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Our Partners FESTIVAL OF DREAMS scottish international storytelling festival 2016 Box office: 21- 31 October 0131 556 9579 www.tracscotland.org/festivals Welcome to the world’s finest feast of traditional storytelling.

Festival of Dreams will explore our ability to dream something different into existence, acknowledging the power of storytelling to lift you out of time and place with the liberating power of imagination. Great stories well told have the ability to evoke indelible images in the mind of the listener… The best of Scotland’s storytelling talent will merge with invited guests from Spain, Central and South America, offering a plethora of dreamscapes and myths in an eleven- day celebration of live storytelling, oral traditions and cultural diversity. Sustainability and 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. SISF is committed to a sustainable future, and to measuring and managing our environmental impacts. Please enjoy our eco-friendly events, use public transport wherever possible, and use our recycling facilities. The Festival Team

David Campbell

The Scottish International Storytelling Festival is organised by TRACS (Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland) which brings together the Storytelling, Traditional Music and Traditional Dance Forums of Scotland from its base at the Scottish Storytelling Centre. The Festival is supported through Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund, Creative Scotland, City of Edinburgh Council, and Festivals Edinburgh. Special thanks to the Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo.

Special thanks to our national and Lochend Secret Garden, Dr Neil’s Garden Elphinstone Institute, Argyll and Bute international partners: Dario Fo Festival, Trust, Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature, Council, Resonate Arts House, The Spanish Consulate General, Royal Botanic Burgh Blatherers, Circus Cafe, Dig it! 2017, Village Storytelling Centre, Blether Garden Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland’s Urban Past, Transition Network, Tay-Gither, Eyemouth Primary School Scotland, National Galleries of Scotland, Eco-Schools Scotland and Lateral North. Festival, Kingdom Crack, Burgh Blethers, Royal Observatory Edinburgh, Edinburgh Special thanks to our regional partners: Inverness Storytelling Festival, TamFest, Museums & Galleries, Mercat Tours, Beltane Orkney Storytelling Festival, Portskerra Sensing Place project, PAMIS and Fire Society, Leith Community Crops in Pots, International Storytelling Festival, Tayberry Tales. 02. Box office: 0131 556 9579 About the programme We’ve categorised our events to ensure your Become a Festival Supporter storytelling experience Enjoy an array of benefits by choosing one of our Supporting schemes. is exactly what you’re Festival Storytelling Centre looking for, be it an evening Supporter, £20 Supporter, £30 gathering in jovial company expires on Tue 1 Nov 2016 expires after 1 year soaking up stories, daytime > Discounts on many Scottish > Discounts on many Storytelling events for the whole family International Storytelling Centre events, including TradFest Festival events at the and Scottish International to get involved with or Storytelling Centre Storytelling Festival events workshop sessions so > 10% discount in the Storytelling > 10% discount in the Storytelling you can get creative. Centre’s bookshop, during SISF Centre’s bookshop 2016 dates > 10% discount in the Story Café How to book > 10% discount in the Story Café, > Invites to special events, also Tickets for all events at the Scottish during SISF 2016 dates including SISF 2016 launch party on Storytelling Centre (plus paid > Invite to launch party on Fri 21 October events at the NLS) can be booked Fri 21 Oct > A quarterly mailing of our What’s by phone, online or in person > Contributing to the development On guide (by post if desired) through the Centre’s Box Office. of the SISF > Contributing to the development All other partner venues have their and work of the SSC own booking outlets. See the back Look for the supporter prices in the listings which look like this - £5 cover for details. For regional event details, see individual listings. We rely on the generosity of our supporters and funders to help us bring The Festival box office is open from our work to life, share it with the widest possible audience and keep our ticket prices affordable. Our audience is essential in helping us to deliver Mon 5 Sep, 10am - 6pm. high quality storytelling, music and dance events. With your help, we are +44 (0) 131 556 9579 able to do more and to do it better. www.tracscotland.org/festivals To book your Supporter scheme call our team on Free events at the National Library of Scotland will be bookable from +44 (0) 131 556 9579 Thu 15 Sep on www.nls.uk/events For further enquiries email or +44 (0) 131 623 3734. [email protected]

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From Thu 1 September to Wed 30 November 2016

Dare to Dream The Scottish International Storytelling Festival invites everyone to join in the collective act of dreaming a better future.

What are the stories that are yet to be told? Our local grassroots schools and communities campaign invites the public to Dare to Dream: to dream the stories of the past and the future. Building on last year’s campaign - Dig Where You Stand - we also invite you to discover the stories of your own local place.

Every place, every community, every person has a story to tell. The kind of stories we tell shape our lives and our worlds, both real and imaginary. Sometimes stories can help us to think about our worlds in new ways. All of us together can expand what’s possible by telling, listening to and inventing new stories.

Join us! Share your stories, dreams and creations online using the hashtag #DareToDream Ian Stephen and help us create a crowd-sourced vision for the future.

To register your event, access local resources and for more information contact: www.daretodream.scot

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04. Box office: 0131 556 9579 Festival Exhibitions

Until Sun 3 April 2017 You Are Here: A Journey through Maps National Library of Scotland Mon – Fri: 10am – 8pm | Sat: 10am – 5pm | Sun: 2 – 5pm Free entry | All ages Maps are everywhere proclaiming YOU ARE HERE – on our phones, in our cars and pockets, on walls, bus stops and advertisements. This exhibition challenges our acceptance of maps, by posing questions about how they are made and how we understand them. Drawn from the Library’s collection of more than two million maps and atlases, the exhibition zooms out from the Library to the whole world. The display includes one of the finest plans of Edinburgh and the first map of Scotland, as well as utilitarian railways, fishing and schoolroom maps. Thu 6 – Sun 30 October Dario Fo: Artist, activist, inspiration Scottish Storytelling Centre Mon – Sat, 10am – 6pm, and before events Free entry | All ages An exhibition of Dario Fo’s paintings, including works featured in his latest book, New Tricks of the Trade. Playwright, actor, comedian, singer, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, painter and political campaigner, Dario Fo is arguably the most widely performed living playwright in world theatre. Recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature, his plays, including Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!, The Virtuous Burglar, Mistero Buffo, Trumpets & Raspberries and Accidental Death of an Anarchist, have been translated into 30 languages. His work as a visual artist is less well known outside Italy and has never been seen in the UK. It shares many of the qualities of his writing – fantasy, radicalism and provocation combined with a love of storytelling and deep awareness of history. Explore Dario Fo’s 70 year career as theatre-maker and political activist, and see the story of a hugely influential and important figure in European theatre. We gratefully acknowledge the generous support of Dario Fo in providing the artwork to visualise SISF 2016. The exhibition is also at the Italian Cultural Institute and the , with performances, talks and workshops. Funded by Creative Scotland and supported by the Italian Cultural Institute. Produced by Eleven www.elevenhq.com www.tracscotland.org/festivals 05. Opening

