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(Sat 5 Apr: 5pm) Join the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland for a preview of Masks - the first solo exhibition in a public institution by Edinburgh’s mask maker, designer and model artist Lorraine Pritchard, artist-in-residence at this year’s Pomegranates Festival and the only Scottish artist performing at the Venice Carnival 2025. Unmask the secrets of the mask-making heritage craft and find out more about masks and traditional dance in the company of the artist and her collaborators. Plus, explore Lorraine’s masks hand-crafted in the Venetian tradition, the photographs of the artists' masks shot on location from Arthur’s Seat to the canals of Venice and the new behind-the-scenes documentary by Franzis Sánchez. Masks continues at the Scottish Storytelling Centre until Monday 12 May. It is complemented by another exhibition featuring more of Lorraine’s Venetian masks, plus books about Venice and the Carnevale at Edinburgh Central Library (1-30 April 2025), also curated as part of Pomegranates Festival. This is Lorraine's first solo exhibition in a public institution. It is curated across the two venues by the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland in an ongoing partnership with the Edinburgh City Libraries and the Scottish Storytelling Centre as part of Pomegranates, Scotland's springtime festival of world trad dance and its links with live music, film, poetry, art, craft and fashion. Find out more about Pomegranates Festival 2025, or you can keep up with Pomegranates as well as year-round TDFS activity by signing up to the TDFS newsletter.
Scottish Storytelling Centre
Storytelling Court
(Fri 4 Apr-Mon 12 May) Get up close and personal with the exquisite Venetian masks hand-crafted by Edinburgh's mask maker, designer and mask model Lorraine Pritchard, artist-in-residence for this year's Pomegranates Festival and the only Scottish artist featured at the Venice Carnival 2025. Unmask the secrets of the mask-making heritage craft, find out more about masks and traditional dance, plus explore photographs of the artists' masks shot on location from Arthur’s Seat to the canals of Venice and a new behind-the-scenes documentary by Franzis Sánchez. Masks is complemented by another exhibition featuring more of Lorraine’s Venetian masks, plus books about Venice and the Carnevale at Edinburgh Central Library (1-30 April 2025), also curated as part of Pomegranates Festival. This is Lorraine's first solo exhibition in a public institution. It is curated across the two venues by the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland in an ongoing partnership with the Edinburgh City Libraries and the Scottish Storytelling Centre as part of Pomegranates, Scotland's springtime festival of world trad dance and its links with live music, film, poetry, art, craft and fashion. Find out more about Pomegranates Festival 2025, or you can keep up with Pomegranates as well as year-round TDFS activity by signing up to the TDFS newsletter.
Scottish Storytelling Centre
Storytelling Court
(Tue 29 Apr: 6:30pm) Celebrate UNESCO International Day of Dance with the Pomegranates flagship show choreographed by Pomegranates Festival hip hop dance theatre artist-in-residence Jonzi D (back by popular demand!) and a dozen dancers and musicians wearing newly commissioned masks by the festival heritage craft artist-in-residence Lorraine Pritchard. “Following my Pomegranates festival debut last year, I am really honoured to be invited back as this year’s choreographer-in-residence, plus I am particularly partial to the new festival theme of masks. Traditional dance is important, including masked dance, because it represents living heritage while celebrating difference. I think we’ve reached a period in society where our differences are being used against us; our differences are being used to keep us separated; our differences are being used as judgmental tools. Manufactured polarisation. But our infinite differences define our identities, and still we have more in common than we have apart. Pomegranates Festival celebrates our differences.” - Jonzi D The programme lasts about 60 minutes and will be followed by an opportunity to mingle and network at which all are welcome. Curated by the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland as part of Pomegranates, Scotland's springtime festival of world trad dance and its links with live music, film, poetry, art, craft and fashion. Find out more about Pomegranates Festival 2025, or you can keep up with Pomegranates as well as year-round TDFS activity by signing up to the TDFS newsletter.
Scottish Storytelling Centre
Netherbow Theatre
(Fri 25 Apr: 10:45am) Join the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland for the opening festival dance theatre matinee to celebrate the finale of Socratic Circles - an unique approach to co-devising dance theatre with young people. Socratic Circles revolves around a dialogue between 20 dance artists-in-residence at Edinburgh’s Abbeyhill and Royal Mile Primary Schools and sixty 11-year-old pupils. The dance theatre weaves in the children’s ideas, drawings and poems about the wee objects selected by each pupil to represent their diverse heritage. See the resident dancers, all postgraduate students in Dance Science and Education at the University of Edinburgh, perform alongside the resident musician Aga Idczak to choreography by Sotirios Panagoulias and costume design by Gerry Gapinski. The show lasts about 30 minutes and will be followed by a post-show Q&A with some of the creatives and special guests. Funded by the University of Edinburgh through the Edinburgh Local Community Fund and curated by the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland in an ongoing academic partnership with the Centre for Research in Education, Inclusion and Diversity (CREID) at Moray House School of Education and Sport as part of Pomegranates, Scotland's springtime festival of world trad dance and its links with live music, film, poetry, art, craft and fashion. Find out more about Pomegranates Festival 2025, or you can keep up with Pomegranates as well as year-round TDFS activity by signing up to the TDFS newsletter.
