Scottish International Storytelling Festival 2011
An Island Odyssey: Scotland and Old Europe
21 October – 30 October Box offi ce: 0131 556 9579 www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk Welcome to the About the programme Scottish International Each event in our programme is categorised to help you decide which to book. The two main strands are for adults, and take place in Edinburgh and Storytelling Festival on tour across Scotland, with an emphasis this year on Scotland’s islands.
Welcome to a feast of Thon places hae the uncanny knack o a dh’fhiosraich sinn. Uime sin, Live Storytelling concluding with a fi nale where the island culture – Scottish and makin oor speerits rise an oor thochts èisdibh ri luasgadh nan tonn, Live evening storytelling whole story and its epic themes of Mediterranean. There is bizz wi tales, tunes and dauncin fi t. teudan na clàrsaich agus guth an performances in the Scottish temptation, separation and journey something about islands that We’re aa isalnders at hert, sae harken sgeulaiche fad an deich an latha Storytelling Centre’s stunning, are explored in a grand afternoon catches our imagination, gives noo tae the shush of the sea, the birr seo de chèilidh agus ealainean intimate theatre space and at and evening of unforgettable birth to stories, inspires melody o strings, and the voice o the tellers tradaiseanta. Togaibh an acair The Hub, headquarters of the storytelling. and sometimes sets the foot an the makars. Louse the tows an agus seòlaibh a-mach ann am Edinburgh International Festival. tapping. There is something drift oan a dwamming tide. Fur ten bruadairean na cuimhne. Thigibh Live Storytelling events feature Talk & Lectures about islands that refl ects deys ye kin be traiveller friens oan ae còmhla ruinn air a’ bhòidse seo. international guest artists This year’s Festival links Scotland our humanity and unites our Odyssey o glamourie. representing their own cultures with the Mediterranean world, as Geoff Mead 30/10 experiences. So listen now to the The Festival Team and traditions, alongside the best we look forward to the Olympics. shush of the waves, the strings Fàilte don fhèisd seo de chultar of Scotland’s storytellers. Deepen your knowledge and of the harp and the voice of the nan eilean – an dà chuid understanding of the Festival’s storyteller as we provide ten Albannach agus Meadhan- Meet the Storyteller and the themes as experts from the arts days of exhilarating traditional thìreach. Tha rudeigin ann an Odyssey Instalment and academic world share their art entertainment. Let slip the nàdar nan eilean a ghlacas ar mac- A relaxed and informal taster knowledge about Island traditions moorings and enter a tide of meanmna, a bheir sgeulachdan session providing a wonderful and tradition bearers. Part talk, dreams and memories. Join us gu beatha, a spreigeas ceòl agus opportunity to get to know our part discussion, often with a on the journey. a ghreasas casan gu dannsadh. visiting guest storytellers. In each chance to question and debate. Tha rudan anns na h-eileanan far session a guest storyteller shares A richt herty weillcum tae oor brew o a chì sinn faileas ar daonnachd a little about the culture and Family Events islands – Scottish an Mediterrranean. agus a chuireas ri chèile na nithean Sofi a Papadia 29/10 traditions of their homeland, and Live storytelling events, often Lawrence Tulloch 22/10 what inspired them to become involving craft and storymaking a storyteller. This is followed by activities, especially designed for Training and Development Supported through the Scottish Special thanks to our local and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh a thrilling retelling of an Odyssey children and families. Please check The Festival is the perfect Government’s Edinburgh Festivals regional partners: St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art chapter, building up to the each event listing for information opportunity to develop your Expo Fund, Creative Scotland, the City An Lanntair, Stornoway Scottish Poetry Library Complete Odyssey on Saturday of Edinburgh Council, the Church of Argyll and Bute Council Shetland Storytellers on age suitability, or check with the storytelling skills, explore a specifi c Scotland, Scotland’s Islands, European Aros Centre, Portree The Tent Gallery 29 October as part of the Festival’s relevant venue. area of storytelling or share ideas, Regional Development Fund and Blether Tay-Gither The Yard Adventure Centre fi nale weekend. approaches and good practice. Scottish Enterprise. The Cathedral of the Isles and The College, Western Isles Council Libraries Millport Club Event Come along to one of our Festival The Scottish International Storytelling Discover Bute The Complete Odyssey A special storytelling club evening in training and CPD events at the Festival is part of Festivals Edinburgh. Edinburgh Printmakers Ten years have passed since the Visit www.edinburghfestivals.co.uk the nearby Waverley Bar. Experience Scottish Storytelling Centre and Faclan: Herbridean Book Festival for more information. fall of Troy, and the Greek hero a true Scottish storytelling ceilidh! A fi re your imagination! Advance Fair Isle Community Grampian Association of Storytellers A special thank you to the Italian Odysseus still has not returned to great way to relax, join in, meet the booking essential. Glasgow Storytelling Fellowship Institute in Edinburgh who have kindly his kingdom in Ithaca. Homer’s storytellers and enjoy fi ne tales plus GATE: Growth at the Edge sponsored the events of visiting performers epic poem is brought to life Guid Crack. Hillswick Wildlife Sanctuary Enedina Sanna and Enzo Favata. For more throughout the ten day Festival Italian Cultural Institute information on the institute visit Mull Theatre www.iicedimburgo.esteri.it as visiting tellers recite the tale in Mull and Iona Storytelling Festival episodes throughout the week, National Museums Scotland North Edinburgh Arts Centre Orkney Storytelling Festival
02. Box offi ce: 0131 556 9579 www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk 03. Edinburgh Tell-A-Story: Education and Partner Events Communities Programme Become a Scottish Storytelling Network Planning to come to several events? An array of family and adult Alongside the public programme, member for just events involving visiting the Festival delivers a popular £12 per year See more and There is no better pleasure than Scottish Storytelling Centre on and Scottish storytellers are outreach programme to schools, Receive discounts on a range the power of the spoken word +44 (0)131 556 9579 with programmed by the Scottish libraries and community groups. of training and networking save more with taking listeners on a journey of the your debit or credit card details. International Storytelling Festival The highlight of this is the national events and get regular events the Festival Pass imagination…join us and discover Tickets are subject to availability. together with local Festival Tell-a-Story Day on Friday and news updates. For more untold stories. partners, and interspersed 28th October. Contact davide@ information visit our website Covers Edinburgh events at the Pass 1 – 7 Day Pass throughout the programme, to scottishstorytellingcentre.com www.scottishstorytellingcentre. Scottish Storytelling Centre and Booking your Pass £45 (£38 conc) – 25% saving complement the main programme or 0131 652 3272 for more co.uk or call 0131 556 9579. The Hub. Passes are available exclusively from and Festival themes. information. the Scottish Storytelling Centre. Pass 2 – 3 Day Pass Book in advance by calling the £25 (£20 conc) – 20% saving