Weekend Daniel Allison Friday Dreams and Open Hearth Nightmares Scottish Storytelling Centre 21 October Departs from Mercat Cross, Live Storytelling besides St Giles Cathedral 8pm (1hr 45) | £9 (£7.50) £6 Walking Tour Adults Festival Key Note: 6pm (1hr 30) | £13 Join storytellers and musicians Cervantes the Auld Reekie, the Athens of the in a relaxed traditional session Storyteller North. Our city and our people round the hearth, as the darkness Scottish Storytelling Centre weave two tales. Edinburgh has closes in and the embers glow Talks & Lectures seen centuries of ambition and with pictures in the fire. Hosted by 5pm (50mins) | £7.50 (£6) £5 glory alongside riot and ruin. We’ll Festival Director, Donald Smith Adults show you closes and courtyards with Janis Mackay and Mairi Dr Ted Bergman presents a talk to share tales where dreams were McFadyen. The perfect way to dedicated to the most influential made, and nightmares unfolded. end your first Festival day. work of literature from the Hispanic Organised by Mercat Tours. world. To commemorate the 400th Saturday anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes’ Once our Valleys 22 October death, enjoy an introduction to the were Ringing renowned dreamer and storyteller, Scottish Storytelling Centre The Ingenious Gentleman Don Live Storytelling Quixote of La Mancha. This is Where 6.30pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Dreams are Made Adults Scottish Storytelling Centre Dougie Mackay, Daniel Workshop Allison and Janis Mackay 10.30am (6hrs) | £15 (£12) £11 explore folk tales that cross the Adults liminal threshold, spanning the Playing with words, sounds, extraordinary and the everyday. movement and story, this workshop Join this immersion where people, for adults takes inspiration from land and curious beings merge in traditional tales, exploring the links dreams, yearning and possibility. and resonances in our own lives. InterPlay leader Mairi Campbell shares her skills as musician and improviser, while David

Janis Mackay Campbell draws on his practice as a storyteller, tradition bearer and mischievous elf... All you need is what you already have. Fill in the gaps with fun!

06. Box office: 0131 556 9579 Snug as a Bug? Leith Community Croft Family Event 11am (1hr) | Free | All ages Storyteller Rosie Mapplebeck lives in a nature garden where she makes new homes for tiny creatures. Share stories of her animal, bird and bee friends and make a beastie bed-box, in Leith’s renowned crofting garden, on the west side of the Links.

The Faerie Folk of Lochend’s Secret Garden Rubén Corbett Lochend Secret Garden Family Event Plant Power & World of Dreams 11.30am (1hr) | Free | All ages Folk Stories Circus Cafe Join storyteller Jane Mather for Dr Neil’s Garden Live Storytelling a morning of tales, discovery and Family Event 3.30pm (1hr 30) | £7 (£5) | All ages hidden surprises. Family event, 2.30pm (1hr) | Free | All ages Dream stories capture imaginations all welcome. Limited access for Enjoy storytelling and the folklore all over the world. Join Edinburgh’s wheelchairs in case of wet weather. of plant medicine in this very secret Burgh Blatherers on a trip through and special garden in Duddingston sleeping and waking, near and Dare to Dream Day Village at the bottom of Arthur’s far. With Bob Mitchell, Beverley Scottish Storytelling Centre Seat. A folktale tour of Dr Neil’s Bryant, Joshua Bryant, Jill Family Event beautiful garden, wild meadow, McPherson, Jared Kropp Thiery, 2pm (2hrs) | Free (ticketed) | 6+ Physic Garden, Loch and tower Dorothy Melville, Phyllis Davison, Through storytelling, the liberating with storyteller and folklorist, Allison Ruaridh McIntosh, Beverley power of imagination is open to Galbraith. Outdoor event on hilly Casebow and Lynsey Wright. everyone, big or small! Imagine terrain, suitable for all the family. Tickets: www.facebook.com/ you live in the best possible future. theburghblatherers What stories would you tell to the Bedtime Stories world today, from the future of your Museum of Childhood Festival Key Note: dreams? Come along to our Dare Family Event Simón Bolívar – to Dream Day and help us dream a 3pm & 4pm (1hr) | Free, drop-in The Liberator better future together. Children 3 - 8 Scottish Storytelling Centre In the cosy atmosphere of the Talks & Lectures Book of the Howlat Museum of Childhood’s Bedtime 3.30pm (50 mins) | £7.50 (£6) £5 National Library of Scotland Stories exhibition, hear wondrous Adults Family Event tales of dreams and adventures Matthew Brown gives fresh 2pm (1hr 30) | Free (ticketed) | 6+ from storyteller Ailie Finlay, insight into the controversial Hear the story of the young owl colourfully illuminated by a father of South American who longs to change his feathers, Victorian magic lantern show. independence and democracy. told by Scots Scriever Hamish You can also see and touch the This is one of the continent’s MacDonald, and then create museum’s magic lanterns and defining stories – but what exactly your own art work inspired by the view slides never displayed before! is its significance for all the birds in the tale, with artist and No need to book, but space is countries that still acknowledge illustrator Kate Leiper. Reserve limited so arrive early to avoid Bolívar as “the Liberator”? tickets: www.nls.uk/events disappointment. www.tracscotland.org/festivals 07. Stories from Reflecting Fridas Open Hearth Mexico and Panama Scottish Storytelling Centre Scottish Storytelling Centre Scottish Storytelling Centre Live Storytelling Live Storytelling Live Storytelling 6.30pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) £5 8pm (1hr 45) | £9 (£7.50) £6 5pm (50mins) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Adults Adults Adults The life and work of Mexican artist Join storytellers and musicians With his double cultural background, Frida Kahlo inspires this event, from Scotland and abroad in a storyteller Rubén Corbett treats you created and performed by Brazilian relaxed traditional session round to stories from both Central American storyteller Ana Maria Lines. In the hearth, as the darkness closes countries. Venture into pivotal places the artist’s words, “I paint myself in and the embers glow with in world geography which have because I am so often alone and pictures in the fire. Hosted by spawned huge imaginative energies. because I am the subject I know storyteller Michael Kerins, Bilingual support by storyteller best.” What is the power of Kahlo’s with Jamaican guest Amina Laura Escuela. art in her own life, and what did Blackwood and Cuban guest she have to overcome to enrich our Beatriz Quintana. The perfect Dreams and Nightmares collective dreaming? way to end your day. Departs from Mercat Cross, besides St Giles Cathedral Walking Tour 6pm (1hr 30) | £13 Auld Reekie, the Athens of the North. Our city and our people weave two tales. Edinburgh has seen centuries of ambition and glory alongside riot and ruin. We’ll show you closes and courtyards to share tales where dreams were made, and nightmares unfolded. Organised by Mercat Tours.

Canongate Stars & Stories Departs from Scottish Storytelling Centre Walking Tour 6pm (2hrs) Donald Smith Free, sign-up on the day | Adults Celebrate 500 years of the Canongate’s incredible literary history with the launch of Canongate Stars & Stories, a trail which shines a light on the books that have shaped Scotland from the heart of Auld Reekie. Weave your way down the Canongate and discover the books, words and ideas upon which this City of Literature has been built. Organised by Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature Trust, with storytellers Donald Smith and Ken Cockburn.

08. Box office: 0131 556 9579 Sunday 23 October

Autumn Dream: Storytelling Day at the Garden Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Family Event 1pm (3hrs) | Free | All ages Storytellers will animate Edinburgh’s Botanic Garden for a relaxed afternoon of stories for all the family. Meet at the Storytelling Yurts, where they will take you on story journeys into the beautiful surroundings. Nature, gardens and dreams will meet, enriched by late autumn colours.

