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.
Oban Winter Festival
13–20November to December
The Oban Winter Festival opens on 13 November at 5pm with a parade through the town and the switch-on of the creel tree. The first week brings the Scottish Haggis Festival, where the Golden Haggis Award is decided. After that there are Christmas markets, music and festive events around the town, right through to a finale concert on 20 December. Most of it is free, so you can simply turn up, wrap up warm and enjoy the lights.
When13 November to 20 December
Oban, in Argyll and Bute
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.