Bentley Effect: workshops and film screening

Afternoon workshop and evening screening – Thursday 18th May

The film’s about a group of communities standing together in solidarity in a fight against the “Goliath” of an gas extraction company where, against all the odds, they won with the strength they built together.   And so there’s two things about the film which I think might be of interest.

1.  Its crowd sourced and the crew touring with the film are the director, a town mayor and one of the key activists so there’ll be discussions with positive messages after the film.

2.  They’ve offered to run a workshop in the afternoon before the film which are being tagged as “potential community responses” but I think essentially they’ll be about forms of action.

And so you can find details re The Bentley Effect below but you can see the Bentley Effect trailer via:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLnRD3neUFo

There’s a sign up route for the “collective responses” workshop on the 18th before the film screening and this can be accessed via:  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/community-response-to-fracking-workshop-1230for1-5pm-thur18may-edinburgh-tickets-34117267666

www.eventbrite.co.uk
All concerned about the threat of Extremme Energy are invited to this community activists workshop exploring all the options for bearing witness against corporate plans for fracking in Scotland – so-called Unconventional Oil and Gas planned for mainly the Central Belt.  Please book via https://frack18may.eventbrite.co.uk.
Bring and Share lunch from 12.30-1 then we are in the hands of our three Australian visitors who will be showing their seminal documentary “The Bentley Effect” early in the evening at 50 George Sq.  12.30   Registration and informal bring and share lunch13.00

City schools to compete in Scotland’s first nationwide online maths contest

With just days to go until it starts, 336 classes from 78 schools across Edinburgh and the Lothians have now signed up to take part in Scotland’s first ever nationwide online school maths contest, being run by Scottish education technology social enterprise Sumdog.  Continue reading City schools to compete in Scotland’s first nationwide online maths contest

Children’s language classes: as easy as uno, dos, tres!

Edinburgh based Language School Applauds Duchess of Cambridge for Teaching Royal Tots Spanish

The owner of an Edinburgh based children’s language business has praised Kate, Duchess of Cambridge, for teaching Prince George and Princess Charlotte to speak Spanish.

Giselle Dominguez, who runs Lingotot North Edinburgh, delivering classes in Broughton and Leith  for pre-school and primary school aged children across Edinburgh was delighted to hear the news that Prince George can already count to ten in Spanish and his little sister is also learning the language. The revelation was made during a visit to a charity farm project in Gloucestershire, where the Duchess shared the news with a group of schoolchildren.

The royal tots join a growing number of youngsters learning a second language, including Sam Faier’s son Paul who learns Spanish after appearing on ITV Be series the Mummy Diaries with Lingotot.

Up and down the country Lingotot teaches 10,000 children aged 0-11 each week to speak a range of modern foreign languages including French, Spanish, German, Arabic and Mandarin and here in Edinburgh the number of children grows month on month.

Giselle said: “I am delighted to hear that the young royals are learning a second language with the help of Kate and the children’s Spanish nanny. Research suggests that children who know two languages can gain an academic advantage over those who speak only one. Linguist experts say that between birth and five years of age, the human brain is hard-wired for learning multiple languages and after this age it becomes much harder.”

She went on: “At Lingotot we understand that not everyone has the resources to hire a nanny and in our lessons we teach the parents too, giving them top tips on how to use the language at home every day. We share our multilingual songs, stories and games with the whole family.

Giselle Dominguez invites you to come and try a Lingotot class for free at one of their venues  and your little one will be saying ‘uno, dos, tres’ before you know it!

Everyone Can Cook! recipe book launch tomorrow

Pilton Community Health Project’s Wednesday cooking club have created a new recipe book – and they’re launching it tomorrowI

PCHP Community Development Worker (Food) Joe Jones said: “We are launching our new recipe book Everyone Can Cook! at PCHP on Wednesday (10 May). Similar to the Cook & Taste recipe book that Memes put together a few years back with Muirhouse community shop, it’s a collection of favourite recipes from local participants at our Wednesday cooking club. The recipes are healthy, budget friendly and easy to make for and with the family.”

The launch takes place from 12 – 2pm.

Be part of Voluntary Arts Festival at North Edinburgh Arts

Voluntary Arts Festival 2017


Join us this Tuesday 9th May as we take part in Voluntary Arts Festival 2017.Make your ‘mark’: a small, hand made object that will be a part of a large public art installation, which will grow and change over time. This collection will be a creative celebration of the community of Muirhouse in 2017.

Meet people, chat and connect whilst getting arty!

Tuesday 9th May
10am – 12noon
Free to attend
For all ages

Remarkable veterans inspire Crewe Toll staff

Armed Forces Para Snowsport Team (AFPST) launch Spirit of Challenge at Leonardo Crewe Toll site

Veterans the Armed Forces Para Snowsport Team (AFPST) veterans shared their remarkable stories of recovery, achieved through their participation in snowports provided by the AFPST (Armed Forces Para Snowsport Team) charity with Leonardo staff at Crewe Toll last week.
Continue reading Remarkable veterans inspire Crewe Toll staff

Letters: Don’t fall for five more years of Tory havoc

Dear Editor,

In the last few years there has been a relentless anti – Labour/ Jeremy Corbyn campaign waged by those who control information from the press or other media. This is based on the well tried method that if you repeat something over and over again some people will start to believe it, in effect being told what to think and how to act.

The whole advertising industry works on that principal spending millions of pounds doing so, this principal also applies to the information industry. If the Labour Party and Jeremy Corbyn are not electable as they claim, the question must be asked, why have they conducted such a sustained campaign? Could it be that given equal unbiased coverage of the Labour policy that speaks for the vast majority of people, they would be elected?

Working people rely for their existence on having secure employment without which poverty beckons, and having had the experience of the last 7 years of Tory control this threat is always present.

The financial crisis of 2008 was not caused by the working population but by Banks and Financial Institutions, the working population is having to pay for it.

People have been fooled in the past to give their vote to the Tories, it would be a disaster to give them another five years to continue their dreadful havoc on our lives.

A. Delahoy (by email)