Dundee Women’s Festival – illustration by Ellen Forbes
Here’s a full breakdown of opportunities, events and content available in Dundee over March! Subscribe to our News Mail Out and receive updates each month.
David P Scott has been adding new work to his website – including lots of familiar faces from the Amps community.
There are exciting things on the virtual horizon for SHHE, who’ll be partnering with art space B’sarya in Alexandria, Egypt as their Musician in Residence.
DCA invite you to celebrate the launch of their new publication as part of Tako Taal’s exhibition in the DCA Galleries.
Double Door Studios have a Mother’s Day Studio Sale coming up on Sat 19 & Sun 20 March, featuring work by jewellers Ieva Jankovska and Islay Spalding.
Events
CULTIVATE Creative Practitioner Zoë Swann presents Tayport in 2030, a one-day exhibition showcasing the community’s future vision for the town—see it at the Larick Centre on Sat 19 March.
Dundee Women’s Festival starts Sat 5 March, with exciting and thought provoking events happening all over the city.
Rumour has it that GENERATORprojects are throwing a Spring Market on Sat 19 March! Keep your eyes peeled on their socials for more.
Elfie Picket Theatre will be performing a staged reading of their play Dolly Parton Saved My Life for Dundee Women’s Festival on Sat 19 March.
Workshops
Craft Sunday at DCA is back, with a cracking in-person workshop with local maker Jude Gove!
Sequin superstars Isolated Heroes have TWO shining new workshops for Mother’s Day coming up.
There are a some great things happening over at Hilltown Park this month! Get involved in community-led design workshops with Manuela de los Rios, Eilish Victoria, and Russell Pepper.
An egg-citing new class for wee ones and their grown ups at Dundee Ceramics Workshop: Easter Egg Cups! Make and decorate your own on Sat 19 & Sun 20 March.
Opportunities
An exciting opportunity for a Musician in Residence to respond to and create work inspired by the new Unexpected Garden that will be sprouting soon in Dundee as part of Dandelion. Deadline Thu 10 March.
UNESCO City of Design Dundee and greenspace scotland are looking for Dundee-based designers/creative practitioners to co-design a Covid community memorial. Deadline Mon 21 March.
Exhibitions
Michael Clark: Cosmic Dancer, the first major exhibition exploring the work of the ground-breaking Scottish dancer and choreographer, opens at V&A Dundee on Sat 5 March.
The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize 2021 opens at Cooper Gallery later this month, with work from 99 practitioners including Dundee-based artist Zoë Gibson.
See photographer Kieran Dodds’s work in his Nomas* Projects exhibition Border Patrol, and join him for an online artist’s talk on Sun 20 March.
Lise Olsen presents We Must Walk at Meadow Mill on Fri 4 & Sat 5 March, exploring in-between experiences while walking in the Scottish landscape.
Content
PechaKucha Night Vol. 28 videos are now available to watch on our website!
Amps supporter Julie Cumming discusses her photography and zines on the Biblioscapes Podcast.
How about some tunes to accompany your month? Give Shaper/Caper’s bright and bouncy March playlist a listen!
