OPEN WORD- OPEN WORLD scottish international storytelling festival 2017 20- 31 October www.tracscotland.org

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Open Word – Open World marks the 70th anniversary of as a Festival City, with twelve days of storytelling events in Edinburgh and Joe Harawira across . SISF goes global, demonstrating how the traditional art of storytelling is more vital than ever in connecting people worldwide, across cultures, places and generations. Hosted by the storytellers of Scotland, artists from across the world gather to guide us through the labyrinths of change and weave new narratives for a re-imagined earth. In Scotland’s Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology, SISF makes an ancient artform vibrant in our human present. We also host three days of open table discussion around the themes of the Earth Charter at our Global Gathering. These are critical times for our planet and the SISF invites us all to connect through our differences, acknowledging where we are and where we want to go, together. If not now, when? Performance, workshops, talks and children’s events radiate out from Scotland’s capital offering a plethora of dreamscapes and myths celebrating Kamini Ramachandran oral traditions and cultural diversity. The best of Scotland’s storytelling talent merge with invited guests from Thailand, Australia, Iran, India, New Zealand, Sub-Saharan Africa, Singapore, Korea, Pakistan, South America, Eastern and Western Europe, China, Japan, England and Ireland. Sustainability & Culture Storytellers across the world bring a creative dimension to our sense of the environment and the living connection between natural ecology and sustainable culture. The SISF is committed to a sustainable future, and to measuring and managing our environmental impacts. Please enjoy our environmental events, use public transport wherever possible, and use our recycling facilities. The Festival Team Jerker Fahlström

The Scottish International Storytelling Festival is organised by TRACS (Traditional Arts & Culture Scotland) which brings together the Traditional Music Forum, the Scottish Storytelling Forum and the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland from its base at the Scottish Storytelling Centre. Supported through Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund, Creative Scotland, City of Edinburgh Council, Festivals Edinburgh, Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology 2017, Norwegian Consulate General, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Creative New Zealand Toi Aotearoa, Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts and K-Storytelling World Tour Project.

02. Box office: 0131 556 9579 About the programme Our categories ensure your storytelling experience Become a Supporter is exactly what you’re looking for, be it an evening Festival Storytelling Centre gathering in jovial company Supporter, £20 Supporter, £30 expires on Wed 1 Nov 2017 expires after 1 year soaking up stories, daytime > Discounts on many SISF events > Discounts on many Storytelling events for the whole family at the Storytelling Centre Centre events, including TradFest to get involved with or > Discounts on Global Gathering & SISF workshop sessions and talks on Wed 25, Thu 26 & Fri 27 > 10% discount in the Storytelling so you can get creative. October Centre’s bookshop How to book > 10% discount in the Storytelling > 10% discount in the Story Café Centre’s bookshop, during SISF > Invites to special events Most tickets can be booked by > 10% discount in the Story Café, > A quarterly mailing of our What’s phone, online or in person at the during SISF Scottish Storytelling Centre’s On guide (by post if desired) Box Office. Some partner venues > Invite to launch party on > Contribute to the work of the and regional events have their own Fri 20 October Storytelling Centre booking outlets as listed. > Contribute to the development of SISF +44 (0) 131 556 9579 www.tracscotland.org Look for the special PASS prices in the listings which look like this - £6 We rely on the generosity of our supporters to help us bring our work to Free events at the National Library life, share it with the widest possible audience and keep our ticket prices of Scotland will be bookable affordable. Our audience is essential in helping us to deliver high quality from Wednesday 13 September on storytelling, music and dance events. nls.uk/events or 0131 623 3734. With your help, we are able to do more and to do it better. All information was correct at Call our team on time of going to print. We apologise +44 (0)131 556 9579 to book your Supporter scheme for the year, for any inconvenience if details or to discuss your Festival Supporter options. have changed. For further enquiries email [email protected]

How to get here Scottish Storytelling Centre | 43-45 High Street | EH1 1SR The Scottish Storytelling Centre’s award- winning building is the hub of the Festival,

EAST MARKET STREET located half way down Edinburgh’s Royal CRANSTON STREET Mile, within easy walking distance of JEFFREY STREET

NORTH BRIDGE Princes Street and Waverley train station. The Scottish There is no parking directly outside the Storytelling Centre CANONGATE Centre, but Lothian bus number 35 stops HIGH STREET outside our door, and there’s a taxi rank ST MARY’S STREET just up the road. BLACKFRIARS STREET

SOUTH BRIDGE > Fully accessible to wheelchair users > Hearing loop

> Braille signage throughout COWGATE > Licensed Café and Storytelling Book Shop www.tracscotland.org 03. Festival Local

Open Word – Open World

The SISF local campaign invites all to explore how stories connect people worldwide – across cultures, languages, generations and places. Using spoken word, visual image or movement and dance, join us wherever you are and help bring our colourful contemporary and traditional culture to life. We invite you to explore Stories in Translation across languages and cultures, to discover the vibrant world of Travelling Stories and to play with Stories across Allison Galbraith the Senses. Traverse the ancient world of wonder tales and their global connections; unearth the old stories the Scottish Travellers passed down through the generations as a precious gift for the future and learn new stories that have found their way to Scotland in more recent times on the wings and voices of refugees. Through the sharing of stories we can celebrate and connect through our differences, acknowledging where we are and where we want to go together, as citizens of the world. Visit www.tracscotland.org or email [email protected] Family Samhuinn for further information and resources. Festival On Tour

Coordinated by regional storytelling teams with the support of the SISF. Storytellers will visit Orkney, Sutherland, Findhorn, Aberdeen, Argyll, Islay, Bute, Mull, Dundee, Fife, Perthshire, Ayr, Duns, Kilbarchan and Glasgow to meet with local performers and audiences.

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04. Box office: 0131 556 9579 Festival Exhibitions

12 – 22 October Bawialnia/ Playroom – Polish Design for Kids Summerhall, The Lower Church Gallery Mon – Sun: 11am – 6pm Free entry | All ages An immersive experience, allowing children to learn through play and engage in a variety of creative activity in one space. Playing with toys made of wood and other natural materials, imaginatively designed games and handmade objects will allow children to appreciate the beauty and quality that comes with craftsmanship. Reading books in a tent or on upcycled suitcases/sofas, making their own stamps, exploring Polish cuisine or designing their own puppets will make for a truly unforgettable experience. The exhibition combines leading designers for children from Poland with a new commission from Polish artists living in Scotland. Part of Kite and Trumpet: Festival of Polish Art. Until 12 November Enduring Eye: The Antarctic legacy of Sir Ernest Shackleton and Frank Hurley National Library of Scotland Mon – Fri: 10am – 8pm | Sat: 10am – 5pm | Sun: 2 – 5pm Free entry | All ages One of the greatest ever photographic records of human survival, Enduring Eye honours the achievements of Sir Ernest Shackleton and the men of the 1914-1917 Endurance expedition. Shackleton’s official voyage photographer Frank Hurley saved the fragile photographic negatives, which documented the expedition, under the most extreme circumstances to provide a lasting record of the men of the Endurance and their story. The exhibition showcases Hurley’s images, alongside items from the Library’s polar collections. Researched, written and curated for the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) by Meredith Hooper, with Library collection items selected by Paula Williams. 19 – 31 October Lost Tales: Walking with Gods – Live Scottish Storytelling Centre Mon – Sat: 10am – 6pm, and before events Free entry | All ages Engage and experience aeons old stories in a completely new light. Multidisciplinary artist, writer and creator Travis De Vries’ works live at the Storytelling Centre as artist in residence. Get the chance to see how he produces a series of paintings that borrow and twist the tropes of mythology, graphic novels and traditional storytelling to reimagine the stories of Indigenous Australians. Echoing the studies of Joseph Campbell or the worlds of Neil Gaiman, allow these works to resonate deep in the psyche through our connection to myths and legends; exploring the clash of ideas between ancient, haunting tales and the contemporary western mythologies from Australia. www.tracscotland.org 05. Opening Weekend Friday From Edinburgh’s a chocolate planet... but it’s open Pen to the World for new inspirations. The stories which emerge from the mysterious 20 October Departs from Mercat Cross, machine are told by the Pinokio beside St Giles Cathedral Theatre actors, accompanied Walking Tour by music and live sounds. The Lost Tales Live 5pm (1hr 30) | Adult £13, Scottish Storytelling Centre audience have a genuine influence Concession £11, Child £8 | 5+ Live Storytelling on the course of events, so every Edinburgh has inspired writers 5pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) £5 performance is remarkable and whose work is known and influence Adults original. Presented in Polish and is felt across the globe. Work that Explore the undocumented side English by Pinokio Theatre in Łódź includes desert islands, detectives of our history through folk tales, and part of Kite and Trumpet: and dissecting tables. Books that urban legends, culture heroes and Festival of Polish Art. altered Scottish identity and world creatures, exposed in gripping www.northedinburgharts.co.uk views. Words that shaped the original tales. Spirits, gods and future of economics and religious demons from antiquity are dredged beliefs. Texts which changed the Mobile Dreams up as Travis De Vries journeys world. Organised by Mercat Tours. Scottish Storytelling Centre into the untold stories of Australia. www.mercattours.com Live Storytelling Drawing from a rich legacy of oral 6.30pm (1hr 45, with interval) Please note: The tour visits the Old storytelling passed down through £7.50 (£6) £5 Town which can involve cobbled his Gamilaroi heritage, enjoy a Adults streets, slopes and stairs. The tapestry of myths with live musical A poetic, funny and warm guide will always adapt the route accompaniment and specially storytelling performance about to visitor’s needs. commissioned animations that the everlasting human search for draw from the sacred myths and truth and connection, freedom legends of Australia’s first peoples. The Storytelling and beauty. In a playful stream In a clash of cultures some things Machine of English spiced with their change and others are lost, but the by Pinokio Theatre in Łódź native tongues, three performers stories live on. North Edinburgh Arts share a string of tales mythical Live Storytelling and personal, all connected by 5pm (1hr) | £3 (£1.50) | 7+ the language of dreams. With A scientist accidentally invents a storytellers Markus Luukkonen machine which buzzes, creaks and (Finland), Torgrim Mellum clatters, but most importantly tells Stene (Norway) and Tom stories! On request, the machine Van Outryve (Belgium). has told stories about a boy who lived in a pocket, loud silence and a girl’s journey to space looking for

