What's On in Fife, Tayside & Central Scotland

Unearthed

Venue: St Andrews Museum

Website: www.onfife.com/exhibitions/unearthed

Unearthed – step back in time to where it all began in this latest family-friendly exhibition. Find out how Scotland was formed, which creatures roamed the land and discover the treasures left by people...

Conquer the Tower

Venue: Arbroath Signal Tower Museum

Website: www.angusalive.scot/events/conquer-the-tower-at-the-signal-tower-museum

Climb the dramatic spiral staircase and visit the tower room during a guided tower tour, find out how Light Keepers at the Signal Tower shore station communicated with the Bell Rock Lighthouse 11 miles...

Go Pond Dipping

Venue: RSPB Scotland Loch Leven

Website: www.events.rspb.org.uk

Pick up a pond dipping kit from the visitor centre between 11am-3pm for just £4.50. Each kit includes a net, shallow tray, bug pot and ID guide. There are three ponds to explore at RSPB Loch Leven, including...

The Very Hungry Caterpillar™ at Highland Wildlife Park

Venue: Highland Wildlife Park

Website: www.highlandwildlifepark.org.uk

Explore the wonders of nature with The Very Hungry Caterpillar™ at Highland Wildlife Park this summer! From 28 June - 31 August, immerse yourself in Eric Carle's delightful world. Enjoy interactive activities,...

Wallace and Gromit All Systems Go AR Trail

Venue: Dynamic Earth

Website: www.dynamicearth.org.uk

For the first time in Scotland, join beloved national treasures Wallace & Gromit for an unforgettable, interactive augmented reality experience which promises a day filled with plenty of fun and invention....

Wallace and Gromit: A Grand Day Out

Venue: Dynamic Earth

Website: www.dynamicearth.org.uk

Join Dynamic Earth every day from 30 June–31 August for a screening of ‘Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out’ in the Planetarium. Wallace and Gromit enjoy a day out with a difference when a quest to...

Find the Dragon Trail

Venue: Glamis Castle

Website: www.glamis-castle.co.uk

Visit the Gardens to seek out some mystical creatures. Head Gardener, Des Cotton, has created a special map throughout the gardens. Complete various clues to visit marked locations where you might find...

Tutankhamun Glasgow: An Immersive Experience

Venue: SEC Centre

Website: www.tutankhamunexperience.com/glasgow

Tutankhamun: The Immersive Exhibition brings Ancient Egypt to life like never before, offering a cutting-edge 90-minute journey back in time. Featuring 8-metre high video projections, VR experiences,...

Exclusive 10% discount at Fife Sports and Leisure Trust

Venue: Various venues

Website: www.fifeleisure.org.uk/activity/junior-coaching/overview

Activities include gymnastics, football, dance, tennis, athletics, multi-sports, basketball and trampolining. To book, call or visit your chosen centre and do not forget to use the code ‘Times2025’...

Family Fun at Briarlands Farm

Venue: Briarlands Farm

Website: www.briarlandsfarm.co.uk

From jumping pillows to football golf, climbing frames to go-karts. There’s a variety of things to keep your wee ones entertained! They offer tractor and trailer rides that take you behind the scenes...

Funparx Dundee - Portal to a new world

Venue: Unit 1/15 Balunie Drive, Dundee

Website: www.funparx.co.uk

This brand new and exciting Family Entertainment Park hosts an amazing combination of Ninja Courses, Inflatable Zone, Super Slides, multi-storey Soft Play and Retro Gaming Arcade for all the family to...

Kids Club Sessions

Venue: Avertical World

Website: www.averticalworld.co.uk

Whether it is a taster, birthday party or weekly club, Avertical World instructors provide a fun and safe environment to enjoy climbing. A thriving kids club (age 7+) offers weekly sessions in a range...

Red Kites Daily Feeding

Venue: Agaty Red Kites

Website: www.argatyredkites.co.uk

Enjoy a rewilding experience like no other with daily red kite feeding tours from 1.45pm. Learn the kites’ incredible history, from persecution to extinction to reintroduction and beyond from an amazing...

Scotland’s Secret Bunker

Venue: Crown Buildings, Troywood, Nr St Andrews

Website: www.secretbunker.co.uk

This amazing labyrinth, encased in 15 feet of reinforced concrete, is where central government and military commanders would have run the country had the UK been attacked and nuclear war broken out. The...

