LGBTQ+, Storytelling

Queer Folks' Tales

with Turan Ali, Josie Duncan, Ruth Hunter & Theo Seddon

(Thu 12 Jun: 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. He’s 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.

Josie Duncan is an acclaimed singer-songwriter who won the BBC Radio 2 Young Folk Award (2017). She has performed at many festivals including Celtic Colours (Canada), National Celtic Festival (Australia), Tönder (Denmark), Hebridean Celtic Festival, Sidmouth Festival and Glastonbury, plus Scottish folk music community Bogha-frois: Queer Voices in Folk. She tours throughout Scotland and beyond, beautifully combining music and story in her songs.

Ruth Hunter is an Irish comedian living in Glasgow. Recent regional finalist of the prestigious BBC New Comedy award, Ruth regularly supports Fern Brady, Alison Spittle, Helen Bauer and Kiri Pritchard-McLean. First runner-up in the So You Think You're Funny award and recipient of the Luke Rollason Memorial Bursary. "Literate, intelligent, off-kilter and kinky" (British Comedy Guide).

Theo Seddon is a comedian, actor and writer working in theatre making silly shows about not very silly topics. He uses comedy to deconstruct masculinity, gender and heteronormativity, informed by his experiences as a transgender man. He was a Discover Artist at the National Theatre of Scotland, and Sanctuary Queer Arts 'Newer Artist' in 2021. His current writing responds to the negative landscape for transgender people in 2025.

★★★★★ '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
• £14.00
• 12 June 2025
• 120 minutes
• 19:30
• Scottish Storytelling Centre
• Netherbow Theatre
• 18+
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  This event may contain strong language/swearing. Some stories may have content which is sensitive or triggering to audiences.