Spun Stories and Unspun Fates

Live Storytelling · George Mackay Brown Library

George Mackay Brown Library, 43-45 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1SR

Dates

• Fri 23 Oct 2026 · 14:00 · 1h 30m · £5

Underground in a grassy knoll, three spinsters spin both flax and stories. Storytellers Freya McCall, Sháneen McGurnaghan and Nina Willms incorporate folk tales, songs and historically-inspired stories of women weaving themselves agency alongside the spiders and supernatural sisters who spin fate. Followed by a short discussion.

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Also on nearby, Fri 23 Oct 2026

• National Theatre of Scotland at 20: Culture, Democracy, and the Stateless Nation — Netherbow Theatre · 100 m · 10:00
• Exhibition: Folkloria! — Storytelling Court · 100 m · 10:00
• Costume Couture: Sixty Years of Cosprop — Dovecot Studios · 300 m · 10:00
• Jillian Edelstein: Among People — Stills Centre for Photography · 300 m · 11:00
• Elizabeth Blackadder: A Life in Colour — Dovecot Studios · 300 m · 12:00
• Mossycoat - Into the Wildwood — Netherbow Theatre · 100 m · 17:00

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