06. Box office: 0131 556 9579 Saturday 21 October

From Regent Road to Russia: Globe-trotting around New Calton Burial Ground Meet at the Regent Road entrance to burial ground Walking Tour 11am (45mins) | Free (ticketed) Adults Come travel the globe in New Calton Burial Ground! Discover stories of how the world came to Ailie Finlay Edinburgh and of the Scots who made their mark on the world. from well-travelled studio holders emerge from the mysterious machine Hear about the Scots engineer that mist across borders and sail are told by the Pinokio Theatre actors, who built the Tsar’s imperial through time. The journey departs accompanied by music and live dreams and the poet whose words from the waiting room on the 3rd sounds. The audience have a genuine graced the walls of St Petersburg floor and will travel across 5 floors influence on the course of events, Palace. On our journey, uncover of the amazing maze of studios at St so every performance is remarkable tales of slavery and freedom, Margaret’s House. Departure times and original. Presented in Polish love and loss, and friendship and on the hour (except 1pm), maximum and English by Pinokio Theatre in enmity from travellers who share 10 passengers per journey. Łódź and part of Kite and Trumpet: a common resting ground. The Please note: the journey will Festival of Polish Art. tour will be fun and light-hearted include stairs but there is a lift and will leave participants to draw and folding chairs will be available. Wee Folk Magic their own conclusions on present The event is part of the Open Scottish Storytelling Centre international links! Organised by Doors Weekend. & Museum of Childhood the Friends of New Calton and Tickets and programme: Family Event Edinburgh World Heritage. www.edinburghpalette.co.uk 2pm (2hrs 30) | £5 (£4) | 4+ Reserve tickets: Enter the enchanted world of fairy [email protected] The Storytelling tales, full of mystery, malice and Machine magic. With sessions for 4-6 years, Stories from by Pinokio Theatre in Łódź 6-8 years and 9+ with accompanying Smokey Brae Scottish Storytelling Centre adults, through the afternoon. Unaccompanied adults are also St Margaret’s House Live Storytelling welcome for a special grown-up Walking Tour 1pm (1hr) | £8 (£6) £5 | 7+ session. The event features a galaxy 11am (6hrs, each tour lasts 45mins) A scientist accidentally invents a of Scotland’s storytellers, steeped Free (ticketed) | 8+ machine which buzzes, creaks and in folk and fairy lore with options Join intrepid storyteller Jan clatters, but most importantly tells for participation and listening spells. Bee Brown of The Thrive Archive stories! On request, the machine With storytellers Ailie Finlay, Tom for a journey around the world has told stories about a boy who Muir, Beth Cross, Daniel Allison, in 45 minutes! Smokey Brae was lived in a pocket, loud silence and a Robbie Fotheringham, Senga once full of steam trains and Jan girl’s journey to space looking for a Munro, Sheila Kinninmonth and has discovered a series of stories chocolate planet... but it’s open for new inspirations. The stories which Sylvia Troon. www.tracscotland.org 07. City of Stories; Mayhem and Magic – Sunday City of Dreams Stories from Sweden Riddle’s Court Scottish Storytelling Centre 22 October Talk & Walking Tour Live Storytelling 2pm (1hr 30) | £6 (£4) | Adults 5pm (50mins) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Storytellers, writers, poets and Adults The Enchanted Garden: thinkers throughout history Once described as “a force Storytelling amongst have taken Edinburgh as the of nature”, storyteller Jerker the Trees inspiration. Join us as we talk Fahlström invites you to a Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh about the influence of the Old glittering world of the Viking Age Family Event Town on our story makers and gods and heroes. With his brilliant 1pm (3hrs) | Free, drop-in | All ages learn about the tales which helped ingenuity, tales are woven together Join storytellers at the Royal build the world’s first UNESCO with pictures of the age – the Botanic Garden Edinburgh City of Literature. After the panel clothes, weapons and life styles and treat yourself to a relaxed discussion, we’ll be taking to the of the North. afternoon of stories for all the streets as poet Ken Cockburn family. Meet at the Botanic Cottage leads a walking tour and introduces 365 Days, Stories, Tunes and find the cosy spots where some of the characters, words and Scottish Storytelling Centre stories are shared or let storytellers stories built into the local area. Live Storytelling take you on story journeys into Organised by Edinburgh UNESCO 6.30pm (1hr 10) | £7.50 (£6) £5 the beautiful surroundings, where City of Literature. Adults nature glows with warm autumn Tickets: www.cityofliterature.com Throughout 2013, James colours. Robertson wrote a daily story, From Edinburgh’s each exactly 365 words long. In Mixing the Magic: Pen to the World 2016-17, Aidan O’Rourke wrote Polish Folktales Departs from Mercat Cross, a daily tune in response to the Scottish Storytelling Centre beside St Giles Cathedral stories, collaborating on some of Workshop Walking Tour them with harmonium player Kit 1pm (1hr 10) | £5 | 5+ 5pm (1hr 30) | Adult £13, Downes. Together, the trio present Storyteller and folklorist Michał Concession £11, Child £8 | 5+ a calendar of words and music for Malinowski hosts this rich Edinburgh has inspired writers a magical journey into imagination. introduction to Polish oral whose work is known and influence tradition. Showcasing the vivid and is felt across the globe. Work that Open Hearth interactive telling style, spectators includes desert islands, detectives Scottish Storytelling Centre can discover a rich brew of Polish and dissecting tables. Books that Live Storytelling tales and folklore, traversing local altered Scottish identity and world 8pm (2hrs) | £9 (£7.50) £6 legends, animal fables, religious views. Words that shaped the Adults tales, fairy tales and ghost stories. future of economics and religious Storytellers and musicians gather Part of Kite and Trumpet: Festival beliefs. Texts which changed the round the hearth for a relaxed of Polish Art. world. Organised by Mercat Tours. traditional session of stories from www.mercattours.com home and abroad, as the darkness Please note: The tour visits the Old closes in and the embers glow Town which can involve cobbled with pictures in the fire. Hosted by streets, slopes and stairs. The Festival Director Donald Smith, guide will always adapt the route with James Robertson, Tom Muir, to visitor’s needs. Aidan O’Rourke and Kit Downes. The perfect way to end your day.

08. Box office: 0131 556 9579 Undersea and Overland – Stories from Korea Scottish Storytelling Centre Live Storytelling 3pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Adults Storyteller Seung-Ah Kim collected a treasure of Korean folk tales from her grandmother and has brought them to Scotland to share. Join her in an enchanted afternoon of traditional stories from the Far East.

St Magnus of Orkney – 900 Years Scottish Storytelling Centre Live Storytelling 3.30pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Adults Storyteller Tom Muir tells the great Orkney saga of Magnus, the earl who made peace, and paid with his life, nine hundred years ago. Since then the legend of Magnus has gone round the world and the Cathedral of Magnus in Kirkwall is a pledge of peace from northern past to global future. Deepa Kiran

Through the Forest – Under Ancient Skies – Open Hearth Stories from Thailand Stories from Iran Scottish Storytelling Centre Scottish Storytelling Centre Scottish Storytelling Centre Live Storytelling Live Storytelling Live Storytelling 8pm (2hrs) | £9 (£7.50) £6 5pm (50mins) | £7.50 (£6) £5 6.30pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Adults Adults Adults Storytellers and musicians Originally from the region of Isan, Your evening will be lit by hundreds gather round the hearth for a in northeast Thailand, storyteller of dazzling stars as ancient Persian relaxed traditional session of Wajuppa Tossa will guide you stories unfold under the fine stories from home and abroad, through a rich forest of Thai myths craftmanship of master storyteller as the darkness closes in and the and legends, where you can pick Nosratollah Goodarzi and embers glow with pictures in the up some words of Lao – the local bilingual support storyteller fire. Hosted by storytellerMarion language – along the way. Elnaz Sabet, accompanied by Kenny, with guest storytellers traditional music. Nosratollah Goodarzi and Elnaz Sabet from Iran and Deepa Kiran from India. The perfect way to end your day.

