People Powered Community event
Monday 1st May
North Edinburgh Arts, 10am – 1pm
Tag: CAN
People Powered Community: help create the community you want to live in
MONDAY 1st MAY
10am – 1pm at NORTH EDINBURGH ARTS
All Welcome
MAY DAY! Help shape the future at People Powered Community event
Can we change things? Yes we CAN!
Free BBQ on Friday: get your ticket!
Friday 16 September 3 – 5pm
The Amphitheatre, Muirhouse Avenue
We are having a party to launch the new amphitheatre, built on Muirhouse Avenue. There will be a BBQ and music workshops with Tinderbox Frontiers.
Spaces for the music workshops are FREE but must be booked in advance on 0131 315 2151 or inside North Edinburgh Arts.
The event is FREE.
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Free BBQ and music at Muirhouse Avenue amphitheatre
We are having a party to launch the new amphitheatre built on Muirhouse Avenue. There will be a BBQ and music workshops with Tinderbox Frontiers.
The party takes place next Friday 16 September from 3 – 5pm.
Spaces for the music workshops are FREE but must be booked in advance on 0131 315 2151 or call in to North Edinburgh Arts.
The event is FREE.
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Green Teas tour with the Centipede today!
Green Tease: Creative Solutions to Temporary Sites
Date/time: 30th August, 16:00 – 18:00
Venue: North Edinburgh Arts, 15a Pennywell Court, Edinburgh EH4 4TZ
Centipede Project, based in North Edinburgh, are offering a guided tour of and discussion about their three public spaces in Muirhouse all within a 1 km of each other, developed in collaboration with local residents, businesses and schools, and latterly in partnership with City of Edinburgh Council.
These brownfield interventions include a huge grass labyrinth, a natural play area, and a former low rise housing block site now under development into a wildflower meadow, and natural play area. We will also include their most recent construction, a 25m rammed-earth Amphitheatre and stage. During the session we’ll learn about the different values that creative practices can bring to sustainable brownfield sites and public space developments.
This event will appeal to those working in areas including: urban planning and regeneration, green and brownfield space development, community development, landscape architecture, urban playground development, creative practices. It is run as part of our Green Tease Open Call Fund.
Find out more and register here: http://www. creativecarbonscotland.com/ event/green-tease-creative- solutions-temporary-sites-2/
Joanne McArthur
Project Coordinator
0131 315 2151
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Many hands make light work in Muirhouse Avenue
There’s a mighty team effort taking place in Muirhouse Avenue right now. Muirhouse Centipede Project are putting the land not currently being built on to good use and are now preparing the ground for a community amphitheatre and performance area.
It’s a lot of work – it’s a lot of space! – but volunteers from Craigroyston Community High School, Tomorrow’s People, Scottish Widows, Community Action North, Scottish Gas, the Haven Project’s Dad’s Group and North Edinburgh Arts are really getting stuck in!
You’ll already see an amazing difference … and today 130 tyres will arrive for the next stage of the operation! Get involved!
More pictures on our Facebook page
CAN newsletter
Community Action North has produced a Spring newsletter (see below).
If you’d like to help to make your community a better place to live – perhaps through CAN’s Action Groups, through training or placements or maybe you have some great ideas of your own – CAN would love to hear from you!
Can we improve North Edinburgh? Of course we CAN!
Email communityactionnorth@gmail.com for more info
Community Conference: now it’s time for action
Action Groups formed based on community priorities
Five new Action Groups have been formed following last month’s community conference at Craigroyston Community High School.
The conference, organised by Community Action North and Granton Improvement Society supported by Craigroyston High School’s Community Centre, gave local people an opportunity to identify the main issues affecting the area. Participants then worked in small groups to look in detail at these topics and went on to form Action Groups to work with others to find short, medium and longer term solutions to the area’s problems.
The Action Groups are:
- Big Picture (Economy, Employment & Decision Making)
- Community Spaces & Environment
- Crime & Community Safety
- Housing
- Youth
More than fifty local people took part in the event and it’s hoped that many more with attend a follow up event in the autumn.
A spokesperson for the conference organisers said: “The weather on the day was really dreadfully so we were delighted that so many people made the effort to attend. There was a lot of enthusiasm and many ideas were generated at the conference and the Action Groups will now take these ideas forward and plan the way ahead. There are lots of changes happening in the area just now and it’s important that local people are involved and have a say in the decisions that affect their lives.”
If you would like to be involved in the Action Groups or want more information about CAN, email comunityactionnorth@gmail.com
Adios, Andy!
Farewell to CAN’s Andy Dalzell – one helluva guy!
Friends and colleagues joined Community Action North development worker Andy Dalzell for leaving drinks in The Baillie in Stockbridge last night. The big guy from Philadelphia worked in North Edinburgh for only a few short months – but the genial giant has left his mark. Continue reading Adios, Andy!