Join us on Sunday, 23 November 2025, at the Biscuit Factory, 4-6 Anderson Pl, Edinburgh EH6 5NP, for the fourth annual ReFashion Edinburgh – a maverick sustainable fashion event curated by our Pomegranates 2024 festival fashion designer-in-residence Alison Harm. We are delighted that for the second year in a row, the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland is the national charity of choice, with all the proceeds from ReFashion Edinburgh 2025 tickets going towards our efforts to embed sustainability and diversity in traditional dance across Scotland. 

Every year ReFashion Edinburgh shines a spotlight on Edinburgh-based designers who share a passion for sustainability and slow, ethical creation. Supported by models, dancers, hairdressers, hair stylists, make-up artists, backstage professionals, video/photographers and light/sound engineers, the local designers come together aiming to provide an antidote to fast fashion and make a difference in an industry that desperately needs to change.

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To celebrate Women’s History Month of March 2025 and ahead of our Pomegranates Festival (25-30 April 2025) we launched a new podcast episode highlighting the role of women in traditional dance. Released on 8 March 2025 to mark International Women’s Day, the episode features dance researcher and new Scot Alena Shmakova discussing her work on dance history in Scotland, from the Renaissance to the Georgians, with a focus on Mary, Queen of Scots and lead dancer Sophia Parker. Stay tuned as we announce a special walking tour along the Royal Mile exploring Mary, Queen of Scots passion for dance.

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Every spring since 2022 Pomegranates Festival becomes a platform for our diverse members to teach, learn and perform and thus sow the seeds and sequins of world trad dance across the country. Once again, from 25 to 30 April this year, Pomegranates explored the intrinsic links of world trad dance with art, film, fashion, and heritage crafts through exhibitions and tours, shows and workshops, residencies and family events. We are already planning next year’s 5th edition. Do explore this year’s events, stories and videos by visiting our dedicated festival page.

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Did you know that in July 2024 TRACS (Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland) was officially appointed as UNESCO Advisor on Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH).  As a founding member of TRACS, we believe that the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland could play a major role in celebrating being Scottish by supporting the diversity of traditional dance practised around the country. Whether it is through our Pomegranates Festival, Ceilidh Plus events or all-year-round activities, we aim to safeguard the age-old dance traditions and ensure they thrive in the contemporary, diverse Scotland we all call home. Our Pomegranates Festival 25-30 April 2025 was themed around traditional dance and intangible cultural heritage. For the first time, we publicly discussed the new opportunities for Scotland’s traditional dances in an international context. We pledged to keep up the conversation and ensure that the Pomegranates Festival continues to provide an annual platform for discussing issues of traditional dance as living heritage. Click below to follow the growing trad dance as ICH events and resources.

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