I hope you had a good summer - and still are!
Improvements to Hunter's Hall Park have been done in partnership with the Edinburgh Greenspace Trust. The new bike track is part of this and it's official opening is is on Friday 26 August, from 1.30pm to 2.30pm (poster attached). A stunt cyclist will do some tricks and cut the ribbon to open the track at 2pm. All are welcome.
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Taking of cycling, quite a few people asked about the legal basis for allowing cycling on the Prom and I have attached a briefing one from the Council's legal team, which formed the basis of an internal Council officer discussion on the matter in June. This will be a topic for discussion and debate by Portobello Community Council in September.
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I have been asked to let you know that there will be a local Garden Fete on 27 August (this coming Saturday) at the Gate Lodge Garden, 27 Milton Road East from 2 to 4pm (opposite Jewel & Esk College) in aid of Postnatal Depression Services. There will be teas and stalls - including crafts, gifts, toys, baking & jams and face painting. I hope the sun shines!
Also on Saturday, and hoping for the sun to shine, is the Big Beach Busk from 12 noon until evening, centred around the foot of Marlborough Street on Portobello Promenade.
Before it tours Scotland, the Travelling Art Gallery's Autumn exhibition is on display in Portobello and Craigmillar. On 27 August it' will be outside the Bank of Scotland, Portobello High Street from 11am to 6pm. On Wednesday 31 August it will be at Craigmillar Arts Centre on Newcraighall Road, the church opposite the entrance to Fort Kinnaird, open from 10.30am to 3.30pm. Jonathan Owen and Charlie Hammond's contemporary work includes new screen prints made specially for the Travelling Gallery on the theme of 'Waste Management'. Their work is said to be 'of dark humour and absurdity'.
The local parks and greenspaces management are in the process of developing a Park Improvement Plan for Rosefield Park. As part of this, them Council officers are looking for feedback from the local community on how that park is used and what improvements people might like to see happen in the park. Please complete the on-line survey which can be found at: http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/info/495/pa ... ace_survey
The 1st Anniversary of the start of the monthly Portobello Organic Market will be on 3 September 2011. To celebrate, PEDAL (Portobello Transition Town) have a great programme of fund food related events to serve up. In association with and , they'll kick off at 10.30am with a programme of short films on local food. Hear about the future of farming, about how to keep chickens in your backyard and about how local communities are growing their own all over the UK. Try out the cycle-powered '' in their yurt - and make your own energy in the . At 12.30 the organisers are inviting you to join them in a local food picnic. Bring food you have grown or made - or buy some at the market - for a relaxed and sociable outdoor lunch. This event is one of 12 local food celebrations in urban and rural communities across Scotland being held as part of the Blasda Food Feast (Blasda is gaelic for 'tasty'). See http://www.blasda.org.uk for more
In conjunction with the Organic Market Anniversary, Big Things on the Beach are organising a human art installation, 'ToxMe', created by visiting Italian artist Federico Calo in which everyone is invited to participate. This event is part of Big Things on the Beach's Public Art Fest, which takes place in Portobello from 27 August - 3 September. Please visit http://www.bigthingsonthebeach.org.uk for full details of how you can join in. The Public Art Fest has been developed in collaboration with the Edinburgh College of Art and with GeoArte, an international cultural exchange organisation based in Puglia, southern Italy. GeoArte is bringing three Italian artists to engage the public in art projects located in a number of sites in Portobello, including a mass participation human installation on September 3rd. Venues include the Indoor Bowls and Leisure Centre, Mum’s Cafe, the Dalriada bar and St. Philip’s Church. The Edinburgh College of Art is coordinating three active workshops led by UK artists that take the Portobello townscape as their point of departure to explore what makes art public and what public art might become. On September 3rd at 2.00pm Big Things on the Beach invites everyone to join Rocca Gutteridge in Mum’s Café at the Edinburgh Indoor Bowls and Leisure Centre, Westbank Street and Promenade to discuss the question ‘What Makes Art Public?’.
Finally, two corrections to two of my previous email 'Updates', for those of you who received them at the time. First, the Scottish Government's Climate Challenge Fund grant award was made to the new Community Alliance Trust (CAT), and not to the Community Neighbourhood Alliance (CNA) as stated in my Update of 10 June 2011. The CNA and CAT are different legal entities. Second, my Update of 15 July 201 stated that some information was distributed at Towerbank Primary School towards the end of the school term. This was actually the same Portobello Park Action Group leaflet which was hand-delivered through my own and other local letter boxes that week. The 'scaremongering' poster, as depicted in the Evening News that week, was not distributed in the school playground.
Best wishes for the weekend!
Maureen
Councillor Maureen Child | Labour Elected Member | Portobello/Craigmillar (Ward 17) | City of Edinburgh Council | City Chambers | High Street | Edinburgh | EH1 1YJ | Tel 0131 529 3268 |
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