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Monday 23 October Tales for Sale National Library of Scotland Live Storytelling Education Day 11am (1hr) | Free (ticketed) | 6+ and adults Storytelling in Schools: Beyond Performance Edinburgh’s renowned duo Scottish Storytelling Centre Macastory set up their stall to deal Workshop in tales of adventure, true crime, 10.30am (2hrs) | £12 (£10) £9 | Adults derring-do and love. Raiding the The Village Storytelling Centre has an excellent track record cellars of the National Library of of delivering projects in school settings, from whole school Scotland, Ron and Fergus offer projects to working with a single class over several weeks or the pick of chapbooks, broadsides delivering programmes to targeted groups of children and their and scandal sheets – LIVE. Re-live parents. This practical workshop will explore the various ways that an age when people queued to buy storytelling can support learning in a school context, going beyond the latest tale before its ink was performance to concrete examples of interactive techniques even dry. that can be delivered over time. We will also consider how, as storytellers, we can work alongside other education professionals Dancing with Trees to support pupils to raise their attainment, aspirations and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh confidence. With storytellerJoanne Marr. Live Storytelling 2pm (1hr 30) | Free (ticketed) | 12+ GiftingE very Child Storytellers Alette Willis and National Library of Scotland Allison Galbraith guide you Workshop through the Royal Botanic Garden 1.30pm (2hrs) | £12 (£10) | Adults Edinburgh, sharing stories from What is the role of culture in contemporary education from the their recently published collection early years? This session explores some Scottish and international of Eco-tales. An outside event, approaches. With presentations from Scotland, New Zealand and visiting some of the beautiful Singapore, it explores creative use of local and migrant cultural botanical niches. If weather is resources. The event includes an introduction to the National bad, the session will take place Library of Scotland’s Wee Windaes project by Alice Heywood, in the historical Botanic Cottage. Learning & Outreach Officer, and to theGifting Every Child project Reserve tickets: by TRACS. With Bea Ferguson, Kamini Ramachandran, www.thebotanics.eventbrite.co.uk Joe Harawira, Wajuppa Tossa and Stina Fagertun.

10. Box office: 0131 556 9579 Aotearoa – Stories Tuesday The Truth & the from New Zealand Three Rings Scottish Storytelling Centre 24 October Italian Cultural Institute Edinburgh Live Storytelling Workshop 5pm (50mins) | £7.50 (£6) £5 6pm (2hrs) | Free | Adults Adults Scotland meets India: What is the truth and can someone Experience the rich traditions of An Auld Acquaintance pretend to hold it exclusively? While New Zealand’s Land of Cloud and National Library of Scotland religious tensions increase, traditional Dawn, with Māori storyteller Joe Live Storytelling stories from the Arabic, Christian Harawira. The first nation peoples 2pm (1hr) | Free (ticketed) | Adults and Jewish religions highlight the of Aotearoa are a dynamic part of Join Deepa Kiran from India and connections between the three the nation’s contemporary culture Marion Kenny from Scotland for main monotheisms. With Giovanna and education. a spellbinding performance of Conforto and Enrico Bertoni. music and stories, celebrating the www.iicedimburgo.esteri.it Northern Lights – long-standing friendship between the two countries and to mark the The Alan Bruford Lecture Stories from Norway UK-India Year of Culture 2017. Scottish Storytelling Centre A Night in the Fairy Brugh: Live Storytelling Music & Dance through the Lens 6.30pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Istria Inspires – of Gaelic Storytelling Adults Stories from Croatia Scottish Storytelling Centre Enjoy a cosy evening with Scottish Storytelling Centre Talks & Lectures storyteller Stina Fagertun. With Live Storytelling 6.30pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) £5 | Adults her Norwegian, Kven and Coastal 2.30pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) £5 While Gaelic music and dance Sami ancestry she will share fairy Adults practices are rich and reasonably tales and legends from the edge of The heritage and landscapes of well-documented, few writers on the Arctic Circle. Northern Lights this beautiful country in the North these subjects have proceeded have never been so colourful! East of the Mediterranean Sea from the culture’s own vantage are brought to life by the young point. Dr Uilleam Lamb considers Open Hearth storytellers of the Istra Inspirit what we can we learn about the Scottish Storytelling Centre group. Be transported by their Gaels’ traditional music and dance Live Storytelling stories and get to know more about through their intergenerational tales, the region of Istria. 8pm (2hrs) | £9 (£7.50) £6 | Adults drawing together sundry threads Storytellers and musicians gather from Dr Alan Bruford’s substantial round the hearth for a relaxed Scotland meets contribution to Scottish Ethnology, traditional session of stories from Hungary: Romany & providing a refreshing angle to a home and abroad, as the darkness Travellers famous facet of Gaelic culture. closes in and the embers glow Scottish Storytelling Centre with pictures in the fire. Hosted Live Storytelling Precious Legacies: by storyteller David Campbell, 5pm (50mins) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Remembering the with guest storytellers Stina Adults Ancestors Fagertun from Norway, Jerker Jess Smith and Maja Bumberák Scottish Storytelling Centre Fahlström from Sweden and Joe explore connections between Live Storytelling Harawira from New Zealand, with Europe’s nomadic peoples. Often 8pm (2hrs) | £9 (£7.50) £6 | Adults music contributions by James described as “gypsies”, these Margaret Bennett, Ruth MacDonald Reid. The perfect way distinct groups are known for their Kirkpatrick, David Campbell to end your day. rich oral cultures and the harsh and Jess Smith celebrate their prejudice they experience to the rich inheritance from iconic present day. mentors and forebears. By honouring the past, we give to the future. A night to remember. www.tracscotland.org 11. Wednesday When Education by biologists as the “Everglades Becomes Possible: of the North”. Eight storytellers, 25 October from Dundee to Quebec, give their Stories of Life & Learning accounts... but are they true or false? University of Edinburgh Directed by André Desrochers. Global Gathering – Chaplaincy Centre Conference Where Snakes Can Sing ‘If Not Now, When?’ 11.30am (4hrs 30) | Free, drop-in Dovecot Studios Adults – Stories from Poland International Conference & Imagine what happens when we Scottish Storytelling Centre Workshops are cut off from education through Live Storytelling 10.30am (6hrs) | £16 (£14) £12 conflict, natural disaster or 5pm (50mins) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Adults disadvantaged circumstances. How Adults What is the role of storytellers does your education begin again Enjoy an afternoon with storyteller in the twenty-first century and what difference does it make Małgorzata Litwinowicz and be and how can we realise the to individuals and communities, transported to the magical world principles and goals of The schools and universities? These are of traditional Polish stories and Earth Charter Initiative? the big questions we’re immersing songs, where trees can talk and Over three days we take to ourselves in through story, life snakes can sing. Your tea time has heart the three questions experiences and pictorial exhibits. never been so enthralling! asked by Immanuel Kant: What can I know? What Scotland meets Pakistan: should I do? What may I hope? The Missing Lynx Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Islands to Cities Scottish Storytelling Centre The Gathering will be Live Storytelling Live Storytelling supported by Stories in 2pm (1hr 30) | Free (ticketed) 6.30pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Place, a digital resource for All ages Adults mapping and celebrating Wolves, bears and lynx once A collaboration between Pakistani narratives of place and local roamed the hills and forests of singer Sara Kazmi and Scotland identity across the globe. Scotland. Is it time for them to based musician Sarah Hayes flows Each day will have keynote return? Join storyteller Daniel into an exchange between Pakistani stories, talks, discussions and Allison and musician Lally O’Keeffe poet Shazea Quraishi and Scottish workshops, culminating in to explore the hot topic of rewilding storyteller Ian Stephen. Enjoy a plenary celebration on Friday and hear stories told about the unique journey in music, song, 27 October. debated animals by cultures from all around the world. Reserve tickets: story and poetry from the Isle of Day 1 – Storytelling www.thebotanics.eventbrite.co.uk Lewis to Lahore. for Nature Tales of the Open Hearth The first day of the gathering Quebec Wetlands Scottish Storytelling Centre will focus on the themes of Live Storytelling Living Creatively with Nature; Scottish Storytelling Centre Film Screening 8pm (2hrs) | £9 (£7.50) £6 Sustainability; Ecology Adults and Culture; Mapping, 2.30pm (1hr 20) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Adults Storytellers and musicians gather Connecting and Guiding. round the hearth for a relaxed With contributions from Joe 200-year-old Scottish-French Canadian legends and Mohawk first traditional session of stories Harawira, Mirian Vilela of from home and abroad. Hosted the Earth Charter, Malcolm nation oral traditions are revealed for the first time in this storytelling by Ian Stephen, with Pakistan’s Green, Alette Willis, Shazea Quraishi and Sara Kazmi, Georgiana Keable, Bernard feature film. The rich history and ecological bounty of the Lake St storyteller Peter Chand and music Anson, and storyteller by Sarah Hayes. The perfect way Alexander Mackenzie. Francis National Wildlife Area is an internationally protected site known to end your day.

