How can art create political change? What do we learn from loss? How does getting older change how we define pleasure? Education: What is it for?
Quines Cast welcomes back guests from across season two to dig into some of the questions inspired by our series with moving and funny takes on our big themes.
Recorded live at Edinburgh International Book Festival in August 2023, join Hannah and Caitlin for a discussion-based episode. Guests include musician Emma Pollock, poet and discussion group member Clementine E Burnley, playwright Maryam Hamidi and writer and activist Jessica Gaitán Johannesson.
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EDUCATION
How is our education system serving young women and non-binary people? What would a feminist approach to learning look like? How do we create a society that values curiosity over a lifetime?
Recorded live at Summerhall in June 2023 join Hannah and Caitlin for their end of term episode! Guests include crime writer Val MacDermid, musician Emma Pollock, Scottish poetry slam champion Angie Strachan and also featuring a short play written and performed by Nelly Kelly.
https://stellarquines.co.uk/show/quines-cast
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PLEASURE
In a world where we can ‘have it all’, how do we prioritise
pleasure? How do we gain a more nuanced understanding of what gives us pleasure?
Recorded in front of a live audience at Glasgow Women’s Library in June 2023, the only accredited museum in the UK dedicated to women. Your hosts Hannah and Caitlin are joined by iconic musician Horse Macdonald, poet Liz Lochhead, sex educator Ruth Elliot and also featuring a short play written by Stef Smith.
https://stellarquines.co.uk/show/quines-cast
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LOSS
What do we gain when we lose? How do we live and even thrive with loss in our lives? Are we living in a time of collective grief?
Join your hosts Hannah and Caitlin for an evening of poetry, theatre, music and discussion on the theme of grief and loss. Featuring author Catherine Simpson, musician Rachel Sermani, poet Catherine Wilson Garry, and also featuring new short play by Apphia Campbell.
Recorded in front of a live audience at the Traverse Theatre in May 2023.
https://stellarquines.co.uk/show/quines-cast
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RIOT
What will it take for us to riot? How do we live when our whole life, our very existence is a protest? How do we take care of
the inner riot that bubbles inside of ourselves?
Recorded in front of a live audience at the Traverse Theatre in May 2023, Hannah and Caitlin are joined by writer and climate justice organiser Jessica Gaitán Johannesson, T.S. Eliot prize-winning poet, Joelle Taylor, musician PAIX and also featuring a new short play by 2023 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize shortlisted playwright, Maryam Hamidi.
https://stellarquines.co.uk/show/quines-cast
In a world gone topsy turvy, it’s time to hear from the Quines. Join your hosts Hannah Lavery and Caitlin Skinner as they invite Scotland’s leading feminist authors, poets, playwrights and musicians to respond to the big questions that matter to women, non-binary people and people of other marginalised genders today.
Brought to you by Stellar Quines, an intersectional feminist theatre company based in Scotland and created in association with the Traverse Theatre.
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