Welcome to the Forest! Forest is a mouthful. It is a volunteer-run, not-for-profit, DIY, arts, action, events and social chaos space! It is also a vegetarian café. About Forest …Tumblr (3.0; @forestcafe)http://blog.theforest.org.uk/<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/7525213fab91bf75af97e5312d266b6b/tumblr_mmt19uNzwt1qbobk9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><div><i>Forest Happenings Presents</i></div><div><b>The Forest Big Night Out</b></div><div>23rd May 7-midnight, Old St Paul’s Hall, 63 Jeffrey Street, Edinburgh, EH1 3RH</div><div><br/></div>Dear all <div><br/></div><div>As you all know the Forest has had a bit of rough time of late, what with being told not to have live bands play and the ongoing saga of the subterranean lake we have seem to have inherited in the basement It’s at times like these the Forest needs your love and what better to show it than by coming to this wee little shin dig that we’ve arranged at Old St Paul’s. With an amazing line up of local talent, late closing, free entry and BYOB (corkage mind you) this is the Forest uncaged. So show some love and come along </div><div><br/></div><div>Passion Pusher - lo fi psychedelia </div><div><a href="http://passionpusher.bandcamp.com/"> http://passionpusher.bandcamp.com/ </a></div><div><br/></div><div>Liz Cronin - darkly comic singer song writer  </div><div><a href="http://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/features/300522-fruit_tree_foundation_new_branch"><a href="http://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/features/300522-fruit_tree_foundation_new_branch%C2%A0">http://www.theskinny.co.uk/music/features/300522-fruit_tree_foundation_new_branch </a></a></div><div><br/></div><div>Wise L Leathermonk - scottish psychedelic teuchter folk rap tunes music and poetry</div><div><a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/wiselleathermonk"><a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/wiselleathermonk">http://www.reverbnation.com/wiselleathermonk</a></a> </div><div><br/></div><div>Dub Chieftain - eccentric Glasgow-based banjo & electronic music mystic weaver. </div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-O5LuOnIhI" https:="" vimeo><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-O5LuOnIhI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-O5LuOnIhI</a> <a href="https://vimeo.com/56723571%C2%A0">https://vimeo.com/56723571 </a></a></div><div><br/></div><div>Tunes from DJ Jimmy Bastard  </div><div><br/></div><div>Plus The Fabulous Barocco Tribal Dancers </div><div><a href="http://tamsynbellydance.com/barocco/"><a href="http://tamsynbellydance.com/barocco/">http://tamsynbellydance.com/barocco/</a></a></div><div><br/></div><div><br/></div></p>http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/50439381400http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/50439381400Tue, 14 May 2013 21:08:18 +0100<iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dZS-h1tJlYo?wmode=transparent&autohide=1&egm=0&hd=1&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1&rel=0&showinfo=0&showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br/><br/><p>Music for theremin, cello and circuit-bent casio: Makmed the Miller Footage: Makmed the Miller. Makmed is a founder member of Forgotten Fish Memory Orchestra <a href="http://livewithoutdeadtime.wordpress.com">http://livewithoutdeadtime.wordpress.com</a></p>http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/50166524577http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/50166524577Sat, 11 May 2013 15:20:07 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/8856f17caa25d59cdce0e7c22b090b6f/tumblr_mmn14983R51qbobk9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>4by8 Gallery Presents</em><br/><strong>Ruby Bayley-Pratt</strong><br/> 1st - 30th May</p> <p>“I came upon a single feather, a half-hearted wish for something better.” This series is based upon a theory of mine: “A Ribbon Around A Lamp-post”. Years ago I was on the school bus daydreaming out the window and we drove past a lamp-post with a blue ribbon tied in a perfect bow around it. The beauty of that little ribbon tied all the way up there, a flash of colour on something usually so dull, so mundane, clicked with something deep inside me. Since then, I’ve focused on seeing the beauty in the little thing; on appreciating the tiniest details that we so often pass by. The way a beam of light hits a bit of moss, the way a petal has landed in the grass, the way a feather balances perfectly on the water surface. Ruby x”</p>http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/50166480390http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/50166480390Sat, 11 May 2013 15:19:21 +01004by8<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/0497e21982835045d4242480fec90ea8/tumblr_mmn1159hzE1qbobk9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>4by8 Gallery presents</em><br/><strong>Tupelo Tree</strong><br/> 2nd - 30th May</p> <p>Studying photography a while back forced me to see things in different angles and perspectives. I recently joined a printmakers and plan to make a mess of beautiful art there.