Edinburgh Culture Minute 🪩 13 - 19 May 2026
Leith Short Film Festival, post-election 'concerns for Scottish culture', artists back basic income, TravFest26 line-up + all the new local creative jobs
Leith Short Film Festival, post-election 'concerns for Scottish culture', artists back basic income, TravFest26 line-up + all the new local creative jobs
Carjacker hunt after daylight knifepoint robbery, Tynecastle tension as Jam Tarts teeter on title triumph, pop-up charity shop on George Street + Stockbridge colonies yard sale this weekend
High-rise stand-off halts Muirhouse flats demolition, closure fear for Wester Hailes Community Wellbeing Collective, safe school cycle route partially saved + plans for two new nature reserves
Illness outbreak linked to local farm, hundreds of Quartermile flats owned abroad, two local winners at British Book Awards + help to spring-clean the Foot of the Walk tonight
Safe school routes protest tomorrow, New Town hotel privacy fears, new life for bikes abandoned at Waverley + Trainspotting The Musical is coming