Pibroch is a one-act play performed by writer and spoken word artist John Bolland, exploring our Climate Emergency and the need for an urgent but just transition from the current extractive economic system and the parallels with the Piper Alpha disaster of 1988.

The performance explores the experience of oil & gas workers involved in numerous offshore industrial catastrophes (e.g. Piper Alpha, Alexander Keilland, Macondo) and examines the personal and social experiences of finding oneself on a ‘burning platform’ with a pressing need for change.

Developed from the author’s own experiences working in the offshore oil and gas industry between 1980 and 2014 and subsequent involvement in Climate Activism through Extinction Rebellion between 2018 and 2020, the production is based on a poetry collection – Pibroch – which expands upon and develops the texts used in spoken performance.

Co-directed by Mark Thomson, former Artistic Director at the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh, it has been crafted by an outstanding team of theatre professionals; John Bolland’s words are complemented by Fraser Fifield who provides live musical accompaniment to the performance.

There will also be a post-show discussion and Q&A session.

Pibroch is a one-act play performed by writer and spoken word artist John Bolland, exploring our Climate Emergency and the need for an urgent but just transition from the current extractive economic system and the parallels with the Piper Alpha disaster of 1988.

The performance explores the experience of oil & gas workers involved in numerous offshore industrial catastrophes (e.g. Piper Alpha, Alexander Keilland, Macondo) and examines the personal and social experiences of finding oneself on a ‘burning platform’ with a pressing need for change.

Developed from the author’s own experiences working in the offshore oil and gas industry between 1980 and 2014 and subsequent involvement in Climate Activism through Extinction Rebellion between 2018 and 2020, the production is based on a poetry collection – Pibroch – which expands upon and develops the texts used in spoken performance.

Co-directed by Mark Thomson, former Artistic Director at the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh, it has been crafted by an outstanding team of theatre professionals; John Bolland’s words are complemented by Fraser Fifield who provides live musical accompaniment to the performance.

There will also be a post-show discussion and Q&A session.

Pibroch is a one-act play performed by writer and spoken word artist John Bolland, exploring our Climate Emergency and the need for an urgent but just transition from the current extractive economic system and the parallels with the Piper Alpha disaster of 1988.

The performance explores the experience of oil & gas workers involved in numerous offshore industrial catastrophes (e.g. Piper Alpha, Alexander Keilland, Macondo) and examines the personal and social experiences of finding oneself on a ‘burning platform’ with a pressing need for change.

Developed from the author’s own experiences working in the offshore oil and gas industry between 1980 and 2014 and subsequent involvement in Climate Activism through Extinction Rebellion between 2018 and 2020, the production is based on a poetry collection – Pibroch – which expands upon and develops the texts used in spoken performance.

Co-directed by Mark Thomson, former Artistic Director at the Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh, it has been crafted by an outstanding team of theatre professionals; John Bolland’s words are complemented by Fraser Fifield who provides live musical accompaniment to the performance.

There will also be a post-show discussion and Q&A session.

Landimer Day on Rutherglen Main Street is an annual gala day, which has been going for many years. Its purpose is to celebrate the community of Rutherglen, with lots of organisations taking stalls, providing local information and fun activities, with fairground rides, food, music and lots more.

Healthy n Happy Community Development Trust are delighted to take part and are featuring their ‘Seed Bomb Bike’. Using paper, wild flower seeds and water, local residents will use pedal power to make their own seed bombs. Once the mixture has mulched, it’s strained and left to dry. It can then be thrown in to a public space/garden or your own garden, where wildflowers will grow, providing bees, butterflies and other pollinators food throughout the year.

Creating the right habitats in your garden can help wildlife cope with our changing climate. As Fife becomes hotter and dryer in the summer and warmer and wetter in the winter wildlife may need a helping hand to thrive.

Boosting biodiversity in our gardens will help resilience in plants and animals. A wide range of plants and micro-habitats helps create a mosaic of food sources, shelter and safe places to live.

At the workshop we will learn about the different types of habitat that will encourage wildlife to move in and what you can do to encourage a wide range of species. We’ll also discuss ways to improve your garden to provide food and shelter for different invertebrates, amphibians, birds and mammals.

To get the best from the workshop please bring along a photograph of a part of your garden or growing space that you would like to improve for wildlife.