</p> <p>Trees are my constant safe place.</p> <p>Tupelo Tree began in January 2012.</p> <p>You can follow me on Facebook where I update what I’m doing and where I’m showing or have a look at my Etsy site. <a href="http://www.facebook.com/tupelotree">www.facebook.com/tupelotree</a> <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/tupelotreeprints">www.etsy.com/shop/tupelotreeprints</a></p>http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/50166370488http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/50166370488Sat, 11 May 2013 15:17:29 +01004by8<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/9bac1180bd933a8eae1da047ecb2d384/tumblr_mm184r4NX61qbobk9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><div><b>NOTES FROM THE FORT - MICHELLE ELRICK/ VIEWMASTER, RYAN VAN WINKLE</b></div><div><i>10th May, 8-11pm</i></div><div><br/></div><div>Don’t miss this double bill of transatlantic literary talents and transform your Friday night into something special</div><div><br/></div><div>Notes From The Fort</div><div><br/></div>Michelle Elrick is a poet and artist from Canada. Her first book, a collection of poems titled To Speak, was published by The Muses’ Company in 2010. The following year she received the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer. She has released her work in print, audio and video, and read at festivals and events in Vancouver, Winnipeg, London, Kingston, Belfast and Copenhagen. Over the summer of 2012 she produced a series of performance installations in Reykjavik, Iceland called “Notes from the Fort: a poetic of inhabited space.” She will be presenting new work from this project in Europe and Western Canada throughout 2013. <div><br/></div><div><div>Notes From the Fort is a series of performance installations that create intimate places in unfamiliar environments through the play act of fort building. Using only existing structures and a suitcase full of hand-crafted materials, each fort is constructed, inhabited, noted and dismantled in a live poetic document of sense of place and the origins of home. Join Michelle Elrick as she uses the Fort to track a course through her personal and ancestral roots, offering answers to the age-old question “What is home?” with new poetry documenting places in Scotland, Austria, and Canada.</div></div><div><br/></div><div> <a href="http://www.michelleelrick.ca"><a href="http://www.michelleelrick.ca">www.michelleelrick.ca</a></a>  </div><div><br/></div><div>Viewmaster</div><div><br/></div><div>Ryan Van Winkle is currently Poet in Residence at Edinburgh City Libraries following a successful and extended 3-year run as the Scottish Poetry Library’s first-ever Reader in Residence. He remains the host of the SPL’s weekly poetry podcast and continues to encourage the reading of poetry. Some say ‘by any means necessary’. Ryan has hosted thousands of joyus poetry events and thrown many fantastic parties (sometimes involving paint). He has read poems to audiences all over the world including at The Melbourne Writer’s Festival, The Edinburgh International Book Festival, Shakespeare and Company (Paris) and Tacheles (Berlin). His critically praised first collection, Tomorrow, We Will Live Here, was published by Salt in 2010 and won the prestigious Crashaw Prize. His poems have appeared in New Writing Scotland, The American Poetry Review, AGNI, Poetry New Zealand and The Oxford Poets series. Eyewear magazine wrote ’Van Winkle’s poems are not static portraits of men and women framed in windows or doorways, but poems with characters that move within their environments and which, with their histories, move the reader.’ While The Glasgow Review said: ‘this collection seems to be at the forefront of a shift to something new, it is on the way to a perfection of some new movement.’</div><div><br/></div><div>Join Ryan for a personal slideshow for your eyes and ears only. You choose the journey and we will bring you on a sometimes surprising, sometime surreal, tour accompanied by the ambient sounds of the man they call Dan. Performances are one-to-one-to-Viewmaster, and last under 10 minutes. A rare chance to travel, listen and pause in one beautiful space. </div><div><br/></div><div><a href="http://www.ryanvanwinkle.com"><a href="http://www.ryanvanwinkle.com">www.ryanvanwinkle.com</a></a></div></p>http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/49196897578http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/49196897578Mon, 29 Apr 2013 20:49:11 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/7ead8c6c518e92cd8ebe038cdd57640a/tumblr_mliilbj1Gw1qbobk9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><div>IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!!!!!