Dementia-Friendly Arts Festival Stirling

Scottish Dementia Arts Festival 2025 Stirling

25th to 27th September 2025 - SAVE THE DATE

The Deepness Dementia Arts Festival in Edinburgh is a week-long festival taking place at Macrobert Art Centre, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK4 9LA. Showcasing the very best that dementia-diagnosed creatives have to offer. There's a stigma surrounding dementia – that those who have it are somehow less capable, less able and incapable of retaining their autonomy – not true! There is so much passion, beauty and vision in the dementia community and this festival brings it all together in a real celebration that you won't want to miss.

About the Scottish Dementia Arts Festival 2025

Taking place at Macrobert Art Centre, University of Stirling, Stirling, FK4 9LA

Dementia-Friendly Arts Festival Stirling | Deepness Dementia gallery image 1

Dementia-Friendly Arts Festival Stirling | Deepness Dementia gallery image 2

Dementia-Friendly Arts Festival Stirling | Deepness Dementia gallery image 3

Dementia-Friendly Arts Festival Stirling | Deepness Dementia gallery image 4

Get Involved in our 2025 Festival

Whether you're looking to participate or looking to attend, we'd love to hear from you! Get in touch today.

01851 810 789 dawn@deepnessdementiaradio.com

Get in Touch

Directors Danced
Ron Coleman 2022

“And we watched as Directors Danced

Poetry in motion

And the members painted, sculpted and drew

And installations were made

And the children played

And the members sang and took photos

Boys will be boys as they contrived new conversations

And how everyone laughed

And weavers weaved a tapestry of tales

Songs were sung, tales were told, films were made

Women renewed our communities' divine splendour

And crafty crofters created crafted delights one more time

And a demented festival was born.”

Research

Together, we will explore the impact of participation in creative activities on experiences of agency, autonomy and mental wellbeing, for people with a lived experience of dementia and their unpaid supporters.

Participants in the project will work in group or individual creative disciplines, to explore and document their dementia stories auto-ethnographically. The disciplines on display will vary across multiple different sites. They will include but are not restricted to:

Music
Movement
Dance
Crafting
Painting
Poetry
Printing
Sculpting
Multi-media Installations

What's Happening

After the huge success of our Scottish Dementia Arts Festivals in Inverness (2023,) and Edinburgh (2024), we will be holding the third Scottish Dementia Arts Festival 2025, in Stirling. This is likely to take place in September 2025.

Check out the video below which was the trailer for our 2023 Dementia Arts Festival:

Trailer - Dementia Arts Festival 2023

Attend the Dementia Arts Festival

Deepness Dementia Arts Festival Stirling is gearing up for September 2025.

It's free to attend, so please get in touch to show your interest in taking part or coming along. Contact Dawn Irvine - dawn@deepnessdementiaradio.com

Email

Get Involved Today

Sign up to the mailing list for regular updates or get in touch to find out more about our dementia-friendly arts festival in Edinburgh today.

01851 810 789
Email Us