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.
World Shortbread Championships
21November
Shortbread is about as Scottish as a biscuit gets, and this November Inverness is crowning the best in the world. The very first World Shortbread Championships bring professional bakers, home bakers and young bakers together at Inverness Leisure, competing in traditional and speciality classes. You don't have to bake to join in: come along, walk the championship floor, taste the public samples and cast your vote, because the public decide a quarter of the result. Doors open at 10.30am on Saturday 21 November, judging starts at 11am and the winners are announced in the afternoon. Tickets are on the championships' website.
When21 November
WhereInverness
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.