Booking info

The event is free but booking is required.

If you are having trouble booking you can call 01592 858458 or email [email protected] for assistance.

Accessibility

There is unmarked parking on site. Please note the terrain is mostly flat and the paths are gravel. Venue is outdoors with the exception of the working cabin.

PHA Aim:

To create a space for organisations and groups concerned about health to fashion a more effective response to Scotland’s growing health crisis

PHA Objectives:

• Provide a forum for existing community and national health-related campaigns to enable exchange of knowledge and ideas
• Problem solve the relative lack of impact on political and economic decision making
• Develop thinking on the combined actions needed to effect change in decision making which impinges on health
• Inspire and build a stronger public health movement, including creating resources for those campaigning for better health for Scotland (e.g. evidence, networks and good practice)

Confirmed speakers and contributors:

• David Legge, People’s Health Movement
• Prof Kat Smith, University of Strathclyde
• Kirsty Mackay, photographic artist, educator, activist and filmmaker
• Jackie Erdman, former Head of Equality and Human Rights for NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and current trustee with the Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland and the Scottish Homelessness Network
• Environmental Rights Centre for Scotland
• The Jimmy Reid Foundation
• Socialist Health Association Scotland
• Kingsway Community ConnectionsScotstoun, Glasgow
• People’s Plan for Glasgow
• Women’s Support Project
• Solidarity Against Neoliberal Extremism (SANE)
• Friends of Saint Fitticks Park, Torry, Aberdeen
• Living Streets Scotland
• Scottish Hazards
• Glasgow Centre for Population Health

Funding and Costs

The PHA is being supported by a grant from The Edge Fund contribution from the Women’s Support Project and in-kind support from our fellow contributors. We may need to ask for a small donation (£5), from those able, to help cover the costs of the catering on the day if we end up with a shortfall (but hopefully not!). This can either be via cash or an online donation and more details on how to donate will be available at the event.

Climate Fringe Festival

The PHA is running as part of the Climate Fringe Festival #ClimateFringeFestival, 10th-18th June

Pre-Assembly Social (Friday 9th June from 7pm)

Ahead of the PHA we are also hosting an informal social event at DRAM! pub, 232 Woodlands Rd, Glasgow G3 6ND. Please pop along to meet other activists ahead of the more formal discussions at the PHA. You can let us know you can come along by including a ticket for this when registering just so we know who to expect!

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Why we need a People’s Health Assembly

We are in a new era of a socio-ecological polycrisis, with the climate emergency being ignored and the lives and wellbeing of millions being cast aside as we face a crushing cost-of-living crisis. There is brilliant work being done across civil society to improve the health and wellbeing of our society, but too much is focused on survival, rather than giving people alternatives and the ability to thrive. We are caught in a cycle of paying to fix what we continue to break.

We must come together to energise a paradigm shift from the grassroots and unanimously advocate systems change to support health and wellbeing of people and planet as our core aims, rather than an outdated, misguided and unfair focus on economic growth and finances.

PHMS wants to start this paradigm shift by bringing people together for a People’s Health Assembly (PHA) in 2023. The 2023 PHA will recognise the failures of current and past approaches, but more importantly highlight the breadth and depth of positive alternatives.

Scotland has its own rich tapestry of activism focused on the global, the national and the local, as well as networks of support for communities and individuals. Yet these efforts lack synergy, leading to a loss of effectiveness. We will focus on the processes of social movement building and grassroots activism in shifting from ‘surviving & coping’ (some better than others) to ‘systems change’. In bringing our voices together we hope to re-ignite solidarity in the face of detached politics.

Without a civic society movement that can highlight the positive alternatives available in policy and practice to the current neoliberal ‘common sense’ of austerity and ‘trickle down’ incompetence, the future of Scotland, independent or otherwise, is appallingly bleak. Informed critical democratic engagement is the only vaccine that can hope to address the pandemic of ‘truth decay’ that is already undermining the fundamental rights of the most vulnerable in our society and threatening the existence of future generations.

If another well-meaning event on health inequalities or climate fills you with dread or apathy, please think again! The ineffectiveness of current responses and resultant worsening outcomes can only be reimagined by a positive and united civil society.

