Scottish International Storytelling Festival 2012 Once Upon a Story Folktales of Europe

19 October – 28 October Box office: 0131 556 9579 www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk 01. Box office: 0131 556 9579 Contents About the programme Festival Exhibitions 05 Welcome to the world’s Opening Weekend 06 We’ve categorised our events to help you decide Festival Week – 08 which to book, ensuring your storytelling experience Festival Diary 12 finest feast of traditional Festival Week – 14 is exactly what you’re looking for, be it an evening Finale Weekend 18 gathering in jovial company or daytime events for Festival on Tour 20 storytelling. the whole family. About the Storytellers 22

As Hallowe’en approaches, lights its Live Storytelling Each event listing carries seasonal storytelling hearth and welcomes all Live evening performances in information on age suitability to nations to our festive glow. the Scottish Storytelling Centre’s ensure all members of the family stunning, intimate Netherbow can enjoy the festivities. Why do we keep telling the same stories Theatre, at the Queen’s Hall, in new versions? What is the place and role and in the Old Sherriff Court in Club Event of fairy tales in the 21st century? Do folk Glasgow. These events feature A special storytelling club tales hold important clues? In the 2ooth international guest artists evening in the nearby Waverley representing their own cultures Bar. Experience a true Scottish anniversary year of the Brothers Grimm, storytelling ceilidh! A great way we look at folk tales old and new and explore and traditions, alongside the best Svenja Krüger Ewan McVicar of Scotland’s storytellers. to relax, join in and enjoy fine Claire McNicol their enduring fascination for all cultures tales plus Guid Crack. and generations. Meet the Storyteller A highlight of the Festival Training & Development With performances, workshops, conferences, programme, these informal taster The Festival is the perfect family storytelling spectaculars, music and sessions provide a wonderful opportunity to develop your film, SISF 2012 is the complete storytelling opportunity to get to know our storytelling skills, explore a experience in Edinburgh, Glasgow and Regina Sommer visiting guest storytellers as they specific area of storytelling or across Scotland. share stories about the culture share ideas, approaches and and traditions of their homeland, good practice. Come along to one Whether you’re a professional storyteller, and what inspired them to of our Festival training and CPD someone who’s curious about oral storytelling become a storyteller. events at the Scottish Storytelling traditions, or you’re just looking for a Centre and fire your imagination! Mac-a-Story refreshing evening’s entertainment, the SISF Talks & Lectures Edinburgh Partner Events is the highlight of Edinburgh’s autumn. Don’t This year’s Festival links Scotland Tell-A-Story: Education & An array of family and adult miss out on Scotland, old Europe, and the with Europe, as we celebrate Communities Programme the enduring fascination of folk events involving visiting and Alongside the public programme, magic of live storytelling. Come and explore! and fairy tale. Deepen your Scottish storytellers are the Festival delivers a popular programmed by the SISF The Festival Team Seoras Macpherson Chiara Casarico knowledge and understanding of outreach programme to schools, the Festival’s themes as experts together with local partners libraries and community to complement the main Supported through Scottish Government’s from the arts and academic groups, culminating with Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund, Creative world share their knowledge Festival themes. Tell-a-Story Day on Friday Scotland, City of Edinburgh Council, Royal about folklore. 26 October. Contact davide@ Glasgow Partner Events Norwegian Honorary Consulate General, scottishstorytellingcentre.com Consulate General of the Republic of Poland, The Storytelling Festival Family Events or 0131 652 3272 for more Goethe Institut, Italian Cultural Institute, explodes into Glasgow for a Institut Français d’Ecosse, Culture Ireland. Because our passion for fairy tales information. Registration week of family and adult events starts at a young age, we present deadline: Monday 24 September. Special thanks to our national and Books, Scottish Youth Theatre, Goethe Institut, and Iona Storytelling Festival, Argyll and Bute a programme of engaging live involving local and international regional partners: Luminate Festival, NVA Speed of Light, Luath Council and Portskerra Storytelling Festival. storytelling events, often involving storytellers! Venues include Festival On Tour: Edinburgh Filmhouse, National Library of Publishing, Russian Cultural Centre, The Robert craft and storymaking activities, Scottish Youth Theatre’s home Tales on the Move Scotland, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Burns Birthplace Museum, Blair Atholl Castle, The Scottish International in the Old Sherriff Court and the National Museum of Scotland, Gladstone’s The Elphinstone Institute, Orkney Storytelling Storytelling Festival is part specifically designed for children A programme of locally hosted Land (NTS), Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Festival, Silverbranch, Clackmannanshire of Festivals Edinburgh. For more information and families. Goethe Institut. events across Scotland. Mercat Tours Ltd, The Queen’s Hall, Floris Council, Kingdom Crack, Blether Taygither, Mull visit www.edinburghfestivals.co.uk 02. Box office: 0131 556 9579 www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk 03. How to book Festival Exhibitions Tickets for all events at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, the Queen’s Hall, the National Library of Scotland and the Goethe Institut (Thursday 25 October events only) can be booked by phone, 28 September – 3 November 19 September – 18 November online or in person at the Scottish Storytelling Centre. All other partner venues and Glasgow events have their own booking outlets. Kate Leiper – A Visual Treasury Illustrating The Brothers Grimm See the back cover for contact details. Scottish Storytelling Centre National Library of Scotland Exhibition Exhibition The Festival box office is open from Monday 13 August, 10am - 6pm. 10am – 6pm, and before Monday to Friday: 10am – 6pm evening events Saturday: 10am – 5pm Free entry | All ages Sunday: 2pm – 5pm In Association with Free entry | All ages +44 (0)131 556 9579 Floris Books. A magical eye is Hansel and Gretel, www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk cast on Scotland’s treasury of The Travelling Musicians, tales in this visually stunning Tom Thumb and many other collection. Coinciding with the fairy tales first appeared in publication of An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Folk print 200 years ago when Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm and Fairy Tales by Theresa Breslin and Kate Leiper, published their collection of German popular tales. How to get here the exhibition beautifully exemplifies the artist’s They were eventually translated into 160 languages! sustained work on the inspiration of the folk tale. This display showcases different translations and Scottish Storytelling Centre | 43-45 High Street | EH1 1SR Illustrations from An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Folk and Fairy illustrations of the tales, as well as original letters Tales by Theresa Breslin and Kate Leiper are reproduced by kind by Jacob Grimm. The Scottish Storytelling permission of Floris Books. © Kate Leiper 2012 Centre’s award-winning building is the hub of the Festival. You can find us half way down Edinburgh’s , within easy walking Storytelling distance of Princes Street and Waverley train station. There is no parking directly outside Festival the Centre, but Lothian bus £15 number 35 stops outside our Supporter (£10 Network members) door, and there’s a taxi rank

