APRIL IN EDINBURGH

“FASTRACK THE FESTIVAL CITY OF EDINBURGH” WHILST STAYING AT THE MW GUESTHOUSE

While staying at MW Guest house check out the following events...scroll down to see what's on at the theatres and galleries

Historic Scotland - DATES TO BE CONFIRMED FOR 2007

Free entry at Scotland's leading historic attractions, including Edinburgh Castle

The Edinburgh Science Festival — DATES TO BE CONFIRMED FOR 2007
Venues: Assembly Rooms, Botanic Gardens & Royal Museum (Plus various venues across the city)
Info: 0131 557 5588
There is something for everyone at the Edinburgh Science Festival and you? ll find something here to educate, entertain or astonish as the city becomes a giant lab for a week and a half. Look out for informative talks, dazzling demonstrations and fun filled hands on sessions for all ages.

The Edinburgh Easter Festival — DATES TO BE CONFIRMED FOR 2007 (Easter Weekend)
Celebrate Easter in style at Edinburgh's second Easter Festival and enjoy a variety of free, family friendly events, featuring performers from around the world. Highlights include a spectacular family fun day on Easter Sunday, plus a stunning Easter Parade through the city centre as well as a host of events taking place daily in Princes Street Gardens

Bo'ness & Kinneil Railway

    DATES TO BE CONFIRMED FOR 2007 - EASTER WEEKEND

      Easter Egg Specials

St. Andrews Golf Week

  DATES TO BE CONFIRMED FOR 2007

      Various venues in St. Andrews

Haddington Farmers' Market (every last Saturday of each month)

   THROUGHOUT THE YEAR

      Haddington, Court Street

IN THE THEATRES

Festival Theatre — 13-29 Nicolson Street Tel 0131-662-1112 
Features opera, ballet, drama, dance etc

   Monday 24th - Saturday 29th

      Jerry Springer The Opera   

Kings Theatre — 2 Leven Street, Tel 529 6000 
Drama, musicals and pantomimes at Christmas

DATES TO BE CONFIRMED FOR 2007

Playhouse theatre — 18-22 Greenside Place, Tel 0870 606 3424&
Home to the West End musicals

   All month except Sundays

      Mamma Mia

George Square Theatre - George Square, Tel 0131 650 9195

   Wednesday 26th - Friday 28th

      Edinburgh Telephone Choir

Usher Hall - Lothian Road, Tel 0131 228 1155
   Friday 28th

     RSNO - Deneve conducts Jean-Yves Thibaudet

The Queen's Hall - Clerk Street, Tel 1031 662 2019

   Friday 28th

      Scottish Ensemble Concert Series - Fiddlers

   Saturday 29th

      Scottish Chamber Orchestra

   Sunday 30th

      Odetta and James ‘Blood’ Ulmer

IN THE GALLERIES

National Gallery of Scotland - The Mound, Tel 0131 624 6200
DATES TO BE CONFIRMED FOR 2007

Royal Scottish Academy Building - The Mound, Tel 0131 624 6200

   From Saturday 8th

      RSA Annual Exhibition 2006

Scottish National Portrait Gallery - 1 Queen Street, Tel 0131 624 6200

   From Friday 7th

      Fizzers: The Alternative National Portrait Gallery

      Stranger than Life

   All Month

      Thoroughly Modern Women

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art - 75 Belford Road, tel 0131 624 6200

   Til Monday 17th

      Selective Memory: Scotland and Venice Biennale

   All Month

      The Smoking Room

Dean Gallery - 73 Belfrod Road, Tel 0131 624 6200

   Til Tuesday 18th

      Artists and Camouflage

   All month

      After the War: Art in Europe 1945 – 1955

   From Monday 3rd

      Paolozzi’s Patterns

   From Friday 21st

      Visiting Picasso   

The City Art Centre - 2 Market Street, Tel 0131 529 3993

Til Sunday 23rd

      The Greatest Fairy Tale: the Amaizing Life and Story of Hans Christian Andersen

   Til Sunday 23rd

       Face a Faces: Portraits/Self Portraits Contemporary International Portrait Photography

The Leith Gallery - 65 The Shore, Tel 0131 553 5255

Fruit Market Gallery - 45 Market Street, Tel 0131 225 2383

   All month

      Fred Sandback