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CRAIGMILLAR COMMUNIVERSITY PRESS
(All sales go back into communiversity for projects in Craigmillar)
Comprehensive Plan for Action (The Gentle Giant who cares and shares)
First Published 1978
Now available on CD with Janet Howie mp3 song.
£2.99
CD: CPA 120 pages
LET THE PEOPLE SING by Dr Helen Crummy MBE
£6.95
Having sold 2000 copies since its publication in 1992, an essential and recognise classic in Community Arts and Community development. Helen Crummy documents the positive social change through the communities’ own creative intervention in Craigmillar, Edinburgh, Scotland. A story of divided Britain, focusing on Helen Crummy - child, then mother and activist - from Craigmillar in Edinburgh, one of Scotland's most notorious and maligned public housing schemes. She describes how the community came to question and take charge of the forces that shape their lives.
Paperback: 240 pages
Publisher: Craigmillar Communiversity Press (April 1992)
Language English
ISBN: 0951859307
The Boy who wanted to play the violin
Written and illustrated by Andrew Crummy
Designed by Shirley Anne Murdoch
£3.99 + postage and packaging
Written and illustrated by Andrew Crummy, this short children’s book tells the story of what happened after a little boy wanted to learn to play the violin and how it affected his community. This Scottish story is based on the classic story, often retold, of how The Craigmillar Festival Society , Edinburgh was born in 1962.
Paperback: 16 pages
Publisher: Craigmillar Communiversity Press (Oct 2004)
Language English
ISBN: 095433485X
Arts The Catalyst Craigmillar
£6.99 + postage and packaging
Craigmillar Communiversity Press (All sales go back into communiversity for projects in Craigmillar)
The beautiful book shows how community creativity changed Craigmillar
and beyond.
With essays from Dr Helen
Crummy MBE, David Harding MBE, Bill Douglas, Richard Demarco OBE, Ruth Wishart,
David Black, Mike Greenlaw, Jimmy Boyle and many more.
Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Craigmillar Communiversity Press (Oct 2004)
Language English
ISBN: 0954334817
Craigmillar Gold Volune 1
£7.99 + post and packaging
Well known Craigmillar songs including "When People Play Thier Part", "Craigmillar Now" written between 1972 and 1978. Led by Douglas Galbraith, and performed by the original cast of the Community Musicals. These Musicals have been held up as the best example of Community Theatre in UK.
CD: 18 tracks
Publisher: Craigmillar Communiversity Press (Oct 2004)
Language English
Janet Howie and friends
£7.99 + post and packaging
Janet sings some of her favourite songs including " When people play thier part", also music by Bob Cairns and storytelling of Craigmillar by Heather Henderson.
CD: 17 tracks
Publisher: Craigmillar Communiversity Press (Oct 2004)
Language English
Mine a Rich Vien
Craigmillar Communiversity Press (10 Oct 2003)
Language English
ISBN: 0954334841
Book Description
The follow-up to ‘Let The People Sing’, Helen Crummy’s
definitive book on the social history of Craigmillar and positive visions
for it’s future.
Craigmillar Gold, Songs from the community musicals 1973 - 77
£7.99 + post and packaging
For the first time ever these well known songs are published for all to enjoy. From the Arled Bairn to The Haggis Song. While Douglas Galbraith was the inspiration of many of these songs, many are wriiten by songwriters from Craigmillar and beyond.
Paperback: 96 pages
Publisher: Craigmillar Communiversity Press (Oct 2004)
Language English
ISBN: 0954334833
Barony Bard
£7.99 + post and packaging
Craigmillar Communiversity Press (All sales go back into communiversity for projects in Craigmillar)
An eclectic selection of poems from Craigmillar miner and life-long political activist George Montgomery.
Paperback: 120 pages
Publisher: Craigmillar Communiversity Press (Oct 2004)
Language English
ISBN: 0954334825
Communiversity: How to Start Your Own Community Degree Programme
THIS PUBLICATION IS NOW OUT OF STOCK UNTIL WE DO A REPRINT
Craigmillar Communiversity Press
This guide by Andrew Crummy tells you all you need to know about setting up your own Communiversity. The history of the Communiversity from 1965 to 2002.And the various versions of the concept.
Publisher: Craigmillar Communiversity Press (Oct 2002)
Language English
ISBN: 0954334809
The Violin Lesson by Michael Marra
Regarded as one of Scotlands
finest songwriters, Michael having worked in Craigmillar, penned "The Violin Lesson" in
1993, in his Candy Philosophy album. Inspired from the story of the little
boy who wanted to
play the violin.
It can be purchased for £1 on The Michael Marra MP3 site
https://www.groupsites.co.uk/client/marra_me_uk/music_store/view_product.php?product=MMADLCP05