Once scottish Upon international storytelling festival 2014 a Place Box office: 24 October – 0131 556 9579 www.tracscotland.org/festivals 2 November Contents About the programme 04 Festival Exhibitions We’ve categorised our events to ensure your storytelling 06 Opening Weekend experience is exactly what you’re looking for – from evening 10 Festival Week Welcome 16 Festival Diary gatherings in jovial company to daytime events for the to the world’s finest feast whole family, or craft and workshop sessions to get creative. 18 Finale Weekend 21 Festival on Tour Keep an eye out for Edinburgh Sessions – stories 26 About the Storytellers of traditional storytelling. SESSIONS inspired by the Edinburgh Museums collections. Once Upon a Place looks at the living environment around us, expressed through story. We bring Edinburgh to life as a city of story, and radiate How to book Become a Festival Supporter out with touring events across , providing the perfect experience Tickets for all events at the SISF Festival Supporter Pass 2014 in this Year of Homecoming 2014. We look into the past in town and Scottish Storytelling Centre, £25 country, and gaze into the future through the dreams, imaginings and Gladstone’s Land and charged There is no greater pleasure than the power of traditional storytelling visions of the poets and bards. And through the Open Hearth sessions events at the National Library of taking listeners on a journey of the imagination. we celebrate our common humanity with stories and songs that connect Scotland can be booked by phone, across the continents. online or in person through the Register now as a Festival > 1 free ticket to a Festival event Scottish Storytelling Centre Supporter to enjoy an array of of your choice at the Scottish The Festival combines storytelling ceilidhs with talks, landscape tours Box Office. benefits including exclusive invites Storytelling Centre (subject to and specially commissioned performances. Guest storytellers from and great ticket deals so you can fully availability) All other partner venues and Europe, North America and the Pacific regions, perform alongside the immerse yourself in the celebrations, regional events have their own > 15% Storytelling Café discount cream of Scotland’s renowned storytelling talent, with a finale weekend as well as support the Festival to booking outlets. See the back during the Festival marking the ancient Celtic New Year of Samhain/Hallowe’en. continually provide a world class cover for contact details. Evening events ensure adults enjoy warming nights alongside a rich forum for the art of storytelling. > A Welcome Pack, containing: www.tracscotland.org programme of family friendly events in a variety of locations around As a Festival Supporter you - Copy of the programme the city. can enjoy: - Lanyard - Festival Supporter Certificate The Storytelling Festival is for everyone from home or abroad who > 25% off any Full Price ticket at wants to explore what is distinctive and special about Scotland. of thanks and participation any Storytelling Festival event at - Invite to the Festival launch We are also delighted to be marking the 10th anniversary of the Scottish Storytelling Centre Edinburgh’s designation as the world’s firstUNESCO City of party on Fri 24 October Literature with celebrations of Edinburgh storytellers – Call our team on +44 (0)131 556 9579 to book your pass and for Sir in the 200th anniversary of his first novel, Scottish Storytelling Centre further enquiries email [email protected] , Robert Louis Stevenson who links us with the Pacific, and raconteur extraordinaire of the Old Town, John Fee. How to get here Scottish Storytelling Centre | 43-45 High Street | EH1 1SR The Festival Team Claire McNicol The Scottish Storytelling Centre’s award- winning building is the hub of the Festival. The Scottish International Storytelling Festival You can find us half way down Edinburgh’s EAST MARKET STREET is supported through Scottish Government’s CRANSTON STREET Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund, Creative , within easy walking distance of JEFFREY STREET Scotland, Homecoming Scotland, City of and Waverley train station. NORTH BRIDGE Edinburgh Council, Festivals Edinburgh, Culture The Scottish Programme of the European Union, Creative There is no parking directly outside the Storytelling Centre CANONGATE New Zealand, Royal Norwegian Consulate Centre, but Lothian bus number 35 stops HIGH STREET General and the Italian Cultural Institute. outside our door, and there’s a taxi rank ST MARY’S STREET

just up the road. BLACKFRIARS STREET Special thanks to our national and Macrobert Arts Centre, Edinburgh Central for Palliative Care, Elphinstone Institute, regional partners: National Museum of Library, Edinburgh World Heritage Trust, Argyll and Bute Council, Clackmannanshire > Fully accessible to wheelchair users SOUTH BRIDGE Scotland, National Library of Scotland, Floris Books, Luath Press, Hawthorn Press, Council, Resonate Arts House, The Glad Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, National Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature, Café, The Village Storytelling Centre, > Hearing loop Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh Museums The Demarco European Art Foundation, Historic Scotland, Portskerra International & Galleries, National Trust for Scotland, University of Edinburgh, School of Scottish Storytelling Festival, Orkney Storytelling > Braille signage throughout Mercat Tours, Gorgie City Farm, Lapidus Studies Archive, Edinburgh Peace and Festival, Blether Tay-gither, Eyemouth > Licensed Café and Storytelling Book Shop Scotland, Festival Theatre Edinburgh, Justice Centre, Scottish Partnership Primary School Festival and Kingdom Crack. 02. Box office: 0131 556 9579 www.tracscotland.org/festivals 03. Friday 24 October to Sunday 2 November Festival Richard Demarco’s Road to Meikle Seggie Scottish Storytelling Centre 10am-6pm and before evening events Free entry | All ages In the 1970’s Richard Demarco embarked on a series of journeys, Exhibitions starting in Edinburgh, to recover a sense of our living culture in the environments around us. These radiated out across Europe, underpinning the internationalism of this unique Scottish-Italian Friday 27 June – Tuesday 11 November artist and the curator’s own extraordinary journey. Forty years later the journey is renewed with Demarco’s original artwork and notes, along with a republication of his first Meikle Seggie essay, with a new Behind the Lines: introduction by SISF Director, Donald Smith. Personal stories of the First World War National Library of Scotland Monday to Friday: 10am-8pm, Saturday: 10am-5pm, Sunday: 2pm-5pm FESTIVAL LOCAL – ONCE UPON A PLACE Free entry | All ages As the centenary of its outbreak is marked across the world, this exhibition Celebrate your own place with a local storytelling event, examines Scotland’s role in the First World War through the personal school visit, storytelling walk or Hallowe’en storytelling. stories of a number of men and women who lived, and died, during Resources connected to local legends throughout Scotland this momentous period in history. Diaries, letters, photographs, and will be published on the website to inspire and support your sketches of men on active service, nurses at the front, grieving parents, event. Get involved and enjoy the pleasure of sharing stories and conscientious objectors imprisoned for their beliefs, offer a direct about your surroundings. link to the diverse experience of individual Scots during the war. These To register your event, access local resources and for more information moving, personal documents are supported by a range of film and printed contact [email protected] material, including a large selection of vibrant recruitment posters.

Wednesday 10 September – Sunday 16 November Cat Outram’s artwork will feature in this year’s print Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley brochure. Cat was born in 1959 National Library of Scotland in Nairobi, Kenya. In 1996 she Monday to Friday: 10am-8pm, Saturday: 10am-5pm, immigrated to Edinburgh and Sunday: 2pm-5pm did the BA Honours in Drawing Free entry | All ages & Painting at the Art College 2014 is the 200th anniversary of the publication of Waverley, Sir Walter from 1977-1981, finally going Scott’s first novel, and arguably the first ever historical novel. Lord professional as a printmaker in Cockburn recalled how the appearance of Waverley struck Edinburgh 1990. Cat exhibits regularly in ‘with an electric shock of delight’, dealing with themes that greatly small galleries in and around interested Scott’s contemporaries and that continue to fascinate today: Edinburgh, at Craft fairs, Charity the lost cause of Jacobitism, the romance of the ’45 Rebellion and exhibitions, Open exhibitions the depiction of societies (both Highland and Lowland) in the course and members’ shows at of profound change. This display uses treasures from the Library’s Edinburgh Printmakers, which is collections to illuminate the publication of Waverley in 1814. where she creates her etchings In association with Scott 2014 – an Edinburgh City of Literature of views of Edinburgh. celebration of 200 years of Walter Scott’s Waverley.

