Queer Folks' Tales - Grampian Pride
Queer Folks’ Tales returns to Aberdeen for Grampian Pride !
Hosted by Turan Ali with a local line up of LGBTQ+ storytellers, poets, singers, writers, stand ups, drag queens and more.
May 23rd 2024 @ 7.30pm ; Lemon Tree theatre, Aberdeen
“Utterly fabulous” (The Q Review) “Edinburgh’s most vibrant, authentic and exciting storytelling event” (The Wee Review)
Queer Folks’ Tales, our multiple 5 star rated, hugely popular LGBTQ+ storytelling show returns to Aberdeen.
Following the huge enthusiasm of Aberdeen audiences for Queer Folks’ Tales in February this year, this fruity, hilarious and moving show is back with a stellar new line up for Grampian Pride. Queer storytellers and performers deliver hilarious, moving, occasionally shocking stories galore about queer lives with many true stories of LGBTQ+ experience in Scotland today. Hosted by Edinburgh’s Turan Ali (producer of BBC drama/comedy), who is joined on Thursday May 23rd by a brand new line up of local queer talent to lead up to Pride with a bang!
With assistance from Creative Scotland.
Starts 7.30pm
Turan Ali has been producing, directing and writing BBC Radio dramas and comedies for over 20 years. He has also been telling stories of queer lives and experiences on stage since 2012, and more recently as a stand up. Although based in Edinburgh, he has two sell-out monthly storytelling shows in Vienna. His latest one man stand up show, Horny Old Poof, premieres in Vienna in May 2024, before an international tour.
Mae Diansangu is a queer poet and spoken word artist from Aberdeen, writing in English and Doric. She has appeared in literary festivals across Scotland, BBC Scotland’s Big Scottish Book Club and Radio 4’s Tongue & Talk. Her poems appear in the National Library of Scotland’s collection and in the anthologies “Tales fae the Doric Side” and “Re creation – a queer poetry anthology”. BLOODSONGS (Tapsalteerie) will be published in autumn 2024.
Rachael Beedie (she/her) is a perimenopausal mother who has started performing spoken word as part of her very civilised mid-life crisis. She is Chairperson of Four Pillars LGBTQ+ support organisation, and part of the Grampian Pride team. Rachael often writes with honesty and a touch of humour about issues affecting the queer community and she is honoured to be part of this event.
Shane Strachan is a writer, performer and poet who specialises in Scots, and was National Library of Scotland’s 2022-23 Scots Scriever as well as Scots Champion at the 2023 Scots Language Awards. His debut poetry collection, DWAMS, was released in April 2024 and his work has also appeared in productions by National Theatre of Scotland, BBC Radio 4 and Aberdeen Art Gallery. He lectures in creative writing at the University of Aberdeen.
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