What's on in Edinburgh this weekend, 6–8 November: 106 gigs, exhibitions, plays, club nights and more, day by day. Updated every day.

Friday 6 November

• Loch Ness Explorer: Roundtrip + Lunch · 07:30 · Highland Explorer Tours
• Empowering Better Health With Real Food · 08:30 · Ps & Gs (St Paul's & St George's) Church
• Shay O'Dowd · 19:00 · Cabaret Voltaire
• An Intimate Evening with Doogzz and Slown · 20:00 · The Outhouse
• Operation Mincemeat · Capital Theatres
• Beethoven Sonatas by Candlelight at St Giles' Cathedral · 18:30 · St Giles' Cathedral
• Beyond Teeth: The Bigger Picture of Modern Dentistry Conference · 09:00 · The Place Hotel
• Skerryvore · 19:00 · Edinburgh Corn Exchange
• FLY x Black Flag | Bakey & Dr Dubplate · 23:00 · Cabaret Voltaire
• Candlelight: Tribute to Coldplay · 18:30 · Dundee
• New College Festival – Francesca Stavrakopoulou · 11:00 · Martin Hall, New College, School of Divinity
• Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical · 19:30 · Kings Theatre Edinburgh
• Hot Mess: Queer Dance Party · 23:00 · Sneaky Pete's
• The Ghost Bus Tour Edinburgh · 19:30 · The Ghost Bus Tours Edinburgh
• New College Festival – Alycia Pirmohamed · 16:00 · Martin Hall, New College, School of Divinity
• Soul Motive presents - Craigie Knowes · 23:00 · People's Leisure Club
• New College Festival – Eleanor Drage · 17:30 · Martin Hall, New College, School of Divinity
• Disorder: 4th Birthday w/ DJ Hype (Playaz) [JUNGLE AND DRUM & BASS] · 23:00 · The Bongo Club
• Fireworks Night · 18:30 · Linlithgow Rugby Club
• Blue Stockings by Jessica Swale · 19:30 · Edinburgh Napier University, B56 Studio Theatre, Merchiston Campus
• Deer Park Annual Fireworks Display · 19:30 · Deer Park Golf & Country Club
• New College Festival – Karine Polwart featuring Dave Milligan · 19:30 · Martin Hall, New College, School of Divinity
• Together In Song · 14:00 · Capital Theatres
• Cody Dahler- The State of This! · 19:30 · Assembly Rooms
• RSNO Season 26-27: Verdi Requiem · 19:30 · Usher Hall
• Man to Man · Traverse Theatre
• Dance Horizons: Innovations · Capital Theatres
• Family drop-in activities · Capital Theatres
• Heritage Coffee Morning · Capital Theatres
• Heritage tour · Capital Theatres
• Matthew Bourne's The Car Man · Capital Theatres
• Tea and 'Jam' · Capital Theatres
• Murder and all that Jazz! [A Lauriston Castle Murder Mystery] · Lauriston Castle

Saturday 7 November

• New College Festival – Malcolm Guite · 11:00 · Martin Hall, New College, School of Divinity
• Theatre Book Club: Operation Mincemeat · 13:15 · Capital Theatres
• Operation Mincemeat: A New Musical · 14:30 · Kings Theatre Edinburgh
• COSMICO with CAL DENTE · 20:00 · West Port Oracle
• New College Festival – Alec Ryrie celebrates 180 years of New College · 17:00 · Martin Hall, New College, School of Divinity
• Elvana: Elvis Fronted Nirvana · 19:00 · Edinburgh Corn Exchange
• Thorny: III · 21:00 · CC Blooms
• ELVANA: ELVIS FRONTED NIRVANA - EDINBURGH - CORN EXCHANGE · 19:00 · Edinburgh Corn Exchange
• Nightvision presents: Daria Kolosova · 22:00 · The Liquid Room
• Athens of the North Disco Club · 23:00 · Sneaky Pete's
• Hobbes Music x Noetic Rhythm: DJ Gregory, Ricardo, Hobbes + more · 23:00 · The Bongo Club
• Feel The Real: Rap Saunders, Frederick · 23:00 · People's Leisure Club
• Treasures of Tutankhamun [Lauriston Castle Family Workshops] · 10:00 · Lauriston Castle
• Scotland's Festival of Remembrance · 19:30 · Usher Hall

Sunday 8 November

• Open Decks Social - A Community Open Decks · 17:00 · Dragonfly
• Jonathan Pie: The End Of The World According To Jonathan Pie · 18:00 · EICC
• Phoenix Choir - One & Done! November · 19:00 · La Belle Angele
• Dusky: Free Time - Signals Tour · 18:00 · Sneaky Pete's
• Dermot Henry · 19:00 · People's Leisure Club
• Soundscapism · 20:00 · The Banshee Labyrinth
• Postal 5th Birthday · 23:00 · Sneaky Pete's
• Uncovering Ancient Egypt with Bettany Hughes · 14:30 · Assembly Rooms
• Heart of Midlothian — Falkirk · 15:00 · Tynecastle Park
• BBC SSO 26-27: Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony · 15:00 · Usher Hall
• Shaer, Moss, Warnock · 20:00 · Traverse Theatre