just up the road. EAST MARKET STREET CRANSTON STREET There is no greater pleasure than the power > 10% ticket discount across JEFFREY STREET > Fully accessible to of the spoken word taking listeners on a journey of performances and workshops NORTH BRIDGE the imagination. wheelchair users The Scottish > Tour of the historic Netherbow Storytelling Centre CANONGATE > Hearing loop Register now as a Festival Supporter to area where the Scottish Edinburgh Castle HIGH STREET Holyrood Palace enjoy an array of fantastic benefits, including Storytelling Centre is located > Braille signage throughout ST MARY’S STREET exclusive invites and great ticket deals. > 15% discount at Storytelling Café BLACKFRIARS STREET > Licensed Café and Enjoy personal perks while helping the Festival Storytelling Book Shop SOUTH BRIDGE provide a world class forum for the art of > A welcome pack storytelling. As a supporter you can enjoy: > Participation in the Festival’s creative blog, > Access to storyteller welcome and through stories and discussion COWGATE international networking events To book telephone +44 (0)131 556 9579

04. Box office: 0131 556 9579 www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk 05. Once Upon: Folk and Opening Weekend Fairy Tales of Ireland Scottish Storytelling Centre Enchanted City Live Storytelling 7.30pm (2hrs, incl. interval) £10 (£8) | Adults puppetry workshops with Yugen Friday 19 October Cécile Corbel: An irrepressible fountain of Puppet Company and a concert narrative magic and pure blarney, of traditional Scottish song Composing for involving the good – don’t say little with Live Music Now, see www. Studio Ghibli Voices in Scotland – people and the “other side”. No Scottish Storytelling Centre nationalgalleries.org/whatson Filmhouse Edinburgh Partner Event | Talks country in Europe has contributed Live Storytelling more to the worldwide storytelling 8pm (1hr 15) The Enchanted & Lectures 4pm (1hr) renaissance. With Irish storytellers £10 (£8) | Adults Museum extraordinaire, Eddie Lenihan and £7.50 (£5.50) | Adults Heather Yule Storytellers and musicians from National Museum of Scotland Jack Lynch. Scotland’s diverse traditions The renowned Breton Edinburgh Partner Event | young people, plus a healthy celebrate the tales and voices of harpist and composer Grimm Fairy Tales Family Event sampling of contemporary an ancient and at the same time introduces and performs her Sunday 21 October from the DEFA 12.30pm (4hrs) compositions for Arrietty, the Russian stories. modern nation in a spellbinding Free | 3+ Foundation evening to launch the Festival. beautiful animated film set in The National Museum is a palace of The Singing Ringing Tree (Das Developed by Marion Kenny, Japan. Cécile Corbel originally The Enchanted Wood Story Gatherers stories and for one afternoon this Singende, Klingende Bäumchen), with music and stories from Mio sent her second album to Studio Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh October, hidden storytellers will GDR 1957. – Russian Folk Shapley, Claire McNicol, Mary Ghibli as a gift and after listening Edinburgh Partner Event | appear, voices will be heard and Director: Francesco Stefani Traditions with McMaster, Donald Hay, Teresa to it, producer Toshio Suzuki Family Event marvellous objects will breathe invited her to compose the 1pm (3hrs) Filmhouse Grigory Bondarenko Brookes, Mara Menzies, Jamie and move! In addition to the film’s score. Arrietty is screened Free | All Ages Edinburgh Partner Event | Film Scottish Storytelling Centre Kenny and Leo McCann. informal happenings, there will be on Saturday 13 and Sunday 14 A day of storytelling indoor and 4pm (75mins) Talks & Lectures free events as listed below: drop in October at 1.30pm and 11am out, as Edinburgh’s Botanic £2.50 | 8+ 6pm (1hr) story-quilting and Russian crafts in Saturday 20 October respectively. For full details see Garden is peopled by fairy tales Princess Thousand Beauty learns Free (ticketed) | Adults the Learning Centre from 1.30pm www.filmhousecinema.com and magical trees including kindness and humility when her An introduction to the oldest and a multi–sensory storybox Apple Day, and the One Oak scornful treatment of a princely and most authentic Russian session for children with additional Thomas the Rhymer exhibition. In the Yurt, Palm suitor renders him victim to folk traditions, with some live support needs at 2.30pm, also in Story Gatherers and the Fairy Queen House, Tepee, Chinese Garden a cruel spell and transforms demonstrations in poetry and story. Scottish National Portrait Gallery the Learning Centre. To reserve – Ireland’s First and Harp Pavilion – stories her into an ugly hag. Only the free places on the multi-sensory legendary singing ringing tree has Edinburgh Partner Event | Collectors of the natural world and its Once Upon: Folk and Family Event workshop please contact Scottish Storytelling Centre magical wonders rustle in the the power to save her, and will 11am (45mins) [email protected] Talks & Lectures undergrowth and whisper in the mark the event with a tune. Fairy Tales of Brittany Free | All Ages (All other events unreserved). 6pm (1hr) breeze! Even the rushes have (German with English subtitles). Scottish Storytelling Centre Hear the tall tale of Thomas 12.30pm-1.30pm Free (ticketed) | Adults tales to tell... Enchantments for Supported by the Goethe Institut. Live Storytelling the Rhymer and discover what The Fisherman and His Wife: An introduction to the folklore all the family, as the gardens 7.30pm (2hrs, incl. interval) happened when he met the Scottish Youth Theatre Family pioneers of Ireland and their come alive with contributions Meet the Storyteller: £10 (£8) | Adults powerful Fairy Queen. Will Storytime (3-7) discoveries with storyteller from Scottish Youth Theatre, Folktales interweave with harp Maria Koroleva and song in an evocation of Thomas be able to break the spell 2pm-2.50pm Jack Lynch. and a host of Scottish artists and Scottish Storytelling Centre Brittany’s distinctive world of and return to the real world? Mac-A-Story: It’s Grimm Up guest storytellers. Meet the Storyteller poetry, mystery and humour. Storyteller Linda Williamson North: with Ron Fairweather and 5pm (50mins) Breton storyteller Fiona invites you into the Portrait Gallery Fergus McNicol (5+) £4 (£3) | Adults Great Hall for a magical experience MacLeod, Breton singer Brigitte 3.30pm-4.30pm An opportunity to hear about for all ages, with musical Kloareg and Breton harpist Cécile East of the Sun and West of the life and work of a Russian accompaniment by Heather Yule. Corbel are hosted and welcomed the Moon: doughty women and storyteller and researcher, who For other events at SNPG, by Scotland’s Heather Yule. daring lassies (7+) is renewing old traditions with including Thomas the Rhymer