Stories in Bottles Scottish Storytelling Centre Live Storytelling 3pm (1hr 30) | £7.50 (£6) £5 | 6+ For the beachcomber, a castaway bottle signals the start of adventure and romance, but what are the Liliana Bonel tales of the people who put precious messages or objects into bottles and tossed them to the mercy of rescue of the kidnapped memory of Open Hearth the sea? Find out from storyteller Latin America, that despised and Scottish Storytelling Centre Alexandria Patience with live beloved land. I would like to talk to Live Storytelling music by Donald McNeill. her, share her secrets, ask her of 8pm (1hr 45) | £9 (£7.50) £6 what difficult clays she was born, Adults from what acts of love and violation Join storytellers and musicians Eduardo Galeano: she comes.” Rescuing the from Scotland and abroad in a relaxed traditional session round Kidnapped Memory Stories from Argentina the hearth, as the darkness of Latin America Scottish Storytelling Centre closes in and the embers glow Scottish Storytelling Centre Live Storytelling with pictures in the fire. Hosted Talks & Lectures 6.30pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) £5 by storyteller Beverley Bryant, 5pm (50mins) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Adults with Argentinian guest Liliana Adults Storyteller Liliana Bonel transports Bonel, Brazilian guest Ana Maria Alastair Hulbert celebrates in you to the Southern hemisphere, Lines and Paraguayan harp by words, images and music the great where the vast lands of Argentina Karen Marshalsay. Bilingual Uruguayan, Eduardo Galeano, still hold a hidden treasure of support by storyteller Laura who died last year. “I am a writer,” legends and folk tales, with which Escuela. The perfect way to Galeano explains in his wonderful Scotland and Wales are especially end your day. trilogy, Memory of Fire, “who connected. Bilingual support by would like to contribute to the storyteller Laura Escuela. www.tracscotland.org/festivals 09. Festival

Week Mio Shapley Monday The Story of Open Hearth a Nicaraguan Scottish Storytelling Centre 24 October Family Live Storytelling Scottish Storytelling Centre 8pm (1hr 45) | £9 (£7.50) £6 Education Day Talks & Lectures Adults 5pm (50mins) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Join storytellers and musicians Seeing Where You Adults in a relaxed traditional session Are: A Journey Rosa of the Wild Grass is a true round the hearth, as the darkness through Mapping story which spans the last fifty closes in and the embers glow National Library of Scotland years of the life of the small with pictures in the fire. Hosted Workshop republic of Nicaragua. The book’s by storyteller David Campbell, 11am (2hrs) | £15 (£12) | Adults author, Fiona Macintosh, unravels with Alexandria Patience, Claire A workshop exploring a fascinating and deeply moving McNicol and Panamanian-Mexican possibilities for using mapping personal and family chronicle, guest Rubén Corbett, plus music resources in imaginative ways from Donald McNeill. Bilingual for educators and creative which she has devoted herself to bringing to life. support by Laura Escuela. practitioners, inspired by the The perfect way to end your day. Library’s current exhibition. Led by Library staff, in Stories from partnership with storyteller/ Jamaica Tuesday author Lari Don and artist/ Scottish Storytelling Centre educator Amanda Gizzi. 25 October Live Storytelling Connect through 6.30pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Storytelling: Education Adults Connect through Scottish Storytelling Centre Storyteller Amina Blackwood Storytelling: Workshop introduces you to the richness Community of Jamaican oral traditions in 2pm (2hrs 30) | £15 (£12) £11 Scottish Storytelling Centre an evening that promises to be Adults Workshop A fantastic opportunity for filled with all the vibrant energy 2pm (2hrs 30) | £15 (£12) £11 educators and storytellers to expressed in Caribbean tales. Adults explore the role of storytelling Crick? Crack! across all aspects of the school Join Drut’syla Shonaleigh to curriculum, as well as for explore Jewish storytelling lifelong learning. Led by guest traditions as a way of connecting to storytellers Beatriz Quintana, community. This Connect through Wayqui César Villegas Astete, Storytelling series is for all those Mauricio Patiño Acevedo, interested in developing storytelling Amina Blackwood and Betty approaches within their own art, Mindlin. Bilingual support by professional practice and lives. Laura Escuela.

10. Box office: 0131 556 9579 A Journey through Maps National Library of Scotland Live Storytelling 2pm (1hr) | Free (ticketed) | Adults An afternoon of readings and stories on the theme of maps, mapping, journeys and travel, to complement the Library’s current exhibition, with exhibition curator Paula Williams and storyteller Marion Kenny. Reserve tickets: www.nls.uk/events

The Women who Made the Mountains Sing Scottish Storytelling Centre Live Storytelling 5pm (50mins) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Adults Marion Kenny A unique, multilingual storytelling creation between Finnish Rune singer and storyteller, Anna-Maria Toivonen and Highland Perthshire storyteller, Claire Hewitt. Step research with Travellers and ballad with them into the Land of the Long singers, featuring archive material Wednesday Ago Women, where they will weave from the School of Scottish 26 October for you an ancient Finnish tale The Studies Archives. Lecture held in Maiden who Rose from the Sea. memory of Alan Bruford, folklore scholar and archivist. Community Gardens The Alan Bruford Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Lecture Open Hearth Talks & Lectures ‘The Space Between is Where Scottish Storytelling Centre 11am (1hr 30) | Free (ticketed) the Maysie Lives’: Presence, Live Storytelling Adults Imagination and Experience 8pm (1hr 45) | £9 (£7.50) £6 Edinburgh’s history saw physic in the Traditional Ballad Adults gardens playing an important role Scottish Storytelling Centre Join storytellers and musicians in people’s health and wellbeing. Talks & Lectures from Scotland and abroad in a In recent years, Edinburgh has 6.30pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) £5 relaxed traditional session round seen the broader development of Adults the hearth, as the darkness closes community gardens. Can we draw Dr Mairi McFadyen invites us to in and the embers glow with a connection between the past reflect on the magic and power pictures in the fire. Hosted by and the present? Do community of stories in song. Words and storyteller Paraig MacNeil, with gardens play a role in the music, singer and listener, past Claire Hewitt and guest storyteller contemporary understanding of and present fuse together in the from Finland, Anna-Maria health and environment? Talk and “ballad experience”, sending Toivonen, plus music by James discussion at the Botanic Cottage shivers up the spine and unlocking MacDonald Reid. The perfect way with Jane Mather, Claudia Pottier layers of imagination, memory and to end your day. and Evie Murray. Reserve tickets: meaning. Mairi will draw on her www.thebotanics.eventbrite.co.uk www.tracscotland.org/festivals 11. Daniel Hernández Connect through In the Green Heart Diario da Floresta – Storytelling: Living Scottish Storytelling Centre The Forest Diary Scottish Storytelling Centre Live Storytelling Scottish Storytelling Centre Workshop 5pm (50mins) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Live Storytelling 2pm (2hrs 30) | £15 (£12) £11 Adults 6.30pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Adults “In the green heart of a fallen oak I Adults Join Colombian-Chilean storyteller found this story.” An original folktale Brazilian anthropologist Betty Daniel Hernández to explore the inspired by the work of sculptor Mindlin has worked with and on parallels between the art of living Tim Stead and the beauty of behalf of indigenous people in and the art of telling stories. In this Scotland’s woodlands. Storyteller Brazil for many years. Together workshop, he will take you through Jean Edmiston shares stories of with Brazilian storyteller Ana his three step process: learning magical gardens and misty forests, Maria Lines, she shares some the essence of telling stories to full of dreams and enchantment. of the myths and traditions of others, living your own stories the Suruí Paiter people from and telling stories with heart. Star Tales Rondônia in western Brazil, while This Connect through Storytelling Royal Observatory Edinburgh insisting on indigenous rights with series is for all those interested in Live Storytelling regard to land claims, healthcare developing storytelling approaches 6.30pm (1hr 30) | Free (ticketed) and education. within their own art, professional 8+ practice and lives. Shining from a distant time when Dream Feast man looked to the heavens for Scottish Storytelling Centre Stories in the Skies guidance and truth, star stories Live Storytelling National Library of Scotland from tribal people reveal the 8pm (2hrs) | £11 (£9) £8 | Adults Live Storytelling moral imperative for life on earth. Enter the Garden of Dreams, 2.30pm (1hr) | Free (ticketed) For modern astronomers, light make yourself comfortable and Adults received from distant corners enjoy a night of tasty stories An afternoon of stories and poems of the cosmos tells its own tale with the enchanting Shonaleigh. as part of the Festival’s star-gazing about the origins of our Universe Multi-cultural buffet included, strand. Dream the magic of the and our place within it. A session along with a multi-option menu heavens with the participation of devoted to the observable facts of ever flowing tales, accompanied Joanna Geyer-Kordesch, Donald and mysterious fictions of star lore, with music by Mohammed Smith and Janis Mackay. Reserve with storyteller Linda Williamson, Nafea, Marion Kenny and tickets: www.nls.uk/events harpist Mio Shapley and staff Douglas Hudson. from the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. See Festival website to reserve tickets on Eventbrite.

