City to host ‘mass participation artwork’

Thousands of women and girls are being urged to take to the streets of Edinburgh to form a vast “river of colour” through the city in June to represent the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote.

Participants will be urged to wear green, white or violet – the colours of the suffrage movement – to help form one of the UK’S biggest ever “mass participation artworks”.

Organisations the length and breadth of Scotland will be helping to create special banners for the event, which is expected to see participants parade past the Scottish Parliament. The Scottish capital is one of four locations through the UK to take part in the “Processions” event.

The National Theatre of Scotland, Edinburgh College of Art the Scottish Refugee Council, Glasgow Women’s Library, the Eastgate Theatre in Peebles and the Macrobert Arts Centre in Stirling will all be involved.