06. Box office: 0131 556 9579 www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk 07. Story Gatherers – Poignant episodes of mental and Once Upon: Folk and Festival Week: physical decay are recorded and Scots, Slavs and Svans: this biographical detail makes us Fairy Tales of Poland Living Traditions in think about our own situation. Scottish Storytelling Centre Edinburgh – Being healthy is not just somatic Live Storytelling Rural Europe 7.30pm (2hrs, incl. interval) Scottish Storytelling Centre with many writings about Folktale Europe wanting spiritual, as well as £10 (£8) | Adults Talks & Lectures A night of music, song and 6pm (1hr) physical, wellbeing. The great dictionary of past lives shows story brings you into Poland’s Free (ticketed) | Adults kingdoms of the imagination. Monday 22 October James MacDonald Reid takes you how men and women endured affliction and gained personal Polish storytellers Małgorzata on a unique journey, sharing local Litwinowicz and Michał storytelling traditions across Eastern insight. Presentation followed by coffee break, workshop and Malinowski are accompanied Education Europe with a wealth of frontline by the songs of Toczka: Anna Workshop Day experience and encounters. discussion. Part of the Art of Medicine and Experience of Pietrzkiewicz-Read and The Box of Delights: Illness project, supported by Monika Niemczynowicz. Once Upon: Folk and Travel the shifting borderlands A Multi-Sensory Janis Mackay The Wellcome Trust. Fairy Tales of Norway of tradition and culture on the Workshop eastern frontiers. Hosted by Scottish Storytelling Centre Meet the Storyteller: Scottish Storytelling Centre Live Storytelling Ewan McVicar. Training & Development 7.30pm (2hrs, incl. interval) Małgorzata 9.30am (3hrs) £10 (£8) | Adults Litwinowicz £20 (£18) | Adults Wednesday 24 Enter a rich and strange northern Scottish Storytelling Centre In this workshop Professor world of earthbound mortals Meet the Storyteller October Barbara Fornefeld from Cologne and fabulous creatures, whose 5pm (50mins) University and Scottish storyteller Michał Malinowski Donald Smith paths and collide. Norway £4 (£3) | Adults Ailie Finlay explain how to tell has played a central role in the Hear about the life and work Picturing the Grimm’s stories using multi-sensory National Library of Scotland creators of the book An Illustrated advice. Rivalry in the profession collection and continuation of of one of Poland’s pioneering props and stimuli. There will be Edinburgh Partner Event | Treasury of Scottish Folk and Fairy led to advances with surgeons folklore, but here we experience storytellers, traditional singers lots of practical tips and simple, Training & Development Tales. Hear about the re-telling of and physicians tackling gruesome living traditions of entertainment and researchers, and sample a yet exciting ideas for bringing 2pm (2hrs) traditional stories, visual creativity work to make sense of the body. and entrancement, with Polish approach to the storytelling folktales to life, and everyone £10 (£8) | Adults and how they interact, then start to But what, really, is disease? Norwegian storytellers Nina renaissance in song and story. will leave with a story to tell! The create your own storybook. These Presentation followed by coffee Næsheim and Øystein Vestre, Learn about the life and work session is particularly suitable for of the Brothers Grimm, and approaches are a resource for break, workshop and discussion. hosted by Scottish storyteller Story Gatherers – teachers, classroom assistants, teachers, artists in schools, and all Part of the Art of Medicine and Janis Mackay. explore the relationship between play workers, artists in schools, those concerned with the creativity Experience of Illness project, Recovering Poland’s story and illustration. German parents and carers working with of children and young people. supported by The Wellcome Trust. Traditions storyteller Regina Sommer children who have additional Tuesday 23 will introduce the collected Scottish Storytelling Centre support needs. stories while Theresa Breslin October Talks & Lectures Stories and Cures: Meet the Storyteller: and Kate Leiper, co-creators of 6pm (1hr) Grappling with Disease Nina Næsheim the new An Illustrated Treasury A Treasury of Scottish Free (ticketed) | Adults Scottish Storytelling Centre Scottish Storytelling Centre of Scottish Folk and Fairy Stories and Cures: Michał Malinowski, author of Folk and Fairy Tales Training & Development Meet the Storyteller Tales, will introduce Scottish Polish Folktales and Folklore, National Library of Scotland 2pm (2hrs) 5pm (50mins) Awakenings and traditional stories, their retelling describes the richness of Edinburgh Partner Event | £10 (£8) | Adults £4 (£3) | Adults and illustration. This event Health Poland’s traditions and his own Training & Development Illness has many forms and touches An opportunity to hear about the Scottish Storytelling Centre accompanies the National approach to collecting and 1pm (2hrs) everyone. How people cope life and work of one of Norway’s Training & Development Library exhibition on the continuing storytelling today. £10 (£8) | Adults with it has a long history. Pithy most talented and entertaining 2pm (2hrs) Brothers Grimm. Enjoy a wise entertainer and A workshop on the creative descriptions of disease and the storytellers. Nina has taken £10 (£8) | Adults characterful collector. interchange between storytelling regimen doctors prescribed played her storytelling art into many Journals, letters and life stories and picture making, led by out in different ways, starting unexpected situations and in tell tales of woe and recovery. Theresa Breslin and Kate Leiper, off a treasury of good and bad surprising ways…

08. Box office: 0131 556 9579 www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk 09. Arthur’s Seat: Once Upon: Folk and Stories and Cures: Once Upon: Folk Journeys and Fairy Tales of Italy Altered Selves, and Fairy Tales of Evocations Scottish Storytelling Centre Modern Times Germany Scottish Storytelling Centre Live Storytelling Scottish Storytelling Centre Scottish Storytelling Centre Live Storytelling 7.30pm (2hrs, incl. interval) Training & Development Live Storytelling 5pm (1hr) £10 (£8) | Adults 2pm (2hrs) 7.30pm (2hrs, incl. interval) £4 (£3) | Adults Humour, charm and wickedness £10 (£8) | Adults £10 (£8) | Adults Heidi Dahlsveen An exploration and evocation of in the sun, as you are transported Today we use medication as if the An unparalleled feast of stories Arthur’s Seat – familiar to all yet tales, three heroines, three word redefinitions both in medicine and to Italy with Tuscan stories and chemistry could fix our health from the heart of Europe. layered in mystery! This event spinners. This specially commissioned literature posed once more the music. Diana Bertoldi, issues. Diagnosis is a tally of Germany is home to the Grimm and its associated publication programme brings together three questions about how body relates Scotland’s own Italian storyteller symptoms. We measure weight, Brothers but also a tapestry of is the Festival’s contribution to traditions of Scotland-Gaelic, to mind, what feelings are, and what hosts Tuscany’s Giovanna blood pressure, sugar count… cultures, traditions and a thriving NVA’s Speed of Light, whose EIF/ Norse, and Scots. It’s a witch’s intuition is. Crossing the borders Conforto and guitarist/singer are we what we eat? How many storytelling renaissance. With Cultural Olympiad project has brew of story… but can it have a into the night-side of nature brought Chiara Casarico. units of alcohol are we allowed? Regina Sommer, Svenja Krüger illumined the light and dark happy ending? Bea Ferguson, Jean many revelations. Bold minds Is health a diagram or can we and Suse Weisse, we are in the places of Edinburgh’s sacred Edmiston and Allison Galbraith. ventured into ghost stories, the alter ourselves and talk about hands of three exceptionally mountain. With