A short history of PHAs

PHAs are based on the model of events run by PHM Global, with the last of these global PHAs taking place in 2018. The previous PHA event in Scotland was held in Edinburgh in 2014. Since then, PHMS have run other regular events and published a People’s Health Manifesto for local and national elections. Our latest report follows a recent inquiry into health inequalities in light of the COVID pandemic: All in this Together? The Impact of Covid-19 on Health Inequalities in Glasgow.

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The People’s Health Movement (PHM) Scotland are a diverse group of health and social activists based in Scotland who are members of a global movement that calls for a right to health for all.

Free screening of award-winning documentary FINITE: The Climate of Change, followed by a discussion of direct action tactics, and a chance to get involved in Climate Camp Scotland 2023.

The Film

Rich Felgate’s FINITE: The Climate of Change is an insider’s view of the world of direct action: a raw, authentic and emotional insight into the David and Goliath battle between frontline communities, activists and fossil fuel corporations.

In
Germany, concerned citizens step forward to save an ancient forest from one of Europe’s largest coal mines. They form an unlikely alliance with
a frustrated community in rural England who are forced into action to protect their homes from a new opencast coal mine.

Discussion
Climate Camp Scotland is a grassroots collective organising for climate justice and against fossil fuels in Scotland, by running annual climate camps
that include mass direct action as a core tactic. After the screening, we will discuss our responses to the film and consider the question: ‘Does size matter? Why *mass* direct action?’

Join the Crew for Climate Camp 2023
Climate Camp 2023 will be on Wednesday 12 through to Monday 17 July, in the Grangemouth area. Targeting the INEOS refinery and petrochemical
complex, the camp will be a melting pot of action and creativity as we take on Scotland’s biggest polluter, build the movement for climate justice, support local community struggles, and forge solidarity with workers. All through putting on an entirely volunteer-run, non-hierarchical event where all of us are responsible and everyone is crew!

With the camp now a matter of weeks away, we need *you* to get stuck in. This gathering will be an opportunity to find out more about our plans for Climate Camp 2023 at Grangemouth, and to join our teams (‘working groups’) already beavering away.

The Venue
The Deep End at 21 Nithsdale Street, just five minutes walk from Pollokshields West or Queen’s Park rail stations, and an even shorter walk from bus stops on Pollokshaws Rd.  https://www.govanhillbaths.com/projects/deep-end-find-us-2/

We have some funding available to cover travel expenses for those who would not otherwise be able to take part. Email [email protected] to request this.

There is the possibility of putting on a free creche at the venue, if this is needed. If you would like to bring children along, please email scottishclimate[email protected] by Thursday 8 June and let us know how many children, their age/s, and any special care needs they may
have.

The film certificate is 12A, and so older children are welcome to watch the film with us (please note under-16s should be accompanied by an adult).

Snacks and juice available 🙂 The event is free, but donations welcome to support the work of film-maker Rich Felgate and Climate Camp Scotland – donate to CCS here – http://bit.ly/climatecampgive. You can donate directly to FINITE’s Impact Campaign here: https://www.share-doc.org /en/d/19001/finite-the-climate-of-change.

The venue is wheelchair accessible. The film is in English and German (with English subtitles). Unfortunately there is no hearing aid loop.

Milan will be arranging a swap shop, a community-based event where people can bring their pre-loved clothes and exchange them with others. It will provide an opportunity for people to refresh their wardrobes without spending money and promotes sustainable fashion practices by encouraging the reuse of clothing items.  Can come along with families and friends, and have fun, by swapping clothes and accessories.

Milan Senior Welfare Organisation develops and delivers provisions for 50 older people from Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi & Mauritian Communities in Edinburgh & Lothian which meet their social, cultural, recreational, language and care needs.

Climate change can often seem like an insurmountable problem, with daunting challenges facing us at every turn. But what if we started focusing on the aspiring narratives of a just and sustainable future? 

Welcome to our event promoting Utopian Futures – a vision of a better world that we can all work towards, together. 

Join us on Monday, June 12th to imagine a future where things turn out okay. During the day, drop in and enjoy artwork, visit with local organizations, play some games, and get creative telling others about the future you imagine. There will also be coffee and pastries! 

