AROUND TOWN

Learn all about Edinburgh’s volcano on the Arthur’s Seat Volcano Trail (Sunday 1 October) which takes you through 340 million years of history on a stroll around Holyrood Park, from tropical lagoons to volcanic eruptions and glacial erosion.

If you’re looking for a warming and wisdom-fuelled experience this autumn then check out Whiski Rooms’ Introduction to Whisky & Tasting (slots available daily). It’s a fun way to learn all about whisky from an award-winning Edinburgh restaurant and whisky bar.

The creators of design-led curated markets, workshops and social events, SPOT, will be putting on their special SPOT Samples + Seconds Market (Saturday 30 September) this weekend, where you can no doubt bag yourself a stylish bargain. The Pyramid at Anderston in Glasgow plays host.

MUSIC

Noughties favourites Busted (Sunday 1 October) will be taking you back to the ‘Year 3000’ when they fly by Glasgow’s OVO Hydro for a 20th anniversary celebration of their energetic pop punk. Expect plenty of old and newer hits from the cheeky Essex trio.

A treat for jazz aficionados and those intrigued by the scene, the Callander Jazz & Blues Festival (until Sunday 1 October) is a well-established rural event that has grown in popularity and stature year on year. Check it out as it wraps things up this weekend.

Glasgow’s O2 Academy is the setting for a multi-sensory rave experience this weekend in the shape of Foreverland Glasgow: Dopamine Dreams (Friday 29 September). House, tech and dance anthems merge with psychedelic visuals, magical art, immersive characters, inflatables, bubble machines and more.

STAGE

It’s been a smash, star-strewn hit in London’s West End and now edge-of-your-seat supernatural chiller 2:22: A Ghost Story (until Saturday 30 September) hits Edinburgh’s Festival Theatre. Starring EastEnders’ Joe Absolom and Louisa Lytton, it should make for a funny, suspenseful evening filled with secrets and scares. Read our interview with creator Danny Robins.

Agatha Christie’s best-selling whodunnit returns to the stage in the latest production of And Then There Were None (until Saturday 30 September), directed by Lucy Bailey. It sees ten strangers lured to an island mansion before a killer strikes.

The award-winning sell-out Fringe show 2 Truths 1 Lie (Sunday 1 October) has found a permanent home at Edinburgh’s comedy and cabaret club Hootenannies. Fans of Would I Lie to You? will be in their element.

SCREEN

The director of Monsters and Rogue One returns with sincerely intentioned sci-fi spectacular The Creator which plays on our fear of artificial intelligence. John David Washington, Gemma Chan and Allison Janney star.

Director Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty join forces yet again for powerful refugee-themed drama The Old Oak , which looks at what has been lost in mining communities and what can be gained from embracing outsiders.

If you can’t get enough of Prime’s satirical superhero series The Boys, then spin-off Gen V should deliver a decent fix. It sees a group of young adult ‘supes’ facing challenges at a crime fighting school run by the shadowy Vought International.

PODCASTS

New podcast Hooked On Freddie tells the snigger-inducing yet shocking tale of an environmentalist who was accused of doing inappropriate things to a dolphin that popped up one day off the coast of a rundown British town.

Sidetracked With Annie And Nick brings together buddies Annie Macmanus and Nick Grimshaw every Thursday to tell us the things they’ve loved and not loved each week, music or otherwise.

Good Bad Billionaire reveals how the richest people in the world made their money, before judging whether they’re good, bad, or just a billionaire. Simon Jack and Zing Tsjeng scrutinise the likes of Rihanna, Jeff Bezos and Kim Kardashian.

VISUAL ART

Leonor Antunes: the apparent length of a floor area (until Sunday 8 October) brings together new and existing sculptures by the Portuguese, Berlin-based artist in an exhibition that extends through all the spaces of Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket. Catch it before it ends in just over a week.

Out of the Blueprint’s most recent artist in residence, Levi Richards, is behind Bloke In A Dress (Friday 29 September – Saturday 11 November), an exhibition of riso and screen prints alongside a dress that was worn at Edinburgh Pride. It opens this weekend at Edinburgh’s Out Of The Blue Drill Hall.

Meanwhile the Upright Gallery, Edinburgh plays host to an exhibition we can all relate to. Doodling With Intent (until Friday 6 October) by Jo Ganter RSA, who explores the art of doodling in a series of small-scale watercolour paintings that she began during lockdown.

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