World Fair Trade Gathering @Usher Hall
Saturday May 14
World Fair Trade Day is celebrated every year on the second Saturday of May. As bringing much celebration around the world, and with 350 fair trade producer groups across 70 countries, we are beyond excited that after two years of the waiting time, we are finally going ahead with this wonderful, fun and inspiring event! This years's campaign #LetsDoIt https://wfto.com/LetsDoItFair/ is focusing on Climate Justice, spreading the message about the need for more just and fair world where everyone shares the responsibility of taking care of our planet.
World Fair Trade Gathering is featuring not just one but three fantastic Scottish bands: SKERRYVORE, PEATBOG FAERIES and BOMBSKARE who will make sure 14th of May concert will be a night to remember! This 4-hour concert is a Scottish World Fair Trade Day tribute event and we are more than excited to be connecting all around the world with celebrations everywhere from Chile, to Zambia, Guyana to Ghana.. and everywhere in between, to promote Scotland, a Fair Trade Nation, rocking it on the World Fair Trade Day!
We aim for everyone to enjoy a foot stomping night of fun, fiery music and dance whilst promoting fair trade!
Fair trade stalls in the foyer will include:
Scottish Fair Trade Forum INFORMATION (official membership body for Fair Trade in Scotland supporting the event)
ACTSA (successor organisation to the Anti-Apartheid Movement)
One World Shop (fair trade gifts from around the globe)
Just Gifts (fair trade gifts from African countries)
Fair Trade Scotland (fair trade gifts snd WFTO Mzuzu coffee from Malawi)
Rainbow Turtle (fair trade shop)
Gavin's Mill (fair trade Shop and cafe)
Hadeel (fair trade Palestinian gifts)
DOBA Studio (alternative plastic recycling)
Friends of the Earth (network of environmental organisations)
Scottish International Development Alliance Climate Justice Photo display
Tickets are £16.50 including booking fees. Please click at https://www.usherhall.co.uk/whats-on/world-fair-trade-day-gathering-2022 to purchase your tickets and to find out more about the event!
LIMITED TIME ONLY: Get your ticket for £12 + booking fee using this code: WFTRADE22
CASTLE STREET MARKETS 2022
CASTLE STREET MARKET is one of the most well established markets in Edinburgh, running since 2007. The market has to be in one of the world's most beautiful locations on Castle Street, in the heart of Edinburgh, looking up to the the majestic Edinburgh Castle, facing onto Princes Street. To the rear of the marke, with the hustle and bustle of Rose Street and George Street, this location is beloved by locals, tourists and visitors.
If you are an independent food producer or a maker, designer, jeweller, fashion creator, artist, photographer or you focus on helping others through fair & ethical trade, please be in touch if you would like the opportunity to join us at one of our forthcoming markets.
Most of the markets we organise are for seven days, however our dates are extended during the wonderful Edinburgh Festival and Christmas period. We are always open to new applicants to join us! For more information or an application, please email tania@localmotivemarkets.co.uk
Dates for Castle Street Market events in 2022:
April 4 - 10
May 2 - 8
June 6 - 12
July 4 - 10
August 8 - 21
September 5 - 11
October 3 - 9
Christmas November 26 - December 23
If you are an independent food producer or a maker, designer, jeweller, fashion creator, artist, photographer or you focus on helping others through fair & ethical trade, please be in touch if you would like the opportunity to join us at one of our forthcoming markets.
Most of the markets we organise are for seven days, however our dates are extended during the wonderful Edinburgh Festival and Christmas period. We are always open to new applicants to join us! For more information or an application, please email tania@localmotivemarkets.co.uk
Dates for Castle Street Market events in 2022:
April 4 - 10
May 2 - 8
June 6 - 12
July 4 - 10
August 8 - 21
September 5 - 11
October 3 - 9
Christmas November 26 - December 23
Up and Running and raring to go!!
2021
Delighted to bring dates for our markets and events taking place in Edinburgh, we are just so excited to see our event and markets friends and look forward to getting back to our concerts and other events in the near future. We are also going to continue with World Fair Trade Tartan, to develop the tartan, woven by World Fair Trade Organisations through the 10 principles of Fair Trade. Please see http://www.wfto.com for more information about Fair Trade.