04. Box office: 0131 556 9579 www.tracscotland.org/festivals 05. Mountain Vision: The Landscape Experience Tales of a Granny National Museum of Scotland Scottish Storytelling Centre Edinburgh Partner | Family Event Opening Weekend Live Storytelling 11am (2hrs – rolling programme) 5pm (50mins) Free (drop-in) | 3+ £7.50 (£6) | Adults Where do you begin sharing the story of Scotland? With the stories, Scotland’s song traditions are Places of Power the songs and the beautiful and sometime strange things the past has intimately connected with “the high Friday 24 October Scottish Storytelling Centre Saturday 25 October left us! Aimed at the under-fives these storytelling sessions introduce hills” and Scotland’s mountainous Live Storytelling younger children, parents and carers to the riches of Scotland’s story. terrain. Travelling on North Tales of a Grandfather: 7.30pm (2hrs 15) Natural Stories The event is also the prologue to Tales of a Grandson. Unrolling Walter Scott’s £10 (£8) | Adults Scottish Storytelling Centre America’s Pacific west, in the high sierras, John Muir realised his very Magic Carpet From the beginnings of time, Crafts & Live Storytelling Tales of a Grandfather: all across the world, certain 1.30pm (2hrs 30) Scottish vision of “living with nature”. Central Library places have attracted people £6 per child | Ages 6-9 Musicians and storytellers Geordie Unrolling Walter Scott’s Magic Carpet Edinburgh Partner | Talks & to them as places of power. Explore the forms and patterns of MacIntyre and Alison McMorland National Museum of Scotland Lectures Such places evoked the need to living nature through storytelling, felt recapture the spirit of mountain Edinburgh Partner | Talks & Lectures 2.30pm (1hr) celebrate, to go beyond this world, making and story drama. Introductory vision in its Scottish sources. 2pm (1hr) Free (ticketed) | Adults to connect with some primordial story followed by wet-felting and Free | Adults Donald Smith opens the Scottish force. We will take you to visit story drama activities, with artist Robert Louis Stevenson – Donald Smith presents Scott’s superb re-telling of Scotland. Begun International Storytelling Festival some of these places through Joanne Baker and storyteller as a project for his own grandson, Scott was soon transported into with Scott’s superb re-telling The Life Journey the mystery of the Didgeridoo, Allison Galbraith. Children must a historical tapestry for all ages – of his own wizardly making. This is of Scotland. Begun as a project Scottish Storytelling Centre Harp, Story and Dance. See the be accompanied by an adult. Please also the inspiration for Andy Cannon’s contemporary remix Tales of a for his own grandson, Scott was Live Storytelling connecting storylines that run from bring an apron, a towel and a plastic Grandson, which runs through the first Festival weekend. soon transported into a historical 6.30pm (50mins) place to place and weave a web bag to take your damp felt home. In tapestry for all ages – of his own £7.50 (£6) | Adults of story around the world. With association with Lapidus Scotland. Tales of a Grandson: The Dig, The Feast wizardly making. This is also the The story of the life, loves, Daniel Allison, Paula Huolman, inspiration for Andy Cannon’s adventures and sorrows of the and The Hooly Ken Shapley and Mio Shapley. contemporary remix Tales of a Witches Brew Edinburgh writer, crowned “Tusitala” The Studio @ Festival Theatre Grandson, which runs through Gladstone’s Land – the Storyteller – by the Samoans. Edinburgh Partner | Family Event the first Festival weekend. Edinburgh Partner | Live Scotland’s best loved author is 2.30pm (Dig), 3.45pm (Feast) & 5.30pm (Hooly) Everyday Storytelling brought to life by fiddlerJudy £15 (£10) | 6+ throughout the Festival! 2pm & 3.30pm (1hr) Turner and guitarist/singer Neil Where do you begin to tell the story of Scotland? With the myths, the Exclusive Story! Edinburgh’s £8 (£6) | All ages Adam. Reliving Stevenson’s journey legends and the battles? Or perhaps simply with the universal story of Underground Vaults Explore the darker side with in song, through his own words – boy meets girl? Tales of a Grandson is one man’s re-telling of Scotland’s storyteller Fiona Herbert. Who poetry, diaries and letters – they tell history – but this is no straight and dusty history lesson. To tell this Meet at Mercat Cross beside were the Scottish witches – healers, the story of his action packed but all epic tale Andy Cannon (previously of Wee Stories) takes us on a time St Giles Cathedral devil worshippers or gender rebels? too short life in Scotland, America travelling adventure with his grandparents through Scotland’s past to Edinburgh Partner | Walking Tour Find out about the lives and perils and finally the Pacific. piece together the myriad of Kings, Queens, friends and foes that make 4pm (1hr 15) of witchcraft in this evocative up our nation’s story (and unearths just why our mountains are so small £11 (£9), £6 child (£28 family) | 5+ seventeenth century house on the on the way!) Accompanying Andy and adding to the Tales are a local cast Hear the authentic history of the Open Hearth Royal Mile, in association with the of dancers, a choir of grannies and some of Scotland’s finest musicians. underground. This is your chance Scottish Storytelling Centre National Trust for Scotland. Live Storytelling Tales of a Grandson is a story for all the family to enjoy, presented in to visit the Blair Street Underground three parts – The Dig, The Feast, and The Hooly. Stay for the day, join in Vaults, exclusively available with 8pm (1hr 30) | £10 (£8) | Adults Join storytellers and musicians in the feast and the hooly and help Andy in his quest to tell Scotland’s great Mercat Tours. Explore the deepest, story. Bring a picnic and a rug to share in a feast between parts 2 & 3. largest and most extensive vaults in a relaxed traditional session round the hearth, as the darkness closes in the city whilst in the company of a In association with the Macrobert Arts Centre Stirling, Andy Cannon, Festival Mercat historian. Why were the Vaults built? Who used them? We will and the embers glow with pictures Theatre Edinburgh and the National Museum of Scotland. Part of the Walter Scott in the fire. Hosted byDonald Smith, recount the history of the Vaults, recall their stories and answer your Allison Galbraith 200th Anniversary. questions. Meet at Mercat Cross 15 minutes in advance. with Judy Turner, Neil Adam, www.mercattours.com Grace Taylor, Tusiata Avia, Dawne McFarlane and Bea Ferguson.

