Name: Folktales for New Scots
Start: 2025-01-19T13:30:00+00:00
End: 2025-01-19T15:30:00+00:00
Location: 117 Nicolson Street,Newington,EH8 9ER,GB

A series of folktales storytelling events with art workshops at Southside Community Centre
Join Beetroots Collective CIC and a storyteller Claire McNicol for a series of folktales events with art workshops at Southside Community Centre in Edinburgh.
In these workshops you will learn how to design and create your own linocuts prints. Previous arts and crafts knowledge is not required.
For inspiration on themes Claire will introduce you to an enchanted world of Scottish myths and folktales.
Beetroots Collective will run 6 art workshops in the Southside Community Centre on a theme of Scottish folklore open to all members of the local community but specifically targeted at immigrants and asylum seekers. We believe that exploring local lore and mythology will help us find commonalities at the roots of our cultures promoting a feeling of belonging in the New Scots. Meeting with diverse members of the local community will also encourage community ties and inter-cultural integration.
Each workshop would have a capacity of 20 participants. Artists of Beetroots Collective will transform the artwork from the workshops into an animation, which will be screened at the heart of the neighbourhood as an outdoor projection shown at The Causey. It will give something community-driven and enjoyable to look forward to in the long, dark, and depressing winter months.
Beetroots Collective are ethnically diverse Artists and creatives aiming to promote migrant culture in Scotland.
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Each event/workshop might be different, so you can book all 5 workshops if you want to attend - that will give you more time to work on your linocuts. You an book just one workshops if thats suits you better.
PARTNERS:
City of Edinburgh Council Community Grand Fund, Awards For All Community Fund and Tasgadh Traditional Arts Small Fund. The Southside Community Centre kindly provides the workshop and exhibition space. The project is also partnered with Causey Development Trust.
For more info visit our website beetroots.org
Storyteller: https://tracscotland.org/storytellers/claire-mcnicol/
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New Scots is a term used to describe people of any nationality who have immigrated or moved to Scotland. The term has a basis in Scottish Government policy geared towards welcoming refugees and economic migrants and is widely used in modern Scottish media and culture.