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Martyn Reed stands in front of a text-based mural on an Aberdeen street.

Nuart Aberdeen Swaps Big Murals for Poetry in a World First

This April’s festival takes a text-based turn, scattering smaller works across the city centre.

Stage lighting equipment projecting warm orange light beams creating starburst patterns and diagonal lines against dark background.

Everything You Need to Know About Spectra 2026

Fire sculptures, suspended lanterns and giant blooms take over Aberdeen after dark.

AiiTee, Kimberley Tessa, Nuna Mutikani and Sean Bissett at the Victorian Toilets venue.

Aberdeen Jazz Festival Finds New Stages in Unusual Places

After losing a key venue, organisers scattered this year’s programme across 18 spaces.

Large inflatable fox sculpture with black and white mandala patterns at night

Fire Gardens, Glowing Foxes And Digital Ghosts Coming To Spectra 2026

Aberdeen’s winter light festival mixes flames with inflatable wildlife and digital portraits.

Readers queue with books at an author signing table at Granite Noir.

Granite Noir Turns Ten With a Look at Aberdeen's Darker Past

As well as celebrating the best of crime literature, the tenth edition will dig into real life crimes.

A tall vertical mural on a grey building displaying ornate white calligraphic text, photographed at dusk from a road bridge with light trails from passing traffic visible in the foreground.

Nuart Aberdeen Makes Poetry And Text The Focus For World First

The April event will explore how words and language work as public art.

Russell Howard holding a microphone against a background with red, blue and yellow halftone dot pattern.

Aberdeen Comedy Festival Sets 2026 Dates After 16,000-Strong Comeback

Russell Howard, John Kearns and Laura Lexx lead three-weekend lineup next autumn.