Events in East Renfrewshire on 25 August 2020
View all the upcoming events in East Renfrewshire on the 25 August 2020 below, or use the calendar to find events taking place on a specific month or date.
Events in East Renfrewshire
1 Month Lockdown Life Changer - August Edition
My Health Scotland are running an online 'Lockdown Life Changer' that will help improve all aspects of your fitness and nutrition!
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Alzheimer Scotland Dementia Friends Online Sessions
Alzheimer Scotland's Dementia Advisor is now delivering free, interactive and informative online Dementia Friends information sessions throughout East Renfrewshire.
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Beatson Cancer Charity: Online Art Exhibition
Beatson Cancer Charity would like to invite you to view pieces from over 30 artists as their annual Art Exhibition goes online!
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Breakfast Plays: New Tracks
This year’s Breakfast Plays are coming to you online as part of the Traverse Festival and delivered as an audio only podcast.
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Centre for Lifelong Learning’s Summer Online Classes
With the help of expert tutors, the Centre for Lifelong Learning at University of Strathclyde have developed an exciting range of classes to help keep you busy during July and August!
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Curious: The RSE Online Summer Programme
Get Curious this August with a thought-provoking packed programme of free online events run by the Royal Society of Edinburgh. Meet extraordinary people talking about groundbreaking ideas!
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Free Well-being Sessions For 14-26yr Olds
Impact Arts are offering drop-in, virtual, creative and well-being sessions led by experienced artists and youth workers for anyone aged 14-26 living in Scotland's Central Belt!
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Lockdown Virtual Tour and Tasting
Come and join us at Stirling Distillery as our team take you on a virtual tour and tasting from the comfort of your own home!
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Macmillan East Ren Move More
Move More is a programme of physical activity, advice and support for people at all stages of the cancer journey, contact the Macmillan East Ren team and find out how to get involved.
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Events in Edinburgh and the Lothians
Allan Kaprow Season
Scottish and international artists will reinvent artworks from American artist Allan Kaprow’s career across Jupiter Artland this summer.
Black Lives Matter Mural Trail
A public trail of artworks by Scottish artists in solidarity with Black Lives Matter, led by creative producer Wezi Mhura.
Café 1505 Al Fresco
Café 1505 has extended its outdoor seating into the courtyard of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Come and join us between 12pm - 8pm each day - no reservation required!
Calvin Z. Laing, Calvin and Jogging, 2020
Calvin Z. Laing revisits the neighbourhood of his childhood in the suburbs of Edinburgh to present a new online performance Calvin & Jogging, filmed by Jen Martin.
Chamber Music Soundscapes in Princes Street Gardens
Leading soloists and chamber musicians give specially recorded performances from The Hub, heard in the beautiful surrounds of Princes Street Gardens.
Coastal Birds
This group exhibition, on now at the Scottish Ornithologists Club, brings together work by Emily Ingrey-Counter, Helen Kennedy and Liz Myhill!
Cuddly Corgi Treasure Hunt
Looking to entertain the kids? Come and spot our cuddly corgis hiding around Britannia’s tour route.
Curious About Edinburgh
Have fun discovering Edinburgh with a self-guided, heritage walk with a treasure hunt theme from Curious About!
Dazzle 2020
Showcasing the best in contemporary jewellery, Dazzle, the major annual exhibition, returns this year to Dovecot Studios!
Declan
Declan is a brand new take on the Traverse Theatre’s 2019 hit production Mouthpiece about class, culture and appropriation. Part of Traverse Digital Festival 2020!
DIY Art – Activity Packs
DIY Art is Edinburgh Art Festival's free series of activity packs specially designed by artists, inviting you to get creative at home!
Edinburgh Free Fringe Festival Online
Join us for an online for this years Edinburgh Free Fringe Festival - with shows every day from August 7th to 30th!
Edinburgh International Book Festival Online Themes: Africa: A Balance of Stories
Ten writers we commissioned to journey across Africa and create new works from their experience - give voice to untold stories.
Edinburgh International Book Festival Themes: America: Truth, Lies, Power and Division
With just months until the next Presidential election, we shine a light on how today’s America came to be and the possible consequences for all of us if her identity crisis continues.
Edinburgh International Book Festival Themes: Drawing Stories
This year’s Baillie Gifford Children’s Programme celebrates the remarkable role of the illustrator in bringing picture books to life.
Edinburgh International Book Festival Themes: Ground-breaking Voices in Literature
We are honoured to welcome the masterminds behind some of the most ground-breaking literature from across the world this year.
