Events
Edinburgh CND need helpers for a stall. If you can give an hour or so, please contact.
Location: The east end of Princes Street (opposite the Balmoral Hotel).
There is now a full scale crisis over the occupation of Afghanistan. As the death toll mounts the military top brass have no coherent strategy and the politicians can give no sensible explanation as to why the troops are in Afghanistan.
The idea that bombing and strafing Afghan towns and villages will reduce the threat of terrorism is simply untenable. And despite the intensive media spin, opinion polls continue to
Edinburgh CND need helpers for a stall. If you can give an hour or so, please contact.
Location: Edinburgh Theosophical Society, 28 Great King Street, EH3
Admission is free and everyone is welcome.
The edited 90-minute film will be shown on a large screen.
Location: St Augustine’s Church Hall, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh
Free food, talks, cinema, workshops, community stalls, craft stalls face-painting, hair-wraps, shopping, activities for children, games and prizes, and sessions with herbalists and a whole lot of fun!!
More details http://www.bunnyhuggers.org.uk/fayre09.php
Edinburgh Stop the War will be collecting signatures this Saturday for the petition they will be presenting to Gordon Brown.
Location: at the east end of Princes Street (opposite the Balmoral Hotel)
The petition can be signed online and downloaded for printing on the Stop the War website: http://stopwar.org.uk
Daily silence at 1pm at St. John's Church, West end of Prince's Street.
This thought-provoking lecture presents an overview of this truly momentous event: the return to the everyday world of Maitreya in July 1977 and his plans, priorities and recommendations for the immediate future. They cover the essential needs of every man, woman and child: an adequate supply of food; housing for all; health care and education as universal rights. Other top priorities include the restoration of the environment and the establishment of world peace.
Location: Museum of Edinburgh, 142 Canongate, Royal Mile, Edinburgh.
Exhibition runs until 9 Jauary 2010, Monday-Saturday 10am-5pm.
Location: Augustine United Church, 41 George IV bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EL.
All welcome, free admission.
First hand report from Rubén Valencia Nuñez of Oaxaa, Mexico.
Activist in the social movement in Oaxaca, in APPO and VOCAL.
Information from the front-line: on the struggle for autonomy, land and liberty in Oaxaca, Atenco and Chiapas in Mexico.
On the brutal state response: Ruben himself was the victim of an attempted assassination in January 2009.
www.edinchiapas.org.uk
14.00-18.00 on Fridays. Edinburgh Central Mosque, 50 Potterrow.
Edinburgh Stop the War will be leafleting and petition at the East End of Princes Street. There has been a tremendous response from the public over the last few weeks – please come and help if you can.
Demo against Zippos Circus, Hawick.
Free transport from Edinburgh organized, email to book a place on events@bunnyhuggers.org.uk
Location: Hawick.
Free transport from Edinburgh organized, email to book a place.
info@bunnyhuggers.org.uk
14.00-18.00 on Fridays. Edinburgh Central Mosque, 50 Potterrow.
14.00-18.00 on Fridays. Edinburgh Central Mosque, 50 Potterrow.
14.00-18.00 on Fridays. Edinburgh Central Mosque, 50 Potterrow.
14.00-18.00 on Fridays. Edinburgh Central Mosque, 50 Potterrow.
Human brutality v. liberation.
Pleasance Courtyard, 60 Pleasance. (£5.00 preview, others £6.50-9.00)
14.00-18.00 on Fridays. Edinburgh Central Mosque, 50 Potterrow.
Story of Brian Haw, lone campaigner outside Westminster.
Assembly Rooms, George Street. (£8 - preview, others £14.00-10.00)
Human brutality v. liberation.
Pleasance Courtyard, 60 Pleasance. (£5.00 preview, others £6.50-9.00)
Multimedia Palestinian-British theatre.
Assembly Hall, Mound Place (£8.00 preview, others £15-11)
Localation: The Mound
Edinburgh CND will be holding their annual commemoration of the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima. Bring poems, songs, candles........or just your self.
At Blackwell's, South Bridge. Free event, but ticketed.
