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🍰🎲❤️ Cake or Dice is a board game cafe on Dundee’s Commercial Street! Come and have a look at what they’ve got on offer!

💘🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💌 Wishing all you Dundonian lovebirds, hopeless romantics, and everyone celebrating a very happy Valentine’s Day! Whether you’re spending it with your soulmate, your best mates, or just treating yourself to something special, may your day be filled with love, laughter, and plenty of sweet moments.

🚨🚨🚨 NEW: HMS Unicorn has just received nearly £800,000 in funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund for its ongoing restoration as Project Safe Haven begins to take it's next steps!

🚨🚨🚨 NEW: Dundee-born actor Brian Cox, famous for his role as Logan Roy in the hit drama Succession, is coming back to his hometown to star in a new play at the place where his career kicked off - at the Dundee Rep!

❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🤩 FUN FACT: The statue of Robert Burns by John Steell in Dundee's Albert Square is the only one of its kind in Scotland. There are three other statues of the kind in the world, in London, New York and Dunedin.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎉❤️ Our city has contributed so much to the world. Saying that Dundee is just like any other city is an understatement! We have had several knockbacks over the years but we've come out stronger! 📍 Scotland's First City 📸 Craig Doogan

❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🥮 Pehs! Glorious pehs! A new wee tradition I love to do on Dundee Day is get a peh from Clark’s, one of the most popular bakeries in the city! We are so lucky to have an iconic institution on our doorsteps! So tasty!

Update to the West End Syke balloons #Dundee #graffiti

🚨🚨🚨 MEET KACEY! I’m absolutely excited to welcome Kacey Thomson to the Dundee Culture team for work experience! Kacey, from Dundee, who is studying journalism at the University of Strathclyde, will be creating engaging feature content and social media posts during her time with Dundee Culture.

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️😍 HAPPY DUNDEE DAY! 136 years ago, Dundee became the first city in Scotland to be given city status. Queen Victoria signed a charter dated 26 January 1889 officially declaring it as one! #DundeeDay

🎆🎉🎇🥳🎆🎉 HAPPY NEW YEAR DUNDEE! WISHING YOU ALL A VERY HAPPY AND HEALTHY 2025!

❤️🥰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Next year marks 200 years since Bonnie Dundee was first written by Walter Scott. The poem, which was later adapted into a song was written in honour of John Graham of Claverhouse, Viscount Dundee, and equally refers to our bonnie town of Dundee! And it certainly is a bonnie wee place!

❤️❤️❤️ There is really a lot of newly revealed exciting projects going on at the moment! For a while, I did think progress on Dundee’s transformation had stagnated, but to have all of this revealed in the past two months is brilliant! It really is an exciting time for Dundee!

❤️🎄🥹 Absolutely wholesome to hear that Dundee’s Christmas Village has delievered strong community benefits since opening last month.

🚨🚨🚨 MAJOR NEWS: Caird Park golf course could be saved as new plans have reportedly been drawn up to save the venue from closure, the Courier has reported. Proposals include the redevelopment of both courses, a driving range alongside a new clubhouse.

🎅🎄🏭 Here’s a festive story I never knew about which I found on the old Retro Dundee blog! Back in the day, before Santa began his journey around the world delivering toys, he’d make an important stop right here in Dundee.

🎄😍❤️ Seeing Dundee city centre packed during our Christmas festivities is so wonderful to see! What a cracker of a shot from Kuljit Athwal of the Christmas Village in the City Square! 📍 City Square 📸 Kuljit Athwal

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: A major new 80s festival is being held at Slessor Gardens next year as The Human League, ABC and Big Country announced. It will be held on 26 July and tickets go on sale on Friday at 10am, the Courier reports.

😍❤️🎄 The Dundee Hooley once again put on a spectacular show! The torch parade, the 3D art models and bubbles! Absolutely fabulous! Great photos as ever from Jim Glover!

❤️😍✨ The Caird Hall. Always a beaut at Christmas! Love this amazing place! You know it’s that time of the year when the pillars are lit up! 101 Christmases and still going strong!

😅😉❤ Nature learned its lesson after the Thundersnow chaos in Dundee back in 2010, nearly 14 years ago. 📸 Met Office

🎄❤️😍 Nice to pop down to see the Christmas festivities kick off with the opening of the Christmas Village. What a step up from last year! Stalls, ferris wheel, real ice rink and much more. Had to capture Desperate Dan with it all! Open now until 5 January!

