Here’s a full breakdown of opportunities, events and content available in Dundee over November! Subscribe to our News Mail Out and receive updates each month.
- Elfie Picket are back with the next Blether on Fri 7 November and this month it’s a Scottish International Storytelling Festival special featuring guests Lindsey Gibb, Harry Josephine Giles and Christine Kydd!
- Take One Action Film Festivals arrives in Dundee from Fri 7 to Sun 9 November with a brilliant lineup of films and events including Amps Erin Farley, Manuela de los Rios, and young people from Hot Chocolate Trust.
- Join V&A Dundee’s Young People’s Collective for Upstart: Creative Careers Festival from Wed 5 to Fri 7 November! Get involved with workshops, talks, making sessions and the live recording of the next ‘What the Hat?!’ podcast episode.
- Scots Scriever Taylor Dyson is going on tour for Book Week Scotland! Join her in Dundee on Mon 17 and Tue 18 November for two events celebrating the Scots language and Dundee history.
Events
- Composers Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman return to Dundee on Sat 8 November for a special performance of their critically acclaimed and Scottish Album of the Year Awards longlisted record ‘Ash Grey and the Gull Glides On‘.
- On Fri 7 and Sat 8 November, LexFest brings together local and national musicians for a special two-night event celebrating the life and music of Dundee musician Lexi Campbell, and raising funds for charities The Canmore Trust and MindOut.
- Join composer Ed Muirhead and Dundee Community Youth Orchestra on Sat 8 November for the live premiere of ‘Streets of Dundee‘ – a musical celebration of the roads, avenues, wynds, lanes and streets of the city!
- Dundee Jazz Festival is back from Thu 13 to Sun 16 November with an incredible lineup of national and international talent, alongside local rising-stars Kimberley Tessa and Susan McCathie debuting new projects!
Workshops
- Artist Katie McGroarty is opening her studio for Tuesday Night Crits, offering space for established and emerging artists to share their work with peers and receive constructive feedback. Join the next session on Tue 11 November.
- Join ScrapAntics on Tue 18 November for their next Re/Shape workshop where you can design and create your own hand-painted wooden jewellery.
- Contribute to a collaborative sewing project with Arts Workers for Palestine Dundee at their next Embroidery in Solidarity with Palestine session on Sat 22 November. No experience necessary with support and materials provided.
- There’s still time to join The Acting Lab for their next Improv Workshops series, running until Sat 13 December! Boost your creativity, spontaneity and confidence in a fun, friendly and supportive environment.
Opportunities
- ShaperCaper are looking for a Technical and Production Manager to join their small, award-winning team! If you’ve got the skills to plan and deliver all technical aspects of their productions, they’d love to hear from you by 5pm, Fri 7 November.
- Curated Place are inviting applications for the Cultural Business Development Programme, a hybrid, 12-session training programme designed to build strategic business capacity across Scotland’s cultural organisations, museums, artists and creatives. Applications close at midnight, Mon 10 November.
- Dundee Ceramics Workshop are seeking an organised and proactive Workshop Coordinator to manage their daily operations and support tutors, volunteers and members. Apply for the role before midnight, Fri 14 November.
- Designers working with textiles and/or connected fields can apply for Whanganui X Dundee: Textile Legacies, a month long funded residency in New Zealand connecting indigenous and ancestral textile practices. Applications close 10am, Wed 19 November.
Exhibitions
- Vending at Volk Gallery from Wed 6 November – multi-disciplinary creative Kyle Watson shares a series of prints celebrating the textures, shapes, patterns and details of Dundee.
- Dundee-based ceramicist and sculptor Charlotte Maishman’s ‘Holding Time‘ opens at Generator Projects on Sat 8 November, promising an immersive and profound exhibition.
- Visit Nomas* Projects until Sun 30 November for ‘Working the Clock‘, a new exhibition by artist Justine Watt steeped in repetition, renewal and meditative rhythm. Hear from Justine about the work at an online artist’s talk on Sun 9 November.
- Now showing at DCA, ‘bone stone voice alone‘ presents a newly commissioned body of work by artist Lauren Gault across sculpture, print, sound and moving image, investigating the land of Tayside and beyond.
Content
- A beautiful and moving comic from Erin McGrath commissioned for this year’s Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival and based on notes and sketches from across her first two years of motherhood.
- Original Copy Collective have been sharing a series of short features on each of the brilliant emerging artists exhibiting as part of their Freshly Pressed 2025 showcase. Head to their Instagram to hear more from artists Marion Black, Emma Hammond, Hannah Maguire, Jessica Pound, Malachy McCrimmon and Sophie Donald.
- Agency of None have shared a new ‘No News Letter‘, offering up a collection of stories, reflections and ideas about putting the fun back into their work. Subscribe to follow along!
- Last month, Rob Hopkins brought his time machine to Dundee for a special ‘How to Fall in Love with the Future’ event with Dundee Changemakers Hub. If you weren’t able to join on the day, you can enjoy a snapshot of Dundee 2030 and hear some of what Rob shared in this short film.
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