Edinburgh Stop the war is part of a broader coalition of organisations and individuals organising for when the G20 and NATO come to Scotland in November. They are hosting the working group to organise a demonstration to coincide with the NATO summit on 14th November in Edinburgh. The group is open and needs your help and support – please come along to the Peace and Justice centre (underneath St Johns church on the corner of Lothian Rd and Princes Street). If you can’t make it on Thursday but would like to be involved please get back to us on edinburghstw@tiscali.co.uk.
St Andrew's and St George's Church, George Street. Free entry.
Athol Fugard's seminal apartheid play; a parallel of Robben Island.
The Radisson, 80 High St. (£5.00/3.00)
14.00-18.00 on Fridays. Edinburgh Central Mosque, 50 Potterrow.
Story of Brian Haw, lone campaigner outside Westminster.
Assembly Rooms, George Street. (£8 - preview, others £14.00-10.00)
Stories of the Mumbai Terror Attacks.
August 7-15: The Hive
August 15-17 Niddry Street
(Free, non-ticketed)
Effects of conflict.
Sweet, Grassmarket, Apex City Hotel. (£5.00 preview, others £7.00/5)
Influential play by Bertolt Brecht on the oppression of the Nazi regime pre-World War Two.
Sweet ECA, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place/Lady Lawson Street. (£7.50/£6.50)
Human brutality v. liberation.
Pleasance Courtyard, 60 Pleasance. (£5.00 preview, others £6.50-9.00)
Multimedia Palestinian-British theatre.
Assembly Hall, Mound Place (£8.00 preview, others £15-11)
Location: Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh, 17 West Montgomery Place, Edinburgh EH7 5HA.
Come along if you are interested in participating in our campaign-planning or simply meeting like-minded folk. Off to the pub for 'cruelty-free' drinks after.
Location: Autonomous Centre of Edinburgh, 17 West Montgomery Place, Edinburgh EH7 5HA.
Cruelty-Free Drinks and monthly Bunny Huggers meeting
Come along if you are interested in participating in our campaign-planning or simply meeting like-minded folk.
Off to the pub for 'cruelty-free' drinks after.
St Andrew's and St George's Church, George Street. Free entry.
Athol Fugard's seminal apartheid play; a parallel of Robben Island.
The Radisson, 80 High St. (£5.00/3.00)
Outside St. John's Church, West End Princes Street.
Location: Registry House
Weather-dependent, text 0792 088 8769 for confirmation
14.00-18.00 on Fridays. Edinburgh Central Mosque, 50 Potterrow.
Story of Brian Haw, lone campaigner outside Westminster.
Assembly Rooms, George Street. (£8 - preview, others £14.00-10.00)
Effects of conflict.
Sweet, Grassmarket, Apex City Hotel. (£5.00 preview, others £7.00/5)
Influential play by Bertolt Brecht on the oppression of the Nazi regime pre-World War Two.
Sweet ECA, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place/Lady Lawson Street. (£7.50/£6.50)
Human brutality v. liberation.
Pleasance Courtyard, 60 Pleasance. (£5.00 preview, others £6.50-9.00)
Multimedia Palestinian-British theatre.
Assembly Hall, Mound Place (£8.00 preview, others £15-11)
St Andrew's and St George's Church, George Street. Free entry.
Athol Fugard's seminal apartheid play; a parallel of Robben Island.
The Radisson, 80 High St. (£5.00/3.00)
14.00-18.00 on Fridays. Edinburgh Central Mosque, 50 Potterrow.
Story of Brian Haw, lone campaigner outside Westminster.
Assembly Rooms, George Street. (£8 - preview, others £14.00-10.00)
Effects of conflict.
Sweet, Grassmarket, Apex City Hotel. (£5.00 preview, others £7.00/5)
Influential play by Bertolt Brecht on the oppression of the Nazi regime pre-World War Two.
Sweet ECA, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place/Lady Lawson Street. (£7.50/£6.50)
Human brutality v. liberation.
Pleasance Courtyard, 60 Pleasance. (£5.00 preview, others £6.50-9.00)
Multimedia Palestinian-British theatre.
Assembly Hall, Mound Place (£8.00 preview, others £15-11)
St Andrew's and St George's Church, George Street. Free entry.
53 Belford Road, first floor.
Recent paintings by Julia Fowler. Free entry.
Athol Fugard's seminal apartheid play; a parallel of Robben Island.
The Radisson, 80 High St. (£5.00/3.00)
Celebrate the women of Scotland.
