A group of dancers camouflage themselves beneath bin bags in the car park of Reidvale Neighbourhood Centre in the East End. They stir into a frenzy of tightly choreographed movement. Stomping, clapping, and a giggle and the group disbands back beneath their bin bags. The Tin Forest East End is alive. The audience is then […]
In the recital room of Glasgow’s City Halls last week, in partnership with The Big Big Sing, a group of volunteers gathered to sing and record a very special song. In just two hours, they grew from a modest collective to a fully fledged community choir. The result was nothing short of spine-tingling and will […]
By Simon Sharkey, Associate Director, National Theatre of Scotland You can’t deny that spring is well and truly here. The blossoms and blooms are everywhere and the promise of summer is in the air. The days are longer, the birds are rising earlier and people’s clothes and faces are brighter. In The Tin Forest, things […]
The Tin Forest’s East End community production is calling for people of all ages to join us at City Halls, for one night only to be part of a one-off community choir who will be recorded singing this production’s main song. We will teach you the song and record the whole choir while you sing […]
As we build The Tin Forest across Glasgow, just as the old man in the story filled his forest with the sounds of buzzing insects and singing birds, we wanted to fill our Tin Forest with the sounds of Glaswegians. And what better way to do that than with a good old-fashioned blether? Over the […]
The Tin Forest is one of the National Theatre of Scotland’s biggest and most ambitious projects to date, and part of the Glasgow 2014 Cultural Programme. We’re looking to recruit a team of friendly volunteers to help us welcome audiences from across Glasgow, across Scotland and across the world. We need Tin Forest Guides to […]
We’re asking you to make a Light Up Lantern out of junk, and join hundreds of others in your local community and around the world, to plant your lantern in a forgotten place. It might be a local park or derelict ground; it might be your garden or back court. What’s important is you plant […]
“Rag and Bone”….”Rag and Bone” came the cry across the playground at Our Lady of the Peace Primary School in Glasgow’s East End. Over the past weeks, the children of primary four and five had been industriously preparing their memories, hopes, promises and their close to forgotten objects, to give to Rag and Bone Man. […]
As The Tin Forest team search Glasgow for its stories, students at Glasgow Kelvin College (East End campus) sneaked into The Tin Forest Howff to take break from lectures and tell the janny their stories. Come away in and join us for a five minute skive, a cup of tea and a Tunnocks Teacake….