</div><div><br/></div>Hi Fellow Foresters You may have all noticed that things at the Forest Cafe are getting a bit on the quiet side To paraphrase Mr Strummer ‘We fought the law and the law won’ and due to council restrictions we are no longer able to host any live music events. So as of the 19th April we can’t take any more band bookings. <div><br/></div><div>We’re pretty devastated by this, as you know as a volunteer non profit organisation we’ve always been keen to support the music scene in Edinburgh. Whether your a new band cutting your teeth,or an established act trying out new material, the Forest has always been there for you. We are fighting this though and speaking to the council, to see what we need to do to so the Forest can resume with live music events. So if any of you folks have friends in high places let them know of the Forests plight. We are also working with the council to clarify what we can and can’t do in the space, so don’t be shy coming over and having a chat with one of our volunteers if there’s something you’d like the Forest to help you out with. </div><div> </div><div>In the meantime to keep the fires burning we will be launching the Forest Big Night Out at Old St Paul’s, a monthly music event, the first of which will be 18th May. Keep your eyes peeled for further details Love The Forest Cafe </div></p>http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/48365689782http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/48365689782Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:15:11 +0100<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/0d2a3b6374f90998123587b91c1ffb6f/tumblr_mlch1hwTQ21qbobk9o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><strong>SocieTea Bring and Buy Sale</strong><br/> ForestCentre+, 38 Castle Terrace<br/> 8.30am - 1.30pm</p>http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/48113485175http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/48113485175Tue, 16 Apr 2013 11:56:05 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/4b433421d449a41e154213debcbac9b9/tumblr_ml4vt9nuzO1qbobk9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>SUBJECT INDEX</strong><br/><em>Iain Morrison performs and reconstructs the complete works of Emily Dickinson</em><br/> Mondays 15th April to 6th May</p> <p>Iain Morrison will read aloud all of Emily Dickinson’s poems from the Thomas H. Johnson Edition of her work, over the course of four Mondays from 15th April to 6th May, 2013 at Forest Centre Plus.</p> <p>Eavesdropping is possible between the hours of 12–2pm and 5.30–7.30pm. Free entry at 38 Castle Terrace, Edinburgh. Follow the sound of the voice once inside the glass-doored foyer.</p> <p>A replica of Emily Dickinson’s iconic white dress has been fashioned for the reading by her namesake Emily Goodwin.</p> <p>Following inspiration from Thomas H. Johnson’s ingenious categorisation of Dickinson’s poems in his labyrinthine and fascinating Subject Index, Iain Morrison will create his own subjective diagram of the 1775 included poems’ relationships to each other and to Emily Dickinson herself, imagined self-concealed in her homestead. Argyle House, Forest Centre Plus’ homestead, stands in in the imagination with its own concealments and partial revelations, booths, rooms and glass partitions.</p>http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/47769596982http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/47769596982Fri, 12 Apr 2013 09:34:21 +0100fcplus<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c460a3a2acaa13ecf3048940d70e5509/tumblr_mkzpf4GBbS1qbobk9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><em>4:8 Gallery presents</em><br/><strong>Castles Built In Sand</strong><br/> 2nd - 29th April</p> <p>A collective of independent filmmakers, photographers, musicians, artists and writers, <strong>Castles Built in Sand (CBIS)</strong> exists to observe, document, explore and share ways of working. Their approach to critical and creative work is to allow time and space for self-reflexive/questioning thought-processes to take place, as a means of uncovering meaningful trends in society. Through these ways of working they hope to produce observational documents that arouse open-ended and inclusive debate.</p> <p>Here CBiS present work from two of their recent studies: <strong>Ghosts and the Machine</strong> and <strong>Helpyourself Manchester</strong>.</p> <p>On April 8the, also at The Forest, CBIS will be screening their recently completed documentary film <strong>Helpyourself Manchester</strong> - alongside two short films from local D.I.Y. filmmaker Jamie Khrist.</p> <p><a href="http://castlesbuiltinsand.wordpress.com/">http://castlesbuiltinsand.wordpress.com/</a></p>http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/47537400574http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/47537400574Tue, 09 Apr 2013 14:28:00 +01004by8<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a0a6d576098224339cda3512218b508c/tumblr_mkydvg8Ow71qbobk9o1_400.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><div><b>RAGGED UNVERSITY BREWING UP AT THE FOREST</b></div><div><br/></div><div><i>April 11th, 7-10 pm</i></div><div><i><br/></i></div><div>Combining the art of learning with fun The Forest is pleased to host two talk by Ragged University on brewing and distilling</div><div><br/></div>Brewing redux; centuries of brewing art and science in 45minutes by Andrew Barnett aka Barney.