Riddles Court, Lawnmarket. (£5.00/4)
14.00-18.00 on Fridays. Edinburgh Central Mosque, 50 Potterrow.
Story of Brian Haw, lone campaigner outside Westminster.
Assembly Rooms, George Street. (£8 - preview, others £14.00-10.00)
Effects of conflict.
Sweet, Grassmarket, Apex City Hotel. (£5.00 preview, others £7.00/5)
Influential play by Bertolt Brecht on the oppression of the Nazi regime pre-World War Two.
Sweet ECA, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place/Lady Lawson Street. (£7.50/£6.50)
Human brutality v. liberation.
Pleasance Courtyard, 60 Pleasance. (£5.00 preview, others £6.50-9.00)
Multimedia Palestinian-British theatre.
Assembly Hall, Mound Place (£8.00 preview, others £15-11)
First date: 16.30, August 10.
Consecutive dates: 12, 14, 15, 19, 21, 22, 26, 28, 29.
16.45 August 16, 30.
14.15, August 23.
St Andrew's and St George's Church, 13 George St. (£12/10)
First Date: August 10
Consecutive Dates: August 14, 17-21, 24-28. St John's Church
Free, non ticketed
St Andrew's and St George's Church, George Street. Free entry.
53 Belford Road, first floor.
Recent paintings by Julia Fowler. Free entry.
Athol Fugard's seminal apartheid play; a parallel of Robben Island.
The Radisson, 80 High St. (£5.00/3.00)
Celebrate the women of Scotland.
Riddles Court, Lawnmarket. (£5.00/4)
14.00-18.00 on Fridays. Edinburgh Central Mosque, 50 Potterrow.
Story of Brian Haw, lone campaigner outside Westminster.
Assembly Rooms, George Street. (£8 - preview, others £14.00-10.00)
Effects of conflict.
Sweet, Grassmarket, Apex City Hotel. (£5.00 preview, others £7.00/5)
Influential play by Bertolt Brecht on the oppression of the Nazi regime pre-World War Two.
Sweet ECA, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place/Lady Lawson Street. (£7.50/£6.50)
Human brutality v. liberation.
Pleasance Courtyard, 60 Pleasance. (£5.00 preview, others £6.50-9.00)
Multimedia Palestinian-British theatre.
Assembly Hall, Mound Place (£8.00 preview, others £15-11)
Acoustic Music Centre, St Bride's, Orwell Terrace (£12.00/10)
St Andrew's and St George's Church, George Street. Free entry.
53 Belford Road, first floor.
Recent paintings by Julia Fowler. Free entry.
Athol Fugard's seminal apartheid play; a parallel of Robben Island.
The Radisson, 80 High St. (£5.00/3.00)
Celebrate the women of Scotland.
Riddles Court, Lawnmarket. (£5.00/4)
14.00-18.00 on Fridays. Edinburgh Central Mosque, 50 Potterrow.
Story of Brian Haw, lone campaigner outside Westminster.
Assembly Rooms, George Street. (£8 - preview, others £14.00-10.00)
Effects of conflict.
Sweet, Grassmarket, Apex City Hotel. (£5.00 preview, others £7.00/5)
Influential play by Bertolt Brecht on the oppression of the Nazi regime pre-World War Two.
Sweet ECA, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place/Lady Lawson Street. (£7.50/£6.50)
Human brutality v. liberation.
Pleasance Courtyard, 60 Pleasance. (£5.00 preview, others £6.50-9.00)
Multimedia Palestinian-British theatre.
Assembly Hall, Mound Place (£8.00 preview, others £15-11)
St Andrew's and St George's Church, George Street. Free entry.
53 Belford Road, first floor.
Recent paintings by Julia Fowler. Free entry.
Athol Fugard's seminal apartheid play; a parallel of Robben Island.
The Radisson, 80 High St. (£5.00/3.00)
Celebrate the women of Scotland.
Riddles Court, Lawnmarket. (£5.00/4)
14.00-18.00 on Fridays. Edinburgh Central Mosque, 50 Potterrow.
Story of Brian Haw, lone campaigner outside Westminster.
Assembly Rooms, George Street. (£8 - preview, others £14.00-10.00)
Effects of conflict.
Sweet, Grassmarket, Apex City Hotel. (£5.00 preview, others £7.00/5)
Influential play by Bertolt Brecht on the oppression of the Nazi regime pre-World War Two.
