Draft:Easterhouse Festival Society

Easterhouse Road (in 2017)


The Easterhouse Festival Society was formed in Autumn 1977, partly influenced by the similar and earlier initiative, the Craigmillar Festival Society formed in Edinburgh. It was a community led initiative, designed to be run by the people of Easterhouse rather than by a national authority.[1] The aim of the Society was to inspire community action and bring people from the community together, developing the talents of those living in the area.[1] Easterhouse was a fairly socio-economically deprived area of Easterhouse, for example, suffering from a significant gang culture in the 1960s-1990s.