12. Box office: 0131 556 9579 Thursday Second Sight: Seeing Open Hearth in Highland Tradition Scottish Storytelling Centre 27 October Scottish Storytelling Centre Live Storytelling Talks & Lectures 8pm (1hr 45) | £9 (£7.50) £6 5pm (50mins) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Adults Sensing Place – Adults Join storytellers and musicians Sharing Event Storyteller and tradition bearer from Scotland and abroad in a Scottish Storytelling Centre George Macpherson of Glendale relaxed traditional session round Talk & Lectures in Skye explores the phenomena the hearth, as the darkness closes 11am (1hr) | Free (ticketed) | Adults of super-sensory “seeing” in the in and the embers glow with What stories are important to Gaelic traditions of the Highlands pictures in the fire. Hosted by you? Sensing Place harnesses the and Islands. Are they connected storyteller Linda Williamson, power of storytelling and archive with older Druidic beliefs and if so, with Mio Shapley and music film to explore new ways to get how has it been expressed in more by Toby Shippey and friends. involved in creative work that has recent times? George’s new book, The perfect way to end your day. its roots in where you live. Over The Old Grey Magician, digs into the summer, communities across related unique material surviving East Ayrshire, Dumfries & Galloway in oral culture. and the Scottish Borders have been working with a storyteller, From Borges to Bugs a filmmaker and a curator to Scottish Storytelling Centre create new site-specific works in Live Storytelling partnership with local festivals and 6.30pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) £5 promoters. Join Andrew Ormston Adults and Shona Thomson as they share Storyteller Giles Abbott will lead the story of this innovative arts you gently from the mind-opening project. Project blog: sensingplace. fiction of Argentina’s Jorge Luis eu. Supported by the National Borges to Magical Realism and Lottery through Creative Scotland, Amerindian folk story, highlighting and part of BFI’s Britain on the connections between them Film programme. and how the storytelling of dispossessed nations found its way Connect through into our childhoods. Distinguished Storytelling: Voice by his flair for language, indulge Scottish Storytelling Centre in storytelling from “a voice like Workshop melted chocolate” (Honor Giles). 2pm (2hrs 30) | £15 (£12) £11 Warning: product may Adults contain carrots. Ever wished your voice sounded better, richer, or more expressive? Join storyteller and voice teacher Giles Abbott to learn how to George Macpherson connect to your natural voice quickly and simply, hearing yourself as you have never done before. This Connect through Storytelling series is for all those interested in developing storytelling approaches within their own art, professional practice and lives. www.tracscotland.org/festivals 13. Friday 28 October

Connect through Storytelling: Heart of the Tale Scottish Storytelling Centre Workshop 2pm (2hrs 30) | £15 (£12) £11 Adults The theme of connection runs through all great stories and is the gift at the heart of the tale. Storytellers Steve Killick and Alette Willis lead a series of exercises that deepen your connections with the stories you tell, the people you tell them to and your own storytelling journey. This Connect through Storytelling series is for all those interested in developing storytelling approaches within their own art, professional practice and lives.

From the Scottish Borders to South America National Library of Scotland Live Storytelling 2pm (1hr 30) | Free (ticketed) Adults An afternoon exploring the story of George Anderson, one of the many Borders shepherds who sought a new life in South America during the 19th century. His story will be woven with traditional tales and ballads from the old country, plus stories from the new world. Mara Menzies With storytellers Mary Kenny, Daniel Hernández and curator Andrew Martin. Reserve tickets: www.nls.uk/events

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A Human Tales of Don Roberto Guid Crack Love Story Scottish Storytelling Centre at Hallowe’en Scottish Storytelling Centre Live Storytelling Circus Cafe Live Storytelling 5pm (50mins) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Club Event 2pm (2hrs) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Adults 7.30pm (2hrs 30) | By donation (£5) Adults Writer Jamie Jauncey grew up with Adults By sharing stories we allow stories from the extraordinary life Edinburgh’s renowned storytelling ourselves to become vulnerable, of his great-grand-uncle, Robert club holds its open Friday night enabling connection and nurturing Cunninghame Graham, politician, session for Hallowe’en, with guest empathy with others. In that author, horseman and adventurer. storyteller Mara Menzies. Expect compassion lies the heart of true But who was “Don Roberto” scares and frightful tales, but lots community. Over the last three really, and what was it like to have of humour too. years Matt Hopwood has walked such a figure as part of the family more than 1500 miles through backdrop? Experience afresh one of Open Hearth England, connecting and sharing Scotland’s most gallant adventurers Scottish Storytelling Centre love stories with people he meets in art, life and politics. Live Storytelling on pathways, corners, in pubs, in 8pm (1hr 45) | £9 (£7.50) £6 prisons, at the opera, in chapels Stories from Peru Adults and in homes. He continues his Scottish Storytelling Centre Join storytellers and musicians pilgrimage, walking from Berwick Live Storytelling from Scotland and abroad in a to Callanish, stopping by the 6.30pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) £5 relaxed traditional session round Festival to share his gatherings Adults the hearth, as the darkness closes of emotive and powerful Be prepared for an intimate in and the embers glow with human experiences. evening where ancient Peruvian pictures in the fire. Hosted by tales and legends are brought storyteller George Macpherson, to life through the enchanting with Peruvian guest storyteller storyteller Wayqui (Brother) Wayqui César Villegas Astete and César Villegas Astete. No Heather Yule. Bilingual support landscape has done more to by storyteller Laura Escuela. generate myths and folklore. The perfect way to end your day. Bilingual support by storyteller Laura Escuela. www.tracscotland.org/festivals 15. Festival Diary