<div><br/><div>Andrew started working in a brewery even before he was old enough to drink legally, his dad working for a brewery too. After a few years as a brewery dogsbody Andrew went to night-school in order to get onto the Heriot-Watt brewing & distilling course in Edinburgh. Other than a few short stints as a musician and a spell in advertising his working career has been in brewing & distilling companies. In 2010 He quit a job for an international spirits co to set up his own business. Brewing seemed the obvious choice. In 2012 Andre moved into the home of Barney’s Beer – Summerhall. Which was a brewery site itself from approx. 1704 to 1909. <div><br/></div><div>From Moonshine to Masters and the distillation of beer by Cory Mason </div><div><br/></div><div>Brought up in California, and educated in NY for over 10 years Cory worked in some of the best bars and hotels, creating cocktails and training bartenders. The entire time that he was working to sell booze, he was also practicing at creating it. What started as a hobby and modest bootlegging business has now led him to Scotland to complete an MSc in distilling and profession as a distiller. To Cory, distilling is the perfect mix of science, art, and craft. It is alchemy, allowing one to release the true essence of substance. </div><div><br/></div><div>Come along to the Forest Cafe from 7pm and enjoy these social lectures. Grab a drink, have a bite to eat, enjoy music in the break, meet someone new. Check out the website for more details - <a href="http://www.ragged-online.com">www.ragged-online.com</a></div></div></div></p>http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/47477721840http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/47477721840Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:21:16 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/d607d51db933e347f59061f70c60de6d/tumblr_mknblhY5pG1qbobk9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><b>BOLLYWOOD SUNDAY</b></p><div><br/></div><div>7th April, 12-7pm</div><div><br/></div><div>It’s back, bigger, badder and spicier than ever. Bollywood Sunday is here to put some heat into your weekend.</div><div><br/></div><div>While away the Sunday with the finest  70s Bollywood movies Mother India has to offer and indulge in some spicy naughtiness with a cup of chai and the Forest Veggie Curry.  </div><div><br/></div><div>If that’s enough we have the beautiful sounds of the Sitar Project to transport you to the subcontinent</div><div><br/></div><div>See you there!</div><div><br/></div>http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/46961965636http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/46961965636Tue, 02 Apr 2013 21:58:29 +0100<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e25467cac0aa0077a66dfc306af208b3/tumblr_mkhlb7gzGT1qbobk9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><div><b>MOVIE NIGHT @ THE FOREST - GASLANDS</b></div><div><br/></div><div>1st April @ 7pm</div><div><br/></div>The largest domestic natural gas drilling boom in history has swept across the United States. The Halliburton-developed drilling technology of “fracking” or hydraulic fracturing has unlocked a “Saudia Arabia of natural gas”.  But is fracking safe? When filmmaker Josh Fox is asked to lease his land for drilling, he embarks on a cross-country odyssey uncovering a trail of secrets, lies and contamination. A recently drilled nearby Pennsylvania town reports that residents are able to light their drinking water on fire. This is just one of the many absurd and astonishing revelations of a new country called GASLAND. Part verite travelogue, part expose, part mystery, part bluegrass banjo meltdown, part showdown.<div><br/></div><div><a href="http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/"><a href="http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/">http://www.gaslandthemovie.com/</a></a></div></p>http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/46689554926http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/46689554926Sat, 30 Mar 2013 18:42:43 +0000<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/c97cf5ef1f2e77a1c53031cea95d176b/tumblr_mke5qu2Srq1qbobk9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><div><b>SEED SWAP</b></div><div><br/></div><div>30th March 2-5pm</div><div><br/></div>Hello all there will be a SEED SWAP at the FOREST CAFÉ on Saturday 30th March, 12-5pm. bring seeds, plants, pots, seedlings, books, and other gardening paraphernalia to swap. there will be the chance to plant seeds on the day so bring egg boxes to get started planting early. look forward to seeing you there </p>http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/46538006760http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/46538006760Thu, 28 Mar 2013 22:13:43 +0000<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e3eb2319e92ffdf6d600ca2bb2d55b54/tumblr_mk9y8i16VC1qbobk9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>THE SING SONG SESSIONS</strong><br/><em>A Community meet, greet and eat, sing and song!