Event Archives - BANZAI Edinburgh

Across Europe, nature is making a dramatic recovery – could Scotland be next?

On Thursday 9th May, 6:30 pm, BANZAI will be showing a new documentary: Why Not Scotland? The screening will be held at Bruntsfield Evangelical Church, 70 Leamington Terrace, Edinburgh, EH10 4JU. Event Details 6.30 pm: Doors open7.00 pm: Film (60 mins)8.00 pm: Discussion and close The event is free but ticketed. Please register on Eventbrite. There […]

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Photo of woman and child using a cargo bike

Cargo Bike Community Event: the Video!

Leave a Comment / Event, Transport / Marina Wimmer

We already published a brief post on our cargo bike event from 23rd September 2023. Here’s an update for you: more photos, video footage and an explainer by the Cargo Bike Movement.

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Many members of the local community visited stalls outside Boroughmuir Primary School

Forwards with Cargo Bikes!

1 Comment / Event, Transport / Marina Wimmer

To cargo or not to cargo? Our cargo bike event, organised by BANZAI and the Cargo Bike Movement, turned out to be brilliant. On the afternoon of Saturday September 23rd, over 80 adults and children made their way to Bruntsfield’s Montpelier to try out a cargo bike. Most people had never sat on a cargo

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Illustration of a colourful cargo bike with four passengers

BANZAI Cargo Bike Community Event

Event, Transport / Ewan Klein

Have you ever wondered what it is like to ride a cargo bike? Now is your chance! Come along to the Bruntsfield cargo bike event on Saturday 23rd September, 2.00 pm – 5.00 pm — organised by BANZAI in collaboration with Cargo Bike Movement. There will be something for all ages: The event will take

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I died last Saturday

Event, Net Zero / BANZAI

Five of us from BANZAI joined an XR Die-In on the morning of 27th August 2022. Deliberately theatrical, and scheduled to coincide with the last week of the Fringe, the action drew attention to the continuing failure of the government to urgently address climate and ecological breakdown.

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Home Energy and Retrofit Meeting, 20 June 2022

1 Comment / Event, Net Zero / Ewan Klein

We will be holding a public meeting on the topic of Home Energy and Retrofit, 7.00 pm – 9.00 pm, Monday 20th June, at Bruntsfield Evangelical Church, 70 Leamington Terrace,=. The Retrofit Challenge Home energy and retrofit present major challenges, both for individuals and for society as a whole. This public meeting will focus on

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Bruntsfield Climate Café, 5 May 2022

Event / Mimo Caenepeel

How do you feel about climate change? Maybe that’s not a question you ask yourself. Many people don’t. Yet the climate crisis evokes lots of feelings, in all of us. And sharing these can be helpful. You will have an opportunity to do so at the Bruntsfield Climate Café, 6.00 pm – 7.30 pm, 5

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Sustainable Community Café 2022

Event / Ewan Klein

You are warmly invited to a community event on Saturday, 5 March, 2.00 – 4.00 pm: the Sustainable Community Café, in the Upper Hall, Bruntsfield Evangelical Church. It will be a welcome opportunity to catch up with each other (and make new friends!) as we emerge from winter and the ups-and-downs of Covid. There will

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Our first street Spring Clean

Event / Ewan Klein

Despite the very un-springlike weather of gusty winds and cold drizzle, nine of us gathered together for the first Leamington Terrace Spring Clean. We had already advertised the date — Saturday 5th February — and decided to persevere with our plan, albeit with some misgivings. The initiative emerged from the GatE group, inspired in part

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‘Net Zero’ What can we DO?! — Inaugural BANZAI Event

Event / Mick Patrick

Event Overview On 23 September 2021, we organised a film screening plus discussion as part of Climate Fringe Week as well as for the European Day of Sustainable Communities (EDSC21). The event took place 6.30pm–9.00pm and was kindly hosted by Bruntsfield Evangelical Church (with generous assistance in person from LT resident Fraser McLaren), which provided first-rate facilities for

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