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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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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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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2022 Christmas Makers’ Market

Saturday and Sunday (3rd and 4th December) 12 – 4pm, 3rd floor galleries. 
 
Beautiful handcrafted gifts and original art by local makers and artists. A wide selection of pottery, glass, jewellery, textiles, leather, wood, cards, prints, paintings and much more for sale.
 
You can also try your hand at enamelling with Leith Lapidary Club and create your own gifts.

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1 Waterfront Avenue

1 Waterfront Avenue provides flexible, open-plan office accommodation in the heart of North Edinburgh’s evolving Waterfront area. The building is located adjacent to the iconic Granton Gasworks, which is due to undergo renovation to be transformed into a tree-lined amphitheatre for cultural events.

Currently occupying floors two and three. Opening hours for the building are between 8:30am and 6pm Monday to Friday and closed on Saturday and Sunday. The building will also be closed on all public holidays.

Facilities include:

  • Security access, in addition to security desk, and full intruder alarm
  • Climate controlled heating and cooling
  • Good quality toilet facilities
  • Fully accessible with two passenger lifts and accessible toilets
  • Access to One Waterfront Café on the ground floor, serving a selection of hot and cold food and drinks
  • Numerous breakout areas, strategically located within the spacious open plan space
  • Secure cycle parking
  • On major bus routes: 24, 38, 47, 113, X37 & X47.
  • Buses 8, 14, 16, X29, N16 & Skylink 200 all stop on West Granton Road which is a short 6-minute walk

Contact: spaces@peopleknowhow.org

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Adult Drama Classes

Tragic Carpet Visual Theatre Company are hosting ‘Adult Drama Classes’ every Tuesday 10am to 12 noon at 525 Ferry Road. This is a fun relaxed class – no need to sign up for a run of classes, drop in for the session on the day. No experience required but this is also suitable for experienced performers who would like a relaxed performance gym! These classes are free to attend with a small charge for the refreshments kitty. Everyone welcome!

Enquiries to Freda O’Byrne: 07562 618529

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