Culture

MONDAY 2  JUNE 2014Anthony Penrose: Backstage at the Lee Miller Archives.  A behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the Lee Miller Archive, which houses more than 60,000 negatives and 20,000 prints of Miller's work, plus manuscripts...

AN EVENING WITH C.S. LEWIS (My Life’s Journey) is a solo show based on the life and writings of C.S. Lewis.This heart-warming, humorous and inspiring solo show will bring audiences closer than ever to...

 More free tickets (but only a very limited number) will be available from the Edinburgh International Festival website tomorrow. 20,000 tickets were already snapped up on the day they were released, and if that was...

Everyone loves an adventure. Be it a classic tale of good versus evil, or a fun-filled tale with morals – everyone loves to be drawn into an action-packed story. And all parents love to...

Here's Connie, theSpace @ Jury's Inn, 12 to 24 August (except 18) 2:10pm, £5 (£4 concessions)Carrie-Anne Wilde, University of the West of Scotland Musical Theatre Honours' Degree graduate, makes her first appearance at the...

Nine lively dancers from the Edinburgh Branch of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society (RSCDS) displayed popular Scottish dances in the sizzling evening sunshine earlier this week. More than 130 dancers joined the dancing...

'The Hundred Years War': A Global History of Tower Blocks and Mass Housing. To complement the Ponte City exhibition, whose subject is the 'accidental' appropriation of an elite private tower by low income groups,...

Let's Glow: Edinburgh College Classical Music Degree Recitals. The College's final year BA students perform on tuba, trombone, clarinet, piano and voice. From Sondheim and Gershwin to Mozart and Hindemith, there will be something...

Seen from here in safe old Scotland, the rest of the world looks like a giant roulette wheel. Anything could happen, probably disastrous. The year ahead out there looks mighty scary. While we in Edinburgh...

This Friday Waverley Station is to be transformed into a food-lovers’ paradise. Foodies will get the chance to sample the best food and drink at Waverley Station tomorrow, to mark restaurant app Zomato’s 7th birthday. The birthday party,...

Following the announcement at the end of last year that the Fruitmarket Gallery is to extend into neighbouring premises it seemed that the writing was on the wall for the Electric Circus.Although they said...

 The Filmhouse has been making 'em laugh, cry and smile for about 35 years now. The building on Lothian Road has been altered over the years to accommodate a Cafe/Bar as well as three...

Peter Millett: Johnny Danger DIY Spy. An hour of fun and laughter with Peter Millett and his amazing new spy series: Johnny Danger, DIY Spy: Licensed to Thrill. 11am-12noon, Central Children's Library, George IV Bridge....

Waterstones West End Presents An Evening with Richard Happer: the Edinburgh-based author launches Abandoned Places: 60 Stories of Places Where Time Stopped, in which he reveals the history behind eerie ghost towns, empty streets, crumbling ruins and...

This week’s photo is from Mark Brown, who captured the top of the Melville Monument looking out over North Edinburgh, the Forth and Fife.The Stockbridge Photography Club is a non-profit photography club that aims...

A launch event is being held at the King's Theatre in May to show off the photographic display of how the new dome was created. Over the course of 35 days in the summer of...

Underbelly, Belly ButtonThursday 31st July – Sunday 24th August: 12.40pm (Excl. Wednesday 13th)Tickets  £6 - £10Fat Git Theatres present Winky by George SaundersDeveloped in Association with Soho Theatre.Adapted by the company from the short...

Woodland Trust Scotland is holding a free event for volunteers at the Water of Leith Visitor Centre on Lanark Road on Saturday 20 May 2017.The gathering is for both existing volunteers and anyone interested...

Edinburgh’s Old Town welcomed its latest addition to the art scene with the opening of HoeyynArts Gallery. Heralded by Chinese drumming and a Lion Dance, the gallery opened with fanfare to the surprise and delight...

Young musicians from Edinburgh & the Lothians are being given a unique opportunity to perform live at the globally renowned Celtic Connections folk festival.Festival sponsor ScottishPower has launched its second Powerful Performance contest which...

Tomorrow Friday 29 September 2017,  the city will be alive with fundraising at all the World’s Biggest Coffee Morning events taking place. Find one near you here.You could go to the National Museum of...

Broadcaster and musician, Frieda Morrison, and Curator at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, David Mitchell, are at it again! They will be down in the Botanics telling stories and making music... on the...

Gillian English presents She Wolf Voodoo Rooms - French Quarter Venue 68 Free Festival Aug 4-5 7-12 14-19 21-26 |10:10pm      Award Winning performer/Comedian Gillian English debut at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.    Shakespeare wasn’t a god, he was just a...

Yesterday West Princes Street Gardens came alive to the sound of three Formula 1 drivers racing up and down near the Ross Bandstand, but it was all for a good cause. Jenson Button, Mika...

They say if you can remember the 1960s you weren’t there….The Edinburgh University Savoy Opera Group’s production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Sorcerer is different to other productions – it is set in 1969!Alexis...

ROBERT FISH BAND “CELTA CEILIDH” 8pm Friday 4 May 2018 The Counting house 38 W Nicolson St, EH8 9DDThe legendary Fish band returns to the Counting House for a night introducing traditional social dancing from...

For a getaway this winter you could do no worse than go to New York State. It is easy to get to from Edinburgh, and if you turn the typical New York break on...

By David KettleAgniezska Lukasiak’s harrowing and angry film follows young mother Marta and her daughter as they escape child prostitution in their home country of Belarus and flee to a refugee camp in the...

Save-heart Printing Services is the brain child of ex soldier, Marcus.Marcus has in the past experienced homelessness but has come back from his mental health problems with his business.Save-heart is a community fundraising initiative...

Edinburgh's Christmas 2018 organised by Underbelly for The City of Edinburgh Council attracted 31% more locals than ever before, raised £44,000 for charities and gave away 28,000 free tickets.Silent Night was a...