The Edinburgh Minute ⏰: Weekend edition 6-8 Oct 2023

🍂  Good morning Edinburgh. The Met Office has issued a weather warning of ‘heavy and persistent rain throughout Saturday until 6am on Sunday’. Thankfully there are a lot of indoor things to do in this weekend’s ‘what’s on’ guide, further down in this post. Here’s your weekend Edinburgh Minute. 

🎞  Today marks one year since the Filmhouse was shut down. The campaign to reopen it has raised £115,000 of its £250,000 target with a month to go. Organisers are appealing to film lovers to share their memories and stories about what the cinema meant to them. - Details on how to participate are here.

🎸  Edinburgh’s councillors have voted to push for powers to move along ‘nuisance’ buskers and crackdown on amplified music at hotspot performing locations. City centre councillor Finlay McFarlane said: 

“When residents have come to myself with disputes, when they have gone up to buskers to say ‘excuse me please would you mind moving your pitch, you’ve been there for six hours playing Wonderwall on repeat and I’m at breaking point’ that there’s actually an awful lot of quite heated resistance from the buskers to that polite request.” 

⮑  The full story is here, written by Local Democracy Reporter Donald Turvill in the Midlothian View.

💰  Culture secretary Angus Robertson has ‘sparked renewed anger within the arts sector’ after admitting that the UCI Cycling World Championships event went £8 million over budget – days after a £6.6 million cut for Creative Scotland was revealed. - Brian Ferguson, The Scotsman.

🚽  Police have warned Edinburgh Council against reopening public toilets in Nicolson Square over fears they would attract criminality and anti-social behaviour. - Local Democracy Reporter Donald Turvill, STV News.

✈️  Edinburgh Airport bosses said they are ‘disappointed’ after airline Wizz Air announced it will move its services to Glasgow Airport. - Brian Donnelly, The Herald.

🥾  An 7km stretch of path along the Water of Leith has been upgraded and officially re-opened. - The Edinburgh Reporter.

👩‍💻  Travelmag has published a list of ’10 of the best co-working spaces in Edinburgh’. If you’d like to suggest others, please do in the comments below.

🐶  Pet owners are being invited to take their pets to church for an annual ‘blessing service’ at Greyfriars Kirk on Sunday. - Ian Swanson, Evening News. 

⚽️  Hibs and Hearts men’s teams play in another Edinburgh derby on Saturday at 3pm at Tynecastle. - Here’s a preview from Barry Anderson in the Evening News.
  ⮑  Hibs have also got big plans off the field. Patrick McPartlin of Hibs Observer has the scoop on: Plans for the Famous Five stand, new floodlights, new pitches, the hospitality offering, player trading and a reported culture shift internally. - Hibs Observer.

🏉  Scotland play Ireland at 8pm on Saturday in the Rugby Union World Cup. - There’s a list of local places screening the match on the local Reddit forum.

📆  Things to do this weekend: 

👗  It’s a fashion themed Museum Lates night on Friday at the National Museum of Scotland on Chambers Street. Tickets, which were not sold out at time of writing, include admission to the Beyond the Little Black Dress exhibition. - More details here.

📚  Portobello Book Festival runs all weekend with free events beginning on Friday. Thanks to reader Antonia Lee-Bapty for sharing the details. - Check out the programme of events here.
  ⮑  Saturday evening’s main event includes Val McDermid, Michael Pedersen and Billy Letford. 

✍️  The 2023 Edinburgh Women’s Fiction Festival is on this weekend,  including panel talks and workshops. - For details of the full programme and ticket sales, read more here. - They’ve also been posting a series on Instagram about each author involved.