Upstart Festival returns to V&A Dundee from 12–14 November, with this year’s festival shaped around the theme of Transformation. Co-designed and hosted by the Young People’s Collective, the programme will bring together workshops, talks, making and live events exploring creative careers and different ways of building a creative practice.
The whole festival is free and open to all, and people can take part in as much as they like. Alongside the festival, YPC are commissioning five young designers, all recent DJCAD graduates, to create new work for poster sites, billboards and poster drums across Dundee city centre, developed in partnership with BUILD HOLLYWOOD Scotland.
The whole festival is free and open to all, and people can take part in as much as they like. Alongside the festival, YPC are commissioning five young designers, all recent DJCAD graduates, to create new work for poster sites, billboards and poster drums across Dundee city centre, developed in partnership with BUILD HOLLYWOOD Scotland.
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Wed 11 Nov, 19:00
Edmund de Waal with Dame Laura Lee - A Mug for Maggie's (Livestream)
Exhibitions & art · Victoria and Albert Museum
from £8
Thu 12 Nov, 10:30
Gardens and Art
Exhibitions & art · Victoria and Albert Museum
from £125
Thu 12 Nov, 10:30
Young V&A Textile Takeover - Home Education Day (Autumn 2026)
Exhibitions & art · Victoria and Albert Museum
Thu 12 Nov, 13:00
Lunchtime Lectures: Gilded Age Fashion
Exhibitions & art · Victoria and Albert Museum
Thu 12 Nov, 14:00
Chanel to Westwood: Women, Fashion, Innovation
Exhibitions & art · Victoria and Albert Museum
from £125
Thu 12 Nov, 18:30
New Black British Sound x BBC Introducing
Exhibitions & art · Victoria and Albert Museum
Thu 12 Nov, 10:30
Young V&A Textile Takeover - Home Education Day (Autumn 2026)
Exhibitions & art · Victoria and Albert Museum
Thu 12 Nov, 13:00
Lunchtime Lectures: Gilded Age Fashion
Exhibitions & art · Victoria and Albert Museum
Thu 12 Nov, 14:00
Chanel to Westwood: Women, Fashion, Innovation
Exhibitions & art · Victoria and Albert Museum
from £125
Thu 12 Nov, 18:30
New Black British Sound x BBC Introducing
Exhibitions & art · Victoria and Albert Museum