Local events

Dundead Horror Film Festival

Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4DY, 01382 909900, until Sun May 19, various times and prices. Four days of cinematic thrills and scares, with sneak previews and terrifying classics from the horror genre. Also featuring a film quiz and post-film fun. dca.org.uk

Remembering Dundee’s Music Halls: Entertaining Dundee from the 1840s to the Great War

Central Library, The Wellgate, Dundee, DD1 1DB, 01382 431500, until Fri May 31, Mon-tue & Thu-fri 9am-6pm. Wed 10am-6pm. Sat 9.30am-5pm, free. From Springthorpe’s to the Gaiety, the People’s Palace to Mcfarland’s Theatre of Varieties, Dundee has a long and rich history of music hall entertainment. This exhibition sheds light on this vibrant aspect of the city’s past and features rare posters from the era. dundeecity.gov.uk

Loads o’ Lorries

Dundee Museum of Transport, Unit 10 Market Mews, Market Street, Dundee, DD1 3LA, 01382 455196. Sun May 19, 10am4.30pm, £7.50-£8.50 (£6-£7; children £4-£4.50; members free). Come along for this special event to see a wide range of vintage lorries and trucks. Meet their passionate owners and find out more about these hard-working vehicles. dmoft.co.uk

Ellen K Levy: Seeing Through

Tower Foyer Gallery, Tower Building, University of Dundee, Dundee, DD1 4HN, 01382 384310, until Sat Jun 29, Monfri 9.30am-7pm. Sat 11am-4pm, free. 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 organicmachine hybrids, eco-catastrophes and space travel. dundee.ac.uk/locations/ tower-foyer-gallery

A Decade of Design

Lamb Gallery, Tower Building, University of Dundee, Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4HN, 01382 384310, until Sat Aug 3, Mon-fri 9.30am-7pm. Sat 11am-4pm, free. To celebrate the tenth anniversary of Dundee’s Unesco City of Design status, this exhibition showcases a decade of design created by students at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, many of whom have gone on to successful careers as professional designers. The show features animation, comics, graphic design, illustration, jewellery, metal design and textile design. dundee.ac.uk/locations/ lamb-gallery

Sukaina Kubba: Turn Me Into a Flower

Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4DY, 01382 432444, until Sun Aug 4, Wed-sun 11am-6pm. Thu 11am-7pm, free. Sukaina Kubba is an Iraq-born, Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist who explores narratives of cultural and material assimilation and appropriation. For this major new solo exhibition, Kubba presents existing works alongside new commissions created during a month-long residency in DCA Print Studio. These new works range from paper pulp casting, embossing and laser engraving, to screen prints made on DCA’S large-format press. Working on an ambitious scale and largely in monotone, Kubba has created a number of works that will be suspended from the ceiling. dca.org.uk

Photo City: How Images Shape the Urban World

V&A Dundee, 1 Riverside Esplanade, Dundee, DD1 4EZ, 01382 411611, until Sun Oct 27, daily 10am-5pm, free. The invention of photography has transformed the world. Today, photographic images are everywhere and the acts of taking, sharing and responding to them are integral to daily life. The explosion of photographic experimentation in the mid 19th Century coincided with the rapid growth of cities across the globe. This exhibition brings together iconic images from the V&A’S collections, as well as works by contemporary photographers, architects and digital artists to explore how photography and cities have influenced each other. vam.ac.uk/dundee

Tetra Pak Dry Point Printing

Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4DY, 01382 432444. Sat May 18, 10.30am-4pm, £70. Tetra Pak printing is essentially an intaglio printmaking process, similar to etching or dry point on metal. Instead of using metal plates as the printing matrix, this one-day class uses recycled Tetra Pak cartons. This material can be cut easily into different shapes and it’s possible to achieve very fine line drawings or textured areas. This is a perfect course for both beginners and intermediate printmakers, and you will leave with a collection of wonderfully detailed intaglio prints. dca.org.uk

