Community Coffee Morning

The Community Council is the voice of the community. We want to hear about what matters to you locally. During 2023, we’re inviting you to a series of Coffee Mornings at the Community Centre, providing an opportunity to discuss what’s good, what’s bad, and what could be improved in this part of town. Whether you’re young or old, new to the area or have lived here all your life, come and enjoy a free cuppa and cake and share your ideas.

Next Meeting of the Community Council
18th July 2023 at 7pm
Northfield & Willowbrae Community Centre

The Community Council meets in public, but it is not a public meeting. Members of the public may attend as observers and can participate in the open forum at the end. If you wish to suggest items for discussion or for any other matter, please contact the Secretary two weeks before the meeting by emailing; –
secretary@northfieldandwillowbrae.org.uk

We are currently looking to co-opt two new members to the Community Council to serve until the next elections in 2024 and would particularly like to hear from younger people and those from under-represented groups. This could be an ideal opportunity to find out if this voluntary role is for you. If you are interested, have some free time to commit and a constructive solution-based approach, we’d like to hear from you. To express interest and find out more, please contact the secretary at the email address above.

The Minutes of previous meetings and Agenda for the next, as well as updates on current CEC consultations relevant to our area can all be found on the website:- www.northfieldandwillowbrae.org.uk

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Contemporary Landscape Art Call for Entries

CALL FOR ENTRIES Scotland’s biggest prize for contemporary landscape art, the Scottish Landscape Awards, are open until 31 May.

Internationally renowned artists @adeadesina @davidmachra, @janeandlouisewilson, Marion Leven and Barbara Rae (chair) will anonymously select all works for the exhibition and the prize-winners.

Prizes presented at the inaugural #scottishlandscapeawards 2023 will include: ⁠

• £10,000 – First Prize

• £5,000 – Second Prize

• £1,000 – Third Prize

• £1,000 – Young Landscape Artist Award (16-25 years)

• £3,000 – The Scottish Landscape Environmental Art Prize

• £1,000 – The Scottish Landscape Photography Award

• £5,000 – The City of Edinburgh Award for the top work depicting any aspect of the city in any media. The winning work will become part of the City of Edinburgh’s permanent collection.

• An exhibition ⁠#CityArtCentreEdinburgh running from November 2023 to March 2024.

• Inclusion in the Scottish Landscape Awards Short Films

• Inclusion in The Scottish Landscape Awards Catalogue

For more info, visit www.scottishartstrust.org/landscape

How to Enter

Entries are now open from 1 March to 31 May 2023. For further details can be found by visiting www.scottishartstrust.org/landscape.

The awards are only made possible by a dedicated team of volunteers. Each work entered has a fee of £10. Free entry is available for artists living in Scotland in a household where anyone is receiving any form of income support or Universal Credit. More information can be found here

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The Seven Ravens

Part of Puppet Animation Festival 2023.

12th of April at 1pm.

A Raven visits a young, unhappy girl.
Why are the birds gathering?
And what is the secret that Ada learns about her past?

Inspired by the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the same name, this tells the story of Ada, a young girl who is unhappy at school. She is visited by a Raven and thrust into a dream world of quests, feathers and a Glass Mountain.

The audience is taken on a tiny world adventure over an extraordinary, felted landscape as Ada unlocks the secret the Raven is trying to tell her.

The Seven Ravens is a brand new and unique performance/installation by Tragic Carpet Theatre using an innovative mix of live puppetry, digital image capture, processing and display, needle felting and specially composed music and song.

Book here: https://scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:4656/913:18689/

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People Know How Updates

Vote for All Aboard

All Aboard, the canal boat run by People Know How and Polwarth Parish Church, has been shortlisted to receive funding from the Edinburgh Community Climate Fund (ECCF) to run climate change sessions for children and young people on our All Aboard canal boat. We’re now looking for votes to help us gain this funding – voting is open to all Edinburgh residents over 8 years old, until 12 March. Vote for All Aboard for Climate Action at: https://yourvoice.edinburgh.gov.uk/budgets

Crowdfunding to expand our digital support

People Know How are crowdfunding to raise funds to help us support people with digital skills and connectivity. All donations will go towards helping us expand our digital support by creating more local digital groups in Edinburgh and the Lothians. 