🚨🚨🚨 Dundee’s Christmas Village is NOW OPEN!

🎄🎅❤️ Christmas is coming! I can’t wait! The City Square looks absolutely gorgeous! The snow adds that extra special touch! Dundee’s Christmas Village opens this Thursday! Thank you so much to Nikki Will for sharing this with me! Check out her Instagram here: instagram.com/wills_weeworld

🎄❤️💚 Dundee's Christmas Village is taking shape in Dundee ahead of its opening tomorrow! Work has been ongoing in the City Square over the past week and we will soon be able to check out this exciting new space! Great shots from Jim Glover of the site!

😍💚💙 Broughty Castle! Utterly stunning over a bonnie aurora! That view is just breathtaking! What a brilliant capture by Paul Vinova! 📍 Broughty Castle 📸 @paul_vinova

❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🖼️ Loving this new graffiti art piece in the city’s West End! Dundee balloons from the amazing SYKE Graffiti! The style is just so amazing! 📍 West End, Dundee 🎨 SYKE Graffiti art

❤️❤️❤️ So wonderful hearing even more stories from people visiting Mills Observatory! I was hearing about the supermoon event on Friday and how many visited! I was just amazed!

Dundee Culture’s Bluesky family is growing! 400 and growing! Hello everyone! 🤩🦋🙋‍♂️

❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🌳 Hope you’re having a wonderful weekend so far Dundee! 📍 Dundee Law 📸 @dundee_in_pictures via IG (instagram.com/dundee_in_pictures)

🛍️❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Opened 45 years ago this weekend, the Keiller Centre has been a unique part of Dundee’s city centre for decades. From its distinctive architecture to the many local shops and businesses it has housed over the years, it holds a special place in the city’s history.

🚨🚨🚨 EXCLUSIVE: In an exciting collaboration, Dundee Culture has joined forces with LiveHouse Dundee to support the highly anticipated launch of the city’s largest entertainment venue.

😍😍😍 HAPPENING NOW: Mills Observatory are currently hosting a supermoon viewing event this evening. It is the last supermoon of the year!

Great to see nearly 200 followers here on Bluesky for Dundee Culture already! Welcome all! 🦋💙

❤️💙💛 It was great to see Lidl arriving in Dundee for their first stop on their Freeway Cola Christmas truck tour at Slessor Gardens! It was fab to see it starting to see it lit up and very wholesome seeing the very excited kids and their families!

🚨🚨🚨 NEW: GREAT NEWS! The proposed two storey cafe just off the Perth Road at Seabees Viewpoint has been given the green light by city planners! It’s happening! Love the look of this one! It looks gorgeous! Great designs from Andrew Black Design!

Bluesky has now officially been added to Dundee Culture's website!

Hello to @dundeeculture.bsky.social @scotlit.bsky.social @murrayp.bsky.social @byrnesong.bsky.social @edinvalefarm.bsky.social Just some of the people and bodies whose area of work, study, research etc. helps promote and embed Scotland's culture, heritage, and reputation. go.bsky.app/RK3qWix

The one thing I would love @bluesky to introduce is the return of a Moments-type platform which used to be on Twitter/X. It was a great tool to create, communicate and engage with Dundee tweets on the same subject! #bluesky

🚨🚨🚨 NEW COLUMN: Well! What can I say! Last week was full of exciting surprises for Dundee, and I am absolutely buzzing with excitement! www.dundeeculture.com/post/andrew-...

I just love #Dundee at this time of year. Give it a couple of weeks and the sun will be setting right over the river.

Come in, come in, it’s nice tae see ya! 🤩

🤩❤️ Dundee Culture has welcomed over a record breaking 11,400 new followers this year alone so far! Thank you ALL so much for your continued support! It means the world!

Dundee Culture started with one social media platform Now it has SIX. 😰😅

🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: Social Bite have just announced that they will be bringing their Festival of Kindness back to Dundee at Union Street which will feature their illuminated Christmas tree!

💓🌕 Coldside Library looks absolutely stunning! It was home to the BBC’s Dundee studio for a time. This week marks 75 years since the BBC first broadcast from their studios in the library, and 100 years broadcasting from Dundee for the first time! 📍 Coldside Library 📸 Paul Vinova

💜🐳🌊 The Tay Whale just casually looking stunning right here! Absolutely love Waterfront Place! Jim Glover captures it here wonderfully! 📍 Tay Whale 📸 Jim Glover (instagram.com/jimglover84)

Dundee Culture has arrived on Bluesky! 🦋💙