SATURDAY 18 JUNE 2 – 5pm
Living in Harmony: Upcoming events
Summer Community BBQ Saturday 18th June
Our welcoming events volunteers are organising a summer BBQ with international food, music, dance and children’s activities at North Edinburgh Arts Centre, 5-9pm on 18th June.
It should be a great opportunity for anyone in the area to meet new people and have fun. Tickets are £1 from North Edinburgh Arts or Pilton Community Health Project.
Addressing Inequality in Employment forum meeting
Wednesday 29th June 1.30-4pm
at Spartans Community Football Academy
Employment is a big issue for many people in our area. Research in the recent Framework for Racial Equality highlighted that BME people are underrepresented in many areas. How should organisations address this?
We will have a guest speaker from the Coalition for Racial Equality and Rights giving an overview of the current inequalities and how these could be addressed. We will also hear from organisations that have reviewed their recruitment practices to try to make them more accessible or to reach out to specific groups.
Local BME residents who have been supported by Community Renewal to find work or start businesses will share their experiences, as well as LINK Mentoring which runs a mentoring scheme for BME people looking for specific types of work.
There will be a chance to exchange ideas and discuss ways of moving forward both collectively and as individual organisations or residents. Lunch and crèche included. Please RSVP.
I hope you can make either or both of these events!
Hannah Kitchen
Development Worker, Living in Harmony
Supporting women back to work
A project to help bring experienced women back into the workplace after a career break is to be trialled in Scotland, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has announced. Continue reading Supporting women back to work
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’
Rockin’ The Botanics on Father’s Day
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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