The Odeon – North Edinburgh Arts Centre today – You could star with East Coast – Tonight at the Filmhouse – Edible Estates
Councillor Cameron Rose was at the recent meeting with Susan Boyle’s brother Gerry who is planning to develop the old Odeon on South Clerk Street into a film and arts venue. You can read more here about the plans to reopen the former cinema by August this year.
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This afternoon at North Edinburgh Arts Centre they are showing Gulliver’s Travels starring Jack Black at 1:30pm to entertain the children among you! The centre have a page where they tell you how to contribute funds to them. They are a registered charity and so you can use Easy Fundraising.
The other week in Wester Hailes we noticed that the Wester Hailes Health Agency are also using Easy fundraising. It is a simple way of using your own purchases with Amazon or other large retailers to raise funds for the charity.
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East Coast have a project to make a film about their trains and the people who use them. This is what they say about how you can get involved:-
“Sky 1 has commissioned a new TV series about life on East Coast trains.
Will you be making a special train journey with East Coast between the beginning of March and the end of May 2013? Maybe for an important or unusual event? Or are you a regular East Coast traveller?
If you have an interesting story to tell about you and your journey with us and would like to take part, please drop us a line at: Email: passengers@cineflix.com
Filming is due to take place from early March until early June 2013.
We’d love to hear all about your journey experiences with East Coast!”
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A Late Quartet is showing at 13:30, 15:50, 18:20 and 20:45. More details on the Filmhouse website. Here’s a taster
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Edible Estates is already working in Edinburgh and they have a couple of new projects which may be about to start. They are advertising a new post for a Community Resilience Officer for the newly funded project in Wester Hailes. The closing date is 11 April 2013 and the job will start in May.
What is an edible estate?
On their website they describe their aims:-“The goal of Edible Estates is to understand the greenspace around social housing estates as a valuable resource, which with the right support, communities can transform into beautiful, enjoyable and edible landscapes.
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