Welcome! Join Folktales for New Scots by Beetroots Collective – a series of free, friendly art and storytelling workshops for adults.

Folktales for New Scots is about community and cultural exchange through local folktales and crafting. A creative meeting place for people from different cultural backgrounds – bringing together New Scots and more long-established Scottish residents. Whether you’d like to get lost in quiet print-making alongside others, or chat away with new people and share your culture, this is a space for meeting other locals and being creative together.

Who is it for?

Open to all community members aged 16+

We welcome New Scots - people with migration and asylum experience – and also ‘born and bred’ locals and long-established residents.

What to expect:

• Traditional Scottish folktales with storyteller Shona Cowie

• A guided gelli plate printing workshop with Robert Motyka(Beetroots Collective: https://beetroots.org). Advanced Gelli: Layers & Linocuts. Theme: memory, place and identity.

• A relaxed, welcoming space to create and connect

• All materials included, no experience needed.

Accessibility:

There is a Hearing Loop in The Cutty Sark.

About the workshops:

This is a series of workshops, designed to build on each other. The sessions feature storytelling – each with different stories

Can I attend more than one session?

Yes! You’re welcome to attend one session or many.

Artwork will build from week to week, resulting in a film shown at an outdoor street celebration in March 2027.

The project is funded by Creative Scotland National Lottery Fund.

Description supplied by the event organiser.