What's On Scotland 17-24 Nov: Book Week Scotland

"A word after a word after a word is power" Margaret Atwood once wrote in a poem called Spelling. If that's the case, there's no time like the present to throw yourself head over heels into some reading. Luckily, week-long festival Book Week Scotland is here to make that easier. From 21-27 Nov, venues across the country will host storytelling and spoken word nights, panels, exhibitions and more. Browse the programme here. Image: George Morton

Rambert: Ghost Dances
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh, 23-25 Nov, times vary
Even if you’re not massive on contemporary dance, you have to see Rambert’s performance of Christopher Bruce’s chilling Ghost Dances. A tribute to victims of political oppression in South America, it illustrates the disruptive force of death with moving finesse. Image: Anthony Crickmay

Edinburgh Craft Beer Revolution Festival
Assembly Roxy, Edinburgh. 24-26 Nov
In a TRULY UNPRECEDENTED move, Edinburgh’s holding a craft beer festival. Sarcasm aside, Edinburgh Craft Beer Revolution Festival looks to be pretty craft-tastic, with Assembly Roxy (that big old church near Pleasance) being transformed into a Beer Hall, showcasing 13 breweries and over 60 beers. You can also chomp down on street food and visit the gin and wine corner before skipping home with a free beer glass to remind you what a lovely time you’ve had. 

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Don’t miss the stunning new show from Scotland’s internationally acclaimed and award-winning comedian. Daniel has sold out eight consecutive Edinburgh Fringes and tours extensively throughout the UK, Europe, Australasia and USA. His TV back-catalogue includes Sunday Night at the Palladium and Russell Howard’s Good News. So far the show has raked in positives reviews, pinning it as intelligent, charming and brilliantly dark. He's coming to the Glasgow Royal Concert Hall on 3 December and bringing very special guest Kai Humphries – book your tickets now!

Traverse Theatre, Ediburgh, 18-20 Nov, times and prices vary
After a successful inaugural weekend in 2015, Youth Theatre Arts’ Chrysalis festival returns, bringing together a selection of seven European youth theatre groups to perform before a Trav audience over the course of the weekend. Weekend passes available – click here for more information.

Dundee’s certainly giving its sibling cities a run for their money this month; another tasty night of music’s on the horizon courtesy of veteran turntable trickster Andy Carthy aka Mr. Scruff, who’s promising us a ‘disc-jockeying session’ of epic proportions (five hours, to be specific) at the Reading Rooms. Expect a blizzard of genres and a real good time.

French Film Festival
Various venues across Scotland, Until 1 Dec, times vary
Hey, Francophiles! Wanna catch some French flicks? We’ve got just the thing for ya.The French Film Festival continues this week, and features a massive programme of screenplays, animations and documentaries about everything from painters to kings, vineyards to orphaned courgettes.

How To Dress Well
Stereo, Glasgow. 23 Nov, 8pm
It’s a couple of years since bae of baes How To Dress Well captured our hearts with his silky vocals and affecting R‘n’B on LP What Is This Heart. But at the turn of autumn he dropped the eclectic, accessible and bouncy as hell Care. Catch him performing his arsenal of pop in Glasgow this week. Image: Adam Edwards