
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.

Stems and Sketch Drawing Workshop is held at Cromlix Hotel & Estate, offering participants instruction in botanical drawing. The session focuses on sketching plant forms and stems using observational techniques and guidance on line, form and composition. All materials are supplied and the workshop is designed to support both beginners and those with some drawing experience. Cromlix’s surroundings provide natural inspiration, and the session encourages creative engagement with the shapes and structures found in plants. It is one of a seasonal series of art and wellbeing sessions on the estate.
Stirlingshire

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.

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
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.