Time Event Venue Page Fri 21 October 5pm Festival Key Note: Cervantes the Storyteller SSC 06 6pm Dreams and Nightmares Mercat Cross 06 6.30pm Once our Valleys were Ringing SSC 06 8pm Open Hearth SSC 06 Sat 22 Oct 10.30am This is Where Dreams are Made SSC 06 11am Snug as a Bug? Leith Community Croft 07 11.30am The Faerie Folk of Lochend’s Secret Garden Lochend Secret Garden 07 2pm Dare to Dream Day SSC 07 2pm Book of the Howlat NLS 07 2.30pm Plant Power and Folk Stories Dr Neil’s Garden 07 3pm & 4pm Bedtime Stories Museum of Childhood 07 3.30pm World of Dreams Circus Cafe 07 3.30pm Festival Key Note: Simón Bolívar – The Liberator SSC 07 5pm Stories from Mexico and Panama SSC 08 6pm Dreams and Nightmares Mercat Cross 08 6pm Canongate Stars & Stories Departs SSC 08 6.30pm Reflecting Fridas SSC 08 8pm Open Hearth SSC 08 Sun 23 Oct 1pm Autumn Dream: Storytelling Day at the Garden RBGE 09 3pm Stories in Bottles SSC 09 5pm Eduardo Galeano: Rescuing the Kidnapped SSC 09 Memory of Latin America 6.30pm Stories from Argentina SSC 09 8pm Open Hearth SSC 09 Mon 24 Oct 11am Seeing Where You Are: A Journey through Mapping NLS 10 2pm Connect through Storytelling: Education SSC 10 5pm The Story of a Nicaraguan Family SSC 10 6.30pm Stories from Jamaica SSC 10 8pm Open Hearth SSC 10 Tue 25 Oct 2pm Connect through Storytelling: Community SSC 10 2pm A Journey through Maps NLS 11 5pm The Women who Made the Mountains Sing SSC 11 6.30pm The Alan Bruford Lecture SSC 11 8pm Open Hearth SSC 11 Wed 26 Oct 11am Community Gardens RBGE 11 2pm Connect through Storytelling: Living SSC 12 2.30pm Stories in the Skies NLS 12 5pm In the Green Heart SSC 12 6.30pm Star Tales Royal Observatory 12 6.30pm Diario da Floresta – The Forest Diary SSC 12 8pm Dream Feast SSC 12

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Time Event Venue Page Thu 27 Oct 11am Sensing Place – Sharing Event SSC 13 2pm Connect through Storytelling: Voice SSC 13 5pm Second Sight: Seeing in Highland Tradition SSC 13 6.30pm From Borges to Bugs SSC 13 8pm Open Hearth SSC 13

Fri 28 Oct 2pm Connect through Storytelling: Heart of the Tale SSC 14 2pm From the Scottish Borders to South America NLS 14 2pm A Human Love Story SSC 15 5pm Tales of Don Roberto SSC 15 6.30pm Stories from Peru SSC 15 7.30pm Guid Crack at Hallowe’en Circus Cafe 15 8pm Open Hearth SSC 15

Sat 29 Oct 10.30am & 1.30pm A Spooky Time in the Museum Museum of Childhood 18 12pm Family Samhuinn SSC 18 3pm Don Quixote de la Mancha! SSC 18 5pm Stories from Chile SSC 18 6pm Dreams and Nightmares Mercat Cross 18 6.30pm Stories from Colombia SSC 18 8pm Open Hearth SSC 18

Sun 30 Oct 10am Halloween at the Castle 19 12pm Clown: From Shadow to Light SSC 19 2pm & 3pm The Sound of Stuff Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art 19 2.30pm Guisers Galore SSC & 19 2.30pm Dream Maps and Creation Stories NLS 19 3pm Stories from Cuba SSC 19 5pm Macbeth –Playing Scottish SSC 20 6pm Dreams and Nightmares Mercat Cross 20 6.30pm Stories from the shadows: Chile SSC 20 8pm Open Hearth SSC 20

Mon 31 Oct 2pm Once Upon a Hallowe’en SSC 20 6.30pm Ghostly Tales for Telling NLS 20 9pm Samhainn Fire Festival Edinburgh’s Old Town 20

Venue Key SSC For Festival on Tour listings see details Scottish Storytelling Centre on page 21-25, and for more information NLS visit the website: National Library of Scotland RBGE Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh www.tracscotland.org/festivals

17. Finale Weekend Saturday Don Quixote seen centuries of ambition and de la Mancha! glory alongside riot and ruin. We’ll show you closes and courtyards 29 October When Dreams become Stories to share tales where dreams were Scottish Storytelling Centre made, and nightmares unfolded. Live Storytelling Organised by Mercat Tours. A Spooky Time 3pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) £5 | 6+ in the Museum A bilingual storytelling show based Museum of Childhood on Don Quixote de la Mancha and Stories from Colombia Family Event filled with humour and live music. Scottish Storytelling Centre 10.30am & 1.30pm (2hrs) The irrepressible David & Monma Live Storytelling Free, drop-in | All ages will guide you into Miguel de 6.30pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) £5 It’s time for the skeletons to rattle Cervantes’ classic tale, inviting you to Adults their bones, but can you make them awaken the dreamer that everyone Colombia is a tropical land that glow? Draw and paint a skeleton to has within, through the love and joy smells of coffee and blossoms glow in the dark and scare the other of reading and storytelling. with stories. But it is also a ghouls and ghosts away! country with ancient roots and Stories from Chile a distinct storytelling imagination. Enjoy listening to its voices Family Samhuinn Scottish Storytelling Centre with storyteller Mauricio Scottish Storytelling Centre Live Storytelling Patiño Acevedo. Family Event 5pm (50mins) | £7.50 (£6) £5 12pm (3hrs) | Free | All ages Adults In the Celtic calendar, the Enjoy an afternoon in the company Open Hearth traditional festival of Samhuinn of Colombian-Chilean storyteller Scottish Storytelling Centre is a time when the veil between Daniel Hernández and let your Live Storytelling the land of the living and the imagination roam through the 8pm (1hr 45) | £9 (£7.50) £6 departed is thinnest. Enjoy a day varied landscape and cultures of Adults of crafting, face painting, dancing, Chile, which stretches from the Join storytellers and musicians drumming and other fun activities, Antarctic region to the tropics. from Scotland and abroad in a plus stories from our mesmerising relaxed traditional session round costumed storytellers. The day will Dreams and the hearth, as the darkness have a spooky theme and everyone closes in and the embers glow is invited to come in their scariest Nightmares with pictures in the fire. Hosted costumes, but the event will be Departs from Mercat Cross, by storyteller Ian Stephen, with suitable for families of all ages – we besides St Giles Cathedral Colombian-Chilean guest Daniel promise not to give your grown- Walking Tour Hernández, Colombian guest ups too many nightmares, kids! 6pm (1hr 30) | £13 Mauricio Patiño Acevedo and Make Samhuinn memorable and Auld Reekie, the Athens of the music by Chilean guest Carlos celebrate with us. North. Our city and our people Arredondo. The perfect way to weave two tales. Edinburgh has end your day.