06. Box office: 0131 556 9579 www.tracscotland.org/festivals 07. Macastory: A Soldier’s Tale Sunday 26 October Tales of a Granny Scottish National Portrait Gallery National Museum of Scotland Edinburgh Partner | Family Event Down at the Farm: Edinburgh Partner | Family Event 2pm & 3pm (45mins) In Gorgie 11am (2hrs – rolling programme) Free (drop-in) | 7+ Free (drop-in) | 3+ 1914, the first months of WWI – Gorgie City Farm Where do you begin sharing the Edinburgh Partner | Family Event Young Scottish soldier Archie is story of Scotland? With the away from home for the first time 11.30am & 1.30pm (30mins) stories, the songs and the beautiful Free (donations welcome) in the trenches of the Western and sometime strange things the Front. A few hundred yards away All ages past has left us! Aimed at the Head down to the farm where is Rudi, a young German soldier. under-fives these storytelling Featuring shadow puppets, song storyteller Rosie Mapplebeck will sessions introduce younger share some animal tales amidst and rhyme, hear the story of Tusiata Avia children, parents and carers to the riches of Scotland’s story. their meeting during the 1914 the cows, sheep, pigs and ducks, The event is also the prologue to Tales of a Grandson. mixed in with a bit of home reared Christmas Truce. Rhythms from Open Hearth native wit and wisdom. New Zealand Scottish Storytelling Centre Tales of a Grandson: From the Pacific Coast Scottish Storytelling Centre Live Storytelling Storytelling for a The Dig, The Feast and Scottish Storytelling Centre Live Storytelling 8pm (1hr 30) Greener World The Hooly Live Storytelling 6.30pm (50mins) £10 (£8) | Adults 5pm (50mins) Join storytellers and musicians Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh The Studio @ Festival Theatre £7.50 (£6) | Adults £7.50 (£6) | Adults from Scotland and the Pacific Edinburgh Partner | Family Event Edinburgh Partner | Family Event Aoteorea, with its north and Canadian storyteller Dawne in a relaxed traditional session 1pm (4hrs) 2.30pm (Dig), 3.45pm (Feast) & south islands, marks the furthest McFarlane shares the rich round the hearth, as the Free | All ages 5.30pm (Hooly) destinations of the Pacific voyagers. traditions of Canada’s Pacific darkness closes in and the Experience natural stories of all £15 (£10) | 6+ Today, poets and storytellers, coast with stories from land and embers glow with pictures in kinds in the beautiful setting of Where do you begin to tell the like our guests Grace Taylor and sea. For many Europeans, including the fire. Hosted byBob Pegg, Edinburgh’s botanical gardens. story of Scotland? With the myths, Tusiata Avia, reach out from New Robert Louis Stevenson, the with Grace Taylor, Tusiata Avia Stories will emerge gently in the legends and the battles? Or Zealand across the oceans with Pacific journey begins here. and David Francis. different locations, while story perhaps simply with the universal their own distinctive tempos. walks meander between the story of boy meets girl? Tales of a story encampment and the Grandson is one man’s re-telling of Andy Cannon Macastory outer reaches. Also included Scotland’s history – but this is no is a specially commissioned straight and dusty history lesson. To tell this epic tale Andy Cannon performance of Where Curlews (previously of Wee Stories) takes us on a time travelling adventure Call by Malcolm Green and with his grandparents through Scotland’s past to piece together Nick Hennessey at 3pm, and the myriad of Kings, Queens, friends and foes that make up our an introduction to the ground- nation’s story (and unearths just why our mountains are so small on breaking Hawthorn Press book, the way!) Accompanying Andy and adding to the Tales are a local Storytelling for a Greener World. cast of dancers, a choir of grannies and some of Scotland’s finest musicians. Tales of a Grandson is a story for all the family to enjoy, presented in three parts – The Dig, The Feast, and The Hooly. Stay for the day, join in the feast and the hooly and help Andy in his quest to tell Scotland’s great story. Bring a picnic and a rug to share in a feast between parts 2 & 3.

In association with the Macrobert Arts Centre Stirling, Andy Cannon, Festival Theatre Edinburgh and the National Museum of Scotland. Part of the Walter Scott 200th Anniversary.

Bob Pegg

08. Box office: 0131 556 9579 www.tracscotland.org/festivals 09. Hirta Songs – Seeing Stories Seeing Evoking St Kilda Stories Scottish Storytelling Centre Reaching across Europe, people Festival Week Live Storytelling are trying to recover their urban and rural narratives – the magic of 8pm (1hr 30) place to create sustainable living and an art that celebrates life. If representatives Steve Byrne and and learning abroad. Is narrative £10 (£8) | Adults we do not connect with our own environments, how can we expect Monday 27 October Chris Wright, and Donald Smith. the clue to understanding Glasgow-based singer and humankind to care enough to ensure conservationism for the future? See related performance Between another culture, and “being guitarist Alasdair Roberts will The European Seeing Stories project partners will be in Edinburgh to Learning Where We Live Tides, featuring the Tentsmuir area found in translation”? perform the critically-acclaimed share their stories and approaches, with the support of the Culture of North East Fife. Hirta Songs, featuring the fruits Programme of the European Union. The Education Day: Between Tides of his recent collaboration Place Based Learning Stories and Scottish Storytelling Centre with the award-winning poet EDINBURGH Lisbon – Where Rural Scottish Storytelling Centre SESSIONS Live Storytelling Robin Robertson. Hirta Songs Songs of Sir Meets Urban Training & Development Walter Scott 5pm (50mins) is a graceful and emotionally 10.30am (5hrs 30) stirring suite of poems and tunes Scottish Storytelling Centre £7.50 (£6) | Adults £15 (£12) | Adults concerning the remarkable story Live Storytelling Edinburgh Partner | Talks & Tentsmuir is a unique area of North How do we harness the power of of St Kilda, a now uninhabited 1pm (50mins) | £7.50 (£6) | Adults Lectures East Fife caught between the tides place in learning for adults and archipelago lying some 50 miles Ana Sofia Paiva moves between 2pm (1hr) | Free | Adults and endowed with a rich ecology. children? Experience Story Maps, off Scotland’s West Coast. For narrative and song to capture Borders storyteller Mary Kenny Lea Taylor, Mairi Campbell and local song searching and devising, many years, St Kilda was home the intense colour of Portuguese introduces us to the songs and Derek Robertson combine with natural world interpretation to a small population of Gaelic- culture – where everything flows stories of Scott in the anniversary Scottish natural heritage to capture and much more in a fantastic speaking Scots, who eked a hard to the sea or comes ashore at this year of his first novel,Waverley . the flow of nature and the spirit of day of exploration, workshop a special place. This performance living from the unforgiving cliff- meeting place of cultures and Ana Sofia Paiva and discussion. For teachers, follows on from the Place Based faces and raging oceans of their continents. In the Alfama district educators, and artists who are Scottish Traditional Learning workshop. home until their final evacuation in of Lisbon the rural and urban poor met and enriched their lives working in schools and community Tales with Lari Don 1930. A European Seeing Stories through the music of Fado and storytelling. Join Ana on her journey learning. With Bob Pegg, Central Library As I Was Young and Easy: event from Scotland with Stevie through this unique world. Malcolm Green, Local Voices Edinburgh Partner | Live Dylan Thomas – A Lyrical Jones (double bass) and Rafe Storytelling Fitzpatrick (violin). Celebration Seeing Stories: Symposium 2.30pm (1hr) Scottish Storytelling Centre Scottish Storytelling Centre Free (ticketed) | Ages 4-7 Talks & Lectures Live Storytelling Lari Don introduces a super 2.30pm (2hrs) | £7.50 (£6) | Adults 6pm (1hr 15) new series of illustrated tales, Tuesday Hear about the development of story collecting and interpretative £7.50 (£6) | Adults and shares her version of Tam 28 October projects – and performances – in Aachen, Florence, Lisbon, and The acclaimed Scottish artistes – of the Linn and other fantastic Edinburgh. Why is this rich cultural seam important and what should storyteller David Campbell, cellist Scottish stories. In association Commonwealth we be doing about it? With project partners from Germany, Italy, Wendy Weatherby – come EDINBURGH with Floris Books. To book: 0131 Stories of WWI SESSIONS Portugal and Scotland. 242 8100 or www.edinburghreads. together in this joyous evocation Museum of Edinburgh eventbrite.co.uk of their fellow Celtic poet’s life and wit. The programme connects Edinburgh Partner | Talks & Follow the Story – Folklore and Archaeology Lectures Studying Elsewhere – Wales and Scotland in recalling Scottish Storytelling Centre Dylan Thomas’s memorable 1948 2pm (1hr) Live Storytelling Stories of Learning Abroad visit to Edinburgh, with original Free | Adults 5pm (50mins) | £7.50 (£6) | Adults Scottish Storytelling Centre music by Wendy Weatherby. Scottish-Canadian storyteller The past is all around us waiting to be found. Storyteller and folklorist Live Storytelling The SISF is delighted to feature Phyllis Davison evokes the many Stuart McHardy demonstrates in this illustrated talk how traditional 4pm (1hr 30) Wales as part of the European experiences and connections of tales can take us to specific and special places in the landscape, Free (ticketed) | Adults Seeing Stories project. ‘the war to end war’. as well as lead to new insights into the lives of our ancestors. Storytelling youth meets the wide By following traditional story, and utilising place name analysis world. University of Edinburgh and landscape reading, we can set off on journeys that find new exchange students share the archaeology and gain greater understanding of the sacred past. stories they gathered while living

