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Generator Projects is a non-profit, artist-run exhibition and project space in Dundee.

02/10/2026

💥 Saturday 10th October - Big Birthday Bash!

We’re rounding off an incredible week of birthday celebrations with a night of music, art and good company on Saturday 10th October, 4-10pm.

🎷🥁Much like Generator itself, the evening will be an amazing mish-mash of genres, decades and sounds. From punk to jazz and everything in between, we’ll be bringing together a selection of local musicians for an eclectic soundscape to our 30th birthday celebrations 🎶🎸

Alongside the music, MW will be joining us with an art installation. Her work will add another layer to an evening that already celebrates the creativity, energy and community that has made Generator what it is over the past three decades.

So come on down, bring your friends, jam out, have a dance and celebrate 30 years of Generator with us!

Please note it will 18+ only from 8pm onwards.

Our stellar line-up 🤩:
16:00 - Doors open
16.30-17.30 - Dominic MacKenzie
18:00-18:45 - Sunnysiders Jazzband
19:15-20:45 - Lux Lucis from Peace n Jam Dundee
21:15-22:00 - Aftrshocks
23:00 - You’re getting kicked oot!

Our Birthday Week Schedule 🎈

All events announced - see youse there 😚

01/10/2026

We’ve got your Friday Night sorted! Come join us from 6-10pm on Friday 9th October for a night of performances and engaging discussion from past committee members and friends of Generator.

The night will start with a panel discussion with past committee members to chat about their personal experience with Generator and how these inform the future of our beloved ARI ❤️‍🔥

Following this, there will be another panel discussion … with a twist … It’s a performance transcript that we stumbled upon in our archive. It’s clever, it’s quippy - don’t miss this one!

The night does not stop there - we have a plethora performance art done from Lewis Cavinue, Pegg, Saoirse Amira Anis, Luis Alcada and Mark Urban to finish Friday evening.

Can’t wait to catch youse there 😘

Our Birthday Week Schedule 🎈

One more event to announce … 🤩

30/09/2026

Our archive has been overflowing with excess posters and handouts for years, so we thought we’d do something about it! We’ve teamed up with the wonderful artist Matt Ledger (M@) for an evening of collage transformation; turning the old into something new.

Drop in any time between 4pm - 9pm on Thursday 8th October and join us in getting little cuttings of paper all over the floor and glue on your fingers ✂️🖍️ You’ll also be welcome to pilfer as many of our excess posters as you like for your bedroom wall.

Free, all materials provided.
All ages welcome, but children must be accompanied by an adult.

See you there! x

Our Birthday Week Schedule 🎈

More birthday events to be announced very soon… 😉

29/09/2026

3pm: Workshop Begins, led by Laura McSorley
5pm: Presentation Begins: Starting your own Initiatives with Lizzie Day
(Feel free to arrive in time for the workshop, or arrive at 5pm for just the presentation)

The Party as Radical Social Engagement
As part of Generator Projects’ 30th anniversary celebrations, this workshop reflects on the archive as a starting point for thinking critically about the party as a political form of community and exchange. Drawing on documentation of past Generator parties and gatherings, we will talk about what happens when artists make spaces for people to come together. What kinds of relationships, communities and forms of exchange can emerge through collective celebration?

How does the party disrupt everyday structures, create alternative forms of participation, and make space for pleasure, experimentation and collective agency? The disco ball will act as a point of departure for these discussions, a symbol of nightlife and celebration, we will use it as thinking object through which ideas of visibility, reflection, spectatorship, collectiveness and shared experience could be traced. The sparkle and fragmented reflections of a disco ball offer a way of thinking about the party not as a one-off event, but as a constellation of encounters, bodies and histories. Participants are invited to embellish small objects with mirror tile and shiny gems to create their own reflective objects. This process of making will sit alongside discussion of the archive, considering how objects can hold social histories, how celebration can function as a form of cultural practice, and how the traces of past gatherings might inform the ways we come together now. The workshop is an opportunity to look backwards through Generator’s archive while asking what the party might still make possible: as a space of connection, resistance, collective imagination and radical social engagement.

