In celebration of the Taiwanese community’s long history of hospitality and friendship with Scotland, the Edinburgh-Taiwanese community is bringing together a showcase of tasty Taiwanese street food and dynamic culture at the 2016 Edinburgh Taiwanese Food & Culture Fair – Eat Taiwan. The event takes place tomorrow at Southside Community Centre. Continue reading Eat Taiwan!
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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Percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie and playwright and artist John Bryne are among a group of four Scots to have been honoured for their outstanding contribution to Scotland’s culture and society. Continue reading Fletcher Awards for prominent Scots
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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Fireworks concert brings record-breaking Festival to a close
After 50,266 performances of 3,269 shows in 294 venues across Edinburgh, the final curtain has fallen on the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe – and it’s been yet another record-breaking year for the luvvies …
Continue reading Edinburgh folk get their city back!
Scottish entertainer and Forth 1 radio presenter Grant Scott has called on all unsigned bands and artists (over the age of 25) to submit their video entries to The Famous Grouse for an opportunity to win a prime time Friday headliner slot and perform live at The Famous Grouse House this festival! Continue reading Enter Famous Fridays headliner competition
See North Edinburgh’s own award-winning singing group at North Edinburgh Arts Centre – free concert
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
Referendum count and Elton John events mean temporary closure
Meadowbank Sports Centre will be temporarily closed for events taking place from 23 – 25 June. Some areas of Meadowbank will also be closed before and after the events for set up and ‘break-down’. Continue reading Events force temporary closures at Meadowbank
Exactly six months from today, the winner of a new bursary to support young Scottish traditional musicians will be unveiled, coinciding with St. Andrew’s Day 2016. Set up through a partnership between independent charity the Saltire Society and Hands Up for Trad, set up in 2002 to promote Scottish traditional music, the new bursary is now open for applications. Continue reading £2,500 traditional music bursary open for applications
