n Edinburgh One World Festival: Bob Marley's legacy lives on in the east. Edinburgh's long-running One World Festival runs throughout this week with a suitably eclectic and invigorating line-up of events guaranteed to get mind, body, and stomach in full perky working order. Co-ordinator of the decade-old event is Nicola Witcombe, who describes its objectives thus: ''To encourage social and cultural tolerance through entertainment and discussion, to provide a platform to help religious, environmental, and international groups to work together and to inform the public on topics of mutual concern.''
The stuffy corridors of power that are Edinburgh's City Chambers will be transformed on Saturday with African drummers taking over as part of Rainbow City 1999. Light relief from the talks and workshops on race, ethics, and rebuilding communities can be found in the belly-dancing and African dance workshops.
Clean the cobwebs from your conscience, get down to Rainbow City, and participate in the most sensible talks that have probably been heard in the City Chambers since - ooh - the city transport plans.
Edinburgh One World Festival runs until Sunday. Call 0131 220 6350 for details of all events.
n Glaschu: Novelist Archie Hind's Dear Green Place has undergone a transformation at the hands of Paisley-born artist Anya Gallaccio. A sumptuous and stunning one at that. Goldsmith College-trained and with a globe-trotting CV behind her (including an early stint in Damien Hirst's Freeze expo in 1988), Glaschu - Dear Green Place is surprisingly the 35-year-old's first solo project in Scotland.
Gallaccio has created a ''living carpet'' of plants in an arrangement based upon designs produced by the renowned Templeton carpet factory which stands on the perimeter of Glasgow Green. Situated in the reclaimed space of the Old Court House, Gallaccio's live installation can be spotted literally growing out of the architectural landmark's windows.
Anya Gallaccio's Glaschu (Dear Green Place) is at the Old Court House, 191 Ingram Street from Thursday until April 25.
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