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Free-to-Attend Maternity & Midwifery Festival (MMF) & UK Livestream The Maternity & Midwifery Forum presents national broadcasts from our free-to-attend MMF Festivals across the UK and Ireland. These events provide professional updates across the year on all the latest research, practice, education and career insights for midwifery professionals and healthcare professionals working in maternity and midwifery. The Edinburgh Maternity and Midwifery Festival 2025 is on Tuesday 25th November – book now to guarantee your free place or book your online access. Tickets: ATTEND IN PERSON: FREE VIEW ONLINE + ON DEMAND: £49.95 COMMERCIAL DELEGATE: £150 + booking fee Keep up to date with the ideal complement to your professional development. All of our Festivals are free of charge to attend for all practising midwives, academics, allied healthcare professionals and student midwives. The festivals are funded by sponsors and exhibitors to make attending FREE to HCPs working in maternity & midwifery. The professional content recorded at each Maternity & Midwifery Festival is edited to form a box set which is provided FREE, for e-learning, revalidation and training purposes, to every delegate who attends in person and returns their evaluation form . Can’t attend in person? R eserve your live stream access ( and on - demand access) t o 10 hours of CPD or Revalidation lectures and talks. “The most illuminating 20 m inute video s – like TED talks for maternity specialist s! ” Each festival produces a guaranteed 10 hours of study or revalidation content . Online Access is available to pre-book for a charge of £49. 95 for practising and student healthcare professionals only. This option is ideal for watching on the day or catching up later. Tickets There is a charge of £150 plus Eventbrite's booking fee for the Commercial Delegates working for companies. Rate from the ticket options. ATTEND IN PERSON: FREE VIEW ONLINE + ON DEMAND: £49.95 COMMERCIAL DELEGATE: £150 + booking fee Contact: Paul Rushworth Tel: 020 7324 4330 paul@narrowcastmedia.co.uk Why contribute? Your contribution to the Maternity & Midwifery Forum helps build new free professional education, revalidation and CPD digital resources for midwifery and maternity professionals. Your support keeps Maternity & Midwifery Festivals free to attend, weekly newsletters free and the free weekly maternity and midwifery hour podcast generating the most up to date news and research. Through your support for the Maternity & Midwifery Forum you are helping the professional world of maternity services meet the need for trusted online digital education and training material that can be viewed, everywhere in the world on anything, from lecture theatres to mobile phones. To make a donation, click here Information Source: Maternity & Midwifery Forum | eventbrite

Founded in 1947, the Edinburgh International Festival is a world-class performing arts event and an annual gathering for people from all over the world. Upholding excellence and innovation, the festival lasts for three weeks each August, bringing together top performers and groups in dance, opera, music, and theatre, making Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, a world-class performing arts event and an annual gathering for people from all over the world. Each year, the Edinburgh International Festival team searches the globe for the most dynamic and creative artists of our time. Together, they create unique collaborative projects, world premieres, fresh interpretations of classic works, critically acclaimed productions, and more… all designed to attract, amaze, and entertain audiences from around the world. All of this takes place in Edinburgh, the historic capital of Scotland.

The Cold War was a 40-year nuclear stand-off between the USA and the Soviet Union after the Second World War. Scotland’s unique landscape provided a useful base for Allied military preparations and research. The impact of the war still lingers in Scottish politics, culture and memory. Scots played an active role in the global conflict as soldiers within intelligence services and as part of voluntary civil defences. The exhibition will draw on Scotland’s rich history of Cold War-era protest and activism. Cold War Scotland is an output of Materialising the Cold War, a collaborative research project between National Museums Scotland and the University of Stirling. The project explores how the Cold War heritage is represented and how museums can adapt to tell this story in future. Materialising the Cold War is funded by a major grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

On the night of December 29th, the entire city will be illuminated by tens of thousands of torches. Led by a Viking band, the crowd will depart from The Meadows, march along the ancient streets towards the Old Town, and finally arrive at the foot of Edinburgh Castle. Along the way, street performances, bagpipe bands, and drum music will create a "river of fire."

Explore the creation and use of maps during the Second World War. Discover their use through personal stories, photography, and memorabilia. Between 1939 and 1945 over 3 billion maps were produced for the Allied, Soviet and German forces. Used to navigate the jungles of south-east Asia or for devising an escape plan, the maps on display are now mementoes. Maps kept alongside medals and photographs to say ‘I was there.’ You'll find aerial photography, war diaries, and even a fashionable dress made from escape and evasion maps. The exhibition introduces us to a Prisoner of War, an RAF pilot, a Brigadier and an army chaplain through the maps they kept as a memory of their war service.

From heroin to gambling, from alcohol to love, HOOKED explores the history of addiction. It invites you to consider the stereotypes attached to addiction and how all of us can be vulnerable to it.Exploring pills, drink, snuff and cigarettes, we uncover the many faces of addiction and the many attempts to combat it. We explore the dark origins of substance addiction in the western world – rooted deeply in colonialism and slavery.

This is the first exhibition of its kind to show primate taxidermy specimens behaving as they would in the wild. 'Monkeys: Our Primate Family' brings together more than 50 taxidermy specimens, including monkeys, apes, lemurs and lorises. Specimens on display include the Barbary Macaque, Western Lowland Gorilla, and ring-tailed Lemur.

Trace McLean’s humorous and lively six-decade longinquiry into sculpture and revel in his criticisms of the art world from within. Through works madeacross a range of media – including photography, performance, painting, printmaking, film, and ceramics – this display invites you to challenge your thinking about sculpture and expandyour ideas of what it can be.

This fascinating display shines a light on the courageous groups who created and distributed newspapers, pamphlets and booklets during World War Two. By exhibiting the material they produced, it shows the important contributions they made to countering oppression.

The Siren’s Rest Come join us at The Siren's Rest for an enchanting evening of bold and brilliant new work from the creatives and artisans of Scotland. Grab a drink and take a seat as you watch four new theatre pieces take their first breath on the stage. Marvel in the storytelling and drag performances which will be sprinkled during the evening that will dazzle and fulfill you with wonder. A night to connect, creative and celebrate. We can't wait to welcome you into the warm embrace of The Siren's Rest! EXTRA EXTRA READ ALL ABOUT IT! News just hit that there will be a fabulous bonus raffle that you don't want to miss! Sneak peek of prizes include... Paintings, sweet treats, tickets and more! FREE PRIZES! CREATIVE WRITING! FABULOUS PERFORMANCES! A NIGHT OF WONDER! Why are we doing this? This scratch night is a celebration of performance! Whether this is through theatre, dance, drag or storytelling, we want to highlight all artists across all mediums and celebrate their talent. With "The Siren's Rest" it allows us, here at Fat Pooch, to support emerging artists and give them a stage to shine. Our goal is to continue to lift and share work created by incredibly talented people here in Scotland. Information Source: Fat Pooch Productions | eventbrite