Drop In Time is from 1:00pm – 5:00pm

In the evening, watch a live play of a table-top game by experts followed by a long-table discussion on imaginative and practical steps we can take towards building a better world. You will have a chance to play along as you watch and join the discussions as well. All of us play a role in facing and surmounting the challenges ahead. 

Game & Long-Table Discussion is from 5:30pm – 7:00pm

We hope that you will leave this event inspired to take actionable steps towards becoming a good ancestor to future generations. By shifting the narrative towards a positive/hopeful future, we, as individuals, are challenged to imagine what’s possible and strive to take action towards a more just and sustainable future. 

About the Game:

The evening will consist of experts (and the audience) playing a table-top game, Solarpunk Futures, to engage them in a process of visionary social storytelling around the collective struggle required to win our utopia. The game employs backcasting in a “Festival of Remembrance”, whereby Assemblies for the Future play for 45 minutes from the perspective of a future utopia in which they collectively “remember” how their Ancestors utilized Tools and Values to overcome a real-world Challenge.

Join us for ‘The Green Lie’, directed by Werner Boote (2018). Length: 93 minutes.

Watch the film at leisure from the comfort of your own home, on the evening of Sunday 11th or on Monday 12th June, via private online video channel (access details will be sent by email to registered participants). Then join the post-screening discussion at 8pm on Monday 12th June (online via Zoom).

The conversation will be led by Isobel, one of our Young Humanist Scotland Ambassadors.

‘Environmentally-friendly electric cars, sustainably-produced food products, fair production processes….Can our purchasing power help save the world?’

In this tongue-in-cheek two-hander, Austrian director Werner Boote and German author Kathrin Hartmann meticulously unpick some of the most prevalent ‘greenwashing’ myths at play today. They take viewers on a round-the-globe tour of corporate hypocrisy, to the sites of catastrophic environmental disasters and shocking land rights violations, all of which are harming humans, animals and the planet despite the glowing promises of effective self-regulation.

Far from disempowering, however, this exposé of our limited choice as ethical consumers reminds us that our power as individuals does not lie in our wallets but in our actions and behaviours as voters, citizens, and members of our communities.

Watch the trailer here.

Language: English, German with English subtitles.

This is one of a series of films we will be screening as part of our Take One Action Film Club, and everyone who shares our humanist values is very welcome to participate.  Take One Action believes small actions lead to big ones, and that we all make a difference. Connecting individuals through film, creativity and action – for a better world, starting from Scotland.

BOOK YOUR TICKET NOW via: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/film-screening-we-the-power-the-future-of-energy-is-community-owned-tickets-629102742237

Imagine upending the traditional energy system and giving the power of clean electricity production back to your neighbours. We The Power follows friends, families and visionaries as they break down legislative barriers and take power back from big energy companies to put it in the hands of locals and strengthen their towns.

Watch the trailer here

The film chronicles local cooperatives from deep in Germany’s Black Forest to the streets of ancient Girona in Spain and the urban rooftops of London, England, as they pave the way for a renewable energy revolution and build healthier, financially stable communities.

The screening will be followed by a facilitated discussion.

Knowing how our buildings manage energy, heat, moisture and air movement is fundamental to understanding energy efficiency and successful retrofit and improvement, without the risk of unintended consequences in the longer term. As part of the Climate Fringe, the Edinburgh Building Retrofit and Improvement Collective is proud to put on this hybrid event, with guest speaker Jon Stinson PhD, academic, researcher and Director of locally-based Building Research Solutions Ltd.

There will be an introduction to the Collective before a presentation from Jon on the principles of building physics as applied to successful, healthy, domestic energy efficiency retrofit, followed by a Q&A session. The aim is to give Edinburgh residents an overview of the technical fundamentals to help puzzle through energy efficiency and building performance uncertainties (but without the scary maths). By the end of the session you should, for example, understand the distinctions between unwanted draughts and essential ventilation, and why commonplace foam block internal wall insulation might not be a good idea for traditional (pre 1919) buildings in the city.

We want to help create an educated public able to:understand why energy efficiency is not as simple as blocking every draught and insulating everything;gather the information advisable for making informed decisions;understand when ‘obvious choices’ may benefit from careful consideration or expert advice;ask the right questions and understand when recommendations may be based on poor understanding or insufficient knowledge.

