3 to 19 November · Aberdeen
Signature Food Festival
Some of the UK's most celebrated chefs are heading north this November, and you don't need a trip to London to taste their cooking.
Haddo House Christmas Craft Fair
7–8November
Haddo House holds its Christmas craft fair on 7 and 8 November, and it's a cosy way to start thinking about presents. Makers fill four indoor rooms with handmade Scottish work, and carol singers and musicians play through the day. Children can press Haddo-grown apples into fresh juice and post their letters to Santa. There's hot mulled cider, food trucks and the Courtyard Café, and the autumn gardens are there to wander.
It opens at 10am on both days at Haddo House, near Methlick, AB41 7EQ. Tickets are £3.77 for adults and £2.71 for children. Book ahead through Eventbrite for easy entry on the day.
When7 to 8 November
Tarves, in Aberdeenshire
Also on in November.
4 November · Dundee
David Bowie: On Tour
The V&A holds Bowie's own archive – eighty thousand items of costume, lyric sheets, instruments, photographs and notes – and this is the first big showing of it in Scotland.
Art and exhibitions
4 November · Banchory
Maisie Adam: Whatsherface at The Barn
You'll know Maisie Adam from Taskmaster, A League of Their Own and Last One Laughing, and on Wednesday 4 November you can see her up close at The Barn in Banchory.