Process Studios Festival of Making: Edinburgh Contemporary Crafts offer a full weekend of workshops, demonstrations, live music and food! The chance to have a go at crafts (wheel throwing, sublimation textiles, smoke fired ceramics and forging), attend talks and demos by luthiers (guitar and violin makers), upholsterers and weavers and join in workshops to make your own screenprinted apron, silver ring band, quilted button purse, kiln fired glass tile, slip-cast earthenware bowl or Japanese bound book. From 12 noon, Process Studios, (formerly Edinburgh Contemporary Crafts), Abbeymount Techbase, 2 Easter Road. Workshops cost £10 per person and should be booked in advance here.
Lunchtime Concert: Nightingale. A concert of Japanese, Chinese and German songs – and one famous English one to sing along to! 12.30pm, St John’s Church, Princes Street. Free: all welcome.
Scotland’s Gardens: 45 Northfield Crescent. A delightful garden with a wide variety of shrubs, herbaceous, bedding and dahlia plants. Large pond with a small waterfall and a colourful decking area. Vegetable patch with raised bed; greenhouse with award-winning pot plants. The garden is the current holder of the Oatridge College award and has won several gold medals. 2-5pm, 45 Northfield Crescent, Longridge, Bathgate EH47 8AL (for directions click here). £3 per person. 40% of the proceeds will go to World Cancer Research, the net remainder to SG beneficiaries. For nore information please contact Mr Jamie Robertson on 07885 701642 or email jamierobertson04@hotmail.co.uk.
Filmhouse Junior: screenings for a younger audience. This week’s film is Labyrinth (U), directed by Jim Henderson and starring David Bowie as the Goblin King and Jennifer Connelly as the young girl who must travel through the labyrinth to save her baby brother from him. 11am, Filmhouse, Lothian Road. Tickets cost £4 per person, big or small, and may be purchased from the Box Office in person, by calling 0131 228 2688 or online here.
Bo’ness & Kinneil Railway Summer Diesel Gala: an event primarily for diesel enthusiasts, with trains on the railway this weekend being hauled by some of the society’s impressive collection of diesel locomotives, and other locos on show. Relive the sights – and smells – of these great diesel engines of the Swinging Sixties, which took us to work and for days out at the seaside until the 1980s. Special timetables and fares will apply. The Station Buffet at Bo’ness will be open for delicious home made food each day, and there will be an on-train buffet serving snacks and real ale. Today’s first train departs at 9.30am, Bo’ness Station, Union Street, Bo’ness. The Gala ends tonight, with the last train departing from Bo’ness at 6pm. For details of timetables and tickets, please see the railway’s website here.
Edinburgh International Fashion Festival: Pringle Open Day. Celebrate 200 years of Pringle of Scotland with knitting workshops and the chance to share your Borders-made knitwear treasures with the experts. The workshops are (1) Learn to knit a snood with Coats Crafts and (2) Creative hand-knitting with Eribe Knitwear; each workshop will run 12 noon-4pm on a drop-in basis and both are free. From 1 to 2.30pm, you can share your Pringle treasures with James Robinson, NMS Keeper of Art & Design, and Borders knitwear specialist Dr Jamie Mulherron (please note no valuations can be given, and places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis). 12 noon-4pm, Grand Gallery and Events Space, National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street. Free.
Edinburgh International Fashion Festival: A Passion for Pringle. Former Pringle designers Wallace Shaw and Lesley Brown discuss designing for machine-made knitwear and their contribution to the fashion revolution of the 1960s and 70s. For ages 14+. 2-3pm (doors open 1.45pm), Auditorium, Level One, National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street. Free but booking is required and may be made in person at the Museum’s information desk, by calling 0300 123 6789 or online here.
Me & T Monthly: a supportive space for people who have friends, family or partners who are trans*, non-binary or exploring their gender. An opportunity to discuss experiences, questions or concerns. 2-4pm, LGBT Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street. For more information please contact me.and.t.scotland@gmail.com at any time.
Edinburgh International Fashion Festival: Digital Relevance Symposium. Danielle Bennison Brown (Conde Nast Digital), Raven Smith (Nowness), David Lindsay (FarFetch) and Scottish journalist Anna Burnside discuss the media’s ever-changing roles. Chair: Rachel Arthur (WGSN). For ages 14+. 11am-12.30pm, National Museum of Scotland, Chambers Street. Free but booking is required and may be made via eventbrite here.
Over The Rainbow: the monthly screening strand for new and classic queer cinema and events. This month Over The Rainbow makes its first retropsective selection: Orlando (PG), a ‘bold, unsentimental and strikingly cinematic reworking of the 1928 novel (by Virginia Woolf) long considered a classic in both feminist and gender studies. Directed by Sally Potter and featuring Tilda Swinton in the title role. 6pm, Filmhouse, Lothian Road. Tickets may be purchased from the Box Office in person, by calling 0131 228 2688 or online here; prices vary.
LGBT: A Decent Proposal – Meet Up & A Movie. An invitation for men, masculine-identified people, trans* men, non-binary folk and anyone who doesn’t primarily identify as a woman. LGBT Health & Wellbeing wants your ideas and opinions on what kind of monthly social opportunities you are interested in attending. A relaxed get-together with some complementary drinks and nibbles to get the conversation started, followed by the option to see a film (see above). 3-5pm, Filmhouse Cafe Bar, Lothian Road. The meet up is free but booking is required and may be made here – or contact Alison Wren on 0131 652 3283/email: alison@lgbthealth.org.uk. Optional film ticket £9/£7.20.
Anyone Can Play Guitar: Sofi’s new alternative open-stage evening – an unplugged and intimate night for all but guitars. Performers get a free drink! Hosted by Lost Proclaimer. 8pm, Sofi’s Bar, Henderson Street.
St Giles’ At Six: The Nenthorne Ensemble from the Borders play Elgar Serenade for Strings and Grieg Holberg Suite. 6pm, St Giles Cathedral, High Street. Free: retiring collection.
