Join us for an afternoon of creativity, community and conversation celebrating North Edinburgh’s spirit of resistance.
Resistance – North Edinburgh Panel Discussion
12.45pm – 1.30pm
Hawthorden Lecture Theatre, National Galleries of Scotland, The Mound, Edinburgh, EH2 2EL
Free but booking required
Using the Resistance exhibition as a starting point, activists Willie Black and Anna Hutchison alongside chair Dave Pickering, editor of the North Edinburgh News and Information Worker at Granton Information Centre, discuss North Edinburgh community activism, campaigns and actions, and their relationship and solidarity with local, national and international protests and change.
Solidarity Wins: Creative Resistance in North Edinburgh Exhibition Launch
2pm- 4pm
National Galleries of Scotland, The Portrait Gallery 1 Queen Street, EH2 1JD
Free – Please let us know you’re joining here
Celebration with food, song and creative activities in the Contemporary Space of the Portrait Gallery. Art works, archive films and research material gathered by Art for Grown Ups and Royston Wardieburn Community Centre’s Arts & Culture Group.
Part of Art For Grown Ups’ wider, Creative Resistance Project in collaboration with National Galleries of Scotland and Royston Wardieburn Community Centre’s Arts & Culture Group.
NEA’s Art For Grown Ups project is supported by Creative Scotland.