10. Box office: 0131 556 9579 www.tracscotland.org/festivals 11. Lost Horizon or Living and songs from the Scottish Landscape? Place, Studies Archives to illustrate the Wednesday Seeing Stories Seeing relationship of ordinary Gaels with 29 October Stories Time and People in the lands they inhabited – the Reaching across Europe, people are trying to recover their urban Gaelic Tradition people and events that shaped and rural narratives – the magic of place to create sustainable living and an art that celebrates life. If we Stories and do not connect with our own environments, how can we expect humankind to care enough to ensure Alan Bruford them and the memories of those EDINBURGH Songs of Sir SESSIONS conservationism for the future? The European Seeing Stories project partners will be in Edinburgh to share Memorial Lecture taken abroad and forced to emigrate from home. their stories and approaches, with the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union. Scottish Storytelling Centre Walter Scott Talks & Lectures Museum of Edinburgh Welcome Home 6.30pm (50mins) Open Hearth Edinburgh Partner | Talks & Scottish Storytelling Centre Free (ticketed) | Adults Scottish Storytelling Centre Lectures Live Storytelling Commemorative annual lecture Live Storytelling 2pm (1hr) | Free | Adults 1pm (50mins) | £7.50 (£6) | Adults organised by the Department 8pm (1hr 30) Borders storyteller Mary Kenny Lydia Winter upon visiting her home town encounters a strange murmuring. of Celtic and Scottish Studies £10 (£8) | Adults introduces us to the songs and She interprets it as the cobble stones welcoming her home. Years later she at the University of Edinburgh. Join storytellers and musicians stories that inspired Scott in the discovers the true voice behind the murmurs. It is the Mother Goddess of For most visitors and many Scots, from Scotland in a relaxed anniversary year of his first water and stone. She – whose name changed several times throughout the Highlands of Scotland – the traditional session round the novel, Waverley. the 12,000 years of known worship – remains the guardian of the land Gàidhealtachd – suggest a region hearth, as the darkness closes in and brings prosperity to the people as long as she is respected and of misty mountains, the odd and the embers glow with pictures Open Hearth acknowledged. She asks Lydia to tell her story to the people of today. Regina Sommer ruined castle perched by a loch in the fire. Hosted byMargaret Scottish Storytelling Centre Storyteller Regina Sommer brings to life the hidden stories of Aachen. and the perfect holiday spot for Bennett, with Gary West, Live Storytelling the romantic imagination (if the Domhnall Uilleam Stiůbhart 8pm (1hr 30) Seeing Stories – Story guides weather holds up). Dr Virginia and James MacDonald Reid. £10 (£8) | Adults Scottish Storytelling Centre Blankenhorn presents stories Join storytellers and musicians Training & Development from Scotland and Europe in a 2.30pm (2hrs) | £15 (£12) | Adults relaxed traditional session round This symposium and workshop explores how to source, edit and shape local narratives for the benefit the hearth, as the darkness of both residents and visitors. What are the vital stories and how can they be communicated for today’s closes in and the embers glow audiences and explorers? What might form a story guide or interpretation? Ideal for artists and those with pictures in the fire. Hosted working in tourism, visitor attractions and marketing. by Andy Hunter, with Regina Ginevra degli Almieri – Love in Florence Sommer, Giovanna Conforto, Scottish Storytelling Centre Ana Sofia Paiva, Stuart McHardy Live Storytelling and George Macpherson. 5pm (50mins) | £7.50 (£6) | Adults A journey through the old streets of Florence rediscovering the life of Ginevra degli Almieri, with storyteller Giovanna Conforto and art historian Daniela Corradini. This incredible love story could be one of the sources of inspirations for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, but the roots of the legend are lost in time… This event marks the 50th anniversary of the twinning of Florence with Edinburgh. Daniela Corradini The Earth, The Colour Scottish Storytelling Centre Live Storytelling 6.30pm (50mins) | £7.50 (£6) | Adults A bilingual storytelling event in Italian and English based on stories from Fiesole, the mother village of Florence, affirming the importance of including the “outsiders” in our lives. The story of Silvana, an old lady who was one of the last farmers working as a sharecropper, is entwined with the story of Paolo, a painter and former cobbler. The two life stories are enriched with folk tales, as well as local myths and legends, George Macpherson performed by storytellers Monica Fabbri and Andy Hunter. This event marks the 50th anniversary of the twinning of Florence with Edinburgh.

12. Box office: 0131 556 9579 www.tracscotland.org/festivals 13. Commonwealth EDINBURGH Tales from Norway Open Hearth Thursday 30 Stories of WWI SESSIONS Scottish Storytelling Centre Scottish Storytelling Centre October Museum of Edinburgh Live Storytelling Live Storytelling Edinburgh Partner | Talks & 5pm (50mins) 8pm (1hr 30) £7.50 (£6) | Adults £10 (£8) | Adults Through Border Eyes – Lectures 2pm (1hr) Scotland and Norway have been Join Stina Fagertun, Lawrence Celebrating Walter Scott Free | Adults exchanging people, stories and Tulloch and Heather Yule in a ideas for centuries. Like Scotland, relaxed traditional session round John Buchan’s Guide Scottish-Canadian storyteller Phyllis Davison evokes the many Norway has a flourishing storytelling the hearth, as the darkness to Walter Scott experiences and connections of renaissance, with tales ranging closes in and the embers glow with National Library of Scotland ‘the war to end war’. between land and sea, the traditional pictures in the fire. It’s a northern Edinburgh Partner | Talks & and the contemporary. Take a trip to brew, stirred by Tom Muir as host. Lectures Exploring Celtic Norway with Stina Fagertun. 2pm (1hr) Traditions with Free (ticketed) | Adults Orkney and Shetland – Friday 31 October David Campbell Why is Scott the great unread? Let Northern Connections – All Hallows Eve, John Buchan be your guide to the Scottish Storytelling Centre Scottish Storytelling Centre delights and perils of the “Wizard Training & Development the Night Live Storytelling of the North”. In the 200th 2pm (2hrs) of Samhain 6.30pm (50mins) anniversary of Scott’s Waverley, £15 (£12) | Adults Calum Lykan £7.50 (£6) | Adults Donald Smith invites you to look David Campbell has been at the Rosslyn Glen Walk Norse culture spread across again at Scott through Buchan’s forefront of Scotland’s storytelling Meet at 10.30am at the Scottish travelled with her late husband Scotland, as raiders turned to Exploring Celtic Traditions eyes. To book: www.nls.uk/ renaissance, and has written and Storytelling Centre Duncan Williamson, a master settlers, but in the Northern with George Macpherson events/booking or 0131 623 3734. taught widely about both the older Walking tour & Live Storytelling storyteller of Scotland’s Travelling Celtic traditions and the Scottish Isles it remains the dominant £7.50 (£6) | Adults Scottish Storytelling Centre People and of the Wonder Tales. Scott’s Singing Muse: Travellers, especially tradition- note. Meet the masters of the Go by bus to Loanhead then walk for Training & Development Encounter magical creatures Minstrelsy of the bearer Duncan Williamson. A northern storytelling art in full two miles through the beautiful Glen 2pm (2hrs) and transforming imagination in workshop for all those who wish flight, celebrating their new to Rosslyn, exploring the weird and £15 (£12) | Adults a session set to delight the wise Scottish Borders books. The unstoppable flow of George or Seoras Macpherson National Library of Scotland to learn more about the Celtic wonderful moods of the Glen with heart in everyone. traditions of storytelling from a humour, adventure and tragedy its extraordinary chapel and castle. is the traditional Seanachaidh Edinburgh Partner | Talks & will continue into the later evening of Glendale. He continues an Lectures master storyteller. Storyteller Ken Shapley is your guide, Meeting events, with storytellers Tom Muir who has his own special take on the unbroken line of stories from 3.30pm (1hr) and Lawrence Tulloch. ancient times to the more recent the Fairies Free (ticketed) | Adults patterns to be seen in the woodland. This event is weather dependent – community stories of his beloved Scottish Storytelling Centre All of Sir Walter Scott’s later please wear sturdy shoes and warm North West Skye, Ardnamurchan Live storytelling achievements are foreshadowed clothing. The terrain is hilly and and Argyll. He has a special 5pm (50mins) by his first major work – a Linda Williamson involves climbing over fallen trees and interest in the older sagas, and in £7.50 (£6) | Adults monumental collection of Borders narrow ledges of rock by rivers so you stories of the second sight. Prepare Only don’t call them “fairies” songs and legends. Re-published need to be fairly adventurous and fit. for Samhain in the traditional but the Good Folk or the Gentle this year, for the first time with the Highland manner, with Seaoras’ Kind. Otherwise they might take music and full background, the unique insights. offence, curdle milk, steal babies Minstrelsy is a kist of treasures Haunted Tales of EDINBURGH and generally make your life and curiosities. General Editor Old Edinburgh SESSIONS unbearable… On the other hand Sigrid Rieuwerts unveils this Museum of Edinburgh The Coming of the Unicorn a little generosity and respect – ground breaking achievement. Edinburgh Partner | Talks & and other Tales of Wonder or if push comes to shove raw To book: www.nls.uk/events/ Lectures Scottish Storytelling Centre courage – may do wonders. booking or 0131 623 3734. 2pm (1hr) Live storytelling Storytellers, singers and musicians Free | Adults 4pm (50mins) David Francis and Rachel These events complement the Royal Mile storyteller Calum Lykan £7.50 (£6) | Adults and 8+ Newton of The Shee move from display Sir Walter Scott’s Waverley captures some gruesome and Linda Williamson has been song to story and back in an at the National Library of Scotland, spooky moments from Auld Reikie gathering stories and ballads entrancing session. 10 September – 16 November. past and present. of wonder since before she

