Scratch Events

Festival Summit at Inverness Creative Academy

11.30am Coffee Morning (free-to-attend)

2pm Budding Collective work-in-progress

4pm Scratch Night with Lucy Beth & Erin Elkin 

6pm Woman to Woman work-in-progress

7pm Networking Evening

Tickets for each performance are pay-what-you-can from £5.

Coffee Morning (In-Person) | 11.30am-1pm

We are kicking off the day with some informal in-person networking, following our online coffee mornings. This is a chance to meet the other artists, attendees, and team members who are engaging with festival events across the 4 day programme. 

The coffee morning is free to attend, but book in advance to confirm your space. 

Budding Collective | 2pm-3pm

Hunter Martin

Joanna Shand
Megan MacDonald
Catherine MacNeil
Stephanie Riffort
Lindsay MacLeod

This year's performance is a devised work-in-progress which explores the experiences of women from one generation to the next, looking at how it feels to exist in a society which wants you to always feel alone. 

The Budding Collective is a strand of Vivid Roots Collective, facilitated by Sophie Wink, and supported by mentorship from Caitlin Skinner. This group creates a platform for local theatre-makers to connect and support each other's professional development through skill and knowledge sharing. 

Scratch Night | 4pm-5pm

Lucy Beth's 'Drookit'

Forced to evacuate her home due to flooding, Pammy seeks refuge with her Granny. Pammy must rebuild her life after everything has been destroyed while navigating the haunting, life-altering effects that the flooding has had on her well-being and is seeking compassion, sanctuary, and support. 

Anticipating the comfort and guidance that she received during her childhood from her Granny, she is instead, confronted with the harshness of her once-heroic figure through the lens of adulthood. The performance explores intergenerational care, compassion, and the shifting dynamics of the family structure.

Lucy Beth (She/her/hers) is an emerging performer and theatre-maker hailing from Inverurie, Aberdeenshire. She recently graduated with Distinction from the University of Glasgow's MLitt Theatre and Performance Practices Course. She was awarded a PGT Excellence Scholarship by the university. 

As well as conventional performing, part of Lucy's practice concerns dialect preservation. She speaks Doric and seeks to create and perform work in Doric to continue to render the dialect present. She won the Best Newcomer Award at The Doric Film Festival in 2024.

More to follow...

Woman to Woman | 6pm-7pm

Stephanie Riffort
Catherine MacNeil
Jennifer MacRae

This performance will feature episodic work-in-progress excerpts and sketches which explore themes relative to our lives as women today.

We are a collaborative group of women making work with, by, and for women. We have worked on a series of projects over the past 12 years together and this is a development of that practice.

Event photocredit @ Alexander Williamson | Lucy Beth's Fittin' In or Faan Oot?