Our next event will be on Monday 4 to Sunday 10 October on Castle Street, in the heart of Edinburgh and thereafter for Christmas from 26 November to 23 December organised by our sister company LocalMotive Markets..
Our next event will be on Monday 4 to Sunday 10 October on Castle Street, in the heart of Edinburgh and thereafter for Christmas from 26 November to 23 December organised by our sister company LocalMotive Markets..
Castle Street and Ocean Terminal Christmas Markets 2021
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CASTLE STREET CHRISTMAS MARKET
Daily outdoor market event facing onto Princes Street 26 November to 23 December Organised by our Sister Company LocalMotive Markets. Home for our Christmas events since 2007, LocalMotive Markets is delighted to run this year’s Castle Street Christmas Market, filled with an abundance of quality gifts and delicious food choices, for 28 days! This beautiful market will be taking place in brightly coloured 3 meter robust gazebos, and with an overnight security provided, but may take place in a marquee, we will have a decision on 11th October by Edinburgh City Council. We always have a limited number of stalls and we would like to invite local as well as wider Scottish businesses to join us! Preference, as always, will be given to those who make their own products and/or source them ethically and responsibly. Please note, bookings are by the week, upon a successful application form, depending on the availability. Traders can choose to select one, two or three weeks, your space confirmed on 11th October Looking up to Edinburgh Castle and facing onto Princes Street, and with Rose Street and George Street at your back, this is a stunning, central, and very visible market location. So this is a high footfall and very exciting location loved by locals, visitors & tourists! We hope you can join us! For an application or more information, please email our sister company tania@localmotivemarkets.co.uk. |
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OCEAN TERMINAL CHRISTMAS MARKET Ground floor Weekends through November and then 2 to 5 December 9 to 12 December 16 to 19 December 20 to 23 December Organised by Sister Company LocalMotive Markets. OCEAN TERMINAL CHRISTMAS MARKET will be taking place inside a warm and festive Ocean Terminal Shopping Centre, located on the ground floor, facing onto Costa Coffee & the main concourse and escalators. Shoppers to the centre will not miss this beautifully decorated Christmas Market, brimming with local and Scottish gifts, food, and drinks – from delicious range of bread, cakes, fudge, honey, jams and chutneys, to live art, calligraphy, quality hand made jewellery, woodworks, glass, homeware, soaps and candles, and much-much more! Stalls can be booked for dates of your choice, depending on the availability. *Please note, preference will be given to traders who make and design their own products and/or source them ethically. Handmade wooden stalls will be provided for the trading, so this market will look rustic and absolutely fabulous! Ocean Terminal is much more than a shopping centre, with one of the most visited attractions, Royal Yacht Britannia, fantastic cinema complex, restaurants, cafes, and coffee shops, skatepark, gym, this beloved Leith location has something for everyone! If you would like more information and a booking application, please email tania@localmotivemarkets.co.uk |
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Castle Street Markets are back!
We are delighted to see everyone soon for our first markets of the year on Castle Street and in just a few short weeks will bring you a most fantastic range of arts, crafts, food and drinks... with our sister company LocalMotive Markets supporting talented makers and designers as well food and drinks traders. 13 - 19 July was the first of this years markets on Castle Street, with exhibitors selling a range of handcrafted, ethically sourced and artisan food and drinks (LocalMotive Markets) 10 - 16 August Fair & Ethical Trade on the Fringe has been running since 2008, supporting and platforming fair trade, ethical as well locally sourced gifts (Hand Up Events) 7 - 11 September Castle Street Autumn Fair with an abundance of artisan food and drinks as well arts and crafts(LocalMotive Markets) 5 - 11 October Castle Street Autumn Market with an abundance of artisan food and drinks as well arts and crafts (Hand Up Events) * NOTE, we welcome applications for food and drinks but no hot food allowed on Castle Street. We also want to take this opportunity to say thank you to all of our traders, partner organisations, market & event goers, supporters - we highly value you all and we cannot wait to see you! Please take care of yourself, as well as others! |
World Fair Trade Day 2020 #PlanetFairTrade
POSTPONED (more information coming soon)
The 2020 World Fair Trade Day Gathering band line up has been announced, with a six hour concert and celebration at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh this 9th May - connecting 400 World Fair Trade Organisations (WFTO) around the globe through multi-media, to raise awareness of this year’s campaign #PLANETFAIRTRADE.