</em><br/> 22nd & 27th March, 17th & 19th April</p> <p>Everyone welcome to listen and play. Come along! Bring family bring friends, bring instruments!</p> <p>Lazy Lunctimes 12-4 Wednesday - 27th March and 17th April</p> <p>Musical Mealtimes 6.30-10.30 Friday - 22nd March and 19th April</p> <p>See “The Fools Academy” or “The Lazy Lunchtime Sing Song Sessions” facebook pages to tuck in to some more tea shop tour dates.</p>http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/46340789176http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/46340789176Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:41:06 +0000<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/fc40facab8ff3167f058480d15ad19f9/tumblr_mk6p264ew21qbobk9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><div><i>The Forest Cafe Presents</i></div><div><br/></div><div>’<b>The Ghost of Piramida</b>’</div><div>27th March @ 8.00 pm</div><div><br/></div><div>A special treat this Wednesday, by arrangement with Danish trio Efterkleng, Forest Cafe is pleased to announce a special showing of their movie ‘The Ghost of Piramida’</div><div><br/></div>Following the release of fourth album Piramida (Sep 2012, 4AD), Efterklang add another string to their bow with The Ghost of Piramida, a film by Danish director Andreas Koefoed, that documents the Danish trio’s visit to the abandoned Russian mining town where the record’s inception began back in the summer of 2011. Accompanied by their taciturn and indifferent Russian polar bear guard, the group goes on an audio treasure hunt in the empty buildings of the abandoned town, while the narrator, former Piramida citizen Alexander, takes us back to a bygone era, when Piramida flourished and the immigrant Russian miners and their families lived in a Soviet parallel society far from the brutal reality of their homeland. The Ghost of Piramida premiered in November 2012 in Amsterdam at the world’s biggest documentary film festival IDFA, and here the film was selected as one of the top three music films of the year. Since then, the film has been screened at several other film festivals and in art house cinemas around Europe, and now the Forest Cafe<div><div><br/></div><div><div><br/></div><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iel9NAfjwAs&sns=em"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iel9NAfjwAs&sns=em">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iel9NAfjwAs&sns=em</a></a></div></div></div></p>http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/46194108283http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/46194108283Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:30:05 +0000<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/e25013da480bd5f8e2e69939552ed832/tumblr_mk4qc2Gtnj1qbobk9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><i>Forest Cafe Presents</i></p><div><br/></div><div><b>Day Of The Night Of The One Thousand Dances</b><div>Sunday 24th March, 12-7pm</div></div><div><br/></div><div>Reckon you know your Stomp from your Watusi? Can your Monkey do the Dog? All day Sunday 24 March at the Forest, enjoy 60s dance crazes and a special tapas menu. Brush up on your moves for the event that is sweeping dance floors across the nation. Check your chubby, buff that blue suede and find out if you can jerk like me. </div><div><br/></div>http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/46096688956http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/46096688956Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:02:26 +0000<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/603e889e4b624eb390f0e474da9bedcf/tumblr_mjyts5Nlpt1qbobk9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Free Site Specific Sculpture Workshop</strong><br/> Forest-Centre-Plus, with Michael Bowdidge<br/><em>Thu 21st March, 2-4pm</em></p> <p>Michael Bowdidge is an artist who works with found objects and photography. Llast month he was the initial artist-in-residence for one day a week at Forest CentrePlus. He spent the time making stuff and taking photos and thinking about sculpture and buildings and scavenging and knees and biscuits. This workshop follows on from the residency, and starts with an artist’s talk which describes the modular sculptures that the artist built on site and then invites participants to explore the possibilties of these site-specific sculptures for themselves.</p>http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/45838211136http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/45838211136Wed, 20 Mar 2013 15:31:17 +0000<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/a9a9fd3ab0ce5988bd3ff6abb0f4c54e/tumblr_mji9ngieOX1qbobk9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Uke Boogie</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span>Friday 15th of March </span></strong><strong><span>@8PM</span></strong></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span><em>The Forest, 141 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh</em></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Uke Boogie is an open mic night run by two Ukulele players, Alex Highet “The Melodica Muncher” and Stuart Crout “The Kazookeylele Killer”.