Young people from Muirhouse Youth Development Group (MYDG) will be staging an art exhibition at North Edinburgh Arts Centre next week.
The Arts Cool and Urban Arts exhibition opens with a launch event at the arts centre on Thursday 29 March from 5.30 – 7.30pm, and everyone’s welcome!
For further informaiton email joanne@mydg.org.uk or telephone 332 3356.
Following on from the success of December’s ‘Yes We Can Can’ community cabaret, community theatre is returning to North Edinburgh Arts with director Stephanie Knight .
Stephanie told participants: “I had a meeting with Kate, Director of NEA, last week to discuss how we can go forward after your tremendous achievements last year, and I would now like to meet on Friday 16th March at 6pm at NEA to plan what you would like to do next and how we can take this forward. There are already a number of great ideas and workshops will start on Friday 13th April 6 – 8p.m. in the theatre at NEA. Please get straight back to me with any queries and ideas in the meantime – it will be great to see you again!”
New members will also be warmly welcomed – for further information contact Stephanie on + 44 [0] 1578 750694 + 44 [0] 7817 359703 or email stephaniejaneknight@gmail.com
North Edinburgh Arts Centre will be the venue for North Edinburgh’s first ever Yummy Food Festival next month, and it promises to be very tasty event indeed! With demonstrations, workshops, cookery competitions and theatre performances organisers are hoping the festival will attract a healthy attendance too!
Pilton Community Health Project’s Community Healthy Lifestyles Coordinator Lisa Arnott (pictured above) is a member of the steering group organising the big event and she’s looking forward to seeing as many local people attend as possible.
She said: “The festival has been developed by local women from Muirhouse and West Pilton in partnership with Pilton Community Health Project and Forth Community Learning and Development team. This festival is full of exciting cooking workshops and food demonstrations, theatre performance, home baking, arts workshops, Zumba and a whole host of healthy food activities.”
She added: “Free goody bags, recipe cards and tasters will also be given out on the day but numbers are limited at the demonstrations and workshop so these will be on a ‘first come first served’ basis. Step into Spring 2012 and come along to the healthiest festival in North Edinburgh, the Yummy Food Festival!’
Forth CLD worker Sara Low is also a member of the steering group and she’s equally enthusiastic about the event. “This will be a great day out for local people but also a great opportunity for community groups, campaigns and organisations to give out information. It’s a really good programme and we’re really looking forward to what we hope will be a very exciting Festival”.
North Edinburgh’s Yummy Food Festival takes place on Friday 16 March from noon until 5pm. For further information call Lisa at Pilton Community Health Project on 551 1671 or email admin@pchp.org.uk
What is your favourite creative activity? What creative skills do you wish you had? What would your ideal community garden look like? North Edinburgh Arts wants to know what you think about the state of the arts in Muirhouse and beyond.
This Saturday, 18th February, North Edinburgh Arts will host its first annual ‘Have Your Say’ day, an event chock-full of fun, creative activities for the whole family, and a fantastic platform for you to tell NEA what is important to you.
Activities will run from 10am – 2pm, and will include drama with Lyceum Youth Theatre and North Edinburgh Theatre group, DIY Muirhouse with Community Renewal, dance with Charan Pradhan, creative play for under 5s, and take your own portrait. There will also be graffiti walls, breakdance displays, drop in arts and crafts and the opportunity to speak to Big Brother in our own Diary Room – a full programme of activities will be available to pick up on the day.
Kate Wimpress, Director of North Edinburgh Arts, said: “The ‘Have Your Say’ Day will do exactly what it says on the tin. NEA is a great asset for Muirhouse and for North Edinburgh, and it is vital that we, as an organisation, know how to make the most of this fantastic resource for the many people who already use it, and for those who will use it in future”.
So why not go along and see what North Edinburgh Arts has to offer, grab a bite to eat at the café and chat about how to make the arts thrive where you live?
For more information on this event, visit http://www.northedinburgharts.co.uk or follow their page on Facebook.
Come and join us down at North Edinburgh Arts for the fabulous fairytale of Princess Paris Pilton, the beautiful girl who falls under the spell of the Wicked Fairy of Ferry Road, who puts everyone in Muirhouse to sleep for a hundred years!
See what happens when they all wake up in Edinburgh one hundred years in the future! Has Scotland gained independence; have we solved global warming; are the trams running yet? We’ll only find out if handsome Prince Barry can fight his way to her and kiss her awake again!
The show, brought to you by Edinburgh’s Telford College promises to be packed full of fun and Christmas cheer. We are offering our email friends reduced price tickets at £1 per person.
If you would like to come along and make the most if this offer please contact Box Office on 0131 315 2151 quoting this unique offer codeNEAXMAS11
We look forward to hearing from you
The NEA Team
