The Snug Storytelling Sessions with Hearth Fire Sessions (Scotland) (4pm)

Join Dougie Mackay and Jemima Thewes for an eclectic evening of ancient myth, contemporary storytelling, post-folk music, and physical artistry. Steeped in the traditions of Scottish storytelling, we evoke the warm atmosphere of peat-smoked hearthsides and ceilidh house revelry, presenting timeless motifs relevant to a discerning modern audience

Dougie Mackay

Dougie Mackay is one of Scotland’s leading storytellers, fusing mythology, folk culture and relationship with the wild. 

Jemima Thewes

Jemima Thewes transports listeners through mesmeric melodies, song, animation and shadow puppetry. Together, they combine human-fragile elemental tension that softly bewitches, and at times disconcerts, in time-altering depth and chilling folk-story beauty.

The Snug
The Snug is an experimental participatory design project exploring the place and places of conversation in contemporary Ireland. Led by international arts collective Unqualified Design Studio (Architecture Project Award 2023/24), the project invites communities to come together in the unlikely privacy of a 6x6m popup snug - giving life to a momentary, real-world ‘chat room’. The Snug debuted in June 2024 at Carlow Arts Festival, hosting a curated talk series examining the relationship between the stories we tell and the spaces where we tell them - and asking what it is that makes us feel connected to each other and the world around us.