AROUND TOWN

Taking place at Glasgow’s CCA, the Village Storytelling Festival (until Sunday 30 June) is a biennial event offering a diverse programme of performance from international and homegrown storytellers and features both established and emerging voices.

Edinburgh Palette at St Margaret’s House will play host to The Edinburgh Arts And Wellbeing Festival (Saturday 29 June), a chance to support and meet local artists and wellbeing practitioners, browse and buy their creations, and more.

Bargain hunters and vintage lovers will be thrilled at the return of Worth The Weight (Saturday 29 & Sunday 30 June) this weekend, which will be swinging by Dundee’s Bonar Hall and Glasgow’s The Briggait with its second-hand picks, sold by the kilo.

MUSIC

The Mercury Prize-winning Scottish hip hop stars Young Fathers (Saturday 29 June) will play a special gig at Stirling City Park this weekend, supported by no less than Self Esteem. With Noname and Petite Noir also on the bill, it’s one not to miss.

As part of her massive Summer Carnival tour P!nk (Friday 28 & Saturday 29 June) will stop by Hampden Park in Glasgow for two dates this weekend. She’s promoting her latest album, Trustfall, but you can bet she’ll be belting out some of the classics too.

Scottish legends The Waterboys (Friday 28 June) will be rocking out the big top tent at Queen’s Park Recreation Ground, Glasgow. Expect favourites like ‘The Whole Of The Moon’, while Admiral Fallow, Nati and Goliath will appear in support.  

STAGE

Grease (until Saturday 29 June) is still very much the word after all these years. The latest take on this evergreen musical is visiting the Edinburgh Playhouse this weekend, with the songs you know and love and choreography by ex-Strictly judge Arlene Phillips.

Meanwhile, Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre will host an Olivier Award-winning musical based on the bestseller by Yann Martel featuring some phenomenal puppetry. See what all the fuss is about when Life Of Pi (until Saturday 29 June) comes to town.

The pub landlord is back! Promising to make sense of the questions you probably already have the answers to Al Murray: Guv Island will be offering his inimitable, ironic take on the sorry state of the UK.

SCREEN

Coming quickly after the soaring critical success of Poor Things, Kinds Of Kindness is a pitch-black absurdist anthology film from celebrated Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, starring some of his favourite actors of the moment, including muse Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe and Margaret Qualley.

Spin-off prequel A Quiet Place: Day One foregrounds the Oscar-winning Lupita Nyong’o and rising Stranger Things star Joseph Quinn, with Djimon Hounsou reprising his role from the second film in the franchise. The director of Pig, Michael Sarnoski, takes the directorial mantle from John Krasinski.

Back on Disney+ this week is the sensationally entertaining restaurant drama The Bear with stars Jeremy Allen White, Ayo Edebiri and Ebon Moss-Bachrach sure to be cooking up a storm.

PODCASTS

Podcast double-bill Famously…, from BBC Sounds, offers a twice weekly dose of celeb scrutiny. Jack Remmington and Sarel look at celebrity relationships in ‘In Love’, while Stacey Dooley and Larry Dean investigate the darker side of fame with ‘On Trial’.

With the general election around the corner GK Barry is on a mission: to get young people out there to vote. In The Turnout she investigates why the youth vote is so low and what needs to change, covering the issues young people care about.

Hosted by Succession star Alexander Skarsgård, new podcast How We Fix This offers a more positive spin on the climate crisis, as it highlights those who are tackling the problem in innovative ways – from making cocoa-less chocolate to creating carbon-free cement.

VISUAL ART

Over at Perth Art Gallery they’ll be marking the 200th birthday of the Marshall Monument and the 150th birthday of JD Fergusson with 200 Years Late (Friday 28 June), an after-hours event with pop-up bar, music, performances, talks and more.

Kicking off at The Royal Scottish Academy in Edinburgh this weekend is a celebration of the work of Arbroath-born artist Dennis Buchan (Saturday 29 June – Sunday 28 July) who died last year. Buchan fused the Scottish Colourist tradition with Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art.

And finally, Edinburgh’s Ingleby Gallery is the setting for the first European exhibition of the big, bold paintings of the Los Angeles-based Hayley Barker. In The Ringing Stone (until Saturday 31 August) Barker celebrates the cycle of the seasons and the passing of time.

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