  • £3 can pay for a replacement charging cable for someone receiving digital support
  • £20 can pay for flyers to help us advertise our digital groups
  • £40 can provide internet for a digital group for 1 month
  • £100 can pay for someone’s mobile data for 6 months
  • £250 can pay for a refurbished computer used for support

Donate at: https://www.avivacommunityfund.co.uk/p/improving-lives-via-affordable-digital-connections

  

Digital Support Helpline – for anyone in Scotland

People Know How run a Digital Support Helpline as part of Connecting Scotland, which is open to anyone in Scotland who needs help with digital. The number is 0800 0 590 690.

Further info: https://peopleknowhow.org/reconnect

 

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Out of Hand Relocation

It’s all change for Out of Hand Scotland! Following the sad news that former manager, Paul Renwick passed away last Autumn, the business has relocated from Basement 2 into The Studio and taken on some of the assets of Reprographics. This new, larger space offers direct access into the car park area for collecting larger print jobs. This move has also coincided with a change in management, with Kevin Quin joining the team. He is determined to take forward what Paul Renwick had nurtured for many years and grow the business in the bigger, more equipped production area, which now hosts a variety of small/large format print and print finishing equipment and ample space to fulfil our distribution objectives. The team have also recently launched a new outdoor small format poster scheme for the arts and cultural community in Edinburgh, providing accessible, affordable, and well-located outdoor advertising poster space across the city.

Please come in and say hello to Kevin, Dawn, or Chris and we are looking forward to working with many of you during 2023!

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Gallery space/classes/rehearsals Opportunity at The Stable at the Lane

Hi all, my beautiful studio is ready to reopen after 3 years. It is available to hire for classes/gallery/music and available from mid-March onwards. I am ready to take slots.

If you would like to arrange a time to come and see it contact me on annamaria@bodysymphonies.co.uk  or pop upstairs at 6.19.

I am  quite keen to fill the weeks from July to mid September especially for exhibitions.

The address is 3a Montgomery Street Lane, EH7 5JT (behind Valvona on Elm Row).

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Friday Evening Yoga and Movement Restorative Class @ Yoga Collective

In this class we get in touch with our fluid body, tissues and get to know ourselves and what moves and how and what doesn’t. Gradually we develop fluidity, lightness, a change in state which supports the shift to strenghtening and lenghtening work for a period, followed by deep rest.

I started practising in 1991, trained in the Iyengar system to senior level over 25 years and trained teachers during pandemic with the Body Symphonies teacher training. My way of teaching now is the result of integration of my experience and work as a previously Iyengar teacher as well as a craniosacral therapist and movement practitioner.

To book: https://bookwhen.com/annamarie-sacco-bodysymphonies

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ART OF SOARING – workshops in The Feldenkrais Method®

ART OF SOARING – workshops in The Feldenkrais Method® to help improve everything that you do with your body. At the Yoga Collective Studios on the 6th floor.

The Feldenkrais Method® is a form of sensory training or even curiosity training, based around movement and using the techniques we all used to learn about the world in those days long gone before we knew what ‘learning’ is. The group sessions gently challenge us to think differently – sequences of movement that reveal to us where our habits might be restricting a full and better use of ourselves.

Art of Soaring is a series of three movement workshops running in the Yoga Collective Studio on the 6th Floor. They are connected but you don’t have to come to all three. You lie on the floor, I direct you with simple functional movement ideas. The aim is that we become more fully ourselves, able to use the resources more fully that evolution has given us.

Special deal for Edinburgh Palette members: £25 per workshop + a free half-hour one-to-one Functional Integration session. Come try something completely different!

Saturdays 28 Jan, 11 Feb, 25 Feb. 11am – 2pm

For more information: www.thebodythinkprocess.com/workshops or freedomtomove@outlook.com or come knock on my door at 6.27. I’m always happy to talk about what I do. It will be a pleasure to meet you. Alan

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