Here’s a full breakdown of opportunities, events and content available in Dundee over July! Subscribe to our News Mail Out and receive updates each month.
Join Glasgow Zine Library online on the evening of Wed 2 July for a listening event co-hosted by dundee radio club, exploring the radical potential of listening as a tool for environmental awareness and action.
Learn the art of map making from start to finish with multi-media artist Hollis Crowe in a hands-on two-week workshop starting Thu 3 July.
Generator Projects are looking to recruit some new Operational Committee members! If you have a particular interest in supporting their associates programme, community space/zine library and archive, they’d love to hear from you before Sun 6 July.
Game makers! Get your tickets to join Fuse Jam! 5 from Fri 1 Aug and explore your creativity with others in a playful game jam format across this weekend-long event.
Events
Head to Dundee’s Botanic Garden on Sat 12 July for Morphology, City Flowers Garden Studio’s first festival featuring a packed afternoon of performance celebrating art, music and Scots spoken word.
Tea Green Events’ Summer Design Market returns to V&A Dundee from Fri 25 July, filled to the brim with some of Scotland’s best independent designers and makers.
Lughnasadh Music and Art Festival is returning to Forgan Arts Centre on Sat 2 Aug! Grab your tickets before they’re gone to see Kathryn Joseph, Sacred Paws, corto.alto, Dead Pony and more perform live from the centre’s stunning gardens.
Digital Skills Education are running a practical intro to AI day-event on Fri 29 Aug and currently have fully-funded places available for artists and creatives living or working in Dundee, Angus, Fife or Perth & Kinross. Register your interest before Fri 11 July to apply.
Workshops
Pick up your pencils and a cuppa with Jo Craig at her EH9 Espresso drawing club on Thu 3 July! All are welcome, whether you draw lots, never find the time, or haven’t tried for ages.
Visit Hospitalfield on Sat 5 July for Fields Study Day. Organised with artist and filmmaker Rehana Zaman, the event explores The Field through plots, farming, exhausted environments, cinema, sound and liveness.
Join Arts Workers for Palestine Dundee on Sat 12 and 19 July for Embroidery in Solidarity with Palestine. No previous experience required and materials will be available to take part in their ongoing collective embroidery project.
Budding comics artists and makers can join Comics Youth across the summer for free weekly Building Stories workshops for ages 8-13, 14-17, and 18-25 including character creation, drawing jams, zine making, and sketchbook development.
Opportunities
Fife Contemporary are looking for Scottish artists to submit work for their 2026 exhibition ‘The Artist’s Voice in a Permacrisis’, exploring responses to living with environmental uncertainty. Open call closes 11am, Tue 15 July.
Youth Theatre Arts Scotland are searching for the Next Generation of theatre makers to join their free support, development and training programme for young arts practitioners aged 16–24. Applications close 5pm, Mon 14 July.
Applications are open for the Dundee Musicians’ Award 2025/26 with grants of up to £1000 available for the costs of creating new work, research or professional development. Apply before Fri 25 July.
Creative Scotland are searching for a wide range of freelance/self-employed Access Support Workers to support a range of applicants applying to Creative Scotland funding programmes. Invitation to tender closes Mon 28 July.
Exhibitions
Celebrate the Fun a Day Dundee community and their eclectic creativity at their 2025 Fun A Day Dundee exhibition, showing at Blend at Dock Street Studios from Fri 4 July.
Art Angel return to Generator Projects from Sat 5 July for their 2025 exhibition, sharing the wonderful work and creativity of participants from across their art groups.
Designers Gadgie and Bandwagon Brand present ‘Pure Class, Pure Chaos‘, an exhibition and pop-up celebrating life growing up in Scottish council estates. Running from Fri 25–Sun 27 July.
Content
If you’re looking for some new tunes to take you through the summer, Dundee Music have gathered together the latest releases from an array of local musicians across six playlists with different flavours to suit your listening tastes!