Headlining this year’s high energy concert are Skerryvore, Peatbog Faeries, Cantara, Bombskare, Clan Macondo & Colores Del Maiz, Pulse of the Place and The Pennycuick’s, an amazing line up of traditional music from Scotland, as well as musical and dance influences from South and Central America and with video messages, speakers, stalls, kids’ activities throughout the day.
Once again, the event will be hosted by TV presenter, authorand Fair Trade ambassador Gail Porter, who has been an ardent supporter of Fair Trade for many years.
The campaign Planet Fair Trade has been organised by the World Fair Trade Organisation with the aim of celebratingFair Trade and encourage the public to, where-ever possible, choose Fair Trade goods, becoming fair and ethical consumers.
Planet Fair Trade concept is one that is populated by Fair Trade Enterprises, whose priority mission is people and planet, creating an economy based on human and planetary well-being, a world where no one is left behind and Fair Trade Enterprises are pioneers of this new economy.
Promoting the Fair Trade message Planet Fair Trade, Event organiser & director, Tania Pramschufer, Hand Up Eventssaid: “Our campaign is very clear, we are aiming to spread the vision of a planet populated by Fair Trade Enterprises and other enterprises whose priority mission is creating an economy based on people and the planet, a world where no one is left behind.
“Our concert and celebration will create enthusiasm for this big idea of Fair Trade Enterprises through their social and environmental missions and innovations and to help create a roadmap for a new economy. Now let’s create Planet Fair Trade!”
For more information and how to be involved https://wfto.com/events/world-fair-trade-day-2020
BAND LINE-UP
Skerryvore skerryvore.com/band/ represent the best in contemporary Scottish traditional music, with a growing fanbase worldwide and with the promise of much more to come. Twice winners of Scotland’s Traditional Music Live Act of the Year Award in 2011 & 2016.
Take two brothers, Daniel (Accordion) and Martin Gillespie (pipes, whistles and accordion), steeped in the Scottish west coast ceilidh tradition on the Isle of Tiree, and add in friends Fraser West (drums) and Alec Dalglish (guitar and vocals), with a background in brass bands, wind bands, jazz bands, and with blues, folk and country influences, and you have the 2005, embryonic Skerryvore.
Fast forward 10 years, add Craig Espie (fiddle) and Jodie Bremaneson (bass), bring in your album producer Alan Scobie on Keyboards and mix in the Glasgow music scene – from University Applied Music courses and Traditional Music courses at the Royal Conservatoire to sell out gigs at O2 ABC – and you have a band that has already won Scottish Traditional music’s ‘Live Act of the Year’ in 2011 – they were to win it again in 2016 – and who, rightly, celebrated their decade by launching their own 6000 capacity festival.
By the time the 2019 version of that festival – now christened ‘Oban Live’ – had successfully been and gone, that evolutionary development had added BBC young traditional musician of the year finalist Scott Wood (pipes and whistles), produced ‘EVO,’ their latest album, and the curtain had fallen on their EVO world tour which took their high energy, musically expansive set not just throughout UK and Europe, but also to USA, Canada and Australia.
Peatbog Faeries https://peatbogfaeries.com/bio/ Hailing from the Isle of Skye, this year celebrating 25 years, from the moment they take to the stage, the mood is set for a no-nonsense feel-good atmosphere – each number sounding like an encore in itself. They tease unlikely combinations from the familiarity of instruments such as fiddle and highland pipes – blending with techno rhythms and soaring sounds and take this to another plain. The traditional styles that influence the musicians are still to be heard – and when an unexpected drop-down to those glorious core melodies sneaks in – the result is spine-chilling! In short, it rocks – and the audience becomes part of the experience.