Every building is different and every tenement is more than a collection of independent flats. Fully informed choices on what best to do in a particular property require knowledge of the particulars of that property/building. Generic recommendations given without such knowledge (for example from telephone advice services) are not always the best advice, but individual detailed analysis and advice can be expensive. This presentation will help you advance more confidently.

Please note that because of the uniqueness of every case, the Q&A will not be a ‘surgery’ on what should be done in specific properties, but will answer more general questions and clarify any uncertainty about the technical issues described.

After the event, those present at the venue will be able to mingle and chat/discuss in order to make useful contacts and to meet some of the team behind the Edinburgh Building Retrofit and Improvement Collective. The Collective wants people to be better informed and more confident in considering the issues, as well as to encourage individuals to work in community groups in order to get better results, cheaper, more easily and with less stress.

The presentation will be recorded and made available for future reference. Online attendees will also be able to join the Q&A session.

The venue is not the easiest to find. Details are given on the Quaker Meeting House website: https://www.equaker.org.uk/locationThe Collective wishes to acknowledge the support of funding from the City of Edinburgh Council’s ‘Edinburgh Community Climate Fund’, thanks to the votes of residents of the city.

Join Carbon Copy and Edinburgh Communities Climate Action Network (ECAN) at “Edinburgh Community & Climate Connect”. Taking place as Britain’s biggest sporting celebration of climate action and nature – Running Out of Time – reaches Edinburgh; this event will gather some of the city’s best eco-conscious voluntary organisations in the Life Church Hall, less than half a mile from beautiful Holyrood Park.

The event will kick off with a keynote presentation by none other than Dr Heather “The Weather” Reid OBE, former BBC Scotland weather reporter and passionate climate educator. You’ll also get an opportunity to learn more about Running Out of Time, and even to hold the baton!

You can:

• Learn more about different ways to make a difference in your community
• Meet other like-minded people
• Sign-up to volunteer with a brilliant local organisation or campaign
• Get inspired to take more collaborative action to fight climate change and protect the environment

We are a third of the way through this crucial decade for climate action – yet Scotland is not on track to meet targets to reduce emissions, one in nine species of Scottish wildlife faces extinction from our shores, and worsening climate impacts are having devastating consequences around the world.

We urgently need all decision makers to take bold action to tackle the climate and nature crisis, inequality, provide secure jobs and improve health and wellbeing. We can come together to show them that people in Scotland care deeply about this, and have the power to drive action.

Join a diverse range of organisations to hear more about the latest climate and nature issues, how to speak to your decision makers about the things you care about and want to see action on. It’s also a great opportunity to connect with other climate and nature campaigners and to hear more about ways to make your voice heard over the next few months.

Speakers to be announced shortly.

This session is a Climate Fringe Festival event organised by the Stop Climate Chaos Scotland coalition, with the support of our members:

Christian Aid Scotland

Global Justice Now Scotland

Jubilee Scotland

Open Seas Trust

RSPB Scotland

SCIAF

Scottish Communities Climate Action Network

WWF Scotland

This is a hybrid event. To attend online register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collective-action-for-climate-and-nature-online-event-tickets-625216508407

Accessibility

This event will take place in a venue with full wheelchair access and facilities. If you will need any assistance on the day please contact [email protected]

If you have any other accessibility requirements or if there is anything we can do to ensure you can participate fully in the event please contact [email protected]

We want to make it easy to attend for as many people as possible. The event is also open to join online, or we can offer subsidies for public transport. Please contact [email protected] for more information.

Come and explore all aspects of Why Community Led Homes – and especially Cooperative processes – offer so much; and How the principles and practices have worked to create resilient low impact living affordable communities.

5.30pm for 6.00pm – 9.00pm Wednesday 14 June, Old Assembly Room, 37 Constitution St, Leith EH6 7RB. Includes a community meal.

Book: https://coho14june.eventbrite.co.uk / Share www.facebook.com/events/268123518884216

We shall consider different forms of Community Led and Cooperative Housing (CLaCH) and explore how these options might be established as a middle way between social housing and housing built for profit.

Outline programme: two sets of Pecha Kucha contributions exploring the case for community led homes in urban context as well as rural with a convivial meal:

• 5.30pm Doors open
• 6.00pm Welcome, drinks and mingling / exhibition
• 6.30pm Why? – benefits of plurality in housing provision and of mutual aid in developing and managing intentional communities
• 7.15pm Simple supper
• 8.00pm How? – processes and case studies: what has worked well
• 8.45 Wrap up – Close around 9pm.