achieved it’s broadest coverage of Shetland and Fair Isle Festival on Tour: Scotland with storytelling events An Island Odyssey taking place in some of Scotland’s Orkney This vital and ever-growing part beautiful islands, in association How to get here of the Festival provides audiences with the Year of Scotland’s Islands. Lewis Harris Scottish Storytelling Centre The Hub of Edinburgh’s Royal Mile at across Scotland with the chance Festival on Tour events this year 43-45 High Street Castlehill the foot of Castlehill. There is to enjoy the riches that our take place in Glasgow, Dundee, Benbecula Edinburgh EH1 1SR Edinburgh EH1 2NE no parking directly outside The Aberdeen visiting international guests have Aberdeen, The Cumbraes, Bute, Skye The Scottish Storytelling The Hub provides the perfect Hub, but it is a short walk from to share. The Festival on Tour Mull and Iona, Skye, Lewis, Barra Centre’s award-winning building dramatic backdrop to the the Storytelling Centre. programme is coordinated by Harris, Benbecula, Barra, Orkney, Dundee is the home of the Festival. atmospheric Festival fi nale weekend, regional storytelling teams, with Fair Isle and Shetland. Mull and Iona You can fi nd us half way down with The Hub Café and Box Offi ce It is a striking, fully accessible the support of the Storytelling See pages 14-18 for our Island Edinburgh’s Royal Mile, within extended opening hours on building and one of Festival. This year the Festival has Odyssey Festival on Tour events. Glasgow Edinburgh Bute easy walking distance of Princes Saturday 29 October (2-7pm) and Edinburgh’s most sought-after See back cover for a full list of partner venues and booking details. Street and Waverley train Sunday 30 October (2-7.30pm), plus events and wedding venues, station. There is no parking bar facilities during events. which has played host to over directly outside the Centre, but 3 million visitors since its Book by phone using a credit How to book Lothian bus number 35 stops The Hub is Edinburgh’s Festival opening in 1999. or debit card on outside our door, and there’s a Centre and is situated at the top Tickets for all events at the Scottish taxi rank just up the road. Storytelling Centre and The Hub, +44 (0)131 556 9579
as well as ticketed events at the • Fully accessible to wheelchair Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Book in person using cash, users EAST MARKET STREET and Edinburgh Printmakers, can cheque, credit or debit card at CRANSTON STREET • Hearing loop in the theatre JEFFREY STREET be booked through our box offi ce the Scottish Storytelling Centre
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04. Box offi ce: 0131 556 9579 www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk 05. Meet the Storyteller Tales from the Forest (Odyssey 1) and the Sea 2011 Festival Scottish Storytelling Centre Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Meet the Storyteller Edinburgh Partner Event 5pm (45mins) 2pm (45mins) programme Free but ticketed | All ages £4/£3 | 5+ Meet Cretan storyteller Stella Tales of the forest will be woven Kassimati, and hear episode with tales of the sea in this one of the Odyssey saga, with special collaboration between the Brown, take the time to read accompaniment by Geoff Mead. Botanics’ Talking Trees storytellers Katie Harrigan 21/10 Playtime of the Gods Odysseus leaves Calypso’s island, and harpist Heather Yule. The Yard Adventure Centre deeply and let new discoveries Friday 21 is shipwrecked, meets the lovely Come and celebrate the 2011 Edinburgh Partner Event emerge as you talk over poems Nausicaa, and begins to tell his tale. International Year of Forests with October 11am-2.45pm with others. Meet the Storyteller Scottish tree tales and selkie ballads Tickets by donation | Families (Odyssey 2) Aphrodite’s Island: Island Nights: From in a special session for families. Scottish Storytelling Centre A Thousand Island with primary school aged children Orkney to Crete with additional support needs Gods, Goddesses, Meet the Storyteller Welcomes Scottish Storytelling Centre Team Olympus: A day of Olympic proportions with Heroes and 5pm (45mins) Scottish Storytelling Centre Live Storytelling Gods, Goddesses, play, puppetry and storytelling Champions Free but ticketed | All ages Live Storytelling 7.30pm (2hrs, inc. interval) Heroes and with Ailie Finlay and Marie Scottish Storytelling Centre Meet Francette Orsoni from 7.30pm (2hrs, inc. interval) £10/£8 | Adults Champions Louise Cochrane at Edinburgh’s Family Event Corsica, and hear the second £10/£8 | Adults South and North – two islands Scottish Storytelling Centre only purpose built adventure 2pm (2hrs) Odyssey episode with the seductive Enter our door of hospitality. of myth, peopled with ancient Family Event playground for children with £5/£3 | 6+ Lotos Eaters, and the one-eyed Infused by the music of Hamish monuments and rich in folk tale 2pm (2hrs) additional support needs. Inclusive, An introduction to Cyprus through Cyclops. Bi-lingual presentation Moore and Katie Harrigan, and sea story. Tom Muir, Lise £5/£3 | 5-11 years interactive sessions will explore its folktales and visual art. Led supported by Linda Williamson. storytellers David Campbell, Sinclair, Geoff Mead and Stella An afternoon of tales and craft adventure, risk and challenge – by Cypriot storyteller Heleni Audrey Parks and Lea Taylor Kassimati take you there and activities from the Mediterranean themes common to the stories of Achilleos and printmaker Hambis Island Nights: From bring you the enchantments dark back in the space of one world, with storyteller Andy ancient Gods and adventure play! Tsangaris. Hear the stories, make Shetland to Corsica and bright of our Scottish Islands. enchanted evening. Hunter, and storyteller and 30-minute storytelling sessions at your own visuals, and try out your Scottish Storytelling Centre puppeteer Ailie Finlay. Get 11am, 1pm and 3pm with drop-in own storytelling skills. Live Storytelling ahead of the Olympics with some puppet making from 12-2.45pm. 7.30pm (2hrs, inc. interval) authentic cultural inspiration! Saturday 22 Ticket allows entry to playground, Sea Stories from Sunday 23 £10/£8 | Adults October one storytelling session and drop-in 60° North October North and South: seagoers, pirates, National Museum of Scotland Tales from the Forest fi shermen, raiders, and strong puppet making. Children must be and the Sea accompanied by a parent or carer. Edinburgh Partner Event women. Francette Orsoni with Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Starting with Stories 1 2.30pm (1hr 30mins) Printing Tales musician Carmin Belgodere from £6/£5 | Adults Edinburgh Partner Event Corsica, and Lawrence Tulloch Scottish Storytelling Centre Nothing But the… Edinburgh Printmakers The National Museum of Scotland’s 4pm (1hr) from Shetland with Lise Sinclair Training and Development George Mackay Edinburgh Partner Event new Facing the Sea gallery explores £5/£4 | 12+ from Fair Isle bring you the stories, 10am-1pm Brown 1.30-5.30pm Pacifi c Islanders’ relationships with Tales of the forest will be woven music and songs of these rocky £18/£15 (Network members) Scottish Poetry Library £18/£16 | 16+ the sea. Orkney and Shetland sea with tales of the sea in this sea-girt outposts, rich in culture Adults Edinburgh Partner Event An exploration of visual storytelling stories, recounted by Lawrence special collaboration between the and good company. An introduction to storytelling and 11am (1hr 30mins) inspired by master printmaker Tulloch and Tom Muir, feature Botanics’ Talking Trees storytellers storytelling skills, led by storyteller £5/£3 | 14+ Hambis Tsangaris, who shares there alongside traditional South and harpist Heather Yule. Eric Brennan. This particpative In this relaxed and friendly the tales of his illustrated prints. Pacifi c tales. Experience Lawrence Come and celebrate the 2011 session is for anyone curious about discussion you won’t need any Be inspired to use stories to create and Tom live, and fi nd out more International Year of Forests with discovering and developing their background knowledge, or your own linocut and hear myths about the gallery with assistant Scottish tree tales and selkie ballads own storytelling skills. Advance advanced reading; just book and from the Cypriot island with curator Ross Irving. in a special session for adults. booking essential. turn up. You’ll simply come fresh Heleni Achilleos. to Orcadian poet George Mackay
