Special Days

The new year starts with an extra day off work (for most).
Two ceilidh dances, celebrating St Andrew's Day, with serial ceilidh dance organiser and caller Ken Gourlay,…
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), Scottish essayist, poet, man of letters, novelist and travel writer,…
RLS Day on 13 November 2015, Edinburgh’s annual celebration of one of its most famous authors Robert Louis…
The Consulate General of Japan in Edinburgh will again be running the painting competition, ‘Picture Japan’.
The Consulate General of Japan in collaboration with Asian Studies at the University of Edinburgh, is once…
As in previous years, government heritage agency Historic Scotland will be marking Scotland's national day,…
This Sunday, many people will gather at remembrance services ahead of the two minute silence observed on…
Between Monday 8 and Wednesday 24 July, the Life & Deaf Association will be travelling the length and…
There is no gale that can beat Lìte’s enthusiasm. Leith Festival presents a spectacular nine-day period in…
As part of TradFest, Edinburgh’s newest Festival, the Storytelling Centre have put together a series of…
A Spoonful of Vintage returns for the first of its 2013 fairs in the retro surroundings of Spoon.