storytellers and supernatural and its place in medical Friday 26 October our own health in stories to make talented women who draw us into joint authors Stuart McHardy Jekyll and Hyde – A practice; doctors reflected insanity, ourselves whole? Part of the Art of the world of the Grimm’s tales, delusion and animal magnetism. and Donald Smith, in association Mercat Tour for SISF Medicine and Experience and much else besides. with Luath Publishing. Frankenstein becomes paradigmatic, of Illness project, supported by Meet at the Mercat Cross beside but so do the sublime and the Tell-a-Story- The Wellcome Trust. St Giles Cathedral Follow That: Festival Story Gatherers – beautiful. Part of the Art of Medicine Edinburgh Partner Event and Experience of Illness project, Day: Old Guid Crack 8.45pm (1hr) Meet the Storyteller: The Alan Bruford supported by The Wellcome Trust. and Young Waverley Bar Memorial Lecture £10 (£8, £5 child 5-15) | Family Regina Sommer Club Event Ticket £15 | 5+ Scottish Storytelling Centre In association with the Scottish Storytelling Centre 7.30pm (2hrs 30) Experience our Jekyll and Hyde Meet the Storyteller: Talks & Lectures Luminate Festival Meet the Storyteller By donation (£3) | Adults city, above ground and below! Giovanna Conforto 6pm (1hr) Wise or wicked, brave or 5pm (50mins) Edinburgh’s renowned monthly Beginning from the Mercat Cross Scottish Storytelling Centre Free (ticketed) | Adults fearful, heroes and villains, £4 (£3) | Adults storytelling session takes the beside St. Giles Cathedral on the Meet the Storyteller Dr Licia Masoni will give the 2012 old and young. Traditional What makes a storyteller? Join Festival themes on a journey to Royal Mile, and then descending... 5pm (50mins) lecture in memory of scholar and stories bridge the generations, up the stories with influences and who knows where, with open a quality experience for those with £4 (£3) | Adults archivist, Alan Bruford. Under the and show how we share experiences to meet a talented floor opportunities for everyone nerves of steel! In association with Enter the heart of Tuscany, where theme Little Farmers and Their the same emotions and tale weaver whose life has moved to share their stories. Hosted Mercat Tours. Giovanna and her stories belong. Daughters: from the Grimm’s, challenges. So why not have from a chance encounter to the by renowned Scottish storyteller Hear about ancient traditions and throughout Europe, to Today, Dr your own storytelling event centre of Germany’s storytelling and master of mischief, contemporary storytelling and how Masoni will explore Scottish and and bring your community, renaissance! David Campbell. Thursday 25 the two connect in Giovanna’s art. Italian versions of Grimm tales, workplace or families closer as well as some modern stories October together through the power Story Gatherers – Who that she has collected from oral Story Gatherers – of stories, old and young? Told the Grimm’s? tradition. Supported by the School Stories and Cures: The Peer Gynt Trail For more information Scottish Storytelling Centre of Scottish Studies Archives. Dreams, Ghosts and Scottish Storytelling Centre on the TASD Campaign Talks & Lectures Talks & Lectures please visit www. 6pm (1hr) East of the Sun and Phantasy? 6pm (1hr) scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk Free (ticketed) | Adults West of the Moon Scottish Storytelling Centre Free (ticketed) | Adults Where did the Grimm Brothers Training & Development Heidi Dahlsveen explores the Scottish Storytelling Centre get their stories? Who were the 2pm (2hrs) richness of Norwegian storytelling Live Storytelling | Family Events storytellers? Kristin Wardetzky £10 (£8) | Adults in the centenary year of Peter 7.30pm (1hr) takes us to the root of the matter The Enlightenment banked on Christen Asbjørnsen, affectionately £8 (£6) | 7+ with some intriguing insights. man’s common sense and reason. known as “Norway’s Grimm”. Join Doughty women and daring lassies are Behind all great men… But then Revolution, terror and the her on the trail of Norway’s most the meat of this menu. Three powerful Napoleonic Wars came. Serious celebrated story hero. 10. Box office: 0131 556 9579 www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk 11. Festival Diary

Saturday 27 October Festival Diary: Edinburgh 10.30am The Fairy Tale Conference Scottish Storytelling Centre 18 Time Event Venue Page 10.45am & 12pm Hearthside Tales Gladstone’s Land 18 1.30pm Grimm Fairy Tales from the DEFA Foundation Filmhouse 18 Friday 19 October 2.30pm A Tale O Twa Touns – A Mercat Tour for SISF Mercat Cross by St Giles Cathedral 18 8pm Voices in Scotland Scottish Storytelling Centre 06 6pm Grimm’s Sheesha with Peter Chand Scottish Storytelling Centre 18 7.30pm Ring of Faery; Ring of Fire Scottish Storytelling Centre 19 Saturday 20 October 11am Thomas the Rhymer and the Fairy Queen Scottish National Portrait Gallery 06 Sunday 28 October 12.30pm The Enchanted Museum National Museum of Scotland 06 11am Storytelling – Global Movement Scottish Storytelling Centre 19 4pm Cécile Corbel: Composing for Studio Ghibli Filmhouse 06 1.30pm Grimm Fairy Tales from the DEFA Foundation Filmhouse 19 6pm Story Gatherers - Ireland’s First Collectors Scottish Storytelling Centre 06 3pm East of the Sun and West of the Moon Queen’s Hall 19 7.30pm Once Upon: Folk and Fairy Tales of Ireland Scottish Storytelling Centre 07 5pm A Circle of Saints Queen’s Hall 19 7.30pm Hallowe’en Hosting Queen’s Hall 19 Sunday 21 October 1pm The Enchanted Wood Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 07 4pm Grimm Fairy Tales from the DEFA Foundation Filmhouse 07 5pm Meet the Storyteller: Maria Koroleva Scottish Storytelling Centre 07 Festival Diary: Glasgow 6pm Story Gatherers – Russian Folk Traditions with Scottish Storytelling Centre 07 Grigory Bondarenko Monday 22 October 7.30pm Once Upon: Folk and Fairy Tales of Brittany Scottish Storytelling Centre 07 10.30am Scottish Youth Theatre Family Storytime - The Old Sheriff Court 14 The Fisherman and his Wife Monday 22 October 1.30pm East of the Sun and West of the Moon The Old Sheriff Court 14 9.30am The Box of Delights: A Multi-Sensory Workshop Scottish Storytelling Centre 08 5pm Story Gatherers – Ireland’s First Collectors The Old Sheriff Court 14 1pm A Treasury of Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales National Library of Scotland 08 7pm Once Upon: Folk and Fairy Tales of Ireland The Old Sheriff Court 14 2pm Stories and Cures: Grappling with Disease Scottish Storytelling Centre 08 5pm Meet the Storyteller: Nina Næsheim Scottish Storytelling Centre 08 Tuesday 23 October 6pm Story Gatherers - Scots, Slavs and Svans: Scottish Storytelling Centre 09 10.30am Scottish Youth Theatre Family Storytime - The Old Sheriff Court 14 Living Traditions in Rural Europe The Fisherman and his Wife 7.30pm Once Upon: Folk and Fairy Tales of Norway Scottish Storytelling Centre 09 1.30pm East of the Sun and West of the Moon The Old Sheriff Court 14 5pm Story Gatherers – Italian Gleanings The Old Sheriff Court 14 Tuesday 23 October 7pm Once Upon: Folk and Fairy Tales of Italy The Old Sheriff Court 15 2pm Stories and Cures: Awakenings and Health Scottish Storytelling Centre 09 5pm Meet the Storyteller: Małgorzata Litwinowicz Scottish Storytelling Centre 09 Wednesday 24 October 6pm Story Gatherers – Recovering Poland’s Traditions Scottish Storytelling Centre 09 10.30am Scottish Youth Theatre Family Storytime - The Old Sheriff Court 14 7.30pm Once Upon: Folk and Fairy Tales of Poland Scottish Storytelling Centre 09 The Fisherman and his Wife 