Sweet ECA, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place/Lady Lawson Street. (£7.50/£6.50)
Human brutality v. liberation.
Pleasance Courtyard, 60 Pleasance. (£5.00 preview, others £6.50-9.00)
Multimedia Palestinian-British theatre.
Assembly Hall, Mound Place (£8.00 preview, others £15-11)
At Blackwell's, South Bridge. Free event, but ticketed.
St Andrew's and St George's Church, George Street. Free entry.
53 Belford Road, first floor.
Recent paintings by Julia Fowler. Free entry.
Athol Fugard's seminal apartheid play; a parallel of Robben Island.
The Radisson, 80 High St. (£5.00/3.00)
Daily until the 31st. 19:00 on the 19th and 26th. At the Buddhist Centre, 30 Melville Terrace.
Celebrate the women of Scotland.
Riddles Court, Lawnmarket. (£5.00/4)
14.00-18.00 on Fridays. Edinburgh Central Mosque, 50 Potterrow.
Story of Brian Haw, lone campaigner outside Westminster.
Assembly Rooms, George Street. (£8 - preview, others £14.00-10.00)
Effects of conflict.
Sweet, Grassmarket, Apex City Hotel. (£5.00 preview, others £7.00/5)
Influential play by Bertolt Brecht on the oppression of the Nazi regime pre-World War Two.
Sweet ECA, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place/Lady Lawson Street. (£7.50/£6.50)
Human brutality v. liberation.
Pleasance Courtyard, 60 Pleasance. (£5.00 preview, others £6.50-9.00)
Multimedia Palestinian-British theatre.
Assembly Hall, Mound Place (£8.00 preview, others £15-11)
St Andrew's and St George's Church, George Street. Free entry.
The fascist BNP wants to hold its annual Red, White & Blue 'festival' of race hatred and bigotry in the village of Codnor in Derbyshire. The BNP will invite neo-Nazis from across Europe to the event. It will use the rally to further its fascist agenda and whip up racism on our streets.
53 Belford Road, first floor.
Recent paintings by Julia Fowler. Free entry.
This Saturday we will be petitioning and leafleting with the Troops Out of Afghanistan petition at the east end of Princes Street (opposite the Balmoral). Please come along if you can help for any part of the time.
If you want to rin to confirm you are coming please call 07791913316 (ps if you turned up to help at the Mela last weekend and couldn't find us we did have a very successful afternoon)
There will be a nine day Trident Ploughshares Camp at Coulport from August 15th to 23rd.
The camp is at Peaton Glen Wood in Ardpeaton. See www.tridentploughshares.org for directions and more information
We hope to run a nonviolence workshop for new TP members during the first week-end. Contact tp2000@gn.apc.org if you are interested.
Athol Fugard's seminal apartheid play; a parallel of Robben Island.
The Radisson, 80 High St. (£5.00/3.00)
Celebrate the women of Scotland.
Riddles Court, Lawnmarket. (£5.00/4)
14.00-18.00 on Fridays. Edinburgh Central Mosque, 50 Potterrow.
Location: Resgistry House
Weather-dependent, text 0792 088 8769 for confirmation
Story of Brian Haw, lone campaigner outside Westminster.
Assembly Rooms, George Street. (£8 - preview, others £14.00-10.00)
Stephen Grey and Peter Marsden.
(£9.00/7.00) Charlotte Square Gardens
Effects of conflict.
Sweet, Grassmarket, Apex City Hotel. (£5.00 preview, others £7.00/5)
Influential play by Bertolt Brecht on the oppression of the Nazi regime pre-World War Two.
Sweet ECA, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place/Lady Lawson Street. (£7.50/£6.50)
Human brutality v. liberation.
Pleasance Courtyard, 60 Pleasance. (£5.00 preview, others £6.50-9.00)
Multimedia Palestinian-British theatre.
Assembly Hall, Mound Place (£8.00 preview, others £15-11)
A Guardian reader's quest to save Africa.
Edinburgh Sleep Centre, 13 Heriot Row (£6.00)
Emmanuel Jal, ex-child soldier.
Charlotte Square Gardens (£9.00/7.00).
