Now in its 3rd year, Edinburgh's annual raft race has evolved to become the Edinburgh Canal Festival, a full day of nautical adventure with samba, salsa and water-walking to name a few of the activities on offer.
32 teams will compete in this year's raft race, with masses of other activities happening from Edinburgh Quay to Harrison Park. Action will be at the Lochrin Basin (Edinburgh end of the Union Canal, near Cargo bar). Events kick off at 10am, races start at 11am, with prizes awarded around 5pm.
This year along with the raft race there will be free boat trips, a floatilla of human powered crafts, canoes and hydrozorbs (hamster balls for the water).
There will be lots of opportunities for people to get onto boats and have a look around them.Land based activities will include a schools mural display, craft and community stalls, street performers, BBQ and a variety of food tasting stalls. Music includes the Edinburgh Samba School, Jazz, Ceilidh, Drumming and Pipe Bands.
Car parking will be available for only £2 (8am-6pm) underneath the Edinburgh Quay Building and £3 (8am-6pm) at the Scottish Widows Building.
Visit The Edinburgh Canal Festival Onlinewww.edinburghraftrace.com
Sunday, 21 June 2009
Saturday, 20 June 2009
The GD Creatives Community Network
Edinburgh is home to an outstanding number of visual artists, photographers, writers and musicians - Many of whom are resident in the westward side of the city.
A core objective of the GD is to provide a freely available online promotional platform for creative individuals and organisations working within Gorgie Dalry and Edinburgh Westward.
The GD Creatives
If you are resident in the GD area and would like your work featured on the website you can now create your own profile on our new creative community network.
Wednesday, 17 June 2009
The GD Gets Ready To Move To Own Webspace
Due to unexpectedly high levels of interest in and local support for The GD initiative - We are delighted to be able announce that we will shortly be moving (earlier than expected), to our own webspace at www.thegd.org.ukThe preview version of the website is now currently being redesigned and prepared for the transfer.
Material is also being prepared for a local publicity campaign and dates for an official launch of the website are being considered.
Further information will be made available here shortly!
Tuesday, 17 March 2009
Internet Festival Hijacked!
The annual Edinburgh Internet Festival was founded in 1999 as the first online resource for artists and performers attending the Edinburgh Festival. Additional aims of the event have always been to encourage and promote the digital arts within Scotland and to explore the benefits of digital technology within local communities at a grass-roots level.
For almost 10 years the event has been refused all requests for funding or support from Edinburgh Council - The Scottish Arts Council - The Scottish Government.
The forthcoming launch of the Festivals Edinburgh ‘Digital Hub’ project is so similar in aims and objectives to those of the Internet festival that the future of the entire event will have to be reconsidered.
It is ironic that the very body set up to assist and promote Edinburgh’s festivals has in effect killed off the Internet festival - As is also the fact that 'Festivals Edinburgh' is funded by Edinburgh Council - The Scottish Arts Council - The Scottish Government.
PoL Steele
Edinburgh Internet Festival 1999 - 2008
For almost 10 years the event has been refused all requests for funding or support from Edinburgh Council - The Scottish Arts Council - The Scottish Government.
The forthcoming launch of the Festivals Edinburgh ‘Digital Hub’ project is so similar in aims and objectives to those of the Internet festival that the future of the entire event will have to be reconsidered.
It is ironic that the very body set up to assist and promote Edinburgh’s festivals has in effect killed off the Internet festival - As is also the fact that 'Festivals Edinburgh' is funded by Edinburgh Council - The Scottish Arts Council - The Scottish Government.
PoL Steele
Edinburgh Internet Festival 1999 - 2008
Monday, 16 March 2009
Musicians Wanted For The GD Sessions!
Over the spring and summer of 2009 - The GD intends to host a short series of live music sessions across a number of venues within the Gorgie Dalry area.
These events will be recorded for inclusion on the GD website as a series of web-videos. The aims of the GD sessions are to provide support and promotion for the creative community of Gorgie Dalry and also to encourage the hosting of live music and artistic events within the area.
Videos produced for the GD will not be used on any other website or in any other format without the participant's express permission. All material recorded during the sessions will be freely turned over to the participant for their own future use and promotion.
In addition to the live music sessions – musicians and bands from the westward side of Edinburgh are also invited to promote their work via the GD Creatives section - where they can create their own profiles and include up to 5 mp3 tracks for streaming via the GD media player
If you would like to participate in the GD sessions or would like to create a GD Creatives Profile - e-mail us directly using the contact us form available via www.scotfestival.com/TheGD
These events will be recorded for inclusion on the GD website as a series of web-videos. The aims of the GD sessions are to provide support and promotion for the creative community of Gorgie Dalry and also to encourage the hosting of live music and artistic events within the area.
Videos produced for the GD will not be used on any other website or in any other format without the participant's express permission. All material recorded during the sessions will be freely turned over to the participant for their own future use and promotion.
In addition to the live music sessions – musicians and bands from the westward side of Edinburgh are also invited to promote their work via the GD Creatives section - where they can create their own profiles and include up to 5 mp3 tracks for streaming via the GD media player
If you would like to participate in the GD sessions or would like to create a GD Creatives Profile - e-mail us directly using the contact us form available via www.scotfestival.com/TheGD
Wednesday, 16 July 2008
ACE IT Wins Major UK Award
ACE IT (Age Concern Edinburgh Information Technology ) wins major UK award -The Nominet Best Practice Challenge Award
ACE IT are proud to announce this award in the Best Development Project category - "The judges felt that this was a very positive project that focuses on a real need and succeeds in managing complex partnerships to achieve its goals."