06. Box offi ce: 0131 556 9579 www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk 07. Forgotten Trees Riches’ project, which preserves Meet the Storyteller Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Tuesday 25 and shares Scotlands stories for (Odyssey 5) Edinburgh Partner Event October future generations. In association Scottish Storytelling Centre 6pm (2hrs) with the School of Scottish Studies Meet the Storyteller Free but ticketed | Adults Archives of Edinburgh University’s 5pm (45mins) Join Royal Botanic Garden Department of Celtic and Scottish Free but ticketed | All ages Magic Carpet: Studies. Edinburgh’s Ian Edwards for a special Storytelling Festival Meet Cypriot storyteller Heleni event to mark the re-publication of Special! Achilleos, and go down into the his tree tales collection Tales from the Island Nights: underworld with our next National Museum of Scotland Mara Menzies 25/10 Forest. Explore the Forgotten Forests From the Hebrides Odyssey episode. Nuala Hayes 25/10 Edinburgh Partner Event exhibition, with stories and live to Ireland 10.30am (40mins) music from 6.30pm. With Sardinian Scottish Storytelling Centre Free event - just drop in Cyprus: An Island storyteller Enedina Sanna, who’ll Live Storytelling Pre-school children Experience Monday 24 share some of her repertoire of tales 7.30pm (2hrs, inc. interval) Scottish Storytelling Centre Thursday 27 The National Museum of Scotland’s of special and symbolic trees from £10/£8 | Adults Talks & Lectures October magic carpet visits a different October her island and beyond, West and ever further west is the 6pm (60mins) gallery in the museum every week. accompanied by musician direction of many Celtic voyagings. Free but ticketed | Adults For three days during the Festival Enzo Favata. Are the Outer Hebrides the last Artist, printmaker and educator; Team Olympus: we’re delighted to welcome some Magic Carpet: barrier of the waves, or Ireland, or reviver of Cypriot culture, and A Resource for guest storytellers – today Mara Storytelling Festival somewhere much further out... museum founder, Hambis Tsangaris Educators Liz Lochhead on Menzies entertains your wee ones Special! invisible to the naked eye. Nuala has lived and experienced the joys Scottish Storytelling Centre Retelling Myth with tales and treats. Check out National Museum of Scotland Scottish Poetry Library Hayes from Ireland is between and troubles of his native island to Training and Development the website for more information. Edinburgh Partner Event Edinburgh Partner Event Hebridean storytellers Angus the full. Divided between Greek and 1-3.30pm www.nms.ac.uk/families 10.30am (40mins) £30/£26 (Network Members) 7pm (1hr 15mins) Peter Campbell and Ian Stephen Turkey since a tragic war, Cyprus is Free event - just drop in for a night of tales to remember. Adults £7/£5 | 14+ Meet the Storyteller still seeking a peaceful settlement of Pre-school children Explore and express the world of Liz Lochhead, Scot’s Makar as (Odyssey 4) old quarrels, and the arts have a part The National Museum of Scotland’s well as playwright, whose plays to play in that process, as Hambis’ Greek myth, which lies behind Scottish Storytelling Centre magic carpet visits a different include Medea and Mary Queen of illustrated talk shows. the Olympics. Ailie Finlay and Meet the Storyteller Wednesday 26 gallery in the museum every week. Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, Andy Hunter lead a participative 5pm (45mins) Today, join storyteller Eric Brennan will talk about revisioning myth in this October workshop for teachers, artists Free but ticketed | All ages Island Nights: From with tales and treats for wee ones. lively session. Refreshments served! and educators who wish to tell Meet Irish storyteller Nuala Hayes, Skye to Sardinia Check out the website for more Scottish Storytelling Centre and interpret these tales through and visit Circe’s enchanted isle in Magic Carpet: information. primary and secondary years 1-3. Island Nights: From Live Storytelling www.nms.ac.uk/families the fourth Odyssey episode. Storytelling Festival Discover the core shapes and Bute to Malta and Special! 7.30pm (2hrs, inc. interval) characters of the tales, how to from the Cumbraes £10/£8 | Adults Alan Bruford National Museum of Scotland Meet the Storyteller tell concisely, and express them to Cyprus North and South: two mountainous Memorial Lecture Edinburgh Partner Event (Odyssey 6) through visuals and drama. Scottish Storytelling Centre islands of legend and music meet Scottish Storytelling Centre An indelible imprint on the 10.30am (40mins) Live Storytelling in this night of entertainment, story Meet the Storyteller memory: Celebrating the Free event - just drop in 7.30pm (2hrs, inc. interval) and song. Skye storytellers Seoras 5pm (45mins) Meet the Storyteller recorders and the recorded Pre-school children £10/£8 | Adults (George) MacPherson and Cailean Free but ticketed | All ages (Odyssey 3) Scottish Storytelling Centre The National Museum of Scotland’s Scottish Storytelling Centre Launch the week with a galaxy of MacLean with clarsair Heather Yule, Meet Irish-Scottish storyteller Talks & Lectures magic carpet visits a different Meet the Storyteller island tales from north and south. transport you across the winged isle Claire McNicol and risk the Sirens, 6pm (60mins) gallery in the museum every week. 5pm (45mins) From the Firth of Clyde, with its and then over to the Sardinian artistry Scylla and Charybdis, and Sun Free but ticketed | Adults Today, join storyteller Ailie Finlay Free but ticketed | All ages contrasting islands, storytellers Ewan of Enedina Sanna and musician island, in the next Odyssey episode. Hugh Cheape, research professor with tales and treats for wee ones. Meet Hebridean storyteller Ian McVicar and David Campbell Enzo Favata, with bi-lingual support at the University of the Highlands Check out the website for more Stephen from Lewis and hear his transport you on to Malta and from Linda Williamson. This event and Islands at SMO, celebrates information. version of Aeolus and the bag of then Cyprus, where storytellers is supported by the Italian 60 years of the School of Scottish www.nms.ac.uk/families Marlene Mifsud-Chircop and Cultural Institute, and wind, our next Odyssey episode. Studies, the collecting work of Heleni Achilleos will bathe you in the Regione Autonoma Alan Bruford and the Kist O’ Mediterranean sun and sea. della Sardegna.
