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We had another very successful FREE bike repairing session at Granton Church. Thanks to the support of North Edinburgh Arts and R2, the team of 2 mechanics from The Bike Station have manged to repair 13 bicycles. Huge THANK you for all your hard work🙏🙏🙏

Fab event at our (very!) soon to be neighbours Muirhouse Library ❤️ 2nd December, Author visit by Sara Sheridan 📖

Thanks to everyone Creative Edinburgh for a sparkling ✨️ awards bash on Friday. So many fab finalists & winners! Cherry on top was N Ed Community Festival winning the Festival Awrd🥳❤️ yippee!!!!!

Two new Scottish commissions for #EdChildrensFest2025 📢 👅🧶 Tongue Twister created and performer by Greg Sinclair 🪶🌊 The Unlikely Friendship of Feather Boy and Tentacle Girl, co-created and performed by Vee Smith and Sadiq Ali. Find out more 👉imaginate.org.uk/news/news-two-…

It’s #WorldChildrensDay! UNICEF's global day of action marking the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. For Imaginate UK this means working together with children and artists, to explore how we put children's rights at the heart of the creative process. 1/4

Celebrating the publication of the Art For Grown Ups 'Lunch Group Project' with the artists and sitters. A wee gem of a book, thanks to all involved, along with Curious Seed Dance, boom saloon, Creative Scotland

Through Creative Encounters, Imaginate UK's project in partnership with North Edinburgh Arts, young people look at the incorporation of the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child and how they connect with these rights. Find out about on our website. imaginate.org.uk/artists/projec…

Coming soon! North Edinburgh Arts is looking forward to returning home early in 2025. Our venue refurbishment and extension is nearly complete and now runs to over 2000m2 across four floors. Read more at northedinburgharts.co.uk/building-excit…

Some great news for the end of the year: NEA receives £1.7m from the Community Ownership Fund to complete our build programme, kit out the venue, and refurbish our much-loved community garden. Read more here northedinburgharts.co.uk/exciting-year-…

Yesterday in a Westminster hall debate in UK House of Commons I welcomed the announcement in the UK Government budget to allocate £150 million to community projects across the UK, including £1.7 million investment to North Edinburgh Arts will help support high quality creative learning.

Love seeing the passion for music here in Edinburgh! Thanks for having us down Tinderbox Collective 🧡🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Join us for the annual Orchard Wassailing on Saturday 1st Feb 2pm, a fun & heart-warming event for all ages organised by our brilliant Community Orchard volunteers to celebrate the trees. All details: lauristonfarm.scot/event/orchard-… #northEdinburgh #Edinburgh #Agroecology

Ed Sheeran joined us last week at Muirhouse Library in Edinburgh to support the 'We Make Music' Instrument Libraries Programme! This initiative aims to get musical instruments into public libraries so people can borrow them for free - just like borrowing a book 📚🎺

Last week Alex Norris MP visited Scotland, where he saw the amazing work they are doing on changing towns in Dundee, Arbroath and Edinburgh via UK and Scottish Government funding.

NEA Chairperson, Lesley Hinds, was delighted to share our ambitions for our community owned venue with Alex Norris MP last week, outlining the difference we can make with the Community Ownership Funds secured in December 2024…NEA opening soon!

The 3rd North Edinburgh Film Festival takes place this year delivered through a partnership with North Edinburgh Arts! SEE has two screenings in the festival, which include films from our archive. We’ll also be running filmmaking workshops for youngsters! Watch this space for info!

Great to show our MP, Tracy Gilbert MP around the new spaces at NEA, thanks for your support.

Next week at the North Edinburgh Film Festival we'll be running two filmmaking workshops for young people! Groups will be encouraged to express their creativity while learning beginner filmmaking skills 🎬 Join us next Saturday the 22nd at West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre!

There's less than two weeks left to apply for our Through The Lens Programmes! Learners will gain hands-on practical filmmaking skills to prepare them for creating a short film with their group! Apply before the 28th of February at 5pm through the link in our bio 🔗

We've not been using our twitter/X feed much lately, hop on over to our Facebook and Instagram for all the latest news. The fully refurbished and extended NEA will be opening in the next two weeks - see you there!