Fun Palaces is a national and international campaign for cultural democracy and community connection, founded in 2013. Fun Palaces core team and Ambassadors (all part-time) support volunteers, grassroots communities, new and established organisations and practitioners across the UK (and beyond) to connect, to celebrate their genius, skills and culture, and, over the Fun Palaces weekend of action (the first weekend of October), to make Fun Palaces - free, local events using arts, craft, science, tech, digital, heritage and sport, as a catalyst to celebrate each unique community and the skills and interests of those who live there.

Fun Palaces create events that bring together arts, science, craft, tech, digital, heritage and sports activities – but above all PEOPLE – to work together, create together, have FUN together, and in doing so, contribute to our own communities, from the grassroots up.

At Eden Court we are very proud to host Fun Palaces Ambassador Alis Ballance and Freya Taylor. Together we want to encourage a culture where people can be themselves and be valued for their strengths.

Alis and Freya work with Eden Court to develop relationships with our communities and to promote and champion the Fun Palaces campaign. 

Coming up!

Café Fun Palace 
Eden Court café /bar 
Sun 03 July, 1.30pm - 3pm

Creativity is for all - A workshop with Fun Palaces Scotland

We believe that everyone is creative and we want to celebrate that!

Come join Freya Taylor (Eden Court) and Lewis Hou (Science Ceilidh, SLIC), get creative together, and find out a bit more about the Fun Palaces campaign for “cultural democracy”. All very welcome to join and spend a creative Sunday afternoon together, refreshments provided! Suitable for all the family.

In September 2019, Fun Palaces was awarded £1.5m from The National Lottery Community Fund's UK Portfolio. This is for five years (Sept 2019 - Sept 2024) and covers the core work of the campaign.

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