LGBTQ+, Storytelling

Queer Folks' Tales

with Turan Ali, RJ Hunter, Josie Duncan and Emma Lynne Harley

(Thu 7 Dec: 7:30pm)

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 we invite.

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, joined in December by award-winning poet-comedian RJ Hunter, talented writer-performer Emma Lynne Harley and acclaimed singer-songwriter Josie Duncan.

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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, and more recently as a stand up. His shows have toured internationally and he has two sell out monthly storytelling shows in Vienna. He is the host and producer of Queer Folks’ Tales.

Emma Lynne Harley is a queer, working-class, multidisciplinary theatre maker, director, writer and performer who makes vibrant cross-genre work. They are a Lyceum L20 alum, and co-director of award-winning Siren Theatre Company with shows including TXT ME: Cyber Showcase and Online Protest, Walking on Eggshells. They perform regularly as a cabaret artist around Scotland.

RJ Hunter (they/she) is an Edinburgh-based spoken-word artist and comedian who is the Loud Poets Grand Slam Champion 2023. Known for fast-paced performances and work that balances the political with the joyfully stupid, Hunter's first collection 'Flustercuck' was released in June 2023.

Josie Duncan is a talented and captivating singer-songwriter who won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award (2017), Her songs have been showcased at Celtic Colours (Canada), National Celtic Festival Australia, Tönder (Denmark) and festivals closer to home Hebridean Celtic Festival Opening Concert & Sidmouth Festival, plus Scottish folk music community Bogha-frois: Queer Voices in Folk.