The awards ceremony held at the Science Museum in London on Wednesday evening recognised trade organisations, blue chip companies and charities for their innovative and creative Internet projects .
Other winners included Barclays Bank , Internet Watch Foundation, Get Safe Online, Common Knowledge, YouthNet and the British Library
Winning entries will be promoted as demonstrations of best practice to industry, government, academia and in the media both in the UK and internationally. They will also be invited to take a leading role in the UK preparatory meeting for Internet Governance Forum India
Rt Hon Alun Michael MP,Chair of Judges, Nominet Best Practice Challenge 2008 said "I am proud to be celebrating so many examples of best practice within the UK Internet industry and look forward to highlighting their good work at the Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad in December. The winning entries are sure to spark lively discussions and add substance to the international policy debate"
The award highlights ACE IT's work within the City of Edinburgh and beyond
ACE IT are proud to announce this award in the Best Development Project category - "The judges felt that this was a very positive project that focuses on a real need and succeeds in managing complex partnerships to achieve its goals."
The awards ceremony held at the Science Museum in London on Wednesday evening recognised trade organisations, blue chip companies and charities for their innovative and creative Internet projects .
Other winners included Barclays Bank , Internet Watch Foundation, Get Safe Online, Common Knowledge, YouthNet and the British Library
Winning entries will be promoted as demonstrations of best practice to industry, government, academia and in the media both in the UK and internationally. They will also be invited to take a leading role in the UK preparatory meeting for Internet Governance Forum India
Rt Hon Alun Michael MP,Chair of Judges, Nominet Best Practice Challenge 2008 said "I am proud to be celebrating so many examples of best practice within the UK Internet industry and look forward to highlighting their good work at the Internet Governance Forum in Hyderabad in December. The winning entries are sure to spark lively discussions and add substance to the international policy debate"
The award highlights ACE IT's work within the City of Edinburgh and beyond
- Our main Computer Training Project for the 50 + group www.aceit.org.uk has now trained nearly 3000 older people to use a computer and the Internet
- Edinburgh Silver Surfers www.edinburghsilversurfers.co.uk - ex ACE IT learners who went on to build their own web site and still meet every week to update it with views and reviews concerning older people
- Moose in the Hoose Project www.aceit.org.uk/moose.htm - a project involving the use of computers and the Internet by care home residents in Edinburgh
- Intergenerational work within the city - www.aceit.org.uk/intergen.htm
Nominet Best Practice Challenge Winners brochure Click Here
Jenny Ridge Chief Executive of ACE IT says "We started our main Computer Training Project for the 50 + group 7 years ago and I'm absolutely thrilled to win this award . It's great to see older people embracing technology and the Internet so keenly. It is thanks to everyone involved - another great achievement for team ACE IT!"
Saturday, 28 June 2008
ACE IT - Finalists of Nominet's 'Best Practice Challenge'
As creative and web designer with Age Concern Edinburgh Information Technology (ACE IT) - I am delighted to announce that ACE IT has been shortlisted for the finals of the Nominet 'Best Practice Challenge' under the category 'Best Development Project'.When I first joined ACE IT back in 2002 I had no idea the whirlwind rollercoaster ride I was about to embark upon. Over the years the project's core objective of providing training for the 50+ age group in computing and the internet has gone from strength to strength and become a model for computer training organisations across Scotland (and beyond). In addition, ACE IT has both instigated and developed in partnership with other organisations a wide range of social inclusion and community web development initiatives including the ACE IT Silver Surfers Festival, the multi-award winning 'Edinburgh Silver Surfers' and the 'Moose In The Hoose' project.
At a personal level, involvement with ACE IT has greatly helped me in relation to discovering ways and methods of working around my own disabilities and also in developing my own creative and web design skills. There has also been a number of unforgettable and amazing moments along the way - such as the day the Edinburgh Silver Surfers visited Edinburgh Castle to assist in firing the world famous 'One O'clock Cannon' (Visit) - The exclusive VIP guided tour of H.M.S Edinburgh (Visit) - The discovery of lost music from the Isle of St Kilda (Visit) - And the moment we realised that the photographs provided by a member of the People's War Group recording in detail the surrender of the German U-Boat fleet at the end of WW2 (Visit) - Were not available anywhere else on the web!
From Management Committee - To Staff and Volunteers - To clients and members of the project's outreach programmes... Everyone involved with ACE IT is delighted, honoured and thrilled to have reached the final stages of the Nominet Best Practice Challenge. Win or lose - the nomination alone is seen by all as positive recognition that the hard work and outstanding effort shown across all aspects of the organisation are having a real grass-roots impact both within our own local communities and beyond.
Nominet Best Practice Challenge
- Best Development Project shortlist
ActNow Cornwall
Age Concern Edinburgh Information Technology (ACE IT)
Cambridgeshire Council's Community Access Points initiative
Childnet International
Citizens Online - EverybodyOnline
Solihull community housing and CI-Net
Links
Nominet Best Practice Challenge
Age Concern Edinburgh Information Technology (ACE IT)
Edinburgh Silver Surfers
The Moose In The Hoose Project
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