Toddler Time: Rastamouse programme 13 Missing Tings (U). Picturehouse welcomes back the skateboarding, reggae-playing Rastamouse and his crime-fighting-crew in this series of vibrant, fun and engaging episodes, each one with a theme. ‘Through understanding, love an’ respect, Rastamouse will always make a bad thing good.’ Toddler Time screenings are short sessions exclusively for pre-school children, their parents and carers. 11am, Cameo, Home Street. Tickets cost £3 per child (accompanying adults free) if you join the Toddler Time club – membership is free, ask at the Box Office. Tickets can be booked online here or by calling the Box Office on 0871 902 5723.
Currie Library – the Relaunch! Currie Library has now re-opened after renovations: pop along this afternoon to hear the baroque sounds of Edinburgh’s own Spylaw Scarlets – tea and coffee will be served! 2-2.45pm, Currie Library, 210 Lanark Road.
Architectural Heritage Society of Scotland Winter Lecture Series – Mackintosh Architecture: Context, Making and Meaning. Professor Pamela Robertson, Professor of Mackintosh Studies and Senior Curator at the University of Glasgow’s Hunterian Art Gallery is currently principal investigator on a major research project, and will talk about recent research. 6.30-8.30pm, Sanctuary, St Andrew’s & St George’s West Church, 13 George Street. Non-members warmly welcomed: admission £5 (students £2.50).
Vivian French Live Storytelling! An interactive and fun-filled storytelling with best-selling author Vivian French, who will read from her book Ladybird Ladybird. Mrs Ladybird is going shopping, but she’s forgotten her purse. Help her five little ladybirds find their Mum in time for tea – follow their trails to see where they go! For toddlers and pre-schoolers. 11am-12 noon, Golden Hare Books, 68 St Stephen Street. Free tickets may be obtained via eventbrite here.
For Crying Out Loud: screenings for parents/carers and their babies under 12 months. Babychanging, bottle-warming and buggy parking facilities available. Maximum 2 adults per baby. This week: The Second Best Marigold Hotel (PG), 11am, Filmhouse, Lothian Road. Tickets cost £4.50/£3.50 per adult.
LGBT Police Surgery: seek advice, raise concerns around safety issues, report incidents or discuss policing in your area with an officer from Police Scotland. 6.30-7.30pm, (within weekly Drop-In, which runs 5.30-8pm), LGBT Health & Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street. No appointment needed. For support around safety issues or to meet with the police outwith the surgery times, contact George Burrows on 0131 652 3281 or george@lgbthealth.org.uk.
Blackwell’s Edinburgh Presents The Monthly Book Quiz: if you know your Waugh from your Peace and your Meyer from your Heyer, try the monthly book quiz. Teams of up to 5 people can take part, and it’s free to enter – but space is limited, so get there early. 6-7.15pm, Caffe Nero, Blackwell’s, South Bridge. No tickets required.
The Travelling Gallery: Design In Motion. The Travelling Gallery’s spring 2015 tour is a collaboration with the new V & A Dundee, taking exhibits, designers and the V & A Dundee team across the country, connecting communities with Scotland’s design heritage and raising awareness of the talent in Scotland’s present-day design industries, inspiring creativity along the way. The exhibition concept, brought to life by DJCAD-trained Gabrielle Underwood, will showcase seven innovative designers currently working with digital technology to push the boundaries of their discipline within games, product, jewellery, fashion, textiles and built heritage. 10am-5pm, Grassmarket: please note access may be restricted at certain times owing to visiting groups. Also at same times on Tuesday 3rd in the Grassmarket, on Wednesday 4th at the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art TWO, on Thursday 5th in George Street (between Castle Street and Frederick Street), on Friday 6th at Edinburgh Napier University Colinton Campus, Colinton Road and on Friday 13th March at Edinburgh College, West Granton Road. For more information please contact The Travelling Gallery via City Art Centre, 2 Market Street, EH1 1DE, 0131 529 3930 or travellinggallery@edinburgh.gov.uk.
Golden Hare Book Group: this month Dissident Gardens by Jonathan Lethem. ‘A radical family epic and an alternative view of the American twentieth century, Dissident Gardens is the story of a group of individuals who fought and lost, but might one day win. It is a blast of pure style and literary dazzle from one of the great and most innovative writers of the age’. 6.30pm, Golden Hare Books, 68 St Stephen Street.
Going Underground Showcase: a showcase bill with an intimate few of the basement’s favourite regulars and new discoveries. Featuring Elyssa Vulpes and the Betes Noires, Gillywolfe, Joel Burton, Faith Eliott, Saint Max, Suky Goodfellow, Kirsty Heggie and Peru Galbete. 7.15pm, Forest Cafe, Lauriston Place. Free but please remember that corkage is charged if you wish to bring your own beer or wine.
