Arcadia Scotland

Wrap up warm! Winter is on the way. As the nights draw in we’ve got some exciting happenings to light up your days.                       

November

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

Music

Wargasm, La Belle Angele, Nov 13.
Twin Atlantic, Assembly Rooms, Nov 24.

Jason Isabell and the 400 Unit, Usher Hall, Nov 20. 

Theatre and Comedy

A Streetcar Named Desire, Royal Lyceum, till Nov 9.
Mo Gilligan, In The Moment, EICC, Nov 9. 

101 Dalmatians, Edinburgh Playhouse, Nov 19-23.

Markets and Festivals  

Edinburgh’s Radical Book Fair, Assembly Roxy, Nov 21-24.

Edinburgh Christmas Market, Princes Street Gardens, Nov 15.
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

Women in Revolt! Art and Activism in the UK, 1970-1990, Modern Gallery, till Jan 26. 

Stitched: Scotland’s Embroidered Art, Dovecot Studios, Oct 25-Jan 18. 

Guadalupe Maravilla / Piedras de Fuego (Fire Stones), Talbot Rice, Oct 26-Feb 15. 

Glasgow!

Queer Spaces:
Aye-Aye Books
Category Is Books
Speakeasy
The Waterloo Bar
Delmonica’s
The Gallery Centre for Contemporary Arts

Music Venues:
King Tut’s Wah Wah Hut
Ovo Hydro
Howlin’ Wolf
The Garage
O2 Academy Glasgow
SWG3

Music

Kasabian, Ovo Hydro, Nov 9.
Noah Finnce, Garage,  Nov 9.

Jimmy Eat World, O2 Academy Glasgow, Nov 13.  

Paris Paloma, Oran Mor, Nov 18. 

Theatre and Comedy

Queer Theory: Be Gay do Crime, Nice n Sleazy,  Nov 1

Let’s do the Timewarp Again, Arta, Nov 2. 

The Night Sky Show, The Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 3rd November. 

Aladdin, Theatre Royal Glasgow, Nov 6-30. 

Teru Buru, Platform Glasgow, Nov 15-16. 

Markets 

Glasgow Winterfest, George Square, Nov 23 onward.
The Barras Market- Gallowgate, Glasgow, every Saturday and Sunday.
The Forge Market, Duke Street, Thursday-Sunday 10-5.

Art

Leanne Ross, Dirty Dancing Flowers,  Tramway, til Mar 23. 

Tarik Kiswanson: The Rupture, The Common Guild, till Nov 30. 

 Mimesis: African Soldier, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow City Centre, Oct 26-Aug 31 . 

Aberdeen!

Queer and Queer Friendly Spaces
Cheerz

Sabotage Clubbing
The Market Arms

Music and Theatre/Comedy

Scouting For Girls, The Lemon Tree, Nov 6. 

Aberdeen Chamber Music Concerts, Fountainhall Church Centre, Nov 4. 

Larry Dean, Music Hall, Nov 2.

Art

Gordon Contemporaries, Aberdeen Art Gallery, till  Nov 24.   

Aberdeen: Trade and Empire, Maritime Museum.

Tea Green Festive Market, Aberdeen Art Gallery, Nov 2,3.  

St Andrews and Dundee

Queer Pub:
The Salty Dog

Music
Scouting for Girls- Fat Sam’s, Nov 5. 

Twin Atlantic, Fat Sam’s, Nov 22. 

Theatre

Rocky Horror Picture Show, Byre Theatre, Nov 1,2 

PechaKucha Night Volume 31, Dundee Rep, Nov 7.               

Art

Dundee Naturalists' Society 150th Anniversary display, The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery & Museum, till Mar 31.
Claudia Martínez Garay, Dundee Contemporary Arts, till  Nov 17.

Kimono: Kyoto to Catwalk, Dundee V and A, Jan 5.