Bombskare http://www.bombskare.co.uk Introducing the bishops of bounce, the sorcerers of skank, the undisputed masters of Scottish death reggae, the one and only Bombskare- the closest thing you'll see to an actual northern powerhouse.This nine headed ska demon has been tearing up stages the length and breadth of the British Isles since before The Crusades. Reaching zero to sixty skanking miles from a standing start, they combine top quality dance-along songs with incredible punctuality - leaving every stage like Tokyo following a visit from Godzilla. Renowned for their technical prowess as much as their infectious ska anthems, they combine lush, three-part harmonies with choppy guitar attacks and an explosive horn section to truly blow the audience away. One thing these guys know about getting a crowd to dance is everything..
Cantara www.cantara.co.uk Reformed in 2016 with new line-up by original founding member Martin Struthers it has retained its original concept of a fusion of Celtic, rock and world music styles and melody. The current line-up is Spanish and electric Guitars, piano accordion/keyboards & Whistle, Electric Bass, Drums/Percussion, highland pipes. This high energy band is led by Scotland’s leading piper Louise Marshall, joining this concert for the second time with huge crowd participation.
Clan Macondo headed by Maritza Rodriguez - who moved to Glasgow from her native Colombia in 1989, Clan Macondo is a community art organisation that aims to develop activities that promote dance, music and the sharing of Latin American culture and languages in UK. Clan Macondo aims to influence and improve the well-being of communities by encouraging creativity, cultural awareness, fitness and social interaction. This part of the concert will be a dance performance representing the World Fair Trade Logo with audience participation.
Colores del Maiz is a dance production by Clan Macondo. Inspired by Central American myths and legends, songs, native wisdom, magic and spirits. The Mayan Peoples' belief that their flesh was made of corn. This is an explosion of colours and movements, a Carnival Celebrating the origins of cultivated plants as a synonym of wealth and civilised life promoting the values of an agricultural society, as well as painting, sculpting, and architecture, pottery, and other arts. This is an experimental group and its members are families from Latino American countries of: Salvador, Venezuela, Colombia, Brasil, Dominican Rep, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico among others based in Glasgow. Colores del Maiz is representative of all our Nations from the highlands and Coasts united by music and dance.
Pulse of the Place www.artsafternoon.org.uk
Pulse of the Place are a vibrant youth samba band, based in North Edinburgh! They have played at the Paralympics at the Olympic Park, London in 2012, festivals across the UK and soon heading to NYC Tartan Week Parade with World Fair Trade Tartan clan, supporting Scotland as a Fair Trade Nation, with diversity and inclusivity
The Pennycuick’s musical talents were developed round their" Kitchen table sessions" early in Connie's and Orianne'slives with dad Andrew Pennycuick from Edinburgh Ska Band Bombskare where they often sat working out harmonies and songs to sing and then record and put on YouTube, with resounding response encouraging them to develop their musical abilities further. They went on to perform at various festivals and most recently a burns supper where they left the audience emotional to say the least proving you cannot get closer harmonies than DNA.
The 2020 World Fair Trade Day Gathering band line up has been announced, with a six hour concert and celebration at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh this 9th May - connecting 400 World Fair Trade Organisations (WFTO) around the globe through multi-media, to raise awareness of this year’s campaign #PLANETFAIRTRADE.
Headlining this year’s high energy concert are Skerryvore, Peatbog Faeries, Cantara, Bombskare, Clan Macondo & Colores Del Maiz, Pulse of the Place and The Pennycuick’s, an amazing line up of traditional music from Scotland, as well as musical and dance influences from South and Central America and with video messages, speakers, stalls, kids’ activities throughout the day.
Once again, the event will be hosted by TV presenter, authorand Fair Trade ambassador Gail Porter, who has been an ardent supporter of Fair Trade for many years.
The campaign Planet Fair Trade has been organised by the World Fair Trade Organisation with the aim of celebratingFair Trade and encourage the public to, where-ever possible, choose Fair Trade goods, becoming fair and ethical consumers.
Planet Fair Trade concept is one that is populated by Fair Trade Enterprises, whose priority mission is people and planet, creating an economy based on human and planetary well-being, a world where no one is left behind and Fair Trade Enterprises are pioneers of this new economy.
Promoting the Fair Trade message Planet Fair Trade, Event organiser & director, Tania Pramschufer, Hand Up Eventssaid: “Our campaign is very clear, we are aiming to spread the vision of a planet populated by Fair Trade Enterprises and other enterprises whose priority mission is creating an economy based on people and the planet, a world where no one is left behind.