Edinburgh International Book Festival Themes: Ideas for Our Times
In this series, sponsored by Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, key writers offer their insights into the major issues of our times.
Edinburgh International Book Festival Themes: Made in Scotland
It wouldn’t be the Edinburgh International Book Festival without celebrating the brilliant work of authors, writers and trailblazers who hail from our small country.
Edinburgh International Book Festival Themes: The Power of Poetry
In this special centenary year of the birth of Scotland’s first ever Makar – the remarkable Edwin Morgan – we celebrate the unbridled power of poetry.
Edinburgh International Book Festival Themes: Visions of a Better Future
We welcome authors and speakers with vision and ambition – helping us to see the light through the darkness and imagining better worlds for all of us.
Edinburgh International Book Festival Themes: Young, Fierce and Proud
From tackling racism and gender stereotypes, to celebrating diversity in all its forms, these events offer exciting and challenging perspectives for all of us to heed.
Edinburgh International Festival: My Light Shines On Series
The lights of the Festival City burn bright in a spectacular celebration of artists, audiences and Edinburgh’s enduring spirit.
Ellie Harrison
Artist and activist, Ellie Harrison (2012 and 2014 festival programmes), divulges details of her carbon footprint for transport.
Exhibition ‘Andante for Hands and Water’
This exhibition at Birch Tree Gallery features watercolours by Susan Macintosh from the Scottish Highlands and ceramics by Emily Hughes from Wales!
Exhibition: Barbara Rae CBE RA
Don't miss this exhibition of new works by internationally acclaimed painter and printmaker Barbara Rae CBE RA on now at Open Eye Gallery!
Exhibition: Festival Spirit
Open Eye Gallery presents a large-scale mixed exhibition of selected artists to toast the spirit of the August festivals and to celebrate the re-opening of the Gallery post-lockdown.
Faulty Towers The Dining Experience at Edinburgh Fringe 2020
Don't miss the legendary show, Faulty Towers The Dining Experience, when it returns to the Edinburgh Fringe this August!
Fringe Ceilidhs in Lauriston Hall
Come along for some good exercise and great fun with Edinburgh Ceilidhs in Lauriston Hall during the Festival Fringe!
Fringe of Colour
Fringe of Colour are hosting their first ever online arts festival with over 40 films made by Black and Brown people/People of Colour throughout August 2020.
Funshine on Leith
Join award-winning tour guide Paul as he takes you on a rich, colourful walking tour of Leith. Packed with historical curiosities, personal anecdotes and juicy details that will make your jaw drop.
Gilded Balloon Virtual Fringe Programme
The Gilded Balloon brings you a wee bit of Virtual Fringe magic in August with a great programme of shows!
Hanna Tuulikki, SING SIGN: a close duet, 2015
SING SIGN: a close duet reflects on the multiple ways in which we communicate. In revisiting this work, Tuulikki will present a special live performance on-line, with her collaborator Daniel Padden.
Harnessing the Power of Water - CANCELLED
In Scotland's Year of Coasts and Waters, join us for a new exhibition at John Sinclair House where we showcase fantastic material from the HES archives.
House of Jack Online Dance Classes
House of Jack is offering free, live and interactive online dance classes for adults and kids.
Interactive Family Trails with Holly and Rudy
Palace Wardens, Holly and Rudy, are recruiting some Junior Wardens – are you up for the challenge?
Intro to Japanese: Survival and Beyond
Intro to Japanese is a fun introduction for anyone looking to travel to Japan, explore Japanese culture, learn the language or just try something new!
Invisible Cities Walking Tours - Edinburgh
Invisible Cities offer family friendly guided walking tours of Edinburgh that showcase some of the city's historical landmarks and explore the social projects that make the city what it is!
Legends of the Abbey
In these socially distanced talks, discover some of the fascinating stories behind the famous and not-so-famous figures memorialised in the ruins of Holyrood Abbey.
Mid-Century Modern Art and Design From Conran to Quant
Explore the furniture, fashion, textiles, lighting, ceramics, and printed material that defined Mid-Century Modern in this exhibition on now at Dovecot Studios!
Modern Masters Women
The Modern Masters Women exhibition at The Scottish Gallery seeks to look back as well as forward, celebrating major female artists throughout their history.
Peter Liversidge, Flags for Edinburgh, 2020
Peter Liversidge revisits his 2013 festival commission Flags for Edinburgh which invited buildings across the city to fly a white flag that reads HELLO.
Rae-Yen Song - Song Dynasty
Rae-Yen Song expands on a project for the 2018 festival, drawing on autobiography and fantasy to speak broadly and politically about foreignness and what it means to belong, or not.
