SATURDAY 6TH & SUNDAY 7TH JUNE 2026
SATURDAY 6TH & SUNDAY 7TH JUNE 2026
Join us for the Everywoman Festival’s first Pop-Up event in Edinburgh, in partnership with Edinburgh Medical School 300 and Meadows Festival!
SATURDAY 6TH JUNE 2026, 11:00AM - 5:00PM
SUNDAY 7TH 2026, 11:00AM - 3:00PM
THE MEADOWS FESTIVAL, THE MEADOWS, EDINBURGH, EH9 9EX
Everywoman Festival is popping up inside The Meadows Festival in Edinburgh, in collaboration with Edinburgh Medical School 300! We're bringing our celebration of women’s health, empowerment, and connection to the heart of the festival, creating a dedicated space where everyone is welcome. This special pop-up is all about making Everywoman Fest more accessible and reaching new audiences in a vibrant, inclusive setting. With the support of EMS300 and alongside other inspiring voices in women’s health, we’re expanding the conversation.
About Edinburgh Medical School 300
In 1726, the first formal Faculty of Medicine was established. In 2026 Medical School will join with their communities, past and present, to explore 300 years of history and plan for their future. The world is changing and the way health systems work and professionals deliver patient care is changing too. Edinburgh Medical School 300 is helping the University of Edinburgh to design a programme of future medicine approaches that will prepare doctors, nurses and scientists to take a leading role in addressing the health, climate and societal challenges they’ll encounter in their working lives.
About The Meadows Festival
Established in 1974 the Meadows Festival has been run on the first weekend of June almost every year since. Over the past 50 years the festival has changed and the event now boasts one of the UK’s largest community festivals with the biggest outdoor market in Edinburgh and something for all ages.
The festival will take place on the 6th & 7th June 2026 and is free to enter.
EDINBURGH TEAM
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Ingrid Hoeritzauer, PhD, MRCP (Neurology), is a Consultant Neurologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at University of Edinburgh, UK. She works both as a general neurologist with a clinical and research interest in Functional Neurological Disorders and in acute traumatic brain injuries rehabilitation. Ingrid is the secretary of the British Neuropsychiatric Association and a Trustee of the charity Fowler's Syndrome UK.
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Dr Marti Balaam is a healthcare educationalist, researcher, nurse, and applied social scientist with over 30 years’ experience across medical, nursing, and social care education. She is Director of Professionalism at the University of Edinburgh, Senior Lecturer in Medical Education and Nursing Studies, and co-leads student experience for the Edinburgh Medical School 300-year project.
She is founding Director of The Compassion Salon and a published poet, co-editing anthologies including To Mind Your Life: Poems for Nurses and Midwives, reflecting her interest in wellbeing and compassionate care.
Marti's life work centres on the transformative power of compassion. Through her writing and advocacy, she explores how systems of power and control can obstruct the human capacity to for love care and connection. Her voice speaks to universal truths, inviting reflection on what it means to care deeply in a world that often resists softness.
Marti focuses on compassion, advocating for its integration into healthcare training and curricula to improve practice and society. She is Co-Director of the Edinburgh Global Compassion Initiative and is recognised for promoting humane, socially responsible approaches to healthcare education.
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Miss Mhairi Collie MBChB MD FRCS OBE is a consultant colorectal surgeon in Edinburgh, specialising in cancer, pelvic floor, prolapse and incontinence surgery. She is passionate about Women's Health in Scotland and globally.
Since 2001, she has regularly undertaken surgery in sub-Saharan Africa treating women with obstetric related injuries. She worked for Medecins sans Frontieres initially, then in 2003 co-founded the charity “Uganda Childbirth Injury Fund”. This charity delivers surgical treatment for over 200 women annually.
She has recently published a novel to raise awareness and funding for obstetric fistula, called “The Bright Fabric of Life”.