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What's On

There’s always something happening at the MAXwell Centre, and everyone’s welcome! From indoor activities to outdoor gatherings in our beautiful community garden and Hilltown Park, all our events are free to enjoy.

Download our weekly and monthly timetables below, or explore our current and past events to see what’s happening. We’d love to see you soon!

​Upcoming Events

Past Events

  • Plant Dyes Workshop & Big Grow BBQ
    Plant Dyes Workshop & Big Grow BBQ
    Dundee
    21 Aug 2025, 17:00 – 19:30
    Dundee, Carnegie St, Dundee DD3 7EW, UK
    Join Jek McAllister and Grow Dundee network friends to experiment with plant dyes and the best grilled veg you've every tried! Many of Dundee's community gardens have been growing plants for dying this year through a project she is leading on for the V&A Garden Futures exhibition.
  • WORKSHOP: Sun Printing & Zine Making in the garden
    WORKSHOP: Sun Printing & Zine Making in the garden
    Dundee
    18 Aug 2025, 15:00 – 17:00
    Dundee, Carnegie St, Dundee DD3 7EW, UK
    Join Manuela for a creative and informative workshop where you will identify garden plants and make sun prints of these (cyanotypes) - learn one of the oldest forms of photography and take home prints or zine made by you and nature!
  • WORKSHOP: Fermentation with garden vegetables
    WORKSHOP: Fermentation with garden vegetables
    Dundee
    12 Aug 2025, 15:00 – 16:30
    Dundee, Carnegie St, Dundee DD3 7EW, UK
    Learn how to create your own sauerkraut, lacto-fermented pickles, and preserves, using nothing more than vegetables, salt, and time! We will discuss the basic ratios, timelines, and best vegetables to use to create this ancient & gut-healthy form of pickle. Take home the know how and a jar or two!
  • Music & Art with Nature
    Music & Art with Nature
    Dundee
    08 Aug 2025, 15:00 – 16:30
    Dundee, Carnegie St, Dundee DD3 7EW, UK
    Be Inspired and have a go! Nature has inspired numerous visual artists as well as musicians throughout the history. It is well-known that spending time in nature contributes to physical and mental health. Join Karmen to see how nature inspires our creativity & art.
  • Hilltown Litter Pick & Wildlife Walk (1)
    Hilltown Litter Pick & Wildlife Walk (1)
    Dundee
    04 Aug 2025, 12:30 – 14:00
    Dundee, Carnegie St, Dundee DD3 7EW, UK
    Join Dundee Litter Pickers and Maxwell team to help litter pick our lovely Hilltown Park and also collect some data on which plants and animals we find.
  • Family Workshop: Make your fairy and toadstool garden
    Family Workshop: Make your fairy and toadstool garden
    Dundee
    31 Jul 2025, 14:00 – 16:00
    Dundee, Carnegie St, Dundee DD3 7EW, UK
    Join our garden designer Nicky Burke and Toadstool Trail artist Suzanne Scott for a very special workshop where you can learn about plants, how to care for them and let your imagination run wild! Make your own little fairy garden and find the hidden toadstools!
  • Plant Swap
    Plant Swap
    Dundee
    26 Jul 2025, 11:00 – 13:00
    Dundee, Carnegie St, Dundee DD3 7EW, UK
    We have SO many lovely seedlings, seeds and plants to swap or give away. Enjoy the garden and our Maxwell Youth Council's Bake Sale
  • Workshop: Summer pruning of fruit trees
    Workshop: Summer pruning of fruit trees
    Dundee
    22 Jul 2025, 14:00 – 15:30
    Dundee, Carnegie St, Dundee DD3 7EW, UK
    Join Nicola to do a pruning tour of our garden and learn how to make the right cuts this time of the year to maximise fruiting.
  • Herbal Remedies from the Garden - Make a botanical drink for a Calm Summer
    Herbal Remedies from the Garden - Make a botanical drink for a Calm Summer
    Dundee
    16 Jul 2025, 11:00 – 13:00
    Dundee, Carnegie St, Dundee DD3 7EW, UK
    Would you like to learn about how to use herbs that are easy to grow in your garden and can support your Nervous System? Herbalist Rosy Rose will show us each plant and purpose in the garden and we'll make a syrup with lavender or linden.
  • Plant Dyes Workshop - with Grow Dundee
    Plant Dyes Workshop - with Grow Dundee
    Dundee
    15 Jul 2025, 17:00 – 19:30
    Dundee, Carnegie St, Dundee DD3 7EW, UK
    Join Jek McAllister and Grow Dundee network friends to experiment with plant dyes. Many of Dundee's community gardens have been growing plants for dying this year through a project she is leading on for the V&A Garden Futures exhibition.
  • Garden Pizza Party & Toadstool Trail
    Garden Pizza Party & Toadstool Trail
    Dundee
    10 Jul 2025, 17:30 – 19:00
    Dundee, Carnegie St, Dundee DD3 7EW, UK
    Join us for a delicious and playful pizza party - we'll be trying out different veg fruit and herbs on our pizzas and raising funds for a new pizza oven for the garden so everyone can enjoy with us! Food, play, garden tour and fun Toadstool Trail garden with @WhimsicalLush & PlayfulGreenPlanet
  • Hilltown Litter Pick & Wildlife Walk
    Hilltown Litter Pick & Wildlife Walk
    Dundee
    07 Jul 2025, 12:30 – 14:00
    Dundee, Hilltown Park Dundee
    Join Dundee Litter Pickers and Maxwell team to help litter pick our lovely Hilltown Park and also collect some data with i-naturalist on which plants and animals we find.
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