Scottish Storytelling Centre
Netherbow Theatre
(Mon 28 Apr: 6:30pm) Gather in for an evening of blether about Intangible Cultural Heritage and its relationship with Scottish traditional dance. Hear from special guests and enjoy wee sets from Scottish Country, Highland and Step dance artists, as well as Polonaise, which was inscribed in the UNESCO representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of humanity in December 2023. Preview the premiere sharing of Sequins – a new hip-hop and Congolese trad dance theatre solo show by Kalubi Mukangela-Jacoby set to the Pomegranates Festival spoken word commission Sequins of Poems to Dance To by Ian McMillan. The programme lasts about 90 minutes and will be followed by an opportunity to mingle and network at which all are welcome. Curated by the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland as part of Pomegranates, Scotland's springtime festival of world trad dance and its links with live music, film, poetry, art, craft and fashion. Find out more about Pomegranates Festival 2025, or you can keep up with Pomegranates as well as year-round TDFS activity by signing up to the TDFS newsletter.
Scottish Storytelling Centre
Netherbow Theatre
(Fri 25 Apr: 6:30pm) A packed programme of short films addressing the global genre gap of traditional dance on screen. Experience a space where choreography and cinematography merge to tell a story rooted in traditional dance from Scottish Step and Highland to Indian Classical, East African, Chinese, Pacific, Punjabi and Hip Hop. Expect two works by award-winning Canadian filmmaker Marlene Millar: To Begin the Dance Once More (2023) and Bhairava (2018). The programme also includes The Bright Fabric of Life (2024, Dir. Mare Tralla), Autocorrect (2022, Dir. Jonzi D), Crowned by Flame (2024, Dir. Lyuxian Yu); Home (2023, Dir. Kes Tagney feat. Sophie Stephenson); Armea (2024. Dir. Letila Mitchell) and On Canada Day (2024, Dir. Gurdeep Pandher). The hour-long film programme will be followed by a Q&A with some of the filmmakers and creatives. Curated by the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland as part of Pomegranates, Scotland's springtime festival of world trad dance and its links with live music, poetry, art, craft, film and fashion. Find out more about Pomegranates Festival 2025, or you can keep up with Pomegranates as well as year-round TDFS activity by signing up to the TDFS newsletter.
Scottish Storytelling Centre
Netherbow Theatre
(Sat 5 Apr: 5pm) Join the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland for a preview of Masks - the first solo exhibition in a public institution by Edinburgh’s mask maker, designer and model artist Lorraine Pritchard, artist-in-residence at this year’s Pomegranates Festival and the only Scottish artist performing at the Venice Carnival 2025. Unmask the secrets of the mask-making heritage craft and find out more about masks and traditional dance in the company of the artist and her collaborators. Plus, explore Lorraine’s masks hand-crafted in the Venetian tradition, the photographs of the artists' masks shot on location from Arthur’s Seat to the canals of Venice and the new behind-the-scenes documentary by Franzis Sánchez. Masks continues at the Scottish Storytelling Centre until Monday 12 May. It is complemented by another exhibition featuring more of Lorraine’s Venetian masks, plus books about Venice and the Carnevale at Edinburgh Central Library (1-30 April 2025), also curated as part of Pomegranates Festival. This is Lorraine's first solo exhibition in a public institution. It is curated across the two venues by the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland in an ongoing partnership with the Edinburgh City Libraries and the Scottish Storytelling Centre as part of Pomegranates, Scotland's springtime festival of world trad dance and its links with live music, film, poetry, art, craft and fashion. Find out more about Pomegranates Festival 2025, or you can keep up with Pomegranates as well as year-round TDFS activity by signing up to the TDFS newsletter.
Scottish Storytelling Centre
Storytelling Court
(Fri 4 Apr-Mon 12 May) Get up close and personal with the exquisite Venetian masks hand-crafted by Edinburgh's mask maker, designer and mask model Lorraine Pritchard, artist-in-residence for this year's Pomegranates Festival and the only Scottish artist featured at the Venice Carnival 2025. Unmask the secrets of the mask-making heritage craft, find out more about masks and traditional dance, plus explore photographs of the artists' masks shot on location from Arthur’s Seat to the canals of Venice and a new behind-the-scenes documentary by Franzis Sánchez. Masks is complemented by another exhibition featuring more of Lorraine’s Venetian masks, plus books about Venice and the Carnevale at Edinburgh Central Library (1-30 April 2025), also curated as part of Pomegranates Festival. This is Lorraine's first solo exhibition in a public institution. It is curated across the two venues by the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland in an ongoing partnership with the Edinburgh City Libraries and the Scottish Storytelling Centre as part of Pomegranates, Scotland's springtime festival of world trad dance and its links with live music, film, poetry, art, craft and fashion. Find out more about Pomegranates Festival 2025, or you can keep up with Pomegranates as well as year-round TDFS activity by signing up to the TDFS newsletter.
