Hearth Fire Sessions
with Morvern Graham, Nell Phoenix, Kate Young and Dougie Mackay
(Thu 20 Mar: 7.30pm)
Join us on World Storytelling Day for the first Hearth Fire Session of 2025, an eclectic night of ancient myth, contemporary storytelling, post-folk music, and physical artistry. Steeped in the traditions of Scottish storytelling, we evoke the warm atmosphere of peat-smoked hearthsides and ceilidh house revelry, presenting timeless motifs relevant to a discerning modern audience.
Join host Dougie Mackay as he invites a different selection of Scotland’s finest storytellers, songwriters, musicians, and performing artists to each bi-monthly Hearth Fire Session to create an innovative showcase of Scotland’s contemporary culture.
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March's session features storyteller and visual designer Morvern Graham, London based storyteller Nell Phoenix and musician Kate Young.
Morvern Graham is a multi-award winning visual designer and storyteller, currently living and working in Scotland. Her work seeks to bring visual and aural storytelling practices back into our busy, modern day lives. Championing the use of purposeful, traditional crafts within her illustration and printmaking, Morvern’s work is closely connected to the themes of nature, heritage and folklore.
Nell Phoenix is Artistic Director of StoryNight at Torriano, Kentish Town's thriving performance storytelling club for adults in London. Nell is a passionate promoter of storytelling as a contemporary performance art and has spent her storytelling career performing professionally all over the world as well as teaching storytelling and improvisation to aspiring storytellers.
Kate Young has emerged as one Scotland’s most innovative composers and musicians. She is driven by the exploration of new sounds found in traditional musics around the globe, which feed into her compositional world. As a musician, Kate combines voice with fiddle-playing techniques to conjure intriguing soundscapes as she navigates her way across musical genres.
Dougie Mackay hails from the Scottish Highlands, from a lineage of natural storytellers. He is fascinated by the wild northern tales of Scotland, Scandinavia, Ireland and the Baltics, with a practice steeped in group-work facilitation and storytelling as a tool for development, connection and empowerment. He has been telling stories professionally for over 10 years and has developed successful long-form shows including Animate Lands and A Wolf Shall Devour the Sun. He co-curates and hosts Hearth Fire Sessions throughout the year.
A booking fee of £1.50 is charged per transaction. If you are a Scottish Storytelling Centre Supporter please add a full price ticket to the basket and your discount will apply at checkout.
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Storytelling
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£12.00 -
20 March 2025 -
120 minutes -
19:30 -
Scottish Storytelling Centre -
Netherbow Theatre -
14+
