AROUND TOWN

Promising a fun, wholesome and thoroughly good-for-the-soul time, Discover Your Flare Festival (Saturday 22 June) is a community wellness event at Edinburgh’s Summerhall featuring talks, workshops, comedians, great food, performances and mindfulness aplenty.

Scotland fans will be hoping for a win against Hungary to get past the Euros group stage for the first time ever (Sunday 23 June). The Neigbourgood Market in Stockbridge is showing all matches on two outdoor screens, with seating for all weather contingencies plus an Innis & Gunn fanzone.

Wrapping up this weekend is the Refugee Festival Scotland (until Sunday 23 June) with events continuing right across the country, including at the University Of Edinburgh’s Holyrood Campus, Glasgow’s CCA and more.

Showcasing the best of food, farming and rural life, Scotland’s largest outdoor event the Royal Highland Show (until Sunday 23 June) returns. Expect showjumping, sheep shearing, cooking demos, a Highland hoolie, grand parade and gift hall.

MUSIC

Featuring events across the city, fans of jazz and the jazz-adjacent will be in their element at this year’s Glasgow Jazz Festival (until Sunday 23 June). Fergus McCreadie Trio, Kitti’s Caledonian Songbook, Kyoto Jazz Massive and Bobby Watson Quartet are amongst the performers.

Australian singer Troye Sivan (Sunday 23 June) is touring his third album, Something To Give Each Other, described as a ‘slice of hedonistic house-pop’. He’ll be belting out global hits like ‘Rush’, ‘One Of Your Girls’ and ‘Got Me Started’ when he swings by Glasgow’s OVO Hydro this weekend.

Over at Edinburgh’s Usher Hall, Callum Beattie (Friday 21 & Saturday 22 June) will be serenading the home crowd with his brand of nostalgic patriotism and bleeding love as he plays tracks from his two albums, People Like Us and Vandals.

STAGE

Outdoor theatrical fest Bard In The Botanics (until Saturday 27 July) will be staging top quality productions in glorious garden settings over the next month, with Jane Eyre: An Autobiography and Hedda Gabler up first. Glasgow’s Botanic Gardens and the grounds of Kibble Palace play host.

Comedian Peter Serafinowicz is bringing his hilarious creation back to the stage in Brian Butterfield’s Call Of Now (Sunday 23 June), where he’ll be sharing some more of his business know-how. Catch it at Edinburgh’s Queen’s Hall.

Straight from London’s West End and hitting Glasgow’s King’s Theatre, is the anarchic and informative family science show Ministry Of Science Live: Science Saved The World (Sunday 23 June). Featuring liquid nitrogen clouds, exploding oxygen and hydrogen balloons, fire tornados, hydrogen bottle rockets, ignited methane, and a self-built hovercraft.

SCREEN

Bringing together an eye-catching cast for a Goodfellas-inspired take on 60s biker culture, The Bikeriders is the latest from Mud and Midnight Special director Jeff Nichols and stars a James Dean-channelling Austin Butler, alongside Jodie Comer and Tom Hardy.

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, Green Border is the latest from Oscar nominee Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa, In Darkness). Set on the border between Belarus and Poland, it focuses on a group of refugees as they become pawns in a hidden war. Read our interview with Holland here.

Netflix’s latest South Korean import Agents Of Mystery is certainly an intriguing one; this unscripted, problem-solving series follows six personalities as they investigate cases and complete missions.

PODCASTS

Offering something of a Cheers reunion, new podcast Where Everybody Knows Your Name With Ted Danson And Woody Harrelson (Sometimes) gives these unlikely friends and former colleagues a chance to reconnect and chat to celebrity chums, including Will Arnett.

In Sport’s Strangest Crimes: A French Football Scandal comedian and footie fan Maisie Adam tells the story of the attack on PSG star Kheira Hamraoui and the friend and teammate accused of orchestrating it.

Singer Sam Smith is the host of The Pink House which is about the people and places who make us who we are. Sam sits down with friends and queer icons like Elliot Page, Joel Kim Booster and Gloria Estefan to hear their stories and share their own.

VISUAL ART

Kicking off this weekend at Edinburgh’s Upright Gallery is exhibition Outside The Box (Sat 22 June – Friday 12 July) from Andrew Radford. Andrew’s first public gallery exhibition repurposes packaging destined for landfill or the recycling bin that he then shapes, colours and burnishes.

13 Windows (Friday 21 – Wednesday 26 June] at St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh is an exhibition of drawing, painting, print, photography and sculpture by six artists who created and connected in the gallery’s studios.

And finally, Camara Taylor – mouthfeel (until Sunday 18 August) brings together new and recomposed work by the eponymous Glasgow-based artist, forged through new and old collaborations with Ai Túng, Sharif Elsabagh and Slag Hammers. Check it out at Glasgow’s Tramway.

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