RBGE Creative Programmes

RBGE Creative Programmes A unique place for contemporary art, exhibitions + events, embedded within the world of plants.

This National Tree Week we are celebrating Around a Tree’s return to the garden! 🌳🪵 Last August we hosted the installati...
25/11/2025

This National Tree Week we are celebrating Around a Tree’s return to the garden! 🌳🪵

Last August we hosted the installation for the duration of Edinburgh Art Festival in collaboration with Colombian artist collective Más Arte Más Acción.

The table – constructed from a diseased Lebanese Cedar and placed around a young Portuguese Oak – acted as a site for discussions around ecology, botany and the arts. 🌱

Recordings made during the festival were later shared at the UN’s Biodiversity COP16 in Colombia and the Climate COP30 in Brazil. This intervention builds on MAMA’s 2022 contribution for Documenta fifteen in Germany and Possible Dialogues for COP26 in Glasgow.
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Image: Setting up for an event at the table. Photo: Tiu Makkonen
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Edinburgh Art Festival Más Arte Más Acción

Luke Fowler (b. 1978) is an artist, 16mm filmmaker and musician based in Glasgow. He creates cinematic collages that hav...
14/11/2025

Luke Fowler (b. 1978) is an artist, 16mm filmmaker and musician based in Glasgow. He creates cinematic collages that have often been linked to the British Free Cinema movement of the 1950s.

This exhibition featured a collaboration with the Japanese sound artist Toshiya Tsunoda and explored the artists’ shared curiosity about mechanics of perception and the ways in which worldly phenomena are typically received and understood.

🕰️2012
💷£10.00

👉 To purchase this poster, follow the link here: https://rbgeshop.org/products/ridges-on-the-horizontal-plane-2011-by-luke-fowler-toshiya-tsunoda
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Image: ‘Ridges on the Horizontal Plane’, poster from Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh




🍂 Soil Song 🪱Make yourself at home in Inverleith House for an inspiring exchange between soil, science and poetry.This B...
07/11/2025

🍂 Soil Song 🪱

Make yourself at home in Inverleith House for an inspiring exchange between soil, science and poetry.

This Book Week Scotland, botanist and science communicator Max Coleman will be in conversation with poet JL Williams, about their shared interest in earth and its vitality.

As a prelude to the 2026 exhibition in Inverleith House, Earth Matters, this event will illuminate the beauty and brilliance of soil - our buried treasure.

👉 Visit Eventbrite for more details & book your spot now!
https://soil-song.eventbrite.co.uk
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📅 Friday 21 November 2025
⏰ 2pm – 3.30pm
📍 Inverleith House
🎟️ Free event
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Image: Inverleith House in autumn. Photo: Charlotte McDonald
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

📣 Job Opportunity Apply to become a Creative Programmes Assistant at RBGE! We are looking for an enthusiastic Creative P...
06/11/2025

📣 Job Opportunity

Apply to become a Creative Programmes Assistant at RBGE!

We are looking for an enthusiastic Creative Programmes Assistant with a passion for people, plants and art to join our small, dynamic team. You will support the organisation and operation of art exhibitions and events within a renowned botanic garden.

The working hours will generally be 9am to 5pm, Friday to Tuesday (5 over 7 days).

👉 For more information and how to apply for this role, please visit our website:
https://www.rbge.org.uk/about-us/jobs-and-volunteering/vacancies/

❗ Deadline to apply is 9am on Friday 28 November.
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Image: Shipping Roots preview in Inverleith House. Photo: Sally Jubb.
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Edinburgh Art Festival
Creative Scotland
Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh





📢 Fungi Sessions Spotlight Talk Join us for a spotlight talk in the John Hope Gateway exploring the themes of Fungi Sess...
15/10/2025

📢 Fungi Sessions Spotlight Talk

Join us for a spotlight talk in the John Hope Gateway exploring the themes of Fungi Sessions.

The tour will be led by one of our wonderful Creative Programmes Volunteers and aims to give you a deeper insight into the exhibition, enabling you to be immersed in both sound and science.

👉 Book your FREE ticket here: https://STFungiSessions.eventbrite.co.uk
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📍John Hope Gateway
📅Thursday 30 October
⏰2pm - 2:30pm
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Image: Arnillaria (Honey Fungus) still, Fungi Sessions 2025. Photo: Patrick Hickey
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🍄 Fungi Sessions
📅 2 August 2025 – 11 January 2026
⏰ Open daily 10am – 5pm (4pm Nov – Jan)
📍 John Hope Gateway
🎟️ Free exhibition
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh



14/10/2025

Last chance! Don’t miss Linder: Danger Came Smiling, a journey through 50 years of pioneering art .

📅 Open until Sunday 19 October at Inverleith House Gallery. Free entry, recommended for audiences aged 16+.

