These are a number of the most partaking, enlightening and imaginatively advised group tales occasions going down this September and October as a part of Scotland’s Yr of Tales. They completely exemplify the depth and vary of the programme – and the range of voices telling the tales that matter to them.
So come alongside and discover out extra about your fellow Scots and Scotland’s wealthy storytelling heritage.
From a tree celebration occasion paying tribute to Beauly’s 800-year-old Wych Elm, to a full-blown, joyous cabaret utilizing drag, opera and pole-dancing to inform Scottish black and queer tales – these are the occasions that may spark your creativeness, spark conversations and get you on the market having fun with your self!
Browse the group tales programme and uncover extra intriguing occasions at visitscotland.com/communityevents
Journey to the Isles: Marjory Kennedy-Fraser
Touring occasion: 23 Sep – Tiree, 25 Sep – Dundee , 27 Sep – Mull, 13 Oct – Eigg, 14 Oct – Skye, 15 Oct – Lewis, 17 Oct – Inverness
Costs differ
A mesmerising glimpse into the landscapes, folktales and songs that impressed one among Scotland’s nice early collectors of Conventional Arts.
Marjory Kennedy-Fraser started gathering Hebridean songs in 1905, fired by a need to protect and have a good time the musical riches of the islands’ individuals. A screening of two disarming movies, made by Kennedy-Fraser herself, supplies a snapshot of her work and the tradition of the individuals she devoted her life to finding out, all of the whereas revealing the heat of her character and her ardour for the rugged fantastic thing about the Hebrides.
Becoming a member of audiences on this journey to the Isles are acclaimed reside performers: Marion Kenny, one among Scotland’s main storytellers, and award-winning musician, singer and songwriter Mairi Campbell. Weaving collectively phrases, music and track alongside Kennedy-Fraser’s enchanting movies, Marion and Mairi will conjure the sounds and landscapes captured by this key determine of Scotland’s Celtic Revival.
This Hippodrome Silent Movie Pageant commissioned occasion will tour to seven Scottish venues, culminating in Inverness.
Guardian of the Gateway: Beauly Wych Elm Celebration
24 September (1-4pm), Beauly Priory
Free
A particular occasion throughout the beautiful Beauly Priory to have a good time an historic Wych Elm tree throughout the Autumn Equinox with tales, meals and artwork.
Beauly’s Wych Elm – practically 800 years previous and believed to be the oldest Wych Elm in Europe – is unfortunately dying of Dutch Elm Illness and had its final buds in 2021. This occasion will deliver collectively the local people with artists, writers and partnership organisations to share tales and analysis concerning the Wych Elm – exploring the implications of local weather change and ecological loss within the Highlands, in addition to celebrating our relationships with this historic native tree. The celebration will embrace a studying of a brand new commissioned story from Highland author Mandy Haggith, insights from tree well being consultants Phil Baarda (NatureScot) and Max Coleman (Royal Botanic Backyard Edinburgh), and household artwork actions with artist Sadie Stoddart..
Scotland’s Yr of Tales Live performance: The Singing Land
25 September (3pm), The MacRobert Corridor, Tarland
Adults £5 / Below-16s £0
Be part of Tarland Meals and Music Pageant for this rousing live performance celebrating the group, language and cultural identification of the North East of Scotland by way of music, songs and tales.
A bunch of gifted creatives – multi-instrumentalists Hamish Napier and Arthur Coates, fiddler Paul Anderson, Scots singer and fiddler Shona Donaldson, and poet and conventional ballad singer Sheena Blackhall – will carry out native music and track with accompanying tales particular to Deeside and the North East and the fishing, farming and travelling communities who've lived and labored within the space.
Hear previous tales and folklore in addition to new items which had been written as a part of The Dee and Don Ceilidh ‘Collective Our Dwelling Rivers and Glens’ Challenge and impressed by native individuals, nature, locations and myths.
Tanuki Tales – tales from Japan and past
1 & 8 October, The Japanese Backyard at Cowden, Greenback
£8.50 (value consists of backyard entry)
To have a good time Scotland’s Yr of Tales, the Japanese Backyard at Cowden – a surprising panorama, nestled beneath the Ochil Hills – has been exploring legendary tales linked to its historical past and that of Ella Christie, the Backyard’s creator, who was a eager traveller.
Storyteller Lindsey Gibb will paint a vivid image of the international locations Ella travelled to by telling the tales she might need heard as she rode down dusty tracks, sailed the seas and explored the sights. Hear concerning the Tanuki – a Japanese legendary creature – and different tales from world wide. Appropriate for age 8+. Welcome and heat offered!
Shades: A Black Queer Storytelling Cabaret
15 October (6-7pm), Fruitmarket, Edinburgh
Pay What You Can: Free to £10
A sensational storytelling cabaret of drag, opera, pole dancing and poetry, celebrating queer and Black tales from award-winning performers.
Your fabulous host for the night is Rhys’ Items – rapping drag queen extraordinaire and one-person cabaret troupe providing you with the whole lot that’ll make you go ‘Woah! Wow! What?!’. Winner of LipSync1000 and QX Journal Finest Selection Cabaret Act 2019, they're probably the most important cabaret artists within the UK.
Rhys' Items can be joined by Andrea Baker, a mezzo soprano opera singer identified for her ‘stupendous and heartrending’ expertise who will share tales and songs of the African American feminine voice, Briana Pegado – placing but delicate poet and motion artist, and Kheanna Walker – dazzling and gravity-defying pole dancer.
Should you fancy distinctive storytelling views, unmatched ability and a great dose of dazzle that is one for you.
Binnorie: Fiddles and Girls’s Tales
27 October (7.30pm-10.30pm), St Cecilia’s Corridor, Edinburgh
Grownup £10/Conc £8/Pupil/unwaged £6
St Cecilia’s Corridor presents a story of three fiddles and the ladies’s tales they advised at this night efficiency of music and storytelling.
This intimate efficiency ‘within the spherical’ on the first purpose-built live performance corridor in Scotland will function fiddle participant Marie Fielding and storyteller Beverley Bryant. Marie will play fiddle tunes by James Hogg, William Marshall and James Scott Skinner on the musicians’ unique devices as Beverley tells the tales of the forgotten girls to whom these tunes had been devoted. Who're the ladies in these tune titles and what have we forgotten about their previous?
She Settles within the Shields: 10 years on
30 October (2-3.30pm), Pollokshields Burgh Corridor, Glasgow
Free
Take pleasure in an afternoon tea listening to generational tales of migrant girls, referring to the themes of tradition, traditions, values, identification, cross-cultural understanding and extra.
‘She Settles within the Shields’ is an oral historical past guide printed in 2011 by Glasgow Girls’s Library to acknowledge and have a good time the lives of migrant girls who settled in Pollokshields, a vibrant space of Glasgow. This story café occasion, hosted 10 years after the guide’s publication, supplies a novel alternative to listen to the tales of 2nd and third era migrant girls within the space by way of a collection of movie clips, intergenerational storytelling and efficiency.
This occasion is for ladies solely (inclusive of Trans and Intersex girls, in addition to non-binary and gender fluid people who find themselves snug in an area that centres the expertise of girls).
Discover out extra about Scotland’s Yr of Tales at visitscotland.com/tales