Fair Saturday 2025 Opening Party
Please join us at the Scottish Storytelling Centre on Friday 14th November to celebrate Fair Saturday’s 2025 programme at their Opening Party!
About Fair Saturday 2025 Opening Party
Please join us to celebrate Fair Saturday’s 2025 programme at their Opening Party!
Featuring live storytelling from Niall Moorjani (Kanpur: 1857, Mohan: A Partition Story) and excerpts of Deiseil: Dancing in Time by step dancer Alison Carlyle and fiddle player Amy Geddes.
A lovely opportunity to meet many of the people creating events for Fair Saturday this year and to find out more about this year’s programme. Haggis, neeps and tatties will be provided for each guest, alongside non-alcoholic drinks, and the bar will be open if you wish to purchase alcoholic drinks.
Tickets for this event are free, but please book in advance. We hope you will join us!
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Niall Moorjani is an award-winning and critically acclaimed Scottish-Indian, non-binary and neurodiverse writer, storyteller and theatre maker based between Edinburgh and London. They have performed all over the world, from Delhi to New York to old York. They create for both children and adults, dealing with themes inclduing queerness, anti-colonialism, myth and legend. At the core of all their work is hope, joy and kindness. Kanpur: 1857 won a coveted Fringe First Award from the Scotsman in 2025 described as ‘one of the most important political dramas at this year’s festival’.
Deiseil: Dancing in Time by Alison Carlyle and Amy Geddes is a powerful exploration of how stepdance, Scotland’s percussive dance, was lost... and how its revival became woven into a lifelong friendship. "Deiseil" means "ready" in Scottish Gaelic: be ready for a mesmerising reflection on how issues of culture, identity and connection still resonate through society today. Described by the Scotsman as ‘the most joyful show I’ve seen so far this Fringe, ★★★★★'.
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