08. Box offi ce: 0131 556 9579 www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk 09. Fame and Fortune: North Edinburgh Arts at a launch mix it with Greek guests Anna In this fi rst part, Odysseus sets out The Olympic Games Friday 28 inspired by the Imagine gallery at Conomos, Sofi a Papadia and from Troy but between distractions Ancient and Modern October the National Museum of Scotland. Rebecca Vucetic. (often female), disasters and Scottish Storytelling Centre With storyteller Mara Menzies. enchantments, he ends up in the Talks & Lectures Festival Guid Crack: underworld instead of home in Mac-a-Story: Follow That Ithaca. The Hub, home of the 6pm (60mins) Starting with Stories 2 Free but ticketed | Adults Champion of Waverley Bar Edinburgh International Festival, Scottish Storytelling Centre Eleni Theodoraki goes behind the Champions Club Event provides the perfect setting. Training and Development media blitz to reveal the aspirations National Museum of Scotland 9pm (2hrs) 10am-4pm and ambitions of the Games in Edinburgh Partner Event Entry by donation (suggested £3) The Odyssey: The Martin Macintyre 28/10 £32/£28 (Network members) their original and contemporary 2 & 3.30pm (45mins) Adults 18+ Return of Odysseus Adults settings. Are Greek values still in Free but ticketed | 6+ Edinburgh regular storytelling The Hub Discover and develop your own play, and if so what are they? Eleni, Join Mac-a-Story for a session Guid Crack offers its own Live Storytelling background to the Festival exhibition, storytelling skills and techniques. Look of Edinburgh Napier University, is Mythological Olympic Games Festival take. Stories and songs 7pm (2hrs, 30mins inc. interval) Clacharan/Stepping Stones, and a in more depth at how storytelling a distinguished sport scientist and featuring high-energy stories of come one after another by free £10/£8 | Adults disussion on skills development and works, and build your confi dence. Lecturer in event management, as amazing sporting deeds from association as storytellers, guests, Join in an epic once-in-a-lifetime transmission of stories in modern Designed for anyone who’s attended well as a member of the Olympics Viking, Greek and Celtic teams! and regulars ‘go with the fl ow’ in adventure as storytellers and Europe, with other contributions Starting with Stories 1 and wants to Council. In association with Get involved in the contest and vote traditional style. musicians from across Europe, from partcipating storytellers. go a step further. This participative Edinburgh Napier University. for your Champion of Champions! north and south, come together workshop will be facilitated by to tell the complete Odyssey. A Circle of Saints Long Cuts by storyteller Ruth Kirkpatrick. Meet the Storyteller Saturday 29 In this second part, Odysseus The Hub (Odyssey 7) body-swerves some of his greatest Live Storytelling J O Morgan Tell-a-Story Day Scottish Poetry Library Scottish Storytelling Centre October dangers to land in Ithaca, not 3pm (2hrs, 30mins inc. interval) Scottish Storytelling Centre Edinburgh Partner Event Meet the Storyteller as a returning hero but as a £6/£4 | Adults Live Storytelling 6.30pm (1hr 30mins) 5pm (45mins) shipwrecked beggar. Yet through What is it about saints and islands? 10am (1hr 30mins) Dancing the Stories Free, book in advance | Adults Free but ticketed | All ages disguise, cunning and some divine Religion and boats? Journey Free but ticketed | Children in Scottish Storytelling Centre J O Morgan launches Long Cuts Meet Sardinian storyteller Enedina intervention, he comes into his between Scotland and the eastern P3-7 and accompanying adults Dance and Music (CB Editions), the follow on Sanna, and experience the own and is re-united with the Mediterranean on searoads of the Release the natural storyteller in 11am-1pm from his award-winning Natural emotions of Odysseus as he sets extraordinary Penelope. Till that is, saints, accompanied by music and you! Join local primary school £5/£3 | All ages Mechanical (‘a gem of a poem’ foot again on his own the wanderlust stirs again… story. A refl ective and sometimes pupils and listen to stories, share Enjoy a sun-baked morning of – Simon Armitage), and more island of Ithaca. With humorous celebration of the spiritual your own tales and celebrate the dance and music Mediterranean about the wanderings of Iain bi-lingual support from and all too human roots of religion, magic of oral storytelling with Alan style with dances from Greece Seoras ‘Rocky’ Rockcliffe. Contact Linda Williamson. shared by storytellers and musicians Steel. This event will be broadcast and Cyprus. Watch and/or join in Sunday 30 [email protected] to book. from Europe, north and south. on GLOW and will include a short Island Nights: as mood and lungs allow. Led by October By Coast and Glen, video on Tell-a-Story Day produced From Iona to Ithaca Sofi a Papadia. Hosting the Spirits with Scotland’s by school children in partnership Scottish Storytelling Centre The Hub Travelling People with BBC Scotland Lab. Live Storytelling The Odyssey: Coming Home to Live Storytelling 7.30pm (2hrs, inc. interval) The Wanderings Story: Storytellers’ 7.30pm (2hrs, inc. interval) Scottish Storytelling Centre Tell-a-Story Day: of Odysseus Networking Event Live Storytelling £10/£8 | Adults £10/£8 | Adults Imagine… The Hub Scottish Storytelling Centre 7.30pm (2hrs, incl. interval) Journey between the Inner An eerie fi nale for Hallowe’en. North Edinburgh Arts Centre Live Storytelling Training and Development £10/£8 | Adults Hebrides of Mull with lovely Iona Celebrate the ancient Celtic Festival Edinburgh Partner Event 3pm (2hrs, 30mins inc. interval) 11am-2.30pm Story and song traversed every to the Ionian Islands of Greece and of Samhainn with storytellers and 11am (2hrs) £10/£8 | Adults £10 | Adults part of Scotland in the minds and Odysseus’ native Ithaca. Scottish musicians from Scotland, Ireland Free but ticketed | 0-8 years Join in a once-in-a-lifetime epic This is the Festival’s opportunity imaginations of Scotland’s indigenous storytellers and singers combine and the Mediterranean world. Take a trip around the world, adventure as storytellers and for storytellers to explore the Travellers. For this special evening Jess with Greek storytellers, musicians Journey into myth and magic, on learn to count in a new language musicians from across Europe, development of their art and the Smith, Jimmy Williamson and Essie and dancers in an island night to a night when the veil between the and create your own stories north and south, come together challenges in their different situations. Stewart celebrate that tradition by remember. Martin MacIntyre, worlds wears thin, and spirits walk using new storybags, created by to tell the complete Odyssey with Input will include an informal land and sea, from the far north, Annmarie MacRury and Jan abroad. The gothic architecture of National Museums Scotland and Marion Kenny and Bob Pegg. launch of Geoff Mead’s new book, through Perthshire to Argyll. Sutch Pickard from Scotland Edinburgh’s Hub begins to fl icker Coming Home to Story, some in the candlelight…
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Aberdeen Festival Saturday 22 October 7.30pm An Evening with Nuala Hayes Queens Cross Church Lounge 14 Festival Diary on Tour Bute Tuesday 25 October 11am Heritage Walk: Churches of Rothesay Meet at Rothesay Visitor Centre 14 Time Event Venue Page Wednesday 26 October Friday 21 October 7pm Island Night: From Malta to Bute Rothesay Library 14 7.30pm A Thousand Island Welcomes Scottish Storytelling Centre 06 Thursday 27 October Saturday 22 October 11am & 1pm Heritage Walk: Rothesay Town Centre Meet at Rothesay Castle 14 10am Starting with Stories 1 Scottish Storytelling Centre 06 Dundee 11am Playtime of the Gods The Yard Adventure Centre 06 Tuesday 25 October 11am Nothing But the… George Mackay Brown Scottish Poetry Library 06 7pm Stories and Songs of the Sea HMS Frigate Unicorn 14 2pm Aphrodite’s Island: Gods, Goddesses, Heroes and Champions Scottish Storytelling Centre 06 2.30pm Sea Stories from 60° North National Museum of Scotland 06 Fair Isle 5pm Meet the Storyteller (Odyssey 1) Scottish Storytelling Centre 07 Monday 24 & Tuesday 25 October 7.30pm Island Nights: From Orkney to Crete Scottish Storytelling Centre 07 From Corsica to Fair Isle Fair Isle 15 Sunday 23 October Glasgow 1.30pm Printing