“Our concert and celebration will create enthusiasm for this big idea of Fair Trade Enterprises through their social and environmental missions and innovations and to help create a roadmap for a new economy. Now let’s create Planet Fair Trade!”
For more information and how to be involved https://wfto.com/events/world-fair-trade-day-2020
BAND LINE-UP
Skerryvore skerryvore.com/band/ represent the best in contemporary Scottish traditional music, with a growing fanbase worldwide and with the promise of much more to come. Twice winners of Scotland’s Traditional Music Live Act of the Year Award in 2011 & 2016.
Take two brothers, Daniel (Accordion) and Martin Gillespie (pipes, whistles and accordion), steeped in the Scottish west coast ceilidh tradition on the Isle of Tiree, and add in friends Fraser West (drums) and Alec Dalglish (guitar and vocals), with a background in brass bands, wind bands, jazz bands, and with blues, folk and country influences, and you have the 2005, embryonic Skerryvore.
Fast forward 10 years, add Craig Espie (fiddle) and Jodie Bremaneson (bass), bring in your album producer Alan Scobie on Keyboards and mix in the Glasgow music scene – from University Applied Music courses and Traditional Music courses at the Royal Conservatoire to sell out gigs at O2 ABC – and you have a band that has already won Scottish Traditional music’s ‘Live Act of the Year’ in 2011 – they were to win it again in 2016 – and who, rightly, celebrated their decade by launching their own 6000 capacity festival.
By the time the 2019 version of that festival – now christened ‘Oban Live’ – had successfully been and gone, that evolutionary development had added BBC young traditional musician of the year finalist Scott Wood (pipes and whistles), produced ‘EVO,’ their latest album, and the curtain had fallen on their EVO world tour which took their high energy, musically expansive set not just throughout UK and Europe, but also to USA, Canada and Australia.
Peatbog Faeries https://peatbogfaeries.com/bio/ Hailing from the Isle of Skye, this year celebrating 25 years, from the moment they take to the stage, the mood is set for a no-nonsense feel-good atmosphere – each number sounding like an encore in itself. They tease unlikely combinations from the familiarity of instruments such as fiddle and highland pipes – blending with techno rhythms and soaring sounds and take this to another plain. The traditional styles that influence the musicians are still to be heard – and when an unexpected drop-down to those glorious core melodies sneaks in – the result is spine-chilling! In short, it rocks – and the audience becomes part of the experience.
Bombskare http://www.bombskare.co.uk Introducing the bishops of bounce, the sorcerers of skank, the undisputed masters of Scottish death reggae, the one and only Bombskare- the closest thing you'll see to an actual northern powerhouse.This nine headed ska demon has been tearing up stages the length and breadth of the British Isles since before The Crusades. Reaching zero to sixty skanking miles from a standing start, they combine top quality dance-along songs with incredible punctuality - leaving every stage like Tokyo following a visit from Godzilla. Renowned for their technical prowess as much as their infectious ska anthems, they combine lush, three-part harmonies with choppy guitar attacks and an explosive horn section to truly blow the audience away. One thing these guys know about getting a crowd to dance is everything..
Cantara www.cantara.co.uk Reformed in 2016 with new line-up by original founding member Martin Struthers it has retained its original concept of a fusion of Celtic, rock and world music styles and melody. The current line-up is Spanish and electric Guitars, piano accordion/keyboards & Whistle, Electric Bass, Drums/Percussion, highland pipes. This high energy band is led by Scotland’s leading piper Louise Marshall, joining this concert for the second time with huge crowd participation.
Clan Macondo headed by Maritza Rodriguez - who moved to Glasgow from her native Colombia in 1989, Clan Macondo is a community art organisation that aims to develop activities that promote dance, music and the sharing of Latin American culture and languages in UK. Clan Macondo aims to influence and improve the well-being of communities by encouraging creativity, cultural awareness, fitness and social interaction. This part of the concert will be a dance performance representing the World Fair Trade Logo with audience participation.
