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Updates from Dundee Contemporary Arts: Galleries, Cinema, Print Studio, Shop and Jute Café Bar.
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There's lots to enjoy this week at DCA Cinema. Coming up...

🎼The Choral
🖼The Mastermind
👽Bugonia
🧟Frankenstein
🖌️Exhibition on Screen: Caravaggio

Plus - All That Heaven Allows, Live from the Met and more. Get your tickets now via our website.
A middle-aged man with a beard and moustache, wearing a choir master's suit. Text - The Choral Now Showing. A man in plain clothes stands next to and touches a painting in an art gallery. Text - The Mastermind, Now Showing. A woman covered in white paint with a shaved head stares ahead. Text - Bugonia, Now Showing. A woman in a billowing Victorian dress in green sits in a carriage with her eyes closed. Text - Frankenstein, Now Showing.
November 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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🗡 Detective Benoit Blanc is back for Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery - arriving at DCA Cinema on Fri 5 December, with tickets on sale now!

Book now to see the third chapter of this much-loved murder mystery franchise, starring Daniel Craig, Josh O'Connor, Glenn Close, Andrew Scott and more.
A worried man drives a vintage car while another man in the back seat leans over watching him. Text - Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery, Booking Now.
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Our November films are on sale now! 🎉

Book now for a great selection of new releases, including Die My Love, Anemone, Wicked: For Good, Palestine 36 and Alpha.

Visit our website to view our full selection - what will you see first?
A blonde woman points her head up with her eyes closed while confetti lands on her. Text - Die My Love, Booking now. A man with grey hair looks up. Text - Anemone, Booking now. A woman with a large tiara and a princess dress on sits nexts to stacks of posters. Text - Wicked: For Good Booking Now A group of Palestinian men ride horses in 1936. Text - Palestine 36, Booking Now.
November 3, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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We're stepping into November with a week of great films this week at DCA Cinema. Coming up from today...

🌟Bugonia
🌟Souleymane's Story
🌟One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
🌟Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
🌟I Swear

Book now to enjoy all this and more at DCA 🎉.
A bedraggled man rides a bike down a street. Text - Bugonia, Now Showing A man listens to music through headphones while standing on a busy train. Text - Headphones, Now Showing. A man in white patient's scrubs squirts water from a water fountain while laughing. Text - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Now Showing. A man in a leather jacket walks down a dark city street. Text - Springsteen: Deliver me from nowhere, now showing.
October 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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DCA Galleries are open today ✨

We’re delighted that Lauren Gault: bone stone voice alone sees us return to our galleries being open six days a week. Open Tue-Sun, 11:00 - 18:00 (19:00 on Thu). Free and drop-in, everyone is welcome!
print on a gallery wall with a sculpture hanging from the ceiling.
October 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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✨There's plenty of great new releases to enjoy this week in DCA Cinema. Coming up...

•Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
•Frankenstein
•I Swear
•Kenny Dalglish + Recorded Q&A

Plus - NT Live, Dundead Halloween and the start of Discovery Film Festival! Book your tickets now via our website.
Bruce Springsteen plays guitar while leaning his head agianst a bed. Text - Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowehre, Now Showing. A man holds a vial into the air with an intense look on his face. Text - Frankenstein, Now Showing. A young man and an older woman walk down the street smiling and laughing. Text - I Swear, Now Showing. Kenny Dalglish wears a red football kit and celebrates scoring a goal. Text - Kenny Dalglish, now showing.
October 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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There's something for every type of film fan this week at DCA Cinema. Coming up...

🌟After the Hunt
🌟Urchin
🌟I Swear
🌟Dundead Halloween
🌟Discovery Shorts (2024)

We've also got NT Live, Live from the Met and An Angel at My Table on 35mm. Book now at dca.org.uk!
A teacher sits cross-legged on a desk in front of the blackboard. Text - After the Hunt, Now Showing. A man stands with his hands on his hips, in front of a pale blue sky. Text - Urchin, Now Showing. A young man in a hoodie and an older woman wearing a pink coat walk down the street together, laughing and smiling. Text - I Swear, Now Showing. A black-and-red image shows a collection of characters from horror films, including the phantom of the opera and Frank-n-Furter. Text - Dundead Halloween, Now Showing.
October 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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🍂October continues with great cinema at DCA. Coming up this week...