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Everyday Wednesday 29 October 4pm Exclusive Story! Edinburgh’s Underground Vaults Mercat Cross beside St Giles Cathedral 06 1pm Welcome Home Scottish Storytelling Centre 13 2pm Stories and Songs of Sir Walter Scott Museum of Edinburgh 12 Friday 24 October 2.30pm Seeing Stories – Story guides Scottish Storytelling Centre 13 2.30pm Tales of a Grandfather: Unrolling Walter Scott’s Magic Carpet Central Library 06 5pm Ginevra degli Almieri – Love in Florence Scottish Storytelling Centre 13 7.30pm Places of Power Scottish Storytelling Centre 06 6.30pm The Earth, The Colour Scottish Storytelling Centre 13 8pm Open Hearth Scottish Storytelling Centre 12 Saturday 25 October 11am Tales of a Granny National Museum of Scotland 07 Thursday 30 October 1.30pm Natural Stories Scottish Storytelling Centre 06 2pm John Buchan’s Guide to Walter Scott National Library of Scotland 14 2pm Tales of a Grandfather: Unrolling Walter Scott’s Magic Carpet National Museum of Scotland 07 2pm Commonwealth Stories of WWI Museum of Edinburgh 14 2pm & 3.30pm Witches Brew Gladstone’s Land 06 2pm Exploring Celtic Traditions with David Campbell Scottish Storytelling Centre 14 2.30pm, 3.45pm Tales of a Grandson: The Dig, The Feast and The Hooly The Studio @ Festival Theatre 07 3.30pm Scott’s Singing Muse: Minstrelsy of the Scottish Borders National Library of Scotland 14 & 5.30pm 5pm Tales from Norway Scottish Storytelling Centre 14 5pm Mountain Vision: The Landscape Experience Scottish Storytelling Centre 07 6.30pm Orkney and Shetland – Northern Connections Scottish Storytelling Centre 14 6.30pm Robert Louis Stevenson – The Life Journey Scottish Storytelling Centre 07 8pm Open Hearth Scottish Storytelling Centre 15 8pm Open Hearth Scottish Storytelling Centre 07 Friday 31 October Sunday 26 October 10.30am Rosslyn Glen Walk Scottish Storytelling Centre 15 11am Tales of a Granny National Museum of Scotland 08 2pm Haunted Tales of Old Edinburgh Museum of Edinburgh 15 11.30am & 1.30pm Down at the Farm: In Gorgie Gorgie City Farm 08 2pm Exploring Celtic Traditions with George Macpherson Scottish Storytelling Centre 15 1pm Storytelling for a Greener World Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 08 4pm The Coming of the Unicorn and other Tales of Wonder Scottish Storytelling Centre 15 2pm & 3pm Macastory: A Soldier’s Tale Scottish National Portrait Gallery 09 5pm Meeting the Fairies Scottish Storytelling Centre 15 2.30pm, 3.45pm Tales of a Grandson: The Dig, The Feast and The Hooly The Studio @ Festival Theatre 08 6.30pm Ballads and Tales of the Supernatural Scottish Storytelling Centre 18 & 5.30pm 7.30pm Grave Tales: Festival Guid Crack Waverley Bar 18 5pm From the Pacific Coast Scottish Storytelling Centre 09 8pm Hallowe’en Hearth Scottish Storytelling Centre 18 6.30pm Rhythms from New Zealand Scottish Storytelling Centre 09 8pm Open Hearth Scottish Storytelling Centre 09 Saturday 1 November Monday 27 October 11am Scottish Traditional Tales – New Series Launch Scottish Storytelling Centre 18 10.30am Learning Where We Live. The Education Day: Place Based Learning Scottish Storytelling Centre 10 2pm & 3.30pm Deacon Brodie Unmasked – by Jack Martin Gladstone’s Land 18 2pm Stories and Songs of Sir Walter Scott Museum of Edinburgh 10 2.30pm Near not Far – World War One’s Divergent Voices National Library of Scotland 18 2.30pm Scottish Traditional Tales with Lari Don Central Library 10 3pm To Absent Friends Scottish Storytelling Centre 19 4pm Studying Elsewhere – Stories of Learning Abroad Scottish Storytelling Centre 10 5pm Stories from Wales – Yng Ngheredigion Scottish Storytelling Centre 19 5pm Between Tides Scottish Storytelling Centre 10 5.30pm Death and Fish Scottish Storytelling Centre 19 6pm As I Was Young and Easy: Dylan Thomas – A Lyrical Celebration Scottish Storytelling Centre 10 6.30pm On the Western Edge – Stories from the Outer Hebrides Scottish Storytelling Centre 19 8pm Hirta Songs – Evoking St Kilda Scottish Storytelling Centre 11 8pm Open Hearth – Islands Scottish Storytelling Centre 19

Tuesday 28 October Sunday 2 November 1pm Lisbon – Where Rural Meets Urban Scottish Storytelling Centre 11 11am Storytelling Master Class Scottish Storytelling Centre 19 2pm Commonwealth Stories of WWI Museum of Edinburgh 11 1pm-4pm Canongate: The Glorious Half Mile to Holyrood Various venues 20 2.30pm Seeing Stories: Symposium Scottish Storytelling Centre 11 2.30pm Near not Far – World War One’s Divergent Voices National Library of Scotland 20 5pm Follow the Story – Folklore and Archaeology Scottish Storytelling Centre 11 5pm John Fee’s Old Town Journeys and Evocations Scottish Storytelling Centre 20 6.30pm Lost Horizon or Living Landscape? Scottish Storytelling Centre 12 6.30pm The Rescue of the Son of Fion Scottish Storytelling Centre 20 8pm Open Hearth Scottish Storytelling Centre 12 8pm Open Hearth – Fires of Memories Scottish Storytelling Centre 20

