Forest Café

Films @ The Forest Fundraiser
25th February // 3pm - late

more info and full program on our website

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“The buyers haven’t been in touch with us themselves so we don’t know who they are or what their intentions for the Forest are – but if they’re expecting us to pack up and leave quietly they’re mistaken. Potential buyers should remember that last time we had a big scare, when Eidyn Architects wanted to turn the building into private flats, objection letters from around the world forced them to withdraw.”

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PRESS RELEASE and NOTES FOR JOURNALISTS:

The Forest arts and community centre is stepping up the campaign to save its home of 7 years amid the news that a buyer for its building has been found…

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Dear Forest volunteers, friends and community,

Late last week we were informed by the estate agents of 3 Bristo Place that a buyer for the building has been found and that a sale is being finalised over the next few weeks. We thought you should hear this important news, and also an important message about it: DON’T PANIC. This is not an end for the campaign, nor an end for Forest; in fact, far from it. There is still a great deal we can do…

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Over £14,000 raised so far; Aiming for £50,000 by June 1st; Building secure until August; Huge fundraising party on March 3rd; Big public meeting March 5th; Setup a regular monthly donation…

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Save The Forest / Right To Refuge Joint Fundraiser
Saturday 26th February, Forest Church Hall
Live Music 7:30-10, No Globe Clubnight 10-3

Save the Forest Cafe // Right to Refugee Campaign
Raising money for Edinburgh’s threatened DIY Radical Arts Space and the Woodcraft Folk’s project working with young asylum seekers and refugees around the UK.

7:30-10pm Live Music From:

Shift Static

“Elegant and mysterious, their sound is soft words and sound loops that weave and float over a topography of sublime atmospherics” - STEREOKILL Stunning electronica from Newcastle. For fans of Múm, Bjork, Kate Bush, James Blake, IE - Anyone with ears.”

Blank Canvas Young local lads play joyous garage with vocal hooks sharp enough to scar.

Kate Hyatt

Lungs of steel from the valleys of Yorkshire. Like a raw, stripped down Adele, or an acoustic Beth Ditto after a few rollups and a gin and tonic.

Plus - Ceilidh / Raffle / Auction & Cakes!

Followed by NO GLOBE Clubnight 10pm-3am

Party Music Without Borders!

From Balkan Bangers to Afrobeats, music from DJ NO GLOBE (Edinburgh Début), DJ CHARLIE & DJ ISAAC (African Caribbean Society) - Kuduro / Klezma / Shangaan Electro / Congotronics / Bashment / Dancehall / J-Pop / Electro Swing / Township Funk / Bhangra / Hip Hop /

£4 recommended donation for the night. BYOB - Cork-age for the forest. All ages.

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INKY FINGERS OPEN MIC
Tuesday 22nd February 8-11pm
Featuring Sophie Cooke & Morag Edward

The Inky Fingers Open Mic takes place in the main room of the Forest every fourth Tuesday of the month, from 8-11pm. It’s free to come and free for anyone to perform, regardless of style, experience, or identity.

We want to hear from everybody. We want your poems, your rants, your ballads, your short stories, your diaries, your experimental texts, your heart, your mind, your body. We want the essay on your summer holidays you wrote when you were four, your adolescent haiku, and extracts from your eventually-to-be-completed epic fantasy quadrilogy.

We want to hear your best new work as well. And we want people to care about the way words are performed.

Our feature performers this month are Sophie Cooke, known for her Saltire-shortlisted first novel The Glass House and work from travel writing to poetry, and Morag Edward, whose short stories have featured in a wide variety of anthologies, and who has been seen at performances from the Victoria & Albert Museum to the Edinburgh International Book Festival.

Open Mic slots are five minutes long; e-mail inkyfingersedinburgh@gmail.com to be sure of a slot.

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THE SPRING FLING: A Forest Carnival!
March 3rd, 7pm-3am at Studio 24, £7
A Mammoth Night of Madcap & Gleeful Dance!

A Monster Party to celebrate the coming of Spring!
The Biggest Forest Fundraiser yet seen!

WILD BANDS AND MUSIC TO DANCE TO FROM
Horndog Brass Band
Black Cat
[awry] (Psych Cèilidh)
Jen & The Gents
Luckypockets of Ukeboogiefame
and DJs ‘til 3am!

AND BLISSED OUT PERFORMANCES UPSTAIRS
hosted by Inky Fingers

-: Dress to Dance all night at a Mad Hatter’s Teaparty! :-

We’re relaunching the SAVE THE FOREST Fundraising Campaign in spectacular style with this, the biggest, wildest, gleefullest, giddiest night of the year so far. Expect more news of what to expect soon, and info about the latest from the Forest fundraising campaign. We’re also still recruit for volunteers to help run the event: see here for details.

DON’T MISS IT.

Thursday 3rd March
7pm - 3am
Studio 24

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