LGBTQ+, Storytelling

Queer Folks' Tales

with Turan Ali, Bee Asha, Finn Brodie and Sam Lake

(Thu 10 Apr: 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 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.

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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.

Bee Asha is an Edinburgh spoken word artist, working between rap and poetry. She was in the Scottish female rap trio The Honey Farm, and co-founded the award-winning charity The Spit it Out Project. Her first EP ‘From Girl to Men’ won the SAMA’s best newcomer in 2022, and was shortlisted for BBC Introducing Scottish Act of the Year 2024. Her new album, Goodbye, Gracious was been longlisted for Scottish Album of the Year 2024.

Finn Brodie is a Glasgow based indie-folk musician who has been writing songs and playing gigs since he was 15. Now in his 20s, and having come out as trans, Brodie’s songs are packed with emotion and vulnerability, and are produced by his long-time collaborator Andy Monaghan of Frightened Rabbit. Brodie’s new work consists of intimate, bittersweet studies of identity, relationships and growing up, including his debut EP Home Run.

Sam Lake is a celebrated Edinburgh-based stand up who is fresh off a nationwide tour of his critically acclaimed show 'Aspiring DILF' & an award nominated Edinburgh Fringe Run of his new show 'Esméralda'. Sam is also a comedian and host on the podcast 'I've Had a Rosé, Let's Talk About Feelings'. He’s been seen on the TV network Dave's 'The Comedy Guide to Life', All4's 'The Joy of Missing Out', and on 'Breaking The News' (BBC Scotland).

★★★★★ 'Edinburgh's most vibrant, authentic and exciting storytelling event' (The Wee Review)
★★★★★ 'Utterly fabulous' (TheQR.co.uk)
★★★★★ (BroadwayBaby.com)

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Queer Folks' Tales is supported by Creative Scotland

• Storytelling
• £12.00
• 10 April 2025
• 120 minutes
• 19:30
• Scottish Storytelling Centre
• Netherbow Theatre
• 18+