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Monday
23 November
Featured · 19 November to 28 November
Festival of Small Halls 2026
Every November, SEALL takes a band of top folk and jazz musicians round the village halls of Skye, Raasay and Lochalsh, and this year's Festival of Small Halls runs from 19 to 28 November.
Isle of SkyeTuesday
24 November
Featured · 13 November to 20 December
Oban Winter Festival
The Oban Winter Festival opens on 13 November at 5pm with a parade through the town and the switch-on of the creel tree.
ObanWednesday
25 November
Featured · until 12 December
Alyth Arches Tours
The Alyth Arches, the ruins of the town's medieval church, are usually padlocked; guided tours now take visitors inside.
AlythThursday
26 November
Featured · 26 November
An Afternoon with Bamford
As the evenings close in, Cromlix gives its Glasshouse over to a slow afternoon with Bamford, whose products have been rooted in nature for 25 years and whose thinking lies behind the hotel's Woodland Retreat.
KinbuckFriday
27 November
Featured · 27 November to 29 November
Exclusively Highlands Christmas Fair
Eden Court, the theatre and arts centre on the banks of the River Ness in Inverness, fills up with Scottish makers for the Exclusively Highlands Christmas fair.
InvernessSaturday
28 November
Featured · 28 November
Focus Craft Fair at Crathes Hall
If you'd rather give something handmade this Christmas, the Focus craft fair at Crathes Hall on Saturday 28 November is a good place to start.
CrathesSunday
29 November
Featured · 29 November
A welcome to Lauriston Castle
Lauriston Castle, in its gardens on Cramond Road South in Edinburgh, has a special afternoon on Sunday 29 November to mark the International Day of Persons with Disabilities.
EdinburghOn for weeks
On now · Food and drinkUntil 23 NovemberTartan & TurmoilAn exhibition on the Angus Jacobites and the part the county played in the risings.MontroseOn now · ToursUntil 23 NovemberRomans, Reivers and the Rough Wooing: An Archaeology Tour in the Scottish BordersA guided tour on reading the Borders landscape like an archaeologist, from Roman forts to the reivers.Tweedbank Railway Station (Meeting Point), MelroseOn now · Food and drinkUntil 23 NovemberLoch Ness Explorer: Roundtrip + LunchHighland Explorer Tours, EdinburghOn now · ArtUntil 23 NovemberDrawn from the ArchivesFort George, InvernessOn now · MusicUntil 23 NovemberAll The Young Nudes • Life Drawing Club GlasgowHouse of Toad CIC, GlasgowOn now · WorkshopsUntil 23 NovemberLet Go Pop-Up: Breathwork & Meditation WorkshopFraser Centre,, TranentOn now · MusicUntil 24 NovemberBlair DunlopEnglish folk singer-songwriter and guitarist, son of Fairport Convention's Ashley Hutchings.GlasgowOn now · Food and drinkUntil 24 NovemberTables Through TimeA look at the history of Scottish food and drink through the ages.Gladstone's Land, EdinburghOn now · WorkshopsUntil 24 NovemberEtching Evening CourseLearn etching on metal plates with safer acid resists over six Tuesday evenings with Robert Powell. Sold out.Edinburgh Printmakers
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The big ones this season
Exhibitions, festivals and gatherings we have been to and photographed, with their dates.
More info3 April to 17 JanuaryV&A Catwalk: The Art of the Fashion ShowDundee
More info22 August to 15 NovemberFrance-Lise McGurn: The Charm OffensiveDundee
More info1 September to 26 NovemberDrawing InspirationGlasgow
More info5 September to 30 NovemberJohn Bellany: AnchoredAnstruther
More info18 September to 21 NovemberClann-Nighean an Sgadain / Following the FishStornowayMore info26 September to 12 DecemberAlyth Arches ToursAlyth
More info1 October to 31 DecemberMagic on Main Street TrailGlasgow
More info3 October to 18 NovemberCitizens Theatre heritage building toursGlasgow
More info20 October to 14 NovemberMunro Legacy ExhibitionGlencoe
More info3 to 19 NovemberSignature Food FestivalAberdeen
More info10 NovemberDesigning a Universe: Science, Art and Imagined WorldsDundee
More info12 NovemberGreyfriars@12: Magnus Turpie and FriendsEdinburghMake a day of it
Days Out plans the rest of the day around where you are going: somewhere to eat, a walk or a castle on the way, written by people who live there.
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Tell us about a festival, a show, a market or a day, and we will read it and put it in our own words. Nothing is listed we have not read.
Explore Scotland place by place
Every place we would send a friend to: to stay, to eat, to see. Choose a part of Scotland and go from there.