Location: St John's Church, Princes Street, Edinburgh
An evening of compelling storytelling, fusing meaningful lyrics with strong creative melodies and emotive harmonies. Kim's and my 2008 debut albums were each named ‘Album Of The Week’ by BBC Radio Scotland’s Iain Anderson.
Tickets available on the door or at Hub Tickets, The Hub, Castlehill, 0131 473 2000, www.hubtickets.co.uk. £10/8. www.kimedgar.com. www.festivalofspirituality.org.uk
St Andrew's and St George's Church, George Street. Free entry.
There will be a nine day Trident Ploughshares Camp at Coulport from August 15th to 23rd.
The camp is at Peaton Glen Wood in Ardpeaton. See www.tridentploughshares.org for directions and more information
We hope to run a nonviolence workshop for new TP members during the first week-end. Contact tp2000@gn.apc.org if you are interested.
53 Belford Road, first floor.
Recent paintings by Julia Fowler. Free entry.
14.00-18.00 on Fridays. Edinburgh Central Mosque, 50 Potterrow.
Peter Kellner & Dominic Raab. (Chair Sheena McDonald).
(£9.00/7.00) Charlotte Square Gardens.
Story of Brian Haw, lone campaigner outside Westminster.
Assembly Rooms, George Street. (£8 - preview, others £14.00-10.00)
Effects of conflict.
Sweet, Grassmarket, Apex City Hotel. (£5.00 preview, others £7.00/5)
Influential play by Bertolt Brecht on the oppression of the Nazi regime pre-World War Two.
Sweet ECA, Edinburgh College of Art, Lauriston Place/Lady Lawson Street. (£7.50/£6.50)
Human brutality v. liberation.
Pleasance Courtyard, 60 Pleasance. (£5.00 preview, others £6.50-9.00)
Multimedia Palestinian-British theatre.
Assembly Hall, Mound Place (£8.00 preview, others £15-11)
A Guardian reader's quest to save Africa.
Edinburgh Sleep Centre, 13 Heriot Row (£6.00)
David Campbell & Wendy Weatherby. Celebrating Scotland in story, myths and song.
(£6.00/4.00) Charlotte Square Gardens.
St Andrew's and St George's Church, George Street. Free entry.
There will be a nine day Trident Ploughshares Camp at Coulport from August 15th to 23rd.
The camp is at Peaton Glen Wood in Ardpeaton. See www.tridentploughshares.org for directions and more information
We hope to run a nonviolence workshop for new TP members during the first week-end. Contact tp2000@gn.apc.org if you are interested.
53 Belford Road, first floor.
Recent paintings by Julia Fowler. Free entry.
Athol Fugard's seminal apartheid play; a parallel of Robben Island.
The Radisson, 80 High St. (£5.00/3.00)
Horatio Clare & Michael McCarthy.
(£9.00/7.00) Charlotte Square Gardens.
Celebrate the women of Scotland.
Riddles Court, Lawnmarket. (£5.00/4)
14.00-18.00 on Fridays. Edinburgh Central Mosque, 50 Potterrow.
Story of Brian Haw, lone campaigner outside Westminster.
Assembly Rooms, George Street. (£8 - preview, others £14.00-10.00)
Effects of conflict.
Sweet, Grassmarket, Apex City Hotel. (£5.00 preview, others £7.00/5)
Human brutality v. liberation.
Pleasance Courtyard, 60 Pleasance. (£5.00 preview, others £6.50-9.00)
Multimedia Palestinian-British theatre.
Assembly Hall, Mound Place (£8.00 preview, others £15-11)
A Guardian reader's quest to save Africa.
Edinburgh Sleep Centre, 13 Heriot Row (£6.00)
St Patrick's Church, 5 South Gray's Close, 40 High Street. Free, non-ticketed
How the suffragettes changed Scotland.
Riddles Court, Lawnmarket. (£9.00/7.00)
Ron Leshen and 'Beaufort.'
(£6.00/4.00) Charlotte Square Gardens.
From Peru to South Africa. Monologue and music.
Venue 45, 39 Jeffrey St. (£3.50/2.50)
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Events
Upcoming events
- Palestine Solidarity Campaign(6 hours)
- Peace Vigil(2 days)
- Women in Black Vigil(2 days)
- Stall by Ethical Voice for Animals(2 days)
- St Mark's Amnesty Group(4 days)
- Gouranga Evening(6 days)