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*** Welcome To The Forest ***


FREE EVENTS EVERY NIGHT! Check Our Events Listings For This Week Now (sorry if it's out of date!)

FREE? THAT'S RIGHT!! THOUGH WE'D LOVE IF YOU HELPED OUT!!1!




Weekly Program (22th - 28th JUNE)


MONDAY 22th JUNE

7pm till close - Marc’s Marx
Special Night at the Forest with Music and Marx Brothers Films:
- Day at the races (1937)
- Night at the Opera (1935)

TUESDAY 23th JUNE

7pm – Acoustic Songs
On the stage: Jen, Kim and Laura

9pm – PEACE and Jam Experimental Jam

WEDNESDAY 24th JUNE

7pm – 78's from 7 – 8
Gramophone Hour

9pm – Rantum Scantum Gig

THURSDAY 25th JUNE

7pm – KLABIK
Hardcore string quartet music in the classical style...Beethoven... ...Elgar...etc...

FRIDAY 26th JUNE

7pm - Steve Zeffert
Home Wrecher
www.youtube.com/lithianbaby

SATURDAY 27th JUNE

5pm - Band Showcase
Roull Road... Acoustic set

7pm - Dualist

WORKSHOP

All workshops are FREE and open to everybody

Tuesday, 6-8pm: Drumgams - Crafty Room
Tuesday, 7-9pm: Forest choir - Hall
Tuesday, 8.30pm-late: Forest Drama Group - Hall
Wednesday, 7pm - 8pm: Spanish lessons (Beginners) - Crafty R.
Wednesday, 5-10pm: Bike Generator - Crafty Room
Wednesday, 5.30-7pm: Conditioning for Ballet - Hall
Wednesday, 2-3.30pm: Gaelic lessons (Beginners) - Crafty Room
Thursday, 8.30pm-late: Music Jam - The Cave
Thursday, 7pm - 8.30pm: French Lessons (Beginners) - Crafty R.
Saturday, 2pm: STICH & BITCH sewing workshop – Crafty Room

Rantum Scantum GiG


WEDNESDAY 24th JUNE
9pm

This is what happens when a folk singer - songwriter from Fife ends up working with a classically trained violin player from Yorkshire.
Bobby Nicholson and Eddy Hanson have been performing in Scotland and Europe together for 12 years. This evening they’ll be performing a mixture of original and traditional songs including those from their new cd “Gypsy Brae”.

www.rantumscantum.org
www.myspace.com/rantumscantum2

Cafè Closing


Hi Forest Friends...

A new for all of you... just a little bit sad

The Cafè will be closed

from SUNDAY 28th JUNE from 6 pm

We need to make it special for the summer...
I know...you will miss it ...and we will miss you!!!

BUT

...we are waiting for you from

THURSDAY 2nd JULY


Stolen Stories Edit
The New Anthology From Forest Publications


Never, ever trust a writer. They cluck and nod and listen and then three months later they splash your tragedy/foolishness/very embarrassing incident involving a raspberry jelly and a pair of warm curling tongs over the tawdry pages of a literary quarterly. We feel there is no shame in this. Quite the opposite: we believe this ugly fact deserves to be celebrated with all the pomp and hullaballoo we can possibly muster. Therefore we are compiled an anthology of the finest stolen stories, the anecdotes and overheard conversations that simply demand to be told. We feel that it is time to be honest. This is where our ideas come from.


Release Date: November 5, 2008

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Featuring

 

Craig Bayne - co-editor of Glasgow literature and arts magazine ‘Are Volitional’


Louis E. Bourgeois - founder and editor of VOX PRESS.  His collection, The Gar Diaries, was nominated for The National Book Award in 2008. 


Lindsay Bower 


Ron Butlin - Edinburgh's Makar (Poet Laureate).


Regi Claire- her collections published books are Inside~Outside (shortlisted for the Saltire First Book Award) and The Beauty Room (longlisted for the Allen Lane/MIND Book of the Year Award)


Rusty Harris


Nick Holdstock- his work has recently appeared in Stand, the Edinburgh Review, and Textualities.


Alison Key- her story, The Ground Beneath Her Feet,  won first prize in the Cinnamon Press short story award 2008


Alison Miller - Alison’s first novel Demo was published by Penguin in 2006.  


Nicole Louise Reid - editor of Southern Indiana Review and the author of In the Breeze of Passing Things (MacAdam/Cage).  Her stories have appeared in The Southern Review, Quarterly West, Meridian and many more. She is the winner of the 2001Willamette Award in Fiction


Sarah Salway - Her third novel, Getting the Picture, will come out with Random House in Summer 2009.


Lauren Simpson - her fiction has been published in The Golden Hour Book and V: New International Writing from Edinburgh.


Jo Swingler- has been longlisted for the Bridport Prize and Cinnamon Press First Collection Award.


Lucille Valentine


Dinh Vong- former international editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review.


Angus Woodward- Margaret Media published his collection of short stories, Down at the End of the River, in 2008.


  Book Details:

Isbn: 978-0-9556456-1-7
size: aprox. 240 pages.
publisher: Forest Publications
price: £5.99
artwork: Martin McKenna


Published with generous assistance from the 



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Biz'Art: The Forest Shop!



WELCOME TO BIZ'ART:

A space for artists, crafts-people and non-profits to sell and promote their wares!

E-mail
s h o p @ t h e f o r e s t . o r g . u k
for more info or pop in!!

Shop Open

Wed, Thur, Fri, Sat, Sun
12.30 to 6.30

Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays

Come to the shop to change your style!
 
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Read This Magazine!


Read This Magazine is published with the assistance of The Forest Free Press.
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Read This is a small-scale, volunteer-run publication based in the heart of historic, literary Edinburgh. Its editorial team are a quintet of young poets with a passion for strong, fresh writing and a real desire to help unknown writers to get exposure for their work in print and on the web.

Read This operates primarily as a monthly print magazine, printed by the Edinburgh University's English Literature department, and with assistance from the Forest Free Press, a registered charity.

Copies are available at The Forest and subscriptions are welcome.









Forest Grants: Free Money!

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Hey!

The Forest gives out two types of grants.


The Forest Monthly Grant For Small Projects

monthly grant of £100 for small projects.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO


The Forest Quarterly Grant For Big Projects

A quarterly grant of £300 for big projects held at the Forest.

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFO




YOU WANT MONEY.



WE GOT MONEY.



WE GIVE YOU MONEY.



YOU DO COOL STUFF.



 


The Forest runs by virtue of make-do, derring-do and voodoo.

We are volunteer run and all events are free.

Please pay corkage to help maintain this.

Involve yourself

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The Forest runs by virtue of make-do, derring-do and voodoo.

 

We are volunteer run and all events are free.

Please pay corkage to help maintain this.

Involve yourself

http://theforest.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?t=3269


Read more...
 

Forest Cafe | Free Stuff & Internet WiFi

the forest cafe has three easy ways to connect to the internet.
bring in your laptop and use our wi-fi, or plug into our ethernet
we also have a computer in the cafe - it's free for all the family.


open decks, open windows, open events, open talks, open 1KW soundsystem, tea for two, art for you, games on comfy couches, crayons, coffee, cakes, movies, GNUs, WMDs, and music too. *

* WARNING: open windows can be dangerous

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