West End Community Council meeting #dundeewestend

West End Community Council meets at 7pm tonight at the Logie & St John’s (Cross) Church Hall in Shaftesbury Terrace – all welcome!

The agenda is as follows :
WEST END  COMMUNITY  COUNCIL  MEETING
TUESDAY 11th SEPTEMBER  2018  AT  7.00PM
LOGIE  AND ST JOHN`S (CROSS)  PARISH  CHURCH  HALL
(ENTER FROM  SHAFTESBURY  TERRACE  –  OFF  BLACKNESS  AVENUE)
1.    WELCOME, INTRODUCTIONS AND APOLOGIES
2.    MINUTE OF MEETING 12TH JUNE AND  MATTERS  ARISING
3.    CORRESPONDENCE
4.    POLICE SCOTLAND UPDATE
5.    DUNDEE CULTURAL TRAIL – Russell Pepper
6.    INDEPENDENCE MARCH – AUGUST 2018
7.    PERTH ROAD UPDATE
8.    PLANNING  UPDATE
9.    WECC HIT LIST
10.  OTHER MEETINGS ATTENDED ON BEHALF OF WECC
11.  AOCB – MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC INPUT
12.  DATE  OF  NEXT  MEETING – TUESDAY 9TH OCTOBER 2018

Light refreshments will be provided.


Weekly Road Report – West End Ward #dundeewestend

DUNDEE CITY COUNCIL – WEEKLY ROAD REPORT
REPORT FOR WEST END WARD – WEEK COMMENCING MONDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2018
Brook Street – off-peak temporary traffic lights on Thursday 13 September for surfacing works.
Riverside Esplanade – off-peak nearside lane closure on Tuesday 11 September for street lighting column repair.
West Marketgait (at Police Station) – off-peak nearside lane closure on Tuesday 11 September for street lighting column repair.
V&A Opening information :
V&A Opening and Music Event – roads closed from Friday 14 September for 3 days as follows.  South Commercial Street:  Friday 14 September (10.00am) to Saturday 15 September (10.00pm); Riverside Esplanade:  Friday 14 September (10.00am) to Saturday 15 September (10.00pm); Shore Terrace and Thomson Avenue:  Friday 14 September (2.00pm) to Sunday 16 September (6.00am); Dock Street (Whitehall Crescent to Commercial Street) and Whitehall Crescent (Crichton Street to Dock Street):  Friday 14 September (3.00pm) to Saturday 15 September (7.00pm); Union Street (South Marketgait to Yeaman Shore):  Friday 14 September (3.00pm) to Saturday 15 September (7.00pm).  Riverside Esplanade nearside lane closure on Sunday 16 September.



Designed to Inspire – Comics Art Tour – today!

From the Curator of Museum Services at the University of Dundee :

Our current exhibition in the Lamb Gallery, Designed to Inspire, showcases some of the University’s amazing design collections and highlights some key areas of Dundee’s design talent. One of these areas is comics, and over the past ten years we have been building up a unique collection of original comics art to support the growing amount of teaching and research in this field.

Today – Friday 7th September at 11am – you are invited to join comics creator and PhD student Zu Dominiak for an informal guided tour of the selection of comics art included in the Designed to Inspire exhibition as well as the new permanent display of comics art which she has curated next door in the Baxter Suite.

Admission is free and there is no need to book – we hope you will be able to join us. Please meet in the Lamb Gallery.


West End Community Police Surgery #dundeewestend

The next West End community police surgery takes place tomorrow night – details below and all residents welcome :



September at the Wighton

From Sheena Wellington :

One of the Friends of Wighton’s most important relationships is with Live Music Now and we are delighted to be welcoming two of their fine young musicians for the Lunchtime Recital on Wednesday 5th September.

Graham Rorie, fiddle & mandolin, and Aidan Moodie, vocal and guitar, are two of the most promising young musicians to recently emerge from Orkney’s rich heritage of traditional music.

With a presence that’s both familiar and forward-thinking, Graham and Aidan’s playful arrangements are brought to life by a musical relationship almost a decade in the making.    The pair perform traditional tunes (both from “up home” in Orkney and further afield), self-penned numbers, and contemporary folk songs through an intimate combination of fiddle, guitar, mandolin, and voice. 

In 2015, the boys won a coveted Danny Kyle Award at Celtic Connections, also reaching the semi-finals of the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award the following year. Following this, they went on to form the four-piece folk band Gnoss – recently nominated for an MG Alba “Up And Coming” award at the 2017 Trad Awards.

“Aidan and Graham are superb musicians, not only that, they combine as a superb duo.” Folk Radio UK

The recital starts at 1.15pm – admission is free.   Donations for the excellent work of Live Music Now welcome.