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AROUND TOWN Dundee Museum Of Transport – Spring Opening Weekend
Dundee Museum of Transport, Unit 10 Market Mews, Market Street, Dundee, DD1 3LA, 01382455196, until Monday December 30, Mon, Wed-Sun 10am4.30pm, £8.50 Adult (£7; children £4.50; family £20; members free). Dundee Museum of Transport will open its doors for the summer season with refreshed displays and new exhibitions. Visit the museum to see the new East Coast Cruisers exhibition featuring a wide range of classic and custom cars. dmoft.co.uk
Dundee Preserves With University Of Lincoln
The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum, Albert Square, Meadowside, Dundee, DD1 1DA, 01382 307200, until
Fri June 28, Mon-Sat 10am-5pm; Sun 12.30-4.30pm. This mini exhibition aims to showcase the decade-long relationship The McManus has held with the University of Lincoln.
Planted Container And Afternoon Tea Experience
Dobbies Dundee, Ethiebeaton Park, Monifieth, Dundee, DD5 4HB, 01382 530333. Today at 3pm, £40. Enjoy a creative, hands-on experience plus a delicious Afternoon Tea. We’ll start your experience with our delicious Afternoon Tea - 3 tiers of sweet and savoury treats, plus unlimited tea and coffee refills. One of our plant experts will help create your own planter (worth £30) to take home, offer helpful tips and answer your questions.
Planters include a terracotta pot with a centrepiece, plus you’ll choose from a selection of bedding plants, hederas or heathers.
ARTS Ellen K Levy - Seeing Through
Tower Foyer Gallery, Tower Building, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN, 01382384310, until Sat June 29, Mon-Fri 9.30am-7pm; Sat 11am-4pm, free. A site-specific exhibition by multimedia artist Ellen K Levy, reinterpreting the collections of the D’Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum. “Seeing Through” proposes tours of Thompson’s collection visualised as if through the lenses of futurist author JG Ballard and pop artist Richard Hamilton. We visit the collection through dizzying perspectival renderings of merged organic/machine hybrids, eco-catastrophes and space travel, as alluded to by Hamilton and Ballard. Levy’s speculative exhibition explores our synergistic relationship with technology, including our aspirations and its threats. dundee.ac.uk/locations/tower-foyergallery
This Just In - Recent Additions To The Collections
The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery and Museum, Albert Square, Meadowside, Dundee, DD1 1DA, 01382 307200, until Sat Oct 19, Mon-Sat 10am-5pm;
Sun 12.30-4.30pm, free. This exhibition showcases a selection of objects acquired for the museum collection in the past ten years, spanning social history, archaeology and natural history. From archaeological finds to natural history specimens and industry to community life, there is a Dundee story for everyone to delve into.
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Un-Earthed
Lamb Gallery, Tower Building, University of Dundee, Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4HN, 01382 384310, until Sat Apr 27, Mon-Fri 9.30am-7pm; Sat 11am-4pm, free. As human beings we are all dependent on the land and the resources it provides. Yet we are increasingly becoming disconnected from the natural world around us and our overexploitation of the land is causing an environmental crisis.This thoughtprovoking exhibition explores ways in which we have explored, recorded and exploited the land and how artists in Scotland have responded to these themes over the years. dundee.ac.uk/locations/ lamb-gallery
COMEDY Stand-Up Comedy Ft. Bruce Morton & John Gavin
Number 57, 57-58 Dock Street, Dundee, DD1 3DU, 01382 200387. Fri Apr 19, 7-10.30pm, £10-£13.70. Scottish comedy OG Bruce Morton returns to Dundee, with host John Gavin and support from Graham Barrie and Pierce Higgins. Bruce Morton is an award-winning comedian, actor and writer. A founding member of The Funny Farm Collective, he helped kickstart the Scottish stand-up scene, and since then he’s been one of its keystone performers. Perhaps best known for playing the undertaker ID Sheathing in hit show Still Game, he has won the Sunday Times Comedy Award, Scotland on Sunday Critics Award and the Spirit of Mayfest Award, as well as being nominated for the Perrier Award.
DANCE TuFlamenco Classes & Workshops
Dudhope Multicultural Centre, Bharatia Ashram, 3-5 St Mary Place, Dundee,
DD1 5RB. Tue Apr 16, 5-9pm, £1. In TuFlamenco we offer flamenco dance, guitar, clapping or singing lessons. We cover the full range of flamenco styles focusing on accompaniment of flamenco dance or just to the singing – all with an emphasis on understanding the deep roots and evolving musical language of flamenco.
MUSIC Broken Chanter
Beat Generator Live, 70 North Lindsay Street, Dundee, DD1 1PS, 01382 229226. Sat Apr 13, 7pm, £15.40. Broken
Chanter is the adopted name of David MacGregor. MacGregor spent the past decade as the principal songwriter of Scottish Alt-Pop darlings Kid Canaveral – a band that could get you to dance, laugh, and weep all in the space of a set. This is an 18+ event . beatgenerator.co.uk
Folk Music Showcase @ Roots Music Venue
Roots Music Venue, 51-53 Meadowside, Dundee, DD1 1EQ, 01382 228260.
Fri Apr 19, 6-11.30pm, £tbc. Scots Trad Award nominees Journey North headline a night of amazing folk music, starting with the folk-punk stylings of Banshee Heathens, followed by the foot-stomping sounds of Bruach!
THEATRE Sunset Song
Dundee Rep Theatre, Tay Square, Dundee, DD1 1PB, 01382 223530, until Sat May 4, Daily times tbc & 7.30pm, £15. Scotland’s most loved literary heroine Chris Guthrie is brought to the stage in this thrilling, contemporary adaptation. From harrowing family roots and crushing poverty, to stirring love and the awakening of self, Chris’s comingof-age journey to womanhood is one of enduring strength, persistent survival and joyful renewal. But everything changes with the arrival of the First World War when Chris finds her life altered beyond recognition. Exploring human resilience and the loss of a way of life, through a scorching female protagonist, Sunset Song has a profoundly lyrical intensity that echoes throughout the years and still resonates today. Voted Best Scottish Book of all Time