What's On Scotland 27 Jan-3 Feb: MANIPULATE Festival & more

Grab your masks (no, the other ones) and put on your strings, Scotland’s festival dedicated to all things puppetry and physical theatre is back. After several years of online or last-minute shortened programmes, this year sees MANIPULATE Festival at full and dazzling capacity, running in various Edinburgh venues - from Summerhall to Fruitmarket - from 2-12 February.

Highlights from a very iconic programme include aerial theatre piece Arthropoda that explores toxicity in relationships, Moč (The Power), a marionette show about the fine balance of power, a Shibari rope-inspired exploration of mental health in Ill Lit, and a delicately wrought puppet world taking place on loop in Fruitmarket. Find tickets for individual performances, as well as workshops, cabarets, and parties, here.

Francis of Delirium
Sneaky Pete's, Edinburgh. 31 Jan, 7pm
For fans of the soft, yearning pop rock of Mitski and Japanese Breakfast, Luxembourg-based duo Francis of Delirium are a dreamy mix of determined grunge and Gen Z vulnerability. With three EPs under their belt, their music has a distinct style and bold lyricism.

Chef // AiiTee EP Launch
Nice 'n' Sleazy, Glasgow. 28 Jan, 7pm
Some of Scotland's most dynamic rising stars in the rap and hip-hop scene come together for this immense EP launch. Find Scottish Alternative Music Award-nominated Chef and AiiTee with support from Psweatpants. There is also an accessible afternoon performance.

Elizabeth Price: SLOW DANS
GOMA, Glasgow. 27 Jan-14 May
Turner Prize-winning artist Elizabeth Price brings her critically acclaimed moving image installation to Glasgow, presenting a fictional past, parallel present, and imagined future that examine entangled narratives of gender, labour, and sexual history.

Florence + The Machine
OVO Hydro, Glasgow. 1 Feb, 6:30pm
After rescheduling her show post-injury Miss Flo (no, the other one!) is making her long-awaited return to Glasgow. Melding folk, rock and indie like no one else, Florence + The Machine's performances are always heart-wrenchingly intimate even in the hugest of stadiums.

ADVERTISEMENT | Moonset
Tron Theatre + Traverse Theatre, Glasgow + Edinburgh. 3-11 + 16-18 Feb
Moonset - a bold and powerful new production from the Citizens Theatre touring to Glasgow and Edinburgh. Written by Maryam Hamidi, Moonset is a blazing, coming-of-age tale filled with love, rage and self-discovery, as five young women search for the power they were promised. Wildly theatrical and wonderfully exciting, a new production not to be missed.

↪ Robert Fry: Remapped
Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh. 27 Jan-5 Mar
Robert Fry’s otherworldly etchings and drawings interrogate the history of the human form to examine the psychological, emotional, and spiritual nature of our embodied existence, and the boundaries that we navigate between our inner and outer selves.

→ Spectrum
SWG3, Glasgow. 27 Jan, 11pm
One for the techno fans, join some of Glasgow's heaviest techno hitters at SWG3's THe Poetry Club this Friday evening. Names on the beat-laden lineup include The Unit, TR4N5FU510N, Webbo, and Stretch.

→ Catalan Film Festival
Various venues, Edinburgh + Glasgow + Dundee. Until 15 Feb
Split between Edinburgh and Glasgow, this year's Catalan Film Festival from iconic film curators Cinema Attic is a dream. Catch the Scottish premiere of Albert Serra's Pacification at Summerhall or discover a programme of Catalan shorts at the CCA.