Open Streets on street of and around the Royal Mile is happening this Sunday. The Royal Mile will be closed to traffic and all sorts of events and performances will take place.

Edinburgh museums and galleries will offering the following.

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At City Art Centre (Moved from the Museum of Childhood)

Sunday 1 March, 11.15am – 1.15pm or 2.15pm – 4.15pm

Colourful Paper Spinners

With lots of games to discover at the museum, come along and make your own paper spinner to give you hours of fun spinning. With artist Norlyne Rosewarne. Free and drop-in, no need to book.

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At the Peoples Story Museum

Sunday 1 March, 2pm – 3pm

Gardyloo!

Join our costumed performers Edinburgh Living History for a trip back to the 18th century. Learn about life on the streets of Edinburgh. Hear about the Porteous Riots and Lord Provost Drummond warns people about the dangers of pickpockets, the insanitary conditions and the perils of gardez loo and how much he has given to the city. Free and drop-in, no need to book.

There is a lovely free film opportunity from the Scottish Youth Film Festival this weekend.

They have shared with us the following message.

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We’d like to invite any
budding film makers to com along this weekend to the Edinburgh Centre
for Carbon Innovation to attend the 5th Annual SCOTTSH YOUTH FILM
FESTIVAL.  Would you be able to get this out to any schools in the area
or anybody 19 years and under who are interested in film making?  The
festival is FREE to attend.

VENUE: Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation

DATES: SATURDAY 30th NOVEMBER & SUNDAY 1st DECEMBER 2019

TIMES: 10am – 4pm

TICKETS:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/scottish-youth-film-festival-2019-tickets-82814958771

This fifth annual Scottish Youth Film Festival take place in Edinburgh
for the first time ever. The festival which started as a youth project
in West Lothian has spent the last two years in Glasgow.

Scott Mackay, a founder of the festival said;

“It was always our intention to move the festival around the country and
funding from Screen Scotland this year has allowed us to start doing
that.”

The festival holds an awards ceremony for films that have been made by
young people in Scotland and past winners have ranged in age from 5 to
19 yrs. The films are judged by a panel of young people in conjunction
with Into Film and they really get a buzz out of receiving their awards.
The charity is supported by Kevin Guthrie of Sunshine on Leith and Tommy
Gormley of Star Wars/ Star Trek and Mission Impossible amongst others,
but the entire aim of the festival is to get even more young people
interested in film; As co-founder David Barras says;

“SYFF’s aim is to enhance life chances for young scots through film and
Scotland has proved time and time again that the talent is here. So we
hold workshops, talks and activities that appeal to a range of young
people. There’s everything from make-up (Gillian Johnston who works on
the Crown) to how to build your own light sabre”

The event is FREE and a limited number of tickets can be booked on
Eventbrite. All events and activities will take place at the Edinburgh
Centre for Carbon Innovation between 10 am and 4pm on Saturday and
Sunday with Saturday being aimed at secondary school age and Sunday
aimed at the primary age group.

If you would like more information about the event then please do get in
touch at the telephone number and address above. Or directly email
scott@syff.scot

web: http://syff.scot/