{"id":192876,"date":"2025-06-17T23:05:13","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T23:05:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192876\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T23:05:13","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T23:05:13","slug":"edinburgh-900-exhibition-opens-at-st-james-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/192876\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh 900 exhibition opens at St James Quarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was a grand opening ceremony on Leith Street on Tuesday when the Rt Hon Lord Provost cut the ribbon on the combined Edinburgh 900 exhibition. <\/p>\n<p>This is a showcase of the various projects funded to celebrate the 900 years since the capital became a royal burgh under King David 1. <\/p>\n<p>Get along and see the 11 displays all created around different themes from now until 31 August. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cEdinburgh 900 is a series of events and activities from a wide range of organisations in the city which tells the story of Edinburgh\u2019s through the centuries from the 12th century City of David right up to the 21st century, the City of Diversity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTogether with partners and community groups across the city, the City of Edinburgh Council is curating\u00a0a rich programme of events, talks, tours and tales to paint the picture of what has made Edinburgh into the internationally admired city it now is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/stjamesquarter.com\/event\/edinburgh-900\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">More information about what to expect here. <\/a><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_8405.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-602004\"  \/>Photo Dr Roderick Howlet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_8417.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-602005\"  \/>Photo Dr Roderick Howlet.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_8422.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-602006\"  \/>Photo Dr Roderick Howlet.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/IMG_8427.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-602007\"  \/>Photo Dr Roderick Howlet.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the Edinburgh 900 budget, \u00a3100,000 was allocated to a community fund and a further \u00a3100,000 to a civic fund.<\/p>\n<p>The community strand features local events run by community groups in the city over 2024-25 promoting local heritage and initiatives, designed to engage with new local audiences and to showcase the diversity of Edinburgh.<\/p>\n<p>The civic strand is an opportunity for cultural and heritage organisations to exhibit Edinburgh and its illustrious past.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Successful Community Fund applications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Citadel Arts Group Leith Customs: \u00a35,000.00<\/li>\n<li>Ukraine t Margaret\u2019s Saturday School &amp; St Cuthbert\u2019s Parish Church 900 Artworks<\/li>\n<li>Exhibition for the 900th Anniversary: \u00a33,000.00<\/li>\n<li>The Living Memory Association Our Working City: \u00a34,860.00<\/li>\n<li>Art and Spirituality CIC \u201cInternational South West Community Project\u201d: \u00a33,466.00<\/li>\n<li>THE MELTING POT Innovation: Past and Present: \u00a34,750.00<\/li>\n<li>Passion4Fusion Black History Month Gala: \u00a35,000.00<\/li>\n<li>Abbeyhill Colony of Artists Colony of Artists 20th Anniversary Celebrations: \u00a35,000.00<\/li>\n<li>Leith walk polisbox Outside the (polis)box: \u00a35,000.00<\/li>\n<li>Newhaven Coastal Rowing Club Seafaring Spirit: Celebrating Newhaven\u2019s Coastal Community: \u00a32,396.00<\/li>\n<li>PenPal Productions Tales of the City: \u00a34,116.00<\/li>\n<li>Portobello Toddler Hut Storytelling \u2013 The UK\u2019s oldest playgroup: \u00a34,685.00<\/li>\n<li>Project Esperanza A City of Diversity: Past, Present, and Future: \u00a35,000.00<\/li>\n<li>The Edinburgh Remakery Ltd Celebrating 900 Year through Art &amp; Stories: \u00a35,000.00<\/li>\n<li>Just Festival: \u00a35,000.00<\/li>\n<li>Edinburgh &amp; Lothians Greenspace Trust Magical Woodland Walk: \u00a34,990.00<\/li>\n<li>Active Inquiry 900 years of Leith \u2013 a play: \u00a35,000.00<\/li>\n<li>WHALE Arts WHALE Members\u2019 Art-History Trips: \u00a31,875.00<\/li>\n<li>Scottish Historic Buildings Trust Open House: Leith Custom House Festival: \u00a34,953.00<\/li>\n<li>Lavender Menace Queer Books Archive Reading Queer Edinburgh with Lavender Menace Archive: \u00a35,000.00<\/li>\n<li>Gracemount Mansion Development Trust Our Gracemount Community Heritage 900: \u00a35,000.00<\/li>\n<li>Greatway Foundation SCOTAFRICAN Stories: \u00a35,000.00<\/li>\n<li>The Edinburgh Tool Library Edinburgh Tool Library turns 10: Celebrating a Decade of<\/li>\n<li>Community and Creativity: \u00a34,812.50<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Successful Civic Fund applications:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>TRACS for The Scottish International Storytelling Festival EDINBURGH: Our Storied Town: \u00a310,000<\/li>\n<li>Multi-Cultural Family Base Heritage, community and wellbeing: \u00a312,380<\/li>\n<li>Edinburgh Leisure Edinburgh Leisure Celebrating Edinburgh 900: \u2018Your Health Is for Life\u2019: \u00a37,000<\/li>\n<li>Edinburgh Printmakers Castle Mills: Then &amp; Now | 900 Stories in Print: \u00a314,736<\/li>\n<li>Push the Boat Out (Arts SCIO) Disrupting the Narrative at Push the Boat Out, Edinburgh\u2019s International Poetry Festival: \u00a314,627<\/li>\n<li>F-Bomb Theatre Monumental: \u00a314,987.2<\/li>\n<li>African Connections CIC \/ Edinburgh Multicultural Festival: \u00a314,883.75<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/2025\/06\/edinburgh-900-exhibition-opens-at-st-james-quarter\/?print=pdf\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1750201512_989_pdf.png\" alt=\"image_pdf\" title=\"View PDF\"\/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/2025\/06\/edinburgh-900-exhibition-opens-at-st-james-quarter\/?print=print\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1750201512_797_print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"m-a-box-avatar-url\" href=\"https:\/\/theedinburghreporter.co.uk\/author\/phyllis-stephen\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"75\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1750201512_892_Phyllis-Summer-2022-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-100x100 size-100x100\" alt=\"\" itemprop=\"image\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Founding Editor of The Edinburgh Reporter.<br \/>Edinburgh-born multimedia journalist and iPhoneographer.<\/p>\n<p>Like this:<\/p>\n<p>Like Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"sd-link-color\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a grand opening ceremony on Leith Street on Tuesday when the Rt Hon Lord Provost cut&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,78740,4154,4155,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-192876","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-edinburgh-900","11":"tag-edinburgh-local-news","12":"tag-edinburgh-news","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114701213866910670","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}