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.

Generations (Budding Collective) | 2pm-3pm

Budding Collective 2023 @ Alexander Williamson

Catherine MacNeil - She/Her - Deviser & Performer
Joanna Shand - She/Her - Deviser
Lindsay MacLeod - She/Her - Deviser
Stephanie Riffort - She/Her - Playwright & Performer
Megan MacDonald - She/Her- Playwright & Performer
Hunter Martin - They/Them - Costume Designer & Deviser

'Generations' is a piece investigating generational trauma primarily through a feminist lens. We follow Beryl, Jasmine and Margot: three women, one family, on a journey of identity crisis and ideological discovery where the experiences of each generation offer differing socio-political traumas leading to an explosion of familial angst.

With special thanks to Aengus Joyce and Kizzy MacNeil for their contributions, and to Caitlin Skinner for her mentorship.

Content Warnings: Depictions of trauma, bullying & abuse; references to sexual abuse

The Budding Collective is facilitated by Sophie Wink, where emerging theatre-makers of any age can come together and work on their creative development and co-create a performance for ROOTS Festival. The Collective offers a safe space for emerging theatre-makers to dabble in different creative avenues and build upon pre-existing interests.

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.

Erin Elkin's 'As Steady as the Tide'

Mirren has returned home after a heartbreak and moves back in with her reserved Mother. Feeling alone in a village full of people three times her age, Mirren soon discovers most have been through a lot more than she could ever have fathomed.

A multigenerational story of the folk living in Argyll- the relationships they share with each other and the landscape.

Erin has worked in theatre and film, predominantly as an actor, and is now branching out after writing and producing for Children’s Theatre and other productions.

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?