Scot-ART
Attached is a poem about St Margaret’s Well, written by artist in residency Leilani Teneus-Miller. She had recently an exhibition in Gallery one as a part of Diversity and Inclusion Award from the Edinburgh Council.
Please enjoy.
Edinburgh Strength Collective, alongside Strong4All, is launching Base Camp, a free strength and fitness course for young people, intending on running a pilot during the Easter Holidays 2026.
The course introduces the basics of strength training in a safe, supportive environment. It will be led by a qualified children’s coach, and supported by experienced strength coaches. We hope to provide two sessions per week over two weeks, for a total of up to four sessions, each lasting around 1.5–2 hours.
The main goals of Base Camp are to:
The course is free to attend and suitable for beginners. No previous gym or strength training experience is needed.
If you’re interested, please complete the registration of interest form below. We’ll use responses to shape the final programme and welcome your feedback.
Fall in love with the unseen world this Valentine’s Day!
Experience the intricacy, beauty and complexity of the world around us in this microscopy taster session at the ASCUS Lab.
You will be shown how to make your own slide, the basics of using a microscope, and have a range of prepared slides, including cheek cells, butterfly wings, fungi and pond life, to fall in love with using our suite of microscopes at the ASCUS Lab.
No lab experience is needed.
Please note: This is not a full microscopy course but rather a session designed to be a fun experience, either solo, with a loved one or a group of friends!
Booking Link Valentines Microscopy Taster session — Ascus Art & Science
Date 14th February
Time 11 am to 13 pm
Dear SMH tenants,
We will be hosting a photography student at SMH over the next few months- please see message from her below 🙂
Hi guys, my name is Tasha. I come from a village in Aberdeenshire and moved here for university. Speaking of which, I am currently a 3rd year photography student at Edinburgh Napier, and I’ll be around for the next couple of months on placement at St Margarets House.
I really love portraiture photography and using it to share stories, so I’d love to talk to any of you about your work and take portraits of you in your environment if that’s something you would be interested in. I firmly believe that any story has the ability to positively influence someone’s life, and that makes every story worthy of being told.
Photography is something that pulled me out of a very dark place in my life and made a huge impact on me as a person, and I hope someday I can be a part of that same process for someone else who needs it as badly as I did.
Beyond photography, I can be a bit of a nerd when it comes to DC comic books, fantasy novels or really any kind of fantastical media. I have a vast collection of precious stones; I spend a lot of my free time climbing, and I even work in a kitchen. So, I really cover most bases when it comes to interests and conversation starters. All of these things make me as a person and influence my work as a photographer, and I’d love to learn about what influences your work as artists.
Please see below message from Edinburgh Strength Collective:
Edinburgh Strength Collective is new to the building, located at Basement Level 2 (on the right as you enter the basement door) — and we’d love to meet our neighbours!
Join us for our Open Day & Community Competition on Sunday 14th December, 10am–4pm. Try fun challenges, win prizes, or just pop in for a look around. All ages and experience levels are welcome — strength is for everyone.
We’re a community-run space offering Powerlifting, Hyrox, Strongman, CrossFit, general strength training and more. Our mission: accessible, affordable strength for all.
Find us online at www.edinburghstrength.co.uk, on Instagram or email EdinStrengthColl@gmail.com
We are looking for visual artists interested in taking part in a pop-up exhibition in Gallery 2 which will be open alongside the holiday makers market!
Please get in touch with marcin.krupa@scot-art.co.uk before December 1st!
St Margarets House will run on reduced hours on both Monday the 22nd and Tuesday the 23rd of December from 9am – 5pm.
The building will be closed from 5pm on Tuesday the 23rd of December and will reopen at 12pm on Sunday the 28th of December.
The building will run on regular hours on Monday the 29th of December and then reduced hours on Tuesday the 30th of December, 9am -5pm.
The building will then be closed again from 5pm on Tuesday the 30th of December and will reopen on Sunday the 4th of January and operate on regular hours.
We will be operating on reduced hours on Tuesday the 23rd of December, 8am – 5pm.
Lochside View will be closed from 5pm on Tuesday the 23rd of December and will reopen on Monday the 5th of January.
On the 1st of November, the annual Oil and Gas Chaplaincy Remembrance Service will be taking place in the Kirk of St Nicholas.
The event is open to everyone. You are warmly invited to honour those who have lost their lives offshore in Aberdeen. The service includes the opportunity to look through the book of remembrance, candle lighting and musical accompaniments by Bon Accord Silver Band, Paul Anderson, Scottish fiddler and Ben Hall, a lone piper. The morning has been widely attended in the past, by many people with personal connections to the industry, including Angie who lost her father in an accident when he was working out in the North Sea. It has been 50 years since she lost her dad, and after coming across information about the service back in 2024, she got in contact with the chaplaincy, who proceeded to have her dad’s name added to the book.
The book of remembrance holds great importance to families of those who lost their lives, as it provides reassurance that their loved one has been remembered and the work they did matters still today.
Angie then attended the service that same year and said, “I knew for the first time in my life I was not alone”.
The ceremony brings together families, workers in the industry and key figures in Aberdeen, to provide support, reassurance, and shared experience.
You can hear Angie’s story about her dad Richard Dailey, through the link below.
Life Changing – Lost at sea – BBC Sounds
You are invited to attend the service on the 1st of November at 11am at the Kirk of St Nicholas on Union Street in Aberdeen.