Monday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today

CONTACT: Young Photographers Group Exhibition. CONTACT is an eight-week photography club for young people aged 16-19; over the duration of the course, the group has learned new skills and worked towards the development of this exhibition. 11am-6pm today and on Tuesday 23rd and Wednesday 24th June, with a special celebration 4.30-5pm on Tuesday 23rd, Stills, 23 Cockburn Street.

Cameo Toddler Time: short screenings exclusively for pre-school children and their parents and carers; no adult will be admitted unaccompanied by a child. Today’s film is Toot the Tiny Tug Boat Programme 4 (U): life on the high seas is a whirl of fun and adventure when you’re a little boat with big ideas – Toot works and plays with his ocean-going friends in the busy waters of the harbour. 11am, Cameo, Home Street. Membership of the Toddler Time Club is free – ask at the Box Office. Tickets for club members cost £3 per child (accompanying adults free) and may be purchased in person, by calling the Box Office on 0871 902 5723 or online here: non-members pay standard prices.

Museum2Go2 Jewellery Showcase. As part of the preparations for the opening of the new Art and Design galleries, school pupils were challenged to create their own pieces of jewellery, inspired by the NMS collections; today you are invited to come and see what they have come up with, and to have a go at making some paper jewellery to take home. The event will begin with a short film and award ceremony in the Auditorium, after which you will be able to explore the pupils’ work, along with pieces from NMS’s handling collection. All ages welcome! 12 noon-12.30pm in Auditorium, Level One, then 12.30-3pm in Event Space, Learning Centre, Level Two, National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street. Free: no booking required.

In Focus: Steven Campbell’s Elegant Gestures of the Drowned after Max Ernst (1986). Primarily associated with 1980’s postmodern painting, Scottish artist Steven Campbell has been the subject of renewed interest following the display of his On Form and Fiction in last year’s SNG GENERATION exhibition. Grainne Rice (NGS/Edinburgh College of Art) will take a focused look at this painting, currently on show at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art ONE as part of the rehang of the permanent collection. 12.45-1.30pm, Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, Scottish National Gallery, The Mound. Free and unticketed.

Skylark Surf Week: Mrs Mash Under the Sea. All the usual songs and storytelling for young children, but this time with added marine fun! Coffee and cake for the grown-ups too. 10.30am, The Skylark, 241-243 Portobello High Street.

Forbidden Planet Presents Pat Mills: a signing by the creator of 2000AD and legend of British comics before the EIFF screening of Future Shock! The Story of 2000AD. 5pm, Forbidden Planet, South Bridge.

Wester Hailes Community Connections: a festival celebrating community life, past, present and future. Today: Learning & Health Fair organised by Community Health & Development – a wide range of information on health issues, local courses and learning opportunities. 10am-2pm, Wester Hailes Healthy Living Centre, 30 Harvesters Way. For more information about this or any other event in the Community Connections Festival, please call Sarah Walker on 0131 458 3267 or email sarah@whalearts.co.uk.

Edinburgh International Film Festival continues today! For details of all films and other events see the programme here or pick up a paper copy at EIFF venues and many other locations throughout the city. Tickets are available in person from the Filmhouse, Lothian Road, Cineworld, Fountain Park, Odeon, Lothian Road and the Festival Theatre, by calling 0131 623 8030 or online here. Today’s highlights include 6 Desires: DH Lawrence and Sardinia – Mark Cousins’ documentary takes the form of an open letter to Lawrence, presented as Cousins visits the same places that the novelist discovered over 90 years earlier; (there will be a Q & A session with Mark Cousins after the screening), and Learning to Drive, ‘a charming and genuinely funny study of middle-aged angst’ starring Ben Kingsley and Patricia Clarkson.

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My Fountain: Fountainbridge Residents’ AGM and monthly meeting. Speaker: Councillor Andrew Burns.  6.15-7.45pm, Fountainbridge Library, 137 Dundee Street. All welcome: come along and have your say!

Blackwell’s Edinburgh Presents Off the Starting Block: Debut Writers – three brilliant new voices to celebrate Independent Booksellers’ Week. Katerina Bivald’s novel The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend is a love letter to books and bookshops; Lucy Ribchester’s The Hourglass Factory features suffragettes and circus performers in 1912 London, and Angela Jackson’s award-winning debut The Emergence of Judy Taylor is much more than the story of a women breaking away. 6.30-8pm, Blackwell’s, South Bridge. Free tickets are available from the shop’s front desk, by calling 0131 622 8218, by emailing events.edinburgh@blackwell.co.uk or via eventbrite here.

Cameo Culture Shock: bringing you the best in cult and genre films. Today: The Princess Bride (PG) – Rob Reiner’s classic fairy tale with ‘a healthy dose of tongue-in-cheek humour’. 9pm, Cameo, Home Street. Tickets may be purchased in person, by calling the Box Office on 0871 902 5723 or online here: prices vary.

Leith Central Community Council: 7pm, Nelson Room, McDonald Road Library, 2 McDonald Road. All welcome.

Mixing the Colours: Glasgow Women’s Library presents readings from participants in the Mixing the Colours project, which explores the issue of sectarianism in the context of wider gender inequality. 2-4pm, Boardroom, Central Library, George IV Bridge (please note the venue is only accessible by stairs). Please book your free place via eventbrite here. Part of In Their Own Write – Women and Words, facilitated by Edinburgh City Libraries, Glasgow Women’s Library and the Bonnie Fechters’ women’s group.

The Entrance (for Larry Leitch): a performance of Robert Ashley’s innovative 1966 piece, designed for two ‘players’ to perform on a two-manual organ. The recital this evening will be performed by typographer Will Holder and artist Anna McLauchlan. 6.30pm, St Mary’s Cathedral, Palmerston Place. Free: no booking required. This event is organised by the Collective Gallery and LUX Scotland as part of Rhyme or Reason, a five-day intensive study programme investigating the role of notation, improvisation and score across the visual arts and other disciplines, including music, writing and geography.