Racewell BriSCA F2 Chapman Trophy, Prostock Basics, Prostocks & Micro F2 - Turner Trophy

Venue: Cowdenbeath Racewall

Website: www.racewall.co.uk

The Racewall serves up some of the most action-packed racing you can find in the UK and is the only Stock Car track in Central Scotland where you can see both BriSCA F2 and National Saloon Stock Cars,...

Rewind Classic Festival

Venue: Knockhill Racing Circuit

Website: www.knockhill.com

The Rewind Classic Festival will not only feature stars from the 5 decades of Knockhill, but bikes from the 70s, 80s, and 90s, plus an exciting array of activities both on and off the track, that will...

Scottish Coal Carrying Championships 2025

Venue: Kelty

Website: www.scottishcoalcarryingchampionships.co.uk

The Scottish Coal Carrying Championships is a unique annual event, tracing back to the colliers of the late 1800s who raced home from the pits with bags full of "rakers". Head to Kelty to take in all the...

Mulan

Venue: Carnegie Hall

Website: www.onfife.com

Screening as part of the new Peacock Cinema Summer Junior Explorers Season at Carnegie Hall.Journey back to this mythical world, and follow a young Chinese girl who defies tradition and impersonates a...

Rainbow Run Glenrothes 2025

Venue: Gilvenbank Park

Website: www.muirhead-outreach.org.uk/event-details/rainbow-run-glenrothes

Celebrate health and happiness as you run, walk, or dance your way through the course, getting coated in all the colours of the rainbow. It’s not just a fun run, it’s a colourful celebration of life...

Steam Sundays

Venue: Lathalmond Railway Museum

Website: www.shed47.org/events

Regular steam has returned to Dunfermline for the first time in over 50 years. Travel behind the narrow-gauge steam engine Big Dave! Trains will be running half-hourly and your day ticket will let you...

2025 BriSCA F2 World Championship

Venue: Cowdenbeath Racewall

Website: www.racewall.co.uk

The BriSCA F2 World Championship (World Race Saturday) returns to the Cowdenbeath Racewall for the first time in more than 10 years where the best drivers from the UK and Mainland Europe will compete to...

Glenfest - Letham Glen Centenary Celebrations

Venue: Letham Glen

Website: www.welcometofife.com

Coming to you from the organisers of the highly successful and popular PromFest is a one-time only event in Letham Glen - GLENFEST. Featuring six local bands, a licensed bar, amazing food, craft and gift...

Blairgowrie & Rattray Highland Games 2025

Venue: Bogles Field, Essendy Road, Blairgowrie

Website: www.blairgowriehighlandgames.co.uk

The annual Games, a blend of spectacle and fun, take place on the Sunday after the first Saturday in September in beautiful Perthshire. Attractions include a community tug of war, dog show, highland dancing,...

Paws at the Palace

Venue: Scone Palace

Website: www.scone-palace.co.uk/event/paws-at-the-palace

Paws at the Palace will feature doggy fun and games, parades of different breeds, agility classes and some paw-some demonstrations. The all day event will also include food stalls (for humans and dogs),...

Sunday Storycraft

Venue: Kirkcaldy Galleries

Website: www.onfife.com/event/sunday-storytime-craft

Visit the first Sunday of every month for a drop-in session of themed crafts and stories. It’s completely free and you don’t need to book – just pop along and create something wonderful! The event...

Pirates Love Underpants

Venue: Whitehall Theatre

Website: www.leisureandculturedundee.com

Join this swashbuckling party of pirates on their quest to find the fabled Pants of Gold for the Captain's Treasure chest! Filled with music, puppetry and glittering pants of gold, arrr you ready to set...

Circus Zyair

Venue: Callender Park, Falkirk

Website: www.circus-zyair.co.uk

Fearless acrobats and daredevil stuntmen guarantee maximum thrills by risking life and limb daily for your entertainment. Everybody aged two years old and above requires a ticket to enter the circus big...

Pirates Love Underpants

Venue: Aberdeen Arts Centre

Website: www.aberdeenartscentre.com

Based on the beloved book by Claire Freedman and Ben Cort, this brand new show will have your little ones jumping for joy, roaring with laughter and squealing with excitement as the pirate party sets sail!

The Ultimate Bubble Show

Venue: Byre Theatre

Website: www.byretheatre.com

Ray Bubbles, international bubbleologist and World Record Holder, is on a mission to master the art of bubble-making and create the ultimate square bubble. This performance is suitable for all ages and...