1.30pm East of the Sun and West of the Moon The Old Sheriff Court 14 Wednesday 24 October 5pm Story Gatherers - Great Scot: John Francis The Old Sheriff Court 15 2pm Picturing the Grimm’s National Library of Scotland 09 Campbell of Islay 5pm Arthur’s Seat: Journeys and Evocations Scottish Storytelling Centre 10 7pm Once Upon: Folk and Fairy Tales of Scotland The Old Sheriff Court 15 6pm Story Gatherers – The Alan Bruford Memorial Lecture Scottish Storytelling Centre 10 7.30pm East of the Sun and West of the Moon Scottish Storytelling Centre 10 Thursday 25 October 8.45pm Jekyll and Hyde - A Mercat Tour for SISF Mercat Cross by St Giles Cathedral 10 5pm Story Gatherers – The Russian Collectors Russian Café-Gallery Cossachok 15 5pm Story Gatherers: Who Told the Grimm’s? Goethe-Institut 16 Thursday 25 October 7pm Once Upon: Folk and Fairy Tales of Germany Goethe-Institut 16 2pm Stories and Cures: Dreams, Ghosts and Phantasy? Scottish Storytelling Centre 10 7pm Once Upon: Folk and Fairy Tales of Russia Russian Café-Gallery Cossachok 16 5pm Meet the Storyteller: Giovanna Conforto Scottish Storytelling Centre 10 6pm Story Gatherers – The Peer Gynt Trail Scottish Storytelling Centre 10 7.30pm Once Upon: Folk and Fairy Tales of Italy Scottish Storytelling Centre 11

Friday 26 October Tell-a-Story Day For Festival on Tour listings see details on page 20-21, and for more 2pm Stories and Cures: Altered Selves, Modern Times Scottish Storytelling Centre 11 information visit the Scottish Storytelling Centre website 5pm Meet the Storyteller: Regina Sommer Scottish Storytelling Centre 11 6pm Story Gatherers – Who Told the Grimm’s? Scottish Storytelling Centre 11 www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk 7.30pm Once Upon: Folk and Fairy Tales of Germany Scottish Storytelling Centre 11 7.30pm Follow That: Festival Guid Crack The Waverley Bar 11

12. Box office: 0131 556 9579 www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk 13. Once Upon: Folk and Festival Week: Fairy Tales of Italy Brian Cox Studio, The Old Sheriff Glasgow – Court Glasgow Partner Event | Live Folktale Europe Storytelling 7pm (2hrs, incl. interval) £10 (£8) | Adults Humour, charm and wickedness Monday 22 October East of the Sun and Once Upon: Folk and in the sun, as you are transported – Wednesday 24 West of the Moon Fairy Tales of Ireland to Italy with Tuscan stories and Brian Cox Studio, The Old Sheriff Brian Cox Studio, The Old Sheriff music. Michael Kerins, Glasgow’s Jean Edmiston Diana Bertoldi October Court Court answer to Italian “chic”, hosts Glasgow Partner Event | Family Glasgow Partner Event | Live Tuscan storyteller Giovanna Event Storytelling Conforto with guitarist/singer Scottish Youth Theatre 1.30pm (1hr) 7pm (2hrs, incl. interval) Chiara Casarico. Book on Family Storytime – £5 (Family Ticket £15 for 4) | 7+ £10 (£8) | Adults www.tron.co.uk or 0141 552 4267. The Fisherman and Doughty women and daring lassies An irrepressible fountain of are the meat of this menu. Three narrative magic and pure his Wife powerful tales, three heroines, blarney, involving the good – Wednesday 24 Edwin Morgan Studio, The Old three word spinners. This specially don’t say little – people and October Sheriff Court commissioned programme the “other side”. No country in Glasgow Partner Event | Family brings together three traditions Europe has contributed more Event of Scotland-Gaelic, Norse, and to the worldwide storytelling Story Gatherers – Great Donald Nelson Maria Koroleva 10.30am (1hr) Scots. It’s a witch’s brew of story… renaissance. With Irish Scot: John Francis £5 (Family Ticket £15 for 4) | 3 - 7 but can it have a happy ending? storytellers extraordinaire, Laugh, play, jump and shout Bea Ferguson, Jean Edmiston Eddie Lenihan and Jack Lynch. Campbell of Islay Once Upon: Folk and Thursday 25 – that’s what Family Storytime and Allison Galbraith. School Book on www.tron.co.uk or Edwin Morgan Studio, The Old Fairy Tales of Scotland October is all about. These interactive discount of one free ticket for every 0141 552 4267. Sheriff Court Brian Cox Studio, The Old Sheriff storytelling sessions mix things 3 booked. Book on www.tron.co.uk Glasgow Partner Event | Talks Court up by involving the audience in or 0141 552 4267. & Lectures Glasgow Partner Event | Live Story Gatherers – The the storytelling process. Once Tuesday 23 5pm (1hr) Storytelling Russian Collectors upon a time, a fisherman and October Free (ticketed) | Adults 7pm (2hrs, incl. interval) Monday 22 October Russian Café – Gallery Cossachok his wife lived in a hovel by the Celebrate one of Scotland’s £10 (£8) | Adults Glasgow Partner Event | Talks sea. They were poor and their greatest folktale collectors and Lowland and Highland, ancient and & Lectures house was falling apart around Story Gatherers – the importance of the treasury fresh-minted, Scotland’s storytellers Story Gatherers 5pm (1hr) them. One day when fishing, the Italian Gleanings of Highland and Island stories are irrepressible and multiplying at fisherman freed a golden flounder, – Ireland’s First his team collected. Folklorist Free (ticketed) | Adults Edwin Morgan Studio, The Old an alarming rate! Enjoy the crack, claiming to be a prince that can and accomplished storyteller Explore the great Russian folk Collectors Sheriff Court with some songs thrown in. Gerry grant any wish the fisherman Tony Bonning gives you the tale tradition and its major Edwin Morgan Studio, The Old Glasgow Partner Event | Talks Durkin and Donald Nelson try desires… An action packed hour background and enticing flavour collectors with Maria Koroleva. Sheriff Court & Lectures to put the gender balance right, of entertainment for families, of these truly fantastic tales. Maria combines folklore Glasgow Partner Event | Talks 5pm (1hr) while Lesley O’Brien keeps them in provided by SYT’s cracking To reserve a place contact 0141 scholarship with her interest in & Lectures Free (ticketed) | Adults check. Book on www.tron.co.uk or company of dynamic young 552 4267. the renaissance of storytelling 5pm (1hr) An introduction to Italian folktale 0141 552 4267. storytellers. School discount of in contemporary Russia. See Free (ticketed) | Adults traditions and their recreation one free ticket for every 3 booked. www.cossachok.com to book An introduction to the folklore by creative masters such as Italo Book on www.tron.co.uk or and to view their evening menu, pioneers of Ireland and their Calvino. With Diana Bertoldi, 0141 552 4267. available from 6pm. discoveries with storyteller, Scotland’s own Italian storyteller. raconteur and scholar Jack Lynch. To reserve a place contact 0141 To reserve a place contact 0141 552 4267. 552 4267. 