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OPAndeiro
Sat 3 Oct 26
Village, 101 Leith Walk, Edinburgh EH6 8NP
The OPA Pandeiro Workshop (Orquestra Panderística Anarquista) with Pazsarinha comes to EdinburghFundamentals RHYTHM OPA is a horizontal,...
At the Side of Bruno Groening Screening followed by Info Session
Sat 3 Oct 26
The Open Door Community Centre
Hunter Room (downstairs)
420 Morningside Road EH10 5HY
Documentary film At the Side of Bruno Groening Film Screening followed by an Information Session
Summary
A captivating documentary revealing the...
The Water of Life Society Presents: Berry Brothers & Rudd- Cask Finishes
Thu 1 Oct 26
West Reading Room, Teviot Row House, 13 Bristo Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AJ
The WoLS Committee are delighted to Present the legendary Berry Bros. & Rudd! This London based business are the oldest wine merchants in the UK...
Spotlight: Straitjacket
Wed 30 Sep 26
Physicians Gallery, 11 Queen Street EH2 1JQ
Join us at the Physicians’ Gallery on the last Wednesday of every month at 12.30pm for a curator-led talk exploring one of the objects on display in...
Janet Street-Porter Is Still Off The Leash At 80!
Mon 28 Sep 26
Assembly Roxy, 2 Roxburgh Pl, Edinburgh EH8 9SU
Loose Women’s most outspoken panellist is celebrating turning 80 by announcing her biggest solo tour to date - Janet Street-Porter Is Still Off The...
The Water of Life Society Presents: Whisky Types - A Committee led Tasting
Thu 24 Sep 26
West Reading Room, Teviot Row House, 13 Bristo Place, Edinburgh EH8 9AJ
The WoLS Committee are delighted to lead a comparitive whisky tasting! This is a tasting you won't want to miss as the WoLS committee walk you...
Medical Edinburgh and Empire
Wed 23 Sep 26
11 Queen Street Edinburgh EH2 1JQ
Join us at the Physicians’ Gallery as our three speakers – Simon Buck, Roger Jeffery, and Theeba Krishnamoorthy – present on three aspects of...
Edinburgh Royal Mile Chamber Music Series
Mon 21 Sep 26
St Giles Cathedral, High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1RE
The Edinburgh Royal Mile Chamber Music Series returns to St Giles’ Cathedral for its second season, following a widely acclaimed launch...
How to bag yourself a few million next week...no, really...
Mon 21 Sep 26
Webuyanycar, Craigleith Shopping Park,
Webuyanycar, Fort Kinnaird Retail Park, EH15 3RD
Webuyanycar, Morrisons, Hunters Tryst, EH10 7JA
Webuyanycar, Dobbies Garden Centre, Lasswade, EH18 1AZ
Webuyanycar, Powerleague, Sighthill, EH11 4EQ
Webuyanycar, Asda, Leith, EH6 6NX EH4 2LN
Forget the lottery – from next Monday, you can get your hands on a Million for free at your local Edinburgh webuyanycar branch, no catch, just a...
LAGB 2026 Annual Meeting
Wed 9 Sep 26
Dugald Steward Building DSB 3.10/3.11, 3 Charles Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AD
The Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) Annual Conference 2026 brings together linguists from across the UK and beyond for peer-reviewed...
LAGB 2026 Annual Meeting
Tue 8 Sep 26
Edinburgh Futures Institute, The University of Edinburgh, 1 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9EF
The Linguistics Association of Great Britain (LAGB) Annual Conference 2026 brings together linguists from across the UK and beyond for peer-reviewed...
Smash Karts Game Community Championship
Sat 29 Aug 26
123 Princes Street EH2 2ER
Get ready for an action-packed day of kart battles, friendly competition, and multiplayer fun at the Smash Karts Game Community Championship!...
The List Festival Awards
Fri 28 Aug 26
W Edinburgh, 1 Saint James Square, Edinburgh EH1 3AX
Following the success of the first two editions of The List Festival Awards, the ceremony will return to Edinburgh in August 2026 to celebrate the...
Deckhand
Mon 24 Aug 26
TheSpace @ Niddry Street, Edinburgh , United Kingdom EH1 1TH
DECKHAND is a high speed comedy about power dynamics, confronting your reality, and how much work sucks...
Ye Canny Shove Yer Granny Aff the Fringe
Sun 23 Aug 26
3 Old Monks
23 Commercial St, Leith, Edinburgh EH6 6JA
Free Comedy hour other shows also in venue after this one.
