Given the maelstrom of disinformation and growing tension on the world stage, this year’s 2025 International Festival theme ...

Thomas Søndergård, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra's Music Director is working through Mahler's symphonies. Mahler's Ninth is the last the composer was to complete. It was the only work to be ...

Upmarket pub near the top of Leith Walk in what was previously a wine and spirit merchant. The bar is run by Bodabar who also run Victoria bar just down Leith Walk. Good selection of cocktails and ...

Neil Mantle (conductor), Walter Thomson (chorus master), Colette Ruddy (mezzo-soprano), Mark Wilde (tenor), Michael Bundy (bass), Morley Whitehead (organ). As a child I don’t suppose I was alone in ...

Join magician, psychologist and writer Professor Richard Wiseman in a fascinating local history talk exploring the surprising and little-known magical history of Edinburgh. Around the turn of the ...

Laurence Clark, Colin Young, Jim Fish, Pete Edwards (actors), Amy Cheskin (BSL), Christopher McKiddie (audio description), Scott Twynholm and Kim Moore (musicians). Purposeless Movements resonates ...

Home to the Business School, Edinburgh Napier University's Craiglockhart campus has a mix of old and new buildings set within its grounds, overlooking Edinburgh. Facilities include 200-seat Lindsay ...

Lively local bookshop that holds regular readings including Edinburgh ndependent Radical Book Fair and Edinburgh Book Fringe.

Sports bar in the Grassmarket serving variety of ales and pub grub with lashings of big screen sport. Also hosts quizzes and music nights.

Tilda Swinton, who was educated in Edinburgh and cut her acting teeth at the Traverse Theatre, won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress as a scheming corporate lawyer in the thriller Michael Clayton.

Written in just four days in Tokyo, 1929, Noel Coward created the free spirited character of Amanda in Private Lives specifically for his darling friend, Gertrude Lawrence. Casting himself as her ...