14. Box office: 0131 556 9579 www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk 15. Story Gatherers: Who Once Upon: Folk Once Upon: Folk and Told the Grimm’s? and Fairy Tales of Fairy Tales of Russia Goethe-Institut Glasgow Germany Russian Café-Gallery Cossachok Glasgow Partner Event | Talks Goethe-Institut Glasgow Glasgow Partner Event | Live Tell-a-Story & Lectures Glasgow Partner Event | Live Storytelling 5pm (1hr) Storytelling 7pm (2hrs 30) Free (ticketed) | Adults 7pm (2hrs, incl. interval) £8 (£6) | Adults Where did the Grimm Brothers £8 (£6) | Adults Russian stories old and new, with get their stories? Who were the An unparalleled feast of stories from lots of music, food and Scottish storytellers? Kristin Wardetzky connections. Russian guests Day the heart of Europe. Germany is home takes us to the root of the to the Grimm Brothers but also a combine with friends of Russia matter with some fascinating tapestry of cultures, traditions and a for a participative and sociable Old and Young insights into the Brothers thriving storytelling renaissance. With evening. Glasgow’s Michael and their circle. Behind all Regina Sommer, Svenja Krüger and Kerins hosts Russian storyteller great men… Book through the Suse Weisse, we are in the hands of Maria Koroleva. Café Cossachok Friday 26 October 2012 main SISF box office on www. three exceptionally talented women evening menu from 6pm. See scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk www.cossachok.com to book who draw us into the world of the Register or 0131 556 9579. Refreshments Grimm’s tales, and much else besides. and to view their evening menu, your event by included. Book through the main SISF box office available from 6pm. Monday 24th on www.scottishstorytellingcentre. September co.uk or 0131 556 9579. Wise or wicked, brave or Organising a storytelling event 2012 Refreshments included. fearful, heroes and villains, old is easy, and our team is always and young. Traditional stories at hand to help you with your receive our unique stickers Glasgow: Beyond the Festival bridge the generations and planning. On our website you and posters as well as a show how we share the same will find tips and advice from 30% discount on Tales on The Goethe Institut in association with University of Glasgow: emotions and challenges. our professional storytellers, the Tongue, the Scottish The Brothers Grimm: Study Days free resources and tales that Storytelling Centre’s famous Enter a magical world of you can download, learn and collection of traditional tales 2 November, Goethe-Institut, Glasgow enchanting fairy tales, scary tell on the day. for all ages. Halloween stories or treasured Grimm Fun: An Interactive Study Day on Grimm’s Fairy Tales family legends, and bring your So what are you waiting for? Register your event by The brothers’ influence on the history of collecting folk and fairy tales is immense. They set the tone in many community, workplace and Organise a Tell-a-Story Day Monday 24th September to crucial ways: they took neglected peasant tales seriously, they collected them systematically, and they undertook make sure our free resources serious research into the interactions with other cultures’ tales. Their ideas of authentic collection (rather than family closer together on event and register it for free creative rewriting) were a first step in the creation of the field of folklore. This Study Day is a full-day activity Tell-a-Story Day. on our website and you will reach you in time. where you will be able to hear about some of the latest research on Grimm Fairy Tales, as well as roll up your sleeves and get to the nitty-gritty: comparing versions, writing your own and illustrating a tale. To register or for further information please contact [email protected] 5 November, University of Glasgow Narrative Magic: Transformations Through Story-Telling Narrative underlies everything we do: from cradle to grave, we create stories about ourselves and the world around us. We use stories to entertain ourselves, to explain reality, to connect with others, and to help us fall asleep and have nice dreams! Inspired by the celebration of the 200th anniversary of the Grimm Brothers first edition, this 1-day conference will focus on magic in narratives (such as fairy tales, fantasy www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk T. 0131 652 3272 fiction and film, and magical realism); the creative magic of telling through word and image; the magic of self-recreation in autobiography, migrant literature or other tales of self-(re)invention; the magical realm a Illustration from An Illustrated Treasury of Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales by Theresa reader/viewer/hearer enters when suspending disbelief and falling in with the story. Breslin and Kate Leiper is reproduced by kind Email [email protected] for further details or visit www.gla.ac.uk/schools/mlc/ permission of Floris Books. ©Kate Leiper 2012 conferencenarrativemagic-transformationsthroughstory-telling/ Tell-a-Story Day is presented by the Scottish International Storytelling Festival and Luminate: Scotland’s creative ageing festival 16. Box office: 0131 556 9579 Ring of Faery, friendliness and readiness Hallowe’en Hosting Finale Weekend to help. But her stepmother, Queen’s Hall Ring of Fire tormented by jealousy and envy, Scottish Storytelling Centre Edinburgh Partner Event | Live pursues her with hatred. When Storytelling Fairy Tale World Live Storytelling Her Royal Majesty’s magic mirror 7.30pm (2hrs, incl. interval) 7.30pm (2hrs 30, incl. interval) tells her one day that it is Snow £12 (£10) | Adults £10 (£8) | Adults White who is the fairest of all, The faery realm is one of danger, The night of the circle is Samhain Saturday 27 she is out for blood, but Snow – Scotland’s ancient Celtic New as well as allure. Dealing White manages to reach the October with “the other side” may be Year Festival. In this season, the Seven Dwarfs who give her a worlds of light and dark, life and intoxicating but it can also be warm reception… (German with deadly. You can win through if you death draw close and the veils The Fairy Tale English subtitles). Supported by are spirit thin. Storytellers from know the right stories though… the Goethe Institut. Conference join the ring. Stories and ballads Scotland and across Europe share this moment of transition Scottish Storytelling Centre from the contributing nations will – with fear, courage, humour and Training & Development be woven together and hosted by East of the Sun and suspense, they steer us safely 10.30am (6hrs) Scotland’s own David Campbell. West of the Moon through the perils! Hosted by £36 (£30) | Adults Queen’s Hall tradition bearer of Skye, Seoras Fairy tales continue to fascinate Edinburgh Partner Event | Live Kristin Wardetzky David Campbell Sunday 28 October Macpherson. and perplex in equal measure. Storytelling What do they mean to those who Edinburgh’s most atmospheric A Tale O Twa Touns – 3pm (1hr) told – and tell – them, those who firesides! Join storyteller and Storytelling – Global £6 (£4) | 7+ hear them, and those who have author Lari Don for fun-filled A Mercat Tour for SISF Doughty women and daring Meet at the Mercat Cross beside collected and rewritten them? morning sessions in this Old Movement lassies are the meat of this menu. St Giles Cathedral What was and is their purpose Town haunt. To reserve phone Scottish Storytelling Centre Three powerful tales, three Edinburgh Partner Event and value, and are they above 0131 226 5856. Training & Development heroines, three word spinners. 