12. Box office: 0131 556 9579 Thursday The Natural Storyteller Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 26 October Live Storytelling 2pm (1hr 30) | Free (ticketed) All ages Global Gathering – The Natural Storyteller inspires ‘If Not Now, When?’ children and adults to tell tales Dovecot Studios from Norway and many other International Conference lands. Let book author and & Workshops storyteller Georgiana Keable 10.30am (6hrs) | £16 (£14) £12 guide you through fairy tales from Adults the forest and true tales of sea, What is the role of storytellers earth and sky. Shared at bedtime in the twenty-first century or around the campfire under the and how can we realise the stars, these tales inspire wonder principles and goals of The and service for Mother Earth. Earth Charter Initiative? Reserve tickets: www.thebotanics. Over three days we take to eventbrite.co.uk. heart the three questions Linda Williamson asked by Immanuel Kant: People of the North – What can I know? What Stories from Russia Mio Shapley and Linda Williamson should I do? What may I hope? Scottish Storytelling Centre for a night in Star Land. Film Screening The Gathering will be 2.30pm (1hr 40) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Healing the Soul - supported by Stories in Adults Stories from Peru Place, a digital resource for Northern Russia is a rich tapestry Scottish Storytelling Centre mapping and celebrating of cultural diversity and ethnic Live Storytelling narratives of place and local traditions. Marina Yuzhaninova, 6.30pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) £5 identity across the globe. Director of the Northern Travelling Adults Each day will have keynote Film Festival, introduces two The myths and legends of the stories, talks, discussions and classic films byAndrei Golovnev Peruvian landscape come again to workshops, culminating in evoking the landscape, culture and Scotland through the captivating, plenary celebration on Friday storytelling of the remote north. heart-warming storytelling of 27 October. Presented in association with The Wayqui (Brother) César Villegas Consul General of the Russian Astete and the bilingual support of Day 2 - Storytelling Federation in Scotland. storyteller Laura Escuela from the for Peace and Canary Islands. Justice World of the Bear The second day of the Scottish Storytelling Centre Open Hearth gathering will focus on Live Storytelling Scottish Storytelling Centre the themes of Conflict 5pm (50mins) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Live Storytelling Resolution; Citizenship Adults 8pm (2hrs) | £9 (£7.50) £6 Awareness, Education and The kinship of bears and humans Adults Action; Equalities; Health has been running through world Enjoy a traditional story session and Wellbeing; Migration and mythology since the Ice Age. The hosted by storytellers from the Asylum. With contributions seven stars of Ursa Major symbolise European Storytelling and Peace from Amina Blackwood, the North, begetting stories of Council. Gather round the hearth Wajuppa Tossa, Maimouna hunters, sages and blood brothers to hear stories of bridge builders Jallow, Liz Weir and Peter which have spellbound listeners for across the world. The perfect way Chand. 50,000 years. Join storytellers to end your day. www.tracscotland.org 13. Friday Tales from the From Edinburgh’s New World Pen to the World 27 October National Library of Scotland Departs from Mercat Cross, Live Storytelling besides St Giles Cathedral 2pm (1hr) | Free (ticketed) | Adults Walking Tour Global Gathering – Join storyteller Mara Menzies 5pm (1hr 30) | Adult £13, ‘If Not Now, When?’ as she shares her experiences Concession £11, Child £8 | 5+ Dovecot Studios and new-found stories gathered Edinburgh has inspired writers International Conference & from extraordinary characters whose work is known and influence Workshops at festivals across Cuba, Utah is felt across the globe. Work that 10.30am (6hrs) | £16 (£14) £12 and California. Tales from the includes desert islands, detectives Adults indigenous peoples, stories that and dissecting tables. Books that What is the role of storytellers have sailed across oceans and altered Scottish identity and world in the twenty-first century stories created as the settlers views. Words that shaped the and how can we realise the arrived. A rich selection of tales future of economics and religious principles and goals of The that will sweep you across beliefs. Texts which changed the Earth Charter Initiative? the waters to a new world of world. Organised by Mercat Tours. Over three days we take to adventure, heroism, exploration www.mercattours.com heart the three questions and magic. Please note: The tour visits the Old asked by Immanuel Kant: Town which can involve cobbled What can I know? What October 1943 – streets, slopes and stairs. The should I do? What may I hope? The Rescue guide will always adapt the route to visitor’s needs. The Gathering will be Scottish Storytelling Centre supported by Stories in Live Storytelling Place, a digital resource for 2.30pm (1hr 45, with interval) Tongue Tied & £5 mapping and celebrating £7.50 (£6) | Adults Twisted – Indian Tales; narratives of place and local One of the most successful Contemporary Twist actions against Nazi Germany’s identity across the globe. Scottish Storytelling Centre extermination of Jewish people Each day will have keynote Live Storytelling took place in Denmark in October stories, talks, discussions and 5.30pm (1hr 45, with interval) 1943. More than 7000 Danish Jews workshops, culminating in £7.50 (£6) £5 | Adults were sailed to safety in Sweden plenary celebration on Friday Indian storytelling for the 21st – hidden in fishing boats and 27 October. century combines the talents of small ships. As a result, 98.5% of UK music producer PKCtheFirst the Danish Jews survived World with international storyteller Peter Day 3 - Storytelling War II. With life-affirming Jewish Chand. Experience two distinctive for Hope music, Klezmerduo tells the story artists bring a fresh UK twist on The third and final day of the of Danish Jews, on their escape traditional tales collected from gathering will focus on the to Sweden, and the story of the South Asian elders, celebrating the themes of Creative Learning; many Danes who had the will art of live storytelling while fusing a Myths, Metaphors and Dreams; and courage to help their fellow unique blend of Urban Hip Hop and Imagining, Sharing and Telling; citizens, in the hour of greatest classical South Asian sounds for a Celebration and Joy. With danger. With Ann-Mai-Britt Fjord unique audience experience which contributions from Grian and Henrik Bredholt. Cutanda, Ana Maria Lines, bridges cultures and generations. Jean Edmiston, Wayqui César Villegas Astete, Giovanna Conforto, George Macpherson, Travis De Vries, and the Be United project.

14. Box office: 0131 556 9579 Mara Menzies

A Cabaret of Pestilence Festival Guid Crack - Open Hearth Surgeons’ Hall Museums When Worlds Collide Scottish Storytelling Centre Multi-artform The Fig Tree Bistro Live Storytelling 7pm (1hr 10) | £9 (£6.50) | 12+ Club Event 8pm (2hrs) | £9 (£7.50) £6 This multi-disciplinary showcase 7.30pm (2hrs 30) | By donation (£5) Adults is the culmination of the Heritage Adults Storytellers and musicians gather Lottery Funded project Soutra: Join Edinburgh’s renowned round the hearth for a relaxed Surgery & Superstition. The storytelling club. The veil between traditional session of stories from project is inspired by local history the worlds grows thin at Samhuinn home and abroad, as the darkness related to Soutra, the Scottish and Beltane, dawn and dusk. As closes in and the embers glow medieval monastic hospital, early Halloween approaches we invite with pictures in the fire. Hosted surgery, medieval communities you to share your stories of the by storyteller Mara Menzies, and superstition in Scotland. strange and wonderful things that with Global Gathering storytellers Tickets and information: happen when two worlds come Wayqui César Villegas Astete www.museum.rcsed.ac.uk together. Hosted by storyteller and Laura Escuela from Peru and Daniel Allison. Spain, Liz Weir from Northern Ireland and Wajuppa Tossa from Thailand. The perfect way to end your day.

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Time Event Venue Page Friday 20 October 5pm Lost Tales Live SSC 06 5pm From Edinburgh’s Pen to the World Departs from Mercat Cross 06 5pm The Storytelling Machine North Edinburgh Arts 06 6.30pm Mobile Dreams SSC 06

Saturday 21 October 11am From Regent Road to Russia Burial Ground 07 11am Stories from Smokey Brae St Margaret’s House 07 1pm The Storytelling Machine SSC 07 2pm Wee Folk Magic SSC & Museum of Childhood 07 2pm City of Stories; City of Dreams Riddle’s Court 08 5pm From Edinburgh’s Pen to the World Departs from Mercat Cross 08 5pm Mayhem and Magic – Stories from Sweden SSC 08 6.30pm 365 Days, Stories, Tunes SSC 08 8pm Open Hearth SSC 08

Sunday 22 October 1pm The Enchanted Garden RBGE 08 1pm Mixing the Magic: Polish Folktales SSC 08 3pm Undersea and Overland – Stories from Korea SSC 09 3.30pm St Magnus of Orkney – 900 Years SSC 09 5pm Through the Forest – Stories from Thailand SSC 09 6.30pm Under Ancient Skies – Stories from Iran SSC 09 8pm Open Hearth SSC 09

Monday 23 October 10.30am Storytelling in Schools: Beyond Performance SSC 10 11am Tales for Sale NLS 10 1.30pm Gifting Every Child NLS 10 2pm Dancing with Trees RBGE 10 5pm Aotearoa – Stories from New Zealand SSC 11 6.30pm Northern Lights - Stories from Norway SSC 11 8pm Open Hearth SSC 11

Tuesday 24 October 2pm Scotland meets India: An Auld Acquaintance NLS 11 2.30pm Istria Inspires – Stories from Croatia SSC 11 5pm Scotland meets Hungary: Romany & Travellers SSC 11 6pm The Truth & the Three Rings Italian Cultural Institute Edinburgh 11 6.30pm The Alan Bruford Lecture SSC 11 8pm Precious Legacies: Remembering the Ancestors SSC 11

Wednesday 25 October 10.30am Global Gathering – ‘If Not Now, When?’ Dovecot Studios 12 11.30am When Education Becomes Possible University of Edinburgh 12 2pm The Missing Lynx RBGE 12 2.30pm Tales of the Quebec Wetlands SSC 12 5pm Where Snakes Can Sing - Stories from Poland SSC 12 6.30pm Scotland meets Pakistan: Islands to Cities SSC 12 8pm Open Hearth SSC 12

16. Venue Key For Festival on Tour listings see details on page 23-29 SSC Scottish Storytelling Centre NLS National Library of Scotland RBGE Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh www.tracscotland.org

Time Event Venue Page Thursday 26 October 10.30am Global Gathering – ‘If Not Now, When?’ Dovecot Studios 13 2pm The Natural Storyteller RBGE 13 2.30pm People of the North - Stories from Russia SSC 13 5pm World of the Bear SSC 13 6.30pm Healing the Soul - Stories from Peru SSC 13 8pm Open Hearth SSC 13

Friday 27 October 10.30am Global Gathering – ‘If Not Now, When?’ Dovecot Studios 14 2pm Tales from the New World NLS 14 2.30pm October 1943 – The Rescue SSC 14 5pm From Edinburgh’s Pen to the World Departs from Mercat Cross 14 5.30pm Tongue Tied & Twisted SSC 14 7pm A Cabaret of Pestilence Surgeons’ Hall Museums 15 7.30pm Festival Guid Crack - When Worlds Collide The Fig Tree Bistro 15 8pm Open Hearth SSC 15