Tales Edinburgh Printmakers 07 Tuesday 25 October 2pm Tales from the Forest and the Sea Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 07 7pm Italian Connections St Mungo Museum 15 2pm Team Olympus: Gods, Goddesses, Heroes and Champions Scottish Storytelling Centre 07 Friday 28 & Saturday 29 October 4pm Tales from the Forest and the Sea Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 07 7pm Parliamo Glesga? An Italian Job with a Difference Café Sejuiced 15 5pm Meet the Storyteller (Odyssey 2) Scottish Storytelling Centre 07 7.30pm Island Nights: From Shetland to Corsica Scottish Storytelling Centre 07 Isle of Cumbrae Thursday 27 October Monday 24 October 7pm Island Nights: from Cyprus to the Clyde The College of the Holy Spirit 15 1pm Team Olympus: A Resource for Educators Scottish Storytelling Centre 08 Mull and Iona 5pm Meet the Storyteller (Odyssey 3) Scottish Storytelling Centre 08 Monday 24 - Friday 28 October 6pm Forgotten Trees Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 08 7pm Liz Lochhead on Retelling Myth Scottish Poetry Library 08 Mull and Iona Storyfest 16 7.30pm Island Nights: From Bute to Malta and from the Cumbraes to Cyprus Scottish Storytelling Centre 08 Tuesday 25 October Tuesday 25 October 10am A Story-Walk to Camas Meet at carpark for Ardmore 16 10.30am Magic Carpet: Storytelling Festival Special! National Museum of Scotland 08 7.30pm Island Nights: From Ithaca to Iona Mull Theatre 16 5pm Meet the Storyteller (Odyssey 4) Scottish Storytelling Centre 08 Wednesday 26 October 6pm Alan Bruford Memorial Lecture Scottish Storytelling Centre 08 7.30pm Island Nights: From Ithaca to Iona Creich Community Hall 16 7.30pm Island Nights: From the Hebrides to Ireland Scottish Storytelling Centre 09 Orkney Wednesday 26 October Thursday 27 - Sunday 30 October 10.30am Magic Carpet: Storytelling Festival Special! National Museum of Scotland 09 Orkney Storytelling Festival 16 5pm Meet the Storyteller (Odyssey 5) Scottish Storytelling Centre 09 Thursday 27 October 6pm Cyprus: An Island Experience Scottish Storytelling Centre 09 7.30pm Island Nights: From Skye to Sardinia Scottish Storytelling Centre 09 8pm Island Nights: From Crete to Orkney The Royal Hotel, Stromness 16 10pm Meet the Storytellers The Royal Hotel, Stromness 17 Thursday 27 October Friday 28 October 10.30am Magic Carpet: Storytelling Festival Special! National Museum of Scotland 09 5pm Meet the Storyteller (Odyssey 6) Scottish Storytelling Centre 09 8pm Island Nights: Gods, Gods, Gods St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall 17 6pm Fame and Fortune: The Olympic Games Ancient and Modern Scottish Storytelling Centre 10 Outer Hebrides 6.30pm Long Cuts by J O Morgan Scottish Poetry Library 10 Wednesday 26 - Saturday 29 October 7.30pm By Coast and Glen, with Scotland’s Travelling People Scottish Storytelling Centre 10 Faclan: The Hebridean Book Festival An Lanntair 17 Friday 28 October Wednesday 26 October 10am Starting with Stories 2 Scottish Storytelling Centre 10 7pm Storytellers on Tour/Seanchaidhean air Turas Stornoway Library Café 17 10am Tell-a-Story Day Scottish Storytelling Centre 10 11am Tell-a-Story Day: Imagine… North Edinburgh Arts Centre 10 Thursday 27 October 2 & 3.30pm Mac-a-Story: Champion of Champions National Museum of Scotland 10 6pm Storytellers on Tour/Seanchaidhean air Turas Tarbert Community Library 17 5pm Meet the Storyteller (Odyssey 7) Scottish Storytelling Centre 10 Friday 28 October 7.30pm Island Nights: From Iona to Ithaca Scottish Storytelling Centre 10 7pm Storytellers on Tour/Seanchaidhean air Turas Lionacleit Community Library 18 9pm Festival Guid Crack: Follow That Waverley Bar 11 Saturday 29 October Saturday 29 October 7pm Storytellers on Tour/Seanchaidhean air Turas Castlebay Village Hall 18 11am Dancing the Stories Scottish Storytelling Centre 11 Shetland 3pm The Odyssey: The Wanderings of Odysseus The Hub 11 7pm The Odyssey: The Return of Odysseus The Hub 11 Wednesday 26 October 7.30pm Island Night: From Corsica to Shetland The Booth/Da Bod, Hillswick 18 Sunday 30 October Skye 11am Coming Home to Story: Storytellers’ Networking Event Scottish Storytelling Centre 11 Thursday 27 October 3pm A Circle of Saints The Hub 11 7.30pm Hosting the Spirits The Hub 11 7.30pm Island Night: From Sardinia to Skye The Aros Experience, Portree 18
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Monday 24 & Tuesday 25 Festival Tuesday 25 October October on Tour Italian Connections From Corsica St Mungo Museum of Religious Aberdeen to Fair Isle Life and Art Diana Bertoldi 28 & 29/10 Wednesday 26 Fair Isle Live Storytelling Live Storytelling 7pm (2hrs) Saturday 22 October provoking tales. Combine the wit £6/£4 Free | 14+ and wisdom of a modern day October Adults and children aged 14+ From Sardinia to Glasgow. An storyteller with Stanley Baxter. Add Island Night: This two evening mini-fest opportunity to enjoy stories and Diana’s passion of her homeland: From Malta to Bute (24 & 25 October) brings music from Sardinia and the Mediterranean world, linking up result – a spaghetti-fi lled delightful An Evening with Rothesay Library together storytellers and with Glasgow’s fl ourishing Italian evening. Ticket includes: soup, Nuala Hayes Live Storytelling musicians from Shetland, community and heritage. Hosted salad, pasta, Italian bread and Queens Cross Church Lounge 7pm (2hrs) Enzo Favata 25/10 Corsica and Fair Isle in a by Kati Waitzmann, St Mungo’s Soave’s award-winning ice cream. Live Storytelling Free but ticketed | Adults celebration of sea and islands. own Storytelling fellow, with Vegetarian options. BYOB. 7.30pm (2hrs) An evening of island stories and Local talents Lise Sinclair, Sardinian guests Enedina Sanna £5 | Adults songs, north and south, with Lawrence Tulloch and Davy Dundee and Enzo Favata. In association Join the Grampian Association of the multi-talented storyteller and Cooper join forces with with Glasgow Life and the Italian Storytellers for an evening with songwriter Ewan McVicar and Corsican performers Carmin Cultural Institute, and Irish storyteller Nuala Hayes. the Maltese storyteller Marlene Tuesday 25 Belgodere and Francette the Regione Autonoma Nuala tells folktales, legends and Mifsud-Chircop. Islands inspire October Orsoni for two evenings of della Sardegna. Isle of Cumbrae myths connected mainly, but not stories and Bute and Malta are tales, music and sharing. exclusively with Ireland. rich in history, scenery, castles and the dreams of holidaymakers past Stories and Songs Also visit the Fair Isle Museum Thursday 27 and present. of the Sea and experience an island Friday 28 & October Bute HMS Frigate Unicorn environment on the ocean’s Saturday 29 Live storytelling edge. October Tuesday 25 Thursday 27 7pm (2hrs 30mins inc. interval) Island Nights: from October £8 | 14+ Visit www.fairisle.org.uk for Cyprus to the Clyde October Join Blether Tay-Gither and the latest event information. Parliamo Glesga? The College of the Holy Spirit their storytelling guest Heleni Live Storytelling Achilleos, for an evening of An Italian Job with Heritage Walk: Heritage Walk: a Difference 7pm (2hrs 30mins) inspiring nautical tales, sea By donation | Adults Churches of Rothesay Town Café Sejuiced shanties and music of the sea, in A celebration of island culture Rothesay Centre Live Storytelling the atmospheric Captain’s Cabin from the Mediterranean to the Meet at Rothesay Visitor Centre Meet at Rothesay Castle 7pm for 7.30pm (2hrs 30mins) aboard HMS Frigate Unicorn. Cumbraes. With stories, songs Walk Walk £17.50, including dinner and some sundrenched images 11am (2hrs) 11am & 1pm (1hr) Adults from Aphrodite’s island. Saints, Free event - just drop in | All ages Free but ticketed | All ages Knock-out Glasgow storyteller heros, goddessess and rogues rub A guided walk to explore the The tour will begin at Rothesay Michael Kerins joins forces with shoulders in an informal evening history of the ancient and more Castle and will meander through his favourite Italian storyteller hosted by David Campbell with modern churches of Rothesay and the historic seaside town centre Diana Bertoldi to bring you Cypriot guests Heleni Achilleos their importance in the growth of to explore Bute’s medieval past, its funny, amusing and thought and Hambis Tsangaris. Bute. Be a modern pilgrim to these historic shopfronts and Victorian places of history and beauty. seaside resort grandeur.
