Dandelion Festivals

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17–19 JUNE 2022, GLASGOW
2–4 SEPTEMBER 2022, INVERNESS

We started and ended the summer with two major three-day Festival spectaculars of live music, performances, talks, workshops and food, open to everyone and completely free. Visited by almost 67,000 people, they featured inspiring talks and workshops focused on how we can come together to protect our planet, plus performances from Scottish and international artists including Del Amitri, King Creosote, Les Amazones d’Afrique, Spell Songs, Newton Faulkner and many more.

Find out more about Dandelion Festival Glasgow here.

Find out more about Dandelion Festival Inverness here.

Five people in a garden are smiling at the camera. There is a wildflower patch behind them and a wheelbarrow holding produce from the garden in the foreground. The people are smiling and holding different objects: a rake, a pitchfork, weeder, guitar and a super-8 film camera.

Harvest

Dandelion culminated in in over 500 events as part of the largest-ever creative celebration of Harvest staged across Scotland.

Three performers in brightly coloured clothing pose in a field.

Free for Alls

80,000 free plants were given away by our towering Flower Singer, so that absolutely anyone could give growing a go.

A group of people outdoors in front of a brick building sitting and standing holding gardening tools

Unexpected Gardens

Dandelion’s Unexpected Gardens sprang up all across Scotland.

rowing cube containing plants situated in a cave, the lighting is moody and there are native and wild growing plants in the foreground.

Cubes of Perpetual Light

Our glowing, growing cubes were seen by 96,000 people on their journey across Scotland.

School children pointing and looking at a growing cube containing plants

Schools Growing Initiative

468 schools, over 100 Grow Cubes, tonnes of tatties – one big growing experiment.

A person walking outdoors in a grassy field with a stone cottage ruin in the background

Heisgeir - Film

Our story began with our launch film in April 2022 – not in the city, a town or even a farm, but on a tiny island in the very far north-west of Scotland.