Welcome 2017! New beginnings are opportunities and we are looking forward to this new year of deeper connections and widening our community. If you would like to get involved, start something positive- get in touch, we love to support the community to thrive.
Classes in 2017
New Classes to check out
Mark Smith’s MySore Yoga Class on Monday & Wednesday mornings, 6.30-8.30am. Tessa of YesYoga Vinyasa/Hatha Yoga Class on Monday mornings, 9.15-10.15am. Lunchtime Yoga with Mark on Tuesdays 1230-130pm. Penny Johnstone’s Pilates classes on Thursday mornings, 9.15-10.15am and Friday evenings at 6-7pm. Our regular Conquer Gravity & Pilates with Sabrina, Pilates with Christina, Yoga with Sarah and Yoga with Lokeshvarii are still running and can be found here.
Tribal Bellydance and Costuming
We are excited about our new introduction to Tribal Belleydance and Costuming workshops starting on the 25th Feb, 1-3pm. There will be 4 workshops run over 4 months, with scope to build in weekly classes for those who are interested in progressing. Bellydancing is a fun and great way to keep fit, build up confidence and self esteem, make new friends and is suitable for all ages,shapes, sizes and fitness levels. More info here.
Pathways to Prosperity: Places, Spaces and Graces?
Dani and Anna are looking forward to one of the sessions of the Fire Starter Festival 2017, Pathways to Prosperity. Iain Scott of CAN DO Places looks to explain the importance of place-based entrepreneurship in ensuring truly sustainable local economies. CAN DO Places is an initiative working with local groups who are passionate about restoring life to underused places and spaces in their communities. Fellow social entrepreneur, Claire Carpenter, is also speaking about the value of co-working spaces in helping to breed a stronger culture of entrepreneurship.
Solar Hackathon
On Sunday, 5th March 2017 Tribe Porty are teaming up with CREATIVenergie, Love Ghana and the University of Edinburgh to host Portobello’s first Solar Hackathon. We invite you to join us to collaboratively design a flat pack solar lantern that is robust yet stylish and can be both manufactured and assembled in African countries using recycled materials as much as possible. The impact: creation of local manufacturing opportunities, reduction in air miles and transportation costs, and most importantly a more affordable lighting solution that is cleaner and safer than kerosene lamps.
“Presuming a reservoir of goodness in others can be a risk.”
So said our outgoing president, Barack Hussein Obama, in his final speech in Chicago recently. I watched while thinking about all that I have so often taken for granted these past eight years — a man, however imperfect, who quotes historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and hip hop artist Talib Kweli. A man who has grown gray from knowing just how impossible and necessary his job has been. A first lady who so lovingly makes fun of that man, while also clearly talking about him with such respect. A brilliant, grounded woman who, against all odds, really does seem to have managed to be so much of herself while under a racially-tinted microscope. A family that remade The White House, not just in symbol, but in substance, too. America will never be the same.
…We all start from that terrific vulnerability. We all have mothers, whether they stick around or not. We all want love, meaning, safety, and sandwiches… Read more here.
We have so many new folk for the beginning of this year! We welcome;
Debbie Bayne has just taken a big leap: she’s given up a day’s pay and started hotdesking at Tribe Porty on a Friday. Debbie has written a novel and is trying to find an agent who’ll get her a publishing deal. Everything she’s read about the process says it will be probably be long, hard and filled with rejection, so if you find her moping in the kitchen please feed her chocolate! Debbie also blogs about what she is doing: https://rookieauthor.wordpress.com The rest of the week she is a development worker for a disabled people’s charity – sets up and facilitates peer support groups and workshops, and co-ordinates volunteers. Before and after work every day Debbie is writing novel number two!
Julie Stewart-Simpson is hot-desking (and yoga-ing) at Tribe a couple days a week and works as an Events Exec at Worldwide Cancer Research providing Challenges & Treks, UK and Overseas. They are a Scottish based charity funding early stage research into all cancers all over the world. If you fancy testing your limits and raising funds to help ensure no life is cut short by cancer then check out our website and click on Fundraising Events, then check out Challenges &Treks. Julie is also doing the Edinburgh Night Ride in June with a few others (50 mile cycle during the night!) if anyone else fancies joiner her for the charity, see here.
Osbert Lancaster has joined us in January for one day a week. Osbert is quietly passionate about helping create a world where people and nature flourish and is a specialist in social change for sustainability, and he also supports people and organisations deliver results and bring about change that make a meaningful difference. Osbert consults, facilitates and trains as a freelance at osbert.org and as a director of naturalchange.co.uk. He lives in Portobello and love sailing and rowing – but is currently distracted by our puppy.
Last but not least, Lewis Notarangelo has taken a permanent desk this month. Lewis runs Immagine Productions. We are a video production company producing videos for clients such as Lothian Buses, Nairns Oatcakes, Scotrail, STV. We work mainly in the corporate sector but dabble in other things too. Lewis is also part time photographer-when he can be bothered. Another side to Lewis is that he is one part the Smokin Bros; a small local street food/pop up vendor. They do smoked brisket, pork shoulder, ribs- anything they can smoke really. Smokin Bros have pop ups usually in the summer so look out for invites! Check them out on facebook!
In Amy Poehler’s highly anticipated first book, Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice (some useful, some not so much), like when to be funny and when to be serious. Powered by Amy’s charming and hilarious, biting yet wise voice, Yes Please is a book full of words to live by.
Today, anyone can be in business. Tools that used to be out of reach are now easily accessible. Technology that cost thousands is now just a few pounds or even free. Stuff that was impossible just a few years ago is now simple.
That means anyone can start a business. And you can do it without working miserable 80-hour weeks or depleting your life savings. You can start it on the side while your day job provides all the cash flow you need. Forget about business plans, meetings, office space – you don’t need them.
3 tips for the introvert to survive a new co-working space
Just like your first day at a new school, joining a new co-working space can turn into a daunting event that makes you want to run back to your bed and hide under the covers. Okay, well maybe it’s not that extreme, but it’s still commonplace to feel nervous entering a new work environment, especially if you’re an introvert! Find out what they are here.
