What's on in libraries

Our calendar page lists details of one-off events for adults hosted by libraries. 

For details of regular events such as book groups and children's activities at a specific library visit the library's page or follow them on Facebook.

February 2026

Music on the Mezzanine - Luis Flores Carrubio and Ailsa Thompson

We start this season on Valentine's Day, with Luis Flores Carrubio and Ailsa Thompson who bring a programme of music for violin and flute, based on their respective folk influences.

Saturday 14 February at 1pm

Book your free Luis Flores Carrubio and Ailsa Thompson ticket

The Two Roberts: Damian Barr in conversation with Alice Strang

Join us for a very special in conversation celebrating Scottish art and LGBTQ+ history as Damian Barr, award-winning writer, broadcaster and journalist, and Alice Strang, expert art historian, curator and auctioneer, talk about Damian’s beautifully researched and stunningly reimagined novel, The Two Roberts. Inspired by the real and wild lives of working-class Ayrshire boys, Bobby MacBryde and Robert Colquhoun, the novel tells the profoundly moving story of the devotion and obsessions of two artists, lovers and outsiders from their meeting at Glasgow School of Art in 1933 to wartime London.

Thursday 19 February at 7pm

Book your free Two Roberts ticket

Music on the Mezzanine - Catriona Kane, Lucy Hargreaves and Anya Tullock

A trio of young musicians from Scotland, based in Edinburgh, Catriona Kane, Lucy Hargreaves and Anya Tullock will share their programme of traditional, classical and self-penned works.

Saturday 28 February at 1pm

Mezzanine
Central Library
George IV Bridge
EH1 1EG

Book your free Catriona Kane, Lucy Hargreaves and Anya Tullock ticket

March 2026

Music on the Mezzanine - Edinburgh Recorder Orchestra

Returning to the Mezzanine, the Edinburgh Recorder Orchestra will visit with an almost full family of recorders, including the larger great bass and contrabass recorders. We are hoping that the teeny-tiny sopranino recorder, the highest and smallest member of the recorder family might just appear from someone's pocket on the day!

Saturday 14 March at 1pm

Book your free Edinburgh Recorder Orchestra ticket

Music on the Mezzanine - Valerie Thibault

Valerie Thibault  is a percussionist and composer, currently based in Edinburgh. Valerie will perform a wide range of music from the classics through to the contemporary. Her performance and her compositions for the Mezzanine will reflect her love for the contemporary and the experimental.

Saturday 28 March at 1pm

Book your free Valerie Thibault ticket

April 2026

Music on the Mezzanine - Zonos

Zonos founder Neil MacLean describes himself as a bored musical explorer. Reviewed as “excellent” by BBC Radio 6’s Stuart Maconie, we can't wait for Neil to bring his solo electronic outfit Zonos with its evocative, grainy, mood music to the Mezzanine.

Saturday 11 April at 1pm

Book your free Zonos ticket

Music on the Mezzanine - Simmerdim

Simmerdim have appeared at the Library before, on the Mezzanine and on our foyer staircase. Simmerdim, a vocal trio, perform their own arrangements of traditional and contemporary music.

Saturday 25 April at 1pm

Book your free Simmerdim ticket

May 2026

Music on the Mezzanine - Vinodh Jayakrishnan

In his second visit to the Mezzanine, Vinodh and Company will present a programme of South Indian Classical Music and will perform works to show the existing connections between Indian and Western music.

Saturday 9 May at 1pm

Book your free Vinodh Jayakrishnan ticket

Music on the Mezzanine - Moonlighting Flutes

Moonlighting Flutes bring their love of the flute to the Mezzanine and a repertoire of arrangements of popular classics and works for flutes by Bozza, Mendelssohn and Berthomieu.

Saturday 23 May at 1pm

Book your free Moonlighting Flutes ticket

June 2026

Music on the Mezzanine - Simon Mercieca

Simon Mercieca will bring his Celtic inspired jazz to the Mezzanine, fresh from his performances at the Malta Jazz Festival and with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra.

Saturday 6 June at 1pm

Book your free Simon Mercieca ticket

Music on the Mezzanine - Composers Orchestra

Our last event of our Spring and Summer season welcomes the Composers Orchestra to the Mezzanine. It is fitting that on the day before Make Music Day, a worldwide celebration of music making, we join the pre-celebrations with an afternoon of exclusive performances.

Saturday 20 June at 1pm

Book your free Composers Orchestra ticket online