June Through July: a new mixed exhibition by Morag Muir, Fraser Haston, Jane Binks and Ingrid Nilsson. 9am-5pm Wednesday to Sunday (closed Monday & Tuesday), Bon Papillon Gallery, Cafe and Framers, 15 Howe Street.
Wester Hailes Community Connections:Â a festival celebrating community life, past, present and future. Today:Â Tea in the Park for the Over 50s: tea and scones, old photographs and live music. Organised by Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust. 2-3pm, Hailes Quarry Park, Dumbryden Drive, Wester Hailes. For more information about this or any other event in the Community Connections Festival, please call Sarah Walker on 0131 458 3267 or email sarah@whalearts.co.uk
Benji The Play Talk Read Bus is in Pilton today! Free songs, stories and play sessions for young children, their parents and carers. 10am-1pm and 2-4pm, West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre, West Pilton Grove.
LGBT Gay Men’s Book Group: an inclusive group where you can meet new people and read and discuss interesting books. 7-9pm, LGBT Health and Wellbeing, 9 Howe Street. For more information please contact info@gaybookgroup.co.uk.
Edinburgh International Film Festival continues today! For details of all films and other events see the programme here or pick up a paper copy at EIFF venues and many other locations throughout the city. Tickets are available in person from the Filmhouse, Lothian Road, Cineworld, Fountain Park, Odeon, Lothian Road and the Festival Theatre, by calling 0131 623 8030 or online here. Today’s highlights include Wizards, Ralph Bakshi’s first family film, about a post-apocalyptic world in which techonology has been lost and abandoned, allowing magical forces to resurface on earth, and Battle Mountain: Graeme Obree’s Story, David Street’s documentary that follows ‘The Flying Scotsman’ as he prepares for a human-powered vehicle land speed record attempt in Nevada – plus In Person: Johnnie To, a conversation with the Hong Kong director of Exiled, Election and Mad Detective, known for his sense of realism mixed with cinematic flourish.
Breastfeeding Awareness Week: NHS Lothian’s Infant Feeding Team will answer any questions you may have – plus free gifts and fun goodies for the children! 10.30am-12 noon (after Rhymetime) Leith Library, 28 Ferry Road. Also at 10.30am-12 noon at Muirhouse Library on Friday 26th June 2015.
Storytime with the White Rabbit: a special session to celebrate Independent Booksellers Week, with the White Rabbit from Alice in Wonderland. 3pm, Far From the Madding Crowd, 20 High Street, Linlithgow.
The New Livingstone Online. David Livingstone left one of the most important written legacies of any Victorian traveller to Africa; members of the team will discuss the most recent phase of this 10 year digital project to bring Livingstone’s original works to a global audience. 2pm, National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge. Free but please book by calling 0131 623 3734 or online here.
LGBT Icebreakers: if you want to meet new people, don’t feel confident going out on the ‘scene’ or are just coming out, Icebreakers is for you. An informal, fun and friendly social group for LGBT people or anyone questioning their sexuality or gender identity. For over 18s only. 7.30-9.30pm, The Regent, Montrose Terrace. For more information please contact Alison Wren on 0131 652 3283 or email alison@lgbthealth.org.uk.
Remembering Srebrenica: July 2015 marks the 20th anniversary of the Srebrenica Massacre, in which more than 8,000 Bosniaks, mainly men and boys, from the town of Srebrenica were killed by units of the army of Republika Srpska under the command of General Ratko Mladic. To mark this anniversary the University of Edinburgh has brought together a distinguished panel of academics and practitioners to consider some of the lessons to be learned from these events in the Bosnian wars. The panelists will be international and human rights lawyer Professor Manfred Nowak (University of Vienna), Adam Boys OBE (Director of Corporate Services, International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance) and Christine Bell, Professor of Constitutional Law (University of Edinburgh); 
moderated by Dr Allison Elliott. 5.30pm, New College, Martin Hall, Mound Place. Free and open to all, but registration is required via eventbrite here.
Skylark Surf Week: Portobello Film Club. Tonight’s film is Point Break (15):  Young FBI agent Utah (Keanu Reeves) infiltrates a surfing community in an attempt to find some unusual bank robbers –  ‘possibly the most gnarly and bodacious film you will ever see in a pub’. 8pm, The Skylark, 241-243 Portobello High Street.
Blackwell’s Edinburgh Presents Moira McPartlin: Day of the Doomed. The author of the highly successful debut novel The Incomers launches her first book for Young Adult readers, set in 2089, when the world is divided into the Privileged few and the Native (Celtic) underclass. 6.30-8pm, Blackwell’s, South Bridge. Free tickets are available from the shop’s front desk, by calling 0131 622 8218, by emailing events.edinburgh@blackwell.co.uk or via eventbrite here.
Get Organised Summer Recitals 2015: John Kitchen plays another programme of audience requests. 1.10-1.50pm, Usher Hall, Lothian Road. £4 per person on the door, or in advance from the Usher Hall Box Office on 0131 228 1155 or online here (transaction fee applies to phone and online bookings). Recitals resume on 1st September 2015.
Midsummer’s Ceilidh: celebrate midsummer with dancing to the Minnow Band. Stan Reeves will call you through some seasonal dances, and there will be mayhem with the ancient Galoshins folk drama heralding in the light and warmth of summer with a resurrection. 7.30pm, Storytelling Court, Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Street. Tickets cost £7/£5 and may be purchased from the Box Office by calling 0131 556 9579 or online here.
Lunchtime Concert: Piano Speak with Will Pickvance. 12.15pm, St Giles’ Cathedral, High Street. Free.
