Edinburgh International Science Festival – Mini Maker Faire
Big Hullabaloo at Hula
Scottish Press Awards
Illegal Jacks
Timebank Temptations Choir
The Mini Maker Faire is a celebration of maker culture – a family friendly day of learning, crafting, inventing and tinkering taking place at Edinburgh’s hub for art and technology, Summerhall. The event will be packed with exhibits, installations and interactive workshops from makers of all kinds – designers, artists, crafters, scientists, inventors and DIY-ers – who will fill the Faire with the next generation of technologies and modern crafts. Visitors can meet the makers and will have plenty of opportunities to get hands on and ‘making’ themselves. You can view images of last year’s Faire here.
Edinburgh Mini Maker Faire takes place Sunday 19 April, 10am – 5pm at Summerhall (Summerhall, 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, EH9 1PL)
Entry tickets £5 (children under 3 go free) – available in advance from Full details of the 2015 programme can be found at sciencefestival.co.uk, through the Box Office on 0844 557 2686, or in person on the day at Summerhall.
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We like going to the Grassmarket for a juice or two, and we know some of you do too. But now Susan at Hula thinks she may have had enough, and may be prepared to move premises to escape the big bins outside her front door. Read on…
Over on Twitter, Hula is trending…Unfortunately it’s not about our soon-to-launch new healthy menu items, it’s about…
Posted by Hula Juice Bar on Tuesday, 14 April 2015
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Our editor is off to the Scottish Press Awards tonight as a guest. We can’t actually win anything at these awards as we didn’t enter, but we will bring you some of the glitz and glamour from the event on Twitter and Periscope.
The shortlist of those who might win in a variety of categories is here
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Illegal Jacks is back – well they will be if you and others put your hand in your pocket and help the Kickstarter campaign to bring back the much lamented Edinburgh institution and in the process create 14 new jobs.
The Kickstarter page with the full story on why the restaurant needs £75,000 is here.
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Timebank Temptations Choir need your vote to win the award they are shortlisted for.
Timebank Temptations choir has been shortlisted for a Voluntary Arts EPIC Award! But we need your votes to win. On Monday 20th April, please visit www.epicawards.co.uk and vote for us as the People’s Choice!
Posted by North Edinburgh Time Bank on Wednesday, 15 April 2015
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