Queer Folks' Tales (7.30pm)

Name: Queer Folks' Tales (7.30pm)
Start: 2025-12-04T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Scottish Storytelling Centre

Schedule

Thu, 04 Dec, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Scottish Storytelling Centre | Edinburgh, SC

Queer Folks' Tales, Edinburgh's hit LGBTQ+ storytelling show has its final 2025 show with Turan Ali, Megan Black, Sadiq Ali and Amanda Dwyer.
Queer Folks’ Tales is well into its 5th year with glowing reviews galore!
***** “Triumphant.” (All Edinburgh Theatre))
MUST SEE “Legendary” (Fringe Review)
Queer Folks’ Tales continues its hit 2025 run with another queerer-than-queer line up. As always, a diverse range of LGBTQ+ storytellers from around Edinburgh and Scotland share stories of queer lives, past, present and future. Sometimes hilarious, often moving, occasionally shocking, the mix of true and fictional stories is as varied as the range of storytellers we invite. Household names feature alongside new and diverse queer storytellers from the different communities of Scotland. Many of the stories told on Queer Folks' Tales evenings will be true stories of LGBTQ+ experience in Scotland today.
Hosted by Edinburgh’s Turan Ali, who is joined on December 4th by fab singer-songwriter Megan Black, talented stand up Amanda Dwyer and acclaimed performance artist Sadiq Ali.
Turan Ali has been a producer, director and writer of BBC radio dramas and comedies for over 25 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.
Megan Black is an award-winning Scottish artist creating music that combines the nostalgia of 70's blues rock with the modern sound of queer, feminist pop. Megan has toured extensively including sell out shows and festivals across the UK and Europe, and has contributed to film soundtracks. Megan's music focuses on her own experiences as a queer woman and has been called "a vital new talent" by the BBC.
Sadiq Ali is a ground-breaking circus artist and theatre-maker whose award-winning work The Chosen Haram has toured internationally, fusing Chinese Pole with storytelling, poetry and the politics of identity. His performances delve into queerness, faith and vulnerability - transforming physical strength into a language of truth. For his current show, A Bohemian Dream, he ascends into a world of 1900s Paris - elegant, defiant, transcendent.
Amanda Dwyer is an up and coming Glaswegian comedian on the Scottish scene who performs regularly at comedy clubs in Scotland, including The Stand, and across the UK. Her solo shows, including I Did Something Bad, have had sell out runs in Glasgow and Edinburgh. Her upcoming solo show Better Than Revenge will be touring in 2026. She has a weekly podcast & monthly live show with Susan Riddell called Material Girl.
Queer Folks' Tales is supported by Creative Scotland.
Tickets: https://scottishstorytellingcentre.online.red61.co.uk/event/913:5842/913:25352/