The Edinburgh Report

Here we talk to Tim Vincent Smith Lead Artist on the latest version of Pianodrome which will be unveiled at Hidden Door Festival on Thursday. The Old Royal Pianodrome will be situated at the former Royal High School for the festival and then other events throughout the summer.

The Old Royal High Pianodrome opens to the public on Thursday 9 June at the former Royal High School which is hosting Hidden Door Festival from 8 to 16 June https://hiddendoorarts.org The newly created amphitheatre is made from 40 pianos

Cllr Cammy Day became leader of The City of Edinburgh Council just one week before this chat with him to find out how the week has progressed.

The Rt Hon Lord Provost Frank Ross is also a councillor who will stand again at the local council elections. Here he looks back over the five years of being Lord Provost.

SNP have launched their wish list for the next five years if they are returned to the council administration in Edinburgh. Here we talk to the SNP group leader Adam McVey about some of the proposals.

I met with Deidre Brock MP to get a flavour of what she is doing at Westminster. It turned out to be a wide-ranging conversation as always sitting in the sun at The Shore in Leith

Residents are overwhelmingly opposed to the pre-planning application for student accommodation on a gap site on Eyre Place. Here we spoke to two - Alison and Jane about the proposal - and also what might be acceptable to them.

The MP for Midlothian Owen Thompson is calling on the government to relax visa rules for Ukrainian refugees.

Chris Howard stopped off in Edinburgh on the homeward stretch of his 11,000 mile journey walking around the British coast. Today was the 393rd day of his walk which began at Heacham in Norfolk after a really brief three weeks of planning.

A planned walk and chat along Lanark Road with local MSP Gordon Macdonald discussing the changes to the road layout

We explore the new sculpture at Fruitmarket - Pardes by Jyll Bradley

Cllr Bird is the Young People’s Champion and very much involved with the Scottish Youth Parliament and the elections which begin on 8 November 2021

Michael Jenkins President of Forest Trends on the COP26 announcement of $20 billion on deforestation and land degradation

A walk is taking place from Dunbar to Glasgow in time for COP26. We joined the walk just after it left the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and went with them as far as Granton Castle Walled Garden where the Keeper of the Soil, artist Natalie Taylor, collected a small sample of soil in her hand made cape with its special pockets.

Ali Pretty describes herself as an artist activist and has just joined the Pilgrimage to COP26 in Edinburgh with 500 flags made as part of the Beach of Dreams project. The flags will be displayed at St Mary’s Cathedral in Palmerston Place and will then be carried to Glasgow from Monday morning. Each flag represents a mile of coastline from Lowestoft to Tilbury chosen by one person to explore how w...

The Edinburgh Reporter invited Daniel Johnson MSP for a cycle and a chat about his role in the opposition and also a bit about his constituency of Edinburgh Southern. Despite the rain the chat is sparkling!

The council is moving forward with development at BioQuarter with a move to appoint a commercial partner to assist in the next steps. Here we talk to the Council Leader about BioQuarter

Jaxx Waygood is a visual artist and his artistic and sculptural blacksmithing exhibition is on at the Art & Craft Collective 93 Causewayside in Edinburgh. He is a recent Edinburgh College of Art graduate on the MA programme but has a lot of different past experiences which we talk to him about here - including working on the Lord of the Rings TV series

Charity Earth in Common has its base at Leith Croft. On Sunday morning they discovered that a fire had destroyed their shed causing about £2,000 of damage. CEO and founder Evie Murray explained to us what had happened.

Ms Baker is appearing at the Edinburgh International Festival. Here she talks to The Edinburgh Reporter about the show woman:life:song and also about her abhorrence of volunteer labour in the arts world.

Lesley Hinds is a former councillor and Lord Provost and - in what we think is her legacy project - she is masterminding a community asset transfer and new civic centre in Pennywell and Muirhouse. We had a walk around Macmillan Square to talk about it.

In this episode Sara tells us what motivated her to start Leith Collective and about her role as a Green Ambassador for the UN COP26 Summit

The 16 year campaign to have a safe cycle and walking route created from Drem to Gullane appears to have hit a wall. Easy Lothian Council suggest it will be another three years before they can start to build it. I met one of the campaigners,Iain Monk, who took me on a cycle along the proposed route to explain the plans in more detail.

In advance of the reopening of Fruitmarket we were invited to have a walk around the new space and the new exhibition created by artist Karla Black in the company of Director, Fiona Bradley. We highly recommend popping in for a look.

The Hidden Door festival is coming to Granton in September and will literally shine a light on an up and coming area of Edinburgh. Cllr Day is both local councillor and Chair of the All Party Oversight Group on the council's £1.3 billion Granton Waterfrot Project.