Our Birthday Week Schedule 🎈

More birthday events to be announced very soon … 😉

25/09/2026

NEXT UP FOR OUR 30TH BIRTHDAY WEEK: AN ARCHIVAL SNOOP! 🌟

Ever wondered what’s hiding in the Generator archive? Join us on Tuesday 6th of October, 6-9pm for a chance to explore three decades worth of Generator history through a curated selection of archive material.

Have a rummage and discover some of the stories behind Generator. If you’ve got your own memories, photos or materials from the past 30 years, we warmly invite you to bring them along and share them to our archive!

Come and have a snoop 🤓

Our Birthday Week Schedule 🎈

More birthday events to be announced very soon... 😉

24/09/2026

🎂 ANNOUNCING OUR FIRST EVENT FOR OUR 30TH BIRTHDAY! 🎉

We’re kicking off birthday week with a relaxed preview of our 30th birthday exhibition on Monday 5 October, 6–9pm.

Come along, have a wander and get a first look at the exhibition before the rest of our bustling birthday week gets underway 👀

See youse there x

Our Birthday Week Schedule 🎈

More birthday events to be announced very soon… 😉

18/09/2026

JOIN THE ASSOCIATES

The associate committee is an exciting opportunity for artists and anyone interested in what we do at Generator Projects to get involved! You can learn and gain experience in exhibition-making, help out with installing exciting new artworks, and assist in our archive. As well as this, we have paid opportunities for tasks such as invigilation and postering, and run associate-exclusive events for you to meet other creatively-inclined folks and have fun. It’s free, doesn’t require any regular time commitment, and no experience in art or arts organising is needed either. Just fill out our associates membership form linked on our website!

GARDEN FURNITURE PAINT PARTY

⭐Associates⭐ Come and help us revamp our outdoor space! We will be hosting an event on Saturday 26th September from 1pm, for everyone to come along and paint our garden furniture🌸. This will be a fun, relaxed opportunity to meet new people, get creative and make some new designs of your choosing that will be displayed outside our exhibition space🌈. This exclusive event is free to attend as long as you’re signed up to be an associate via our membership form. No booking required, just show up (and bring some old clothes if you can!). See you there ✨

09/09/2026

We’re very excited to announce our long-awaited 30th Birthday Programme 🥳

#1996 brings a week of workshops and events towards a continually evolving exhibition, drawing on our three decades of archive.

In light of the recent blows to the Scottish Arts sector, developing our 30th Birthday programme has given us space to reflect on labour, institutional memory and the precarious running of an artist-run initiative.

Whether you’re new to Generator or ex-committee, friend of Generator or long-time visitor - we’d love to see you on any day of the week!

A detailed programme overview will follow shortly … Keep your eyes peeled 👀 let’s take this as an opportunity to come together and uplift artist-run organisations

08/09/2026

As some of you know, Generator Projects is turning 30 this year and to mark our 3rd decade around the sun we decided we needed a fresh look. This is where Islay Yeoman / _imydesign_ came in - major thank you to Islay for our new look and logo, we are just so chuffed with it! A good omen for our upcoming birthday week 😉

Keep your eyes peeled, our birthday week events will be announced very soon …

Generator Projects’ Birthday Week: 5.10.2026 - 11.10.2026

24/08/2026

𝑶𝑼𝑹 𝒀𝑬𝑨𝑹 𝑺𝑶 𝑭𝑨𝑹 🌟

oh hey ! it’s been a hot second … our maintenance month has been keeping us busy (literally as we speak, we’re currently getting our boards RIPPED out) so we’re getting excited in preparing our 2026-2027 programming 😁 but before we get too excited we gotta have a quick reminisce on the shows and events we’ve had so far in 2026, they were too good not to so in no particular order …

and keep your eyes peeled because we’ve got some majorly cool stuff coming up since we’re turning the big 3-0 this year !!!! yes, generator is a millennial 😝

Address

25-26 Mid Wynd Industrial Estate
Dundee
DD14JG

Telephone

01382225982

Website

http://www.generatorprojects.co.uk/, https://twitter.com/GENERATORproj

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