Contact [email protected] if interested in presenting.

This event will build on the CLaCH Manifesto, CLaCH Roundtable October 2021 and the Five Roadshows May/June 2022.

This is part of Architecture Fringe 2023.

Many thanks to Architype architects for co-hosting!

Cohousing Scotland – a registered charity SC038745 https://www.cohousing.scot Email: [email protected] Want to be kept in touch? Join Cohousing Scotland now!

We are a third of the way through this crucial decade for climate action – yet Scotland is not on track to meet targets to reduce emissions, one in nine species of Scottish wildlife faces extinction from our shores, and worsening climate impacts are having devastating consequences around the world.

We urgently need all decision makers to take bold action to tackle the climate and nature crisis, inequality, provide secure jobs and improve health and wellbeing. We can come together to show them that people in Scotland care deeply about this, and have the power to drive action.

Join a diverse range of organisations to hear more about the latest climate and nature issues, how to speak to your decision makers about the things you care about and want to see action on. It’s also a great opportunity to connect with other climate and nature campaigners and to hear more about ways to make your voice heard over the next few months.

Speakers to be announced shortly.

This session is a Climate Fringe Festival event organised by the Stop Climate Chaos Scotland coalition, with the support of our members:

Christian Aid Scotland

Global Justice Now Scotland

Jubilee Scotland

Open Seas Trust

RSPB Scotland

SCIAF

Scottish Communities Climate Action Network

WWF Scotland

This is a hybrid event. To attend in-person register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/collective-action-for-climate-nature-communicating-with-decision-makers-tickets-625207330957

Accessibility

This event will take place in a venue with full wheelchair access and facilities. If you will need any assistance on the day please contact [email protected]

If you have any other accessibility requirements or if there is anything we can do to ensure you can participate fully in the event please contact [email protected]

Rainbow Turtle, a local Fair Trade charity is joining forces with Youth With A Mission to organise an event marking this year’s Climate Fringe Festival by bringing focus to the importance of local action and its global impact.  We would like to invite you to join our community litter pick followed by Fair Trade activities and gardening information as well as a bbq in a community garden.  We will meet at 3.30 at Glenburn Library in Paisley and will walk up to the Grow in Glenburn Community garden where the activities will take place.  All the litter pick equipment will be provided, but please bring camping mats to sit on in the garden and a few coins for food (£1 per item). The event is family-friendly and all the food served will be vegetarian. In case of any questions, please contact Linda on [email protected]

This is a unique interactive games night designed to build empathy with climate migrants and encourage discussion around resilience. No experience or preparation is necessary. Players will be led through imaginative scenarios and they can choose their responses and actions.Come along expecting to join in, the imaginative leg work is up to you! Expect a friendly, and thought-provoking evening. Find creative solutions, experience unexpected shifting circumstances and find strength in solidarity with your fellow players. This is a game we’re not playing against each other but with one another, and you might be surprised by how it turns out. You can’t choose the cards you’re dealt but you can choose how you play them. Ever wonder about the future? Well this might even give you a glimpse of what’s to come. Free to participate in, and open to all our members, supporters, and anyone who shares Humanist Society Scotland’s vision and values. This evening is part of the Climate Fringe Festival. Facilitated by Hazel Darwin-Clements, writer, podcaster, project co-ordinator, performer, puppeteer and theatre maker.

Summerfest on Cambuslang Main Street is an annual gala day, which has been going for many years. Its purpose is to celebrate the community of Cambuslang, with lots of organisations taking stalls, providing local information and fun activities, with fairground rides, food, music and lots more. 

 Healthy n Happy Community Development Trust are delighted to take part and are featuring their ‘Seed Bomb Bike’. Using paper, wildflower seeds and water, local residents will use pedal power to make their own seed bombs. Once the mixture has mulched, it’s strained and left to dry. It can then be thrown in to a public space/garden or your own garden, where wildflowers will grow, providing bees, butterflies and other pollinators food throughout the year.

Did you know that Holytown has been selected as one of nine Climate Action Towns in Scotland?

