November 2010
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Fourthwall Magazine: Save The Forest Café! →
A shining free beacon in the middle of an inevitably money sucking Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Forest Café is an independent social and arts centre currently located on Bristo Place. Achingly cool and run by volunteers as a charitable self-sustaining not-for-profit organisation, it has presented a refreshingly free alternative to both its artists and audience members…
Nov 25th
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NOM Mag Online: DeFORESTation →
As some of you may or may not be aware The Forest Cafe is facing closure. Safe havens such as this for the creative community are few and far between. Many consider this a massive loss to the city. Forest Cafe has been a space for local skaters to kick back and hide from the rain, an exhibition space for Edinburgh’s extroverted artistes and a live music venue for buskers who are hoping to “pull...
Nov 25th
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Eidyn Architects Planning Application -- Take...
Eidyn Architects have put in an application for building permission to convert the building currently housing The Forest (3 Bristo Pl, EH1 1EY) into 10 HMO bedsits and 3 private flats. If they are granted permission to go ahead with their plans The Forest would have to move, Edinburgh will lose one of its vital community spaces, and access to this heritage listed building will be private...
Nov 25th
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Guardian Edinburgh: How I went from volunteering... →
In the next of our series highlighting the campaign to save the Forest Cafe, Dan Gorman writes in from Damascus, Syria, to say that without it, he never would have become director of the Firefly International charity or set up Reel Festivals…
Nov 24th
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Nov 24th
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Everything must go!
CALL FOR ARTWORK! EVERYTHING MUST GO! Art Sale at Forest Café, Bristo Place, 11th – 12th December A5 artworks in any medium: postcards, canvas, photos, screen prints…get creative!  We’ re looking for artists interested in creating and donating A5 works for an art sale  as part of the ‘Save the Forest’ campaign . Email rachel_mccrum@hotmail.com for details.   Deadline for...
Nov 24th
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Nov 24th
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The Scotsman: Forest Cafe staff fighting to keep... →
Nov 23rd
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“An appeal, then. The Roxy and the Forest are places where – rather like the...”
– Andrew Eaton: the prompt - Scotsman.com Living
Nov 22nd
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Nov 22nd
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The Skinny reviews our Forest Records Presents... →
Whether you’re a patron of the place or not, the news that Edinburgh’s Forest Cafe might be on the ropes is surely cause for concern…
Nov 21st
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The Guardian Edinburgh: With its history of free... →
In the first in a series of guest blogs highlighting the campaign to save Forest Cafe, Abbeyhill-based artist Ericka Duffy touches on the five years she has spent working with the Edinburgh University Settlement, Roxy Arthouse, Stepping Stones and Forest to say why she can’t imagine this city without it…
Nov 21st
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Nov 21st
December 15, 2010 – 8pm – The Golden Hour →
THE GOLDEN HOUR gets fa-la-la-la festive! December 15th, 2010 8pm Forest Cafe, 3 Bristo Pl Free! Free! Free! (byob) Words: Samuel Taradash + Jarred McGinnis – Release a special…
Nov 20th
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Nov 19th
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Nov 19th
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The List: Edinburgh arts space The Forest under... →
The collapse of the Edinburgh University Settlement charity has forced the closure of the Roxy Art House and put the Forest Café in jeopardy. Locals must fight for The Forest to stay open, argues long-term venue organiser Ryan Van Winkle…
Nov 18th
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Nov 18th
BIG UPS the ForPub Massive – November! →
Roll up roll up! Well done Friends of ForPub!: - Edinburgh folk should go check out our own Magda Boreysza’s new shop (along with designers Jo Richardson and Jenny Sweetnam), …
Nov 17th
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Nov 16th