What's On Scotland 24-31 Mar: BUZZCUT Festival & more

An incredible grassroots festival platforming experimental forms of live performance, Buzzcut Festival is a real community endeavour, aimed at crafting community both across theatre-makers and audiences. They return to the city over the next long weekend, from 30 March-1 April, with performances dotted around the CCA, Tramway, and beyond.

Highlights from the programme include Tink Flaherty’s Benched, a unique exploration of neurodiversity and community, and Zinzi Buchanan’s Coal Dependency, an ecological, postcolonial ballad for all bodies that experience or undergo extraction. There's also plenty of durational performances and installations for wandering through. Find the full programme on their website.

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City Halls & The Old Fruitmarket, Glasgow, 29+30 April, 3pm
The BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra’s festival of new and experimental music celebrates its tenth year next month! The line-up includes Colombian musician Lucrecia Dalt, the ‘king of sampling’ Carl Stone, pianists Aki Takahashi and Cory Smythe, European avant-garde legends Limpe Fuchs and Jérôme Noetinger, plus 6 World Premieres inspired by topics as varied as pagan rituals, Julia Kristeva, and quantum physics. Book Now and Save.

Jadu Heart
The Mash House, Edinburgh. 24 Mar, 7:30pm
This Bristol-based duo's psychedelic dream pop is generically cutting-edge and - importantly - deeply vibey. Now on their third album, their on-stage performance incorporate masks, story-based narratives and carefully crafted personas that add a rich complexity to their music. Image: Jaxon Whittington.

Hippodrome Silent Film Festival
The Hippodrome, Bo'ness. Until 26 Mar
Bringing together silent cinema and live music, HippFest is one of the most unique events on Scotland's cinematic calendar. Find them in Bo'Ness this week with Carl Th. Dreyer's Master of the House and the achingly poignant Ukrainian documentary In Spring. Image: Courtesy of Dovzhenko National Centre.

HAAi: All Night Long
The Liquid Room, Edinburgh. 25 Mar, 11pm
One of the most exciting voices in electronic music, having played the likes of Primavera, Glastonbury, Sonar, and Field Day, HAAi is heading the The Liquid Room Warehouse for the latest in Sneaky Pete's atmospherically curated club night installations. Image: Imogene Barron.

boygenius Listening Party
Assai Records, Edinburgh + Glasgow + Dundee. 28 Mar, 5pm
boygenius, the indie supergroup made up of Phoebe Bridgers, Lucy Dacus and Julien Baker, have their first full-length album out next week and Assai Records are part of a deeply wholesome global listening party at their stores in Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow. Image: boygenius / Matt Grubb.

↪ Ifeoma U. Anyaeji: Ijem nke Mmanwu m (The Journey of my Masquerade)
Tramway, Glasgow. Until 4 Jun
Nigerian artist Ifeoma U. Anyaeji creates intricate, handcrafted sculptures made from non-biodegradable plastics, transforming the troubling legacy of these global pollutants through African hair threading techniques to interrogate the ongoing haunting of industrialisation. Image: Courtesy of artist.

→ Queer Theory: We Are Birds Now
Stereo, Glasgow. 31 Mar, 7pm
To mark Trans Day of Visibility, Stereo's queer cabaret night Queer Theory returns with a banging line up, from hosting by drag legend Mystika Glamoor to music from electro punk band Comfort to drag and performance from Kat Amongst the Pigeons and Jamie McQueer.

→ Jute City Jam
Kings, Dundee. 25 Mar, 11pm
High energy disco with an Afrobeat edge comes to Dundee this weekend, as Jute City Jam continues its monthly residency at Kings. This month, find resident DJs Fontrodona and Ronan Baxter at the helm.