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 The Forest: Café, Arts and Social Space, commonly Forest Café,[1][2] is an independent social centre and arts centre located on Bristo Place, central Edinburgh, Scotland.[3][4] It is notable for being run by volunteers as a charitable self-sustaining not-for-profit. Formerly the Edinburgh Congressional Church, the building was purchased by the Edinburgh University Settlement[1] and houses the café, an arts gallery, performance space, a rehearsal/music studio, and darkroom. Free events are held regularly, including workshops, music, film, poetry, theatre and readings. During each summer the venue runs the August Forest Fringe, a theatre and alternative arts programme as an alternative compliment to the mainstream Edinburgh Festival.[3] The Forest is adjacent to the student-run Edinburgh University Bedlam Theatre, also a converted church.
[edit] BackgroundThe building at 3 Bristo Place was constructed during 1899–1900 to a design by Sydney Mitchell and Wilson for the Evangelical Union[5] on the site of a former Baptist Chapel.[6] The Grade-B listed building has 659 square metres (7,090 sq ft) of floor space and was previously owned by the National Museums of Scotland, who sold the building for £600,000 during 2003.[7][8] The plaque over the door reflects its subsequent use as a Seventh-day Adventist Church, who had purchased the building in 1942[6][9] and used it until 2000.[1]
The Forest organisation itself started in August 2000[10] with a venue in West Port, or Guthrie Street,[1] off the Grassmarket in Edinburgh's Old Town that was lost to fire.[1] Relocation to the Bistro Place premises started in September 2003 and opened in October 2003.
In 2004, the Forest Café became one of only four internet cafés in the United Kingdom to have won a highly recommended citation in the Yahoo! Mail Internet Café Awards.[10] The café serves vegetarian cuisine, locally produced organic food[3], vegan food and Fairtrade drinks.[11] Free Wi-Fi and public computer terminals are provided. [edit] Pipe organThe upper floors of the building are the former church, the centre piece of which is an Gray & Davison-built pipe organ. This is powered by compressed air and has 16-foot (4.9 m) high pipes. It was originally installed at the Chapel Royal, Dublin Castle in the late nineteen century and transferred to its present location in 1900.[2] The organ fell into disrepair[1] until mid-June 2007 when the Debian annual conference—DebConf7—was held in Edinburgh. During the week-long event, sufficient repairs were made by Tore Sinding Bekkedal and others to enable the organ to function again[12][13] at which point it was played by Keith Packard.[14] In 2008–2009, Project Waldflöte (English: "Forest Flute") was initiated, a musical experiment to control sections of the mechanical musical keyboard via an electronic MIDI interface from a computer. Waldflöte is the designation of one of the organ stops available and was chosen because of the connection of the word "forest". The argumentation of the keyboards was undertaken by Dorkbot Alba without any long-term modification of the original organ.[2] [edit] References
[edit] External linksCoordinates: 55°56′46.31″N 3°11′23.75″W / 55.9461972°N 3.1899306°W |
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