AROUND TOWN

Aiming to deliver festival vibes all summer long, The Garden At Teviot offers a fun and relaxing environment where you can enjoy a cocktail, beer, food or a smoothie whatever the weather. This Edinburgh favourite features beach huts, covered and heated areas, sporting events on big screens, and table service.

Airdrie’s Excelsior stadium plays host to a Pro-Celebrity Charity Football Match (Saturday 24 June) this weekend with well-known faces battling it out for the Faye Taylor Memorial Cup. Football legends Owen Coyle and Marvyn Wilson will line up against Still Game’s Sanjeev Kohli and River City’s Stephen Purdon and Cameron Fulton.

Celebrating Pride Month in illuminating style, Pride History Tours (Friday 23 & Saturday 24 June) take visitors deep beneath the Royal Mile to learn stories of members of the LGBTQIA+ community who have made invaluable contributions to Edinburgh’s vibrant history and heritage.

MUSIC

They’re known for their storming live performances and alt-rockers Muse (Friday 23 June) will no doubt be delivering yet another one when they swing by Glasgow’s Bellahouston Park. Expect plenty of tracks from their smash-hit ninth album, Will Of The People, alongside a fair few older anthems.

North American rock royalty The Black Keys (Saturday 24 June) are also gracing Glasgow with their presence this weekend, visiting the OVO Hydro as part of their first European tour since 2015. They’re promising a loud and raw set featuring classic hits and songs from their latest album, Dropout Boogie, which returns them to the stripped-back blues rock of their early days.

Scottish Ensemble’s Concerts For A Summer’s Night (Friday 23 June) is a musical celebration of the summer solstice, designed to be enjoyed over a long evening. Debussy’s serene ‘Clair de Lune’ and music from jazz legend Chick Corea will be amongst the repertoire, with Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum playing host.

STAGE

With music and lyrics by Maury Yeston and book by Peter Stone, Titanic The Musical (until Saturday 24 June) celebrates a decade of the original Broadway production, as it reimagines the final hours of the ill-fated passenger liner. Check it out at Festival Theatre, Edinburgh.

The Positive Stories Festival (Saturday 24 June & Sunday 25 June) sees young people across Scotland taking on newly commissioned plays and receiving training by some of the best theatre artists working in the UK. Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre is the setting for a series of plays performed by emerging talent from high schools, youth theatres and drama clubs.

Taking place at the Dirty Martini Bar in Edinburgh’s Le Monde Hotel, The Secret Cabaret (Sunday 25 June) is an intimate evening of cocktails and cabaret, featuring showtunes from the West End, Broadway and beyond.

SCREEN

After all the social media imitations, the real Wes Anderson returns with his latest film Asteroid City.  Featuring an all-star cast including Scarlett Johansson, Jason Schwartzman, Tom Hanks and many more, it’s a visually astounding but only sporadically engrossing extraterrestrial tale.

Marvel’s latest televisual foray (available right now on Disney+) is Secret Invasion, the brainchild of Kyle Bradstreet (who wrote for and executive produced Mr Robot). It sees Samuel L Jackson’s Nick Fury and his allies (including Ben Mendelsohn’s Talos and Cobie Smulders’ Maria Hill) attempting to thwart a Skrull invasion of Earth.

Bridget Christie is the creator and star of Channel 4 menopause dramedy The Change, following a 50-year-old woman who finds her old motorcycle and goes on a pilgrimage around old haunts in the Forest Of Dean. Monica Dolan, Omid Djalili, Paul Whitehouse and Liza Tarbuck co-star.

PODCASTS

Hosted by journalist Pandora Sykes, The Missing delves into cases of the long-term missing and asks its listeners to help. The first two episodes of season five are available now, with the disappearances of Steven Clark and Carmel Fenech under the microscope.

US stand-up Punkie Johnson will be drawing on her own relationship experience as she takes calls from listeners and gives her honest, unfiltered, and quite possibly hilarious opinions, on their romantic drama in new podcast Love Thang.

Britain’s Got Talent star and winner of the fourth series of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, explores the motivation behind same-sex weddings in new podcast Danny Beard On Same Sex Love And Marriage. The opening episodes see Danny chat to the first same-sex couple to get married in the UK, as well as a woman who chose love over the church.

VISUAL ART

Civic and public spaces will play host to ten commissions from local and internationally celebrated artists in Art Night Dundee (Saturday 24 June), a free, all-night festival of contemporary art that includes live events, installations, sound, performance and film.

Drawing Together (until Wednesday 28 June) gathers art from young refugees in Scotland, Finland and Norway. This particular exhibition is at Glasgow Articulate Hub, with sister shows taking place within the two other countries. It depicts childhood memories, everyday lives and imagined futures and is testament to the ways these young refugees add to a nation’s diversity, health and wealth.

Opening this weekend is I Wear My Wounds On My Tongue (II) (Saturday 24 June – Sunday 1 October) from French artist and poet Tarek Lakhrissi. It’s an exhibition of newly commissioned sculptures and sound work which explores desire, language and queerness, and is inspired by the work of the late poet and performance artist Justin Chin.

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