🎶 Join Botanics Choir for a half term and pick up a cosy new hobby just in time for autumn! From choir enthusiasts to fi...
11/10/2025

🎶 Join Botanics Choir for a half term and pick up a cosy new hobby just in time for autumn!

From choir enthusiasts to first-time singers, all are welcome. No singing experience is required, and you do not need to audition or read sheet music as parts will be taught in person each week.

👉 Visit the link below for more details and to sign up for the second half of the Autumn 2025 term. https://BotanicsChoirAutumn25.eventbrite.co.uk
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📅 Tue 28 October – Tue 9 December 2025
⏰ 5.30 – 7pm
📍 Science Buildings, 20a Inverleith Row, Edinburgh, EH3 5LR
🎟️ £35 - £42
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Image: Botanics Choir, 2024. Photo: Lousie King
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh

October Poster Highlight Ever been tempted to frame a fallen leaf? Simon Periton’s poster from his 2003 Inverleith House...
08/10/2025

October Poster Highlight

Ever been tempted to frame a fallen leaf? Simon Periton’s poster from his 2003 Inverleith House exhibition Mint Poisoner captures the fascinating organic structures mid-decay. 🍂

He describes his early work as ‘doilies;’ intricate paper cut-outs on an enormous scale. Later he expanded on these practices, transforming designs into painted glass pieces and steel sculptures.

🕰️2003
💷£5.00

👉 To purchase this poster, follow the link here: https://rbgeshop.org/search?q=mint+poisoner&_pos=1&_psq=min&_ss=e&_v=1.0
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Image: Simon Periton exhibiton poster. Photo: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.

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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh









Join us for a final tea tasting and meditation ceremony in the garden next Tuesday, led by the lovely Erica from Eteaket...
30/09/2025

Join us for a final tea tasting and meditation ceremony in the garden next Tuesday, led by the lovely Erica from Eteaket leaf tea co .

🌹 To celebrate our current exhibition, Linder: Danger Came Smiling, we invite you to sample a specially blended tea, Rose Ritual, inspired by Linder’s work.

Crafted exclusively for the exhibition by Eteaket leaf tea co this tea invites you to pause, breathe, and reflect.

👉 Book your free space here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/1624669222379?aff=oddtdtcreator
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📍Inverleith House Gallery
📅 Tuesday 7 October
⏰11am – 12pm
🎟️ Free event
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Image: Erica leads a tea ceremony in front of Inverleith House. Photo: Amy Porteous
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🌺 Linder: Danger Came Smiling
📅 23 May – 19 Oct 2025
⏰ Open daily 10.30am - 4.30pm
📍 Inverleith House
🎟️ Free exhibition
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Image: Erica leads a tea ceremony in front of Inverleith House. Photo: Amy Porteous
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Edinburgh Art Festival

Spill the Tea Tour Join us for the final guided tour of Danger Came Smiling led by a member of RBGE staff and sample a c...
29/09/2025

Spill the Tea Tour

Join us for the final guided tour of Danger Came Smiling led by a member of RBGE staff and sample a cup of specially blended Eteaket leaf tea co herbal tea. ☕

Look behind the scenes and learn about Linder’s fascination with plants, seeing beyond traditional ideas about gender and sexuality before the exhibition closes on the 19 October.

👉 Follow the link below to book your tickets:
https://OctoberSpilltheTeaLinder.eventbrite.co.uk

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📅 Sunday 5 October
⏰ 2:30pm - 4pm
📍 Inverleith House
🎟️ £7.50
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🌺 Linder: Danger Came Smiling
📅 23 May – 19 Oct 2025
⏰ Open daily 10.30am - 4.30pm
📍 Inverleith House
🎟️ Free exhibition
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Image: Exhibition close up from Linder: Danger Came Smiling, 2025. Photo: Sally Jubb
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Edinburgh Art Festival Eteaket leaf tea co

With the arrival of autumn why not indulge in Rose Ritual; a herbal tea to enjoy on cosy nights in. 🍂 Finding a balance ...
26/09/2025

With the arrival of autumn why not indulge in Rose Ritual; a herbal tea to enjoy on cosy nights in. 🍂

Finding a balance between the power of the exhibition and the grounding ritual of tea, Rose Ritual is a refreshing blend of rose, ginger, lemongrass, sage and peppermint, expertly crafted by Eteaket leaf tea co.

This caffeine-free infusion invites you, as the exhibition does, to engage with nature in new and unexpected ways.

Don’t miss your chance to purchase Rose Ritual, available exclusively from the exhibition shop at Inverleith House until the 19th of October 2025.
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🌺 Linder: Danger Came Smiling
📅 23 May – 19 Oct 2025
⏰ Open daily 10.30am - 4.30pm
📍 Inverleith House
🎟️ Free exhibition
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Image: Rose Ritual tea, Danger Came Smiling 2025. Photo: Sally Jubb.
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Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Sally Jubb Photography

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