Saturday 28 October 10am Spooky Lauriston 18 11am Spinning a Yarn Dovecot Studios 18 1.30pm Guisers Galore SSC & Museum of Edinburgh 18 2.30pm Weaving Stories from the World Nomads Tent 18 3pm Champions Tale – A South African Story SSC 18 5pm From Edinburgh’s Pen to the World Departs from Mercat Cross 18 5pm Reflecting Fridas SSC 19 6.30pm The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives SSC 19 7pm A Cabaret of Pestilence Surgeons’ Hall Museums 19 8pm Open Hearth SSC 19

Sunday 29 October 10am Spooky Lauriston Lauriston Castle 20 12pm Family Samhuinn SSC 20 1.30pm Rainbow on Leith Leith Community Croft 20 5pm Journey to the West - Stories from China SSC 20 6.30pm Moon Shadow - Stories from Singapore & Malaysia SSC 20 7pm A Cabaret of Pestilence Surgeons’ Hall Museums 21 8pm Open Hearth SSC 21

Monday 30 October 2pm To Absent Friends SSC 21

Tuesday 31 October 10am The Devil and the Clutch of Fools SSC 21 7pm Ossian Supper SSC 22 9pm Samhuinn Fire Festival Edinburgh Old Town 22

Tuesday 7 November 7pm To Absent Friends: Community Supper Broughton St Mary’s Church Hall 21

17. Finale Weekend Saturday available. Also part of Luminate Champions Tale – Festival. Reserve tickets: A South African Story www.dovecotstudios.com/ 28 October Scottish Storytelling Centre programme Dance & Story performance 3pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Spooky Lauriston Guisers Galore Adults Lauriston Castle Scottish Storytelling Centre & An invigorating show with Family Event Museum of Edinburgh performance art, dance and 10am (3hrs) | £7 | All ages Family Event interactive discussion. It tells the Have a ghoulishly terrifying time 1.30pm (2hrs 30) | £5 (£4) | 5+ story of one young man growing at Lauriston’s annual Halloween What’s Guising? Come along and up in rural South Africa – a story of event. Experience a variety of learn a song, a poem and a dance secrecy, lies, confusion and hope. gruesome activities over 3 hours, for real Halloween guising, then Journey with Tinkler to the heart and remember to wear your most follow the Old Town Guisers of a South African township and terrifying costume. N.B: this is not parade or prepare for guising in connect with his personal story; a drop-in session but a structured your local area. Rehearsals at learn what dance means to him session lasting the full duration. Scottish Storytelling Centre then and his community. Champions Tickets: - 0131 228 1155 performances at Museum of Tale allows the lines between Edinburgh at 3pm & 3.30pm. audiences and performers to Spinning a Yarn Bring your own costume or mask. become blurred and real learning Dovecot Studios Not suitable for children under 5. to occur. Discover South African Live Storytelling All children must be accompanied. joys, traditions and social norms, 11am (1hr) | Free (ticketed) | All ages and experience the dreams of a Storyteller Jan Bee Brown will be Weaving Stories new generation of young South sharing stories from around the from the World Africans. Co-produced by BE world inspired by the Daughters Nomads Tent United and The Champions. of Penelope exhibition, with a Live Storytelling spinning demonstration by the 2.30pm (1hr 30) | £6 | Adults From Edinburgh’s Broughton Spinners. From sewing Join storytellers and musicians nettle shirts for seven swans to an Pen to the World Deepa Kiran from India and Departs from Mercat Cross, eight legged spidery curse passed Marion Kenny from Scotland in down the generations, come and besides St Giles Cathedral the sumptuous surroundings of Walking Tour hear Jan weave her stories of the Nomads Tent as they share sleeping princesses and tricky 5pm (1hr 30) | Adult £13, spellbinding myths and legends Concession £11, Child £8 | 5+ tricksters, then join in and make celebrating the ancient art of a spider diagram to help you tell Edinburgh has inspired writers weaving. Tickets: 0131 662 1612 whose work is known and influence your own spooky stories just in www.nomadstent.co.uk/events time for Halloween! Hearing loop is felt across the globe. Work that includes desert islands, detectives

18. Box office: 0131 556 9579 Maimouna Jallow and dissecting tables. Books that The Secret Lives of A Cabaret of Pestilence altered Scottish identity and world Baba Segi’s Wives - Surgeons’ Hall Museums views. Words that shaped the Stories from Africa Multi-artform future of economics and religious 7pm (1hr 10) | £9 (£6.50) | 12+ beliefs. Texts which changed the Scottish Storytelling Centre Live Storytelling This multi-disciplinary showcase world. Organised by Mercat Tours. is the culmination of the Heritage www.mercattours.com 6.30pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Adults 16+ Lottery Funded project Soutra: Please note: The tour visits the Old Inspired by Nigerian writer Lola Surgery & Superstition. The Town which can involve cobbled Shoneyin’s novel, The Secret project is inspired by local history streets, slopes and stairs. The Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives is an related to Soutra, the Scottish guide will always adapt the route endearing and powerful tale of medieval monastic hospital, early to visitor’s needs. deception, betrayal, love and surgery, medieval communities friendship. It chronicles the life of and superstition in Scotland. ReflectingF ridas Baba Segi, the ultimate patriarch, Tickets and information: Scottish Storytelling Centre as he tries to unravel the mystery www.museum.rcsed.ac.uk Live Storytelling behind his fourth wife’s infertility. 5pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Through his quest, we explore the Open Hearth Adults burdens that society places on Scottish Storytelling Centre The life and work of the Mexican women and the cunning ways Live Storytelling artist Frida Kahlo inspires this these women escape from the 8pm (2hrs) | £9 (£7.50) £6 | Adults show, created and performed by confines of poverty and patriarchy. Storytellers and musicians gather Brazilian storyteller Ana Maria Be ready to laugh, cry and connect round the hearth for a relaxed Lines. Frida’s soul echoes in many with five amazing characters, traditional session of stories from of us. Frida’s diversities, love, all performed by storyteller home and abroad, as the darkness injuries and suffering were the Maimouna Jallow. closes in and the embers glow subject for her work. A unique life, with pictures in the fire. Hosted an exceptional woman. by storyteller Michael Kerins, with guest storytellers Maimouna Jallow from Gambia-Kenya and Ana Maria Lines from Brazil. The perfect way to end your day. www.tracscotland.org 19. Sunday 29 October

Spooky Lauriston Lauriston Castle Family Event 10am (3hrs) | £7 | All ages Have a ghoulishly terrifying time at Lauriston’s annual Halloween event. Experience a variety of gruesome activities over 3 hours, and remember to wear your most terrifying costume. N.B: this is not a drop-in session but a structured session lasting the full duration. Tickets: Usher Hall – 0131 228 1155

Family Samhuinn Scottish Storytelling Centre Family Event 12pm (3hrs) | £2 | 3-12 years In the Celtic calendar, the traditional festival of Samhuinn is a time when the veil between the land of the living and the departed is thinnest. Enjoy an afternoon of stories, drama games and songs, Fong Liu making Samhuinn memorable and celebrating with us. Journey to the West – Moon Shadow - Rainbow on Leith Stories from China Stories from Singapore Leith Community Croft, St James Scottish Storytelling Centre & Malaysia Church Hall and Trinity House Live Storytelling Scottish Storytelling Centre £5 Family Event 5pm (50mins) | £7.50 (£6) Live Storytelling 1.30pm (2hrs 30) | Free Adults 6.30pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) £5 All ages Storyteller Ma Wei has undertaken Adults Explore the past and present of a long Journey to the West to Originally from Malaysia and now Leith’s diverse, vibrant culture with share stories from one of the in Singapore, storyteller Kamini food, stories, music and dance. masterpieces of Chinese literature. Ramachandran takes your From seasonal celebration on the Together with Scotland based imagination to special places with community croft at the west end Chinese storyteller and bilingual her enchanting telling. Follow her of Leith to visiting Leith’s historic support Fong Liu, they will magic weave as jungle spirits are seagoing HQ on the Kirkgate... introduce you to Monkey and evoked and the supernatural is so much to discover and enjoy. other characters. Ma Wei is the revealed under the unearthly light present-day successor of the of the moon. Yangzhou PinHua – storytelling in the Yangzhou dialect.

