Filmhouse Junior: films for a younger audience. Today: Enchanted (PG), a classic Disney fairytale collides with modern-day New York City; can a storybook view of romance survive in the real world? 11am, Filmhouse, Lothian Road. Tickets cost £4 per person, big or small, and may be purchased in person, by calling the Box Office on 0131 228 2688 or online here.
Botanics Family Garden Party. Take part in fun activities including vegetable printing and seed sowing and find out more about the Edible Garden and School Garden areas. The team will be on hand with advice and garden produce tasters. 1-4pm, Demonstration Garden, Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, Inverleith Row. Free, no booking required.
Meet Joe Abercrombie: the fantasy superstar author of the stunning, richly-imagined Shattered Sea series will sign copies of his new book, Half A War, which brings the series to a close. 12.30pm, Waterstones West End, 128 Princes Street. Free and unticketed.
Portrait Detectives: collect your kit, follow clues and solve a mystery from history! For ages 4-12 years. 2-4pm (drop-in), Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 1 Queen Street. Free and unticketed. Supported by the Friends of NGS.
Emergence 2015: an exhibition of work from last year’s Sculpture Courses programme, which included Stone Carving, Clay Portrait and Figure, Metal Sculpture, Sculptural Ceramics, Glass Pate de Verre, Lino Prints, Mould Making and Paper Casting, and Wood Carving. Today there will be a range of demonstration workshops (in Wood Carving, Lino Cuts and Prints and Clay Modelling) with tutors from the ESW Courses programme demonstrating processes, and the opportunity for visitors to have a go. 12 noon-4pm, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, 21 Hawthornvale.
Forth Under Threat: the Firth of Forth has outstanding wildlife and great opportunities to see it up close in boats and at the beach. The Marine Conservation Society is working to turn the tide on the threats our oceans face: come and find out how you could help. 1-4pm, Atrium, John Hope Gateway, Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, Inverleith Row. Free, no booking required.
Picturehouse Vintage Sundays: classic films back on the big screen. Today: Blade Runner: The Final Cut (15). In Ridley Scott’s brooding, doom-laden thriller, set in a spectacularly imagined future Los Angeles, a hired killer named Deckard (Harrison Ford) tracks down a group of renegade androids who have escaped from slavery on a colonised planet. This ‘final cut’ is the only version of the film over which Ridley Scott had full artistic control – ‘an unforgettable big screen experience’. 1pm, Cameo, Home Street. Tickets may be purchased in person, by calling the Box Office on 0871 902 5723 or online here: prices vary.
Amy Hawthorn: the West Lothian jazz singer returns to OCP, this time accompanied by acoustic guitar. 8pm, Old Chain Pier, Trinity Crescent.
Filmhouse Quiz: the ‘phenomenally successful (and rather tricky)’ monthly quiz. Teams of up to eight people should be seated in the cafe bar by 9pm, Filmhouse, Lothian Road. Free to enter.
St Giles’ At Six: Organ Recital. Robert Harris will play JS Bach, Franck, Guilmant and Langlais. 6pm, St Giles’ Cathedral, High Street. Free: retiring collection.
PJ Bond: the singer-songwriter from Philadelphia plays the only Scottish show of his 2015 tour, with special guests The Lion & The Wolf, Lovers Turn to Monsters and Paper Rifles. 7pm, Banshee Labyrinth, Niddry Street. Tickets cost £5 in advance (£6 on the door, sta) and are available here.
