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A painted image of two animated girls lying on forearms drawing pictures

Shorts for Wee Ones 2025

Age 3+. A collection of seven short films for our youngest viewers is sure to delight and amuse.
A small felt mushroom cutting a slice of cake

Shorts for Tinies 2025 - Schools Screening

Age 0+. We can offer a selection of a few of the titles from our Shorts for Wee Ones collection for very young children
A cartoon mole looks at himself in a mirror with glee

Discovery Family Film Club: Nature’s Resources

This event is presented in partnership with the Fashion in Film Festival and V&A Dundee, as part of the Garden Futures: Designing with Nature exhibition…
A man looks at a computer screen with a green map on it

Dundead Halloween: Evilspeak (VHS) + short film

This film contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.Part of Dundead Halloween 2025. Head's…
An illustration of a girl with a black bob staring at phone while being followed by a pack of friendly dogs

Shorts for Middle Ones 2025 - Schools Screening

Age 7+. Bring your class to enjoy this collection of colourful and imaginative short films.

Shorts for Wee Ones 2025

These magical tales will delight children age 3+
Person using lino cutting tools to make a design on a piece of lino

Reduction Lino Printing

Sat 14 & Sun 15 March 2026
Person printing a lino cut using a printing press

Reduction Lino Printing

Sat 29 & Sun 30 November 2025
A cardboard cut out of a blonde girl lifting the head off an alien costumer

Maya, Give me a Title! - Schools Screening

Age 7+. Made mostly with paper cut animations, this delightful film from Michel Gondry will make everyone laugh
A woman with ginger hair stands at the shore with her arms in the air.

An Angel at My Table (35mm)

We're pleased to present this screening in collaboration with Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival.Jane Campion’s second feature, her celebrated international…
A man points while a woman looks afraid

Dundead Halloween: The Phantom of the Opera (100th Anniversary) with live score

Part of Dundead Halloween 2025.Director Rupert Julian’s 1925 film version of The Phantom of the Opera starring Lon Chaney ranks among the greatest horror…

Pre-Opera Talk: Season Preview with Andrew Roger

Join Andrew Roger from the University of Dundee, as he discusses the upcoming 2025-26 Live from the Met season.
Person screen printing on a power-assited screen printing table

Screen Printing (Intermediate)

Tue 11 November, Tue 18 November, Tue 25 November & Tue 2 December 2025

Person drawing on a slab of limestone

Introduction to Stone Lithography

Sat 7 & Sun 8 February 2026
Japanese woodbloack prints drying on a rack

Japanese Woodblock Printing

Sat 21 & Sun 22 February 2026
Person using Photoshop on a Mac to edit an image of a landscape

Introduction to Adobe Photoshop

Sat 18 & Sun 19 October 2025
Screen printing table in DCA Print Studio with red ink

Screen Printing (Intermediate)

Tue 13 January, Tue 20 January, Tue 27 January & Tue 3 February 2026
Person spreading yellow ink onto a screen

Screen Printing (Intermediate)

Thu 5, Thu 12, Thu 19 & Thu 26 March 2026

Senior Citizen Kane: The Golden Spurtle + Recorded Q&A

Once a year contenders from around the globe descend on a picturesque village in the Scottish Highlands to compete for the title of World Porridge Champion.…
A man with a beard leans against a blackboard, looking pensive.

Senior Citizen Kane: Steve

After their 2024 Irish-drama Small Things Like These, director Tim Mielants and Cillian Murphy team up again for Steve a reimagining of Max Porter's Sunday…
A young black girl holds a small baby with a young while male with curtain hair. They both look at the baby lovingly

Senior Citizen Kane: Young Mothers

The Dardenne brothers (Rosetta; Two Days, One Night) once again bring audiences a moving portrayal of real lives with their latest social-realist drama…
A DCA tutor showing three children images on two spinning zoetropes

Discovery Film Festival

Sat 25 October – Sun 2 November 2025
A cute cartoon monster and a fish friend from Discovery Short Films collection

Discovery Film Festival Short Films

Book handpicked short films to show in your venue
School pupils attend Discovery Film Festival

Celebrating 20 years of Discovery Film Festival

We take a look back at the last two decades.
Children make art together during Spring Holiday Pop-up at DCA

Remember a Charity Week

Mon 8 - Sun 14 September 2025
A large mural from There Will Be New Rules Next Week exhibition at DCA shows a collection of recognisable iconography, including a cross, a peace symbol, Che Guevara, a smiley face, and the I Heart NY sign.

There Will Be New Rules Next Week

Sister Corita Kent, Peter Davies, Ruth Ewan, Emily Floyd, Scott Myles and Ciara Phillips
School pupils holding their hands up in DCA Cinema

Schools Programme

Free screenings to enhance your classroom learning.

Cinema 1. The chairs are blue and there is a cinema screen at the front.

Discovery Young Programmers 2025

Age 15–19 and interested in film? Apply to join our exciting summer programme!
school group raising their hands in DCA cinema seats

Discovery Film Festival 2024 Schools Programme Out Now!

Get excited for the 21st edition of Discovery Film Festival from Sat 19 October to Sun 3 November! We're thrilled to announce that this year's Schools…
From George Barber's exhibition at DCA. A screen displays a psychedelic, pink, orange and blue pattern with a kite-like red shape on it.

