The Tin Forest Springburn continues on Thursday 12 & Friday 13 June, 5.00pm & 8.00pm & Saturday 14 June, 2.00pm & 5pm. Click here to book your tickets. But first here’s a sneaky peak from the first evening… As the sun shone on The Rockery in Springburn Park, a troupe of windae-hingers, midden-rakers, lovers, porters, […]
Join us in Springburn this week as the The Tin Forest pulls into the Springburn Park Rockery for a journey into Springburn’s past and back again. Come and meet the windae-hingers, midden-rakers, lovers, porters, gardeners and fat cats, who will guide you on an interactive experience full of sound, locomotion and poetry. Featuring the Springburn […]
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 […]
Tin Forest Springburn invite you for a cup of tea, a Tunnocks wafer and a little bit of arts and craft on your Sunday afternoon. Earlier this month, the rain was pouring outside, but inside Balgrayhill Community Centre there was a warm collection of enthusiatic locals of all ages, making and sticking, gluing and cutting […]
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 […]
Over 300 people ventured out to the Winter Gardens in Springburn on Thursday 20 March to celebrate the first day of Spring and take part in The Tin Forest Light Up Event. Local people of all ages brought their homemade recycled lanterns, swapped stories and made their way past storytellers, up towards the Winter Gardens. […]
The children of Saracen Primary School have become printmaker extraordinaires. Primaries four to six have been designing block prints which will become part of a Tin Forest sound and light installation in the coming weeks. The National Theatre of Scotland’s Philippa Tomlin and Ally from Recoat gave the children a range of seeds from which […]
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 […]
Inspired by Springburn’s locomotive-building heritage, The Tin Forest Waiting Room touched down at Glasgow Central Station on Friday 14th March. Hosted by a mysterious time-travelling Clippy (ticket inspector) from 1926, The Waiting Room experience invited up to four people at a time to step inside and hear her recount tales of life on the trains, […]
