Here’s a full breakdown of opportunities, events and content available in Dundee over May! Subscribe to our News Mail Out and receive updates each month.
The latest issue of Potluck Zine is out now, exploring authenticity in food.
Love theatre and dance? A pro at social media? Great at crafting stories and campaigns? Dundee Rep are hiring a Marketing and Communications Officer. Deadline Fri 13 May.
Hot Chocolate Trust recently launched Teckle Data, an online evaluation tool built by grassroots charities, for grassroots charities. Take a look!
Events
The Queer Dot host a trans and non-binary inclusive Gender Neutral Clothes Swap at ScrapAntics’ Wellgate space on Sat 7 May, as part of the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival.
Antigone, Interrupted returns to Dundee Rep on Thu 26 & Fri 27 May after receiving standing ovations and sold-out houses across the UK.
Hear from 15 curators from museums across Tayside about a favourite object in their collection at Tayside’s Treasures on Wed 25 May.
ReBoutique are hosting a Craft Fair on Sun 29 May, with jewellery, homewares, and sweet treats.
Workshops
Fancy learning how to throw pottery? No, not to break it—to make it! Dundee Ceramics Workshop have an Intro to Wheel Throwing for beginners from Sun 22 May.
Learn how to make marbled and terrazzo-inspired Jesmonite jewellery with maker Syrah Jay at Craft Sunday on Sun 22 May.
Aged 12-26 and want to learn new skills about photography? Join Feeling Strong’s Wednesday Night Photography and connect with others who share your passion.
Learn how to efficiently and effectively craft strong plans for creative projects at an online workshop with Glasgow Connected Arts Network on Wed 18 May.
Opportunities
Calling all designers and makers! Submissions are open for Tea Green’s Summer Design Market at V&A Dundee—apply by Sun 29 May.
Applications are open for the Dandelion Harvest Grants Programme – supporting community groups and organisations to ‘grow new growers’. Apply by Fri 20 May.
Out of Sight Out of Mind have an open call for 10th anniversary of their annual exhibition, open to people with lived-experience of mental health issues.
GENERATORprojects are looking for performance artists to explore and respond to the Alastair MacLennan Archive. Deadline Thu 12 May.
Exhibitions
Abertay’s annual showcase and celebration of graduate talent returns to campus! See the Abertay Digital Graduate Show on Fri 27 May.
Douglas Gordon’s major film installation k.364 opens at DCA on Sat 7 May, marking the premiere of this work in a public gallery in the UK.
春 Haru: Spring by Paul Furneaux and Night Music by Barry McGlashan continue at Tatha Gallery until Sun 15 May.
Explore the lives of Helen and Achilles at The McManus from Thu 19 May. Troy: Beauty and Heroism features four touring objects alongside items from local collections.
Content
Virtually visit some favourite places with designers Hayley Scanlan and Irregular Sleep Pattern in their Dundee day-trip guides, made in collaboration with V&A Dundee.
Musician and disabled activist Sorcha Pringle talks about how lockdown made many opportunities and the arts easier to access in a blog for Shaper/Caper.
Say hello to The Wardrobe, a new shop that encourages people to reuse, repair, and share.
BBC Radio Scotland’s Anna Massie met joyous community choir The Lochee Linties in It’s a Small World—give it a listen.
