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Severing Time at North Edinburgh Arts

Friday 24 June 7.30pm

North Edinburgh Arts

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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.co.uk

All welcome at Community Summer BBQ

COMMUNITY SUMMER BBQ

North Edinburgh Arts

Saturday 18 June 5 – 9pm

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A community event celebrating all of the interesting food, music, dance and people who live in our area. There will be children’s activities in the beautiful North Edinburgh Garden, performances from local musicians, dancers and poets. A BBQ with lots of side dishes from around the world. All for £1 per person (a higher donation is very welcome if you want to contribute more!)

A bar will be available.

You are welcome to come in national dress (kilts, saris etc) if you want to!

Tickets £1 from North Edinburgh Arts or Pilton Community Health Project

IMAGINATE festival opens with free Fringe weekend

Free fun for children this weekend

Imaginate Festival Launch Large credit Jassy Earl

Imaginate – Edinburgh’s international children’s festival – opens tomorrow (Saturday) with a special Family Fringe weekend at the National Museum of Scotland featuring free performances and drop-in activities all day including live music, storytelling, hands-on arts and more! Continue reading IMAGINATE festival opens with free Fringe weekend

Bringing life back to Muirhouse Library wall

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There’s a scarred, empty wall at the entrance to the Muirhouse Library, where a piece of art used to be … it’s been a blank canvas for a while, but Arcadeum’s Art Billboard project is bringing this empty space back to life! Continue reading Bringing life back to Muirhouse Library wall

Dementia Cafe for North Edinburgh Arts?

TWO CONSULTATION SESSIONS NEXT WEEK

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‘There are only four kinds of people in the world: those who have been carers, those who are currently carers, those who will be carers and those who will need carers’ – Rosalynn Carter, former US First Lady

West Pilton Gardens Social Worker Centre is looking to open a new Dementia Cafe in North Edinburgh Arts Centre (off Pennywell Road, beside Muirhouse Library).

We are holding two meetings where we want to hear what you want from the Cafe. We would like people with dementia and their families, their carers, ex-carers, friends and neighbours, etc. to come along and participate in the consultation.

This is an opportunity for your voices to be heard and to be part of an exciting new project in your community.

If you would like to know more, please spread the word and come to:

North Edinburgh Arts Centre, Pennywell Court

on TUESDAY 24 MAY 10am – 12 noon

or SATURDAY 28 MAY 10am – 12 noon

Volunteers will be there to show you where to go

Teas and coffees available

Children welcome

Garden to Glass: New juice bar at North Edinburgh Arts

Family Event: Saturday 28 May 1 – 3pm

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North Edinburgh Arts is to celebrate the opening of a new healthy juice bar with the Garden to Glass family event on Saturday 28 May from 1-3pm.

The free event will demonstrate affordable, effective and fun ways to get your recommended five-a-day.

Enjoy caapes, juices and smoothies and there’s chocolate sampling and making too. Pilton Community Health Project will help you learn how to reduce your sugar intake and Oaklands School will also be there selling craft items and delicious home made jam! And if that’s not enough, there’s a chillout room with storytelling sessions, a graffiti wall to get your creative juices flowing and an opportunity to turn plastic waste into art!

The event is free but admission is by ticket only. For more information about the day and details on how to reserve your place, contact North Edinburgh Arts on 0131 315 2151 or email: admin@northedinburgharts.co.uk

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Continue reading Garden to Glass: New juice bar at North Edinburgh Arts

Tonight at North Edinburgh Arts: Tinderbox Orchestra Frontiers & Friends

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Exciting times for Tinderbox Frontiers with two concerts coming up!

First up is tonight at North Edinburgh Arts, with support from the amazing SUPA & Da Kryptonites plus some special solo performances too.

Then at Hidden Door for the Edinburgh Youth Music Festival on Sat 28th – see you there!

Tonight: European Literature Night at North Edinburgh Arts

EUPROPEAN LITERATURE NIGHT: FRIDAY 13 MAY

North Edinburgh Arts 5 – 6.30pm

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‘With the media spotlight shining so squarely on the politics of the EU referendum,’ says poet Colin Herd, ‘We think it’s important to also make space for a cultural expression of European experiences.’

Tonight, Edinburgh will welcome contemporary poets from across Europe for two events in celebration of European Literature Night.

Co-curated by Herd and Theodora Danek, in association with Edinburgh City of Literature and The Enemies Project, the poets represent some of the most exciting of cutting-edge contemporary European writing.

‘I think of Europe itself as a long never-ending poem, always emergent and always surprising, its meanings and its resonances never fixed,’ Herd says.

Following on from the success of European Literature Night 2015, this year’s celebration features 10 European and Scotland-based writers, including: Billy Ramsell, Christodoulos Makris, Nurduran Duman, Efe Duyan, Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir, Alexander Filyuta, Alessandro Burbank, Heather O’Donnell, Graeme Smith and Dominic Hale.

There will be an introductory taster event at North Edinburgh Arts Centre from 5 – 6.30pm followed by an evening extravaganza at Summerhall’s Red Lecture Theatre from 8 to 10.30pm.

As will reflect the diverse languages of Europe, some poets will choose to read in their own language (with translations) while other poets will read in English. There will also be some poets working in new media, sound and video.

Newly developed for this year, the events will also see the launch of #EuroPoem, a collective international poetry initiative, which poets and poetry-fans from across Europe are encouraged to contribute to. #EuroPoem responds to a need to explore what Europe is, means, and can be ahead of the UK’s referendum on EU membership. European writers are invited to submit two lines of poetry to the collective poem; contributions are of equal value, with no one poet setting the agenda of the poem and it will be polyvocal and multilingual.

Following its launch in Edinburgh at Summerhall, the poem will continue to emerge and evolve online through the Twitter hashtag #EuroPoem. No two versions of the poem need be the same, as poets from across Europe continue to add to this collaborative work. To join in with this unique poetry event, tweet your two lines of poetry to @edincityoflit using the hashtag #EuroPoem as part of European Literature Festival on 13th May, or email Colin Herd on europoem2016@gmail.com.

For more information and to book free tickets, follow these links:

North Edinburgh Arts Event (5 – 6.30pm)
Summerhall Event (8 – 10.30pm)

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Europe, future dream!
Europe, morning to come,
borders without watchdogs,
nations with his frank laughter
thrown wide open!

‘Europa’, Adolfo Casais Monteiro