- Tesco Community Food Connection launch
- Dutch Masters at The Queen’s Gallery
- Queen Street tunnel closure
- John Muir Coast Festival 2016
- Bonhams top sellers
Tesco is launching its Community Food Connection programme with FareShare, FoodCloud Edinburgh and Granton Youth Centre later today on board The Vine Trust barge at Leith Docks.
They are having a cookery demonstration with chef Adam Palmer to show how charities can make best use of the surplus food from Tesco. There will be recipe inspiration for charities and tips on how to use the ingredients.
It all sounds a terrific idea as FareShare redistributed enough food for an unbelievable 17.7 million meals last year.
There is a new exhibition just opened at The Queen’s Gallery of Dutch Masters which will run until 24 July 2016.
The Dutch artists of the seventeenth century painted ordinary people doing everyday things. They offer us a glimpse into the rumbustious life of village taverns and peasant cottages, and the quiet domesticity of courtyards and parlours.
The ScotRail Alliance has created a map to show customers how they will access and exit Glasgow Queen Street Low Level station while work is under way in the Queen Street High Level Tunnel.
The tunnel will close on Sunday 20 March for 20 weeks.
To ensure people can enter and leave the station safely, a ‘one way’ traffic system will be in place on each Low Level platform, similar to the plan that was in place during the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Customers will be directed to queuing areas, and then guided down to the platform when their train arrives.
Customers for Edinburgh Waverley and Haymarket will enter the station via Dundas Street, and exit to North Hanover Street.
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[mc4wp_form id=”169103″]The John Muir Coast Festival will take place from 22 to 24 April 2016.
John Muir was born in Dunbar and the festival is inspired by Muir’s advocacy of the benefits of the outdoors.
East Lothian is to hold its first ever night golf event and wake boarding competition.
Councillor John McMillan, spokesperson for Economic Development and Tourism, said: “I’m very excited about this inaugural festival as it contains a number of firsts for East Lothian and is a great example of the council working with local businesses to showcase our wonderful coast and all the activities it can provide. I’m sure it will be extremely popular with local families but, equally, I’m certain it will attract outdoor enthusiasts from outwith East Lothian too. It’s just another reason we are Scotland’s leading coastal, leisure and food & drink destination.”
For more information on the festival, visit www.johnmuirfestival.co.uk
At Bonhams last week there were two paintings from collections in Scotland which sold for the top prices.
The Cobbler, Tangiers by the French artist Jean Discart was sold for £140,500 having been estimated at £40,000-60,000. It had been consigned to Bonhams Edinburgh office by a collector in South West Scotland.
Managing Director of Bonhams Scotland, Miranda Leslie said, “Bonhams is well known as the leading auctioneer of Scottish Art in Scotland but we are also of course part of an international network of Bonhams salerooms. These two exceptional results show we have the strength and depth to place paintings where they will appeal to the widest possible number of buyers.”
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