The Northern Lights Return to Aberdeen with SPECTRA Festival
6 February 2025
Scotland’s festival of light, SPECTRA, is returning to Aberdeen, promising a spectacular display of illuminated installations across the city for all ages.
Arts Events
Continually updated calendar of events near you and online, including art fairs, auctions, open studios, museums openings and charity events in Scotland, the UK and beyond.
Hippfest Silent Film Festival’s Reels Go Round Again for 2025
6 February 2025
Hippfest – Scotland’s popular silent film festival centred around the historic Hippodrome cinema in Bo’Ness – has announced its 2025 programme.
Borders Art Fair Returns for 2025
4 February 2025
This year’s Borders Art Fair returns to the Borders Event Centre in Kelso, with over seventy artists, galleries and makers from across the UK.
Get Contemporary at Lyon & Turnbull Edinburgh
7 January 2025
Works are set to go under the hammer in Edinburgh auction house Lyon & Turnbull’s saleroom by Scottish favourites and international names.
In a Scottish Light, at Lyon & Turnbull
2 December 2024
Lyon & Turnbull’s next major auction will be the ever-popular Scottish Painting & Sculpture, at its Edinburgh sale room and online.
A Magic Carpet Ride to Linlithgow Burgh Halls
26 November 2024
An exhibition at Linlithgow Burgh Halls brings together a variety of beautiful textiles from Iran to Afghanistan, reflecting the beauty and complexity of nature.
3D2D’s West End Winter Welcome
26 November 2024
3D2D is staging two festive events in Edinburgh, firstly at the Assembly Rooms in George St. and then at St John’s church the West End.
Genius Comes Included with Handmade in Ayr
22 November 2024
Handmade in Ayr is set to host a number of events in the run-up to Christmas.
The Art of Words: Push the Boat Out Festival Returns to Edinburgh
20 November 2024
Now in its third year, Push the Boat Out is an award-winning festival bringing together wide-ranging artforms such as poetry and music.
There’s More at the Made In Stirling Store
12 November 2024
Made In Stirling Store‘s new Christmas Market comprises art and gift ideas by over forty artists, designers and craft-makers from all over Scotland.
Sale of the Centuries at Lyon & Turnbull, London
11 November 2024
Edinburgh sale room Lyon & Turnbull hosts the return of its popular Five Centuries auction, featuring myriad art, design and craft items spanning the centuries.
Fair Trade: 3D2D’s Christmas Fair at Glasgow’s Trades Hall
11 November 2024
3D2D’s Glasgow Christmas Fair features over 70 traders across a range of disciplines, including fine art, woodwork, ceramics, textiles, jewellery and prints.
Artfully Yours at The Park Gallery, Callendar House
6 November 2024
The Park Gallery at Callendar House, Falkirk is staging Artful, featuring work by 18 local and UK-wide artists and craftmakers in a festive display of ceramics, jewellery, painting, glass, prints and cards.
Undercover Ceramics at Potfest in the Pens, Melton Mowbray
25 October 2024
The artisan ceramics market Potfest returns for a three-day artisan market in the heart of Melton Mowbray.
Travelling in Style at Lyon & Turnbull, London
23 October 2024
Lyon & Turnbull is hosting another of its popular sales series Travel & Vintage Posters auction, at the company’s London sale rooms, capturing the glamour of a bygone age of transport and leisure.
Edinburgh’s Hidden Door Arts Festival Finds the Right Door
22 October 2024
Edinburgh’s Hidden Door festival promises a highly-varied programme of vigorous and fresh talent in almost every area of the arts, and for 2025 will take over a massive former paper-making site on the western edge of the city.
Tea Green’s Winter Kick-Off
21 October 2024
Tea Green’s showcases of Scotland’s most talented independent artists and designers will take place at an expanded list of markets this winter.
Potfest Has Ceramics Under One Roof
10 October 2024
Penrith’s Skirsgill Auction Mart in Cumbria is host to the annual artisan ceramics market Potfest, featuring ceramic artists from around the UK.
Let It Show at Scotland’s Mental Health Arts Festival
9 October 2024
Comprising over 220 events across Scotland, this year’s Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival is inspired by the theme In/Visible.
Telling Stories and Building Bridges: Scottish International Storytelling Festival
8 October 2024
The 2024 Scottish International Storytelling Festival centres around the theme of Bridges Between – its 35th anniversary coinciding with the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Transparently Lovely at Lyon & Turnbull Edinburgh
1 October 2024
Edinburgh auction house Lyon & Turnbull is hosting another of its popular sales series Designs Since 1860.
The Paisley Look at Lyon & Turnbull Edinburgh
17 September 2024
Edinburgh auction house Lyon & Turnbull is offering paintings by leading Scottish and European artists from the Paisley Art Institute collection.
‘Global High Street Gallery’ Edinburgh Art Fair Returns for 2024
12 September 2024
Established in 2005, Edinburgh Art Fair returns to the city’s O2 Academy, displaying original art and design from around the world.
Colourful Colonies: Abbeyhill Colony of Artists’ 19th
10 September 2024
A weekend promising an enormous range of exhibitions, events, workshops and music, hosted in homes, businesses and community spaces centred around Edinburgh’s Abbeyhill Colonies.
