Come along to the Community Wellbeing Space, the yellow building located at the rear of the Westside Centre carpark, on Saturday 15th August 2026, 12.00pm – 4.00pm for an afternoon of history, photography, creativity, and community connection in Wester Hailes, and dive deep into the extensive archive of Sandra George, exhibiting now at the City Art Centre!
Sandra George was a community worker, photographer, and social documentarian who dedicated her life to building communities, documenting and developing vital social-action projects in Edinburgh for over thirty years. The legacy she has left is a first-hand social history through her distinctive lens, including over 3000 images of Wester Hailes and South West Edinburgh.
See her astonishing original photos, contribute to the archive record with your information on the who, what, where, and why of them (and who knows – maybe you’ll even spot yourself!) and explore community stories, reminiscences, and visions through performances, story telling, and memory sharing.
Food, drinks, community connection, entertainment, and old photographs – what could make a better afternoon?
12pm – 1pm – Free Community Meal
1pm – 2pm – Archives Exploration with Craigmillar Now
2pm – 3:30pm – Photography Workshop with Ezra Celik
3:30pm – 4:00pm – Drinks, Performances, and Reflections with Leilani Taneus-Miller, and featuring the poetry of Michael George
Featuring:
Ezra Celik, mixed media artist. Hailing from Wester Hailes, Ezra is a writer, director, tutor, and photographer whose work explores social identity, gender, political action, urbanisation, and transcending class. He has produced numerous zines, including the acclaimed In The Shadows of Westside with Stills Gallery, as well as biographical short film July, South. A member of CWC, selections of his work will be shown in companion to Sandra George’s on the day.
Leilani Taneus-Miller, creative writer, mixed media artist, and researcher. Leilani’s practice draws upon oral histories, ephemeral literature, artefacts and memories, and her recent collaborations include poetry and film projects with Scottish BPOC Writers Network, Edinburgh Council, Paxton House, Edinburgh Caribbean Association and City Arts Centre. Her ekphrastic poems for Caribbean Connections were selected as a best practice in sustainable co-production by Museum Galleries Scotland, and she was awarded a visual arts residency at ScotArt for her Afrofuturistic textile installation, Mervella’s Shoe. Her PhD project, Koupe tèt, Boule kay, is a retelling of Haitian diasporic oral histories through poetry, theatre and art.
We can’t wait to see you there!
Article submitted by the Community Wellbeing Collective.