Discovery Exhibition: The Long Commute / Arcade

George Barber and Jaygo Bloom
Animation still – two boys looking around a garden – one of the boys is glowing from within, his skin lit up warmly

Discovery Film Festival 2024

Sat 19 October – Sun 3 November

Terms and Conditions

Tickets for screenings, courses and workshopsTickets cannot be refunded after purchase except in the case of a cancelled screening or event. In the event…
Display of screenprints on the wall of Gallery 1 for Spring Holiday Pop-up

A creative start to spring with Spring Holiday Pop-up

Families takeover Gallery 1 to kick start the school holidays
Families sitting at tables in Gallery 1 doing creative activities

Creative Fun at Spring Holiday Pop-up 2024

Take a look at the prints, artwork and fun created at DCA during the school holidays
People eat at dining tables, surrounded by large, surreal eyes.

Surrealism on Film

Enjoy our season of Surrealist films by Luis Buñuel, David Lynch, Alfred Hitchcock and many more
Close up of peosons face with a man in the background holding two cocktails

Discover more at Dundead 2025

We've made some additions to the line-up
Dundead screenprints featuring an eye in blue

Designing Dundead 2025

Q&A with Dundead 2025 illustrator Katriona Gillon
Person creating a backdrop for an animation using collaged paper

Animation and printmaking at ST/ART

See the animations and prints created during our ST/ART Spring School 2025.
From Thomas & Craighead's exhibition. A screen shows a pixelated but colourful pattern in pink, orange, yellow and green.

Thomson & Craighead

Maps DNA and Spam
A banner which shows different images from Richard Wright's exhibition at DCA.

Richard Wright

Richard Wright
A chalk drawing - a black background, with a large white sailboat drawn on it with chalk.

Tacita Dean

'The Sea, with a Ship; afterwards an Island'

The DCA building from the outside.

Accessible events this July at DCA

Captioned screenings, audio description and more.
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Relaxed Screenings at DCA

More information about our approach to Relaxed screenings.
Adult and child making together

Family Activity at DCA

Find out what's on for families during September and download our Family Activity Calendar

Privacy Policy

Last updated Thu 21 September 2023We at Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA) are committed to maintaining your privacy and looking after the personal information…
Two children painting in Create Space

Resources

2025 resource packs coming soon!
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Cinema

Bringing you new releases, vintage favourites and indie gems from around the world
A wide shot of DCA Gallery with Katy Dove's exhibition. The gallery is dimly lit, with two, large bright projections showing abstract, round patterns in multiple colours.

Katy Dove

A memorial exhibition
Image shows visitors watching a film in the gallery projected over large screens to the left and centre of the photograph. The film shows a landscape with a green glowing swamp and trees.

Kelly Richardson

The Weather Makers
A large mural in beige, white, black and red as part of Hideyuki Katsumata's exhibition. The mural is of a man, who is massive and is wearing a strange costume made up of eyes and faces.

Hideyuki Katsumata

USO de HONTOU
Heather Phillipson's exhibition - a large pink circular structure sits in DCA Galleries. It is sitting on a floor covered in green paint, and there are green paint splotches on the walls. Behind the structure, is a large printed photograph of a blue sky with a green field. There is a cut-out photograph of a green tree with red flowers in front of the pink structure, and two large cut-out photographs of worms.

Heather Phillipson

sub-fusc love-feast
Dominic McKeown screen printing in DCA Print Studio

Thick Skin: Q&A with Dominic McKeown

In November, we hosted Dominic McKeown as part of the first iteration of the DCA Print Studio x Jerwood Residencies
Flourish Calendar pages including May with butterfly and jar design, June with landscape deisgn and July with fire works and ice lollies

Flourish group embrace 2024 by creating their own calendar

As part of our long-term partnership with Dundee International Women’s Centre (DIWC), their Flourish parenting group created their very own Riso printed…
Small prints by Matthew Wilson on the table in DCA Print Studio

Sampling and Copying

Q&A with Matthew Wilson
Beetlejuice, an undead man with pale skin and green hair, smiles while wearing a frilly suit. He is standing in a church with a priest behind him.

September films at DCA

Get ready for a great month of films at DCA Cinema.
A print studio with a large screen-printing screen and drier visible colourful ink pots in the background

DCA Print Studio x Jerwood Residencies returns

DCA Print Studio x Jerwood Residency

Spread from Hiya In There Wee Bairn featuring illustrations of Dundee

Hiya In There Wee Bairn

Celebrating Burns Night with a new Dundonian Scots edition of Hello In There Wee One
The front of the DCA Building.

Creative Scotland

Funding news

Groups of people in DCA Centrespace looking at framed prints

A season of creativity at DCA

Join us for some exciting events across our building.
Children take part in outdoor art activities during the summer.

Big Give: Making an impact

Free and fun activities for families during the school holidays
The cast of Downton Abbey stand watching and smiling.

New films from Fri 12 September

See what's on including Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, Caught Stealing and The Roses.

Delivery and Returns

Online Shop Delivery and ReturnsAll our Online Shop deliveries are sent by either tracked courier or Royal Mail. When the shipment is ready we will contact…
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About our captioned screenings

More information about our approach to captioned screenings.