14. Box offi ce: 0131 556 9579 www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk 15. accompanied by storyteller Jan Sutch Orkney Pickard. The Iona Community’s Wednesday 26 Adventure Centre at Camas is in a place full of stories – peat-cutting, Thursday 27 October salmon-fi shing, quarrying rock to - Sunday 30 build light-houses. Suitable for adults October who are up to a four-mile walk on Storytellers on Tour/ rough track. Meet and park at Camas Seanchaidhean air Turas track end, Ardfenaig, on the road Orkney to Fionnphort. Come suitably shod. Stornoway Library Café Anna Conomos 25/10 Storytelling Tom Muir 27/10 Live Storytelling Festival Island Nights: 7pm (2hrs ) Live Storytelling Meet the Storytellers Outer Hebrides £6/£4 | Adults Mull and Iona From Ithaca to Iona Experience the unique magic of Mull Theatre The Royal Hotel, Stromness A fest of storytelling entertainment Orkney through its storytelling Live Storytelling Live Storytelling and traditions with Nuala Hayes traditions and warm hospitality. Wednesday 26 Monday 24 7.30pm (2hrs) 10pm (1hr) from Ireland and Hebridean In this year’s programme the £8/£6 | 12+ Free | All ages - Saturday 29 storytellers Angus Peter - Friday 28 north of Norse saga meets the A journey between Mull and Iona A chance to meet the storytellers October Campbell and Ian Stephen. October sunny Mediterranean south in a in the Inner Hebrides, to the Ionian and performers taking part in the Enjoy the artistry, the craic, and unique crossing of seaways and Islands of Greece with Odysseus’s Orkney Storytelling Festival, get to the music of the stories as they cultures. The festival reaches native Ithaca. Scottish storytellers know their backgrounds and hear Faclan: The have travelled between languages Mull and Iona out over Mainland Orkney as Jan Sutch Pickard and Martin some tales in a relaxed setting. Hebridean Book and islands. Storyfest well as Hoy and the linked MacIntyre link with Anna Conomos, Festival Live Storytelling South Isles. An Lanntair A celebration of Mull’s musician Rebecca Vucetic and dance See www.orkneystorytelling Live Storytelling communities and traditions, artist Sofi a Papadia to share island Friday 28 Thursday 27 festival.co.uk for more details. This year, as the clocks go with visiting storytellers from experiences and connections, north to October October back and the nights draw Greek islands. Events move south, east to west. in, Faclan: The Hebridean between the Ross of Mull and Book Festival explores the Druimfi n, with schools visits and Thursday 27 Island Nights: Storytellers on Tour/ phenomenon and tradition activities in between. Wednesday 26 Gods, Gods, Gods Seanchaidhean air October of Second Sight and the St Magnus Cathedral, Kirkwall Turas Full details on October supernatural. A galaxy of Live Storytelling Tarbert Community Library www.mulltheatre.com storytelling talent includes 8pm (2hrs 30mins) Live Storytelling Island Nights: From Dolina Maclennan, Margaret £6/£4 | Adults 6pm (2hrs ) Island Nights: Crete to Orkney Bennett, Sheila Stewart, From the Mediterranean to £6/£4 | Adults From Ithaca to Iona The Royal Hotel, Stromness Calum Ferguson, Norman Tuesday 25 Scandinavia – Stella Kassimati A fest of storytelling entertainment Creich Community Hall Live Storytelling Maclean, and John MacInnes, and Geoff Mead bring Greek and traditions with Nuala Hayes October Live Storytelling 8pm (2hrs) as well as Storytellers on Gods, while Jerker Fahlström from from Ireland and Hebridean 7.30pm (2hrs) £6/£4 | All ages Tour in partnership with Sweden and Maritha Nielsen from storytellers Angus Peter By donation (suggested £5) Two island cultures meet. the Scottish International Norway tell tales of Nordic deities Campbell and Ian Stephen. A Story-Walk to Adults and children 12+ Both populated with ancient Storytelling Festival. Camas A journey between Mull and Iona monuments and mythology, in the historic and spiritual heart of Enjoy the artistry, the craic, and Meet at carpark for Ardmore in the Inner Hebrides and the Ionian both rich in folk tackle and yarn Kirkwall – St Magnus Cathedral! Visit www.faclan.org for the music of the stories as they Live Storytelling Islands of Greece with Odysseus’ spinning. Cretan visitor Stella more details. have travelled between languages 10am (3hrs) native Ithaca. Storytellers including Kassimati with Geoff Mead and and islands. By donation to the NTS Martin MacIntyre and Anna Orkney storytellers Tom Muir and (suggested £5) | Adults Conomos share island tales and Fran Flett Holinrake sort out your A walk (whatever the weather) to connections, with music and dance Maes Howe from your Minotaur. Camas. Led by Emily Wilkins, NTS and Mull home-bakes. Ranger for Iona, Staffa and Burg,
16. Box offi ce: 0131 556 9579 17. Friday 28 October Tell-a-Story Day part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival Storytellers on Tour/ Seanchaidhean air Turas Friday 28th October Lionacleit Community Library Live Storytelling Ian Stephen 28 & 29/10 7pm (2hrs ) £6/£4 | Adults Shetland Skye A fest of storytelling entertainment and traditions with Nuala Hayes from Ireland and Hebridean Wednesday 26 Thursday 27 storytellers Angus Peter October October Campbell and Ian Stephen. Enjoy the artistry, the craic, and the music of the stories as they Island Night: From Island Night: From have travelled between languages Corsica to Shetland Sardinia to Skye and islands. The Booth/Da Bod, Hillswick The Aros Experience, Portree Wildlife Sanctuary Live Storytelling Live Storytelling 7.30pm (2hrs, 30mins) Saturday 29 7.30pm (2hrs) £8/£6 | Adults £6/£4 | Adults A night of story and song from October Gather round the fi re for a night Skye, with Mediterranean guests of stories and music from Shetland from mountainous Sardinia. Sit storytellers Lawrence Tulloch by the fi re and join storytellers Storytellers on Tour/ and Davy Cooper with Fair Isle and musicians including George Seanchaidhean air musician Lise Sinclair. Also with MacPherson, Cailean MacLean, Turas special guests from Corisca, Enedina