Arcadia Scotland
What's On Near You? April Happenings
Happy Spring! Here are some great happenings to take advantage of as the weather starts to get better and the days longer!
APRIL
Edinburgh!
Live music venues:
Sandy Bells
Captain’s Bar
Stramash
Jazz Bar
Sneaky Pete’s
Bannerman’s Bar
Usher Hall
O2 Academy (Formerly the Corn Exchange)
Queer Spaces:
Paradise Palms-queer cabaret and poetry nights.
Drag nights at Subway, CC Blooms, The Street, Planet Bar.
HOT MESS at Sneaky Pete’s.
Kafe Kweer.
Lighthouse Bookshop
Lavender Menace Queer book Archive
Music
Hallan, Sneaky Pete’s, 16th April 2025.
Primal Scream, Usher Hall, 3rd April 2025.
Gender Chores, Wee Red Bar, 25 April 2025.
Theatre and Comedy
Little Women, Capital Theatre, 1st April-5th April 2025.
Markets
Edinburgh Farmers Market, Castle Terrace every Sat.
Grassmarket Weekly Market, Grassmarket, every Sat.
Leith Market, Dock Place, every Sat.
Ocean Terminal Market, Ocean Terminal, every Sat and Sun.
Stockbridge Market, Saunders Street, every Sun.
Art
Inked up: Printmaking in Scotland, City Arts Centre, til 1st June 2025.
Ian Hamilton Finlay, Modern Gallery, til 26th May 2025.
Trading Zone, Talbot Rice Gallery, til 31 May 2025.
Glasgow!
Queer Spaces:
Aye-Aye Books
Category Is Books
Speakeasy
The Waterloo Bar
Delmonica’s
The Gallery
Music Venues:
King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut
Ovo Hydro
Howlin’ Wolf
The Garage
O2 Academy Glasgow
SWG3
Music
Ollie Alexander, Barrowland, 3rd April, 2025.
Manic Street Preachers, Barrowland, 11th-12th April, 2025.
Ghost, Ovo Hydro, 16th April, 2025.
Brooke Combe, Barrowland, 19th April 2025.
Theatre
Bat out of Hell, King’s Theatre, 7th-19th April 2025.
War Horse, Theatre Royal, til 5th April 2025.
Markets
The Barras Market- Gallowgate, Glasgow, every Saturday and Sunday.
The Forge Market, Duke Street, Thursday-Sunday 10-5.
Art
Digging in another time, Hunterian Art Gallery till 4th May, 2025.
John Akomfrah - Mimesis: African Soldier, GOMA, til 31st Aug 2025.
St Andrews and Dundee
Queer Pub:
The Salty Dog
Music
Another folk and rock night, Roots Music Venue, 26th April, 2025.
Candlelight concerts, various covers, Ghillie Dhu, Jan-April 2025.
Theatre
Singin’ I’m no a billy, I’m a Tim, Whitehall Theatre, 4 April 2024
Art
A Weather Eye, Mcmanus Gallery, til 11th May 2025.
A Fragile Correspondence, V and A, til 25 May 2025.