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Take a look at our Create Space opening times for March 2026.
Celebrate spring with a fun, social printing session in March.
We're delighted to present We Contain Multitudes, a major new group show featuring work by Andrew Gannon, Nnena Kalu, Daisy Lafarge and Jo Longhurst.…
Sat 5 September 2026
Wed 20 May, Wed 27 May, Wed 3 June & Wed 10 June 2026
Mon 7, Mon 14, Mon 21 & Mon 28 September 2026
Tue 18 August, Tue 25 August & Tue 1 September 2026
Sat 25 April 2026
Tue 28 April & Tue 5 May 2026
Sat 16 May 2026
Tue 16 June, Tue 23 June & Tue 30 June 2026
Wed 17 & Wed 24 June 2026
Wed 19 August, Wed 26 August & Wed 2 September 2026
Sun 19 July 2026
Thu 16 & Thu 23 July 2026
Sat 12 & Sun 13 September 2026
Tue 22 & Tue 29 September 2026
Tue 26 May, Tue 2 June & Tue 9 June 2026
Tue 24 March & Tue 31 March 2026
DCA is a new home for Breast Buddies Dundee.
Please book an individual ticket for everyone who is coming - Suitable for all ages with grown ups   Family Art Labs offer relaxed time and space to get…
Francis Dosoo will fill DCA’s gallery 1 with a new installation work which uses the 1978 film The Wiz, a reimagining of The Wizard of Oz, as a point of…
In Gallery 2, Ecuadorian artist Adrián Balseca will present a major new sculptural installation:In the Forest Ruins.The exhibition will develop…
In late summer, we will present a major new exhibition by Scottish artist France-Lise McGurn. McGurn studied at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and…
Join us for a slow-looking tour of the exhibition with DCA’s new Head of Exhibitions, Dan Brown. This guided tour will encourage a thoughtful and unhurried…
Science teacher Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling) wakes up on a spaceship light-years from home with no recollection of who he is or how he got there. As his…
Selected by Jo Longhurst as her Artist's Choice Screening as part of We Contain Multitudes The directorial debut of Andrew Niccol (who would go on…
Age 8+. A buddy film with sci-fi touches that will touch young hearts
This film contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.From Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Lost Daughter)…
Based on the beloved novella by Denis Johnson, Train Dreams is the moving portrait of Robert Grainier (Joel Edgerton), whose life unfolds during an era…
Wed 8, Wed 15, Wed 22 & Wed 29 April 2026
Sat 18 April 2026
Sat 13 June 2026
A dedicated viewing time designed to provide a calmer, less crowded, and sensory-friendly environment for visitors. Visitors can expect: lowered lighting,…
Thu 13 & Thu 20 August 2026
Sat 11 July 2026
Sat 8 & Sun 9 August 2026
Sat 1 & Sun 2 August 2026
Sat 25 & Sun 26 July 2026
Thu 27 August, Thu 3 September & Thu 10 September 2026
Fri 2, Sat 3 & Sun 4 October 2026
Join couple Ian and Ashley of S.K Works and learn how to make your own personalised envelope card holder and keyring. After you’ve chosen from a…
Local maker Syrah Jay is back to share the secrets of Shibori and this time we’ll be working with silk.Shibori is a Japanese manual resist dyeing technique…
Fri 27, Sat 28 & Sun 29 March 2026
Sun 24 May 2026
Sat 6 June 2026
Sat 21 & Sun 22 March 2026
Sat 30 & Sun 31 May 2026
Touch Screen is an interactive film experience exploring how light and colour shape what we see and feel.In this special programme, Light and Colour,…
Messy Play sessions for March 2026
The Metropolitan Opera’s 2025–26 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of American composer Gabriela Lena Frank’s first opera, a…
Following her acclaimed 2024 company debut in Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, soprano Asmik Grigorian returns to the Met as Tatiana, the lovestruck young…
The electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on…
This film contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.Paul Thomas Anderson's satirical action-thriller…
Based on Maggie O’Farrell’s bestselling novel, Hamnet tells the powerful story of love and loss that inspired the creation of Shakespeare's timeless masterpiece,…
The Scottish Outdoor and Adventure Film Tour is back.Join us for an uplifting evening that showcases the very best of the Scottish outdoors, adventure,…
This is not an April Fool's trick - Dead Lover will be presented in Stink-O-Vision, with scratch and sniff cards available at the screening.Regular Dundead…
The hit BBC crime drama Peaky Blinders comes to the big screen with a gripping new feature length story. Birmingham, 1940. Amidst the chaos of WWII,…
Nominated for a record-breaking 16 Oscars and winning four, including Best Actor for Michael B Jordan, Sinners returns to our screens.From writer-director…
In May 2021, a UK Home Office dawn raid triggers one of the most spontaneous and successful acts of civil resistance in recent memory. In Pollokshields,…
Rose Byrne has been Oscar nominated for her fantastic performance as a mother on the edge in this darkly witty drama.With her life crashing down around…
Screening as part of the 2026 Catalan Film Festival, bringing the best films from Catalonia to cinema audiences in Dundee. See this screening and Catalan…
Baz Luhrmann's EPIC: Elvis Presley in Concert invites audiences to hear Elvis sing and tell his story like never before.The film features long-lost footage…
Four girls, Alma (1910s), Erika (1940s), Angelika (1980s), and Lenka (2020s) each spend their youth on the same farm in northern Germany. As the home…
Based on Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s bestselling light novel which inspired Edge of Tomorrow.Set in a strange future, All You Need is Kill follows the story…
Based on the award-winning, bestselling book At the Wolf’s Table by Rosella Postorino, The Tasters reconstructs the true story of the women coerced into…
Directed by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg, It's Never Over, Jeff Buckley covers the life of the rising young star with an otherworldly voice and…
Bart Schrijver’s acclaimed drama follows former best friends and roommates Chris (Bart Harder) and Lluis (Carles Pulido), who meet up after a decade to…
Anna, an artist, and Magnús, a fisherman, live with their three children and charismatic sheepdog in the quiet grandeur of the Icelandic countryside.As…
This screening is in dubbed in English - we're also showing Little Amélie in French with English subtitles.The world is a perplexing, peaceful mystery…
This screening is in French with English subtitles - we're also showing Little Amélie dubbed in English.The world is a perplexing, peaceful mystery to…
James McAvoy makes his directorial debut with the stranger-than-fiction real life tale of Dundee hip-hop hoaxers Silibil N' Brains.