🌟I Swear
🌟A House of Dynamite
🌟The Smashing Machine
🌟One Battle After Another
🌟Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

Plus - Discovery Shorts and The Swimmer in collaboration with V&A Dundee! Book now at dca.org.uk.
Two young men in shell suits walk through a forest talking. Text - I Swear, now Showing. A solider for the USA talks through a headset in a control base. Text - A House of Dynamite, Now Showing. A boxer sits in the ring, next to his coaches. A woman stands and watches. Text - The Smashing Machine, Now Showing. A man stands in a dark street wearing a black hoodie. Text - One Battle After Another, Now Showing.
October 10, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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bone stone voice alone, a major new exhibition by artist Lauren Gault, opens in DCA galleries on Sat 25 Oct.

Join us for our Exhibition Preview from 19:00 on Fri 24 Oct for a chance to see the works and enjoy refreshments before the show opens to the public. Free and drop-in, all welcome
A text based images with a textured background and the words bone stone voice alone and A major new exhibition by Lauren Gault overlaid
October 6, 2025 at 11:37 AM
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We've got lots to enjoy this week at DCA. Coming up...

🌟The Smashing Machine
🌟One Battle After Another
🌟Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle
🌟Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
🌟Irvine Welsh: Reality is Not Enough

Plus - Get ready for Discovery Film Festival with our Shorts from 2024!
A man sits in a boxing ring with his coach, while a woman stands on the side watching. Text - The Smashing Machine, Now Showing. A man in a flannel shirt stands next to his car holding a gun. Text - One Battle After Another, Now Showing. An anime film still shows a man with red hair and a red pattern on his face screaming. Text - Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle, Now Showing. A group of people in fine 1930s clothing watch a horse race. Text - Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, Now Showing.
October 3, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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Get ready for One Battle After Another and more this week at DCA Cinema. Coming up...

● One Battle After Another
● Steve
● From Ground Zero
● Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

Plus - Hamilton (10th Anniversary) and NT Live: Inter Alia. Book your tickets now at dca.org.uk 🎟️.
A man in a tight black hoodie stares ahead. Text - One Battle After Another, Now Showing. A man leans against a blackboard looking pensive. Text - Steve, Now Showing. People in fine clothes, suits, dresses and top hats watch a raise and cheer. Text - Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, Now Showing. A man sits outside on a chair, looking at a bombed city. Text - From Ground Zero, Now Showing.
September 26, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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Our Made in DCA Print Studio Exhibition opened this weekend and runs until Sun 5 October.

Head down to Centrespace to view over 100 framed prints created in our Print Studio by our talented Registered Users.

The exhibition is free to visit and open daily from 11:00 to 17:30.

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Centrespace with framed prints on the wall and a white bench in the middle of the room
September 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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Coming up this week at DCA Cinema...

🌟 The Golden Spurtle + Recorded Q&A
🌟 Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
🌟 Spinal Tap II: The End Continues
🌟 Honey Don't!
🌟 Reality is Not Enough + Q&A with Irvine Welsh and Paul Sng

Plus - vintage screenings, Discovery Family Film Club and more.
A man shows off his tattoo which says "world porridge champion" on it. Text - The Golden Spurtle + Recorded Q&A, now showing. A group of people in fine clothes and hats enjoy a day at the races. Text - Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, Now Showing. An older man in snakeskin trousers plays guitar on a smoke-filled stage. Text - Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, Now Showing. A woman in a black and white polka-dot dress looks to the side. Text - Honey Don't! Now Showing.
September 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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We're delighted to announce the appointment of five new trustees to our board, who bring a wealth of experience across a range of sectors.

Our new trustees are: Nancy Durrant, Kirsty Gibson, Adam Lockhart, Tom Miller, and Kate V Robertson. To read their full bios: tinyurl.com/2pztfcbu
DCA building
September 18, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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🍂🍁 September continues with a great week of films at DCA Cinema. Join us for...

•Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale
•Caught Stealing
•Young Mothers
•The Roses
•Dundead: The Toxic Avenger

Plus - There Will Be Blood (35mm) and Dogtooth. Book now at dca.org.uk.
A group of people in formal, colourful dresses and top hats watch a race. Text - Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale, Now Showing A punk rocker with a mowahk and a man wearing a blue shirt walk along a street with a mysterious bag. Text - Caught Stealing, Now Showing. A young and an older lady take a selfie with a phone while holding a small baby with a dummy in its mouth. Text - Young Mothers, Now Showing. A man and woman embrace on a beach. Text - The Roses, Now Showing.
September 12, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Help us bring our Dundee scenes to life by adding some colour 🔴🔵🟡🟣🟢

Created by local illustrator Kate Benzie, these murals were inspired by the people and places of Dundee.

Head to the wall outside Gallery 1 and have fun with our selection of stickers.
Black and white mural featuring Dundee landmarks and characters Section of the mural featuring the Caird Hall with some stickers added Selection of small circle stickers in different colours
September 11, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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There's emergency maintenance being carried out on city centre phone lines today which will affect some services at DCA.