20. Box office: 0131 556 9579 A Cabaret of Pestilence Monday own pre-prepared contributions Surgeons’ Hall Museums of poetry, stories, songs or Multi-artform 30 October photographs. Dedicate your meal 7pm (1hr 10) | £9 (£6.50) | 12+ to one person, or to the memory This multi-disciplinary showcase of many. The evening will be is the culmination of the Heritage To Absent Friends interspersed with entertainment Lottery Funded project Soutra: Suppers of Storytelling from local artists, reflecting on Surgery & Superstition. The and Remembrance loss through music, poetry and project is inspired by local history Scottish Storytelling Centre storytelling. Tickets and information: related to Soutra, the Scottish Workshop www.toabsentfriends.org.uk medieval monastic hospital, early 2pm (2hrs 30) | £8 (£6) £5 surgery, medieval communities Adults Tuesday and superstition in Scotland. People who have died remain a part Tickets and information: of our lives – their stories are our 31 October www.museum.rcsed.ac.uk stories, yet many Scottish traditions relating to the expression of loss and The Devil and the Open Hearth remembrance have faded over time. The supper approach is a modern Clutch of Fools Scottish Storytelling Centre take on a timeless concept, getting A spontaneous Marathon Live Storytelling together over food to remember of Halloween Storytelling 8pm (2hrs) | £9 (£7.50) £6 Scottish Storytelling Centre Adults people who have died. The suppers Live Storytelling Storytellers and musicians gather are an excuse to tell stories, to 10am (12hrs) | Free round the hearth for a relaxed celebrate and to reminisce, because Children up to 10 (10am-12pm), traditional session of stories from people live on in the memories and Young Adults 11-16 (12pm – 2pm), home and abroad, as the darkness stories we share. Led by the founders Adults (2pm onwards to late) closes in and the embers glow with of the To Absent Friends Festival You know who you are… this pictures in the fire. The perfect and in partnership with SISF, this event is a culmination of our way to end your day. Hosted by participative workshop will explore global storytelling festival for storyteller George Macpherson, the To Absent Friends Supper as a you to join in with a story of your with guest storytellers Kamini means of recreating an evocative telling, whoever you are! Young or Ramachandran from Singapore- opportunity for remembrance in old, grimy or beautiful, we all go Malaysia and Ma Wei and Fong Liu the Scottish tradition. into Halloween with a certain from China. As a follow-up to the workshop, sense of foreboding. It is a time attendees have the option of when the veil between light and booking in advance for the dark invites the unholy to be following event: blessed and the innocent to Tuesday 7 November be drowned. This marathon storytelling event brings To Absent Friends: storytellers from different nations Community Supper together with local people in Broughton St Mary’s Church Hall a storytelling extravaganza, to Storytelling Supper face off against the demons of 7pm (3hrs) | £5 | Adults Halloween. All the stories will be Invite some people you’d like to woven and cobbled together spend the evening with, book a under a spell of Machiavellian wit table, and raise a toast To Absent into a single story lasting 12 hours Friends. Over a simple three course for this very first and one-time only meal share stories of people who event. Come along if you dare. have died. Chat away informally, or Hosted by storyteller Alexander structure your evening around your Mackenzie. www.tracscotland.org 21. George Macpherson

Ossian Supper Samhuinn Fire Festival Scottish Storytelling Centre Edinburgh Old Town | Site-Specific Storytelling Supper 9pm (3hrs) 7pm (2hrs 30) | £25 Free (donations welcome) Adults Adults and children 10+ Discover Ossian – Scotland’s other, The Beltane Fire Society ancient Bard – along with traditions celebrates the Celtic New Year of Fionn Mac Cùil and his warrior by marking the end of summer band. This unique event combines and welcoming the onset of feasting, comradeship, poetry, winter with a stunning torch lit story and song to honour the Bard procession featuring acrobatics, with the kind of evening Ossian fireworks, beautiful costumes and himself would enjoy. Our hosts for breathtaking performances. this Celtic Feasting, interspersed www.beltane.org with Ossian lore, include storyteller George Macpherson and Ruaridh Mackintosh who initiated the Ossian Supper, with further contributions by Hamish Moore, Bob Mitchell, Beverley Bryant and Jill McPherson. The perfect way to end the Storytelling Festival, on Samhuinn Night.

22. Box office: 0131 556 9579 Festival On Tour Guest storytellers meet with local performers and audiences, offering a fantastic opportunity to experience in-situ storytelling across the country, highlighting the close links stories have with local tradition, landscape and history. Guest storytellers Stina Fagertun Thursday Friday 20 & from Norway and Jerker 27 September – Saturday 21 Fahlström from Sweden will share stories with Scottish storytellers Sunday October and musicians, for a special 29 October morning of stories from home and Glasgow abroad. Please note: the event is not open to members of the public. Perthshire Champions Tale – The Enchanted Forest South African dance Sunday 2017 – Oir an Uisge & dialogue showcase 22 October Faskally Wood, Pitlochry The Space, 257 London Road, Set amidst the stunning autumn Glasgow, G40 1PE woodland of Forestry Commission 7pm (1hr 20) | Adults | £10 Durness Scotland’s Faskally Wood An invigorating show with in Highland Perthshire, The performance art, dance and The Ghost Tale Evening Enchanted Forest is Scotland’s interactive discussion. It tells the The Whale Tale, 17C Craft Village, premier sound and light event story of one young man growing Balnakeil, Durness, Lairg IV27 4PT with storytelling sessions each up in rural South Africa - a story of Live Storytelling night. Scots Gaelic for “Edge of secrecy, lies, confusion and hope. 7pm | £10 (inc. food & drink) | 6+ the Water”, this year’s show Journey with Tinkler to the heart Enjoy an evening of folktales, name Oir an Uisge has taken its of a South African township and ghost stories and amazing food inspiration from the magnificent connect with his personal story; with storyteller Diana Bertoldi Loch Dunmore, at the heart of learn what dance means to him and in the beautiful setting of Faskally Wood. his community. Champions Tale Scotland’s North Coast. allows the lines between audiences www.halloweenfestival.net/ On Thursday 26 October and performers to become blurred ghost-tale guest storyteller from Poland and real learning to occur. Discover Małgorzata Litwinowicz will share South African joys, traditions and Monday traditional stories and ballads with social norms, and experience the resident storytellers Claire Hewitt dreams of a new generation of 23 October and Lindsey Gibb. Enjoy a cosy young South Africans. Co-produced night of stories from home and by BE United and The Champions. abroad in the Yurt! Tickets: championstale.bpt.me Isle of Islay For tickets and information please More information: Healing the Soul – visit www.enchantedforest.org.uk www.be-united.org.uk www.thespacescotland.org Stories from Peru Ramsay Hall, Port Ellen, Isle of Islay, PA42 7BY Friday Live Storytelling 20 October 7pm (1hr 30) | Free (ticketed) The myths and legends of the Peruvian landscapes are brought Duns back to Scotland through the captivating and moving storytelling Duns Primary School of Wayqui (Brother) César Villegas Storytelling Festival Astete, with bilingual support by Duns Primary School is taking storyteller Laura Escuela. over the reins for the 4th edition Pre-booking required – please of the Primary School Storytelling contact the library to reserve a Festival in the Scottish Borders. seat: 01369 708 664.

24. Box office: 0131 556 9579 Tuesday 24 October

Campbeltown Healing the Soul – Stories from Peru Campbeltown Library, Aqualibrium, Kinloch Park, Kinloch Michael Kerins Road, PA28 6EG Live Storytelling 7pm (1hr 30) | Free (ticketed) Glasgow Wednesday The myths and legends of the Peruvian landscapes are brought Open Word – Open 25 – Friday 27 back to Scotland through the World at Glasgow October captivating and moving storytelling Libraries of Wayqui (Brother) César Maryhill Library, 1508 Maryhill Villegas Astete, with bilingual Road, Glasgow, G20 9AD, Glasgow support by storyteller Laura Live Storytelling Escuela. 6.30pm (1hr) Free Open Word – Open World Pre-booking required – please Working with Glasgow Libraries, at Glasgow Libraries contact the library to reserve a Glasgow born storyteller Michael Partick Library, Easterhouse Library seat: 01586 555 435. Kerins stretches old word games & Hillhead Library into new and hilarious fun for Live Storytelling Dundee all, including activities with a Free, pre-booking required Halloween theme. SKYPE Story concerts, Sing-a-long From South Asia Information on 0141 276 0715. & New writing projects to Dundee Open Word – Open World will HM Frigate Unicorn, South Victoria Helensburgh explore global issues through the Dock Road, Victoria Dock, Dundee, power of storytelling and song, DD1 3BP Weaving Stories including specially commissioned Live Storytelling from Norway & India performances from local schools. 7pm (2hrs) | £5 Helensburgh Library, Children will create new writing At this special event, Thai myths West King Street, G84 8EB based on words that they have and legends flourish by the River Live Storytelling identified and amended to make Tay. Originally from North-East 7pm (1hr 30) | Free (ticketed) other words by the addition of Thailand, storyteller Wajuppa Enjoy a cosy evening of stories a single letter. Enjoy a relaxing Tossa will join Blether Tay-gither and journey from the Tropics to hour of inspiring fun with master storytellers for a night of tales from the Arctic Circle. Stina Fagertun storyteller Michael Kerins. home and abroad. from Norway and Deepa Kiran Michael’s captivating style will Tickets: sheila@blethertaygither. from India will keep your make you laugh, think and maybe org or 01334 474 836. imagination well entertained. shiver or shed a tear. SKYPE links Pre-booking required – please with Pennsylvania (USA), Moscow contact the library to reserve a (Russia), Perm (Russia), The Hague seat: 01436 658 833. (Holland), Stockholm (Sweden) and Shenzhen (China). For tickets and information please visit: openwordopenworld.wixsite. com/index www.tracscotland.org 25. Wednesday 25 October

Fife From South Asia & Africa to Fife The Friary, Queen Street, Inverkeithing, KY11 1NU Live Storytelling 7.45pm (1hr 45) | Free (ticketed) Kenya’s Maimouna Jallow and Singapore’s Kamini Ramachandran meet in Scotland to share stories with local storytellers from Kingdom Tales and Burgh Blethers. The magical surrounding of the Friary is the best setting for a multicultural night of stories. Donations Welcome. Tickets: [email protected]

Findhorn ReflectingF ridas Moray Art Centre, The Park, Mai Wei Findhorn, IV36 3TA Live Storytelling 7.30pm (1hr 45) | £10 (£8), £6 for Isle of Bute Lochgilphead under 16 The life and work of the Mexican Under Ancient Skies – Healing the Soul - artist Frida Kahlo are the Stories from Iran Stories from Peru inspiration for this show, created Rothesay Library, Moat Centre, Lochgilphead Library, and performed by Brazilian Stuart Street, Isle of Bute, Manse Brae, PA31 8QZ storyteller Ana Maria Lines. PA20 0BX Live Storytelling Frida’s soul echoes in many of us. Live Storytelling 7pm (1hr 30) | Free (ticketed) Frida’s diversities, love, injuries 7pm (1hr 30) | Free (ticketed) The myths and legends of the and suffering were the subject Your evening will be lit by hundreds Peruvian landscapes are brought for her work. A unique life, an of dazzling stars as ancient back to Scotland through the exceptional woman. Persian stories unfold under captivating and moving storytelling Tickets and information: the fine craftmanship of master of Wayqui (Brother) César www.universalhall.co.uk storyteller Nosratollah Goodarzi, Villegas Astete, with bilingual with bilingual support storyteller support by storyteller Laura Elnaz Sabet. Pre-booking required Escuela. – please contact the library to Pre-booking required – please reserve a seat: 01700 503 266. contact the library to reserve a seat: 01546 602 072.