18. Box office: 0131 556 9579 David & Monma Sunday The Sound of Stuff Dream Maps and Scottish National Gallery Creation Stories 30 October of Modern Art, MOD1 National Library of Scotland Family Event Live Storytelling 2pm (1hr) | Free (ticketed) | 2-4 2.30pm (2hrs) | Free (ticketed) Halloween at the Castle 3pm (1hr) | Free (ticketed) | 5+ Adults Lauriston Castle Explore the secret life of materials Did you know that Shakespearean Family Event through words and senses with actors used to navigate a play by 10am (3hrs) | £6 | All ages Kate Temple and the Zoom Club. the stars? Ever wondered how Enjoy an afternoon of treats and Participate in a promenade through different cultures explain how fun in the old creepy Castle at this the gallery and create your own the stars were created? Explore ever-popular Halloween event. sounds, words and stories using memory and myth in this family- Full costumes encouraged and materials inspired by the work friendly story workshop led by watch out for our ghosts and of Karla Black and Kishio Suga. Jan Bee Brown. Walk through the ghouls! Note: These sessions The event is in partnership with map exhibition, You Are Here and are structured and not drop in. Puppet Animation Scotland. then create your own dream map. Booking via the on Reserve tickets via Eventbrite, Reserve tickets: www.nls.uk/events 0131 228 1155. see www.nationalgalleries.org Stories from Cuba Clown: From Guisers Galore Scottish Storytelling Centre Shadow to Light Scottish Storytelling Centre Live Storytelling Scottish Storytelling Centre & Tron Kirk 3pm (50mins) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Workshop Live Storytelling Adults 12pm (2hrs) | £15 (£12) £11 | Adults 2.30pm (2hrs) | Free | 5+ Experience Cuba in a time Join David & Monma, the Festival’s What’s Guising? Come along of change and transition as Cervantes storytellers, to awaken and learn a song, a poem and a dance storyteller Beatriz Quintana your inner clown. A little death for real Hallowe’en guising, then awakens your imagination and of “what we think we are” allows follow the Old Town Guisers parade takes you on a special journey a rebirth in the depths of our or prepare for guising in your local to the world of Cuban stories, being, in search of our own light, area. Rehearsals at the Storytelling unfolding their rhythms and vulnerability and innocence. Centre every half hour from 2.30pm to their colourful beauty. 4.30pm. Bring your own costume or mask. Not suitable for children under 5. All children must be accompanied. www.tracscotland.org/festivals 19. Macbeth – Stories from Monday Playing Scottish the shadows: Chile Scottish Storytelling Centre Scottish Storytelling Centre 31 October Live Storytelling Live Storytelling 5pm (50mins) | £7.50 (£6) £5 6.30pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) £5 Adults Adults Once Upon a Hallowe’en Scottish Storytelling Centre As darkness descends, join one Storytellers Daniel Serridge, Family Event of Scotland’s finest storytellers Lauren Bianchi and Dougie 2pm (1hr 30) | Free (ticketed) | 7+ for an oral rendition of William Mackay take you into the dark Primary school pupils share tales of Shakespeare’s darkest tragedy, and disturbing world of Chilean their own creation, with storyteller in honour of Shakespeare400 - folklore. Sitting off the coast of Tim Porteus who has nurtured commemorating 400 years since Chile lies the Chiloé Archipelago, their storytelling imaginations. the Bard’s death. Macbeth tells of a mysterious place rich in myths Enjoy the talents of some of the damaging effects of political to chill your bones. Featuring Scotland’s youngest storytellers. ambition on those who seek shadow puppetry and song, this power for its own sake, and the evening will prove to be the perfect perils of dabbling in witchcraft. Hallowe’en warm up, if you dare! Ghostly Tales for Telling Storyteller Marion Kenny is joined National Library of Scotland by her brother John Kenny, an Open Hearth Live Storytelling 6.30pm (2hrs) | £7 (£6) internationally acclaimed musician Scottish Storytelling Centre Adults playing an ancient Celtic hunting Live Storytelling It is two hundred years since horn, the Deskford Carnyx, which is 8pm (1hr 45) | £9 (£7.50) £6 a rainy, lonely ghost story guaranteed to raise the spirit – Adults challenge on Lake Geneva, where or the hackles. Join storytellers and musicians Frankenstein’s monster breathed from Scotland and abroad in a for the first time! Six winning tales Dreams and relaxed traditional session round from the Mary Shelley anniversary the hearth, as the darkness Nightmares competition are told live by some closes in and the embers glow Departs from Mercat Cross, of Scotland’s most accomplished with pictures in the fire. Hosted besides St Giles Cathedral storytellers. Chill the blood before by storyteller Jess Smith, with Walking Tour venturing out for the Samhainn Amina Blackwood from Jamaica, 6pm (1hr 30) | £13 Fires. With storytellers Michael Mauricio Patiño Acevedo from Auld Reekie, the Athens of the Williams, Claire Druett, Daniel Colombia, Mara Menzies and North. Our city and our people Allison, Ian Stephen, Fiona David Francis. The perfect way weave two tales. Edinburgh has Herbert and Tim Porteus. to end your day. seen centuries of ambition and Session will be BSL interpreted. glory alongside riot and ruin. We’ll show you closes and courtyards to share tales Samhainn Fire Festival Edinburgh Old Town where dreams were made, Site-Specific and nightmares unfolded. 9pm (3hrs) Organised by Free (donations welcome) Mercat Tours. 10+ The Beltane Fire Society celebrates the Celtic New Year by marking the end of summer and welcoming the onset of winter with a stunning torch lit procession featuring acrobatics, Tim Porteus fireworks, beautiful costumes and breath-taking performances. www.beltane.org

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Coordinated by regional storytelling teams with the support of the SISF. Guest storytellers meet with local performers and audiences, offering a fantastic opportunity to experience in-situ storytelling across the country and highlighting the close links stories have with local tradition, landscape and history. Friday 21 – Friday Monday Monday 31 21 October 24 October October Eyemouth Primary Alloa School Festival Sensing Place: An Evening with Archive Films & Stories Eyemouth PS is the only primary school in Scotland with its own Stirling’s Happy What stories are important to you designated storytelling festival. about the place you live? Three Hangman This third edition will host children Resonate Arts House, communities in East Ayrshire, from the Highway Nursery, Unit A3 & A4, North Castle Street, Dumfries & Galloway and the Seashells Nursery, Eyemouth PS Alloa, FK10 1EU Scottish Borders have been Nursery and Holy Trinity and St. Live Storytelling working with storyteller Jean Mary’s PS from Berwick-upon- 7pm (1hr) | £5 Edmiston, filmmakerAnne-Marie Tweed. The storytellers this Join David Kinnaird, author Copestake and Lydia Beilby year will be Macastory, Donald and performer of the Stirling (Screen Bandita) to share their Nelson, Margaret Christison, Ghost Walk, for an evening of stories using found archive film. Robert Howat, Marjorie Leithead storytelling. David’s walk is one Three special live film events will and international storytellers of Scotland’s top tourist be screened in places unique to Mauricio Patiño Acevedo from attractions, and Trip Advisor’s their locations. Supported by the Colombia and Daniel Hernández number 1 tour in Stirling. The National Lottery through Creative from Chile. Dawne McFarlane evening at Resonate promises to Scotland, and part of BFI’s Britain from Canada, an old friend, be a thrilling and haunting night of on Film programme. might also make an appearance. entertainment and storytelling. www.sensingplace.eu Note: Event is not open to Tickets: 01259 928 014. members of the public. Tuesday 25 October

Alloa Stories from Chile and Colombia Resonate Arts House, Unit A3 & A4, North Castle Street, Alloa, FK10 1EU Live Storytelling 7pm (1hr) | £5 Enjoy an evening in the company of Colombian-Chilean storyteller Daniel Hernández and treat yourself with stories from these beautiful South American countries. Tickets: 01259 928 014.

