Funny Faces: Lauren Wayland invites you to look at some of the amazing portraits in the city’s collection, then create your own weird and wonderful portrait collage, using bits of magazine pages and colourful paper. 2-4pm, City Art Centre, 2 Market Street. £4 per person: advance booking is essential and must be made via the Usher Hall Box Office, Lothian Road, in person, by calling 0131 228 1155 or online here. Please note that these workshops are for families working together: all children must be accompanied by at least one paying adult, and children must not be booked into workshops alone.
Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival: Mardi Gras. visiting and local musicians create non-stop entertainment and a party atmosphere. This year’s line-up includes Shreveport Rhythm, Brass Gumbo, Lights Out By Nine, James Brown Is Annie and Oriental Jazz band, plus a Singers’ Stage featuring Edith Budge, Sue McHugh and Marty Waugh. From 1pm, Grassmarket. Free.
The Extreme Stunt Show: Air Battle Sensational monster truck action featuring Extreme FMX, BMX, mountain bikes, quads and a whole lot more. 6pm today and 3pm Sunday, Ocean Terminal, Ocean Drive, Leith. Tickets cost £12/£6 (£14/£7 on the door) and may be purchased in advance here. ‘Extreme is a state of mind’.
Printmaking Demonstration: Photo-Plate Lithography and Photo Etching. Photo-plate lithography concentrates on using light sensitive aluminium photo plates; these plates can produce detailed marks such as painterly washes, linear drawings, photocopied images, photographs, digital images and text. The image can be printed in several coloured layers onto paper; each layer of colour is printed individually, taking care to register each new layer of ink on top of previously printed colours. Photec is a photopolymer film that can be adhered to a metal plate, exposed to a positive artwork on acetate, and developed in such a way that it can produce accurate photographic acid resist. This then allows a photographic image to be etched into a copper plate. This demonstration event, arranged in conjunction with the current Photography in Print exhibition, will give you a glimpse into the magic of these processes. 2-3pm, Edinburgh Printmakers, Union Street. £3 per person or £5 for two: booking is required as places are limited; it can be made via eventbrite here. This event is part of the ACTINIC Festival.
Morningside Farmers’ Market: fresh, local, seasonal food fresh from the producers, crafts, gifts, plants, and refreshments available throughout the market or from The Merlin Pub & Kitchen. 9.30am-3.30pm, The Merlin (rear car park), 168 Morningside Road.
Redhall Walled Garden: Razzmatazz. Live music, plant sales, children’s activities, quiz trail, traditional games, chickens, badge making, fresh vegetables, meat, pond dipping, face painting, cream teas and more, all in the setting of an historic garden. 12 noon-5pm, Redhall Walled Garden, 97 Lanark Road EH14 2LZ. Disabled parking on site, limited parking on Lanark Road, on Lothian Bus Route 44. Entry by donation. Redhall Walled Garden is a Scottish Association for Mental Health service dedicated to mental health and wellbeing for all.
Rumba de Bodas: swing, Latin and upbeat ska from this young Italian group. Infectious rhythms, sultry vocals, hot horns and sweet accordion. 10pm, Tron Kirk, High Street/South Bridge. Part of Edinburgh Jazz & Blues Festival. Also at same time on Sunday 19th July.
Meet Estelle Maskame: the author of the phenomenal DIMILY series will sign copies of her debut novel Did I Mention I Love You? 1pm, Waterstones West End, 128 Princes Street. Free and unticketed.
Gardening for Health: gardening joy for the over-60s! 10am-1pm, Dr Neil’s Garden, Old Church Lane, Duddingston Village. £10 per session. Also on Saturdays 18th and 25th July and 1st August 2015.
A Stranger Walks into a Bar: when a stranger turns up to drink at the bar alone, he brings with him a wealth of odd tales and an uncanny insight into other people’s lives. As the night progresses, it becomes clear that he is not the only one with a tale to tell… 
A Stranger Walks into a Bar is a play that will grow and change throughout the summer as it moves from one venue to another, collecting stories along the way. Directed by Shilpa T-Hyland. 7.30pm, Storytelling Court, Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Street. Tickets cost £8.50/£6.50 and are available from the Box Office in person, by calling 0131 556 9579 or online here.
Absolut Piano with Olly Ferrell: an evening of sing along tunes with Sofi’s resident pianist. 7.30pm, Sofi’s Bar, Henderson Street.
Norman Silver and The Gold + Full Moon Freaks + The Hoolits. Edinburgh band Norman Silver and The Gold play ‘country & western-ish punk and.. metal’, Full Moon Freaks are ‘psychosurfoid for the contaminated beach’ and Scottish countryists The Hoolits (featuring members of Junkman’s Choir and The Amphetameanies) play their first Edinburgh gig. For over 18s only. 7pm, The Ballroom, The Voodoo Rooms, West Register Street. Admission £6 on the door.
