Here’s a full breakdown of opportunities, events and content available in Dundee over September! Subscribe to our News Mail Out and receive updates each month.
- Award-winning dance company Shaper/Caper are looking for a warm, creative, and inspiring Lead Dance Artist with a contemporary dance background to join their team. Applications close Thu 4 September.
- Contemporary arts event Present Futures lands in Dundee from Wed 10–Thu 11 September, bringing together a vibrant programme of performance, sound, film, visual arts and discussion, including sonic installation ‘Dýra’ from SHHE.
- Dundee Fringe is back from Fri 12 to Sun 21 September! Grab your tickets for a huge line-up of shows across theatre, comedy, live music and more – including Amps Haystack Monolith, Kathrine Cuccuru, Andrew Baird, Henry Pullan, Monica Madas, Lynne Campbell and Scottish Dance Theatre!
Events
- Thinking of applying for Immersive Arts funding? Join them for a Dundee Inspiration Day on Mon 15 September to find out more about using immersive technologies in your creative practice and ask questions about the fund.
- Free, family friendly, video game festival ProtoPlay returns to Dundee on Fri 19 and Sat 20 September with 21 exclusive indie games to play and enjoy.
- Join Solar Bear Connects online on Wed 24 September to explore how arts organisations, freelance producers, and artists can connect with and support Scotland’s vibrant deaf creative community.
- Join Nicemaker for their next Un-Hushed poetry and spoken word night on Tue 30 September featuring award-winning writer and poet, Harry Josephine Giles!
Workshops
- Pick up your pastels and pencils and join artist Katie McGroarty for a relaxed and untutored Life Drawing session on Thu 4 September.
- Explore techniques from the world of acting and learn to communicate with presence and purpose with the help of Acting Lab and their Speaking with Confidence course beginning on Sat 6 September.
- Head to DCA on Sat 6 September for a lo-fi workshop exploring Kitchen Darkroom Photography where you’ll employ household products to develop your own abstract images.
- Scrap Antics will be joined by designer Louise Forbes on Fri 19 September for a Spoon Carving Day as part of new project FORM. All materials are provided and you’ll head home with your own hand-carved spoon!
Opportunities
- Urban Releaf are searching for an artist or maker to lead lantern-making workshops for the Dundee Hooley parade! Apply before Wed 10 September
- Apply now for the Creative Communities fund, supporting grassroots, community-led organisations to develop and deliver projects that harness the power of creativity in supporting wellbeing. Applications close 12noon, Thu 18 September.
- The Stobswell Forum are looking to develop an Artists Register of local artists who would be keen to work with them on developing projects in and around Stobswell. Contact them by email for more information.
- McManus Mondays are arriving next month, keeping the building open for local choir Loadsaweeminsinging’s rehearsals and creative workshops! They’re looking for craft and making workshops to be held on the Monday evenings, starting from the end of October. Contact Anna Day with a short description of your workshop if you’re interested.
Exhibitions
- Artist Calum Wallis ponders the ever-shifting geology in Scotland, offering a new perspective on the ground beneath our feet in exhibition ‘The Ground Shakes‘. Opening at Generator Projects on Fri 5 September.
- Jupiter+ arrives in Dundee from Fri 12 September, bringing to Reform Street a new site-specific installation, ‘Growing Pains‘, from sculpture artist Lindsey Mendick.
- Visit V&A Dundee across September for ‘Healing through Craft‘ from Dundee Community Craft, showcasing the outcomes of workshops exploring how jewellery design and craftsmanship can be a transformative tool to empower people in recovery.
- Now showing at Nomas* Projects until Thu 9 October; ‘Cover-Up (Repeat)‘, shares a series of delicate and carefully considered paintings from Glasgow-based artist Graham Lister.
Content
- Culture Counts share six artist commissions from across Scotland exploring the theme of ‘Dreaming of a fairer future for Scotland’, framing, informing and inspiring their growing EDI co-learning network.
- A new Dundee-based online art gallery, Hardboiled Art, has launched with the aim of making art accessible to all. Check out their curated selection of prints, original works, and reproductions which strive to offer art that is both affordable and fairly priced.
- The team at Forgan Arts Centre are looking to develop an outdoor workshop space equipped for wood and metal working and open to local artists, makers and educators. They are seeking feedback via a survey on the idea to ensure the project meets the needs of local artist and craftspeople, and to gauge interest from folks who would like to be involved.
- Artist Leena Namari shares more about her powerful piece ‘Absence does not mean forgetting’ from V&A Dundee’s exhibition ‘Thread Memory: Embroidery from Palestine’.
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