Edinburgh's Christmas: Various venues

Six weeks of winter wonderland, with the west end of Edinburgh transformed by a fairground, a host of colourful lights and the fabled European Christmas market with dozens of stalls selling traditional trinkets and crafts as well as delicious Teutonic treats.

The Arabian Nights: Royal Lyceum Theatre, Grindlay Street

Family show featuring the familiar faces of Aladdin, Sinbad and Ali Baba, along with mysterious genies, magic carpets, talking birds, and a whole host of heroes and villains.

Cinderella: King's Theatre, 2 Leven Street

Pantomime fun featuring the King's Theatre's A-team of Allan Stewart as Fairy May, Andy Gray as Buttons and Grant Stott as Hibernia Hardup, delivering routines delivered with laser-sharp precision and verve.

Rubens' Daughter: An Intimate Family Portrait: Scottish National Gallery, The Mound

Rubens' magnificent Portrait of the Artist's Daughter, Clara Serena has never before been seen in the UK.

This painting of the artist's daughter at the age of around 12 is especially moving given that she is known to have died shortly after it was painted.