Miscreen: Digital Desktop Screen Printing

Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4DY, 01382 432444. Sun May 19, 10.30am-5.30pm, £120 (£105). Miscreen is one of a new, exciting generation of digital screen printing machines changing how we will screen print in the future. In this oneday course, you will learn the basics of screen printing, from making simple paper stencils to pulling a print. You’ll then be introduced to the Miscreen equipment and how to transfer an image on to a mesh which you will use to create your own prints. dca.org.uk DANCE

Tuflamenco Classes

Dudhope Multicultural Centre, Bharatia Ashram, 3-5 St Mary Place, Dundee, DD1 5RB. Tue May 21, 5-6pm (children), 6-7pm (beginners), 7-8.30pm (high intermediate / advanced), various prices. Classes from Tuflamenco, an academy based in Edinburgh which also delivers classes in other Scottish cities and performs shows themselves. Its flamenco activities are designed to inspire confidence, improve coordination, agility and fitness, and encourage positivity and joy. tuflamenco.com MUSIC

Seven Drunken Nights: The Story of the Dubliners

Caird Hall, City Square, Dundee, DD1 3BB, 01382 434940. Sat May 18, 7.30pm, £30. Feelgood musical tribute to Irish musical giants The Dubliners, which tells the story of a career spanning 50 years. Featuring a talented cast of musicians and singers who bring the music of this iconic group back to life. dundeebox.co.uk

Dundemo 10

Church, 15 Ward Road, Dundee, DD1 1ND, 01382 201229. Sat May 18, 10.30pm2.30am, £5-£7. Scotland’s biggest emo / pop-punk night returns for Dundemo 10. Expect to hear the likes of My Chemical Romance, The Used, Panic! At the Disco, Fall Out Boy, Green Day, Blink 182, Bowling for Soup and more. churchdundee.co.uk

In the Evening There is Feeling: Listening Group with Morwenna Kearsley Dundee Contemporary Arts, 152 Nethergate, Dundee, DD1 4DY, 01382 432444. Thu May 23, 6-7.30pm, pay what you can free-£8. In the Evening There is Feeling is DCA’S reading and listening group. The event and discussion will be led by artist Morwenna Kearsley. You’ll spend time listening closely together to a selection of songs and compositions that influenced artist Sukaina Kubba, including Weyes Blood, Robert Wyatt, Mustafa and Sabreen. Digital copies of the track list will be sent out to all participants after they have booked a place. dca.org.uk

The Lark Ascending

Caird Hall, City Square, Dundee, DD1 3BB, 01382 434940. Thu May 23, 7.30pm, £15-£23 (concessions/children £6). Stephanie Childress and the strings of the RSNO join forces with the inspirational young musicians of Big Noise Douglas. Together, they let their imagination take flight – whether it’s in the soaring beauty of Vaughan Williams’ much-loved Lark Ascending, the Bohemian rhapsodies of Dvorák’s sunny Serenade, or Elgar’s exhilarating Introduction and Allegro, inspired by a holiday on the Welsh coast. Sit back and let the music transport you. dundeebox.co.uk

Connor Clark & The Matador Kings + Support

Roots Music Venue, 51-53 Meadowside, Dundee, DD1 1EQ, 01382 228260. Fri May 24, 7-11pm, £7. Hailing from Aberdeen, Connor Clark & The Matador Kings will be bringing their high-energy, fast-paced electronic rock tunes to Dundee in their first show in the city for five years. Joining them for the ride are History of Concrete and Roomfore. visitscotland.com THEATRE

Sunshine on Leith

Gardyne Theatre, Gardyne Road, Dundee, DD5 1NY, 01382 434940, until Sat May 25, Tue-fri, 7.30pm, £18 (£16). Set to the songs of renowned Scottish hitmakers The Proclaimers, Sunshine on Leith follows the highs and lows of two friends as they search for normality after returning from a tour in Afghanistan. gardynetheatre.org.uk

Loads o’ Lorries.

Ellen K Levy: Seeing Through.

Seven Drunken Nights: The Story of the Dubliners.