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12/02/2026

Make this Valentine's weekend about community, not capitalism! As artist Areej Kaoud writes, "Resistance is the deepest form of love" ✊♥️

Do you have any other events or ideas for practicing radical love this weekend – and every following one? Drop them below! 👇

05/02/2026

🗞️ NEW on the Take One Action blog: sharing our findings from our 'How Do You Make a Radical Social Centre' event in December of last year!

Missed the event, or want a recap – including of the ten international case studies of social centres we looked at? Head to our blog for all that good stuff! 🤩 https://www.takeoneaction.org.uk/2026/01/imagining-a-radical-social-centre-for-edinburgh/

What would YOU want to see in a radical social centre in Edinburgh? Drop a line below 👇

04/02/2026

“A wonderfully absorbing and moving family drama” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

Experience Minari’s beautiful exploration of hope and resilience in Kyle of Lochalsh on Sat 21 Feb!

🎬 Minari + Their Accounts
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📆 Saturday 21 Feb, 7-9:30pm
🎤 Q&A with filmmaker

Curated by Arlo from Youth Board.

27/01/2026

🌾 Two stories of rural life through different lenses: 'Minari' + 'Their Accounts'

📍 Skye Bridge Studios, Kyle of Lochalsh

📆 Saturday 21 February, 7-9:30pm

Minari (2020) follows a Korean-American family pursuing their dreams on a small Arkansas farm - a beautiful meditation on home, family, and what we plant for the future.

Paired with 'Their Accounts' (Hannah Hunter, 2024), a locally-rooted short blending archive and animation to capture Ardnamurchan's story through its young voices.

Stay for a conversation with filmmaker Hannah Hunter after the screening, hosted by Arlo from Eden Court Theatre and Cinema Youth Board.

06/11/2025

🌻Community amidst chaos: Programmed by five wonderful young people from Hot Chocolate Trust Hot Chocolate Trust ! Following delicious food and a screening of Knit’s Island, the young people will lead us in cosy conversation around the importance of nurturing community in both virtual and physical spaces.

📅Sun 9 Nov, 3pm
📍Hot Chocolate Trust, The Steeple Church
🎟️Tickets here: takeoneaction.org.uk/event/knits-island-dundee/
💬Descriptive subtitles

🎬Knit’s Island: Three curious film-makers step virtually into a post-apocalyptic online game, and learn from other players how survivalist gameplay can create a sense of community. The resulting film documents how a virtual reality where survival is contingent on cooperation can displace players’ real-life feelings of loneliness and hopelessness in an ever-increasingly individualistic world. Directed by Ekiem Barbier, Quentin L’Helgoualc’h, Guilhem Causse.

🏡Hot Chocolate Trust is a Youth Work organisation, based in Dundee city centre. It is open to all young people without prejudice or distinction of religion, race, culture, health, disability, gender, hair colour, sexuality or politics. The only restrictions are of age: secondary school age up to 21 yrs old.

05/11/2025

Alyssa from Living Rent Dundee shares a little bit about 'Red Skirts on Clydeside', screening with a workshop by Living Rent connecting the radical spirit of the Glasgow Rent Strike to parallel, lesser-known strikes in Dundee too! ✊🏡

Join us at 3pm on Saturday 8 November at Steps Theatre in Dundee for an exciting afternoon diving into Scottish radical histories – and how we learn and build from them for a more just housing system starting right here on our doorsteps.

🎟️ Book your tickets here! takeoneaction.org.uk/event/red-skirts-on-clydeside-dundee/

04/11/2025

Here's what you've had to say about our Real Utopias film festivals so far in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Inverness 💬

We're overjoyed that our festival has been such a source of hope, inspiration, and connection for you! 🥹 If that sounds like more of what you need, there's still time to catch Real Utopias for our final festival weekend this year in Dundee: don't miss out!

Tickets and full programme here 🎟️: https://www.takeoneaction.org.uk/events/?regions%5Bdundee-and-angus%5D=on&category%5Btoa-events%5D=on

📸 Kat Gollock & Ingrid Mur

03/11/2025

🏳️‍⚧️ Q***r joy in action: Join us for NIÑXS in Dundee + poetry and conversation with Leyla Hussain!

📆 Sat 8 Nov, 6pm
📍Steps Theatre Dundee
🎟️ Tickets: https://www.takeoneaction.org.uk/event/ninxs-dundee/
💬 Descriptive subtitles + live captions

🎬 NIÑXS: In the rural small town of Tepoztlán, Mexico, fifteen-year-old Karla gets to tell her own coming-of-age story as she navigates the joys and complexities of trans adolescence. Irresistibly warm and funny, NIÑXS bursts the seams of documentary convention by dissolving the distance between filmmaker and subject.

✨ Leyla Hussain (she/her) is a Scottish-Pakistani Creative Practitioner from Dundee and is based there. Hussain is an installation artist and writer, currently specialising in making ambient soundscapes and film, metalwork sculpture, and graphic markmaking inspired by Arabic and Urdu calligraphy and esoteric symbols. She creates works and environments that have a presence, a sense of catharsis, grief and yearning. By exploring the intersections of religion and the human condition, she creates work with a sense of discomfort and reflection.

29/10/2025

💌 NIÑXS in Dundee!

Join us at Steps Theatre on 8 November for NIÑXS – a stunningly warm, laugh-out-loud coming-of-age documentary where trans youth get to tell their own stories. 🏳️‍⚧️

Grasping with both hands the joy, tenderness and tenacity that jumps through the screen, stay on after the screening for poetry readings and reflections from artist Leyla Hussain to celebrate trans life lived to its fullest!

🎟️ takeoneaction.org.uk/event/ninxs-dundee/

ACCESS:
- All tickets pay-what-you-can (£0-20)
- The film will be presented with descriptive subtitles and the introduction and conversation will have live captions.
- Audience access fund available to support travel and childcare for folk who need it.

28/10/2025

🏠 Red Skirts on Clydeside, programmed by Living Rent!

👉 Sat 8 November | 3pm at Steps Theatre

It's been such a joy partnering with Living Rent across our festivals this year with 'Red Skirts on Clydeside'. Don't miss your last chance to catch it with us in Dundee with Living Rent Dundee. Here's what audiences in Edinburgh, Glasgow, and Inverness have had to say so far!

💬 "I am so grateful for the rich radical history that has been bestowed upon us."

💬 "I was inspired by Weegie tenants!"

💬 "Learn from history. Throw enemies in the midden."

💬 "The work these women did must not be lost."

🎟️ takeoneaction.org.uk/event/red-skirts-on-clydeside-dundee/

27/10/2025

🎮 KNIT'S ISLAND
👉 Sun 9 November | 3pm at Hot Chocolate

We're delighted to have a film and post-screening workshop curated by the young people at Hot Chocolate Trust as part of our inaugural Dundee festival! 🤩

In 'Knit's Island', three curious film-makers step virtually into post-apocalyptic survivalist game DayZ, and learn from other players how cooperative gameplay can create a sense of community.

From Hot Chocolate: "You may have noticed that these are increasingly polarised and pressurised times - politically, societally, mentally, digitally, economically, and interpersonally! Come in out of the storm for a while and join some of the young people from Hot Chocolate Trust as they simply share space to talk together, play together, make together, eat together, dream together. Share thoughts on the film, make new friends from an audience of strangers, and explore together how we might create some community amidst the chaos!"

🔗Book your tickets here: takeoneaction.org.uk/event/knits-island-dundee/

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