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What’s on in Edinburgh this weekend? 11th March 2011

March 11, 2011 12:50 pm

Friday 11th March 2011

LOVE CARPET is coming to Edinburgh!
Check out their website Is this the way you would like to spend a beautiful Friday?
Come to Old St Pauls, Jeffrey Street to share more love! The event will take place from 3.30 pm onwards.

Exhibition: My city my life: Gdansk and Edinburgh by day and by night.
Michal has exhibited in Gdansk, Sopot, Gdynia, Zelow, Paris and Inverness. His current exhibition is on display in Edinburgh Central Library until 31st March 2011.

Michal Pocwiardowski was born in 1969 in Gdansk (Poland). He has worked as a graphic designer, photographer and photo reporter for various daily and weekly newspapers in Gdansk. Since 2006 he has lived in Edinburgh, working for an art website for the Polish and Scottish art community. He has also had some pictures published in Scottish Field Magazine.

The Petal Garden of King Shubash with Peter Chand and Shonaleigh is on at The Scottish Storytelling Centre at 7.00pm. A magical tale of wit, deceit, love, and the many faces we all wear. The mighty King Shubash values loyalty more than anything else in his kingdom. However he fears a woman’s wisdom even more. Can Hannah Leah the Wise solve his impossible tasks, and can a king learn the true value of wisdom? ‘By plucking its petals, you do not gather the beauty of a flower’ Rabindranath Tagore. www.fablers.co.uk *Please see Training & Development programme for associated workshop on Sat 12 March* | Age 12+ More details here.

Saturday 12th March 2011

Historic Scotland have some half-price tickets to give away. 5,000 half-price tickets are available for Scotland’s top heritage attraction, Edinburgh Castle.

The free and half-price tickets will be available to apply for online. A special web page www.ticketgiveaway.co.uk has being set up to allow prospective visitors to register for a voucher. After registering they will be sent an email with a voucher to present on arrival at their chosen attraction. Proof of ID will be required to redeem the voucher.

Having a free ticket means that on their day out at one of the participating attractions, a family of two adults and three children can save up to £26.60 (the normal cost for the party at Urquhart Castle). And the half-price entry at Edinburgh Castle brings the normal admission cost of £52.60 for two adults and three children down to just £26.30.

And remember that there is an outdoor showing of Local Hero to highlight the former Odeon cinema. More details here of the Film and Fireworks evening.

The Scottish Motorcycle Show (12 & 13 March) – is the only place to go for top-class live action as well as displays of the latest bikes and an extensive retail village. For more information please visit the website For for tickets please call 0871 230 1108.

At The Scottish Storytelling Centre at 2.00pm Landscape and Identity in Storytelling a practical workshop looking at story-collecting in the community, and the importance of being a guardian of these tales. Peter Chand and Shonaleigh cover various collecting skills, duty of care, telling stories from other cultures, and offer the chance to work on a story yourselves. Shonaleigh and Peter have been collecting and translating stories from friends and family for many years now, and have a vast experience of working on many community projects all over Britain. Some of that experience will be shared in this half-day workshop. More details here.

Sunday 13th March 2011

At The Filmhouse to mark the centenary of International Women’s Day, they are showing No Woman, No Cry. For hundreds of thousands of women each year, pregnancy is a death sentence: every minute another woman dies as a result. But shockingly nearly all maternal deaths and disabilities could be prevented. In her gripping directorial debut, Christy Turlington Burns shares the powerful stories of at-risk pregnant women in four parts of the world.The film puts audiences in the footsteps of a Maasai woman in labor who must walk five miles to a clinic with no electricity, a young pregnant woman in the slums of Bangladesh too ashamed to seek out care, a pregnant OB in Guatemala who helps women who have suffered from botched illegal abortions, and a midwife in central Florida who treats uninsured women who are denied appointments elsewhere. It presents the powerful message that every mother counts, and a challenge to raise awareness of these forgotten women.

This screening will be followed by a Q&A with leading experts and campaigners on maternal health asking the question What can we do to make a difference?”  Screening in association with Oxfam Scotland.

Presented by Take One Action, Scotland’s global action cinema project, to mark 100 years of International Women’s Day (8 March).

THE SPACE BETWEEN – Free Film Screening at Stills

Sunday, 13 March 2011

6.30PM

Get along to Stills for a FREE film screening.

Stills hosts Lyre Productions present their new feature, THE SPACE BETWEEN, an Edinburgh love story following two strangers brought together by a city and given the chance to redeem their lives.

“Come along, it’s free and we’ve got Tiger beer (as always!), grab a comfy seat downstairs and enjoy! What better way to spend a Sunday!” You can watch a preview here.