Removed
A sell-out hit at Belfast Children’s Festival, Baboro Festival and Dublin Theatre Festival, Removed comes to the Traverse Festival.
Rock Stars: Photographic Portraits
Featuring work from some world renowned photograhers, much of it never seen in Scotland before, Rock Stars: Photographic Portraits is now on at Gallery-Close!
Rosalind Nashashibi
Rosalind Nashashibi shares an online presentation of her two-part film commissioned for the 2019 edition of the festival.
Ruth Ewan, Magic Words 2020
Ruth Ewan revisits her Sympathetic Magick (2018) project, where she invited magicians to consider how they might use their magic to change the world!
Ruth Ewan, Worker’s Song Storydeck, 2018
Ruth Ewan revisits her Sympathetic Magick (2018) project with an online presentation of her short film, Worker’s Song Storydeck.
Scotland’s Precious Seas
To celebrate the Year of Coasts and Waters, this small exhibition explores Scotland’s diverse sea life and the many threats facing our marine life.
Shannon Te Ao, With the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods, 2017
Shannon Te Ao revisits With the sun aglow, I have my pensive moods, a poetic meditation on themes of love, grief, sickness and healing!
Shedinburgh Fringe Festival
Shedinburgh Fringe Festival is a brand new online festival celebrating and preserving the best of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival...in sheds!
Tam Joseph, The Hand Made Map Of The World, 2014
The Hand Made Map Of The World is based on an original painting made in 2012 and newly newly sited for this current presentation on the Meadows.
Tamara MacArthur, It’s All Over But the Dreaming, 2020
Following on from her 2019 Art Late performance at Dovecot Studios, Tamara MacArthur creates a new online performance.
The Real Mary King’s Close Tours
Edinburgh's deepest secret, the Real Mary King’s Close is buried deep beneath the Royal Mile... a warren of hidden streets that has remained frozen in time since the 17th Century!
The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo
With the iconic backdrop of Edinburgh Castle, 2020 sees The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo celebrate its 70th anniversary with ‘The Platinum Edition’.
The Story of the Gardens
The Palace gardens are a place of both beauty and history. Find out how the gardens have evolved across the centuries in these talks during August.
Times Like These
In this diverse and intriguing exhibition, members of 'The Artists Pool' give a personal response to finding their lives turned upside down by lockdown.
Traverse Young Writers’ Scratch Performances
Traverse is delighted to present brand new, specially created, pieces from nine Young Writers online, with performers filming in their own homes under lockdown conditions.
Utilita Live From The Drive-In: Edinburgh
Live Nation has announced the Utilita Live From The Drive-In concert series, set to bring some the biggest names of UK music to the Royal Highland Centre, Edinburgh this Summer!
Weekly Online Computing Club for Kids
Check out ComputerXplorers SEScotland's online kids computing clubs, the perfect way to learn the latest technologies and develop invaluable tech skills.
West End Stories Walking Tours
Discover the fascinating lives of people who lived in the West End of Edinburgh, as your guide leads you through the elegant Georgian New Town!
YogaBellies Edinburgh North - Online
YogaBellies Edinburgh North is holding LIVE classes, starting from Wednesday 5th August and bookings are now open!
Events in Fife
Evening Zoo
See Fife Zoo as you’ve never seen it before on Friday and Saturday evenings throughout August!
Kirkcaldy Cycling Festival
Kirkcaldy Cycling Festival, taking place between 22nd and 31st August, offers a series of free events for cyclists new and old with a mix of small-scale face-to-face events and online events!
Lines from Scotland
The art of Scottish drawing is celebrated in Lines from Scotland a new exhibition on now at Dunfermline Carnegie Library and Galleries.
Pregnancy Pilates - Online
Pregnancy Pilates helps to reduce those aches and pains, keep you active and benefit from some social time with other expectant women.
Seniors Pilates - Online
Join Sam Mace Wellness for an online weekly Pilates class for the over 60's and strengthen your back and core, rebalance your body and improve posture through re-alignment!
Well Being Well Doing
Using the labyrinth, earthship, yurt and lochside gardens to mindfully connect with nature, be with others in a like minded community and get creative in a simple and easy way!
Events in Glasgow
Anna Molin - Costume & Illustration: Drawings from the 1970s
Compass Gallery are hosting an exhibition of work from Swedish artist Anna Molin featuring a selection of original artworks created in the 1970s!
City Sightseeing Glasgow
With 21 stops where you can hop on and off to visit some of the city's leading attractions, City Sightseeing Glasgow is the perfect way to explore Glasgow!
