Around fifty local people took part in the latest ‘Getting Together, Making a Difference’ event at Royston Wardieburn Community Centre last week. Taking place on ‘Living Life’ Day, the gathering offered an opportunity for people from diverse backgrounds to get to know their neighbours better, make new friends, learn new skills and create new artworks.
Workshop sessions followed introductions and the official opening of the Getting Together, Making a Difference’ photography exhibition.
The workshop aims:
Provide an opportunity for participants to get to know each other
through an activity
Introduce participants to songs, poems, art work which focus theme of
diversity and solidarity
Provide an opportunity for partiipants to create poetry, music and art
work which can be shared with other workshop groups after lunch
Create an opportunity to send a positve message on diversity, difference
and solidarity to the wider community
Workshop 1 : Poetry
Workshop led by Jim Aitken
Supported by Lynn McCabe and Fiona Manson
Workshop 2: Music
Workshop led by Jed Milroy
Supported by Hannah Kitchen
Workshop 3: Arts
Workshop led Mo Brand
Supported by Anna Baran and Lydia Markham
The event proved to be a great success and a lot of fun: creating new friendships, developing relationships, fostering greater understanding and producing some impressive artwork, a poem and a brand new song, too!
The poem:
Getting Together
Getting together, making a difference
Getting together, making a difference
For future families, and our community
Solidarity
Binding you and me
From wartime to Thatcher
The taxes, the cuts
We fought against it
For a better place for us
We’re getting together
For ceilidhs and meals
For visits and trips
It’s turning the wheels
Into the future
Our community
Our children, their children
Will be running free.
And the song? Well, It goes something like this … :
You’re all invited to our annual Summer BBQ!
THIS SATURDAY (20th August)
At the Community Garden on the corner of Boswall Parkway and Wardieburn Free Food served from 2pm til it runs out!
It’s been a busy year in the community gardens so far, we’ve been growing 11 different kinds of fruit, at least 40 kinds of vegetables and herbs and 3 kinds of grain. Some of these have been harvested already and others still have a little while to go. eg. our crop trial of wheat on West Granton Road (opposite Lidl/Iceland) is slowly turning nicely golden -give us a shout if you’d like to help with this (some weather dependent time in September)!
Gardening drop-ins are continuing every Tuesday and Saturday, meet at 11am at the garden on the corner of Boswall Parkway and Wardieburn Road. All welcome! No prior gardening experience necessary!
If you’d like to bring something to contribute to the BBQ you can, but we should have plenty to go round..
North Edinburgh Arts has partnered up with the Fringe Society to offer 20 free places on a trip to the Edinburgh Fringe. This is a fantastic opportunity, so book now before places fill up.
The trip will be on Wednesday 17th August and will leave NEA between 6-7pm, depending on which show is chosen. The choice of shows all have a political theme.
Oktoberfest is coming back to Edinburgh for a ‘wunderbar’ long weekend at Princes Street Gardens West.
The organizers of World Wide Oktoberfest tour have announced the official dates for Edinburgh Oktoberfest 2016. Princes Street Gardens West will be hosting the event from 5th -9th October. Continue reading Wunderbar: Octoberfest’s back!
Volunteer Edinburgh and more than fifty voluntary organisations will join together on Wednesday 21st September between 11am and 7pm at St Paul’s and St Georges Church on York Place to host Scotland’s leading Volunteer Recruitment Fair.Continue reading Roll up, roll up: Volunteer Recruitment Fair
No, it’s not an incitement to violence – Friends of Inverleith Park are delighted to announce their new fitness equipment, specially designed for use by older people! Why not pop along and have a look or have a go? It’s beside the playpark.
The official launch party takes place this Sunday (24 July). Kids, ‘seize a senior’ – bring along a bus pass carrier and get a free gift!
Royston/Wardieburn Adult summer programme kicked off on Tuesday with a visit to the Scottish Parliament. After viewing the World Press Photo exhibition by the world’s leading photo journalists*, participants had a meeting with Ben MacPherson, the new MSP for the Forth Ward. Continue reading Free Summer Programme for adults at Royston Wardieburn Community Centre