Amina Blackwood

22. Box office: 0131 556 9579 Dundee power of storytelling and song, Isle of Bute including specially commissioned Stories from performances from local school Islands’ Night: Stories Mexico and Peru children. Enjoy a relaxing hour from Jamaica and Cuba The Frigate Unicorn, of inspiring fun with master Rothesay Library Victoria Dock, Dundee, DD1 3BP storyteller Michael Kerins. Moat Centre, Stuart Street, Live Storytelling Michael’s captivating style and Rothesay, Isle of Bute, PA20 0BX 7pm (2hrs) | £5 fun will make you laugh, think Live Storytelling Treat yourself with a special and maybe shiver or shed a tear. 7pm (2hrs) | Free (ticketed) storytelling night where guest Creative writing, singing and The energetic rhythms of Caribbean storytellers Rubén Corbett from dreaming programme. SKYPE links stories are brought to the Isle of Bute Mexico and Wayqui César Villegas with Pennsylvania (USA), Moscow for a colourful night in the company Astete from Peru will transport (Russia), Perm (Russia), Stockholm of Jamaican storyteller Amina you to the colourful world of Latin (Sweden) and Shenzhen (China). Blackwood and Cuban storyteller America. Bilingual support by Free, pre-booking required: Beatriz Quintana. Pre-booking storyteller Laura Escuela. Wed 26 – 10.30am (1hr) required – please contact the library Tickets: sheila@blethertaygither. Hillhead Library: 348 Byres Rd, to reserve a seat: 01700 503 266. org or 01334 474 836. G12 8AP, Tel: 0141 276 1617 Thu 27 & Fri 28 – 9.30am & 11am Lochgilphead Helensburgh (1hr 15) Easterhouse Library: Platform, Stories from Colombia Stories from Colombia The Bridge, 1000 Westerhouse Rd, Lochgilphead Library, Manse Brae, Helensburgh Library, West King G34 9JW, Tel: 0141 276 9712. Lochgilphead, PA31 8QZ Street, Helensburgh, G84 8EB Live Storytelling Live Storytelling 7.30pm (1hr 30) | Free (ticketed) 7.30pm (1hr 30) | Free (ticketed) Wednesday Colombia is a tropical land that Colombia is a tropical land that 26 October smells of coffee and blossoms smells of coffee and blossoms with stories. Enjoy listening to its with stories. Enjoy listening to its voices with storyteller Mauricio voices with storyteller Mauricio Patiño Acevedo. Patiño Acevedo. Pre-booking required – please Pre-booking required – please Stories from Peru contact the library to reserve a contact the library to reserve a The Friary, Queen Street, seat: 01546 602 072. seat: 01436 658 833. Inverkeithing, KY11 1NU Live Storytelling Perthshire 7.30pm (2hrs) Wednesday 26 Free (ticketed) Hamish Henderson – Friday 28 Enjoy an evening of stories in the in Song & Story atmospheric surroundings of the Birks Cinema, Aberfeldy October historic Friary, with special Live storytelling guests Wayqui César Villegas 7pm (3hrs 30) Astete from Peru in collaboration Free (except entry to film) Glasgow with Laura Escuela from An evening celebrating the great Tenerife, joining local storytellers Dare to Dream at Scottish folklorist, with Essie Stewart from Kingdom Tales and and a gathering of Highland Perthshire Glasgow Libraries Burgh Blethers. musicians and storytellers. The event Live Storytelling Donations Welcome. Tickets: will also include the screening of the SKYPE Story concerts & Sing-a-long [email protected] Dare to Dream will explore film Hamish, directed by Robbie Fraser. global issues through the Further info: Claire Hewitt – [email protected] or 07500 118 047 www.tracscotland.org/festivals 23. within this fantastic setting, plus Dunoon Thursday 27 an old-school-style ceilidh with – Sunday 30 story, song, music and dance. Islands’ Night: October Our international guest storyteller Stories from Jamaica bringing summer warmth is and Cuba Rubén Corbett from Mexico. Dunoon Library, 248 Argyll Street, Orkney www.portskerrastorytellingfestival. PA23 7LT weebly.com Storytelling Festival Live Storytelling Enjoy a verbal feast of wonder, 7.30pm (1hr 30) | Free (ticketed) tales and myths that will take Thursday The energetic rhythms of you on journeys to faraway 27 October Caribbean stories are brought to places where the supernatural Argyll for a colourful night in the dwells. This year’s storytellers company of Jamaican storyteller Amina Blackwood and Cuban are renowned for their ability to Aberdeen suspend reality and act as your storyteller Beatriz Quintana. guide to worlds of fantasy. First Diario da Floresta – Pre-booking required – please time visits to Orkney from Fran contact the library to reserve a The Forest Diary seat: 01369 708 682. O’Boyle – who brings tales of Linklater Room, King’s College, Saxons, Vikings and the Celts – and University of Aberdeen, AB24 3FX Ana Maria Lines, who serves up Live Storytelling Glasgow storytelling steeped in the mythical 6.30pm (1hr 15) | Free | Adults Sangs an’ Clatter: world of the Amazonian rainforest. Brazilian anthropologist Betty David Campbell is also a special Mindlin has worked with and The Catfish Bites Me guest, bringing his delightful on behalf of indigenous people (me pica el bagre) Celtic myths and wonder tales, in Brazil for many years. Join us Blackfriars Bar, Bell Street, plus local tale weavers Fran Flett as she shares some of the myths Glasgow, G1 1LG Hollinrake, Tom Muir and Erin and traditions of the Suruí Paiter Live Storytelling Farley spread tales amidst open people from Rondônia in western 8pm (2hrs) | £5 mic sessions encouraging everyone Brazil, while insisting on indigenous Glasgow’s only peripatetic to share a story. rights with regard to land claims, storytelling night, Sangs an’ Clatter orkneystorytellingfestival.co.uk healthcare, and education. returns to the SISF for an evening Further information: of South American stories and Thursday 27 [email protected] songs. “The Catfish Bites Me” is – Sunday 30 a phrase used to describe that Campbeltown rumble in your belly when you’re October very, very hungry, so come and Stories from Colombia join us for stories and songs of the Campbeltown Library, adventures we have when led by Portskerra Aqualibrium, Kinloch Park, our gut. Featuring special guest International Kinloch Road, PA28 6EG storytellers, Argentinian Liliana Bonel and Colombian-Chilean Storytelling Festival Live Storytelling 7.30pm (1hr 30) | Free (ticketed) Daniel Hernández, together with The Portskerra International Colombia is a tropical land that our usual Village Storytellers. Storytelling Festival is spreading smells of coffee and blossoms Bilingual support by storyteller its wings again and will be with stories. Enjoy listening to its Laura Escuela. dreaming its way around the North voices with storyteller Mauricio Tickets: info@villagestorytelling. Coast, with events in Portskerra, Patiño Acevedo. org.uk or 0141 882 3025. Melvich, Lyth, Achvarasdal and Pre-booking required – please Thurso. Come and enjoy traditional contact the library to reserve a stories from the area and around, seat: 01586 555 435.