26. Box office: 0131 556 9579 Oban Thursday Glasgow Weaving Stories 26 October Open Word – Open from Norway & India World at Glasgow Oban Library, Aberdeen Libraries 77 Albany Street, PA34 4AL Possilpark Library, 127 Allander Live Storytelling Scotland meets Street, Glasgow, G22 5JJ, 7pm (1hr 30) | Free (ticketed) Pakistan: Trading Live Storytelling Enjoy a cosy evening of stories and 6.30pm (1hr) | Free journey from the Tropics to the Story & Song Working with Glasgow Libraries, Arctic Circle. Guest storytellers Linklater Room, King’s College, Possilpark born storyteller Michael Stina Fagertun from Norway and University of Aberdeen, AB24 3FX Kerins returns to the library of his Deepa Kiran from India will keep Live Storytelling childhood for old word games and your imagination well entertained. 6.30pm (1hr 15) | Free | Adults activities with a Halloween theme. Pre-booking required – please A continuing collaboration New and hilarious fun contact the library to reserve a between Pakistani singer Sara for all. seat: 01631 571 444. Kazmi and Scotland based Information on 0141 276 0928. musician Sarah Hayes joins an exchange of stories and poems Thursday 26 – between Pakistani poet Shazea Isle of Mull Sunday 29 Quraishi and Scottish storyteller Weaving Stories Ian Stephen. Enjoy a lively journey October in music, song, story and poetry from Norway & India from the Isle of Lewis to Lahore. Tobermory Library, Tobermory High School, Isle of Mull, PA75 6PX Orkney Further information: [email protected] Live Storytelling 7pm (1hr 30) | Free (ticketed) Orkney Storytelling Enjoy a cosy evening of stories and Festival Dunoon journey from the Tropics to the Now in its 8th consecutive year, Under Ancient Skies – Arctic Circle. Guest storytellers the Orkney Storytelling Festival Stina Fagertun from Norway and will welcome guest storytellers Stories from Iran Deepa Kiran from India will keep Hjorleifur Stefansson from Iceland, Dunoon Library, your imagination well entertained. Jerker Fahlström from Sweden and 248 Argyll Street, PA23 7LT Pre-booking required – please Ruth Kirkpatrick from Scotland. Live Storytelling contact the library to reserve a They will be sharing tales from near 7.30pm (1hr 30) | Free (ticketed) seat: 01688 301 919. and far under the Festival’s broad Your evening will be lit by hundreds theme of St Magnus and his legacy, of dazzling stars as ancient Persian as Orkney commemorates 900 stories unfold under the fine years since his death. The packed craftmanship of master storyteller programme includes a trip to the Nosratollah Goodarzi, with tiny island of Egilsay, as well as bilingual support storyteller hosting author, TV presenter and Elnaz Sabet. Pre-booking required lecturer Nick Mayhew-Smith who – please contact the library to will give a talk on the importance of reserve a seat: 01369 708 682. saints and their stories to Medieval Orkney. Plus open mic sessions, including the ever-popular event at Betty’s Reading Room, and a children’s workshop on storytelling and storymaking. www.orkneystorytellingfestival.co.uk www.tracscotland.org 27. introduce you to Monkey and Anne Pitcher. Don’t miss this Friday 27 & other characters. Ma Wei is the spellbinding storytelling journey, Saturday 28 present-day successor of the beautifully complimented by Yangzhou PinHua - storytelling in Alissa Murray on the harp. October the Yangzhou dialect. Hosted by This is a BYOB event, tickets The Village Storytelling available at the door & Portskerra International Centre. Book online: sisf-journey bookable by contacting Storytelling Festival tothewest.eventbrite.co.uk annepitcherstoryteller@hotmail. Coming from Kisvárda – in the co.uk or 07708 059 770. Disabled North-Eastern corner of Hungary Inverness access by portable ramp. - storyteller Maja Bumberák will tell tales and sing songs from her Trading Tales of Perthshire community to build a bridge to the Natural World the Far North Coast of Scotland. Gellions Bar, 17 Bridge St, Folk and Fairy Storyteller Alexandria Patience Inverness, IV1 1HD Tales from Poland and musician Donald McNeill Live Storytelling Community Library, Aberfeldy along with other local storytellers 7.30pm (2hrs) | £6 | Adults Family Event and musicians, will add to this Enjoy wonder tales of the natural 10am (2hrs) | Free | All ages rich mix. If you are heading North, world from Norway, Scotland and Enjoy a morning in the company get in touch and join in with the beyond with guest storyteller of storyteller Małgorzata traditional old school Story Ceilidh. Georgiana Keable and Scottish Litwinowicz and be transported Maja is coming to Scotland as storyteller Dougie Mackay. The to the magical world of traditional part of the annual European event is part of the Inverness Polish stories and songs, where Storytelling and Peace Storytelling Festival, where trees can talk and snakes can sing. Council meeting. Georgiana will also present her Further information: www.portskerrastorytellingfestival. show, The Natural Storyteller. Claire Hewitt – 07500 118 047 or weebly.com For information and tickets [email protected] email deep.roots.community@ Friday gmail.com A Feast of Folk and 27 October Fairy Tales from Kilbarchan Eastern Europe Spinning Yarns Birks Cinema, Aberfeldy Glasgow Film & Live Storytelling Around the World 5.30pm (3hrs 30) | By donation Sangs an’ Clatter: Kilbarchan Performing Arts Centre, (except entry to film) Journey to the West - 8 Steeple Square, Kilbarchan, Enjoy a film followed by a Stories from China PA10 2JD feast of Scottish and Eastern The Glad Café, 1006a Pollokshaws Live Storytelling European traditions, with Poland’s Road, Shawlands, Glasgow, 7.30pm (2hrs) | £7 (£4) | Adults Małgorzata Litwinowicz and local G41 2HG Travel around the world without storyteller Claire Hewitt. Live Storytelling leaving the little handloom weaving Further information: Claire Hewitt 8pm (1hr) | £6.50 | Adults village of Kilbarchan, with a trio of – 07500 118 047 or clairesach@ Storyteller Ma Wei has undertaken talented tale weavers. Immerse btinternet.com a long Journey to the West to yourself in the magic of Maori share stories from one of the tales from New Zealand - “The masterpieces of Chinese literature. Land of the Long White Cloud” Together with Scotland based - with storyteller Joe Harawira. Chinese storyteller and bilingual Experience a wealth of world tales support Fong Liu, they will from multi-award winning Michael Kerins and host, Kilbarchan’s own

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Ayr Storytrail and activities Belleisle Park, Ayr, KA7 4DU Family event 2pm (2hrs) | Free Enjoy a fun afternoon of stories and much more with storyteller Rosie Mapplebeck. For more information email Belleisle. [email protected] or phone 07980 931 130. Part of TamFest www.tamfest.co.uk

Journey to the West - Stories from China Belleisle Park, Ayr, KA7 4DU Live Storytelling Maja Bumberák 6.30pm (1hr) | Free (ticketed) Adults & Older children the Danish Jews survived World Storyteller Ma Wei has undertaken Monday War II. With life-affirming Jewish a long Journey to the West to 30 October music, Klezmerduo tells the story share stories from one of the of Danish Jews, on their escape masterpieces of Chinese literature. to Sweden, and the story of the Together with Scotland based Glasgow many Danes, who had the will Chinese storyteller and bilingual and courage to help their fellow support Fong Liu, they will October 1943 – citizens, in the hour of greatest introduce you to Monkey and The Rescue danger. With Ann-Mai-Britt Fjord other characters. Ma Wei is the Newton Mearns Hebrew and Henrik Bredholt. present-day successor of the Congregation Communal Hall www.scojec.org/events.html Yangzhou PinHua - storytelling in 14 Larchfield Ct, Newton Mearns, or contact Joanne on events@ the Yangzhou dialect. For more Glasgow, G77 5PL scojec.org or 07724 549 817. information and booking: email Live Storytelling Belleisle.Rangers@south-ayrshire. 7pm (1hr 45, with interval gov.uk or phone 07980 931 130. refreshments) Part of TamFest Suggested donation £10 (£5) www.tamfest.co.uk One of the most successful actions against Nazi Germany’s extermination of Jewish people took place in Denmark in October 1943. More than 7000 Danish Jews were sailed to safety in Sweden – hidden in fishing boats and small ships. As a result, 98.5% of