2.30pm (2hrs 30) all entertainment? Leading 11am (3hrs 30) This specially commissioned £20 (Family Ticket £50 for 4) | 7+ experts and storytellers including £8 (£6) | Adults programme brings together Grimm Fairy Tales From Gladstone’s Land to the Kristin Wardetzky (Germany), As international storytellers three traditions of Scotland- Georgian House in Charlotte Linda Williamson and Ruth from the DEFA gather in Edinburgh, it’s a good Gaelic, Norse, and Scots. It’s a Square, Mercat Tours spirit Kirkpatrick (Scotland), Maria Foundation chance to take stock on the state witch’s brew of story… but can you from the Old Town world Koroleva (Russia) and Eddie The Dwarf Magician of the arts, future directions, and it have a happy ending? to the new. In the meeting of Lenihan (Ireland) join guest (Das Zaubermännchen), indulge in some networking. With Bea Ferguson, Jean Edmiston these two different cultural and artists from Norway, Poland, GDR 1960. special contributions from Kristin and Allison Galbraith. historical worlds we find much of Brittany and Italy, and Storytelling Director: Christoph Engel Wardetzky, Heidi Dahlsveen Edinburgh’s magic. Festival Directors Donald Smith Filmhouse and Donald Smith. Snack lunch provided. A Circle of Saints and Peter Chand, to celebrate Edinburgh Partner Event | Film Queen’s Hall the fairy tale genre. A rare and 1.30pm (73mins) Grimm’s Sheesha with Edinburgh Partner Event | Live unique occasion with plenty of £2.50 | 8+ Peter Chand Grimm Fairy Tales Storytelling opportunities for question and Because of miller Kunz’s Scottish Storytelling Centre from the DEFA 5pm (1hr 15) discussion! boastfulness, his daughter Marie Live Storytelling £6 (£4) | Adults is imprisoned in the castle. Kunz Foundation 6pm (1hr) Snow White (Schneewittchen), Who are the saints past and Hearthside Tales claimed that she could spin straw £8 (£6) | Adults present? A reflective circle of into gold and now she is supposed GDR 1961. Gladstone’s Land South Asia holds up a mirror to Director: Gottfried Kolditz stories about bridge builders and Edinburgh Partner Event | to fill the king’s empty coffers. our favourite Grimm stories. Did pioneers who make a difference. Suddenly, a dwarf appears to the Filmhouse Family Event they begin in the East told by Edinburgh Partner Event | Film The circle is one of global 10.45am & 12pm (50mins) desperate Marie, offering to spin travellers, migrants and gypsies friendship and exchange with all the straw into gold if she can 1.30pm (63mins) Free (ticketed) | All Ages or are they universal? It’s all in the £2.50 | 8+ contributions from Giovanna Scotland’s stories for the young guess his name... entertaining, magic hands of our Conforto, Donald Smith, (German with English subtitles). Everyone is fond of Snow White – and young at heart – at one of own British-Punjabi Genie, because of her kindness, Eddie Lenihan, Loralee Supported by the Goethe Institut. Peter Chand. Cooley, and Fiona MacLeod.

18. Box office: 0131 556 9579 www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk 19. Stories and Songs of Saturday 27 Festival on Tour Poland October Celebrate the friendship between Associated Events Poland and , hosted by the Elphinstone Institute at Ashlad, the King, the the University of Aberdeen. With and Hallowe’en. For programme guests Michał Malinowski and Troll and a Duck Saturday 20 Wednesday In Norway, trolls are the size of and bookings see www. Małgorzata Litwinowicz and mountains, they have 3, 6 or 9 October 24 October – portskerrastorytellingfestival. contributions from Grace Banks heads, and they like to live in weebly.com Nina Næsheim and the Singing Workshop. Wednesday 31 folktales! Norwegian storyteller MacRobert Building, King’s Heidi Dahlsveen shares some Gunsgreen House October Thursday 25 College, AB24 5UA. 7pm. Free folk tales she heard from her Wednesday 24 Event. See www.abdn.ac.uk/ Storytelling Festival October grandfather while growing up on A day of storytelling fun October Elphinstone. a small island. Dollar Museum, (10.30am-3.30pm) with Scottish Mull and Iona 1 High Street, Dollar, FK14 7AY. storytellers and German guest Fantastic Worlds of Storytelling Festival Hallowe’en Tales 10.30am. Free Event. All Ages. Svenja Krüger. For timing of Perthshire Celtic Wandering Irishman Eddie Folk and Fairy A night to remember as the Fifers Book on dollarmuseum@ sessions and bookings see Lenihan goes walkabout on Mull Traditions: In Tribute Poland meets in this family mix it up with Maria Koroleva, btconnect.com and see www.gunsgreen.org, in search of the little people… to Lady Evelyn celebration of fairy tales, Scottish Russian folklorist, fairy tale www.dollarmuseum.org.uk call 01890 752 062 or email on the way he meets renowned Scottish and Breton storytellers and European. Ideal for artists, teller, and moving spirit in the for further information. [email protected] Scottish storytellers Bob Pegg come together at Blair Castle dreamers, writers and storytellers renaissance of storytelling, at and Andy Cannon. Andy’s also to honour the pioneer folktale aged seven and over. With The Whistlestop (10 Cross Wynd, The Storyteller’s Tuesday 23 is having a search for Scota – collector and Celtic scholar, Lady guests Michał Malinowski and ). 7pm, Tickets £5 mythical founder of Scota-land, Evelyn Stewart-Murray. With Jess Małgorzata Litwinowicz. (including coffee and cake). To Secret – Storytelling October – Sunday and much more! For events on the Smith, Sheila Stewart, Fiona 6pm to 8pm. The book contact Andrew Elston on Workshop for 28 October Ross, at Mull Theatre and on tour MacLeod, Brigitte Kloareg and Coffehouse, 68 Commercial [email protected] Beginners see www.mulltheatre.com Street, Dundee. Tickets £5 (£3), Claire Hewitt, this promises to Participants get insight into what Family ticket £10. Pre-booking be a very special salute in song, Eerie, Ghostly and traditional storytelling is and how advised on sheila@blethertaygither. Orkney Storytelling Wednesday 24 music and story. 7pm-9.15pm Ghastly: Tales for to convey a story – how is a story with interval. Tickets £9 (£6). org or 01334 474 836. Festival October – Sunday Hallowe’en at Kirk structured, how to get started A feast in the North, as guest See www.blair-castle.co.uk and with telling, where to find stories, storytellers Øystein Vestre 28 October book on 01796 481 207. Friday 26 October: Alloway and more. This workshop is from Norway, Audrey Parks Beginning at Kirk Alloway, hazard practical and requires no previous from Ireland and Scot Heather Enchanted Isle: Fairy Tell-A-Story Day the dangers of the dark to reach knowledge. Heidi Dahlsveen Yule join Orkney tellers, Portskerra Storytelling Tales in Bute 2012 the warm welcoming safety of the tells traditional stories from hosted by Tom Muir. For Festival – on the North Robert Burns Birthplace Museum Norway and Scandinavia and From German legends to Celtic and Cottage. It’s like Tam’s programme and bookings see Coast Fairy Tales. Join guest storytellers aims to make traditional stories www.orkneystorytelling.co.uk Travelling Tales journey but without the scolding contemporary. Resonate Arts The tiny old fishing crofting Suse Weisse and Svenja Krüger A Luminate Festival Event in when you reach home! Classic House, Units A3 and 4, North village of Portskerra hosts a north from Germany in a night of fantasy association with Tell-a-Story Day tales of ghosts, witches and fairy Castle Street, , FK10 1EU. coast international storytelling and magic on an enchanted isle. Hosted by Claire Hewitt, whose folk, from Rosie Mapplebeck, 2pm. £7. Book on stfestival@ gathering! Special guests include 7pm at Rothesay Library, Stuart story gathering tour took her bicycle Kati Waitzmann and Italian clacks.gov.uk or 01259 452 195 Norwegian Nina Næsheim, Tom Street. Free Event – Book on across Perthshire, contributors of all guests Giovanna Conforto and and see www.resonate.uk.net Muir from Orkney and artist 01700 503 266. ages join in celebration of new story Chiara Casarico. Children must Eliot Rudie. Alex Patience from cycles and older story quilts. Moulin be accompanied. Murdoch’s Loan, Portskerra will share traditional Village Hall, 4 Kirkmichael Road, Alloway Ayr, KA7 4PQ. 6pm-8pm. and local stories of our heritage Moulin,Pitlochry. 2pm-4pm. Free Tickets £3 per child (5+). of Norse, Scots and Gael… with Event (donations for refreshments). Book On: [email protected] or a wee nod to the Brothers Grimm All ages welcome. Contact 01887 call 08444 932 601. 882 0339.