Cranside Kitchen
Cranside Kitchen is a new free-to-enter outdoor venue, open seven days a week with a food market and beer garden located at Rotunda North!
Curious About Glasgow
Have fun discovering Glasgow with a self-guided, heritage walk with a treasure hunt theme from Curious About!
Festival Village: Merchant City
The Pop-Up Pro's are bringing their popular food market and beer garden, Festival Village, to Glasgow's Candleriggs Square!
Galvanize Festival - CANCELLED
Tom Walker, The Libertines, Two Door Cinema Club, Supergrass, Example, PIXIES and All Time Low will headline the inaugural Galvanize Festival in Glasgow this August!
Glasgow City Centre Walking Tour
This is a 2.5-3 hour tour that will take you around all the main sites of the city, giving you an excellent opportunity to find out about Glasgow's rich history and culture!
Good Move Glasgow Health Walks
Good Move Glasgow run Health Walks right across the city which are suitable for all ages and abilities!
Hire-a-guide at RSPB Scotland Loch Lomond - CANCELLED
Take a personal tour around RSPB Loch Lomond with a guide looking for wildlife and discovering the unique history and management of the reserve!
HumanKind
In this online exhibition hosted by Cyril Gerber Fine Art, explore humankind as seen through the eyes of generations of artists, observing the similarities and differences between us all.
International Photography Exhibition
The Glasgow Gallery of Photography presents their International Photography Exhibition showcasing the work of photographers from across the globe!
Invisible Cities Walking Tours - Glasgow
Invisible Cities offer friendly walking tours of Glasgow that showcase some of the city's historical landmarks and explore the social projects that make the city what it is!
Loch Lomond Faerie Trail
Loch Lomond Faerie Trail is open for the Summer with a new trail mystery, new trail decorations and a wonderful new trail activity booklet!
Love Letter to Glasgow
Local artist Lee Robertson has been working on 'Love Letter to Glasgow' an exhibition which was due to be held in Sogo Arts on the Saltmarket, he's now taken his exhibition online!
NYCOS Mini Music Makers Online
Join NYCOS for their Mini Music Makers Online classes, providing an opportunity for you and your child to make and enjoy music together!
Events in Lanarkshire
East Kilbride Art Club - Exhibition
East Kilbride Art Club are hosting their very first ONLINE exhibition until the 28th August... take a look and vote for your favourite piece of work!
National Museum of Rural Life Summer Trail - CANCELLED
Take a walk in the countryside on the brand new family trail at National Museum of Rural Life, and see what you can spot on the way to the farm!
St Andrew’s Hospice - Not So Midnight Walk
This year St Andrew's Hospice are challenging YOU to rock your brightest item of clothing, dust off those glow sticks and get walking for their 'Not So Midnight Walk'!
Tenement Through Time
Tenement Through Time is a new, innovative and interactive exhibition which explores tenement life in New Lanark between 1881-1971!
The Tolbooth Lanark Summer Exhibition: Coasts and Rivers
Coasts and Rivers is a celebration of Scotland's spectacular and unrivalled shores, rivers and lochs at The Tolbooth Lanark!
Events in Renfrewshire and Inverclyde
Lockdown Drive-In
intu Braehead and The Catherine McEwan Foundation have teamed up to bring drive-in movies to Renfrew this Summer!
Paisley Art Institute 132nd Annual Exhibition
The Paisley Art Institute's 132nd Annual Art Exhibition, which will be held online this year, will contain artworks by the best contemporary talent from all over Scotland and beyond!
Silly Squad Summer Reading Challenge 2020
Have the Silliest Summer ever and join the Silly Squad, Summer Reading Challenge 2020 with Renfrewshire Libraries!
Events in Stirling and Falkirk
Alan Dimmick: Photographs at Stirling University, 2017
This exhibition showcases a selection of the photographs taken during Alan Dimmick’s residency at Stirling University.
Over the Rainbow
GOSSIP are delighted to return to the Tolbooth with an exhibition that shares some creative experiences and emotions from the last few months.
Remembering Empire
Are you interested in recent history? Researchers in French studies at the University of Stirling have launched a new free online course called ‘Remembering Empire' and it's open to everyone.
The John Muir Family Award
Under The Trees is offering the chance for families to undertake the John Muir Award with them. It's a fantastic outdoor learning award, and is easy to achieve - even under our current situation!
World Explores. Children’s Weekly Art Classes Autumn 2020
Learn2draw's weekly art classes for children start on 22nd August, offering a glimpse into different art styles and mediums connected by the theme “ World Explorers”.
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