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27 February 2025Reflecting on our Citizen celebration event
Back in December 2024, we celebrated the achievements of our Citizen project with the community partners and local people who have been…
5 November 2024Long Reads Issue 01: Why does reading matter?
Hello and welcome to Book Fest Long Reads: a monthly email series where we delve into our archive, bringing you back the words of…
26 September 2024On site with the Communities Programme at the August Book Festival
This year, we welcomed several groups to the Festival site, held special author visits with our community partners and there were daily…
23 May 2024Citizen at the North Edinburgh Community Festival
As part of our Citizen project, early this month our Communities Team and Adults Writing Group helped take the joy of the Book Festival…
25 April 2024Our First Citizen Trainee Writers in Residence: Hannah Ekekwe and Lintong Zhang
Since 2019, we have appointed Writers in Residence to work with community partners and local people on our long-term creative project,…
11 April 2024Citizen Writers and Edinburgh College of Art: Deliverances from Death
At the end of last year, our Citizen Writers collaborated with illustration students from Edinburgh College of Art to create a set of…
7 March 2024Singapore International Foundation’s Arts for Good Fellowship
Over the autumn and winter, Communities Programme Director, Noëlle Cobden had the privilege of being part of Singapore International…
21 December 2023Communities '23: End of Year Reflection
As 2023 comes to an end, our Communities Programme Director, Noëlle Cobden, reflects on her top five highlights in what has been another…
4 December 2023Claire Askew at The Ripple Project
The Ripple Project work with local people in the communities of Restalrig, Lochend, and Craigentinny to create opportunities, tackle…
25 October 2023Poetry Sessions at The Corstorphine Dementia Project
Since the beginning of October, poet Ken Cockburn has been running weekly poetry sessions at the Corstorphine Dementia Project: a warm,…
11 October 2023Communities at the August Book Festival
This year, we welcomed several groups to the Festival site, held special author visits with our community partners, and there were…
24 May 2023A New Collaboration with The Ripple
Since the beginning of the year the Communities Team have been developing a new partnership with The Ripple, in Restalrig (North East…