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what’s on what’s on What’s on in edinburgh, may Edinburgh Marathon, 24th & 25th May Get ready for an action-packed month with thousands of people taking to the streets to compete in the Edinburgh Marathon. It’s also your last chance to see many major exhibitions including Louise Bourgeois: A Woman Without Secrets at the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art One. Good news for whisky lovers, this month the Scottish Whisky Experience will be hosting An Evening with The Blenders, and there’s also the Edinburgh Whisky Stramash to look forward to. Dates for your dairy 5 Early May Bank Holiday 26 Spring Bank Holiday Kids and families 5-12 Imaginate Festival, various venues 10-11 Scottish Birdfair, Hopetoun House 11 The Kilt Walk and Woofwalk, Murrayfield 17-25 Scotland’s Nature Festival, various venues 18 Minibeast - Monsterbeast, Holyrood Park Music Until 11 May TradFest 2 Alex Yellowlees Quartet, The Brunton 6 Bear’s Den, Electric Circus 10 Polly & The Billets Doux, Electic Circus 11 Florian Hecker: Articulação, Royal Botanic Gardens 16 Band of Friends, Citrus Club 16 From the Jam, The Liquid Room 21 Virgil and The Accelerators, The Voodoo Rooms 28 Christine Tobin, The Queen’s Hall 8 informededinburgh.co.uk Theatre, film and entertainment 1 The Beautiful Cosmos of Ivor Culter, Traverse 1 Craig Campbell: Thrilling Mic Hunt, The Brunton 1 Brassed Off, King’s Theatre 1-24 Pressure by David Haig, The Royal Lyceum T