Sanna and Register Castlebay Village Hall storyteller Francette Orsoni and Enzo Favata, in a your event by Live Storytelling musician Carmin Belgodere. boatload of melodies, Monday 26th 7pm (2hrs ) Meet smugglers, pirates and dreams and laughter. September £6/£4 | Adults worse from the northern isles 2011 A fest of storytelling entertainment to the Mediterranean rockies. What’s Your Story? and traditions with Nuala Hayes All proceeds in aid of Hillswick Celebrate Tell-a-Story Day and be enchanting fairy tales, scary Halloween So what are you waiting for? Start from Ireland and Hebridean Sanctuary. storytellers Angus Peter part of the Scottish International stories or treasured family legends… planning your Tell-a-Story Day now! Storytelling Festival! All over Scotland it’s up to you! Register your event on our website Campbell and Ian Stephen. people will be making, sharing and and you will get free posters and Enjoy the artistry, the craic, and Organising a Tell-a-Story Day event The Festival’s Archaeologist Sylvia Benton listening to stories in schools, libraries, stickers as well as a 30% discount is easy, and our team is always at hand the music of the stories as they offi cial partner uncovered a broken tablet in Ithaki community centres, churches, on Tales on the Tongue, the Scottish this year is the with a phrase that was engraved on to help you with your planning. On our have travelled between languages hospitals, homes, gardens – and some Storytelling Centre’s famous collection and islands. Island of Ithaca, it over 2000 years ago: website you will fi nd tips and advice home of Odysseus. more unusual venues! of traditional tales for all ages. from our professional storytellers, The Municipality ΕΥΧΗΝ ΟΔΥΣΣΕΙ Tell your own tales and encourage free resources and tales that you can Register your event by Monday 26th of Ithaki are your friends, family or community download, learn and tell on the day. September to make sure our free honoured to be Best Wishes from Odysseus. to share local myths and legends, resources reach you in time. part of the Festival and send this www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk T. 0131 652 3272 message:
18. Box offi ce: 0131 556 9579 19. Edinburgh - Orkney Travelling to the Festival on Tour: Stromness Airline www.fl ybe.com Train: Edinburgh-Thurso www.scotrail.co.uk/timetables-routes/531 Scottish Islands Ferry: Scrabster - Stromness www.northlinkferries.co.uk Orkney local transport www.stagecoachbus.com/localdefault.aspx?Tag=Inverness Edinburgh - Isle of Cumbrae Orkney www.visitorkney.com/index.asp Festival on Tour: Millport Train: Edinburgh-Glasgow www.scotrail.co.uk/timetables-routes/1051 Edinburgh - Outer Hebrides Train: Glasgow-Largs www.scotrail.co.uk/timetables-routes/881 Airline www.fl ybe.com Ferry: Largs-Cumbrae Slip www.calmac.co.uk/destinations/cumbrae.htm Train www.scotrail.co.uk Millport and Isle of Cumbrae www.millport.org Western Isles local transport www.cne-siar.gov.uk/travel/busservice/index.asp
Isle of Lewis Festival on Tour: Stornoway Edinburgh - Isle of Bute Ferry to Isle of Lewis www.calmac.co.uk/destinations/lewis.htm Festival on Tour: Rothesay Isle of Lewis www.isle-of-lewis.com Train: Edinburgh-Glasgow www.scotrail.co.uk/timetables-routes/1051 Isle of Harris Festival on Tour: Tarbert Train: Glasgow-Wemyss Bay www.scotrail.co.uk/timetables-routes/881 Ferry to Isle of Harris www.calmac.co.uk/destinations/harris.htm Ferry: Wemyss Bay-Rothesay www.calmac.co.uk/destinations/bute.htm Isle of Harris www.explore-harris.com Isle of Bute www.isle-of-bute.com Isle of Benbecula Festival on Tour: Lionacleit Isle of Benbecula www.isle-of-benbecula.co.uk/index.htm Ferry to Isle of Benbecula www.calmac.co.uk/destinations/uist-south.htm Edinburgh - Isle of Mull Festival on Tour: Fionnphort and Druimfi n Isle of Barra Festival on Tour: Castlebay Ferry to Isle of Barra www.calmac.co.uk/destinations/barra.htm Train: Edinburgh-Glasgow www.scotrail.co.uk/timetables-routes/411 Isle of Barra www.explore-isle-of-barra.co.uk Train: Glasgow-Oban www.scotrail.co.uk/timetables-routes/581 Ferry: Oban-Craignure www.calmac.co.uk/destinations/mull.htm Isle of Mull www.holidaymull.co.uk/
photographer Anja Tanner Exhibitions to travel around the Isle of Thursday 20 Edinburgh - Isle of Skye Skye for two months, tracing – Saturday 29 Festival on Tour: Portree the sites in which George’s Train: Edinburgh-Kyle of Lochalsh www.scotrail.co.uk/timetables-routes/531 Wednesday 19 traditional stories and legends October Train: Edinburgh-Glasgow www.scotrail.co.uk/timetables-routes/411 take place. Their collaboration Train: Glasgow-Mallaig www.scotrail.co.uk/timetables-routes/581 – Friday 25 aims to preserve photographic Ferry: Mallaig-Armadale www.calmac.co.uk/destinations/skye.htm November images of these special sites Threesomes Skye local transport www.stagecoachbus.com/localdefault.aspx?Tag=Inverness where sometimes, a ruin is The Tent Gallery Isle of Skye www.skye.co.uk/default.php still present, and sometimes, Exhibition Clacharan: only a scrap of cut stone lies 10am-5pm Stepping Stones. covered with thick moss, Free entry | All ages Edinburgh - Fair Isle & Shetland Scottish Myths & hardly recognisable. Countless Three new folios by Ian Stephen Festival on Tour: Fair Isle and Hillswick Legends layers of stories and history lie link voyages to the retelling Airline www.fl ybe.com Scottish Storytelling Centre beneath these places, and the of stories from the Limfjord in Airline www.directfl ight.co.uk/index.html Exhibition combination of photography Denmark, St Kilda and the Shiant Fair Isle www.fairisle.org.uk 10am-6pm and audio documents intend to Islands. A video projection, with Shetland www.shetland.org Free entry | All ages build a bridge between the past work by Christine Morrison and Shetland local transport www.zettrans.org.uk/bus/BusTimetables.asp The Bernese Arts Council and present. Franzi Richter, looks out from the funded Scottish storyteller beginning, the middle and the George MacPherson and Swiss end of a sailing vessel.
