Quines Cast Special- Art? What Is It Good For?

Please note this show has been rescheduled by the Traverse theatre from 18th Feb 2025 to the current date.

Come and and join me for something a bit different, as well as a bit of chat and a good laugh too!

Art? What is it good for?

Join the Quines for this one-off Quines Cast Live special as we come together to explore the role of art to the feminist movement and the role of the feminist movement in art! A night not to miss, with a riot of feminist voices bringing down the house. And special guests yet to be announced!

Music, culture, discussion led by your favourite hosts Hannah Lavery and Caitlin Skinner. Bring your friends, and let’s gather together once more and stake our claim on the state of play.

Tickets are from £5-12 and you can get one here.
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We can meet in the Traverse Theatre Bar at 7.00pm before the show starts at 7.30pm. All warmly welcomed. Please remember to bring your £1 towards site fees. Hope to see you there.

A bit about the hosts.

Hannah Lavery is a Scottish poet and playwright. She was appointed Edinburgh Makar (or city poet) in November 2021 for a three year term. She was also selected by Owen Sheers’ as one of his Ten Writers Asking Questions That Will Shape Our Future for the International Literature Showcase, a project from the National Writing Centre and the British Council in 2020.

Her debut poetry pamphlet, Finding Seaglass was published by Stewed Rhubarb and her debut collection, Blood Salt Spring was published in 2022 by Polygon and was shortlisted for the 2022 Saltire Scottish National Poetry Book Award. Her second collection, Unwritten Woman, was published by Polygon in August 2024, and was Gutter Magazine Book of the Month. She has been selected for the Scottish Best Poem twice, in 2019 with her poem Scotland You’re No Mine and in 2021, with her poem Flying Bats.

The Drift, her highly acclaimed autobiographical lyric play toured Scotland with the National Theatre of Scotland, and is to be adapted for a radio drama for BBC Radio Four in 2023.

Her play Lament for Sheku Bayoh premiered at Edinburgh International Festival in 2020 and toured in its digital version to Auckland Arts Festival.

Her most recent play Protest produced by Fuel Theatre in association with Imaginate, Northern Stage and National Theatre of Scotland premiered in 2023 before going on a nationwide tour in 2024.
She is a former associate artist with the National Theatre of Scotland and one was of the winners of the Peggy Ramsay/Film4 Award 2022 and has written for BBC Radio Four, Lyceum Theatre, Pitlochry Theatre, Northern Stage, Traverse Theatre and various publications including The Scotsman, The Guardian and Gutter Magazine. She was also a recipient of the Adopt a Playwright Award 2020 and the New Playwright’s Award from Playwriting Studio Scotland 2019.
She is an experienced workshop facilitator and won an Leadership

Award from Creative Edinburgh for her work with Writers of Colour and her curated film poetry series, Sorry I am on Mute for Fringe of Colour.
In 2022, she launched with Scottish Feminist Theatre Company, Stellar Quines, an intersectional feminist arts podcast, Quines Cast, which she co-hosts with Caitlin Skinner.

Caitlin Skinner is artistic director and CEO of Stellar Quines, an intersectional feminist theatre company that has been active in Scotland for over 30 years.

A significant creative force in Scottish theatre, she is also director of new writing company Pearlfisher, devising company Jordan and Skinner and formerly associate director at Pitlochry Festival Theatre and artistic director of the ground-breaking and acclaimed Village Pub Theatre in Leith, Edinburgh.