Forth Road Bridge – North Edinburgh Arts exhibition – Richard Thompson – ActivCity Funding available – All about The Edinburgh Reporter and Augmented Reality….
Responding to a report by the chief engineer of the Forth Road Bridge, showing that “the safety of the main cables will not diminish significantly in the future as long as the dehumidification system continues to function”, Alison Johnstone, Green MSP for Lothian, said:
“This report removes the central justification that the SNP made for blowing over a billion pounds on a new bridge. The Scottish Greens were the only party arguing strongly that repairing the existing bridge, even if the cables had to be replaced, would have cost a tiny fraction of the price and with no closure of the bridge.
“Those who wanted to see if the repairs worked before blowing billions on a new bridge were the responsible ones, while other parties charged recklessly ahead.
Alison added:
“The Scottish Government must keep their promise to restrict use of the existing bridge to buses, bikes and pedestrians, otherwise they will simply have created an eight-lane motorway over the Forth, encouraging ever more traffic and congestion coming into Edinburgh.”
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A group of contemporary art students from Edinburgh College will hold a unique exhibition after drawing inspiration from the history and culture of North Edinburgh where they study.
Working in partnership with North Edinburgh Arts and North Edinburgh Social History Group, the group of eleven students from the HND Contemporary Art Practice course will showcase their artwork at the Local exhibition at North Edinburgh Arts.
With the help of the North Edinburgh Social History Group, students were able to connect with their surroundings by speaking to members of the local community and experts from the history group, and were overwhelmed by their stories.
HND Contemporary Art Practice student, Heather Lane, was inspired by the rich history of activism in North Edinburgh and created banners and campaign artwork to recognise its passionate social groups.
Heather said: “I was inspired by the people of North Edinburgh’s collective want for change in the community, through their staging of protests and campaigns.”
Heather added: “I wanted to pay homage to their fight and let their message live on. Although these issues may be resolved or not relevant anymore, re-making the banners, placards and posters was about the overall notion of resistance against power; inspiring people to become active in bringing about change.”
Edinburgh College Art Lecturer, Jennie Temple, said: “The purpose of this project was to connect with our local community, and we have been overwhelmed by the warmth and support the North Edinburgh Arts and North Edinburgh Social History Group has shown us. Local has been a very successful exhibition for our students and we will carry on this unique partnership and friendship with the North Edinburgh community in the future.”
Edinburgh College is currently recruiting for the HND Contemporary Art Practice Course. Please visit www.edinburghcollege.ac.uk for further information and to apply online.
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Next week Richard Thompson appears at the Usher Hall. The former member of Fairport Convention is known as much for his songwriting as his performing. Book your tickets here….
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The council has money for events involving sport or physical activity. This is what they say:-
Edinburgh hosts a series of sport and physical activity events annually. These range from events that attract a worldwide audience to small community festivals that aim to get local people involved in physical activity. In 2013 the programme will include the FINA World Diving Series, ATP Champions Tour, the Festival of Sport and several other mass participation walk, running and cycling events.
The Activcity Funding Programme is an initiative of the City of Edinburgh Council that supports events that promote sport and physical activity within the city.
If you are planning an event that aims to get local people active or involved in sport you could be eligible for Activcity funding up to £3,000 to support your event. To find out more about the funding available and to apply to the Activcity Funding Programme go to www.activcity.info/activcityevents The closing date for applications is Friday 29th March, but we ask that events taking place in April submit applications as soon as possible.
We’d like your help to promote this excellent opportunity. Please could you distribute details of the Activcity Funding Programme to your networks, colleagues and partners.
If you’d like to chat through the programme in more detail contact Shelagh Jackson, Sports Officer, at the City of Edinburgh Council on 0131 529 7993/ shelagh.jackson@edinburgh.gov.uk
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All of this information is on our About Us page but we thought it would be an idea to remind you all!
The Edinburgh Reporter is the hyperlocal news website for Edinburgh. It is aimed at people living and/or working in the capital, although some of the content may also be of interest to visitors.
We welcome contributions from anyone who has something to say about Edinburgh. If you have an article, or even an idea for an article which you could write, then please email us theedinburghreporter@gmail.com or use our Contact us page. Or you can Submit your Story by accessing the form here. This will allow you to add your own photos to your article too.
We publish details of any events that we come across here on our n0tice Board. n0tice is a kind of community virtual notice board which has been developed by The Guardian, and we were invited to be part of the pilot. You can also add any events which you think would be interesting to our n0tice board.
You may also call us on 07791 406 498 if your enquiry or story is urgent. Or contact us on Twitter or Facebook.
We welcome press releases from any PR companies with a story to tell us and our readers about Edinburgh businesses or events happening here. We use press releases to get as many stories as possible out to our readers, but we always edit them before publication.
Photographs are essential to us so that our pages are alive with good, relevant images, and we take our own photographs or use photos from others but only with express permission. If you have photos you think we could use then please feel free to email and we will publish with full attribution to you.
We use video and audio where we can, employing the ever-advancing technology available. For example we have our Bambuser channel which streams video live to our site. You can see our latest footage on Bambuser which is filmed with an iPhone in our archive Bambuser footage which is on our Bambuser page here. It is possible for this footage to be used by others but we would urge you to say where it originated from and give us credit for our work.
We also publish our audio slideshows and edited videos on our YouTube channel which you can see here.
All of our audio reports are grouped here.
We liveblog some council meetings and run live web chats with a variety of organisations. All of these articles are published here.
If we see some pdf documents that we think are of use or interest to our readers, then we publish those on Scribd and usually include them in our articles, but you can read all of them here.
We also publish details of interesting Edinburgh stories which are just a bit big for us or have passed us by on Scoop.it! which you can read here.
We also have a Pinterest account and are actively looking for you to pin your photos of Edinburgh there too!
And we are using our Blipfoto and Tumblr pages to show off some of our photos too….
You can access all of our other articles when you are out and about in Edinburgh by using the Wikitude App or the LAYAR App on your smartphone. This allows you to search for The Edinburgh Reporter and. using technology called Augmented Reality, you will find the articles which are written about the area of Edinburgh where you actually are at the time.
All of our articles are geotagged with an appropriate location. So for example if you want to read all of our Hibs related articles then when you are at Easter Road you can find them by using either of these apps either on your iPhone or an Android device.
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Augmented Reality – We have been introducing you to our use of Aurasma over recent weeks. For those of you who have not read our earlier articles about this then here is what you need to know about our use of augmented reality
Download the Aurasma Lite app which is available for iPhone or Android.
Follow The Edinburgh Reporter channel by using the search facility in the app.
Find our trigger images and use your phone to watch our added content automatically.
We have set up an Aura based on the green and white logo on the Starbucks cup. What will you see when you use your phone to trigger it…? This is not seen as any endorsement of Starbucks, but simply a way of using a fairly widely available image to trigger our augmented reality content….You should also be able to use the photo below….
Founding Editor of The Edinburgh Reporter.
Edinburgh-born multimedia journalist and iPhoneographer.
