officers for other Community Councils. These elections will require the existing Community Councillors to stand down and seek re-election.
See you there,
Barbara Robertson
Secretary
Turf’s Up at West Pilton!
This Saturday, 11.30am – 2pm
All welcome!
Awards seek out Edinburgh’s ‘Heritage Angels’
Volunteer groups and individuals in and around Edinburgh, who contribute to Scotland’s historic environment, are being asked to step forward and make themselves known, as entries for the Scottish Heritage Angel Awards 2016 opened on Friday (10th June). Continue reading Awards seek out Edinburgh’s ‘Heritage Angels’
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Severing Time at North Edinburgh Arts
Friday 24 June 7.30pm
North Edinburgh Arts
North Edinburgh Arts Theatre Project & Festival and King’s Theatres Edinburgh Learning and Participation
INVITATION
You are invited to the Sharing of Work – Severing Time – on Friday 24th June 7.30pm
This performance includes Theatre, Dance and Video work by the Adults and Children of the North Edinburgh Arts Theatre project.
Severing Time investigates the influence and resistance we have towards the pressure of advertising, media and social networks, and considers the challenges, disruptions and distortions to our well-being and sense of self that virtual encounters can create. The ‘self’ we manufacture for internet-based encounters can be reductive, dehumanising and commodifying. It can also be a reflection to find and reclaim ourselves.
Background and Development of the project
North Edinburgh Arts Theatre project is an established and well-recognised Theatre project for adults, and has a track record for exciting and innovative productions and events. The project was developed in 2011 after research into the requirements of local people. The main finding of this research was that people wanted to make theatre again, after a history of using theatre and other art forms to create work which highlights their community and its needs and aspirations.
The project supports the participants’ aspirations and hard work for well-being and full creative lives, making strong contributions to their own communities as well as participating in the North Edinburgh Arts Theatre project.
In November 2011 North Edinburgh Arts Theatre project developed Yes We CanCan – a Cabaret of Resistance, which was the cementing of the project. Since then, the project has participated in a number of performances including Theatre Uncut in 2012 & 2013 and it regularly offers Sharing-of-Work and Work-in-Progress events. The 1d Tenement Opera in January 2015 through the support of the People’s Health Trust was an exciting and important development for North Edinburgh, and since then, the film Remembering Today, which was made in October 2015, has been acclaimed and celebrated.
Now North Edinburgh Arts’ Theatre project is delighted to be joined by Festival and King’s Theatres Edinburgh Learning and Participation Coordinator for the next stage in the Project’s development. The Learning and Participation Coordinator is leading Drama Workshops for the children of participants, and welcomes wider participation from other children interested in drama and theatre.
If you are interested in the Theatre project please email Sandra admin@northedinburgharts.c
End of term celebration for Circle’s ISSEP
Circle’s Inter School Social Education Project (ISSEP) works with primary-aged children supported by volunteer mentors who are 5th/6th year students.
For children, ISSEP provides a consistent 1:1 mentor one afternoon per week for the entire school year to support homework and a positive approach to learning, as well as providing a range of fun activities.
Mentors get a lot out of ISSEP too. It provides a first-class opportunity for volunteering, which is undertaken by some as part of accredited schemes such as Duke of Edinburgh and it helps to increase confidence and skills in working with young children.
The ISSEP project has been a great success, and last week West Pilton-based Circle held an end of term celebration, as the project’s Claire Martin explains:
Circle’s ISSEP Project enjoyed an end of term celebration on May 31st. Around 90 people joined the party at North Edinburgh Arts Centre. It was a fantastic way to celebrate the achievements of the 30 mentors and 30 children involved in the mentoring project this year (writes Circle’s Claire Martin).
The sun was shining and everyone enjoyed face painting, food, certificate presentations and a slideshow of the year’s highlights! Highlights included Zumba sessions at the mentors’ school and several visits to the Edinburgh International Science Festival.
Thank you to the mentors from George Heriot’s School whose fundraising efforts made these outings possible. We also enjoyed planting vegetables in the newly developed raised beds at Muirhouse Avenue thanks to Centipede Project.
Lots of special friendships have blossomed throughout the year and the feedback from parents, teachers, children and mentors involved has been extremely positive. Thanks to Ben Macpherson MSP and Deidre Brock MP for joining us to celebrate, as well as teachers from local primary schools and George Heriot’s School.
We wish the mentors well as they move on from secondary school. We look forward to the project starting up again after the summer.
Boy dies following motorcycle accident in Silverknowes
A 14-year-old boy has died after a collision between a car and a motorbike in Silverknowes. The boy, who has been named locally as Brad Williamson, was taken to the Sick Kids hospital on Friday evening but died this morning.
The motorcycle, a white Vertigo driven by the youth, was involved in a collision with a black Toyota Aygo on Silverknowes Road near to the junction with Silverknowes Court, at around 4pm on Friday. The boy and his passenger, also 14, were both taken to the Sick Kids hospital with serious injuries.
Police are appealing for witnesses who may have seen the collision and are particularly keen to speak to the driver of a white limousine.
Sergeant Brian Smith, of Edinburgh’s Road Policing Unit, added: “This collision has resulted in death of a teenage boy and our condolences are with his family at this sad time.
“Our enquiries continue in order to establish the full circumstance surrounding this, and anyone who may have witnessed the collision is urged to get in touch.
“We’re particularly eager to trace the driver of a white Mercedes limousine-style car which was travelling north on Silverknowes Road at the time, as we believe they may be able to assist with our investigation.”
Anyone with any information is asked to contact Police Scotland on 101