Episode 3 - Change
Stellar Quines hosted by Hannah Lavery and Caitlin SkinnerAbout
I want change. I need a change. How do we root ourselves when the world around us is changing so much? Is it ok to enjoy the small things when what we want is big global, political and societal change? How do we manage our fears about what we lose when we welcome in the new?
This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the Traverse Theatre in September 2022, during a time of change for the UK in the week after Queen Elizabeth II died.
Your hosts Hannah and Caitlin welcome reflections from musician Hailey Beavis, novelist and journalist Kirstin Innes, writer Louise Welsh and a short play from the brilliant satirist Uma Nada Rajah.
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Kirstin Innes is the author of the novels Fishnetand Scabby Queen and co-author of Brickwork: A Biography of The Arches. She's currently writing her third novel, Semiprecious, and tentatively venturing into theatre
Hailey Beavis is singer-songwriter, using guitar, live looping, and bits of electronics to create music driven by heartfelt lyricism, suspended in powerfully melodic and sonically innovative pop. Beavis released her first full-length album i’ll put you where the trombone slides in November 2022 on OK Pal Records - the label she co-founded in 2018 . Hailey's 2020 EP Whatever You Feel I Do Too Was released on OK Pal Records to critical acclaim.
Louise Welsh works in several forms including novels, short stories, opera libretti, radio, performance and sound art. She has written nine novels, most recently The Second Cut (Canongate Books 2022). Louise is editor of Yonder Awa, a poetry anthology on the theme of Scotland and the North Atlantic slave trade by Scottish and Caribbean writers and Ghost, One Hundred Stories to Read with the Lights On. Louise is co-director (with Jude Barber) of the Empire Café, an award-winning collective exploring Scotland’s relationship with empire. Louise has collaborated on four critically acclaimed operas with composer Stuart MacRae. Their latest collaboration Anthropocene, premiered to wide acclaim in 2019. Louise has also written for the stage, most recently King Keich (2018). Louise is Professor of Creative Writing at University of Glasgow and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Uma Nada-Rajah is a playwright and nurse based in Kilbarchan, Scotland. She was a member of the Young Writers' Program at the Traverse Theatre and a recipient of a New Playwrights' Award from Playwrights' Studio Scotland. Uma is a graduate of École Philippe Gaulier and a previous participant of was recently the Starter Female Political Comedy Writer-in-Residence at the National Theatre of Scotland. She is currently under commission to the Almeida Theatre as a part of the Genesis Almeida New Playwrights Program 2022.
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