- Today at The Queen’s Hall – Dean Owens
- Macmillan Art Show
- Central Scotland Green Network funding
- At Greyfriar’s Kirk this Saturday
- Horsing around on the Fringe!
Dean Owens is the local Leith singer who is currently “Settin the Woods on Fire” with the music of Hank Williams. Tonight he will be appearing at The Queen’s Hall with his Celtabilly Allstars.
Tickets still available here.
The Macmillan Art Show is being held at Bonhams at 22 Queen Street from 25 to 28 August. The idea is that artists donate at least half of their sales to Macmillan and the money raised will help fund £1 million worth of new cancer services across the city. This will include benefit advice, information and emotional support, help to get active and support getting back to work.
A raffle will also be held throughout the show, with a chance to win an Escape for Two at the One Spa in The Sheraton Hotel, a Friday tasting menu with matching wines for two at Pompadour by Galvin, a round of golf for four at Duddingston Golf Club and 30 minutes flying in either a Microlight, Gyrocopter or Fixed Wing aircraft.
For more information visit: http://2016.macmillanartshow.org.uk/
Green projects in Edinburgh and throughout Central Scotland can bid for a share of £400,000 to enhance woodlands and green infrastructure, boost active travel and encourage community growing.
Environment Secretary Roseanna Cunningham has confirmed the latest phase of Central Scotland Green Network (CSGN) funding is now open for bids.
The CSGN aims to transform the central belt into a place where the environment adds value to the economy and enriches the quality of people’s lives. Since 2010 more than 150 projects have benefitted from a share of £6.2 million.
Inviting applicants to the scheme, Ms Cunningham said:
“The CSGN is Europe’s largest greenspace project and has a vital role in improving the health, biodiversity and education opportunities of communities, right across the central belt. The next round of the CSGN Development Fund will help communities improve their local environments and engage people with the outdoors.
“The fund has a particular focus on disadvantaged communities, who can often benefit the most from improvements to their neighbourhoods. The fund is already helping people enjoy local greenspaces and I look forward to seeing the undoubted benefits of this latest phase of financial support.”
Keith Geddes, Chair of the Central Scotland Green Network Trust, said:
“As Europe’s largest greenspace initiative, the CSGN is working to improve the lives of people in the central belt and this significant extension to the Development Fund will ensure the continued transformation of the region into a better place to live, to do business in and to visit.
“Eligible projects are those that will deliver or lead to woodland creation or enhancement, local food growing initiatives which will encourage healthy eating and schemes aiming to improve or create access routes to support active travel. We’re also interested in supporting plans which will breathe new life into vacant and derelict land and improve the lives of disadvantaged communities.”
Cadenza will perform at the 2016 Edinburgh Festival Fringe on Saturday 27th August – 8pm at Greyfriars Kirk
They bill this as the most wonderful piece of choral music, shamefully neglected in recent times, by a composer you are possibly not familiar with or may not even have heard of, but who was much admired by many of the composers of the Classical and early Romantic periods, not least Beethoven, Schumann, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Berlioz and described progressively by Beethoven as “Europe’s foremost dramatic composer” and later “the greatest living composer”. His Requiem in C minor, achingly beautiful, anguished, exciting and intensely moving, was performed at Beethoven’s funeral.
Who is this composer? Luigi Cherubini (1760-1842)
The concert was a sell-out last year so don’t delay get your ticket now. Cadenza is an amateur mixed-voice choir with members from across the Central Belt. Charity benefits from their concerts with a recent event raising a monumental £11,000.
Musselburgh Racecourse had a great idea to bring a horse and horse box to Middle Meadow Walk the other day and get people to do their best horse impressions. You need to turn the sound up for the biggest laughs!
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