st mary's organCelebrity Organ Recitals: Duncan Ferguson, Organist and Master of Music, St Mary’s Cathedral. 4.45pm, St Mary’s Cathedral, Palmerston Place. Free: retiring collection.

Filmhouse Junior: screenings for a younger audience. Today: LIAF – For Ages 0-6 (U). A programme of 14 short films from the London International Animation Festival, specially chosen for young children. This international showcase includes The New Species (Czech Republic), about three children who decide to seek scholarly wisdom from a paleontologist, Miriam’s Kite (Estonia), about a pet chicken that takes to the skies, and the charming My Mum is an Aeroplane (Russia/USA). 11am, Filmhouse, Lothian Road. Tickets cost £4 per person, big or small, and may be obtained from the Box Office in person, by calling 0131 228 6382 or online. LIAF: For Ages 7+ follows next Sunday.

my mum is an aeroplane

Older But No Wiser: CODA’s 25th Birthday! Live music spread over three days to celebrate the specialist music shop’s anniversary; today a performance by multi-award winning Gaelic singer Julie Fowlis. Coda, 12 Bank Street. Please contact CODA for times. All welcome! Further events will take place on 15th and 16th August – see listings.

Slate Cone Detail by Andy Goldsworthy. Image: Roween Suess.
Slate Cone Detail by Andy Goldsworthy. Image: Roween Suess.

Garden Sculpture Tours: join Alexander ‘Twig’ Champion for a meditative tour around the Garden’s outdoor sculptures, including the works of John Chamberlain. The tour explores both Chamberlain’s outdoor works, installed as part of the summer exhibition in Inverleith House, and the Garden’s collection of outdoor sculptures, including major works by Ian Hamilton Finlay, Andy Goldsworthy, Barbara Hepworth and Alan Johnston. 2-3pm, meet at Inverleith House reception, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Inverleith Row. Free, all welcome, no booking required. Also at same time on 23rd August and 6th & 20th September.

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St John’s Festival Pulpits: Scottish political leaders come to St John’s to explain what motivates them. The five main parties in Scotland will be represented, each one speaking after St John’s Festival Evensong on Sundays throughout August. Tonight’s speaker is Marco Biagi MSP, Minister for Local Government and Community Empowerment (SNP). 7pm (approx – after evensong service, which begins at 6pm), St John’s Episcopal Church, Princes Street. All welcome, free. Next Sunday’s speaker will be Ruth Davidson MSP, Leader, Scottish Conservatives.

burning bush at filmhouseMade in Prague: the New Czech Cinema UK Tour 2015. The biennial UK showcase of contemporary Czech cinema is back for the fifth time, with five titles capturing the country’s dramatic past and its influence on contemporary life and culture. Today’s film is Burning Bush (Horici ker) (15) (In Czech with English subtitles), a mesmerising docudrama by Polish/US director Agnieszka Holland, who draws on her personal experience to portray the aftermath of the 1968 Soviet invasion. 2pm, Filmhouse, Lothian Road. Tickets may be obtained from the Box Office in person, by calling 0131 228 6382 or online: prices vary.

french bass violAn Afternoon of Renaissance Viols with the Squair Mile Consort of Viols. An afternoon of  Renaissance viol music performed in the historic rooms of the Museum. The Consort, formed in 1992, is dedicated to the great music composed for the viola de gamba (viol) from the 16th to the late 17th century. 2pm and 3pm, Museum of Edinburgh, Huntly House, 142 Canongate. This event is free: please contact Margaret Findlay, Public Programmes Manager, on 0131 529 3963/margaret.findlay@edinburgh.gov.uk to check booking details.

serenity cafe bingoSerenity Cafe Prize Bingo! 2pm for 2.30pm, Serenity Cafe, 8 Jackson’s Entry, The Tun, 111 Holyrood Road. Entry costs £5 and includes tea, coffee and cake. Serenity Cafe is run by people in recovery for people in recovery and for public customers who appreciate good value, good quality food served in a relaxed environment – a place to meet, have fun and feel comfortable. All events are drug and alcohol-free.

cramond kirk interiorCramond Kirk Festival Opening: the church will be open to visitors during the Edinburgh Festivals; volunteer stewards will be on hand. 2-4pm today and every day until 29th August, Cramond Kirk, Cramond Glebe Road. All welcome.

white light black rainWhite Light Black Rain: film and discussion. To mark the 70th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki and Hiroshima, a screening of Steven Okazaki’s HBO documentary film, featuring fourteen Japanese survivors and four Americans involved in the bombings. 6-8.30pm, Gayfield Creative Spaces, 11 Gayfield Square. Free (donations requested at the door) but please book your place via Brown Paper Tickets here. Organised by Edinburgh Peace & Justice Centre and Edinburgh CND, with assistance from WMD Awareness. Guests arriving early will have the opportunity to see Stop Worrying and Learn to Love the Bomb, WMD Awareness’s interactive exhibition (see listing August 6th).

St Giles’ At Six: Toni Fehse (trumpet) and Jonas Wilfert (organ). 6pm, St Giles’ Cathedral, High Street. Free; retiring collection.

Picturehouse Vintage Sundays: classic films back on the big screen. Today: Dziga Vertov’s Man With A Movie Camera (U), a film which met with bewilderment on its release but is now recognised as one of the most radical films of Soviet cinema, and a major influence on Godard, Marker and others, ‘an impressionistic, lyrical portrait of a day in the life of Moscow’s masses at work and play’. 1pm, Cameo, Home Street. Tickets may be purchased from the Box Office in person, by calling 0871 902 5723 or online.

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