Days out, Issue 631

Refugee Week Scotland 2009 - Fugee la la

Given the recent increase in profile of the BNP across Scotland, the timing and focus of this year’s country-wide Refugee Week are particularly prescient. This year, the multi-artform festival which aims to raise awareness of the issues facing and…

Site Specifics: Edinburgh Zoo

What is it? It’s a zoo. In Edinburgh. The name’s a bit of a giveaway, to be honest, but if you’d like some numbers: 82 acres of parkland (mostly on Costorphine Hill), housing well over 1000 animals and birds, and attracting more than 600,000 visitors…

GSA Degree Show Street Party 2009

Over the years, the Glasgow School of Art Degree Show afterparty, where alterna-haired art hipsters take over Renfrew Street for a night-long outdoor bunfest (rather like The Kids From Fame but with skinnier jeans), has become almost as important an…

Edinburgh Enlightenment

Edinburghers get rather used to their city being turned into a vessel for internationally-reaching performances and concerns/a gentleman’s club for members of the stand-up comedy fraternity every August. It’s kinda nice, then, to see one of the…

Ultimate Guitar Hero Fundraiser

We bet you do, baby. Why not do it in public? Over the last year the Guitar Hero phenomenon has escaped from living rooms and grown into something of a social phenomenon. With their live rock tournaments, the good people at the Voodoo Rooms are simply…