Colores del Maiz is a dance production by Clan Macondo. Inspired by Central American myths and legends, songs, native wisdom, magic and spirits. The Mayan Peoples' belief that their flesh was made of corn. This is an explosion of colours and movements, a Carnival Celebrating the origins of cultivated plants as a synonym of wealth and civilised life promoting the values of an agricultural society, as well as painting, sculpting, and architecture, pottery, and other arts. This is an experimental group and its members are families from Latino American countries of: Salvador, Venezuela, Colombia, Brasil, Dominican Rep, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Mexico among others based in Glasgow. Colores del Maiz is representative of all our Nations from the highlands and Coasts united by music and dance.
Pulse of the Place www.artsafternoon.org.uk
Pulse of the Place are a vibrant youth samba band, based in North Edinburgh! They have played at the Paralympics at the Olympic Park, London in 2012, festivals across the UK and soon heading to NYC Tartan Week Parade with World Fair Trade Tartan clan, supporting Scotland as a Fair Trade Nation, with diversity and inclusivity
The Pennycuick’s musical talents were developed round their" Kitchen table sessions" early in Connie's and Orianne'slives with dad Andrew Pennycuick from Edinburgh Ska Band Bombskare where they often sat working out harmonies and songs to sing and then record and put on YouTube, with resounding response encouraging them to develop their musical abilities further. They went on to perform at various festivals and most recently a burns supper where they left the audience emotional to say the least proving you cannot get closer harmonies than DNA.
fashionABLE Workshops and Model Portfolio
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FashionABLE project has been created by Hand Up Events sister company LocalMotive Markets www.localmotivemarkets.co.uk/fashionable-show to platform diversity, equality, inclusion, and integrity - where people from all walks of life are encouraged to participate and celebrate the different abilities and/or disabilities, shapes and sizes, cultures and ages.
It has been running since 2016 incorporating catwalk sessions, workshops, as well as fashion shows, you can see at ethical.tv https://ethical.tv/2019/01/05/fashionable-2018-celebrating-year-of-youth-at-the-scottish-parliament/ (Year of Youth fashionABLE at the Scottish Parliament, 2018).
This year we focus on confidence building and modelling workshops, including mini portfolio building with industry experts Models of Diversity’s CEO Angel Sinclair and professional photographer James Alexander Lyon https://modelsofdiversity.org/.
This is an exciting free of charge opportunity to learn new skills and boost your confidence by participating in the modelling workshops, and the photoshoot at the Ocean Terminal!
Registration to apply to participate is open for limited days only! Please apply by Sunday the 20th of October. Selected participants will be contacted on Monday the 21st. We are looking to select a most diverse group of people for both workshops, representing all parts of society! 10-15 people for ether workshop day. Please note that you need to be available for one of the two workshops (Friday or Saturday) as well as for make-up/hair sessions followed by a photoshoot on Sunday.
Under 16s need to be accompanied by an adult. By applying/participating you agree to have your photography taken and used for promotion purposes.
For more information and the registration form, please contact Olya olya.handupevents@gmail.com
It has been running since 2016 incorporating catwalk sessions, workshops, as well as fashion shows, you can see at ethical.tv https://ethical.tv/2019/01/05/fashionable-2018-celebrating-year-of-youth-at-the-scottish-parliament/ (Year of Youth fashionABLE at the Scottish Parliament, 2018).
This year we focus on confidence building and modelling workshops, including mini portfolio building with industry experts Models of Diversity’s CEO Angel Sinclair and professional photographer James Alexander Lyon https://modelsofdiversity.org/.
This is an exciting free of charge opportunity to learn new skills and boost your confidence by participating in the modelling workshops, and the photoshoot at the Ocean Terminal!
Registration to apply to participate is open for limited days only! Please apply by Sunday the 20th of October. Selected participants will be contacted on Monday the 21st. We are looking to select a most diverse group of people for both workshops, representing all parts of society! 10-15 people for ether workshop day. Please note that you need to be available for one of the two workshops (Friday or Saturday) as well as for make-up/hair sessions followed by a photoshoot on Sunday.
Under 16s need to be accompanied by an adult. By applying/participating you agree to have your photography taken and used for promotion purposes.
For more information and the registration form, please contact Olya olya.handupevents@gmail.com
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