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Dandelion Festival Inverness

Our second and final Dandelion Festival takes place in Inverness’s Northern Meeting Park on 2–4 September – a three-day spectacular of live music, performances, talks, workshops and food that’s open to everyone and completely free.

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Highlights

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Cubes on Tour: V&A Dundee

V&A Dundee

A stunning building in a beautiful waterfront location – Scotland’s design museum is the host for our first Cubes installation.

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Dandelion Festivals

Free weekend-long festivals in Glasgow and Inverness bookend the summer with live music, theatre, plant giveaways, workshops, talks, science and arts.

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Cubes Bike Tour

Join Dandelion’s Cubes Bike Tour across Scotland this summer. A touring fleet of cargo bikes displaying our growing cubes – miniature vertical farms – will travel the Highlands and Lowlands throughout August.

Youth in The Field

Unexpected Garden: The Field

Young people aged 9–18 (P6 to S6) are invited to join us in The Field every Friday afternoon between 1 - 4 pm to learn about all aspects of horticulture – and gain a qualification at the same time! All sessions are free.

  • Growing
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Unexpected Gardens

Floating farms, vegetable verges and carpark carrots – Dandelion’s Unexpected Gardens are sprouting all over Scotland.

Summer Sessions: Imogen Stirling

Rosebank Playing Fields

For the last of the Summer Sessions in Wick, Rosebank Playing Fields plays host to award-winning performance poet and playwright Imogen Stirling – recently named Artist of the Year at the Scottish Emerging Theatre Awards (supported by the National Theatre of Scotland).

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This is Dandelion

A year for whoever, however & whenever because, this year, absolutely anything goes grows.

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Cubes of Perpetual Light

Vertical farms and experiments on the move – discover our glowing growing Cubes as they travel across Scotland.

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Unexpected Gardens

Floating farms, vegetable verges and carpark carrots – Dandelion’s Unexpected Gardens are sprouting all over Scotland.

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Dandelion Festivals

Free weekend-long festivals in Glasgow and Inverness bookend the summer with live music, theatre, plant giveaways, workshops, talks, science and arts.

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Schools Growing Initiative

468 schools, 114 Grow Cubes, tonnes of tatties – welcome to the biggest growing experiment Scotland’s ever seen.

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Heisgeir - Film

Our story begins 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.

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Harvest

In car parks and in playgrounds, on streets and in squares, this is a Harvest celebration unlike any other.

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Free for Alls

Absolutely everyone can give growing a go this year – free plants will be bestowed by our towering Flower Singer on a tour of Scotland

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3 August 2022

Growing with Dandelion - Episode 3 released

In the third episode of Growing with Dandelion, Sunny Govan explores some of the Unexpected Gardens across Scotland.
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3 August 2022

Our Cubes Bike Tour has officially begun!

We are on the road and will be visiting town squares, community hubs, schools, and Unexpected Gardens across Scotland throughout August.
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Something different is taking root

Dandelion is a creative celebration of growing, music and community – rooted in Scotland but with an international outlook, and with sustainability at its heart. Dandelion follows the arc of the growing season, from April to September 2022 – culminating with hundreds of Harvest events across Scotland.

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