The Fires that Breathe

For one performance only, three storytellers, performers, musicians come together.

Bound by the fire inside, Oren Shoesmith, Evie Waddell and Tania Allan meld their unique styles to breathe life into stories and songs inspired by courage, diversity and resilience.

Oren Shoemith is a storyteller, artist and writer from Cornwall, living in Glasgow. His work focuses on unruly lands and unruly bodies.

Evie Waddell is a multidisciplinary performer/creator who works in contemporary dance, music, Scottish step dance, singing and British Sign Language (BSL). She explores movement and song that is influenced by her own minority languages: Gaelic, BSL and Scots and the cultural practices and context that comes with them.

Tania Allan is a storyteller and creative practitioner based in Midlothian. Born deaf, her first language is British Sign Language, her work straddles the porous boundary between culturally deaf and culturally hearing worlds, borrowing from the folklore of the dominant culture to explore deaf experience.