Tag: Leith
Wednesday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Marvellous Machines: a Love Science workshop. For ages 5-12. 3-4pm, Corstorphine Library, 12 Kirk Loan. Booking essential: call 0131 529 5506. Free.
Play Poland Film Festival: Munk Studio Special Screenings. Play Poland is the largest mobile film event in the UK, aiming...
What’s On in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 13TH OCTOBER 2014
The Key Material is Time: Art and Music in Glasgow since the 1970s. Writer, curator and lecturer Dr Sarah Lowndes traces the development of Glasgow's unique and largely self-initiated arts scene...
Theatre – enquiring into people power and politics
'Resilience', the current project by theatre group Active Inquiry, is holding a big event at Out of the Blue on Saturday 11th October. Everyone is welcome to come and support this unique experiment in...
Friday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Coburg House's World's Biggest Coffee Morning: Coburg Studios' resident talents present an array of cakes as diverse as their artwork. Homegrown favourites - and Chinese steamed buns! 10am-2pm, Coburg House Gallery, 15 Coburg Street, Leith. In aid...
What’s On in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 22ND SEPTEMBER 2014
LGBT Spiritual Space: Conflicts of Sexuality and Faith. Explore conflicts that exist within these two aspects of identity; Maxwell Reay, NHS Mental Health Community Chaplain, offers a supportive space for LGBT...
Cables Wynd House: a story in pictures
Photographer Derek Anderson and Irvine Welsh's Simon 'Sick Boy' Williamson have something in common: they both grew up in Leith's Banana Flats - or Cables Wynd House - one of the blocks of flats...
Sunday in Edinburgh – what’s on today
Art Maker: join the Art Maker Club and make your own masterpiece with artists Tessa Asquith-Lamb and Louise Fraser. For ages
4-12. 2-4pm (drop-in), Scottish National Gallery, The Mound. No booking required. Supported by the Friends of the National Galleries of Scotland.
Riding...
Rape – Man arrested
Police in Edinburgh confirmed this morning that a 21-year-old man was arrested and charged in the city earlier today in connection with a rape which took place in the Swanfield Industrial Estate area of...
Wednesday in Edinburgh – what’s on today
Magic Carpet: introducing little ones to the fantastic objects in the museum through 25 minutes of stories, songs and activities. Suitable for ages 2-4 with an accompanying adult. 10.30-10.55am or 11.30-11.55am today and every Wednesday until 17th...
Monday in Edinburgh – what’s on today
Blackwell's Edinburgh presents The Monthly Book Quiz: if you know your Waugh from your Peace and your Meyer from your Heyer, try this monthly quiz. Teams of up to five can enter. 6-7.15pm, Caffe Nero, Blackwell's, South...
What’s on in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 1ST SEPTEMBER 2014
Blackwell's Edinburgh presents The Monthly Book Quiz: if you know your Waugh from your Peace and your Meyer from your Heyer, try this monthly quiz. Teams of up to five can...
Monday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Leith in World War One: Andrew Grant talks about the Home Front and what happened to the men who marched away. 6.30-7.30pm, Leith Library, 28-30 Ferry Road. Free but advance booking required: call 0131 529 5517 or...
What’s On in Edinburgh this week
As we say goodbye to the festivals, there's still plenty on offer in the capital, and as ever, most of our listings are FREE!
MONDAY 25TH AUGUST 2014
Leith in World War One: Andrew Grant talks...
What’s On in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 4TH AUGUST 2014
GENERATION: Curator's Tour. Senior Curator Lucy Askew leads an introductory tour of the GENERATION exhibition at Modern Art One, introducing key artists and themes. This part of the exhibition includes spectacular...
Take Teddy with you to Britannia this Thursday and win a prize
To celebrate National Teddy Bear Picnic Day on 10 July 2014, everyone who brings their teddy bear to The Royal Yacht Britannia on the day will receive a prize.
There will be teddies hidden throughout the ship...
Police investigate unprovoked attack in Leith
Police Scotland officers in Edinburgh are appealing for witnesses to come forward after a man was assaulted in Leith.
The 29-year-old was subjected to an unprovoked attack while walking south on the bridge crossing the...
Gayfield Creative Spaces: a new design centre opens in Broughton
There are many art and design galleries in Edinburgh, but I doubt if there are many like Gayfield Creative Spaces. This new venture at the top of Leith Walk is the brainchild of Dr...
What’s On In Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 26 MAY 2014
Looking Glass Books - First Time Solo; Iain Maloney launches his debut novel, the story of four RAF men preparing for war 'in a world where moral absolutes are being discarded...
Leith Festival – Fish is the Future
Once again Flashback has devised a brand new piece of exciting theatre for this year’s Leith Festival in Edinburgh in June. Fish is the Future will be performed at the Out of the Blue...
LeithLate 2014 announces extended programme
Ahead of all the bigger festivals across the city which take place later in the summer, Leith has its own unique offering which takes place in the evenings of 21 - 22 June 2014.
LeithLate...
Multiple Sclerosis Awareness Week 2014: ‘When I Walk’
When compared to the rest of the world, Scotland has one of the highest populations of MS sufferers, per head of population.
In trying to increase awareness of the debilitating disease, the MS Therapy Centre...
Police cordon lifted in Leith
Police Scotland have confirmed that material has been removed from an address in Leith this afternoon, following a search conducted as part of an ongoing operation.
The material is likely to be destroyed by way...
Leith Docker’s Club mural celebrates a momentous past and a vibrant future.
For several months now, 40 year-old artist Tom Ewing from Prestonpans has been painting a magnificent mural of the port and town of Leith. Officially launched today by son of Leith, the writer Irvine...
Competition – win a signed copy of Lari Don’s new book Mind Blind
This competition ends on 30 April 2014.
Lari Don is an Edinburgh-based writer who has just published her latest book Mind Blind, written for young adults.
This is what she says about it:-"Ciaran Bane is a...
Leith Cancer Research UK Shop has an ‘Egg-cellent’ birthday planned
CRACKING FIRST BIRTHDAY FOR CANCER RESEARCH UK SHOP
Scotland’s only children’s store for Cancer Research UK is set to celebrate its first birthday with a fabulous Easter competition.
The emporium on Great Junction Street, near the...
Forth Ports gets the industry’s Cruise Award
Edinburgh awarded “Best Destination Experience”
Forth Ports are this week celebrating after Edinburgh picked up a coveted cruise industry award at Seatrade Miami, one of the cruise industry’s biggest and most widely recognised events in...
LeithLate’s Shutter Project – new work will be unveiled in April
LeithLate has announced the latest artwork in The Mural Project to be installed this April on the site of a derelict shopfront on Henderson Street.
Artist Russell Ian Dempster will be installing his homage to...
Decapitated Tea and the Threat of Andrex
My usual Saturday morning routine was spent having a cup of tea with my mother in a café in Leith. I was recovering from a splendid Friday evening in the Port o’ Leith bar...
The Edinburgh Reporter chats with Councillor Adam McVey
Councillor Adam McVey is the SNP representative for the Leith Ward. He has just been appointed Vice-Convener of Transport and Environment. He will be taking up his new position today at the Transport and...
Art exhibition in Leith opening today
Contemporary colour signals new exhibition in Leith
New spring exhibition launches 13 March 2014
Artists include Alison Cowan, Tommy Fitchet and Celia Forrest
A colourful collection of work from Scottish based artists will create the focal point...