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The Edinburgh Playhouse
Brochure Above
Greenside Place, Edinburgh EH1 3AA

The Queens Hall
Spring Brochure 2012
85-89 Clerk Street, Edinburgh EH8 9JG
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Usher Hall
Concerts & Events
Usher Hall, Lothian Road, Edinburgh
usherhall.co.uk - listings and booking info

The Scottish Chamber Orchestra
2012 Edinburgh Brochure (above)

The Edinburgh Big Wheel

The Wheel of Edinburgh is due to open in May 2012 situated in West Princes Street Gardens open daily from 10am.

The Scotch Whisky Experience
The Scotch Whisky Experience is set to launch its new tour experience the “Morning Masterclass” aimed at Scotch Whisky enthusiasts.

Visitors will begin their experience in the awe inspiring surroundings of The World’s Largest Collection of Scotch Whisky where they will have the opportunity to view this record breaking Collection over coffee and shortbread, and discover stories behind some of its hidden gems.

Our Whisky expert will then escort guests through into our Whisky tasting room where during the next hour they will nose and sample a range of Scotch Whiskies from the lessor known Single Grain Whiskies, to the characterful Single Malts and the world renowned Blended Scotch Whiskies. A nosing of new make spirit will also allow guest to experience characteristics derived during production versus characteristics acquired during maturation. scotchwhiskyexperience.co.uk

Helios Fountain ~ 7 Grassmarket
Recommended Toy Shop In Edinburgh
Beads, all manner of gifts, toys, books, cards, craft materials and gift-wrap and much more.. helios-fountain.co.uk

Theatre: 'One Elliot Park' by Lindsay Miller

14 - 19 June 2012
Venue: Malmaison, 1 Tower Place, Edinburgh EH6 7BZ
Following on from their recent 4 star show, Siege Perilous is delighted to present new writing from Edinburgh-based Lindsay Miller. Chloe lives in a block of flats at One Elliot Park. Her neighbours are Debs, Douglas & Mark. The neighbours have reported a burglary so the police are investigating. Chloe is the main suspect. Yet nothing was stolen. Is Chloe trying to get information on her neighbours? Are her neighbours conspiring against her? Do you really know who your neighbours are? What goes on behind closed doors? Is there a truth in your reality?
‘One Elliot Park’ is a poignant, thought-proving drama. tickets

Festival of Museums

18 – 20 May 2012
Created and coordinated by Museums Galleries Scotland, Festival of Museums is about visitors finding something exciting, entertaining and surprising at Scotland’s museums and galleries. Museums Galleries Scotland works with Culture24’s Museums at Night and the Europe-wide celebration, La Nuit des Musées. These events all take place over one weekend making Festival of Museums part of a Europe-wide celebration of the fantastic experiences that museums and galleries offer visitors.
festivalofmuseums.com

Gardening Scotland 2012
1st, 2nd & 3rd June 2012
The Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh

Exhibition: A Parliament of Lines
Until 8 July 2012
City Art Centre - Free
A Parliament of Lines will exhibit the work of 15 contemporary Scottish artists, most working at an international level, and all of whom use drawing as an important element in their practice. The artists: Charles Avery, Paul Chiappe, Layla Curtis, Nathalie De Briey, Moyna Flannigan, Luca Frei, Euan Gray, Sam Griffin, Marie Harnett, Callum Innes, Alan Johnston, Andrew MacKenzie, David Shrigley, Graeme Todd and Ainslie Yule.

The exhibition is built around 5 broad themes, each used to link the work of a number of the artists involved. The themes are: The Body, Architecture/Landscape, Minimal Abstraction, Reproduction/Photography, and Sculptural Investigation. The work, most of which has been created specially for the show, ranges from the exquisite tiny drawings of Paul Chiappe and Marie Harnett to a site specific wall drawing by Alan Johnston and an installation by Nathalie de Briey.

Exhibition: Tony Swain
19 April – 8 July 2012
Venue: The Fruitmarket Gallery
An exhibition of new work by Irish-born artist Tony Swain, who trained at Glasgow School of Art and still lives and works in Glasgow. Swain, who was one of the artists representing Scotland in the 52nd Venice Biennale in 2007, is known for paintings depicting complex private worlds painted over newspaper pages, the newspaper providing both the physical ground and the conceptual starting point of each painting.

Swain paints landscapes, cityscapes, seascapes and interiors, frequented and constructed by mountains, sand dunes, meadows, trees, rocks, lighthouses, power stations, landmarks both natural and man-made, boats, bridges, buildings, houses, furniture and domestic
objects. His imagery is often on a vast scale, encompassing huge vistas, but also collapses into intimacy. The marks he makes most usually organise themselves into representation, but sometimes remain as passages of painterly abstraction. A lot of the work generates the expectation of narrative, seeming to lead somewhere both conceptually and formally, yet it eschews this expectation, working instead on and with the picture plane. Fragments of the newspaper survive, transformed and transfigured by their inclusion in Swain’s painted world.

The Fruitmarket Gallery. fruitmarket.co.uk
45 Market Street, Edinburgh EH1 1DF

Scotland's Centre for Photography, providing a unique range of expertise, exhibitions, facilities and courses which explore the medium of photography, contemporary visual arts practice and society.
23 Cockburn Street, Edinburgh EH1 1BP

Treasures from The Queen's Palaces
Until 4 November 2012
Venue: Palace of Holyroodhouse

This exhibition brings together some of the finest treasures from the Royal Collection to celebrate Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012. Treasures from The Queen's Palaces reflects the tastes of monarchs and other members of the royal family who have shaped one of the world’s great art collections. The selection of 100 outstanding works has been made across the entire breadth of the Royal Collection, from eight royal residences and over five centuries of collecting, and includes paintings, drawings, miniatures, watercolours, manuscripts, furniture, sculpture, ceramics and jewellery. Highlights include paintings by Rembrandt, Canaletto and Monet, drawings by Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael and Holbein, and Imperial Easter Eggs by Fabergé. Most of the works will be shown in Scotland for the first time.

Edinburgh International Book Festival 2012
11 to 27 August 2012
edbookfest.co.uk

Ghost Walks In Edinburgh!

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• City of the Dead Ghost Walks - facebook

The University of Edinburgh Open Days

Undergraduate Open Days | ed.ac.uk
Friday 15 June 2012
Monday 3 September 2012
Saturday 22 September 2012

Musselburgh Races 2012

Thursday 3 May 2012 - First Race 2pm
Friday 4 May 2012 - First Race 2pm
Friday 25 May 2012 - First Race 6:45pm

Saturday 2 June 2012 - First Race 2pm
Friday 15 June 2012 - First Race 1:50pm
Friday 29 June 2012 - First Race 2:10pm

Confirm race meetings, latest racing news, opening times, entry prices and buy tickets online; visit musselburgh-racecourse.co.uk

Musselburgh Racecourse show on map
Linkfield Rd, Musselburgh, East Lothian EH21 7RG