16. 17. Ballads and Tales of On the Western Edge – the Supernatural Stories from the Scottish Storytelling Centre Outer Hebrides Live storytelling Finale Scottish Storytelling Centre 6.30pm (50mins) Live storytelling £7.50 (£6) | Adults 6.30pm (50mins) The old songs continue to haunt, £7.50 (£6) | Adults not least in the hands of great Weekend Sea lore and craft, along with performers and especially on humour, weather – lots of it – and a Samhain, when the ghosts and close connection with people and spirits walk into our world. With Later writers such as Robert Louis place thread through Ian Stephen’s Saturday Stevenson turned to Brodie as the storytellers and singers Marion 1 November storytelling and writing. Moving Kenny and Susanna epitome of Edinburgh hypocrisy. between his new novel Death and Orr Holland. We couldn’t possibly comment… Fish, and traditional tales, he evokes Scottish Traditional Tales but storyteller Jack Martin the living culture of the outer isles, Grave Tales: Festival – New Series Launch will comment very fully. In and how to survive it. Scottish Storytelling Centre association with the National Guid Crack Trust for Scotland. Waverley Bar Live storytelling Open Hearth – Islands Club Event 11am (1hr 30) Scottish Storytelling Centre 7.30pm (2hrs 30) £6 (£4) | Ages 4-7 Near not Far – World War Live Storytelling By donation (£3) | Adults Enjoy a range of new children’s One’s Divergent Voices 8pm (1hr 30) story books based on traditional An opportunity to get a tale in National Library of Scotland Ashley Ramsden £10 (£8) | Adults round the circle of Edinburgh’s tales: The Selkie Girls by Janis Edinburgh Partner | Live Join storytellers and musicians from Mackay and The Dragon Storytelling regular storytelling session. storytelling with Rafe Fitzpatrick the northern and western Isles – Stoorworm by Theresa Breslin. 2.30pm (2hrs) To Absent Friends This Guid Crack Festival special and Cynan Jones. And the hiraeth and some sea faring guests – in a Join the authors and storytellers £7.50 (£6) | Adults Scottish Storytelling Centre is hosted by Orkney storyteller – meaning both longing and relaxed, traditional session round as they share Scotland’s treasury The centenary of WWI has brought Live storytelling Tom Muir. belonging – remains strong. the hearth, as the darkness closes in of myths and legends, with book unprecedented access to archives 3pm (1hr 30) Music from Pumlumon 70: Michael and the embers glow with pictures illustrations as a backdrop. and first-hand testimonies. We £7.50 (£6) | Adults Hallowe’en Hearth Truswell (percussion), Jer Reid in the fire. Hosted byIan Stephen, Presented by Edinburgh based can’t imagine or relive the horror, This weekend is traditionally a Scottish Storytelling Centre (guitar, harmonium), Stevie Jones with George Macpherson, Tom publisher Floris Books. but we can listen to the voices season for remembering the Live Storytelling (double bass, moog, tapes), Rafe Muir and Sarah McFadyen. of those who lived through it lost and the loved, and poet and 8pm (1hr 30) Fitzpatrick (violin, sounds). The all, speaking to us across the storyteller Margot Henderson £10 (£8) | Adults Deacon Brodie Unmasked SISF is delighted to feature Wales decades. A specially commissioned marks the tradition by exploring Outside the wind rustles in the – by Jack Martin as part of the European Seeing Sunday 2 November live performance based on the how those who have died live on in darkness and the shadows creep Gladstone’s Land Stories project. the memories and stories we share. closer. Join storytellers and Edinburgh Partner | Live first-hand testimony of soldiers, nurses, home front workers, In partnership with To Absent Storytelling Master Class musicians from Scotland and Storytelling Scottish Storytelling Centre women, and those who opposed Friends, a People’s Festival of Death and Fish around the world in this special 2pm & 3.30pm (1hr) Training & Development the war. Devised by Brian Larkin Storytelling and Remembrance – Scottish Storytelling Centre evening event for Samhain, £8 (£6) | All ages 11am (5hrs) in association with the Edinburgh www.toabsentfriends.org.uk Live storytelling as the darkness closes in and Just across from Gladstone’s £36 (£30) | Adults Peace and Justice Centre. 5.30pm (50mins) the embers glow in a relaxed, Land lived Deacon Brodie, Ashley Ramsden, founder of the Featuring Gerda Stevenson, Stories from Wales – Free | Adults traditional hearth session. Edinburgh’s most notorious School of Storytelling in 1994, Crawford Logan, Aonghas Ian Stephen’s new novel is an Hosted by Jess Smith, with double dealer and master of Yng Ngheredigion leads an intensive day for those MacNeacail and Jamie Reid- exploration of storytelling and a Dawne McFarlane, Rachel disguise. A respectable citizen by Scottish Storytelling Centre with storytelling experience who Baxter, with music by Michael lyrical exposition of living by and Newton and Grace Banks. day, Brodie ran multiple rackets Live storytelling are keen to stretch their skills and Byrne. This event complements on the sea. Following the book by night including gambling, 5pm (50mins) explore the traditional art more the exhibition Behind the Lines: launch with Saraband Publishing, cock-fighting and theft. Finally he £7.50 (£6) | Adults deeply. Participants are advised to Personal stories of the First Ian will weave material from Death got his come-uppance, but not Welsh landscapes, language and bring a 5-7 minute story that they World War at the National and Fish with his new collection before Jack Martin wiled his way rural culture are brought together have already told but would like to Library of Scotland. of traditional stories from the into the villain’s inner secrets. through music, visuals and Western Isles. work on further.

18. Box office: 0131 556 9579 www.tracscotland.org/festivals 19. Canongate: The Glorious Half Mile to Holyrood Seeing 1pm-4pm Stories Look again at Edinburgh’s glorious Canongate. Sir Walter Scott was inspired to pen his Chronicles of , Charles Dickens got the idea for Great Expectations and A Christmas Carol here and Edinburgh’s beloved makar Robert Fergusson found his last resting place at the Kirk. All the pageant of life has gone up and down this street from Queens to Festival rebels, courtiers to beggars, and indigent debtors to the wealthiest in the land. In former times Churches, palaces, taverns and brothels jostled for space, while more recently the return of Scotland’s Parliament has once again made Canongate a scene of power play and intrigue. On Tour Enjoy free events at The Museum of Edinburgh, , the Coordinated by regional storytelling teams with People’s Story Museum, Acheson House, and the . the support of the SISF. Guest Storytellers meet A glorious afternoon of Once Upon the Canongate brings Edinburgh – City of with local performers and audiences, offering Story – to life. The event concludes at the Scottish Storytelling Centre at a fantastic opportunity to experience in-situ 5pm with John Fee’s Old Town Journeys and Evocations – see below. storytelling across the country and highlighting With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union and in association with Edinburgh the close links stories have with local tradition, Museums and Galleries, Edinburgh World Heritage Trust and Edinburgh UNESCO City of Literature. landscape and history.

Near not Far – World War First World War at the National of Man. Climb mountain heights Library of Scotland. and plummet the depths of oceans One’s Divergent Voices in search of the cup of healing with National Library of Scotland John Fee’s Old Town traditional Seanachaidh Seoras Edinburgh Partner | Live Macpherson sharing the tale, Storytelling Journeys and Evocations Scottish Storytelling Centre supported by Kati Waitzmann 2.30pm (2hrs) who is learning from the tradition. £7.50 (£6) | Adults Live storytelling The centenary of WWI has 5pm (50mins) | £6 (£4) | Adults brought unprecedented access A celebration of the late, great Open Hearth – Fires to archives and first-hand John Fee – storyteller of the Old of Memories testimonies. We can’t imagine Town – coinciding with the launch Scottish Storytelling Centre or relive the horror, but we can of his posthumous book of Old Live Storytelling listen to the voices of those who Town Tales, introduced by Donald 8pm (1hr 30) | £10 (£8) | Adults lived through it all, speaking to us Smith, with photos by Stuart Join storytellers and musicians across the decades. A specially McHardy. They are joined for this from home and abroad in a relaxed commissioned live performance special launch event by storytellers traditional session round the based on the first-hand testimony Audrey Parks, Millie Gray, Colin hearth, as the darkness closes in of soldiers, nurses, home front Mackay, Jack Martin and Claire and the embers glow with pictures workers, women, and those McNicol, in aid of Edinburgh’s Life in the fire. This final session of who opposed the war. Devised Stories project. the Festival is hosted by David by Brian Larkin in association Campbell, with Janis Mackay and with the Edinburgh Peace and The Rescue of festival guests. Justice Centre. Featuring Gerda the Son of Fion Stevenson, Crawford Logan, Scottish Storytelling Centre Aonghas MacNeacail and Live storytelling Jamie Reid-Baxter, with music 6.30pm (1hr) | £7.50 (£6) | Adults by Michael Byrne. This event Enjoy a big story from the classic complements the exhibition Behind Highland canon, with a tale known the Lines: Personal stories of the in Skye, Ardnamurchan and the Isle

