The Young People's Collective presents What the Hat?!, a podcast where invited guests share their tactics, strategies, hopes, and dreams while reflecting on the many hats we choose to wear—and those we must—as creatives navigating overlapping political, social, economic, and climate crises. These conversations explore the approaches most essential for sustaining artistic and cultural practices in response to the urgent challenges of our time.

In the pilot episode, co-programmed by a committee of young people at V&A Dundee, invite Dundee grassroots heavyweights Volk Gallery and City Flower Garden Studio together, to share practical strategies, demystify creative practices and careers, and envision bold, alternative models for the creative sector’s future.

Future episodes will spotlight Dundee’s dynamic community of emerging designers, artists, curators, activists, and organisers who sustain and champion the city’s grassroots cultural ecosystem.

Hosted Bethan Ferrie & Leyla Hussain

Produced by Tana Pennock, Isla McConnachie and Mehr Un Nisa Syed

Art work by Leyla Hussain

Music by Meg Jenkins

Supported by Ryan Mcleod

Edited by Callum Mackie