James McAvoy makes his directorial debut with this stranger-than-fiction real life tale of Silibil N' Brains a.k.a Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd, two Dundonian…
Selected by Daisy LaFarge as her Artist's Choice Screening for We Contain Multitudes Todd Haynes’ 1995 psychodrama starring Julianne Moore is a disquieting…
Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Hard Truths) feature in a five-star, triumphantly acclaimed new production of Arthur Miller’s…
Rose Byrne was Oscar nominated for her fantastic performance as a mother on the edge in this darkly witty drama.With her life crashing down around her,…
First screened in 2020 to restricted audiences because of the pandemic, Exhibition on Screen: Frida Kahlo is back by popular demand with an exciting new…
BAFTA Award-winner Lesley Manville (Phantom Thread) joins Aidan Turner (Rivals) in a striking new staging of Christopher Hampton’s celebrated adaptation…
Nicola Coughlan (Bridgerton) joins Éanna Hardwicke (The Sixth Commandment) and Siobhán McSweeney (Derry Girls) in John Millington Synge’s riveting play…
Marty Supreme is the highly acclaimed comedy-drama from director Josh Safdie (Uncut Gems). The film was nominated for nine Oscars, including a Best Actor…
This film contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.Following the success of The Worst Person in…
Winner of the Palme d’Or and nominated for two Oscars, Iran-set thriller It Was Just an Accident confronts truth and uncertainty, revenge and mercy…
Screening as part of the Japan Foundation Touring Film Programme 2026. This title of this year's programme is Knowing Me, Knowing You: The True Self in…
Enjoy one of the most beloved films of Discovery Film Festival 2025 together with other beautiful short films celebrating diversity and cooperation. This…
See, think, make and do at DCA
Our infant feeding area was designed in collaboration with Dundee International Women’s Centre.
Design your own tufting, create a coat of arms and more
Create your own garden, be a doodle explorer and create art while you rest with our activity sheets inspired by We Contain Multitudes.
Design your own family rug
Families takeover Gallery 1 to kick start the school holidays
As our Animating Science project with University of Dundee’s School of Life Sciences comes to an end, Dunning Primary test out new teaching resources…
Explore film characters and create your own film set
Take a look at the prints, artwork and fun created at DCA during the school holidays
Draw your own Dundee shapes and try weaving with paper
We take a look at the benefits families feel from creating art together.
Find out what's on for families during March and download our Family Activity Calendar
Create portraits, fill your kitchen table and share a powerful message.
See the results of Shibori and etching workshops as part of ST/ART Autumn School 2025
Your memory lives on through a gift to DCA
Curated by Katherine Murphy
See what the team get up to
Exhibiting artist Zineb Sedira returns to DCA
See the animations and prints created during our ST/ART Spring School 2025.
State-of-the-art facilities for printmaking, photography and digital design
We welcome groups of all ages to our Galleries, Create Space, Cinema and Print Studio throughout the year.If you are interested in bringing a group to…
Business partnerships with DCA
Find out more about this project with adults and young people who are blind or partially sighted, designed to improve their experience of visiting DCA.
Your Plinth is My Lap/The Space Between Us
A flexible, accessible combination of spaces, with a capacity of 150.
Contemporary art exhibitions in our two beautiful gallery spaces
Explore our acclaimed, welcoming civic space
Your position surrounded and your surroundings positioned
DCA's Media Suite is located on Floor -1 and is the ideal space for recording podcasts, interviews and other audio content.
Dundee Climate Fund 3.0 is here and we'd love for you to vote for our project
DCA is the perfect venue for your event
Highly equipped, flexible and licensed for up to 70 delegates.
Sensory bags are now available in our galleries
We're delighted to share the full list of developers who will be joining us for Drop in and Play on Sat 24 January.
Mon 8 - Sun 14 September 2025
Places We Think We Know
Straight Letters
Soft Impressions
Can't You See the Sea Changing?
Fragments
This Mess is Kept Afloat
Installations
GANGHUT, Susanne Nørregård Nielsen, and Rob Hunter & John Louden
Grönlund\Nisunen
Collections sans Frontières III
Seven Walks / Entanglement
What I Did This Summer
Turn Me Into a Flower
Explore our capsule collection of silk scarves created by local artist and designer Joanna Craig and inspired by Dundee and the Tay.
DCA Print Studio x Jerwood Residency
Our funding is at risk in Dundee City Council's budget consultation
Screen printing and Riso printing are explored in our ST/ART Autumn Schools
We take a closer look at one of our upcoming exhibitions and the exciting project behind it.
Working together on Drop in and Play and more
Funded by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation, We Contain Multitudes is a three-year collaborative project between DCA, Collective and Lux, working towards creating…
Ghost Calls
Lenticular
35 hours per week
Every penny you give makes a difference
Hair and Body
Every seed is awakened
Celebrate good times or remember a loved one by naming a seat in Cinema 1.
