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Undergraduate open day at Edinburgh University on 6th and 26th September. Now that it is set to become more difficult to get a university place be sure to get along and find out all you can in advance of choosing where you might want to go.

Thrive for Business have a business breakfast on 7th September at 8.00am for you early birds at The Royal Scots Club. The theme is corporate social responsibility. They are also running a networking drinks evening on 9th September at 5.00 at The Apex Waterloo Hotel with an emphasis on franchising.

Dunedin Consort & Players are performing the B Minor Mass at St Mary’s Metropolitan Cathedral, 61 York Place on 10th September.You can get tickets here.

The Edinburgh Bookshop has a book club which meets on Wednesday 8th September at 7.30pm at the bookshop at 219 Bruntsfield Place. They are reading China Mieville, The City and The City. This is just one of the book clubs. Get in touch to reserve your place.

The Scottish Storytelling Centre 43-45 High Street is hosting an evening on 8th September at 7pm called Journeys. This is an informal evening of storytelling and song. Audience participation! Cost £4. Telephone 0131 556 9579 for more details.

Edinburgh’s Guid Crack Club meets at 7.30pm at The Waverley Pub in St Mary’s Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1SY. The club usually meets on the last Friday of the month but dates vary in July and December. Entry by donation £3.00. For information contact the Scottish Storytelling Centre on +44 (0)131 652 3272

Also at The Scottish Storytelling Centre there is an event on Friday 10th September at 7pm when Jan Sutch Pickard will tell her Stories from a West Bank Village. £8 a ticket. Book by phone 0131 556 9579.

Are you a parent of a child attending Portobello High School? Then you may be interested in going along to a meeting on 7th September at the school at 7.00 pm

This will be an opportunity for parents from Portobello High School and its associated primary schools to come along to see the designs, hear more about how the proposed new school will operate and to discuss related educational and management issues. There are details of the proposal on the City Council website which you can access here.

Portobello and Craigmillar Neighbourhood Partnership meet on Wednesday 8th September when project update will be on the agenda at this meeting to be held   in the Hays Business Centre

Liberton and Gilmerton by-election takes place on Thursday 9th September.

At The Royal Botanic Gardens on Tuesday. After coffee, enjoy a walk round the new Biodiversity Garden at the Gateway with David Mitchell and hear how the planting has been designed to demonstrate how plants evolved and the diversity of plant  life.

The Edinburgh Allotments Show is on this weekend. 12th September 2010 at the Southside Community Education Centre from 13.00 to 15.00. You might even get the chance to buy some stuff there! More details here on FEDAGA’s site.

JCI Edinburgh are holding a Links @ Lunch event on 7th September. You can find out more here.

Remember the Farmers’ Market this Saturday from 9am till 2pm on Castle Terrace.

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