- Boroughmuir High School to open in the New Year
- Doors Open Day
- Last chance to see the Celts exhibition
- Community Council elections
- Government funding for Dr Bell’s Family Centre
The Edinburgh Reporter was invited along to Boroughmuir High School yesterday to have a look at how the building is progressing. It is an impressive space with many open areas which can be used for a variety of classes or gatherings, and an atrium which is full height and which allows a lot of light into the centre of the building on the corner of Viewforth and Fountainbridge.
The main entrance is on the south side of the building by the canal and it is hoped that many pupils and staff might cycle or walk to school. Certainly the city centre site does not allow for much parking of cars as the existing school building with its Victorian-sized playground does.
We have selected our top tips for Doors Open Day which takes place on the weekend of 24 and 25 September, and is the one occasion in the year when you can actually get into one of the buildings included in the programme. Lothian Buses will also run vintage buses to take you near the central depot built in 1922 for the Industrial Exhibition. The roof dome in that building has just been refurbished and the building now houses 200 buses and staff (although we understand they go home each evening… )
At the National Museum of Scotland they are just about to ring the changes when the enormously successful Celts exhibition comes to an end on 25 September.
This is the first major British exhibition on the subject for about 40 years and over 60,000 visitors have been to see it. On 23 September along with Neu! Reekie! Charlotte Church and her band Late Night Pop Dungeon will appear alongside Liz Lockheed, indie pop band Ette, hip-hop activist Loki and physical theatre from Bark Collective.
The exhibition has been produced along with input from The British Museum. with treasures from both on display. Many of the 350 objects on show have never been seen in Scotland, including the Gundestrup Cauldron one of the great treasures of the National Museum of Denmark. This massive silver vessel challenges simple ideas of a Celtic world by revealing influences from across Europe and Asia two millenniums ago.
More information on the exhibition here and the Neu! Reekie! event here.
If you are concerned about your local area then one way to get involved is to become a member of the local community council.
There are elections coming up and you can find out more about how to get involved here.
The Scottish Government has announced funding to tackle food poverty across Scotland and one of the projects which is to benefit from just over £50,000 is Dr Bell’s Family Centre in Leith.
We went along to see what they will do with the money.
Dr Bell’s Family Centre are delighted to have received @scotgov funding to address food poverty pic.twitter.com/xXk1lperQp
— Edinburgh Reporter (@EdinReporter) September 14, 2016
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