What to see and do this weekend
Whether you are looking for a fun-filled family day out, a good book to read or games to play while you relax, Checklist has it covered with our 10 things to do, books to read and games of the moment. All you have to do is decide.
1 Arts Across Learning Festival
Various venues, Aberdeen Until March 8
The event celebrates and explores the value to learning and teaching that arts and creativity bring. The festival brings a stimulating wealth of free learning experiences which will enthuse and spark imaginations among Aberdeen’s nurseries, primary schools and teachers. This year’s festival will focus on engagement in learning and the development of employability skills, with exciting projects that bring specific expertise to these areas. Shining a light on art forms and creativity, workshops offer opportunities for in-depth learning.
Visit aberdeencity.gov.uk for the brochure.
2 Collabro
Perth Concert Hall
Tonight
The world’s most successful musical theatre group met in 2014 for their first rehearsal at a London pub. Just a month later, they went on to rouse the whole of Hammersmith Apollo into a standing ovation during their first ever public performance for the Britain’s Got Talent judges. They went on to win the competition with one of the biggest majorities ever. Collabro will be joined by special guest Lauren Samuels BBC1’S Over The Rainbow finalist & We Will Rock You. Get tickets at horsecross.co.uk. The group then moves onto
The Queen’s Hall in Edinburgh tomorrow.
3 Edinburgh Iranian Festival: Film Season
Filmhouse, Edinburgh
Until March 7
Edinburgh Iranian Festival will be celebrating its 10th year in style with a variety of cultural events for all tastes and ages during the first week of March 2019. Organisers will have a special day at the National Museum of Scotland that includes Iranian bagpipes, a film season at the Filmhouse, a Shirin & Farhad theatre show, Iranian cookery class, crafts and fashion fair at a bazaar at the Nomads Tent, a book launch at the Lighthouse bookshop and and a whole host of other events.
Make sure you find out more at ediranfest.co.uk.
4 Inverness Music Festival
Various venues, Inverness
Until March 6
Inverness Festival Association runs the Inverness Music Festival, a competitive festival, which provides opportunities for people of all ages and abilities to develop their potential in a wide range of musical events. There has been a music festival in Inverness since 1922. This started as a few classes in one venue on one day, but now there are over 1,100 entries representing more than 4,000 participants.
This increase has mainly been in the last decade where entries have trebled.
Visit invernessmusicfestival.org to know more.
5 Sylwia Kowalczyk
Lethe Meadows Gallery, Edinburgh
Visit this artist-led tour around Sylwia Kowalczyk’s LETHE exhibition. Lethe is the river that cleanses Dante in Purgatory, the one that wipes memories of the dead as they drink from it or bathe in it. “Lethe” is a collection of collages, portraits, objects and landscapes and drawn from Sylwia Kowalczyk’s own images, where these loose prints from her past grow into new entities.
Event is free, but register via eventbrite.co.uk.
6 Glasgow Film Festival
Various venues, Glasgow
Until March 3
Glasgow Film Festival is one of the leading UK film festivals, with organisers aiming to enable audiences to experience the best international cinema. The GFF programme regularly features new local and international film from all genres, mainstream crowdpleasers to groundbreaking art-house experimentation, the return of well-loved classics alongside rare cult gems, with filmmaker guest appearances, interactive workshops and panel discussion.
Visit glasgowfilm.org/glasgowfilm-festival to see what’s on.
7 Mining the Monklands
Airdrie Town Hall, Airdrie Ongoing
An exhibition of objects and images that tell the story of coal mining in Lanarkshire from the Industrial Revolution to its final years in the 1980s. Explore, through objects and images, the story of coal mining in Lanarkshire, from the dawn of the industrial Revolution, to its final days in the 1980s. On display for the first time, the watch and medal awarded to teenager John Mccabe for his heroism in the 1918 Stanrigg Colliery Disaster. A hundred years ago, Lanarkshire produced around half of Scotland’s coal. Today, not a single deep mine is left in Lanarkshire. Explore this vital history.
Free to attend.
8 Curious About Glasgow
Glasgow City Centre
Ongoing
Scotland’s largest city is a vibrant and cosmopolitan place with a wealth of cultural heritage to explore. Offering a blend of internationallyacclaimed museums and galleries, parks and gardens, impressive historic buildings, rivers and canals, tall ships, modern centres of science, shopping and an array of buzzing restaurants and bars, Glasgow is the place to visit, and is universally hailed as one of the best and definitely friendliest UK destinations. Explore the city with this selfguided walk. Head on over to curiousabout.co. uk/glasgow to purchase a booklet online.
9 Aberdeen City Music School Concert
Music Hall, Aberdeen Saturday
A musical evening with pupils from Aberdeen’s Specialist Music School.
Pupils will perform pieces from many genres, including classical to Scottish traditional and pop. Tickets are £7 and can be bought from aberdeenperformingarts.com. ACMS is a national specialist music school based at Dyce Academy in Aberdeen. The aim of the music school is to allow talented musicians or musicians with great potential to receive expert tuition and additional time for music study whilst continuing their general education at the highest level. Places are free. Visit aberdeencitymusicschool.com.
10 Heather Stevens
Motherwell Civic Centre, Motherwell
Ogoing
Culturenl is hosting an exhibition of work by local artist Heather Stevens. Heather is 86-years-old and has attended the Culturenl art class at Charlotte Toal Centre since it first began, almost 20 years ago. She works mainly in oils, capturing rich textures and atmospheric colour exploring both figurative and natural themes. She describes the medium as being “freer,” allowing her to express the visual qualities that she is drawn to within the subjects. Attending the art class has developed her love of painting. Free to attend.