Queer Folks’ Tales
Queer Folks’ Tales is back in February and sees another terrific line up at the Scottish Storytelling Centre!
About Queer Folks’ Tales
| 6th February 2025 | |
| 7:30pm - 9.30pm | |
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Scottish Storytelling Centre 43 - 45 High Street, Edinburgh Old Town EH1 1SR |
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| £12 (£10) | |
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Welcome to Queer Folks’ Tales, our hugely popular bi-monthly storytelling series where queer storytellers from a diverse range of backgrounds, ages and cultures around Edinburgh and Scotland share stories of LGBTQ+ lives, past, present and future. Sometimes hilarious, often moving, occasionally shocking, the mix of true and fictional stories across the year is as varied as the range of storytellers invited.
Household names feature alongside new and diverse queer storytellers from the different communities of Scotland. Many of the stories told in the Queer Folks' Tales evenings will be true stories of LGBTQ+ experience in Scotland today. Hosted by Edinburgh’s Turan Ali, who is joined in February by Fife writer/actor Michael Johnson, singer-songwriter Raveloe and drag performer Alicia Tryde.
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Turan Ali has been a producer, director and writer of BBC radio dramas and comedies for over 20 years. He’s been a stage storyteller since 2012, and a stand up since 2021. He tours internationally and has two sell out monthly storytelling shows in Vienna. Turan is the creator, producer and host of Queer Folks’ Tales for which he won the Creative Edinburgh Leadership Award 2024. QFT now tours across Scotland and is Creative Scotland funded.
Michael Johnson is an actor/writer from Glenrothes, Fife. He founded Without Compromise Theatre, a new writing company dedicated to telling stories for and represented by working class and low income people. He debuted his writing at the Edinburgh Fringe 2024 with Wish You Were Here, which has been performed around Fife and raises money for 'Change Mental Health'. Michael won the Creative Edinburgh Development Award 2024.
Raveloe (a moniker found within the pages of George Eliot's Silas Marner, about a reclusive weaver) is the project of Glasgow songwriter Kim Grant. She takes inspiration from nature, magical-realism, the spectrum of human experience and emotions, and artists like The Microphones, Big Thief, Jason Molina. She released her debut EP Notes and Dreams in Feb. 2021 and her debut album Exit Light in Nov 2023 on Olive Grove Records.
Alicia Tryde is Edinburgh’s Triple Threat, a drag performer and host of multiple shows in the city including Tryde & Tested (live vocal drag cabaret) and Asteria (monthly astrological drag show). Alicia is known for her high energy performance style, her live vocals and her penchant for camp stupidity.
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