20. Box offi ce: 0131 556 9579 21. Heather Yule Traditional Scottish Lawrence Tulloch Lawrence tells Martin MacIntyre A medical About the artists folktales and Traveller tales form the stories and traditions of his doctor, writer and actor, Martin the basis of Heather’s repertoire. native Shetland, and in particular, respects the power of oral narrative A fi ne musician, her storytelling is the lore of Yell and the northern to forge stronger connections Aileen Finlay Storyteller and Cailean MacLean Cailean was Essie Stewart Born into a often accompanied by magic from islands. His stories range from between people and to achieve puppeteer Aileen specialises in born and brought up in the Outer Sutherland Travelling family, Essie the clarsach (Celtic harp). folktales and sagas to local history therapeutic results. He writes and using multi-sensory storytelling with Hebrides but now lives in the Isle is the grand daughter of one of and contemporary anecdotes. tells in English and Gaelic. children with additional support of Skye. He is a broadcaster, writer, the greatest Gaelic storytellers of Heleni Achilleos An English needs, and in the early years. photographer and storyteller. them all - Allidh Dall Stewart. She teacher in Greece for many years, Lea Taylor Lea brings her Michael Kerins Michael tells is fi rmly grounded in Gaelic and Heleni has always used stories to storytelling alive with a fun ‘tall’ or fantastic stories blending Alan Steel Alan collects and tells Carmin Belgodere A composer, Traveller traditions. illustrate the language she taught. participatory repertoire of stories folktales and contemporary life. His traditional tales from Scotland and singer and musician from Corsica, Her dream is going back to Cyprus and songs taken from a wide style breathes the humour, cheek `stories of place’ from elsewhere, Carmin is particularly interested in Ewan McVicar Ewan was born and telling stories to both Greek variety of genres. Originally from and survivor’s instinct of folktales but his core material consists of traditional music, world music and in Inverness in 1941. He has lived and Turkish Cypriots together. the Cotswolds, she settled in through the centuries. Born and stories which deal with dilemmas improvisation. in East Africa and the USA, but Scotland after studying Scottish brought up in Glasgow, he was and challenges that people of all has stayed half his life in Glasgow, Hugh Cheape Hugh is research Ethnology at Edinburgh University. inspired by his father’s ages have to face. Claire McNicol Claire tells Scottish where he co-founded the fi rst professor at the University of the own storytelling. and Irish stories including Traveller Scottish folk club. He is a respected Highlands and Islands, at Sabhal Linda Williamson Originally Andy Hunter Andy tells stories tales, stories of the seal people, the storyteller and singer-songwriter. Mòr Ostaig. His work today is from the USA, Linda’s stories and Nuala Hayes Nuala was born from around the world as well as wee folk and the giants. infl uenced by the 34 years he spent traditions have been garnered in Dublin and trained as an actor from his native Herefordshire. After Fran Flett Holinrake Fran is a working for the National Museum during a long close involvement in before becoming involved with working in the Social Services for David Campbell Born in Edinburgh storyteller, historian and tourguide of Scotland. Hugh lives on Skye. Scottish Traveller life and culture. oral storytelling. Her storytelling 25 years he turned to storytelling in 1935 and brought up in Fraserburgh, who discovered she had Orcadian company, Two Chairs, has toured full-time, and started Storybikes - a two previous careers as a teacher ancestors and finally moved to the Ian Stephen Ian is from Lise Sinclair Lise is a Shetland poet extensively. storytelling cycle tour business. and radio producer prepared David islands in 2004. She organises the Stornoway, Isle of Lewis. He is and musician. She lives in Fair Isle to enter seriously into his third Orkney Storytelling Festival. a writer, performer, sailor and and her work is characterised by Rebecca Vucetic Rebecca has Angus Peter Campbell Angus is profession of storytelling, under the storyteller, as well as a volunteer a strong feel for the dialect of her traveled extensively throughout the an award-winning poet, novelist, infl uence of the Scottish Travellers. Francette Orsoni Francette is skipper with two charitable boat native isle. Balkans, and collected songs and journalist, broadcaster and actor. storyteller and director at the trusts on Lewis. dances from Greece and Cyprus. Born in South Uist he now lives in Davy Cooper Davy is a Shetland cultural association U fi la de Liz Lochhead Liz is a Scottish poet Her familiarity with Byzantine the Isle of Skye, with his wife and storyteller and author of Viking memoria in the village of Vero, Jan Sutch Pickard Jan tells and playwright. In January 2011 chant and her classical training in six children. Stories. He is an active member of Corsica. She regards storytelling as stories of Columba to tales of the she was named as the second medieval music form her unique the Shetland Folklore Development a thread linking the storyteller to Clearances, including traditional Scots Makar, or national poet. sound world. Anna Conomos Anna started her Group and Shetland For Wirds. the audience. tales of Mull and Iona where she career as a performance storyteller lives. She is also a published poet. Mac-a-Story Fergus McNicol Ruth Kirkpatrick Performing in the UK in 2001. She has a vast Diana Bertoldi Born and brought Geoff Mead Geoff regularly and Ron Fairweather present with a great mixture of warmth, repertoire of Greek stories and has up in the Italian mountains, Diana performs traditional stories and Jess Smith From a Scottish Traveller energetic, engaging storytelling sensitivity and humour, Ruth collected new ones from the Ionic followed a calling to Scotland. teaches storytelling in the UK and family, as a child Jess was privileged events for children and families as fi rmly believes in the power of Islands this summer. Her repertoire ranges from ancient as far afi eld as Spain, Canada and to sit round camp fi res within a Mac-a-Story. storytelling to bring the heart back traditional and wisdom tales to Japan. In 2007 he co-founded the circle of stories and song. She has into relationships and communities. Annmarie MacRury is a cheerful jokes. Centre for Narrative Leadership. carried these traditions forward into Mara Menzies Mara is passionate She hails from the North East of traditional Gaelic singer with Barra adulthood, as a talented storyteller, about bringing African stories Scotland. and Uist connections who now lives Eleni Theodoraki Dr Theodoraki George MacPherson Seoras’ singer and writer. to life. Her stories range from in Edinburgh. is Reader in Festival and Event (George’s) stories come from family traditional folklore to tales based Sofi a Papadia Sofi a comes from Management at Edinburgh Napier traditions passed down through Jimmy Williamson Jimmy was on real life historical characters. mainland Greece on her father’s Audrey Parks Audrey was born University. In March 2010 she was many generations. He was born in born in Fife in 1951. The eldest son side, and from the island of Cyprus in Belfast, but has spent most of appointed Core Commissioner in Greenock in 1933 and brought up of a Travelling family, he is still actively Marie Lousie Cochrane Marie on her mother’s side. She has over her life in Edinburgh. Her repertoire the Commission for a Sustainable in Ardnamurchan. For many years involved in the Travelling culture, still Louise tells stories ranging from fi ve years experience in teaching includes many Irish and Scottish London 2012. he worked in the West of Scotland absorbing the stories and traditions Scottish tales to fairy tales and Greek traditional dances. folktales, children’s stories and before returning to his father’s home in which he was brought up. family tales to stories of faith. Her stories of faith and love. Enedina Sanna Storyteller and country in Glendale to commit background is in the fi elds of social Stella Kassimati A storyteller from director of the cultural association himself to storytelling and writing. Kati Waitzmann Kati is a work, counselling and church Amari, Crete, and chair of the Bob Knight Bob is an Aberdeen- Archivi del Sud, in the village of storyteller who particular enjoys settings. International Association Friends based Scottish folk singer and Alghero, Enedina has researched Hambis Tsangaris Born in the sharing old Glasgow stories, of Amari, Stella was brought up songwriter, who often uses Scots. Sardinian folk tales for several now occupied village of Kontea, traditional tales she learned in Marion Kenny Marion draws with the myths and legends of years, bringing them back to life. Hambis witnessed and was Skye and stories from the Grimm’s on her wealth of experience as the Greek Gods and Heroes. She Bob Pegg Bob is a compelling personally affected by Cyprus’ collections. a musician, circus performer, specialises in Classical Greek myths performer who interweaves Enzo Favata Enzo is a musician Turkish invasion in 1974. Cyprus, its dancer and actress to enhance and and legends, including Cretan and his storytelling with traditional and composer with a background traditions and its folk stories, inspire Katie Harrigan is a highly compliment her passion for stories, Minoan stories. songs and his own compositions. in traditional jazz. For more than most of his work. He lives in the experienced Celtic harp player often accompanying them with Bob lives in Strathpeffer in the 15 years he has researched and village of Platanisteia, where he has originally from Ayrshire. She harps and fl utes. Tom Muir A storyteller and Highlands and has a special explored the sounds of Sardinia’s founded a school of printmaking. has worked with many Scottish folklorist, Tom tells traditional interest in Northern lore. traditional music. musicians including Ceolbeg and Marlene Misfud-Chircop Marlene stories of Orkney (where he was Hamish Moore Hamish worked Hamish Moore. is a storyteller and wife of the late born and brought up) and the Eric Brennan Born and raised in as a vet until 1986 when he retired George Mifsud-Chircop, one of North. He has a great love for Glasgow, with Scottish and Irish in order to play music and make Malta’s most prominent folklore local traditions, and his humorous antecedents, storytelling perhaps bagpipes professionally. He is the researchers. delight in the humanity of the comes naturally to Eric. He has musical director of the Ceolas stories is infectious. worked particularly with children in summer school in South Uist. early literacy projects. 22. 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The Scottish Storytelling Centre is the national body for the support and development of the storytelling artform, and presents the annual Scottish International Storytelling Festival as part of this work. The organisation is a partnership between the Scottish Storytelling Forum and the Church of Scotland, and is supported by Creative Scotland, the City of Edinburgh Council and a wide range of charitable donations. Registered charity SCO 11353.
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