Kids
| 04 August 2009
Royal Botanic Garden
16–22 August, 1pm
The ever popular Albert and Friends Instant Circus shows off the newly learnt tricks picked up by junior workshop participants.
| 04 August 2009
Pleasance Courtyard
7–23 August, 12.50pm
CBeebies presenter Andy Day joins comedy partner Michael James in an elaborate mission to open a box of bananas, helped along by confused pirates, musical sea creatures, silent movie actors and dancing air stewards.
| 04 August 2009
Corn Exchange
16 and 23 August, 2pm
Three hours of Sunday afternoon music aimed at tots who like to party like their parents. Bubble machines and chill-out rooms add to the atmosphere.
| 04 August 2009
Charlotte Square Gardens
15 August, 10.30am
Help some of the creators of the much loved comic to come up with a new character and watch how they develop it in this Book Festival treat aimed at the 6–12 age range.
| 04 August 2009
Charlotte Square Gardens
22 August, 1.30pm
Teenage readers will want to catch up with Blackman as she talks about Double Cross, the latest gripping instalment in her thriller series in this Book Festival event.
| 04 August 2009
El Barrio Nightclub
7–30 August (not 12, 19), 2pm
Get into the groove as the professional musicians of the Latino All-Stars teach you everything you need to know about hitting those salsa rhythms.
| 04 August 2009
Bongo Club
6–31August, 6pm
All the trappings of a regular adult stand-up show, except no swearing and nothing blue. Top comedians get the children giggling.
| 04 August 2009
Dance Base
5–16 August (not 11), 10.30am
Scotland's Tabula Rasa Dance Company contributes to the Scottish Government's Made in Scotland season with a surreal piece of dance theatre for children over the age of four.
| 04 August 2009
Traverse Theatre
18–30 August, times vary
For adults as well as children, Hoipoloi's acclaimed adaptation of the Edward Gorey story is about an unidentified thing that stops a family getting on with its daily business. The creature keeps getting in the way, but nobody is prepared to stop it.
| 04 August 2009
Duddingston Kirk Manse Garden
3–16 August, 11am (except 9, 16, 2.30pm)
Scots accented romantic fantasy as Theatre Alba takes you on a promenade journey round the idyllic garden overlooking Duddingtson Loch.
| 04 August 2009
Gilded Balloon
5–31 August (not 11, 18, 25), 11am
Direct from the Melbourne Comedy Festival, this knockabout Vaudeville-style show features clowning, acrobatics, singing and general mayhem.
| 04 August 2009
C Too
6–31 August (not 18), times vary
The Amazing Bubble Man blows bubbles bigger, weirder and more beautiful than you ever thought possible. Back after a poppingly good time last year.
| 04 August 2009
Charlotte Square Gardens
16 August, 6pm
The Book Festival regular and Viz contributor talks about creating crazy new inventions for his adventure books. Aimed at the 8–12 age range.
| 04 August 2009
Charlotte Square Gardens
21 August, 4.30pm
You've loved Morpurgo's words and got lost in Foreman's illustrations. Here's a rare chance to see the two of them together in a Book Festival talk for the over-8s. Morpurgo appears again on August 22.
| 04 August 2009
Charlotte Square Gardens
19 August, 4.30pm
A chance to meet the graphic novelist in person and to quiz him on his astoundingly creative mind in this Book Festival event. He appears again on August 20 in conversation with Ian Rankin.
| 04 August 2009
C
5–31 August (not 17), 3.55pm
From Italy, Scarlattine Teatro breaks down the barriers of age and language with a show in which the actors interact with cartoon characters, speech bubbles and all.
| 04 August 2009
Scottish Storytelling Centre
18-31 August, 5.30pm
Another run for this true-life story of a man who dedicated his life to reviving a forest. Told superlatively by Puppet State Theatre Company.
| 04 August 2009
Assembly Rooms
24–29 August, 10.45am
Oxford Playhouse touches down again with its much admired evocation of the space race, kicking off in 1957 when the Russians and Americans started battling with each other to be the first to set foot on the moon.
| 04 August 2009
C Too
6–15 August, 5pm
Join a wild gypsy party as Teatro Che y Moche uses music and mayhem to tell the story of a grandfather's funeral.
| 04 August 2009
Freemason's Hall
5–30 August, 4.45pm
Described as a Latin American answer to Stomp, this show by Venezuela's Primate Theatrical Percussion company is about a boy who makes music from everything he touches.