DCA public wifi is unavailable - you can still access wifi from Jute Cafe Bar. Systems at our Shop and Box Office may run slowly: please book online in advance if possible.
DCA building pictured from the outside.
September 7, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🎉 Support Dundee's only indie cinema and see great new releases this week at DCA. Coming up...

•The Roses
•Highest 2 Lowest
•Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
•Sorry, Baby
•Oslo Stories Trilogy: Sex

Plus! Battleship Potemkin, Magnolia and Discovery Family Film Club. Book now at dca.org.uk.
A man and woman embrace on a beach. Text - The Roses, Now Showing A man in a baseball cap and shades sits in a subway car. Text - Highest 2 Lowest, Now Showing. The image on a phone of a smiling women in a headscarf wearing glasses. Text - Put Your Soul on your Hand and Walk, Now Showing. A woman in a scarf and hat lies on the grass smiling. Text - Sorry, Baby Now Showing.
September 5, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Tickets are on sale now for Dundead Halloween 👻

Book for our October screenings of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Descent, Return to Oz, Evilspeak, a Surprise Preview and our special Halloween event: The Phantom of the Opera.

Find out more and book: tinyurl.com/244t4ee6
Dundead Halloween Image of characters from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Descent, Return to Oz, Evilspeak, and The Phantom of the Opera in red
September 5, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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We're excited to bring you six months of Get Creative classes in DCA Print Studio!

You can now book courses and workshops from October 2025 to March 2026, with plenty of different processes to choose from.

Find out more and see what's coming up: tinyurl.com/23t5mayj
Three people looking at pots of colourful inks on shelves in DCA Print Studio
September 2, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Step into September with a great week of cinema at DCA. Starting today...

🌟Sorry, Baby
🌟Eddington
🌟The Life of Chuck
🌟Motherboard
🌟Oslo Stories Trilogy: Love
🌟The Ballad of Wallis Island

Plus - vintage films, NT Live and DCA's Big Film Quiz! Book now at dca.org.uk.
A woman sits on the ground eating a sandwich and looking to the side. Text - Sorry, Baby, Now Showing. A man wearing a cowboy hat sits in a car, lit with red light. A woman's face is on his laptop screen which is sitting on the dashboard. Text - Eddington, Now Showing. A man wearing a suit and glasses stands outside of a theatre with bright lights. Text - The Life of Chuck, Now Showing. A mother photographs herself while carrying a baby in a sling. Text - Motherboard, Now Showing.
August 29, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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We were so pleased to welcome Councillor Nadia El-Nakla to DCA yesterday and show her how work is progressing on the replacement of our Gallery lighting, windows and blinds, generously supported by @dundeecitycouncil.bsky.social.
Beth Bate and Nadia El-Nakla in DCA Galleries surrounded by equipment for installing new windows, blinds and lights
August 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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We're thrilled to share that Dundead will be taking 1925's The Phantom of the Opera on tour.

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of this early horror masterpiece, we've commissioned a brand-new live score by acclaimed Scottish musicians Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman.

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Dundead presents The Phantom of the Opera with new live score by Andrew Wasylyk and Tommy Perman. On tour around Scotland October - November 2025 With image of The Phantom in red
August 27, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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Exciting new films at DCA coming this week! Join us for -

🏥 Late Shift
🦧 Savages(English Dub & Subtitled)
🌟Weapons
📚Blue Road: The Edna O'Brien Story
👒Sense and Sensibility

Plus Dundead: Night of the Hunter (70th Anniversary) and our Complicit: Michael Haneke Retrospective starts...
A woman in a blue nurses uniform sits in a locker room looking forlorn Two claymation children sit on a branch with a monkey in their arm A blonde woman in a dark corridor looks pensively at the screen A black and white image of a woman's face with the bob smoking a cigarette
August 8, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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August begins with an exciting week of films at DCA Cinema. Coming up...

🌟Bring Her Back
🌟The Fantastic Four: First Steps
🌟Four Letters of Love
🌟Tim Stead: Magician with Wood
🌟Pavements + Recorded Q&A

Plus - anime and vintage classics. Book now at dca.org.uk 🎉
A woman looks at a child with a bald head through a window. Text - Bring Her Back, Now Showing. Two men wearing white and blue space suits stand next to each other smiling. Text - The Fantastic Four First Steps, Now Showing. A man with long grey hair stands on a beach painting outside. Text - Four Letters of Love, Now Showing. A beautiful handcarved wooden fireplace Text - Tim Stead: Magician with Wood, Now Showing.
August 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM