What's on Near You? February Happenings
Welcome to Scotland to our Spring Semester students! And welcome back our all year students of course! This blog post is going to give you the low-down on the events happening near you. It covers just some of the highlights happening in February. Below are lists of music venues and inclusive/queer spots to hang out in your city. I’ll be updating you throughout the semester on different events in March and April so stay tuned. A pro tip is to also follow the venues I’ve listed at the start of each city’s section on social media so you can stay up to date on what their events are.
FEBRUARY
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.
Lighthouse Bookshop
Music
Floor Sessions with Lindsay Tayloe, Pianodrome, Various dates.
Royal Mile Chamber Music Series, St Giles Cathedral, Various dates.
Insecure Men, Sneaky Pete’s, Feb 2.
Vukovi, Mash House, Feb 10.
Pete Capaldi, La Belle Angelle, Feb 27.
Theatre
Prima Facie, Royal Lyceum Edinburgh, Feb 3-7
Manipulate Festival, Various Locations, til Feb 8
Romeo and Juliet, The Pleasance Edinburgh, Feb 9-13.
The Seagull, Bedlam Theatre, Feb 11-13.
Cinderella, Edinburgh Playhouse, Feb 19.
Swan Lake. Edinburgh Playhouse, Feb 20.
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
Drawing the Italian Renaissance, Holyrood Palace, til March 1.
Picking up the Thread: Past, Present and Future of Tapestry, Dovecot Studios, til Feb 14.
Origin Stories, National Gallery of Scotland, til March 8.
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
Music at the Burell with the RCOS, Burell Museum, til March 7.
Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon, Glasgow Science Centre, til Feb 13.
Sloan’s Famous Friday Night Ceilidh, Sloan’s Bar and Restaurant, all year.
Theatre
Single White Female, Theatre Royal Glasgow, til Feb 6.
Spring Awakening, CCA, Feb 5-7
Saint Joan, Citizen’s Theatre, Feb 14-28.
Markets
The Barras Market- Gallowgate, Glasgow, every Saturday and Sunday.
The Forge Market, Duke Street, Thursday-Sunday 10-5.
Art
Sculpture and Sketch at the Burell Collection, Burell Museum, Various dates.
Surreal: International Photography Exhibition, Glasgow Gallery, Feb 5-8.
Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊, Tramway, til Aug 16.
John Akomfrah- Mimesis: African Soldier, Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art, till Apr 20.
Aberdeen!
Queer and Queer Friendly Spaces
Cheerz
The Market Arms
Music and Theatre/Comedy
Delve into the North Isles workshops and performances, The Lemon Tree, First week of Feb.
Aberdeen Chamber Music Concerts, Fountainhall at the Cross Church, Feb 9.
The Talented Mr Ripley, His Majesty’s Theatre, Feb 10-14
RSNO: Love and Fairy Tales, Music Hall, Feb 12.
Death on the Nile, His Majesty’s Theatre, Feb 17-21.
Daniel Foxx, How Lovely, The Lemon Tree, Feb 23.
Art
Granite Noir 2026: Crime Writing Festival, Feb 17-22.
St Andrews and Dundee!
Queer Pub:
The Salty Dog
Music
St Andrews Jazz Festival, various venues, Feb 12-15.
Live Music Fridays, The Rule, various dates.
Celebrity Concert by the Maxwell String Quartet, Laidlaw Music Centre, Feb 27
Special Events
Dundee Science Festival, Dundee Science Centre, Feb 7-22.
Art
From These Parts: Scotland, Art and Identity, Wardlaw Museum, University of St Andrews, till Feb 15.
We Contain Multitudes, Dundee Contemporary Arts, til Apr 26.
Curtain Call: Costumes from Stage to Screen, McManus Gallery, Feb 7 onwards.