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Time to rebuild: Edinburgh Reimagined Part 2

April 7, 2021 by Morvern Cunningham Leave a Comment

During August, a ‘can-do’ attitude from the City of Edinburgh Council and other gatekeepers to cultural provision creates the temporary illusion that any available space in the city can be a venue.

Morvern Cunningham makes the case for spreading cultural growth throughout the city all year round.

More real than reality TV – the virtual community kitchen

March 30, 2021 by Jonathan Trew Leave a Comment

Noura in the Virtual Community Kitchen. Picture Jonathan Trew

It’s not all doom and gloom. Local communities have found inspiring new opportunities in lockdown. For Sceptical Scot, food writer Jonathan Trew ventures into the heat of a a virtual kitchen bringing cultures together

Edinburgh reimagined: the future will be localised

March 13, 2021 by Morvern Cunningham 2 Comments

Arts and culture are at a turning point, says Morvern Cunningham, facing the risk of returning to a kind of normal that we saw pre-pandemic. Only this time, the normal we are heading back to is likely to be worse than before.

The People’s Occupation: no more cuts

March 7, 2021 by Mike Cowley 1 Comment

No more cuts, an Edinburgh demonstration

As the post-Covid reckoning approaches, who is going to ‘own’ the rebuilding of services, community capacity and employment to which both UK and Scottish governments are formally committed? 

Locked down and out: the digital divide

November 14, 2020 by Gavin Crichton Leave a Comment

This is not about being a “technophobe” but about material facts of life: many people do not have access to the internet because they can’t afford the equipment or have to choose between find the cash to go online and buying food

Finding a better way: a frontline view

September 19, 2020 by Sceptical Scot Editors Leave a Comment

A rainbow chalked on a path: photo MCFB April 2020

The reality of life in lockdown hits home in a powerful report by Philippa Kemp, communications manager of the Edinburgh-based charity Multicultural Family Base. But it also raises hope. It doesn’t have to be this way.

Rapid response: social enterprise shows the way

April 25, 2020 by Fay Young 3 Comments

Cyrenians kitchen volunteers in masks and gloves preparing food for delivery

Government could learn from local community enterprises responding with astonishing speed and efficiency to get help and food where it is needed most – including NHS staff on the frontline

Distanced but not divided: digital media helps us define our new normal

April 10, 2020 by Dougal Perman Leave a Comment

View through a film camera screen

What will the new normal feel like when the pandemic is over? Can we come together to look after the most vulnerable, can we continue to use technology ingeniously, interacting to support communities?

Community empowerment or delivering less with less?

March 2, 2020 by Tom Lloyd Goodwin 1 Comment

‘..with so much promise offered by new economic democratic agendas such as new municipalism, communities can have a key role as partners with the state against the cosh of market liberalism and declining public services.’

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  • Postcard from anti-vax France April 8, 2021
  • Time to rebuild: Edinburgh Reimagined Part 2 April 7, 2021
  • More real than reality TV – the virtual community kitchen March 30, 2021
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