Bowhill Highland Games

Venue: Wallsgreen Park

Website: www.bowhillhighlandgames.org

The Highland Games are held in the village of Bowhill and include a combination of sports, culture, and community through the competetitive sports of Highland Dancing, Heavy Athletics, Races, and Bagpipes....

Dundee Bus Festival

Venue: Dundee Museum of Transport

Website: www.dmoft.co.uk/event-details/dundee-bus-festival-4

Visit from 10am-4.30pm each day to see some spectacular buses, get a picture behind the wheel of a bus, and much more! A fun day out with friends and family. It is recommended to pre-purchasing your tickets,...

Science Museum: The Live Stage Show

Venue: Whitehall Theatre

Website: www.leisureandculturedundee.com

Experience the brand-new stage show from Mark Thompson Productions which will ignite your curiosity, fuel your imagination and inspire you in new and exciting ways. This family production is sure to capture...

MND Scotland Fun Run Fife 2025

Venue: Lochore Meadow Country Park

Website: https://mndscotland.org.uk/events/mnd-scotland-fun-run-fife-2025

Families, adults, children, mums, dads, colleagues, friends, and, of course, furry companions are all invited to join the fun. Tickets cost £10 each for adults, £5 for children aged 5-17 years, and...

Maths Week Scotland – Wild Maths

Venue: The R&A World Golf Museum

Website: www.worldgolfmuseum.com/whats-on

Join R&A Golf Museum for a week of activities for Maths Week Scotland. Once again they will be sharing the maths based scavenger hunt around the town. Discover facts about the people who lived here, who...

Racewall BriSCA F2, Saloon Stock Cars, 2L Banger Scottish Championship & Micro F2

Venue: Cowdenbeath Racewall

Website: www.racewall.co.uk

The Racewall serves up some of the most action-packed racing you can find in the UK and is the only Stock Car track in Central Scotland where you can see both BriSCA F2 and National Saloon Stock Cars,...

Lego Play Day - Family Drop In session

Venue: The R&A World Golf Museum

Website: www.worldgolfmuseum.com/whats-on

Enjoy some time playing with Lego, reading a book or doing some colouring in. This is a drop-in event designed for young visitors.

Swan Lake

Venue: Reid Hall

Address: Castle Street, Forfar

Website: www.angusalive.scot/events/swan-lake

Swan Lake is full of mystery and romance and has captured the imagination of generations over the years and it continues to attract worldwide audiences, young and old. A wonderful evening out and memories...

Swan Lake – Crown Ballet® Live on Tour

Venue: Adam Smith Theatre

Website: www.onfife.com

Follow the story of Odette, a princess cursed to live as a swan, and Prince Siegfried, as they battle fate, deception, and dark magic in this iconic ballet of love, mystery, and heartbreak. A magical evening...

Mark Thompson’s Spectacular Science Show

Venue: Reid Hall

Address: Castle Street, Forfar

Website: www.angusalive.scot/events/mark-thompsons-spectacular-science-show

Designed for children and adults alike, Mark’s Spectacular Science Show explores the strange and magical properties of matter with exploding elephant’s toothpaste, vortex-generating dustbins and even...

Mark Thompson's Spectacular Science Show

Venue: Adam Smith Theatre

Website: www.onfife.com/event/mark-thompsons-spectacular-science-show-ak03

Think science is boring? Think again! Mark’s Spectacular Science Show is an award-winning, interactive family show packed with explosions, laughter, and mind-blowing experiments! Perfect for children...

Sweet and Sour - The Ultimate Tribute to Olivia Rodrigo and Sabrina Carpenter

Venue: Alhambra Theatre

Website: www.alhambradunfermline.com

Get ready for an electrifying night of pop anthems, heartbreak hits, and fierce rival vibes at Sweet and Sour. Featuring a powerhouse live band and dynamic dancers, this show brings every beat and lyric...

Autumn Explorers

Venue: Highland Wildlife Park

Website: www.highlandwildlifepark.org.uk

This active programme includes visiting the amazing animals, playing themed games and taking part in a range of exciting activities whilst exploring the wonderful site in the heart of the Cairngorms National...

Princess Proms

Venue: Alhambra Theatre

Website: www.alhambradunfermline.com

Calling all Princesses and Princes, you are invited to an enchanting concert singing the magical themes from your favourite Princess movies inc. Frozen, Cinderella, Little Mermaid plus many more. The advised...

You Choose

Venue: The Webster Memorial Theatre

Website: www.angusalive.scot/events/you-choose

Based on the brilliant book by Pippa Goodhart and Nick Sharratt Nonsense Room Productions (Shark in the Park and Hairy Maclary Shows) bring you an interactive musical show for all the family. But in this...

