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  1. 1 December 2022

    Illustration Collaborations with ECA Students: Part 1

    In a series of posts, we are delighted to share the artworks that third year Edinburgh College of Art illustration students created in…
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  2. 19 October 2022

    A New Term for The Citizen Collective

    As we look ahead to a new term of sessions with The Citizen Collective, we reflect on a few highlights from the past year.The Citizen…
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  3. 5 October 2022

    Scotland's Stories Now at the August Festival

    Throughout 2022, we’ve been celebrating Scotland’s Year of Stories. The August Festival was a highlight for our ‘Scotland’s Stories Now’…
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  4. 21 September 2022

    On site with 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…
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  5. 15 September 2022

    Off site communities events this August!

    This year’s August Festival saw the most extensive array of communities activities yet. Read on to find out more about how we brought the…
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  6. 13 July 2022

    Communities at Edinburgh International Book Festival

    This year we are hosting several Communities Programme events as part of the August Book Festival, as well as organising several off site…
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  7. 22 June 2022

    Guest Blog: Ken Cockburn

    Ken Cockburn is a poet, translator, editor and writing tutor based in Edinburgh. He has extensive experience of running poetry sessions and…
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  8. 13 April 2022

    Guest Blog: Ryan Van Winkle

    Over the past several months, Ryan Van Winkle, our Citizen Schools Writer in Residence, has been working alongside a range of young people…
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  9. 16 March 2022

    Scotland's Stories Now

    Our Scotland’s Stories Now project is in full swing: we have already received nearly 30 stories to our open callout, while two…
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  10. 24 February 2022

    Our Partnership with Edinburgh College of Art

    Recently we worked with the Third Year Illustration Students at Edinburgh College of Art, who created innovative visual responses to…
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  11. 16 December 2021

    A Look Back at our 2021 Communities Programme

    As another, very strange year comes to a close, we want to share some of the highlights from our work with communities across Edinburgh and…
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  12. 2 December 2021

    Introducing Ryan Van Winkle: Our Schools Writer in Residence

    We were delighted to welcome Ryan Van Winkle as our new Citizen Schools Writer in Residence, who started working with us in October. Here,…
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