20. Box office: 0131 556 9579 identify key activities and locations, Thursday 23 – Friday 24 October hear about archive and funding Tuesday Sunday 26 October resources, and consider how an 28 October Eyemouth Primary Inverclyde traditional arts network might function. Orkney Storytelling School Festival Glasgow Festival Eyemouth Primary School will be Perthshire Micro-Stories: Between Now in its 5th consecutive year, the first school in Scotland to host Russia and Scotland – the Orkney Storytelling Festival its own designated storytelling Stories Around welcomes three visiting storytellers festival on Friday 24 October for Stanley Mills For Lermontov to the island: Ian Stephen (Isle of 1000 children across five primary Stanley Mills, Stanley, The Bridge, 1000 Westerhouse Road, Lewis), Liz Weir (Northern Ireland) schools and three nursery schools! Perthshire, PH1 4QE Easterhouse, Glasgow, G34 9JW and Stina Fagertun (Norway). It will have a truly international Live Storytelling Live Storytelling Together with local storytellers theme with storytellers Dawne 2pm (2 hrs) From 10am they will take part in events across McFarlane (Canada), Grace Taylor Free with normal admission to site Free | Older children and adults Orkney, including the traditional and Tusiata Avia (New Zealand) All ages To mark the bicentenary of Mikhail island jaunt – this year to the tiny joining Scotland’s tale weavers Join storyteller Claire Hewitt to Lermontov (Learmonth), who island of Graemsay (population Macastory, Ruth Kirkpatrick, explore the history of the Mills died in his twenty seventh year, 23). There is also an event in a Donald Nelson, Margaret through interactive stories in all sorts young people from Scotland and brewery, as well as a return to the Christison and Marjorie Leithead. of places! Discover the mystery of Russia are exchanging 27 word wonderfully welcoming surrounds Please note: This event is not open the golden pocket watch, the Italian stories. In a special Scotland- of homely Betty’s Reading Room. to members of the public. prisoners and the baby, the mouse Russia celebration for SISF 2014, Ian Stephen 2014 will celebrate the 1000th tailor and many more. Storysacks storytellers Michael Kerins and anniversary of the Battle of will also be available for families to Donald Nelson go East in search Argyll, engaging you in an evening Clontarf, where Orkney’s Jarl use for free. Please contact 01738 of tales while young Glaswegian Once Upon a Place of distinctive rhythms of the South Sigurd fell, bearing the enchanted Saturday 828 268 to reserve a place. tellers from St. Benedict’s Primary H M Frigate Unicorn, Victoria Dock, Pacific. Please contact the library Raven Banner. Rapidly gaining 25 October School perform their micro-stories. Dundee, DD1 3BP to reserve a seat. 01436 658 833. a reputation for being a small Hosted by Dominic Kerins. Live Storytelling festival with a very big heart, every Greenock 7pm (2hrs) | £5 Monday Glasgow year locals and visitors alike have Traditions in Place Dundee Join us aboard the historic HM Frigate Unicorn for an evening of enjoyed the wonderful storytelling The Beacon, Custom House Quay, 27 October Once Upon a Place – From the Pacific stories and songs with storytelling on offer. Contact: orkneystof@ Greenock, PA15 1HJ A Story Adventure to the Clyde hotmail.co.uk or visit group, Blether Tay-gither and Networking Day Fife The McManus: Dundee’s Art Gallery The Glad Café, 1006A Pollokshaws www.orkneystorytellingfestival.co.uk guest storyteller Stina Fagertun 10.30am (6hrs) and Museum, Albert Square, Rd, Glasgow, G41 2HG Sup wi’ a Fifer! from Norway. Tickets available on A networking day for all those Meadowside, Dundee, DD1 1DA Live Storytelling Café by the Park, 5 Chalmers St, the door. Reserve in advance by interested in the traditional arts Live Storytelling 7.30pm (2hrs) Dunfermline, Fife KY12 8AT phoning Sheila Kinninmonth on and living heritage of Inverclyde. Walks start: 10.30am, £8 (£6) | Adults Live Storytelling 01334 474 836. Is storytelling, music, song and 7pm (2hrs) 12pm and 1.30pm Join storytellers from Glasgow dance flourishing in Inverclyde? 12+ | £6 incl. coffee, tea, juice Free. No booking necessary. and the Pacific to celebrate the How are they being supported & cake Bring the family and join the Helensburgh Commonwealth in this Year and connected? Come together to Local storytellers celebrate the Blether Tay-gither storytellers for Rhythms from of Homecoming. Stories and stories and songs of Fife with a journey through the McManus New Zealand music flow like the rivers and the mighty ocean currents that unite Canadian guest storyteller Dawne Gallery in Dundee, and hear their Helensburgh Library, West King people worldwide. With Dawne McFarlane with her stories of stories inspired by the exhibitions. Street, Helensburgh, G84 8EB McFarlane (Canada), Naomi place. Book early for limited places Suitable for all ages. Live Storytelling O’Kelly, Lesley O’Brien and in this atmospheric venue at the 7.30pm accompanying musical interludes. gates of Pittencrieff Park (only 3 Free, pre-booking required To book please phone 0141 636 minutes from the bus station). Performing poets and storytellers 6119. In association with The Village For information and to book via Grace Taylor and Tusiata Avia Grace Taylor Storytelling Centre and Glad Café. PayPal contact Judy Paterson set out from Aotearoa to reach [email protected]

22. Box office: 0131 556 9579 www.tracscotland.org/festivals 23. Aberdeen Lochgilphead author, crowned “Tusitala” – Tales from the the Storyteller – by the Samoans. Friday Saturday Arctic People Stories and Their Stories Rhythms from Please contact the library to 31 October 1 November Resonate Arts House Unit A3, Linklater Rooms reserve a seat. 01369 708 682. New Zealand North Castle Street, Alloa, (adjacent to Elphinstone Hall), Lochgilphead Library, Manse Brae, Oban Alloa FK10 1EU University of Aberdeen Lochgilphead, PA31 8QZ Campbeltown Storytelling Workshop Live Storytelling Robert Louis Stevenson – Northern Lights - Live Storytelling Rhythms from 2pm 7.30pm (2hrs) | Free | All ages 7.30pm The Life Journey Stories and More Free | All ages Join two of Scotland’s most New Zealand Free, pre-booking required Oban Library, 77 Albany Street, GR McFarlane Art Gallery, 41 Mill Our guest storyteller Stina celebrated storytellers, Tom Muir Campbeltown Library, Performing poets and storytellers Oban, PA34 4AL Street, Alloa, FK10 1DW Fagertun, will take you in spirit (Orkney) and Lawrence Tulloch Aqualibrium, Kinloch Park, Kinloch Grace Taylor and Tusiata Avia Live Storytelling Live Storytelling to the shores of the Arctic Ocean (Shetland), in a night of exceptional Road, Campbeltown, PA28 6EG set out from Aotearoa to reach 7pm 11am to join the Sami reindeer herders stories from the Northern Isles. Live Storytelling Argyll, engaging you in an evening Free, pre-booking required Free | All ages for fantastical stories, spiced with Tom and Lawrence will not only tell 7.30pm of distinctive rhythms of the South Fiddler Judy Turner and guitarist/ Join storyteller and singer/ Arctic folksongs and traditional tales, but will also share the ‘stories Free, pre-booking required Pacific. Please contact the library singer Neil Adam travel all the way songwriter Stina Fagertun to ‘joiks’. To book call 01259 928 behind the stories’ by talking about Performing poets and storytellers to reserve a seat. 01546 602 072. from Australia to recall the story celebrate in spoken word the 014 or visit www.facebook.com/ the sources and the people from Grace Taylor and Tusiata Avia of the life, loves, adventures and people and magical landscape of Resonatetogether whom they learned them. This is a set out from Aotearoa to reach sorrows of Scotland’s best loved her native Norway – the land of the rare visit by Tom and Lawrence to Argyll, engaging you in an evening author, crowned “Tusitala” – the Northern Lights and Midnight Sun. tell stories in Aberdeen, so be sure Thursday of distinctive rhythms of the Storyteller – by the Samoans. To book call 01259 723 303 or not to miss them! 30 October South Pacific. Please contact Please contact the library to email [email protected] the library to reserve a seat. reserve a seat. 01631 571 444. Please note access to the venue is 01586 555 435. via stairs. Dunoon Wednesday Robert Louis Stevenson – 29 October The Life Journey Thursday 30 Dunoon Library, 248 Argyll Street, October – Sunday Isle of Bute Dunoon, PA23 7LT Live Storytelling 2 November Robert Louis Stevenson – 7.30pm The Life Journey Free, pre-booking required Portskerra International Rothesay Library, Moat Centre, Fiddler Judy Turner and guitarist/ Storytelling Festival Stuart Street, Rothesay, Isle of singer Neil Adam travel all the way The third North Coast storytelling Bute, PA20 0BX from Australia to recall the story festival focuses on place and Live Storytelling of the life, loves, adventures and intergenerational community, 7pm sorrows of Scotland’s best loved with stories from Regina Sommer Free, pre-booking required (Germany), Christine Stone Fiddler Judy Turner and (Hebrides), Sandra Train (Strath guitarist/singer Neil Adam Halladale), North Coast storyteller travel all the way from Alexandria Patience and piper Australia to recall the story James MacDonald Reid. Featuring of the life, loves, adventures a traditional Ceilidh called by and sorrows of Scotland’s Clapshot, plus a Hallows Eve Silent best loved author, crowned Movie night amongst the highlights, “Tusitala” – the Storyteller enjoy the warm welcome at this – by the Samoans. Please intimate festival, edged by glorious contact the library to reserve fishing and surfing beaches. For a seat. 01700 503 266. programme and bookings see www.portskerrastorytellingfestival. weeble.com Judy Turner

