Thistles & Sunflowers

BRING YOUR OWN LUNCH: Enjoy trad dance and music in the Thistles and Sunflowers secret poetry garden on 22 September 2022 12-1.30pm FREE

VISIT: Thistles and Sunflowers Poetry Trail at Sandeman House Garden 30 June – 22 September 2022 FREE

FIND OUT MORE: Poetry reading in the Thistles and Sunflowers secret garden with Vangel Imreorov

AT A GLANCE: Thistles and Sunflowers festival 18 May – 22 September as part of Scotland's Year of Stories 2022 #YS2022

FIND OUT MORE: Lunchtime tours as part of Thistles and Sunflowers Poetry Trail at Scottish Poetry Library with Toni Velikova

FIND OUT MORE: Thistles and Sunflowers poetry exhibition feat/ Scottish and Bulgarian poets and Jenny Haslimeier's botanical art

FIND OUT MORE: The Physics of Sorrow – five short films by the Oscar-nominated animator Theodore Ushev

FIND OUT MORE: The Forgotten Magic of Bulgaria – Bulgarian magical creatures come alive alongside their Scottish counterparts through stories, music and puppetry by Yana Aleksandrova

FIND OUT MORE: Dance Fusion – newly choreographed solos, duets and ensemble pieces drawing on the parallels between Scottish and Bulgarian trad dance with Alexis Street and Ariana Stoyanova

FIND OUT MORE: Balkan Ceilidh – dance with artists and stories from the lands of thistles and sunflowers feat/ Caroline Brockbank, Jim Mackintosh, Thomas Bak and more

FIND OUT MORE: Stories in Free Fall | Свободно падащи истории – an improvised storytelling show by Maria Kassimova-Moisset (in Bulgarian) – 27 May 7.30pm Pay What You Can