What's On Scotland 3-10 Mar: Aye Write!

Once a week The Skinny team choose a selection of events from the Scottish Cultural calendar to provide you with this guide to the best events happening in Scotland this week. Whether you're looking for gigs in Glasgow or Exhibitions in Edinburgh, spoken word nights or pop up doughnut stalls, we'll give you the insider's guide to what's on and things to do in Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee every thursday morning.

Luke Wright at Aye Write!
Mitchell Library, Glasgow. 10 Mar, 6pm

Next Thursday's your first opportunity to get stuck into Aye Write!, a Glasgow-based ten day literary festival which is full to its bookish brim with live renditions of poetry, political speaking, discussions and workshops. Our Books editor reckons you should give homophonous participant and poet performer Luke Wright (pictured) a go – read more about his highly praised set What I Learned from Johnny Bevan and get the rest of the Aye Write! lowdown here.

Anatomy #11: Kerching!
Summerhall, Edinburgh. 4 Mar, 8pm

Self professed creators of n 'organic entertainment orgies', quarterly variety show Anatomy storm back into Summerhall for an eleventh edition this Friday. They've got yet another multi-hue, multi-platform and multi-mayhemic night of theatre and performance art planned; and with previous events featuring everything from levitating playwrights to throat gymnasts, who knows what could happen? Photo: Lucienne Sencier

Errors
La Belle Angèle, Edinburgh. 5 Mar, 7pm

After nipping off in 2015 to George Orwell's fave rural retreat, Jura (we shouldn't trivialise – it's where he came up with the game-changing 1984, after all), Errors (pictured) brought home bundles of spiralling, deliberate and driving post-rock / electro. Titled Lease of Life, their 2015 release was so fresh it almost smells of hand picked daisies and lawn-mowed grass. Celebrate a truly sprung spring and see them live at La Belle this Saturday. Photo: Mihaela Bodlovic

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Edinburgh Southsiders are set to welcome a new brunch ‘til bedtime venue this week. The menu is full of warm and welcoming stuff, like Schielhallion moules frites and bridies with homemade ketchup. They are big on brunch too, which will be served until 2pm every day, with brioche eggy bread set to steal the show. In the evening, expect live local acoustic music, cask ales and Scottish gins. Southpour opens Monday 7th March, and is offering customers a 50% discount for the first two weeks when booked in advance.

Edinburgh Fashion Week Launch
The Mound, Edinburgh, 5-6 March, ticket prices vary

Edinburgh Fashion Week launch their 2016 return with all sorts of opening weekend excitement on 5 Mar. Get a little sartorial guidance from the best in the industry, peruse collections and catch fashion shows from high street designers and ECA graduates alike.

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Purposeless Movements
The Traverse, Edinburgh. 3-4 Mar, 7.30pm

A theatrical response to the medical label given to the twitches and jerks of a person diagnosed with Cerebal Palsy, Purposeless Movements features five actors who tell tales from their lives in examination of what it is to move 'purposefully'. This weekend is your final opportunity to catch the witty and challenging work before the tour heads up to Inverness. Photo: Mihaela Bodlovic

North Hop On the Road visits Edinburgh
Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh. 5 Mar, 12pm-5pm & 7-12pm

From humble beginnings in the bonny Highlands, North Hop has exploded into a Scotland-wide affair, bringing the happy hipster's trinity of craft beer, mixology and street food to (thankfully indoor) locations across the nation. As if that weren't enough, the tour dates will be soundtracked with live music curated by Inverness-based fest of all things creative XpoNorth. Cheers indeed.

Mogwai
CCA, Glasgow. 9 Mar, 7pm

After last year’s airing of the critically acclaimed documentary Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise, CCA welcomes the band responsible for the soundtrack – none other than Mogwai – along with director Mark Cousins for a charity eve of live music and discussion ahead of Mogwai’s April release Atomic. Photo: Derek Robertson

Wee Dub Festival
Various venues in Old Town, Edinburgh. 4-6 Mar, times vary

Wee Dub Fest returns, stirring up a weekend full of squidgy reggae dub and soundsystem vibes on the Cowgate. Mash House and La Belle will fuse to become a mega-dub-hub, and on Friday they welcome the likes of jungle collective Chopstick Dubplate and the legendary Dubdadda. The rest of the weekend sees the likes of Chainska Brassika, Mungo's Hi-fi, and Abba Shant-i playing at Liquid Room, Studio 24 and Bongo respectively. Photo: Matthew Beech

Jazz Club Time Machine

Potterrow, Edinburgh. 4 Mar, 8.30pm

Edinburgh University's heralded jazz orchestra assembles in fulsome 17-piece form, scatting and syncopating through nine decades of music. The big band and vocalists cover everything from Ella Fitzgerald to Rudimental, making for an exhaustingly fun concert-meets-club known to sell out to Potterrow capacity. And ne'er fear, after you've been trumpeted into a state of jazzy reverie, Sneaky Pete's regular Soul Jam will swoop in for a set right into the early hours.

International Women's Day at Festival Theatre
Festival Theatre, Edinburgh. 8 Mar, 12pm

Celebrate International Women’s Day with the likes of Orla O’Loughlin (artistic director at the Traverse) and Alice Strang (exhibition curator at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art) as they share their experiences as women in the arts; plus live music from Festival Theatre Vintage Chorus and The Megaphone Choir. Image: Lady J. E. Sutherland and Dr. D. A. Sutherland

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