Mini Zoomers’ Messy Mondays: sensory, materials-focused play sessions for children aged 18 months +. Splash, scrape, sprinkle, slide, squish, scatter and scoop messy materials to make, create and explore. Bring a change of clothes! 12 noon-1pm, Yellow Room, Summerhall, 1 Summerhall. £4.50 per child (sibling £3.50). The next session will be on 27th July 2015.
Meet the Edible Gardening Team: take a look round the productive garden with the Edible Gardening Project volunteers – find out what needs doing in your own garden just now and have your vegetable growing questions answered. Have a go at sowing seeds and take them home to watch them grow. For all ages. 1-3pm, Demonstration Garden, Royal Botanic Garden of Edinburgh, Inverleith Row. Free, no booking required. Also at same times on Tuesday 14th July 2015.
For Crying Out Loud: screenings for carers and their babies under 12 months old (maximum 2 adults per baby). Babychanging, bottle-warming and buggy parking facilities are available. Today’s film is Song of the Sea (PG) a ‘stunnningly beautiful animated feature ..the soulful and magical tale of a brother and sister on an adventure to save the spirit world’. 11am, Filmhouse, Lothian Road. Tickets cost £4.50/£3.50 per adult, and may be purchased in person or by calling the Box Office on 0131 228 2688.
Mini Zoomers:  a sensory play space for children aged 0-3 years. Promoting independence, imagination and creativity, Mini Zoomers offers a safe and welcoming space to explore materials, try out new things and make new friends. 9.30-11.30am, Yellow Room, Summerhall, 1 Summerhall. £3.50 per child (siblings and babies under 6 months £2.50). The next session will be on 17th July 2015.
Lunchtime Concert: Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament Choir, Christchurch, New Zealand.  12.15pm, St Giles’ Cathedral, High Street. Free.
Goodbye Carrie I Must Leave You: author Jill Duffield launches her new book, comprising the letters of her grandfather James Hill to his young wife, written 1899-1902. Professor Paul Nugent (University of Edinburgh) will speak about James’ service in the South African war. 7-8.30pm, St John’s Church Hall, Princes Street. Tickets cost £5 (includes wine and nibbles) and may be purchased on the door or via eventbrite here.
Grassmarket Community Project Cinema: Skeletons (15).  Critically acclaimed cult British black comedy in which two exorcists literally remove the skeletons from people’s cupboards. 7pm, Grassmarket Community Project, 86 Candlemaker Row. All welcome, free admission: donations very welcome! The Grassmarket Community Project is a charity providing mentoring, training and education to participants, many of whom are amongst the most vulnerable of Edinburgh’s citizens, in a nurturing environment. It operates a community cafe, woodwork and tartan social enterprises, and a range of social integration and educational activities for members, aimed at enhancing life skills and developing confidence. To read about The Edinburgh Reporter’s afternoon at the Project, click here.
Go Set a Watchman Celebration Evening: an after-hours screening of the classic 1962 adaptation of To Kill A Mockingbird. Delicious refreshments will be available throughout the evening, and when the film finishes at midnight you will be able to be one of the first people in the world to read Go Set A Watchman. 9pm, Waterstones West End, 128 Princes Street. Please contact the shop on 0131 226 2666 to find out more.
Picturehouses Culture Shock: the best in cult and genre films. Tonight: Little Shop of Horrors (Director’s Cut) (PG) – a comedy musical based on the stage version of the cult movie, in which the cannibalistic eating habits of a carniverous shrub become insatiable…  9pm, Cameo, Home Street. Tickets may be purchased in person, by calling the Box Office on 0871 902 5723 or online here: prices vary.
Sofi’s Cult Movie Mondays: free screenings of popular classics – with popcorn – in Sofi’s cosy back room. This week’s film is Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas (18) in which an oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades; Johnny Depp stars. 8pm, Sofi’s Bar, Henderson Street.