24. Box office: 0131 556 9579 www.tracscotland.org/festivals 25. Ana Sofia Paiva Ana Sofia Paiva is a Portuguese actress and storyteller, merging About Guest theatre, storytelling and music. She teaches workshops focusing on the power of voice, oral performance and musicality. She is also an oral tradition researcher, member of Neil Adam Stina Fagerturn Storytellers Institute for Studies of Traditional Literature (Lisbon), and part of the collective Memória Imaterial, an organisation dedicated to Neil Adam and Judy Turner sites in Rome – and she is also the ancestry of Norwegian, Kven and the intangible Portuguese Neil Adam (sort of Scottish expat) organiser of Il Circolo dei Narratori Coastal Sami. With a background cultural heritage. and Judy Turner (Australian born (The Circle of Storytellers) – a in theatre, she has been a cultural and bred) are a husband and wife monthly storytelling cafe event at ambassador for more than 30 years, Judy Turner Rafe Fitzpatrick Regina Sommer team whose passion has always the Hula Hoop Club in Rome. alongside creating and collecting Regina Sommer is a pioneer of been storytelling. As fiddler (her) ancient, unique fairy tales from the German storytelling scene and guitarist-singer (him), they Daniela Corradini the Coastal Sami, Kven and Arctic and was a guest at the Scottish have been key contributors to Daniela Corradini is an art historian storytelling traditions. She won International Storytelling Festival the folk revival down under – and and tour guide who co-founded Best Storytellers at the Norwegian in 2012, delighting audiences with the massive growth of interest Strolling Stories in 2010 with Storyteller Festival in 2010. German folktales and Brothers in Scottish fiddling – as well as Giovanna Conforto. She graduated Grimm retellings. She established winners of numerous awards for in history of art at the DAMS of Rafe Fitzpatrick Tusiata Avia Dawne McFarlane a house of stories and tales in their playing and teaching. Bologna, is a licensed tourist guide Rafe Fitzpatrick was born and her hometown of Aachen in 1996 of the Province of Rome and has raised in rural Wales. Growing up to engage a German-speaking Tusiata Avia worked as an educator in schools under the beautiful grey skies of storyteller network and bring Tusiata Avia is a published poet, on issues of sustainable tourism Ceredigion, absorbing the language storytelling back into people’s performer and children’s writer and promoting heritage. She also and changing rural culture. It made memory. Regina also organises born to a Samoan father and Palagi looks after the tarotitalytours blog an indelible mark and some days International Storytelling Festival mother. She was the recipient of about art and symbolism. the hiraeth is strong. He has always Zwischen-Zeiten. Giovanna Conforto Ana Sofia Paiva the Janet Frame Literary Trust played music and the landscape Award (2013) and is regularly Monica Fabbri and culture of his upbringing are Grace Taylor printed in literary journals, as well Monica Fabbri is an artist, reflected in the way he plays. Grace Taylor was born and raised as appearing at writers festivals illustrator and performer. Since in South Auckland, Aotearoa around the globe. Fellow Samoan 2011, she has dedicated herself to Dawne McFarlane New Zealand with English and writer Sia Figiel has stated Avia’s theatre and worked in Chille de la Dawne McFarlane is a storyteller, Samoan descent. She has been poetry is revolutionary as it Balanza as a storyteller, with special Waldorf teacher, dancer and writer writing poetry for over 10 years ‘redefines the face of New Zealand interest in fairy tales. Among her with over 30 years’ experience. and performing for seven. Grace Daniela Corradini Regina Sommer literature’. creations are illustrations The She is affiliated with the Storytelling co-directs Niu Navigations and is Story of Signorino BC and Lettera Toronto community and Chair of co-founder of the Rising Voices Giovanna Conforto ad una professoressa (Letter to a the Storytelling Department at Youth Poetry Movement and South Giovanna Conforto graduated from Professor), and she has written and the Rudolf Steiner Centre Toronto. Auckland Poets Collective. Her first the National Academy of Dramatic performed two plays – Favolando Her first memory of storytelling collection of poetry, Afakasi Speaks, Arts in Rome and first encountered (Fables/Fabling) and Ophelia is sitting around a campfire, her was published in 2013 and she has storytelling in 2003, through a Ophelie. Grandfather illuminated by firelight won the Auckland Readers Writers series of children’s workshops she and silhouetted by stars as he Monica Fabbri Grace Taylor Festival Poetry Idol. conducted in Bethlehem. She co- Stina Fagertun enchanted with a Gaelic brawl founded Strolling Stories – stories Stina Fagertun was born and raised rolling through his powerful voice. For further information on Scottish storytellers related to artistic and historical in the “Capital of the Arctic” - please visit our Directory on Tromsø, Norway – through a rich www.tracscotland.org/tracs/storytelling

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Central Library National Library of Scotland The Studio at the Festival Theatre 7-9 George IV Bridge, EH1 1EG George IV Bridge, EH1 1EW 22 Potterrow, EH8 9BL 0131 242 8100 - enquiries only 0131 623 3734 - enquiries only 0131 529 6000 (book online) www.nls.uk/events/booking [email protected] www.edinburghreads.eventbrite.co.uk www.edtheatres.com National Museum of Scotland Gladstones Land Chambers Street, EH1 1JF 477B Lawnmarket, EH1 2NT 0300 123 6789 0131 226 5856 - enquiries only www.nms.ac.uk www.nts.org.uk Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh The Scottish Storytelling Centre is the Gorgie City Farm Entrances on Inverleith Row (EH3 5LP) national body for the support and 51 Gorgie Road, EH11 2LA and Arboretum Place (EH3 5NZ) development of the storytelling artform, 0131 337 4202 - enquiries only 0131 248 2909 - enquiries only and presents the annual Scottish www.gorgiecityfarm.org.uk www.rbge.org.uk International Storytelling Festival as part of this work. The organisation is a partnership Mercat Tours Ltd Scottish National Portrait Gallery between the Scottish Storytelling Forum SCO M e r c a t H o u s e , 2 8 B l a i r S t r e e t , E H 1 1 Q R 1 Queen Street, 20891 and the Church of Scotland SCO 11353, Please note: Tour begins at the Mercat Edinburgh, EH2 1JD and is supported by Creative Scotland, the Cross at Parliament Square next to 0131 624 6560 City of Edinburgh Council and a wide range St Giles Kirk [email protected] of charitable donations. 0131 225 5445 www.nationalgalleries.org [email protected] www.mercattours.com

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