Culture

On 9 July the GRAMMY award winning National Children’s Chorus (NCC) of the United States will perform at Assembly Rooms.  NCC is made up of 1,000 student singers from seven American cities. The students...

It's a love story - the American actress met her prince and he was charming - so charming that, reader, she married him. It is the stuff of romantic daydreaming, and it happened right...

Four years after playing at the grand opening of Stramash, Scots Celtic rockers Skerryvore are back at the Edinburgh music venue tomorrow night.The band's popularity has soared in recent years and they have been performing...

 Will you make it?  That is what LAStheatre's Deadinburgh  would like to know.  Scotland is ravaged by an unknown disease and those of you who are left are kindly invited to the Summerhall,  the...

Dynamic Earth has moon related activities for your young people this half-termDestination Space returns to earth this February. From 8 – 16 February 2020, visitors to the five star attraction can explore the universe....

At this morning's launch of the full programme for our end of year festivities, Underbelly director Ed Bartlam explained that Underbelly, as producers of Edinburgh's Hogmanay, will use volunteers or ambassadors once again -...

 Visitors to Edinburgh Central Library can gain a new perspective of the capital as a huge, intricately detailed, ink-sketch of the city of Edinburgh has just gone  on display.Self-taught cityscape artist Carl Lavia, aka...

Twenty two of Edinburgh’s best and brightest boutiques, designers and beauty experts gathered at The Green Room this weekend to take part in OohFashion’s bustling ‘fair of fashion’.This eagerly awaited event was the second...

Where can you see a 1927 silent film about Zulu culture, a documentary about the Rwandan genocide and a thriller set in Guinea-Bissau? At the 2014 Scotland African Film Festival is where! Looking Back, Reaching...

On Friday 27th May 2011 Edinburgh St Mark’s, a local Amnesty International group, will be celebrating 50 years of Amnesty International with a fabulous tea party at the renowned Edinburgh café Loopy Lorna’s Tea...

Historic Scotland has prepared the second of three tranches of Scotland’s most important battlefields to be considered for inclusion in ‘The Inventory of Historic Battlefields’, and includes Rullion Green in Midlothian on that list. The...

A selection of pottery from the Alastair Leslie collection related to the Royal visit of George IV to Edinburgh two centuries ago will be on display in the pottery galleries at the Museum...

Devised by Phoebe Burke, directed by George Chilcott with original score by Max Perryment, the critically acclaimed sketch comedy duo returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with their highly anticipated brand new...

Review: You Only Live ForeverBy Viscera Theatre Company Studio Four Assembly George Square 1335hrsWE have said it before and we will say it again, Roxy Dunn and Alys Metcalf write some of the sharpest, funniest plays...

'Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks' (Dr Seuss) Many of us don't need much encouragement to follow the good doctor's orders, but not every child has...

Marvellous Machines: a Love Science workshop. For ages 5-12. 3-4pm, Corstorphine Library, 12 Kirk Loan. Booking essential: call 0131 529 5506. Free.Play Poland Film Festival: Munk Studio Special Screenings. Play Poland is the largest mobile film event in the UK, aiming...

Meet the Glasshouse Staff: come and find out more about the Botanics' stunning collection of plants from the people who care for them. Each month meet a different member of the indoor horticulture team...

The newest fish and chip shop in town will open on 3 December 2018 on Victoria Street.Bertie's is the new £3 million restaurant which the Vittoria Group will add to their portfolio.The eatery and...

The Festival City Theatres Trust, which runs the Festival and King’s Theatres in Edinburgh, has announced the appointment of the actors who will take part in the inaugural year of The Attic Collective.This is a new theatre company for...

Edinburgh Zoo  is offering visitors £70-a-time tickets to feed raw meat to the lions.The ‘Carnivore Magic Moment’ package gives Big Cat fans the chance to feed Asian lions Jayendra and Kamlesh by placing meat...

The Royal Highland Show is supported by The Royal Bank of Scotlandnd it opens on Thursday at Ingliston running until 25 June 2023.    The first show was held in 1822 on a site that is now...

MarieAssembly Front Room 1300 hrsFOR this reviewer, the Edinburgh Fringe is all about hidden gems. Marie by the House of Mirth theatre company is exactly that.A one woman play, performed by a very impressive Sarah...

100 years of penguins!Only recently relegated to minor rock star status due to the arrival of the pandas, the penguins are perhaps the best loved animals at Edinburgh Zoo.The Royal Zoological Society of...

A beloved author reveals a disturbing new narrative in this explosive new work from award-winning Dancing BrickA reclusive children's writer becomes wildly successful. Her books are treasured across the country. But when a troubling narrative starts to unfold,...

Weight loss. Smoking cessation. Insomnia. Anxiety. Self-esteem. Panic attacks. Tinnitus. Phobias such as fear of spiders, fear of flying. All unwanted habits. But all these issues have been successfully dealt with through the life-changing...

This garrulous blizzard of Gælic word wizardry, riotous punchy patois and infectious urban guerilla idiom screams from the eclectic, eclectic pen of Award winning playwright, Emmet Kirwan.Inviting blush-inducing accolades such as, ’ dark...

Green Room to tour Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New WorldThroughout June 2013, Green Room will tour its third production to churches across Scotland: Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a new World. Directed...

As a reminder that this year marks the 70th anniversary year of Edinburgh festivals the overarching body EdinburghFestivals.com has produced a video to remind us what we might have seen in the past, and...

All you 'Ladies Who Lunch'…Here is a date for your diaries, and it is for a great cause. What's better than a good natter with ‘the girls’ over a spot of lunch? Great chat, great...

Plenty happening again this week - from fundraisers for Palestine, Water for Life and the Scouts, to films from Poland, Africa and Italy. Books will be launched, exhibitions will be opened, French and Russian...