What's on in Dumfries

The Last Journey is a photographic exhibition by Gerry Robertson, evoking the last few weeks of Burns's life from the Brow Well to his final resting place. The opening is at 7pm on the 3rd of July at the Robert Burns Centre and the exhibiton will be taking place in what used to the Bonnie Bistro. The exhibition will run from tonight until the end of September during the usual opening hours. The exhibition is kindly supported by Ottersburn, contemporary fine art picture framers. The Museum will also be revealing some new scale models. Music, nibbles and speakers will round off the night.

**JUPITER+NATION DUMFRIES** **With special opening hours for the October holidays - now also open Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 11-4.** Growing Pains is a site-specific installation by artist Lindsey Mendick set in an abandoned estate agent's office. Referencing her teenage years, Mendick has transformed the space into a haunting, immersive experience that explores the uncertainty, awkwardness, and societal expectations surrounding adolescence. Assembled on a spiralling desk that references the often cruel loop of teenagehood, Growing Pains features Alice-in-Wonderland-style ceramic dolls' houses that burst open, with teenage figures erupting from within. The work captures the surreal pressures that emerge at the threshold of adulthood, underlining the tension between a yearning for parental acceptance and the simultaneous urge to reject it. Jupiter+Nation is an ambitious off-site programme by Jupiter Artland that brings world class art to high streets across Scotland. Content warning: The supporting documentary film contains strong language, references to suicide, bullying and negative body image that some viewers might find difficult. Young people must be accompanied.

On Halloween Eve at Mossy Bottom Farm, excitement turns to dismay when the clumsy Farmer ruins the pumpkin patch. Shaun tries fixing it with science experiments, but things go wrong when a wild beast appears in the woods.

**Artists and designers love the possibilities of using and working with glass.** *We have had a long love affair with glass. It inspires us with its beauty, surprises us with its versatility, challenges us with its complex physical properties.* *Glass is performance art…from its fluidity to the way it scatters light in space.* But it is rare to find galleries hosting exhibitions devoted to these new trends. In 2024 2 Temple Place on London’s Embankment bucked the trend with a ground-breaking exhibition, *The Glass Heart*, showcasing works by leading glass artists, and receiving rave reviews. This lecture offers an in-depth introduction to the work of three very different artists, American Dale Chihuly, English James Maskrey and Ghanian Anthony Amoako Attah, all of whom have work in London’s V &A. Chihuly made the headlines in London with the V &A chandelier (2001) and his enormous boundary-pushing outdoor glass sculpture installation in Kew Gardens (2019). Maskrey not only works with artists in other disciplines, such as the Kenyan-born, Surrey-based Magdalene Odundo, to create stunning glass, but also produces outstanding work in his own right, including sensitive and quirky representations of historical events. Ghanian-born Amoako-Attah’s is inspired by Ghanian Kente textiles which he recreates using the medium of screen-printed glass. In 2022 he was Artist of the Fair at Collect, London, the leading international showcase for contemporary art and design. The lecture offers the opportunity to admire incredible skill, innovative applications of traditional and contemporary techniques, and outstanding artistic vision. It includes explanations of the techniques used and the rationale behind the works. **Dr Susan Wood** is a cultural historian and practising artist. Her PhD in German (Sheffield) and career as University Lecturer involved researching and publishing widely. She gave over 60 international conference papers on German and European culture. Her MA in German Art (Courtauld Institute) and MA in Glass (Sunderland) give her both an academic and a practical background for her talks. Guests are warmly welcomed at lectures, in person or online. Guest tickets are £10 and are available on the door, on the [TASDAG](http://www.tasdag.org.uk/) website or at [Midsteeple Box Office](http://www.dgboxoffice.co.uk/). **Tickets** - £10 – guest tickets

Meet at the Easterbrook Hall car park.

Daisy Edgar-Jones stars in this lush new adaptation of Jane Austen's classic novel. Sisters Elinor and Marianne Dashwood navigate love, uncertainty and societal pressures in the wake of their father's death.

Bring your family along on Tuesday for a night focused on engaging your children in board games

Amanda and her stepfather Martin struggle with a moral issue that divides them. Has Amanda's mother, Leslie, who is experiencing advanced dementia, lost the ability to make critical decisions in her own best interest? If so, who is responsible for making such a determination? In French and English with some subtitles in English.