Present Futures
Present Futures

SATELLITE DUNDEE
10-12th SEPTEMBER 2025 

The sixth edition of “Present Futures” will see the festival move from its base at CCA in Glasgow to the city of Dundee. Over two days this satellite edition of the festival, will bring together local and international artists working at the intersection of performance, music and visual arts. Through a series of performances, talks and workshops the festival invites artists and audience to consider the complex entanglement and interdependencies of human and “other than” human as we enter collectively into precarious and unknown futures in the wake of ecological transition and crisis.


Present Futures Dundee is funded by Creative Scotland. Supported by Generator Projects, Dundee Rep, Scottish Dance Theatre and Dundee & Angus College.

Present Futures

Present Futures is an International bi-annual multi-disciplinary arts festival curated by Colette Sadler and produced by Feral. It was founded in 2016 by choreographer and multi-disciplinary artist Colette Sadler to platform cutting edge Scottish and International artists that move between performance, film, visual arts and theory.  Curatorially the festival deals with thematics such as post-humanism, artificial agencies, and speculative futures with artistic experimentation at its core.

The festival has worked in partnership with Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow (CCA), GoMa (Gallery of Modern Art), Goethe Institute, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, The Work Room and Tramway. Present Futures is committed to artist development. Since 2019 the associateship bursary has supported 8 emerging Scottish performance and visual artists to research and present their ideas within the context of the festival.

SATELLITE DUNDEE
10-12th SEPTEMBER 2025 

The sixth edition of “Present Futures” will see the festival move from its base at CCA in Glasgow to the city of Dundee. Over two days this satellite edition of the festival, will bring together local and international artists working at the intersection of performance, music and visual arts. Through a series of performances, talks and workshops the festival invites artists and audience to consider the complex entanglement and interdependencies of human and “other than” human as we enter collectively into precarious and unknown futures in the wake of ecological transition and crisis.


Present Futures Dundee is funded by Creative Scotland. Supported by Generator Projects, Dundee Rep, Scottish Dance Theatre and Dundee & Angus College.

Present Futures

Present Futures is an International bi-annual multi-disciplinary arts festival curated by Colette Sadler and produced by Feral. It was founded in 2016 by choreographer and multi-disciplinary artist Colette Sadler to platform cutting edge Scottish and International artists that move between performance, film, visual arts and theory.  Curatorially the festival deals with thematics such as post-humanism, artificial agencies, and speculative futures with artistic experimentation at its core.

The festival has worked in partnership with Centre for Contemporary Arts Glasgow (CCA), GoMa (Gallery of Modern Art), Goethe Institute, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, The Work Room and Tramway. Present Futures is committed to artist development. Since 2019 the associateship bursary has supported 8 emerging Scottish performance and visual artists to research and present their ideas within the context of the festival.