Venue: Dalmeny Estate
After suffering possibly the worst Skt. Hans weather ever last year, we hope we are in for a dry spell as the lovely beach on Dalmeny Estate will provide a fantastic setting for our Skt Hans celebrations with the ritual burning of witches and midges!
As usual, BBQ food is served and drinks will be on sale at the event. All you have to do is bring blankets/picnic chairs and perhaps a copy of Højskolesangbogen. We do recommend waterproof clothing… just in case!!!

Price: £6 for adults and £3 for children over 5, but do let us know beforehand of any ‘hungry’ children under 5. Please sign up by returning the cut-off slip below before 6th June.

Please go to the car park at Dalmeny House and follow the signs from there.

How to find Dalmeny House:
From Edinburgh: take A90 northbound (towards Forth Road Bridge). Turn off slip road signposted for South Queensferry. The main entrance to Dalmeny Estate is approx. ½ mile up this road, on your right. Enter through main entrance and follow tarmac road until you see Dalmeny House and car park on your left.
From Fife: After Forth Road Bridge, take 1st slip road signposted for South Queensferry. At roundabout, take first left. At next roundabout (Burger King), take 1st left into South Queensferry. Take 4th right (Station Road) and carry on to T-junction at the end of this road. Turn right up to T-junction in Dalmeny Village, then turn left and continue until you reach the crossroads at main entrance to Dalmeny Estate.

Bus no. 43 from Edinburgh stops at the main entrance (ask for the Chapel Gate bus stop).

PAPER WORKS AND SO DOES PRINT, AN EXHIBITION OF WORK BY TWO ARTISTS INGRID BELL AND JANE MURRAY.

Ingrid has been a long standing member of the DSS and served on the committee some ten years ago. Ingrid has exhibited and sold widely in Denmark whilst she was living there from 1985 - 1995.

INGRID’S WORK COMPRISES OF INSTALLATION AND PRINTMAKING PARTICULARLY DERIVED FROM HER OWN BLACK AND WHITE FILM FOOTAGE OF URBAN INDUSTRIAL LANDSCAPE.
JANES WORK TO DATE IS CONSERNED WITH THE VALUE OF MARK MAKING COUPLED WITH THE USE OF LINE AND COLOUR. THE SIMPLE CONSTRUCTION ALLOWS FOR LENGHTY CONSIDERATION.

You and your guest are invited to the preview on Thursday 18th June 6pm-8pm

EXHIBITION: “PAPER WORKS AND SO DOES PRINT” by INGRID BELL JANE MURRAY
18TH JUNE - 1ST JULY 2009
TUESDAY - SATURDAY 12PM -4PM

VENUE; WASPS STUDIOS
1d PATRIOTHALL
HAMILTON PLACE, STOCKBRIDGE , EDINBURGH EH3 5AJ
For Further Information call
tel: 0131 226 7126 or
EMAIL:  patriothall@btconnect.com
WEBSITE: www.patriothallgallery.co.uk

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Our teachers are educated in Denmark and offer a personal and individually planned training in the Danish language. The online lessons are planned to train both verbal and written skills and the education matches the demands and objectives stated by the Danish Ministry of Education.

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Globalista
www.globalista.dk
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Venue: Dalmeny Estate, South Queensferry
Once again a chance to join us for an informal clay pigeon shoot at Dalmeny Estate.
Meet at 10 am at the car park by Dalmeny House (see Skt. Hans section below for directions). Wrap up warm and bring hot drinks as you should expect to be outdoors for approx. 2 hours.

Cost: £10 per head for those taking part in the shooting. Spectators are also very welcome.

Please let Pernille know by 17th April if you’d like to attend,
tel.: 0131 3311790, email: pl.chapman@virgin.net.
In case of bad weather, do phone ahead on the day to check if this event is still going ahead.

Venue: The Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh
Axel Dalberg Poulsen will be our guide on a private tour demonstrating how research on gingers is carried out and why it is important. You will see how collections of gingers are managed in the herbarium and the glass houses – places which are not usually open to the public.

You may want to visit Axel’s home page to view ginger pictures from his recent expeditions: http://dalbergpoulsen.com

Meet at 2 p.m. at the East Gate (Inverleith Row). The tour will take approx. 1 hour and will mainly take place inside. Afterwards, there will be an option to buy refreshments, coffee or tea at the café and/or go for a walk outside in the Garden.
Although you are welcome to just turn up at this event, we would appreciate some indication of numbers, so please phone or email Ulla if you plan to attend.

Venue: Yellowcraig Beach, East Lothian
Please join us on our annual DSS picnic. This year we will gather at Yellowcraig Beach, East Lothian where there is a play park and plenty of space on the beach and dunes for games such as rounders, spoon race etc.
We meet at 11am at the play park.
Please bring your own picnic, blankets, ‘sports gear’ and swimwear (for the optimists).Keep fingers crossed for good weather, and we’ll see you there!

Directions:
Follow A198 eastwards. Drive through various villages: Port Seton, Longniddry, Aberlady, Gullane, and Dirleton. Yellowcraig is signposted on the left around the turn-off for Dirleton Castle. Just follow directions for Yellowcraig.

We wish our members a very happy New year from all of the comittee. We are currently working up the last details of the 2009 Events Calendar, which will be sent out very soon along with the January Newsletter. The Calendar will also be made available from the society website.

Children’s Playgroup

We are a group of bilingual children aged 0-7 who meet with our Danish-Scottish parents to play and sing Danish songs etc. Our provisional programme for April-June is as follows:

19.4.09 – Botanic Gardens;

9.5.09 – Dalkeith Country Park;

6.6.09 – Fife Animal Park;

28.6 – East Links Family Farm.

Please feel free to join us at any of these.
If you would like to know more, please contact Jette Lemvig (see details below).

We have kindly been sponsored new web-hosting for our website and are currently in the progress of updating to a new system. The new website will contain some more features and will also allow for members to contribute to the articles posted here.

We should be returning to a more familiar ‘look’ soon - meantime please let us know if you have specific requests for the website.

We are also interested in further sponsorships can in return offer advertising space on the new website. Please contact us on info@danishscottishsociety.org