Taylor Swift Tribute: The Eras Experience by Xenna

Venue: Rothes Halls

Website: www.onfife.com/event/taylor-swift-tribute-the-eras-experience-by-xenna-ra24

From Love Story to Fortnight, this high-energy concert celebrates all the hits, eras, and signature styles that made Taylor a global icon. With replica costumes, dancers, and flawless vocals, Xenna delivers...

Little Scare-lings at Dobbies

Venue: Dobbies Dunfermline

Website: www.dobbies.com/dunfermline

Fun and interactive with just the right amount of spookiness, this event provides the perfect opportunity to celebrate Halloween in a relaxed setting whilst enjoying some tasty food. Get ready for a ghoulishly...

Racewell BriSCA F2 Whites and Yellows Final

Venue: Cowdenbeath Racewall

Website: www.racewall.co.uk

The Racewall serves up some of the most action-packed racing you can find in the UK and is the only Stock Car track in Central Scotland where you can see both BriSCA F2 and National Saloon Stock Cars,...

The Eras Experience – Taylor Swift Tribute by Xenna

Venue: Whitehall Theatre

Website: www.leisureandculturedundee.com

Step into the unparalleled world of Taylor Swift in this enchanhted show featuring the incredible: Xenna as Taylor. A celebration of the iconic pop sensation's music, style, and unrivalled stage presence.Xenna...

The Dinosaur That Pooped

Venue: Alhambra Theatre

Website: www.alhambradunfermline.com

Adapted from the number 1 best-selling books by Tom Fletcher and Dougie Poynter, the whole family will have a poopy good time enjoying a brand, new story for the stage. Featuring new songs by Tom and Dougie,...

The Nutcracker

Venue: Alhambra Theatre

Website: www.alhambradunfermline.com

Set to Tchaikovsky’s timeless score, including the iconic Waltz of the Flowers and the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy, The Nutcracker continues to captivate audiences of all ages. It is the perfect introduction...

Fright at the Museum

Venue: Glasgow Royal Concert Hall

Website: www.childrensclassicconcerts.co.uk

Help, Owen’s lost in the museum at Halloween! Who knows who (or what!) he’ll encounter in those frightful hallways when night comes. Will the extinct animals come out to dance in the moonlight? Or...

Arties Singing Kettle - Halloween

Venue: Rothes Halls

Website: www.onfife.com/event/arties-singing-kettle-halloween-ra19

Get ready for a spooktacular singalong with Artie’s Singing Kettle this Halloween! Join in the fun with costumes, comedy, and classic songs, as Artie returns with brand-new spooky kettle clues and family...

Fright at the Museum

Venue: Usher Hall

Website: www.childrensclassicconcerts.co.uk

Help, Owen’s lost in the museum at Halloween! Who knows who (or what!) he’ll encounter in those frightful hallways when night comes. Will the extinct animals come out to dance in the moonlight? Or...

Lego Play Day - Family Drop In session

Venue: The R&A World Golf Museum

Website: www.worldgolfmuseum.com/whats-on

Enjoy some time playing with Lego, reading a book or doing some colouring in. This is a drop-in event designed for young visitors.

Live-Action and Fireworks Spectacular

Venue: Knockhill Racing Circuit

Website: www.knockhill.com

Join this unforgettable day of family fun and excitement with the annual Bonfire and Fireworks Spectacular. From thrilling motorsport action to awe-inspiring fireworks, this event has something for everyone...

The McDougalls: Halloween Party Show

Venue: Aberdeen Arts Centre

Website: www.aberdeenartscentre.com

Packed with singalong songs and ghoulish games such as The Hokey Kokey, Incy Wincy Spider, and Head Shoulders Knees and Toes, this is a wickedly entertaining day out for the whole family this October.

Aladdin

Venue: Byre Theatre

Website: www.byretheatre.com/shows/aladdin

Join Aladdin and his wonderfully daft family, the McSwankeys, as they set off on a bonkers Highland adventure in this Scottish take on the classic tale packed with peril, pals, and plenty of panto pranks.Perfect...

Pirates Love Underpants

Venue: Adam Smith Theatre

Website: www.onfife.com/event/pirates-love-underpants-ak75

Get ready to sail the seas with a crew of silly pirates who really love underpants! Join them on a big adventure as they search for the Pants of Gold to put in the Captain’s treasure chest. This show...