01An Indian Summer in the Courtyard: history has never tasted so good! Spend an afternoon stepping back in time to sample traditional food and drink, including a range of unusual beers brewed by the Abbot Brew House, Dunfermline and some delicious vintage dainties baked by Ms Battenberg. Relax and enjoy some marvellous melodies from the Edinburgh College Band. For adults only. 1-4pm, The Courtyard, Museum of Edinburgh, 142-146 Canongate. Free drop-in event: no booking required.
Keeping You Safe in South Edinburgh: the South Edinburgh Community Safety Team, in partnership with Police Scotland and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, will be in the library this morning. Come and meet your local community officers, seek advice, guidance or support in relation to crime, anti-social behaviour and fire safety. 10.30am-12.30pm, Morningside Library, 184 Morningside Road. Also 2-4pm on Thursday 1st October and 4-6pm on Monday 2nd November 2015.
#EdinburghHacked. Canadian artist and former director of Art in Healthcare Trevor Jones presents his ‘augmented reality’ paintings, ‘morphing software, social media and more to create an interactive space that evolves and changes with those who engage with it’. Singer Kat Healy will perform at the gallery at 7pm on Friday 4th September. Opens tonight 5-9pm, then 10am-8pm daily, Dundas Street Gallery, 6 Dundas Street. Ends 9th September 2015. Please see Trevor’s Facebook page here for instructions re downloading the ‘augmented reality’ app before visiting the exhibition.
Beyond Borders Film Festival: featuring documentary-style films about individuals and communities caught in conflict and change, the festival explores some of the most crucial and immediate changes happening in the modern world, with a special focus on women and conflict, the changes brought by modern warfare and the changes experienced by those at the epicentre of conflict. Today’s films are both shown as part of the A Life Displaced series: (1) Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (Ma’a al -Fidda) (15) (Arabic with English subtitles): exiled in Paris, filmmaker Ossama Mohammed feels increasingly distant from his homeland of Syria. As he edits together YouTube footage of the conflict, he is contacted by Wiam Simav Bedirxan, a young woman in Homs, who begins documenting her life and surroundings and sending Mohammed her footage and thoughts; (2) A Very German Welcome (Wilkommen auf Deutsch) (12A) (In Albanian, Chechen, English, German and Urdu, with English subtitles) – the story of two well-to-do North German villages obliged to welcome a group of asylum seekers. The residents hastily form citizens’ initiatives to take legal action against this ‘impending doom’, all the while stressing just how welcome the foreigners are in principle – although only in reasonable numbers, and not to their area. 8.20pm, Filmhouse, Lothian Road. Tickets may be obtained from the Box Office in person, by calling 0131 228 6382 or online: prices vary.
Western Edinburgh Neighbourhood Partnership Meeting: 7pm, Drumbrae Library Hub, 81 Drum Brae Drive. All welcome.
POUT Fest Tour: POUT started life four years ago as an LGBT film festival from independent film distributor Peccadillo Pictures, created as a response to audience demands for more queer-oriented cinema on the big screen. After the overwhelming success of the London POUT Fests, Peccadillo have decided to take POUT on the road via an ongoing touring festival of selected films. Today’s film, the last in the current series at the Filmhouse, is Soft Lad (15): David has it all – he’s young, hot and has just been accepted into the prestigious dance school of his dreams – but he also has a secret: for two years he’s been sleeping with his sister’s husband. ‘A brilliant examination of lust and jealousy set in contemporary Liverpool – an astonishing directing debut from Leon Lopez‘. 8.30pm, Filmhouse, Lothian Road. Tickets may be obtained from the Box Office in person, by calling 0131 228 6382 or online: prices vary.
Leith Harbour and Newhaven Community Council Meeting: the agenda, which can be downloaded from the Community Council’s website here, includes the consideration of planning applications from Aldi and Forth Ports Limited. 7pm, Persevere Room, Leith Community Education Centre, 12a New Kirkgate.
On The Side of The Road: in this film former West Bank settler Lia Tarachansky looks at many Israelis’ collective amnesia of the fateful events of 1948, when the state of Israel was born and most Palestinians became refugees. She follows the transformation of Israeli veterans trying to uncover their denial of the war that changed the region forever, and then turns the camera on herself and travels back to her own settlement, where that historic erasure gave birth to ‘a new generation, blind and isolated from its surroundings’. Attempting to shed a light on the country’s biggest taboo, she is met with outrage and violence. Tarachansky is the Israel/Palestine correspondent for the Real News Network; she was born in the Soviet Union and emigrated to Israel at the age of 6, later moving to Canada before returning to Israel/Palestine in 2009 to pursue her journalism and filmmaking career. On The Side of The Road was her first independent film; this year she completed work on a feature documentary, Ethnocracy in The Promised Land: Israel’s African Refugee. The screening will be followed by a Q & A session with the director. 7.30pm, St John’s Church, Princes Street.
Bi and Beyond: a fortnightly social gathering for people who identify as bisexual and non-monosexual. With organised social activities and refreshments provided, whatever your label or lack of label, we welcome you. 7-9pm, LGBT Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street. For more information please contact biandbeyondedinburgh@gmail.com.
David Carnegie Quintet: drummer/composer Carnegie returns with his fine quintet featuring sax star Konrad Wiszniewski, Renee Stefanie (vocals). David Patrick (piano) and Jay Kilbride (bass). ‘Thrilling, lyrical jazz with a sprinkling of Caribbean rhythms’. 9pm (entry from 8pm), The Jazz Bar, 1a Chambers Street. £5/£4 on the door: please note this venue is cash only.
