The Edinburgh Minute ⏰ Weekend edition 14 - 16 June 2024
Spit it Out charity closes, 1,000 local carers speak out + busy weekend guide featuring Canal Festival, First Date romance festival & outdoor cinema
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🌤️ Good morning Edinburgh. It’s forecast to be a mixed weekend of sunshine and showers; potentially heavy ones. Here’s Friday’s Edinburgh Minute, followed by the weekend guide for paying subscribers.
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🗣️ Edinburgh’s Spit it Out charity is closing down after ‘serious safety concerns’ were raised by some participants. The project was founded four years ago with the aim of empowering artists ‘to talk about consent, mental health and healing through
creativity and community care’. In a statement published yesterday, organisers said: “Despite our desire to continue doing this transformative work, we do not have the energy to continue on anymore.”
⚽️ Edinburgh dad Iain Meiklejohn says his son will learn more from traveling to Germany to watch Scotland play football in the Euros than he will from school. - Oliver Coe, BBC Scotland.
🗣️ The views of more than 1,150 local carers are compiled in a new report. The results of the Edinburgh Carers Survey highlights ‘significant challenges faced by carers in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, the cost of living crisis, and demographic changes’. The joint report is published by local unpaid carer charity VOCAL (Voice of Carers Across Lothian) and the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership. - A summary and the full report are on the VOCAL website.
📚 ‘'Future is as shaky as its ever been': Will Baillie Gifford funding row kill our book festivals?’ - Jane Graham, The Big Issue.
🗳️ The Times Radio election bus will be outside the St James Quarter on Friday from 6am to 5pm and they invite Edinburgh voters to join them. - The Edinburgh Reporter.
🍸 Gleneagles Townhouse at St Andrew Square will launch a pop-up Martini Lounge on Monday.
🩸 The Diabetes By Design festival at Custom Lane in Leith opened last night and runs until 24 June with an immersive exhibition, panels and events. It’s organised by award-winning local designer Alex Durussel-Baker, who explains more here.
⚽️ If you’re looking for an alternative place to watch the Scotland game tonight, Sneaky Pete’s in the Cowgate will have it on the big projector. - Free entry.
⮑ The venue is also hosting the Morning Tea Vintage independent market on Saturday from 1pm-8pm.
📌 Edinburgh Minute Community Noticeboard
📌 “Please join us at the Edinburgh Canal Festival on Saturday 15th June 2024, 12-5pm. Residents and visitors are invited to explore the Union Canal between the Lochrin Basin and Harrison Park and to meet some of the great organisations that operate year round on and near to the canal. There will be loads of free activities and entertainment as you travel along the canal in the heart of Edinburgh.” - Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust.
📌 “SAT JUNE 15th: 'JAWS'! Screen Porty Community Cinema is screening film classic 'JAWS' at the Wash House, Portobello! Invitation to come dressed for the beach - optional and open to interpretation! Note earlier start time: Bar open 6pm, film start 7pm.”
📌 “Saturday 15 June: Ionad Gàidhlig Dhùn Èideann presents Latha Mòr na Gàidhlig - a big day of Gaelic events for the Gaelic community in Edinburgh! Classes, workshops, children's activities, music and community café. Saturday 15 June 10am-4pm, Darroch, 7 Gillespie Street, and an evening cèilidh 7-1030pm at Central Halls, 2 West Tollcross.” - Thanks to Louise and Wilson McLeod, Chair, Ionad Gàidhlig Dhùn Èideann, for sharing this.
📌 “Stockbridge Primary Parent Council presents 'Tango For Kids' on Sunday 16 June 4pm at Stockbridge Church. Family friendly fundraising concert featuring professional piano, accordion & double bass musicians. Tickets available here.”
🛝 Here’s this week’s Gayle’s Guide of family-friendly things to do in Edinburgh, including the Canal Festival, Davidson's Mains Children's Gala, Father's Day Takeover, new ASN Stuff page and more.
🌊 The Current is a new weekly guide to what’s on in East Lothian.
📆 More things to do this weekend:
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