Extant's Enhance Shows
Mon 17 Aug 26
The Underbelly, George Square, Edinburgh, Midlothian EH8 9LH
Supported by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, Enhance shows at Underbelly (17th August) will
demonstrate Extant’s unique ‘Enhance post-production’...
Modern Medicine: Menstruation
Wed 12 Aug 26
Physicians Gallery, 11 Queen Street EH2 1JQ
Join menstruation specialists Prof Anne MacGregor and Prof Hilary Critchley for a groundbreaking discussion busting myths and sharing their expertise...
Leitheatre presents Brassed Off
Sat 8 Aug 26
Inverleith St Serf's Church Centre, 1A Clark Rd, Edinburgh EH5 3BD
Leitheatre's production tells the moving and often funny story of a community coming together to fight back...
Friendliest
Sat 8 Aug 26
Gilded Balloon (The Nook), Teviot Row House, Edinburgh EH8 9AJ
Drew Lausch grew up gay in Fargo, North Dakota. So he did what any emotionally stable teenager would do: invented the world's first gay...
Argonauts
Fri 7 Aug 26
ZOO (Playground 2), High School Yard, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
Opinions are weapons. Friendship is the casualty. Liz and Sam host a theatre podcast. When Sam champions a radical new production, Liz's fury...
A Costume Drama
Fri 7 Aug 26
ZOO (Playground 3), High School Yard, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
With the 2026 Mascot Grand National rapidly approaching and her shell-suit sporting dad indisposed, reluctant Ella must fill Eddie The Egg's...
Racists, Recessions & Revolutions
Fri 7 Aug 26
ZOO (Playground 3), High School Yard, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
In 2016 an unprecedented wave of fake news exploded across our screens. Public trust was devastated as Brexit, Trump and an ever-powerful far right...
Patient 13
Fri 7 Aug 26
Zoo (Playground 2), High School Yards, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
'I got rid of all the toxic people and there was no one left.' Gail is good at setting boundaries and staying busy until a scary...
Father, Away She Goes
Fri 7 Aug 26
Zoo (Playground 1), High School Yard, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
Introducing Sarah Jones – 'A masterclass in the love-to-hate character. Think Succession. Think Fleabag, with teeth' (Scotsman)...
Tell Me
Fri 7 Aug 26
Summerhall (Dissection Room), 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL
Two timelines collide in this bold fusion of dance and circus, offering a fresh perspective on HIV. When Grace receives a diagnosis, she is...
I Bought a Flip Phone
Fri 7 Aug 26
ZOO (Playground 2), High School Yard EH1 1LZ
Charlie's sick of his iPhone. His best friend never replies, his mum nags him and everyone else's life looks better than his own...
This Is How I Got Arrested (after smuggling drugs across the border bu
Fri 7 Aug 26
ZOO (Playground 3), High School Yard, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
This Is How I Got Arrested (after smuggling drugs across the border but never actually getting caught with any drugs) is a tightly structured, fourth...
Thermodrama
Fri 7 Aug 26
Summerhall (Old Lab), 1 Summerhall EH9 1PL
Four people enter a sauna, three walk out. Over an hour, a group of strangers get hotter and hotter. So hot, they start to cook...
Surreally Good
Fri 7 Aug 26
Summerhall (Former Women’s Locker Room), 1 Summerhall EH9 1PL
Say hello to Scott – the finest Edutainment Officer in the business, a leading expert in overhead animation and lo-fi storytelling, a renowned...
15 Minutes of Shame
Fri 7 Aug 26
ZOO (Playground 2), High School Yard, Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
Why not do OnlyFans? Plunge into the desperate world of a young London couple facing the brutal reality of financial struggle...
Edinburgh care home to host food festival for local community
Fri 7 Aug 26
Murrayside
34 South Beechwood
Edinburgh
Scotland EH12 5YS
With festival season officially under way, one care home in Edinburgh is welcoming the community for a fun-filled day of food and...
Edinburgh care home to host food festival for local community
Fri 7 Aug 26
Lauder Lodge
2 Wakefield Avenue
Edinburgh
Scotland EH7 6TL
With festival season officially under way, one care home in Edinburgh is welcoming the community for a fun-filled day of food and...
Collaborator
Thu 6 Aug 26
Pleasance at EICC (Pentland), 150 Morrison Street, Edinburgh EH3 8EE
Ockham’s Razor return with an intimate duet crafted and performed by Artistic Directors Alex and Charlotte...