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>The duo had tried to start up previous monthly open mic nights under the name of “All Eyes And Gums”. all events were a success, but very stressful.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>In March 2009 the duo managed to land a gig date at one of Edinburgh’s best arts venues called “the Bowery”, But had no idea what type op event they would put on. Eventually they came up with an idea, a open mic night with no guitars allowed, and open mic dedicated mostly to ukulele’s.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Now Branded as </span><span>scotland</span><span>’s biggest Ukulele open mic night, uke boogie has been a tremendous success. With performers coming back to play again and again. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>Uke Boogie has gone through a rough time changing venue every few months. With the closure of the 3 bars In a row that uke boogie was supposed to be playing at, Uke Boogie has been dubber the “kiss of death” to bars accross </span><span>edinburgh</span><span>. Thats why we have chosen </span><span>scotlands</span><span> most haunted pub to bring you the best in undescoverd ukulele talent.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span>As for the future, hopefully we keep the event going. there has been talk of taking Uke Boogie somewhere out of </span><span>edinburgh</span><span>,  Maybe even a tour setting up Uke Boogie’s across the world? </span>Who knows!</p></p>http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/45116622552http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/45116622552Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:54:00 +0000<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/3c6dc34d495406626e69d7b5ee5f7488/tumblr_mji5agINhu1qbobk9o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><strong>Fish to Fry</strong></p> <p><strong>Sunday 17th of March </strong><strong>@5PM</strong></p> <p><em>The Forest, 141 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh</em></p> <p><span>Fish to Fry is an Edinburgh-based band, creating new original songs, telling of sillyness and sentiments, nostalgias and neuroses, and as ever of love and yearning. With singer Lorraine O’Sullivan and accordionist Isabel Lohss, Sarah Whiteside on cello and Arran Sheppard on drums.</span></p> <p><span>Check out their website for pics and music: </span></p> <p><span><a href="http://www.fishtofry.co.uk/">http://www.fishtofry.co.uk/</a></span></p> <p><span> </span></p>http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/45112021890http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/45112021890Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:20:00 +0000<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/d64235e220032f94e07084f5ae71551e/tumblr_mji4v8YmYt1qbobk9o1_500.png"/><br/><br/><div> <div><strong>Reel Iraq</strong></div> <div> </div> <div><strong>Thursday March 21st @</strong><strong><span>8PM</span></strong></div> <div> </div> <div><br/> </div> </div> <div><em>The forest, 141 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh</em></div> <div></div> <div></div> <div><strong>Reel Iraq Festival - a celebration of Iraqi film, music and literature</strong> is running in Scotland (and across UK) from 21-25th March. In <strong>Edinburgh</strong> there will be Iraqi film screenings, music events, poetry nights, workshops, exhibitions and discussions at the Filmhouse, The Forest, Summerhall, The Institute for Music in Human and Social Development, and The Scottish Poetry Library.</div> <div><br/><br/><em>“Reel Iraq 2013 marks 10 years since the US and UK led military invasion, against which the world mobilised in solidarity with the people of Iraq. Reel Iraq will explore the contribution of art, culture and creativity to Iraqi life in a time of conflict, with over 50 events taking place in London, Edinburgh, Bristol, Glasgow, Dumfries, Leeds, Derry/Londonderry, Newcastle and Stirling.”</em> <br/><br/>You can find out more via the links below: <br/><br/>Festival website - <a href="http://www.reelfestivals.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><a href="http://www.reelfestivals.org/">http://www.reelfestivals.org/</a></a> <br/>Facebook group - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/reelfestivals.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/reelfestivals.org">https://www.facebook.com/reelfestivals.org</a></a> (look in the ‘event’ tab for full listings)</div> <div>Facebook Events - <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/147522848743503/?ref=ts&fref=ts" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/147522848743503/?ref=ts&fref=ts">https://www.facebook.com/events/147522848743503/?ref=ts&fref=ts</a></a> <br/>Tweet: @reelfestivals </div> <div> </div> <div></div> <div> </div> <p><span> </span></p>http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/45111638177http://blog.theforest.org.uk/post/45111638177Mon, 11 Mar 2013 15:11:00 +0000