Sweet Venues

19/02/2025

BLETHER is back on the 7th o March (Calum's Birthday 🎂) and we canna wait to welcome twa special guests and oor bra audience back tae celebrate. 🎉💐

We'll be announcin oor guests in the comin weeks so get yer tickets booked 🌙

There's gonna be Scots, music and poetry, wholesome vibes, and there might be cake....

See yis there ✨

18/02/2025

Eyes looking festive at Sweet Venues at the Keiller Centre ahead of The Space Between on Thursday - where we follow Triduana on a voyage from Greece to Scotland through myth, religion and folklore...

We are both really looking forward to this (all four of us, if you count me, Monica and both of the eyes) - see you there?

15/02/2025

The Space Between is back for 2025 with something a bit special...

In the fourth century, a young woman steps onto a boat in Greece carrying the bones of a martyr. Triduana is part of a small group of missionaries determined to share the Christian faith by taking Saint Andrew's bones 'to the ends of the earth.' Her journey to the land of the Picts will take her across seas and rivers and through transformations of belief and body.

I am really excited to be working with the multitalented and very wise Monica Madas on this voyage into unseen waters and mythologies, told through story, song and puppetry.

Thursday 20 February, 7pm, in the portal to alternate universes that is Sweet Venues at the Keiller Centre... see you there 👁👁

15/02/2025

12/02/2025

Spend your Valentine’s Day with Elfie Picket Theatre and special guests Gary Robertson and Lesley Benzie for a night of heartwarming Scots poetry and performance!

🩷 Blether returns Fri 14 Feb, 7–9pm
📍 Sweet Venues, at The Keiller Centre
🎟 £10 on the door

08/02/2025

Friday the 14th o February 🩷

BLETHER is back wae twa amazin guest performers - Gary Robertson and Lesley Benzie ✨✨✨

We canna wait for a wee wholesome nicht o poetry and music and tae hear aabdy durin the open mic section 💐

What better wiy tae celebrate!! Get yer tickets on Sweet Venues or on the door for £10 💞😘🤩🥰

7-9pm in the entrance oan Chapel Street ❣️

05/02/2025

Join Lubna Kerr tomorrow for Chatterbox!

Chatterbox has received 5 star and 4 star reviews and will be touring across England very soon so see it with us before it disappears down south.

Thu 6 Feb, 7:30pm
https://dundeerep.co.uk/events/chatterbox

29/01/2025

We're affy excited to hae the award winning poet and scriever, Lesley Benzie jynin us for BLETHER oan Friday 14th o February 🥰🎉💫

A wee bit aboot Lesley ⭐

Previously shortlisted in both the International and Scots prizes in 2022, Lesley Benzie is delighted to have won Wigtown Festival’s Scots Poetry Prize 2024. Mxogyny Magazine said, There’s something of a modern day Robert Burns to Lesley – many of her poems are fiercely political, rich in social commentary, and written in Scots. She also writes in English; has 2 poetry collections, Sewn Up and Fessen/Reared; is involved in three collaborative collections, Wanderlust Women: Three Poets 2022, Extra Baggage 2023 (Seahorse Publications) and Norlan Lichts (Rymour Books). In recent years Lesley was also runner up in the McCash Prize and shortlisted for writer of the year in The Scots Language Awards.

Get alang tae BLETHER for a brilliant evening o poetry! Whit better wiy tae spend Valentine's?!! 💗

7-9
£10 tickets 😁

27/01/2025

We're pure buzzing tae announce that the legendary Dundee poet, writer and musician, Gary Robertson will be jynin us for BLETHER oan Friday the 14th o February 🙌🎉

💫 A wee bit aboot Gary 💫

Gary’s writing career began by sheer chance following his winning of the BBC reality TV show ‘SAS - Are You Tough Enough?’ A self-published book of his experience going through the programme led to writing poetry, nearly all of which was in Dundee dialect. This in turn led to 4 more books and 3 stage plays at Dundee Rep which have sold out all 47 shows. He writes all the songs for The Cundeez as well as performing lead vocals and pipes. He has appeared on TV and Radio, mostly promoting the Dundee dialect and continues to do so for the love, culture and people of his city.

