Empowering Multicultural Communities Alliance

✨ Real Utopias Film Fest ✨
Stories of resilience, climate + community.
📽 Scottish premiere Black Butterflies + The Miracle on George Green.
🎬 Filmmaker workshop | 🥘 Food & drink | 🎟 Free tickets: www.takeoneaction.org.uk/event/black-...
#FilmFestival #Edinburgh #TakeOneAction

✊🏽 JOIN EMCA’S MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE ✊🏾

We’re an antiracist, grassroots, non-hierarchical organisation.
Seeking Women (incl. Trans Women) & Non-binary People from the Global Majority & under-represented communities.

📅 Deadline: 29th Aug
📧 emcalliance@outlook.com

#Antiracism #Grassroots

🚨 Exciting news! EMCA has joined forces with Citizens Rights Project & Workers’ Observatory to launch Migrant Justice Edinburgh 💪🏾

Building migrant solidarity & action across Edinburgh.

More details 👇
e-voice.org.uk/emca/weblog/...

#MigrantJustice #CommunityPower #EMCA

💫 IT’S HERE! 💫

Watch the trailer for Take One Action Film Festivals 2025 and dive into our Real Utopias programme!

EDINBURGH | GLASGOW | INVERNESS | DUNDEE

ACCESS:
🎟️ All tickets pay-what-you-can (£0-20)
💬 All films with descriptive subtitles

Get your tickets now: www.takeoneaction.org.uk

Poster for the Take One Action areal Utopias poster, in purple and bronze. Topographic lines of a map intersect with bronze stills from this year’s films. It includes dates and info about funders.

👋 We’re BACK!

Real Utopias will be coming to screens and community spaces near you this autumn:

〰️ #Edinburgh (17-21 Sep)
〰️ #Glasgow (25-28 Sep)
〰️ #Inverness (28-30 Oct)
〰️ #Dundee (7-8 Nov)

We’re excited to share our gorgeous poster for this year’s festivals, designed by Maddie Lennon!

🌿 Edinburgh residents with lived experience of poverty or racism—help shape funding for justice & climate action! Paid role (£15+/hr), support included.
🗓️ Sept–Nov 2025
📅 Apply by 11 Aug
🔗 regenerativefuturesfund.org.uk/join-us/residents

Just visited some brilliant venues for our September film fest 🎥💥
Stay tuned for more updates soon!

#EdinburghFilmFestival #GrassrootsEnergy#TakeOneActionFilmFestival #RealUtopia

Soft launch of “Flourishing in the Westside” today—huge thanks to all who came! 🎬🌱
Beautiful convos on community, representation & change.

Thanks @mediaeducation.scot + CWC for the support & space.
Big launch coming soon—stay tuned 👀

#WesterHailes #CommunityFilm #FlourishingInTheWestside

🎬 FREE SCREENING + GROUP CHAT

We’re screening a free short film made by local residents with love about Wester Hailes — celebrating community, creativity, and diversity.

🗓️ 21 June 2025
🕑 2–5 PM
📍 Community Wellbeing Collective (the big yellow building at Westside Plaza)

If you’re a food delivery rider and you’re tired of unfair treatment from the platforms — you’re not alone.
Scan the QR code and join ROOM: a community of riders supporting each other and pushing for change.

#solidarity #gigeconomy #fooddelivery #riders #selforganising #theworkersobservatory

Thanks to everyone who joined us for On Falling!
Big shoutout to Xabier from The Workers Observatory and to Morvern from Local Cinema Network for supporting the screening.
Back in Sept—stay tuned!

#CommunityCinema #OnFalling #WorkersObservatory #LocalCinemaNetwork #MulticulturalVoices

Powerful afternoon with Stand Up To Racism Edinburgh on Princes Street.
The gov scapegoats marginalised communities to distract from its own failures.

One group after another—who’s next?

We stand in solidarity.

#Antiracism #Solidarity #StandUpToRacism #Edinburgh #NoToHate

Check out the beautiful moment below 👇 for the first session of film-making programme

#filmmaking #creativity #diversity #learningnewskills #southwestedinburgh #solidaritytheoughfilms

Proud to be part of Local Community Cinemas Network☺️☺️

Check out our upcoming Screening at Community Wellbeing Collective 24th May👇

We’re co-producing a community film fest in SW Edinburgh this Sept & need collaborators!
10–12 hrs of mtgs (May–Aug), reimbursed. No exp. needed—just creativity & care.
Email emcalliance@outlook.com by 30 Apr.
Your voice. Your ideas. Your festival.

All the revenue generated from
ticket sale will be donated to beloved local charity Community Wellbeing Collective!

Multicultural Community Cinema presents: ON FALLING

A poetic & piercing film on the gig economy and our need for connection.

Time: Sat 24th May | 2–5PM
Venue: Community Wellbeing Space, EH14 3HR
Age: 16+

Free drinks, and popcorn.
Book: www.eventbrite.com/e/1320325100...

#onfalling #cinema

Our next Multicultural Community Cinema screening features On Falling (2024), a gripping drama by Laura Carreira about a Portuguese warehouse worker in Scotland facing the trials of the gig economy. 

Trailer below. More details to follow.

#CommunityCinema #OnFalling #FilmScreening #WesterHailes