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Diners at a restaurant table photographing the Aberdeen Restaurant Weeks bingo card

Aberdeen Restaurant Weeks Returns as Its Biggest Ever

Ninety venues, secret suppers, and two weeks to eat somewhere you’ve never tried

Danielle Price kneels with her tuba on the tiled floor of Bon Accord Baths' empty Art Deco pool hall.

Aberdeen Jazz Festival Offers Free Tickets, No Questions Asked

A warm welcome initiative, £5 gigs and over 200 tickets for community partners.

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.