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Guardian guest blogger Will Golding argues that the range of free services and events offered by Edinburgh’s Forest Cafe make it too valuable to lose…
We had another cracking fundraising get-together yesterday, with a bunch of enthusiastic new people lending their energy and ideas to the campaign. It’s always exciting to meet new folk: there are dozens of people working on this campaign on all sorts of different levels. Minutes of that meeting are available on request, with important messages below: an opportunity to help out with our amazing Tentracks month of music fundraisers, a callout for people eager to volunteer at community events, and notices of coming meetings.
Tracer Trails present ROOFRAISER WEEK TWO
Arrington de Dionyso’s Malaikat dan Singa + The Leg
Forest Hall, 8PM, Friday 1st April
ARRINGTON DE DIONYSO makes trans-utopian world music for a world that exists in fever dreams and hallucinations! Using performance and visual art, he traverses the nameless territories held between surrealist automatism, shamanic seance, and the folk imagery of rock and roll! Ecstasy vs. Madness!
OLD TIME RELIJUN being presently on hiatus, De Dionyso’s most recent project, MALAIKAT DAN SINGA, is a trance-punk outfit featuring bass clarinet, guitars and his trademark wild vocals (multi-spectral harmonic throatsinging combined with grunts, yelps, and barks) – this time, all sung in Indonesian. In Edinburgh he will be joined by BEN REYNOLDS on bass guitar and OWEN CURTIS WILLIAMS playing drums!
Plus maverick, panda-masked vom-rock from Tracer Trails favourites THE LEG – can we expect Moonlight Shadow??
ROOFRAISER is a whole month of live music in aid of the Forest.
TENTRACKS is an innovative independent music portal and promoter.
FOREST is you.
The Whirr by Dirk Markham from Copsed (2003, Forest Records).
[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Edinburgh arts space volunteers vow to raise enough money to stay at Bristo Place…
Ahead of Wednesday’s Edinburgh International Festival programme launch, Deborah Pearson, co-direcor of Forest Fringe, shares her story and tells us why keeping venue free is integral to its success and spirit…
Alternative Camera Course
DIY Photography! Begins Sunday March 27th
Sign up & info: email darkroom@theforest.org.uk
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
25 MARCH 2011
The Forest, 3 Bristo Place, Edinburgh
http://www.theforest.org.uk
FOREST CAFE LEASE TERMINATED BUT THE CAFE VOWS TO STAY OPEN
The Forest Cafe, Edinburgh’s independent arts and community centre, has been told it must leave its current premises at 3 Bristo Place by 31 August, in a letter received this week from the Trustees of Edinburgh University Settlement (EUS). But the campaign to Save the Forest has vowed to continue its fight to stay at the current location in the old town.
The Forest Workshops E x h i b i t i o n
@TotalKunstGallery
Artist reception Wed March 30th 7-9 pm
