News Category: Events & Exhibitions

Microscopy taster session at the ASCUS Lab – Summerhall

Post date 28 January 2026
 

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 

Location ASCUS Art & Science , Summerhall ,Edinburgh 
Price £16 
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Edinburgh Strength Collective Open Day!

Post date 24 November 2025

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

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Leith Lapidary Club’s Open Day

Post date 1 May 2025
Leith Lapidary Club is holding an Open Day on May 10th between 10am-4pm. 
 
You are invited to visit the space and 
-try enamelling
-see how to polish stones
-view members work on display
-view work available for purchase
-coffee, tea, home baking
 
Please come along and bring friends and family. It is sure to be a lovely day out. 
You can find the event on the ground floor of St Margaret’s House. 
 
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The return of our annual Makers Market !

Post date 21 November 2024

Our popular Christmas Makers’ Market & Art Exhibition are back with a wide selection of pottery, glass, wood, reclaimed leather, jewellery, cards, prints,  paintings and much more – all created by St Margaret’s House-based makers and artists. You can also try your hand at enameling with the Leith Lapidary Club and enjoy some live music and home-baked cakes.

Come on down to St Margaret’s House on the 7th and 8th of December from 12pm – 4pm for a festive filled afternoon. Get your hands on some christmas gifts and support your local artists! 

 

It’s free admission and not one to miss !

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Open Invitation to Honour Oil Industry workers who lost their lives whilst working offshore.

Post date 13 November 2024

Every year, The Oil and Gas chaplaincy hold the industry’s Annual Service of Remembrance to commemorate the lives lost while working offshore.

The Oil and Gas Chaplaincy, based in Aberdeen, provides pastoral care and support to those who work or have worked in the industry.  The Chaplaincy is for everyone regardless of faith or none. Created in the 1980s, originally brought on by the aftermath of the Chinook helicopter disaster in Shetland, however, it wasn’t until the Piper Alpha disaster that efforts to advance the necessary steps to formalise the Chaplaincy, took place.

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Åpen invitasjon til minnestund for offshore arbeidere som har mistet livet i skotske farvann

Post date 29 October 2024

Translation provided by Madeleine Jamieson

Hvert år avholder The Oil and Gas chaplaincy en minnestund for å ære og minnes offshore-arbeidere som har mistet livet i skotske farvann.

The Oil and Gas chaplaincy holder til i Aberdeen og er en universal kapellantjeneste som tilbyr sjelesorg til mennesker i den britiske olje- og gassindustrien. Kapellantjenesten er for alle, uavhengig av tro og de startet opp på 1980-tallet som følge av Chinook helikopterulykken på Shetland. Likevel var det først som følge av Piper Alpha-ulykken at kapellantjenesten ble formalisert.

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The Seven Ravens

Post date 5 April 2023

Part of Puppet Animation Festival 2023.

12th of April at 1pm.

A Raven visits a young, unhappy girl.
Why are the birds gathering?
And what is the secret that Ada learns about her past?

Inspired by the Brothers Grimm fairy tale of the same name, this tells the story of Ada, a young girl who is unhappy at school. She is visited by a Raven and thrust into a dream world of quests, feathers and a Glass Mountain.

The audience is taken on a tiny world adventure over an extraordinary, felted landscape as Ada unlocks the secret the Raven is trying to tell her.

The Seven Ravens is a brand new and unique performance/installation by Tragic Carpet Theatre using an innovative mix of live puppetry, digital image capture, processing and display, needle felting and specially composed music and song.

Book here: https://scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:4656/913:18689/

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20/20 HINDSIGHT: a showcase of womxn’s writing art and music

Post date 6 April 2021

Blunt Knife Co. is a new social enterprise based in Edinburgh that supports and promotes creative womxn. This month we launch our first project 20/20 HINDSIGHT, a showcase of writing, art and music by womxn creators.

For the most part, the last 12 months have been a steaming pile of shite, but from within the dung-heap brilliant artists have persevered and pushed out art that has enthralled us, inspired us, excited us and had us fist-pumping F*CK YEAHs to the universe.

From April 10 we’ll be bringing you a selection of 20 works by womxn that you may have missed amongst the chaos. It’s just a drop in a big pool of awesome, but think of it as a taste-test of Blunt Knife Co. and what we’re about.

To stay tuned follow on socials @bluntknifeco or head to bluntknife.co

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