Queer Folks' Tales
with Turan Ali, Chris Weir, Harry Josephine Giles & Sarah Grant (Part of Edinburgh Tradfest)
Welcome to Queer Folks’ Tales, a new storytelling series where queer storytellers from a diverse range of backgrounds, ages and cultures share stories of LGBTQ+ lives, past and present.
Sometimes hilarious, often moving, occasionally shocking, the mix of stories across the year will be as varied as the range of storytellers we are inviting. Household names will feature alongside new and diverse queer storytellers from the different communities of Scotland and many of the stories told in the Queer Folks’ Tales evenings will be true stories of LGBTQ+ experience in Scotland today.
Our second session features Turan Ali, Chris Weir, Harry Josephine Giles & Sarah Grant.
Turan Ali has been producing, directing and writing BBC Radio dramas and comedies for over 20 years. He has also been telling stories of queer lives and experiences on stage since 2012, including his Edinburgh Fringe one man show Don't Frighten the Straights (2019) which toured to Vienna, Amsterdam and the King's Head Theatre in London. His new one man show, An International Slut will be coming to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2022.
Chris Weir is an Edinburgh local and a rising star on the Scottish comedy scene. His stand-up has seen him reach the semi-finals of So You Think You’re Funny, the final of Scottish Comedian of the Year, and nominated Best Newcomer at the Scottish Comedy Awards. This year, Chris also worked at a gay sauna. All these feature in his stories.
Sarah Grant is a writer, filmmaker, performer and poet from Glasgow. She is a BAFTA Scotland New Talent Award nominee, Royal Television Society Award winner and Sky Academy Arts Scholar. Her debut spoken word show, 'Spark', a piece about witches, heritage, empowerment and rage, won Best Spoken Word show at the 2021 Saboteur Awards. Her most recent show, 'Oracles', a piece about all the things we learn from our grandmothers, was commissioned for the Scottish International Storytelling Festival 2021. All Sarah's stories aim to be honest, feminist and fearless.
Harry Josephine Giles is a writer and performer from Orkney, now living in Leith. She has lived on four islands, each larger than the last. Harry Josephine is a unique and engaging performer, whose work generally happens in the crunchy places where performance and politics get muddled up. Their verse novel Deep Wheel Orcadia came out with Picador in October 2021, and they have a PhD in Creative Writing from Stirling University. Their multimedia poetry show Drone debuted in the Made in Scotland Showcase at the 2019 Edinburgh Fringe and toured internationally.
Queer Folks’ Tales will run bi-monthly across 2022 as part of the Scottish Storytelling Centre's celebrations for Scotland’s Year of Stories 2022 and is supported by the City of Edinburgh Council’s Diversity & Inclusion Fund.
Part of Edinburgh Tradfest.
A booking fee of £1.25 is charged per transaction for online and phone bookings.
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This event is being sold at full capacity without social distancing. Audiences are requested to wear masks at all times, unless medically exempt.