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3Troubadours Elnaz Sabet Hassan Pur Joe Harawira Markus Luukkonen (Finland), Tom Elnaz is a teacher and storyteller Joe is arguably the most experienced Van Outryve (Belgium), Torgrim who loves her job teaching English at and travelled Māori storyteller in the Mellum Stene (Norway) formed in the Iran Language Institute. Kind but world today and a founding member Ghent, Belgium. Mobile Dreams is hardworking, she has performed at of TRWOT - Te Reo Wainene o Tua their first show which they have the International Storytelling Festival (The Sweet Story of Yester-year). been touring throughout Europe Iran. and the UK. Kamini Ramachandran Fong Liu Kamini is director of MoonShadow Amina Blackwood Fong is a professional Chinese Stories, The Storytelling Centre Ltd, Founder of Ntukuma, The Storytelling singer and storyteller with 25 years’ StoryFest: International Storytelling Foundation of Jamaica and Ananse experience who mixes Chinese Festival Singapore and the Young SoundSplash, Amina is widely traditions and western drama Storytellers Mentorship Programme. acknowledged for her contribution to elements. storytelling in Klezmerduo the Caribbean. Georgiana Keable Ann-Mai-Britt Fjord and Henrik Georgiana loves stories that Bredholt are considered amongst Ana Maria Lines explore how people and nature are the finest Danish interpreters of A journalist and storyteller with connected. Each year, she takes klezmer music (life-affirming Jewish a captivating style, international 1000 teenagers along the Norwegian folk music from Eastern Europe). reputation and vast repertoire, Ana Pilgrim Paths. created and co-hosts the Stafford Laura Escuela Knot Storytelling Club. Giovanna Conforto Hailing from Tenerife, Laura is a Giovanna is the creative director of teacher, educational psychologist BE United & The Champions the Italian Storytelling Center and and musician who specialises in BE United is a creative arts charity founding member of SPIA (Stories children’s literature. that inspires people to believe in Place International Association). they can, and create greater Liz Weir understanding and trust between Istra Inspirit Liz travels internationally, sharing cultures. The Champions are a 16- This award-winning Croatian tales with all ages and abilities. 24 year old performing arts group group revive traditional stories at Hailing from Northern Ireland and sharing messages of hope, unity and authentic historical sites, inspiring having experienced The Troubles, humanity through dance, African the audience to relate to their history she believes storytelling is crucial for music and theatre. and heritage. conflict resolution.

Deepa Kiran Jerker Fahlström Ma Wei Founder of Story Arts India, Deepa Jerker has many years’ experience in Ma Wei is the current successor of is a professional storyteller and stage, film, radio and television, last Yangzhou PinHua – storytelling in educator engaged with employing impressing Scottish audiences at the the Yangzhou dialect – as well as vice story-arts as a pedagogical Scottish International Storytelling chairman of Jiangsu Province Youth intervention. Festival in 2008 with his Swedish Artists Association in China. Viking legends.

30. Box office: 0131 556 9579 Maimouna Jallow Pinokio Theatre in Łódź Nairobi-based Maimouna uses Pinokio encourages youngsters traditional African storytelling to to take their first steps into the explore contemporary tales of fascinating world of culture and art. modernity and identity, co-founding They also organise the Teatralina multi-media arts organisation, Karuzela International Festival. Positively African. Seung-Ah Kim

Maja Bumberák Seung-Ah is a storyteller and 3Troubadours Maja is a storyteller based in ambassador of Korean culture. Budapest who shares folktales She founded Arirang Storytelling and songs from Hungary and the in her grandmother’s memory, who world over. was her storytelling inspiration.

Malcolm Green Stina Fagertun Malcolm’s particular thrill is creating Based in Tromsø, Stina has been a stories from natural cycles, weaving cultural ambassador for more than together with personal experience 30 years who has collected ancient, and myth. His latest show, Gone unique fairy tales from the Coastal Elnaz Sabet Hassan Pur Cuckoo, explores research on Sami, Kven and Arctic storytelling cuckoo migration. tradition.

Małgorzata Litwinowicz Wajuppa Tossa Gosia has been an artistic Founder and director of Thailand’s director of the renowned Warsaw International Storytelling Festival International Storytelling Festival (2013-2016), Wajuppa is now a since 2006. Her favourite tales are consultant for the organisation and Polish and Lithuanian traditional performs at international storytelling Georgiana Keable stories and ballads. festivals worldwide.

Michał Malinowski Wayqui César Villegas Astete Michał is a storyteller, writer, Founder of School of Words in folklorist, visual artist and Director of Peru, Wayqui has performed at The Storyteller Museum in Poland. He international Festivals across 18 has been a chief contributor in the countries, sharing old stories with revival of Polish storytelling. a pinch of current times. Klezmerduo Nosratollah Goodarzi Shazea Quraishi A kind and energetic Master Shazea is a Pakistani-born Canadian storyteller, Nosratollah has been poet, playwright and translator reading Shahnameh (The Epic of the based in London, with poems Persian Kings) for 40 years and he published in the UK and US. knows it all by heart. Travis De Vries Peter Chand Travis is a multidisciplinary artist, One of Europe’s most renowned writer and creator with dual Peter Chand storytellers, constantly in demand Indigenous and Dutch heritage. His for his tales of wit and wisdom. Peter work retells the stories of Australia’s loves to collect Punjabi folk tales to First Peoples, blending traditional translate into English. with digital.

For further information on Scottish storytellers please visit our online directory at www.tracscotland.org Shazea Quraishi www.tracscotland.org 31. Venue details Broughton St Mary’s Church Hall National Library of Scotland Summerhall 12 Bellevue Crescent, EH3 6NE George IV Bridge, EH1 1EW The Lower Church Gallery [email protected] www.nls.uk/events | 0131 623 3734 Hope Park Terrace, EH8 9LY 0131 272 2735 (ask for Robert) (bookings from 13 Sept) | www.nls.uk [email protected] www.toabsentfriends.org.uk 0131 560 1580 | www.summerhall.co.uk New Calton Burial Ground Dovecot Studios 27 Waterloo Place, EH1 3BQ Surgeons’ Hall Museums 10 Infirmary Street, EH1 1LT [email protected] Nicolson Street, EH8 9DW [email protected] 0131 220 7720 | www.ewht.org.uk [email protected] | 0131 527 1711 0131 550 3660 | www.dovecotstudios.com www.museum.rcsed.ac.uk Nomads Tent Italian Cultural Institute Edinburgh 21-23 St Leonards Lane, EH8 9SH The Fig Tree Bistro 82 Nicolson Street, EH8 9EW [email protected] 8 St Mary’s Street, EH1 1SU [email protected] | 0131 668 2232 0131 662 1612 | www.nomadstent.co.uk Trinity House www.iicedimburgo.esteri.it North Edinburgh Arts 99 Kirkgate, EH6 6BJ Lauriston Castle 15a Pennywell Court, EH4 4TZ www.historicenvironment.scot 2a Cramond Road South, EH4 5QD [email protected] University of Edinburgh 0131 336 2060 0131 315 2151 | northedinburgharts.co.uk Chaplaincy Centre www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk Riddle’s Court 1 Bristo Square, EH8 9AL Leith Community Croft 322 Lawnmarket, EH1 2PG [email protected] John’s Place (entrance opposite [email protected] 0131 650 2595 | www.ed.ac.uk/chaplaincy Mackenzie School of English), EH6 7EL 0131 220 1232 | www.riddlescourt.org.uk [email protected] | 09721 829 120 TRACS (Traditional Arts and Culture Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh www.leith-community-crops-in-pots.org Scotland SC043009) is the national Entrances: East Gate on Inverleith Row, network for traditional arts, which brings Mercat Tours Ltd. West Gate & John Hope Gateway on together the Traditional Music Forum Mercat House, 28 Blair Street, EH1 1QR Arboretum Place, EH3 5LR (SC042867), the Scottish Storytelling Forum Please note: tour begins at the Mercat [email protected] (SC020891) and the Traditional Dance Cross at Parliament Square next to St 0131 248 2909 | www.rbge.org.uk Forum of Scotland (SC045085). Giles Kirk | [email protected] St. James Church Hall TRACS is currently based at the Scottish 0131 225 5445 | www.mercattours.com 11a John’s Place, Leith, EH6 7EL Storytelling Centre. Museum of Childhood www.stjamesleith.org Cover image: Hambis Tsangaris – Prisons - 42 High Street, EH1 1TG | 0131 556 2879 Dictatorship in Greece (Woodcut, 1971) St. Margaret’s House www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk www.hambisprintmakingcenter.org.cy/en 151 London Road, EH7 6AE Museum of Edinburgh Wheelchair access via Restalrig Road Designed by Studio Muse Huntly House, 142 Canongate, South | [email protected] This brochure is printed on FSC® Mix certified EH8 8DD | 0131 529 4143 0131 661 1924 material. Please recycle when you have www.edinburghmuseums.org.uk www.edinburghpalette.co.uk finished with it.

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Special thanks to Edinburgh partners: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh Museums & Galleries, Mercat Tours Ltd, Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature, Dovecot Studios, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh World Heritage, Surgeons’ Hall Museums, North Edinburgh Arts, Polish Cultural Festival Association, Fabryka Sztuki w Łodzi, Summerhall, Italian Cultural Institute Edinburgh, Riddle’s Court, The Nomads Tent, Scottish Palliative Care, Edinburgh Palette, St. Margaret’s House, The Fig Tree Bistro, Leith Community Crops in Pots, St. James Church Hall, Trinity House and Beltane Fire Society. Special thanks to regional partners: Orkney Storytelling Festival, Portskerra International Storytelling Festival, Duns Primary School Storytelling Festival, Elphinstone Institute, Argyll and Bute Council, The Village Storytelling Centre, Glad Café, Blether Tay-gither, Universal Hall, Enchanted Forest, Scottish Council of Jewish Communities, Kingdom Tales, Burgh Blethers, Inverness Storytelling Festival, Kilbarchan Performing Arts Centre, Open Word-Open World at Glasgow Libraries, The Space, The Whale Tale and TamFest.