20. Box office: 0131 556 9579 www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk 21. About the Storytellers Kristin Wardetzky is originally from Peter Chand is one of Europe’s finest Thuringia and worked 21 years with the storytellers, with a huge repertoire of tales National Children and Youth Theatre of the from the subcontinent, which he has shared Guest Storytellers GDR in Berlin. She is a specialist in literary across Britain, Ireland and Europe in his in- criticism and since 1993 has been Professor demand, witty style. Of Punjabi Indian descent, Barbara Fornefeld is a Professor in the Fiona MacLeod hails from Perthshire but for Theatre Pedagogy at the University of Arts he offers bilingual sessions and is one of the Special Education Faculty of the University followed in her maternal grandmother’s in Berlin, with her special field of interest organisers of Festival at the Edge, the longest of Cologne. She is an advocate for the footsteps and moved to France where being the theory and practice of storytelling. running festival of its kind in England. empowerment of literature to enhance the she first heard live, oral storytelling. She quality of life and participation of people with absorbed herself in France’s storytelling Małgorzata Litwinowicz has been a Regina Sommer is a pioneer of the German intellectual disabilities. Her particular area of revival but travelled to Scotland often to soak storyteller for 10 years and her repertoire storytelling scene. She established a house of research is the education and rehabilitation up their rich oral traditions. While performing features fables from different times and stories and tales in her hometown of Aachen of people with profound intellectual multiple as a storyteller in several countries, she traditions; her favourites being Polish and in 1996 to engage a German-speaking disabilities (PIMD) in both national and also works with schools and families, to Lithuanian traditional stories, songs and storyteller network and bring storytelling international contexts. encourage storytelling at home. ballads. She is co-founder of Grupa Studnia back into people’s memory. Regina also O. – the first Polish association of storytellers organises International Storytelling Festival Brigitte Kloareg is a traditional singer from Giovanna Conforto graduated from the – and is current artistic director of the Zwischen-Zeiten. Brittany. She is active on the music scene National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome Warsaw International Storytelling Festival. as a performer, as well as teaching in music and first encountered storytelling in 2003, Suse Weisse is a storyteller, stage director, schools and the University of Western through a series of children’s workshops she Maria Koroleva was born in Moscow into a actress and teacher in Potsdam, Berlin. She Brittany. She is strongly involved in promoting conducted in Bethlehem. She co-founded family of Scottish descent with strong literary took up storytelling in 1996 and has performed the oral heritage of the south-west of Brittany Strolling Stories – stories related to artistic connections to both Russia and Scotland. at events and festivals across Europe. In 2005 and performs in Breton, French, Welsh and historical sites in Rome – and divides Her grandmother was a talented translator she received the Storytelling Award of the and English. her time between performing, teaching and and Maria’s passion for languages grew into Federal State of Thüringen. She currently leads organising events. a profession, with knowledge of 18 Indo- youth theatre groups and an adult storytelling Cécile Corbel is a musician, singer and European languages. Now she is a well-known club in T-Werk Potsdam, where she also songwriter born in Brittany, who discovered Grigory Bondarenko is a Senior Research scholar of Scottish Gaelic, as well as a storyteller produced her first International Storytelling the Celtic harp as a teenager. She has kept Fellow in Irish and Celtic Studies (Queen’s and collector of modern Russian tales. Festival: Cinnamon & Cinders. a strong link with her native region – an University of Belfast). He completed his PhD, everlasting source of creativity – and is devoted to the mythological perception of Michał Malinowski is a storyteller, writer, Svenja Krüger was born in Hamburg and inspired by tales, ancient melodies and space in Early Irish Literature, in 2001 and his folklorist and computer graphic artist who growing up with Grimm tales developed fairy moods – which are the bases of her research focuses on the concept of sacred founded The Storyteller Museum in Poland her fondness for the magic stories by the musical world. landscape in the Dindshenchas and early – a new interactive museum presenting oral renowned brothers. She a real Nordlicht, Irish narratives. traditions and intangible heritage from all which shows in her love for stories from the Chiara Casarico is an actress and singer over the world via technology. He has been a North of Germany and Europe, and as a who has been performing with her theatre Heidi Dahlsveen has worked as a chief contributor to the revival of the Polish creative artist she combines storytelling and company Il NaufragarMèDolce in Italy for professional storyteller nationally and storytelling movement. art in different projects for children. 15 years. She has studied music since she internationally since 1996. She has told in was a child and plays guitar, flute, sax and The Barbican Centre and Royal National Nina Næsheim is from Stavanger and grew Toczka: Anna Pietrzkiewicz-Read and melodeon. Her repertoire includes folk music Theatre in London, as well as many European up listening to her mother’s stories. She Monika Niemczynowicz Monika comes ranging from Tuscany and Lazio to Sicily. Festivals. Heidi is Assistant Professor in has many years of experience in drama and from North-Eastern Poland and performs Storytelling at Oslo and Akershus University theatre in Norway, Denmark and England. traditional songs of Ukraine, Russia, and Eddie Lenihan is an Irish author, storyteller, College of Applied Sciences, and her focus is Nina has been performing as a professional Poland. Anna hails from South-Eastern lecturer and broadcaster from County Kerry. to make traditional stories contemporary. storyteller in Norway and abroad since 2000, Poland and collaborated with the Muzyka He is one of the few Seanchaí (traditional always with a dash of music and song as well Kresów Foundation from Lublin, performing, Irish lore-keepers and tale-spinners) Jack Lynch is firmly rooted in the Seanchaí as loads of humour and fun. collecting and researching Polish traditional remaining in Ireland and he is a collector and tradition, inspired by Eamon Kelly and John music. They met in 2010 and perform preservationist of folk tales. He has been Campbell, whom he shared a stage with. Øystein Vestre is from Norway and has always beautiful Russian and Ukrainian harmonies. called “a national treasure” and “one of the He combines folkloric elements with ancient had an interest in fairy and folk tales. He greatest Irish storytellers”. Irish myths and scurrilous Tall Tales set in worked as a class teacher at a Rudolf Steiner County Cavan. He has performed throughout school and told stories every day as part of For further information on Scotland’s Ireland as well as abroad and is a founder his teaching method. He then moved to Oslo Directory of Storytellers visit member of Storytellers of Ireland, which he to study drama, theatre and storytelling. www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk currently chairs.

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