Tag: Family events
Pitch up at the Park: Dalkeith Country Park launches new camping experience
Dalkeith Country Park is set to open its gates to campers next month for a summer getaway to remember. Whether you fancy a two-hour hike or leisurely amble in the countryside with a picnic,...
Our pick of Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Paper Hearts the Musical
Liam O’Rafferty’s world premier Paper Hearts has the endearing if not daringly kitsch me quick naïf strapline - ‘A High Street Musical’. A giddy musical rom-com set in an independent bookshop (no, forget Notting...
Wednesday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
Hogmanay Bookbug! Songs and rhymes for young children. 10.30-11am, Oxgangs Library, 343 Oxgangs Road North.
NMS Hogmany Ceilidh! Enjoy an afternoon of whirling and birling for all ages with the Canongate Cadjers Ceilidh Band. 2-3.30pm,...
What’s On In Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 29TH DECEMBER 2014
The Case of the Curious Clock. The clock did not strike. Midnight was not marked. The New Year did not arrive. Join textile artist Sarah Reay and storyteller Allison Galbraith in...
Sunday in Edinburgh – What’s On Today
GENERATION Tours at the Academy Building: free, discussion-led tours of the exhibition, focusing on key themes and artists. 11-11.45am or 1-1.45pm, Royal Scottish Academy, Scottish National Gallery, The Mound. No booking required.
Rebuilding the Past: come and discover the traditional building skills being used...
What’s on in Edinburgh this week
MONDAY 18TH AUGUST 2014
Edinburgh Book Fringe 2014: John Menaghan and Andy Jackson. Prize-winning poet and playwright John Menaghan has published four books with Salmon Poetry (Ireland); four of his short plays have been staged...
Edinburgh Festival Fringe – Bianco_Here Be Dragons *****
If like me you were taken to the circus as a child, you may be expecting an evening of animals jumping through hoops and clowns making rather obvious jokes. Well forget all that -...
Watch out! The Uglies are back!
Cinderella had a terrible life, right? And her ugly sisters were to blame - of course! But have you ever looked at this from the siblings' point of view?
In 2011, The Uglies Do Edinburgh,...
The Next Big Thing at the Fringe: a musical comedy for all ages
Authors sometimes say that their characters 'take over' - by which they mean that the story moves in directions they hadn't anticipated when they began to write. But what if a novelist's creation really...
Hot Tickets for Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2012
by Julie Dawson
Hot off the press, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2012 programme is bigger and better than ever. Among its (nearly) 400 pages there is bound to be a show to suit every taste,...
Sixty Things to do in Edinburgh during the Diamond Jubilee Weekend
Additional reporting by Sarah Turnbull and Phyllis Stephen
With an extra couple of days off work at the beginning of June to celebrate HM Queen Elizabeth's 60 years on the throne, we thought you might...