24. Box office: 0131 556 9579 Perthshire weaved, with Finnish Rune Friday singer/storyteller Anna-Maria The Maiden who 28 October Toivonen and Highland Perthshire Rose from the Waves based storyteller Claire Hewitt. Corbenic Camphill Community, Organised by PAMIS. Trochry, Nr Dunkeld, PH8 0DY Alloa For information: Claire Hewitt – Live Storytelling Meet the Author [email protected] or 2.30pm (2hrs) Doug Johnstone 07500 118 047. Free (donations welcome) Speirs Centre, 29 Primrose St, Journey to the Land of the Long Alloa FK10 1JJ Oban Age Women, where an ancient Live Storytelling Finnish tale of wonder will be Islands’ Night: Stories 7pm (1hr) | Free (ticketed) from Jamaica and Cuba weaved, with Finnish Rune singer/ Enjoy an evening in the company Oban Library, 77 Albany Street, storyteller Anna-Maria Toivonen of the best-selling Scottish PA34 4AL and Highland Perthshire based author Doug Johnstone, whose Live Storytelling storyteller Claire Hewitt. contemporary thrillers explore 7pm (1hr 30) | Free (ticketed) For information: Claire Hewitt – ordinary people thrust into The energetic rhythms of [email protected] or extraordinary circumstances. Caribbean stories are brought to 07500 118 047. Tickets can be booked in advance Argyll for a colourful night in the from any Library/CAP or by calling company of Jamaican storyteller 01259 452 262. Friday 28 – Amina Blackwood and Cuban Sunday 30 storyteller Beatriz Quintana. October Dundee Pre-booking required – please Sensory Story sharing contact the library to reserve a Dalhousie Building, Drama Studio, seat: 01631 571 444. Ayr Room 1S01, University of Dundee, Old Hawkhill, DD1 5EN Thursday 10 TamFest Live Storytelling Ayr Town Centre 11am (2hrs) – Sunday 20 TamFest is Ayr’s spooktacular Free (donations welcome) November Halloween celebration with a Tam Come find out about Sensory o’ Shanter twist. So join the ghosts, storytelling and hear some traditional ghouls and goblins for some stories adapted for People with Inverness frighteningly good family fun. Multiple Learning Disabilities, with Storytelling Festival It’s scary how much there is to hosts PAMIS and Tayberry Tales. Building on the success of last year, do to raise the spirits. A haunted For information: www.pamis.org.uk Inverness Storytelling Festival is house, stage performances, or 07500 118 047. back by popular demand. Expanding market stalls, a family zone and to encompass 10 days of story related haunted tours mean the hardest The Maiden who events including Hearthside sessions, decision you’ll have to make is Rose from the Waves performance, children activities, witch events to enjoy. The Chaplaincy Centre, workshops and storytelling for Visit www.tamfest.co.uk to find University of Dundee, Cross Row, development. Dougie Mackay, out what the devil’s going on. Dundee, DD1 4HN George Macpherson, Bob Pegg, Live Storytelling Daniel Serridge and Michael 7pm (2hrs 30) Williams will be joined by a myriad Free (donations welcome) of other tellers and musicians Journey to the Land of the Long from near and far, with grassroots Age Women, where an ancient community events also being Finnish tale of wonder will be supported. www.daretodream.scot www.tracscotland.org/festivals 25. About Guest Storytellers

Amina Blackwood Beatriz Quintana Daniel Hernández Founder of Ntukuma, The Winner of various storytelling With a Performing Arts Storytelling Foundation prizes for both individual and Degree (Superior Academy of of Jamaica and Ananse collective performances, including Arts Bogotá) and a Cultural SoundSplash, the annual the Juan Candela Prize in 2003 Management Diploma Storytelling Festival in Jamaica, and CIINOE’s Iberoamericano Prize (University of Chile), Daniel Amina is widely acknowledged for in 2004, Beatriz co-ordinates the loves to use storytelling as a her contribution to storytelling Primavera de Cuentos (Spring fun and educational activity, in the Caribbean. Her deep, rich, Stories) Festival, is a member but also as a therapeutic tool. dramatic voice brings stories of the International Storytelling With appearances in Festivals from the heads of her ancestors, Network and has recently worldwide since 1987, he’s been connecting ancient wit and participated in various Colombian developing and diffusing Chilean wisdom with modern needs. Storytelling Festivals. storytelling far and wide.

Ana Maria Lines Betty Mindlin David & Monma A journalist and storyteller with Internationally acknowledged for This Spanish duo have been a captivating style, international her defence of the indigenous performing together for 8 years, reputation and a vast repertoire, cause, Betty is intently preserving merging clowning, music and Ana created and co-hosts the the myths of native Brazil. Her physical theatre techniques with Stafford Knot Storytelling Club. books, including the award- traditional storytelling. They’ve She has performed in Festivals winning Moqueca de maridos created their own, unique and in the UK, Italy, Cuba, Spain and (Barbecued Husbands), have personal style by emphasising Mexico, enchanting adults and already become classics of imagination, aiming to make children alike, with folk tales and contemporary anthropology, people smile and get carried myths from Brazil a speciality. featuring a collection of oral away in the feeling and magic literature from five indigenous of live stories. Anna-Maria Toivonen tribes of the Brazilian Amazon. Since 2011, Anna-Maria has Laura Escuela combined her storytelling with César El Wayqui Hailing from Tenerife, Laura is a her knowledge of music therapy Villegas Astete teacher, educational psychologist and pedagogy, specialising For sixteen years, César has and musician who specialises in traditional rune songs and performed in international in children’s literature. Since ballads. Her performances at Festivals across 18 countries, 2007, she has been telling stories Festivals, schools and within sharing old stories with a pinch across Festivals, schools, libraries communities blend tale and tune, of current times. In Peru, he and theatres for any and all combining the two traditions for founded The School of Words and audiences, as well as developing a richer experience. is Director of Todas Las Palabras, programs to encourage reading Todas. He leads the Wasi in children. Cultural Association and applies storytelling as a management tool in various institutions.

26. Box office: 0131 556 9579 Liliana Bonel The Storyteller of Banfield comes from Buenos Aires, Argentina with a degree in Speech Therapy. As a Professor of vocal technique and oratory, she hosts seminars worldwide, showcasing the power of narration. Liliana is a founding member of the Circle of Amina Blackwood Ana Maria Lines Storytellers and co directs the International Festival Te doy mi Palabra.

Mauricio Patiño Acevedo Graduating from the University of Antioquia, Mauricio uses storytelling in the office as a Communicator for the Columbian Anna-Maria Toivonen Beatriz Quintana Ministry of Culture, as well as onstage where he loves experimental approaches to telling, incorporating music, showmanship and laughter. He enjoys using local literature in his work, as well African oral traditions. Betty Mindlin César “El Wayqui” Villegas Astete Rubén Corbett Born in Panama City, Rubén has been storytelling since 1995 and is the Deputy Director of the International Forum of Oral Narration FINO Mexico. He has participated in some of the most important performing arts Daniel Hernández David & Monma Festivals in Latin America and delivers extensive workshops in unusual orality and anecdotes.

For further information on Scottish storytellers Laura Escuela Liliana Bonel please visit our Directory on www.tracscotland.org/tracs/ storytelling

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