Folklore, Music, Storytelling

Moonspinners

Strawberry Moon (Beltane)

(Wed 11 June: 7:30pm)

The moon begins to form as the moon spinners wash their wool in the sea, winding it again into a white ball in the sky and re-creating the phases and cycles that guide our seasons, and our stories...

Join us for our quarterly series of full-moon celebrations, with live storytelling, music and a rotating programme of incredible performers. Following the Celtic Wheel of the Year (the quarterly seasons of Imbolc, Beltane, Lughnasadh and Samhain) we look forward to moon myths, lunar legends and cross-cultural stories, revealing themes of creation, fertility, cosmic joy, transformation, death and rebirth.

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For our June session we welcome you under the full Strawberry Moon. For thousands of years the rising full moon nearest the summer solstice has been observed as the communion of solar and lunar energies - the wedding of the sun and the moon! The Strawberry Moon in June bears the sun’s highest light and carries the most potent seed of life and love. Moonspinners will be in full flight with the theme of marriage, celebrating the moon as male energy communing with the solar light of the daughter of the sun.

We have a wonderful line-up of storytellers including storytelling celebrant Beverley Bryant, married storytellers Claire McNicol and Fergus McNicol, and Scottish Indian storyteller Gauri Raje, with guidance and social flow from Linda Williamson

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Our Moonspinners events follow two distinct phases, with the first half of performance in the Netherbow Theatre, followed by a social and conversational flow upstairs in the Storytelling Court with a chance to digest and discuss the stories amongst friends old and new.

Mark it in your diary, or just follow the moon to guide you here!

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Image credit: Hester Aspland

• Storytelling
• £14.00
• 11 June 2025
• 150 minutes
• 19:30
• Scottish Storytelling Centre
• Netherbow Theatre
• 16+