{"id":417104,"date":"2025-09-12T00:23:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T00:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/417104\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T00:23:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T00:23:18","slug":"scotlands-best-events-this-week-11-18-sep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/417104\/","title":{"rendered":"Scotland’s Best Events This Week (11-18 Sep)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the year of our Lord 2025,\u00a0Take One Action<\/a>, Scotland\u2019s film festival dedicated to social justice, is as necessary as ever. The event, now in its 17th edition, uses cinema as a catalyst to\u00a0help\u00a0audiences explore how they can reclaim political agency, create solidarity, and feel less helpless in the face of injustices happening on our doorstep here in Scotland and across the world.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s programme is centred around the theme ‘Real Utopias’ and presents work featuring collective struggles and people imagining better futures. Among the highlights are\u00a0Power Station, a heartwarming portrait of a community attempting to turn their suburban street into an energy-generating powerhouse;\u00a0Union, about Amazon workers fighting for better conditions;\u00a0and the classic 1984 documentary\u00a0Red Skirts on Clydeside. Screenings kick off this week at Filmhouse in Edinburgh (17-21 Sep), before moving to Glasgow (25-28 Sep) later in the month, then to Inverness (10-12 Oct) and Dundee (7-8 Nov). Full programme at\u00a0takeoneaction.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n


Mary, Queen of Scots | Image: Andy Ross<\/p>\n

Theatre Royal, Glasgow. 17-20\u00a0Sep
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Fresh from dazzling Edinburgh International Festival audiences last month, Scottish Ballet\u2019s newest production, a queer, sexy, punky retelling of the fraught relationship between Mary Stuart and Queen Elizabeth I, begins its run in Glasgow.<\/p>\n


Matthew Arthur Williams, Emollition Man, 2023 | courtesy of the artist<\/p>\n

Stills, Edinburgh. 12\u00a0Sep-18 Oct
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Matthew Arthur Williams\u2019 new exhibition excavates the capacity of memory to hold and reveal hidden histories in the face of structural erasure. Through a series of self-portraits and landscapes, his photography examines states of loss and absence, reclamation and retrieval.<\/p>\n


Ceylan Hay | Image: Elly Lucas<\/p>\n

Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh. 15\u00a0Sep, 8pm
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AMPLIFI\u2019s 5th season comes to a close \u2013 before they come back with a bang next month \u2013 with this intimate show featuring three musicians on the rise: multi-instrumentalist Bella Lungs (aka Ceylan Hay, pictured); experimental musician Kevin Leomo; and Glasgow-based ambient musician Lucian Fletcher.<\/p>\n


Whiplash | Image: Sony Pictures<\/p>\n

Glasgow Film Theatre. 14\u00a0Sep, 1.45pm
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GFT say goodbye to its long-serving CEO, Allison Gardner, after three decades of service to the arthouse cinema, with an on-stage conversation looking back at key moments from her career, followed by a screening of Damien Chazelle\u2019s\u00a0Whiplash, one of Gardner’s personal faves. She\u2019ll be much missed.<\/p>\n

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Usher Hall, Edinburgh.\u00a020\u00a0Sep, 7.30pm |\u00a0The Glasshouse, Gateshead.\u00a021 Sep 7.30pm<\/p>\n

Rufus Wainwright teams up with the epic forces of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra for two unforgettable nights. Experience lush orchestral arrangements from his\u00a0Want One\u00a0and\u00a0Want\u00a0Two\u00a0albums in a breathtaking performance with the BBC SSO that’s a “match made in heaven” (The Herald). Don\u2019t miss this rare chance to hear Rufus\u2019s baroque-pop classics reimagined in glorious symphonic form!<\/p>\n

Tickets at\u00a0bbc.in\/RufusBBCSSO<\/a><\/p>\n


Self Esteem | Image:\u00a0Charlotte Patmore<\/p>\n

Usher Hall, Edinburgh. 16 Sep, 7pm<\/p>\n

Self Esteem (aka Rebecca Lucy Taylor) comes to Edinburgh with a tour celebrating her third album,\u00a0A Complicated Woman. As with her spectacular\u00a0Prioritise Pleasure\u00a0show, expect spiky but anthemic pop songs, hugely danceable beats and jaw-dropping choreography. She’s also at Barrowlands in Glasgow 20 and 21 Sep.<\/p>\n

The Stand, Glasgow. 11\u00a0Sep, 7pm<\/p>\n

Beloved comedian Josie Long brings her freewheeling Fringe show all about extinct megafauna to Glasgow. As well as reflecting on prehistoric beasts, expect Long to have something to say on the state of the world today. In addition to great comedy, this is also the perfect excuse to check out The Stand\u2019s new venue on Great Western Road.<\/p>\n

15 Reform Street, Dundee. From 13\u00a0Sep<\/p>\n

Margate-based sculptor Lindsey Mendick transforms a vacant high street shop in Dundee into an ‘imagined estate agency’ for this intriguing off-site collaboration with Jupiter Artland. We’re told the installation, titled\u00a0Growing Pains, will explore class, social mobility and the teenage experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the year of our Lord 2025,\u00a0Take One Action, Scotland\u2019s film festival dedicated to social justice, is as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-417104","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115188479354153648","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417104","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=417104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}