To find out more, why not come along to Climate Action Towns stall at the Holytown Gala Day on Saturday 17^th June, hosted in the Keir Hardie Sports Centre between 10-4pm.

Join us for:

· A seed bombing and planting
workshop to get a bee-friendly freebie;

· Smoothie bike

& much more!

Free entry and everyone is welcome. Please feel free to share details of the event with anyone you think would be interested.

 We hope to see you there! 

Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust are pleased to be organising the Edinburgh Canal Festival for the second year running and bringing forward some of the traditional elements of past festivals together with some new partners, to make it a real celebration of social enterprise and local community groups that operate on or near the canal, year-round.

We’re delighted this year to dedicate one of our zones as a ‘Climate Fringe’ event with a focus on climate and sustainability. Highlights include a pop-up clothes repair workshop from the Shrub Co-op and well as experts from Heriot-Watt University on hand to chat about Past Climates, and how they can help us find out about the massive contribution that tiny fossils have in unravelling past climate change. They have a special microscope to look at samples from the ocean floor as well as and local canal and some kids activities too.

We’ll be in Spylaw Public Park, in the exciting new local tool lending hub. Join us in The Shed for an afternoon of mending and repair.

Our volunteers will be on hand to help you repair your broken electrical, electronic and mechanical devices such as toys, small electricals, laptops, lamps… we’ll also have a bicycle repair workshop and fabrics mending – please contact us beforehand to confirm details.

So if you’ve got something that you want to fix, you can email us at [email protected] to confirm suitability and to reserve your place. Or just turn up on the day and we’ll take a look.

Last repairs accepted at 4.30pm to allow time to finish up.

To find us: https://what3words.com/simple.bubble.gained; the venue is on the National Cycle Route 75 and on the 45 bus route.

This Green Tease event is about climate-induced migration and the role of culture and art in achieving climate justice. It takes place as a part of the Festival of Migration 2023.

At the event, you can learn about how climate change drives migration and displacement in Zambia and Bangladesh, and you can hear a talk by Rahmina Paullete, a climate activist who has experienced climate migration firsthand. Finally, you can meet the people behind the project, “Breaking the 4th Wall of Climate Migration”, who will speak about their work with digital storytelling in raising awareness about the devastating consequences of climate change on communities in the Horn of Africa in Scottish classrooms. Following the talks, there will be time for discussions and networking with the aim of exploring the links between the art, culture and climate sector in working on climate-related migration. It is free to participate.

Sign up here

Rahmina Paullete  is a young climate activist, environmentalist, and wildlife conservationist from Kenya. She is also a climate migrant and will in a recorded talk share her personal story as well as the practical solutions she has initiated in her community.

Rahmina Paullete is the head campaigner for #LetLakeVictoriaBreatheAgain which advocates for the restoration of Lake Victoria. She is the founder of Kisumu Environmental Champions, and the lead activists for Fridays for the Future, a youth champion for Fossil Fuel Treaty, ambassador for Climate Clock, Sustainable Food System advocate at Food At Cop, and a climate change champion at Wangari Maathai Foundation. “

Dr Sennan D. Mattar is a Lecturer on Climate Justice at the Mary Robinson Centre for Climate Justice, Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU). His research focuses on climate migration, international development, and climate finance. Sennan will speak on how climate change drives migration and displacement, particularly to informal urban settlements, and the social injustices faced by those forced to leave their homes with examples from Zambia and Bangladesh.

a think tank dedicated to educational research and programming on the social causes and implications of the climate crisis.

This event is part of Festival of Migration arranged by Art27scotland.  Art27 Scotland is an organisation of artists and activists that take their mission from Article 27 of the Declaration of Human Rights, which states that everyone has the right to participate in the culture of their community. As an art and human rights organisation, they centre the promotion of Dignity, Justice, and Peace through our cultural role in civic society, articulated through great art and great stories.

Accessibility

We want to remove barriers to participation in these events and are happy to make adjustments to prevent people from being excluded. Please inform us of accessibility requirements during the registration process or get in touch by email if you would like to provide more information or ask any questions. Please see our Safe Working Spaces Statement for more information.

If you have any questions about the event or want to know more, please get in touch with [email protected].

This event is taking place as part of Creative Carbon Scotland’s Green Tease event series, part of the culture/SHIFT programme.