A very full exciting day on Wednesday!

Tomorrow we have a whole lotta really great and varying workshops and activities happening, from bike generators to pattern making, and ecology to edinburgh old town storytelling, with some music in between. The space is really coming together now and is looking beautiful ! Come down and enjoy it !

Wednesday 18th :

11.30, 2.30 and 4.30 : The Powerpod: A mobile educational tool exhibiting renewable energies!

11.30 : 'Gifts and Occupations' - Frances Priest

A workshop exploring the activity of pattern making and the meaning we can create through decorative motifs. Participants will create a large scale collaborative drawing inspired by patterns found in the Botanic Gardens and the artists own collection of decorative ceramic objects.

12.30 : Ecology of a BackGreen - Nim Kibbler

1.30: Kora and Violin Performance

2.30 : The Strange tale of European Edinburgh (Hyde) and British Edinburgh (Jekyll)': The real significance of Edinburgh's old town - Charles Mckean
How the evolution of Edinburgh has been misunderstood, and rather than being a juxtaposition of two towns of different age (old and new towns) it is in reality the juxtaposition of towns of two fundamentally different cultures (European and British).'

The old and the new towns of Edinburgh are a misnomer. The majority of buildings in the'Old Town' are more recent than the majority of buildings in the 'new'.

Yet the two towns are utterly distinct. Up on the rock is a typical European town (with one major exception) - of the kind you can seen in France, Spain, Germany, Denmark or Poland: the form, the spaces are the same. But NOT in England.

On the plain, they started to build British Edinburgh in 1767, rejecting their european origins, and preferring 'houses after the English manner,' with private squares, socially segregated streets and no place to riot in. So Edinburgh built the most English of English towns. Very modern. They then regarded the old town as the repository of primitiveness and savagery.

It is the origin of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde...

4.30 : Larry Bulter - Bodhi eco project