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Tuesday in Edinburgh – what’s on today
War Poets Collection Guided Tours: Edinburgh Napier University houses a small special collection of material relating to the fascinating history of its Craiglockhart campus, which began life in 1880 as a Hydropathic establishment and was...
What’s on in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 18TH AUGUST 2014
Edinburgh Book Fringe 2014: John Menaghan and Andy Jackson. Prize-winning poet and playwright John Menaghan has published four books with Salmon Poetry (Ireland); four of his short plays have been staged...
Monday in Edinburgh – what’s on today
Edinburgh Book Fringe 2014: John Menaghan and Andy Jackson. Prize-winning poet and playwright John Menaghan has published four books with Salmon Poetry (Ireland); four of his short plays have been staged in Los Angeles and one in Omaha....
Art and Autism: Andrew Gilchrist at The Gallery On The Corner
All artists see the world in their own particular way, and Andrew Gilchrist is no exception. His paintings are characterised by the use of his own version of stippling: little lozenges of colour that...
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...
What’s On in Edinburgh this week
We all know what starts this week: on Friday both the Fringe and the Just Festival open their numerous doors. The Edinburgh Reporter will cover many events at both festivals - so What's On...
What’s on in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 14TH JULY 2014
Dog Tales: the Dogs Trust are hosting this storytelling session about safety around dogs and responsible dog ownership. For ages 5-10. 2-3pm, Wester Hailes Library, 1 Westside Plaza.
Lunchtime Concert: First Central...
Grow Wild project progressing in Pilrig Park
Pilrig Park Grow Wild wild flower haven begins to take shape
Balfour’s Botany project reaps the benefit
Three months after receiving a £4,900 cash injection from the Grow Wild community projects fund for Scotland for...
What’s on in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 7 JULY 2014
South West Neighbourhood Summer of Sport: get competitive! take part in this summer's themed activities and events. 2.30pm every Monday in the school holidays, Colinton Library, 14 Thorburn Road - contact...
What’s on in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 30 JUNE 2014
Continuing: GENERATION: 25 Years of Contemporary Art in Scotland. Venues include the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art One, Scottish National Gallery, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Fruitmarket Gallery and Collective Gallery, with...
What’s on in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 23 JUNE 2014
Edible Gardening: Seasonal Advice. Drop in to find out how to grow your own food and take a look around the productive garden with the Edible Gardening Project team. 1-3pm, Demonstration...
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...
Botanics to host Scottish Gaelic Awards this week
All things Gaelic are to be celebrated at the Botanics this week.
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE), has been chosen to hold the inaugural Scottish Gaelic Awards, on Wednesday this week.
180 guests are expected to...
Exhibition – Scotland’s Lost Gardens
Saturday 3 August to Sunday 29 September 2013, 10:00 – 17:45,
John Hope Gateway Decking, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (free)
An outdoor exhibition of stunning images that explores Scotland’s lost gardens and the personalities and tastes...
A rainy day at the Botanics
The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh was pretty empty today. It was rainy and cold but we braved it out to bring you some photos.
Unfortunately the rain seems to be spoiling the rhododendrons in the...
Royal Botanic Garden features in grants from Creative Scotland & SNH
Walking With Poets is a Scottish Poetry Library, Royal Botanic Garden and Cove Park residency project in which four poets will take up month-long writing and walking residency at all four of Scotland's Botanic Gardens in Royal Botanic...
Botanics supporting Scottish Apprenticeship Week
Modern Apprentices are vital to the future of the horticulture industry in Scotland, according to experts at the world-renowned Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
The centre, which is both a scientific centre for the study of...
AUDIO – Botanics still clearing up the storm damage
January 2012 started off with a devastating storm on the 3rd which caused damage to buildings and trees alike in The Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. We went for a walk in the garden with...
New chair of Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh appointed
The Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment today announced the appointment of Sir Muir Russell as the new Chair to the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
Richard Lochhead, Cabinet...
Tarnished Earth – exhibition at Botanics
Tarnished Earth, a dramatic open air gallery of photographs by Jiri Rezac, telling the story of one of the world’s biggest ecological disasters, has arrived in Edinburgh this month.
The free outdoor exhibition shows how...
Trees for 2nations at the Botanics
by Thomas Haywood
Earlier this month at the Royal Botanical Gardens in Edinburgh the American Consul, Dana Linnet & the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment, Richard Lochhead, helped to launch Trees for...
Five things you need to know today
The Scotland rugby team play France at the Stade de France in Paris today at the start of the Six Nations.
According to the BBC the Blindcraft factory will close following the decision by...
Garden Music at the Botanics with Frieda Morrison
Broadcaster and musician, Frieda Morrison, and Curator at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, David Mitchell, are at it again! They will be down in the Botanics telling stories and making music... on the...
RBGE appoint new trustees
The Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment, Richard Lochhead has announced the appointment of two new members to the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh (RBGE).
Patricia Henton and Frank...
Review : Frieda Morrison and her band at the Botanics
And a lovely time was had by all. The Reporter was lucky enough to catch one of the events in The Scottish International Storytelling Festival which has just begun in the city.
What made this...
Music at the Botanics
Broadcaster and singer-songwriter Frieda Morrison joins RBGE horticulturalist David Mitchell to explore the plants in the gardens next Saturday. With songs from Frieda's new album Morven and adventure stories about the...
What’s on This Week? – 20th September
Sustainable events all weekend 25th -26th September at The Out of the Blue Drill Hall on Dalmeny Street just off Leith Walk. Organised by www.transitionedinburgh.co.uk
If you are interested in history then there is a...
Research at the Botanics
A new study documents waves of forest degradation advancing 120 km across East Africa in just 14 years. Scientists from 12 organisations in Europe, Africa and the USA showed that forest exploitation started with...
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