Concerts of the Future
Thu 6 Aug 26
Summerhall (Lobby), 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh, PL EH9 1
What if anyone could play in the concert hall? Concerts of the Future is a cutting-edge VR experience that invites you onto the stage to perform...
Dracula: Lucy's Dream
Thu 6 Aug 26
Pleasance at EICC (Lennox), 150 Morrison Street, Edinburgh EH3 8EE
A hypnotic reimagining of Bram Stoker’s immortal masterpiece from award-winning Plexus Polaire, the ‘exquisite’ (New York Times) creators of Moby...
Mythos Ragnarök
Thu 6 Aug 26
Assembly Rooms (Music Hall), 54 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2LR
The 'maddest, baddest show of the Fringe' (Daily Mail) is back and bigger than ever! Join Loki, Thor and the Norse Gods in this five-star...
A STAN IS BORN! – Encore
Thu 6 Aug 26
Gilded Balloon Patter House, 3 Chambers Street, Edinburgh EH1 1HT
Born in New York City, Alexis is forced to follow his family to... rural Germany. Trapped in a culture clash, discovering pop divas online is his...
TOAST
Thu 6 Aug 26
Summerhall (Dissection Room), 1 Summerhall EH9 1PL
A dark and unrelenting comedy about starving for your art. As negotiations with employers, agents and Universal Credit crumble, one actor drags you...
They’re Just Small Town (Northern) Lads
Thu 6 Aug 26
Summerhall (Anatomy Lecture Theatre), 1 Summerhall EH9 1PL
Boys are shaped by the men around them. So what makes a man? It's Y2K and a teenage boy has been caught between two very different influences:...
Sitting (In Silence)
Thu 6 Aug 26
Summerhall (Anatomy Lecture), 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL
Kid has come to find herself, but quickly gets caught up in Dad's wild antics. When the two share a rare moment of privacy in the heavenly...
Jitters
Thu 6 Aug 26
Summerhall (Old Lab), 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL
'I've dreamed of this day. My whole life.' There's one hour to go before the wedding, but now the wedding may not be going...
Man or Bear
Thu 6 Aug 26
Summerhall (Red Lecture Theatre), 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL
Man or Bear is a fast-moving, darkly comic new play about fear, friendship and survival inspired by the viral question: Would you rather be alone in...
Tale of the Firebird
Thu 6 Aug 26
Assembly Roxy (Central), 2 Roxburgh Place, Edinburgh EH8 9SU
Classical precision meets circus adrenaline in this genre-bending re-imagining of a violin concerto composed by Chloé Charody for The Freestyle...
How Not to Make it in America
Thu 6 Aug 26
Summerhall (Former Gent’s Locker Room), 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL
It's 2001. A naive young Australian actor arrives in New York. One man plays twenty-eight characters in this heartbreakingly funny...
Glass Child
Thu 6 Aug 26
Summerhall (Old Lab) 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL
Powerful, raw and emotional, Glass Child goes beyond fiction and theatre to showcase the extraordinary love of two siblings, Kayah, a young man with...
The Trials of Magnus Coffinkey
Thu 6 Aug 26
Summerhall (Red Lecture), 1 Summerhall, Edinburgh EH9 1PL
A broken fairy tale for broken people. In a whimsical land of broken toys, Magnus Coffinkey must fix a bell atop an impossibly high spire...
Target Audience
Wed 5 Aug 26
Pleasance Courtyard (Above), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
A TV production company gets word from Whitehall that they must adapt their programming to align with the government's new policy to rapidly...
Black Blues Brothers: Let’s Twist Again!
Wed 5 Aug 26
Underbelly (McEwan Hall), Bristo Square, Edinburgh EH2 2LR
Fringe favourites the Black Blues Brothers return with their electrifying, family-friendly show. Having wowed over 65,000 Fringe spectators, they are...
The Librarians: A Very Serious Comedy!
Wed 5 Aug 26
Pleasance Courtyard (Pleasance Two), 60 Pleasance, Edinburgh EH8 9TJ
The staff at Plumstanton Library are clinging to tradition as the shelves collapse around them. The roof leaks, the stacks are bare and they haven’t...
Sanctuary
Wed 5 Aug 26
Pleasance Dome (Ace Dome), Bristo Square, Edinburgh, A EH8 9
Sanctuary, the debut play from Jacob Sparrow, is the winner of the inaugural Leodis Prize, a new playwriting competition...
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