BLETHER is oan the 14th o February at Sweet Venues in The Keiller Centre. Tickets are £10, 7-9pm. 🩷

We've got twa special guests, an opening set fae us and an open mic section. 😍

09/01/2025

The morra night! Get doon tae BLETHER and hae a bra night o entertainment fae the amazin and Jim Mackintosh! Storytelling, poetry and music 💕

£10 tickets, at in ✌️we canna wait for the first Blether o the year 🥰

06/01/2025

At the end o this week why no treat yirsel tae a ticket tae BLETHER 🙌 it'll be the first ane o 2025 so dinna miss it 💞

We are buzzin that we hae the award winning poet, Jim Mackintosh jynin us 🎊

A wee bit aboot Jim-

Jim Mackintosh is a poet, editor and producer, has published seven collections of poetry, the latest is We are Migrant (Seahorse, 2024), edited or co-edited four anthologies including The Darg (Drunk Muse Press, 2019) - contemporary poems celebrating the centenary of Hamish Henderson - and the critically acclaimed Beyond The Swelkie (Tippermuir Books, 2021), a celebration in poems and essays to mark the centenary of George Mackay Brown which he co-edited with Paul S Philippou.

He has undertaken several residencies including for St Johnstone FC between 2016 and 2019. He was the Makar of the Federation of Writers Scotland in 2021, the Poet in Chief of the Hampden Collection (2019-22) and the Poetry Editor of Nutmeg Magazine (2017-22). He is the current Makar of the Cateran EcoMuseum in East Perthshire and the Angus Glens.

Most recently he’s toured a musical/poetry collaborationbased on Beyond The Swelkie with musicians Duncan Chisholm and Hamish Napier and featured at various events since its publication including Celtic Connections and the Edinburgh International Book Festival 

His book The Banes o the Turas (Tippermuir Books2022) is a poetical translation of and engagement with Turas Viaggio, by Pino Mereu, the Italian poet and friend of the late Hamish Henderson. It was shortlisted for Book of the Year at the 2023 Scots Language Awards and inspired a musical collaboration with award winning musicians, premiered at Celtic Connections in 2024 and now touring Scotland. 

In October, 2024 he was awarded Scots Writer of the Year at Scots Language Awards.

So get alang it's gonna be a bra night!💖

Tickets £10 at Sweet Venues in The Keiller Centre ✨✌️

7pm, Friday 10th o Jan 🩷🩷🩷

13/12/2024

🎄🎵On the 13th of December, Sweet Venues brings to you…
with horror in the dark!🎵🎄

The sensation Are You Feart O’ The Dark is back with a very bleak Christmas indeed…

Come sit down, let the lights go out, and let your imagination take over...

Three immersive horror short stories, plus a brand new tale of festive fear, all performed in darkness.

Witness how Scots do horror, and bring a spare pair...

Darkness falls at 19:30.

Tickets available now from the link in the bio, or pop on in ahead of the show and join us by picking up a ticket on the door!

11/12/2024

Just a wee bit of last minute, entirely non-panicked prep. 😰 Dicebreaker: A Christmas D&D Adventure kicks off TONIGHT at 7:30 pm. Tickets are still available, so buy yours in advance, or take your chances on the door!

It's gonna be a riot. We can't wait to see yies. ❄️

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📆: 11th of December
⏰: 7:30pm
🎟️: dicebreakerlive.co.uk

10/12/2024

🎄🎵On the 12th of December, Sweet Venues brings to you…
telling stories!🎵🎄

As the year turns towards its darkest point, patterns emerge from the shadows. Stones mark time across seasons and centuries, hold the spirits of transformed creatures, and only sometimes use all this ancient wisdom to mess with our minds…

Join storyteller Erin Farley for tales of standing stones and sacred landscapes from Angus and Orkney, and trust that the light will return.

Tickets available now from the link in the bio, or pop on in ahead of the show and join us by picking up a ticket on the door!

09/12/2024

🎄🎵On the 11th of December, Sweet Venues brings to you…
4 comics rolling D20!🎵🎄

Pull up a chair and let the fabulous take you on a festive adventure beyond your imaginings…and beyond their poor DMs patience!

A DnD quest for all times (in 60 minutes), featuring , , .boii.redman, and Luis Alçada. Dicebreaker are bringing the reason for the season - big swords, dragons, and bards singing songs about them!*

Tickets available now from the link in the bio, or roll on in ahead of the show and grab a ticket on the door!

*We may have not entirely understood the reason for the season…

06/12/2024

Yuletide is in full swing for December! Join us for role playing comedy mayhem, storytelling for the long nights, and uniquely Scottish horror to make you pull your duvet a little higher up in the cold…

Dicebreaker: A Christmas D&D Adventure brings the laughs to the dungeon as they return for a festive adventure after their sell-out show!
19:30, 11th of December

the space between: iii. stone and light - join for a wintry volume of our regular storytelling sessions. Traditional tales from the darker wilds of Scotland and beyond…
19:00, 12th of December

Are You Feart O’ the Dark? We all like a good scary story, but can you make it through an hour of horrors completely in the dark..? Live sound effects and full performances will take you to the edge of terror and into the blackest of dreads… All with new tales for the festive season after their smash run !

Let’s make a magical Christmas with live theatre !

Tickets available now from the link in the bio!