Music

The University’s lively and diverse music scene is tremendously popular with the local community. Audiences across all age groups flock to the lunchtime and evening concerts, jazz, opera, orchestra and choral events, not forgetting the student union’s club nights.

Exhibitions

The University’s rich programme of exhibitions including the Duncan of Jordanstone Annual Degree Show adds a real buzz to the city’s cultural quarter. From the most contemporary of art to fossils from the extraordinary eclectic museum collections, there is always something interesting on view. Last year the Cooper Gallery alone registered 21,000 visits - an average of 140 per day.

Dundee Book Prize

Scotland’s biggest book prize - the £6,000 Dundee Book Prize launched by the University and the City of Discovery Campaign - has stimulated tremendous interest locally and nationally. An impressive clutch of new novels published as a result has launched several new writing careers. For the second competition unpublished novels on the theme "discovery" are invited by 31 August 2001.

Scottish Design Awards
The School of Design picked up two awards at this year’s Scottish Design Awards which attracted over 400 entries. One of the superb new facilities at the University’s Visual Research Centre within Dundee Contemporary Arts - the Scottish Artists’ Book Centre - won the product Design Award for the two members of staff involved in its design, Roland Ashcroft and Jeanette Paul.

Cultural Quarter

The University has helped to create the ‘cultural quarter’ of the city based on the Contemporary Arts Centre and Rep Theatre. This artistic role extends beyond the local community. Nigel Johnson, School of Television and Imaging, was invited by the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford to create an entrance work for its ‘Wired Worlds’ gallery that has subsequently won the Design Year 2000 Award. Intriguingly the ‘Digital Gateway’ mimics visitors’ shapes and movements as silhouettes of pixelated points of light (see front cover).