Scottish Storytelling Centre
Storytelling Court
(Tue 29 Apr: 6:30pm) Celebrate UNESCO International Day of Dance with the Pomegranates flagship show choreographed by Pomegranates Festival hip hop dance theatre artist-in-residence Jonzi D (back by popular demand!) and a dozen dancers and musicians wearing newly commissioned masks by the festival heritage craft artist-in-residence Lorraine Pritchard. “Following my Pomegranates festival debut last year, I am really honoured to be invited back as this year’s choreographer-in-residence, plus I am particularly partial to the new festival theme of masks. Traditional dance is important, including masked dance, because it represents living heritage while celebrating difference. I think we’ve reached a period in society where our differences are being used against us; our differences are being used to keep us separated; our differences are being used as judgmental tools. Manufactured polarisation. But our infinite differences define our identities, and still we have more in common than we have apart. Pomegranates Festival celebrates our differences.” - Jonzi D The programme lasts about 60 minutes and will be followed by an opportunity to mingle and network at which all are welcome. Curated by the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland as part of Pomegranates, Scotland's springtime festival of world trad dance and its links with live music, film, poetry, art, craft and fashion. Find out more about Pomegranates Festival 2025, or you can keep up with Pomegranates as well as year-round TDFS activity by signing up to the TDFS newsletter.
Scottish Storytelling Centre
Netherbow Theatre
(Fri 25 Apr: 10:45am) Join the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland for the opening festival dance theatre matinee to celebrate the finale of Socratic Circles - an unique approach to co-devising dance theatre with young people. Socratic Circles revolves around a dialogue between 20 dance artists-in-residence at Edinburgh’s Abbeyhill and Royal Mile Primary Schools and sixty 11-year-old pupils. The dance theatre weaves in the children’s ideas, drawings and poems about the wee objects selected by each pupil to represent their diverse heritage. See the resident dancers, all postgraduate students in Dance Science and Education at the University of Edinburgh, perform alongside the resident musician Aga Idczak to choreography by Sotirios Panagoulias and costume design by Gerry Gapinski. The show lasts about 30 minutes and will be followed by a post-show Q&A with some of the creatives and special guests. Funded by the University of Edinburgh through the Edinburgh Local Community Fund and curated by the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland in an ongoing academic partnership with the Centre for Research in Education, Inclusion and Diversity (CREID) at Moray House School of Education and Sport as part of Pomegranates, Scotland's springtime festival of world trad dance and its links with live music, film, poetry, art, craft and fashion. Find out more about Pomegranates Festival 2025, or you can keep up with Pomegranates as well as year-round TDFS activity by signing up to the TDFS newsletter.
Scottish Storytelling Centre
Netherbow Theatre
(Mon 28 Apr: 6:30pm) Gather in for an evening of blether about Intangible Cultural Heritage and its relationship with Scottish traditional dance. Hear from special guests and enjoy wee sets from Scottish Country, Highland and Step dance artists, as well as Polonaise, which was inscribed in the UNESCO representative list of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of humanity in December 2023. Preview the premiere sharing of Sequins – a new hip-hop and Congolese trad dance theatre solo show by Kalubi Mukangela-Jacoby set to the Pomegranates Festival spoken word commission Sequins of Poems to Dance To by Ian McMillan. The programme lasts about 90 minutes and will be followed by an opportunity to mingle and network at which all are welcome. Curated by the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland as part of Pomegranates, Scotland's springtime festival of world trad dance and its links with live music, film, poetry, art, craft and fashion. Find out more about Pomegranates Festival 2025, or you can keep up with Pomegranates as well as year-round TDFS activity by signing up to the TDFS newsletter.
Scottish Storytelling Centre
Netherbow Theatre
(Fri 25 Apr: 6:30pm) A packed programme of short films addressing the global genre gap of traditional dance on screen. Experience a space where choreography and cinematography merge to tell a story rooted in traditional dance from Scottish Step and Highland to Indian Classical, East African, Chinese, Pacific, Punjabi and Hip Hop. Expect two works by award-winning Canadian filmmaker Marlene Millar: To Begin the Dance Once More (2023) and Bhairava (2018). The programme also includes The Bright Fabric of Life (2024, Dir. Mare Tralla), Autocorrect (2022, Dir. Jonzi D), Crowned by Flame (2024, Dir. Lyuxian Yu); Home (2023, Dir. Kes Tagney feat. Sophie Stephenson); Armea (2024. Dir. Letila Mitchell) and On Canada Day (2024, Dir. Gurdeep Pandher). The hour-long film programme will be followed by a Q&A with some of the filmmakers and creatives. Curated by the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland as part of Pomegranates, Scotland's springtime festival of world trad dance and its links with live music, poetry, art, craft, film and fashion. Find out more about Pomegranates Festival 2025, or you can keep up with Pomegranates as well as year-round TDFS activity by signing up to the TDFS newsletter.
Scottish Storytelling Centre
Netherbow Theatre
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