Things to do this week in Scotland

Scottish Fashion Awards

Scottish Fashion Awards

Style icon Alexa Chung hosts the 3,000 capacity event, showcasing homegrown talent, with catwalk shows and surprise music acts. With Christopher Kane among the nominees, it’s like a black-tie version of celebrity bingo. Dress to impress. Clyde Auditorium, Glasgow, June 11, www.scottishfashionawards.com

Amy Macdonald

Amy Macdonald embarks on a five-date, all-day gigathon taking in Aberdeen, Dundee, Stirling, Edinburgh and finishing at Glasgow’s SWG3 to raise cash for the STV 2012 Appeal to help kids living in poverty in Scotland. Various cities, June 12, www.amymacdonald.co.uk

Isle of Arran Folk Festival

The festival in one of Scotland’s most beauteous spots is now 18, and celebrates with folksters Lori Watson and the Rule of Three, Skye guy Jim Hunter with Graham Flett and loads more. Venues around Brodick, June 14-17, www.arranevents.com

Borders Book Festival

In the impossibly gorgeous environs of Melrose, with its romantic ruined abbey and dramatic Eildon Hills backdrop, Iain Banks, Chris Brookmyre, Rory Bremner, Isla Blair, Kathy Lette and William ‘new 007 author’ Boyd are among a stellar line-up. Harmony Garden, Melrose, June 14-17, www.bordersbookfestival.org

Leith Festival

From bellydancing in the streets to open-doors days at the butterfly club and the crematorium, and tango at the docks, to whisky wherever you fancy: it can only be Leith Festival. There’s music, theatre, storytelling, eating, drinking, shopping. Love it. Various venues, until June 17, www.leithfestival.com

CSI Dundee

Part of WestFest, real-life CSI Professor Sue Black – forensic anthropologist who has appeared as a lab-coated sleuth on TV documentaries and unravelled the truth behind warcrimes and high-profile murders – reveals the secrets of the trade. The Vine, Dundee, June 16, www.westfest.webuda.com

Vicky Featherstone in Conversation

A rare opportunity to hear the fiercely innovative director of the National Theatre of Scotland, who has helped forge the peripatetic drama outfit’s world-class reputation, talk about her life and career, and what’s next after she leaves the NTS next spring. National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh, June 14, www.nms.ac.uk