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 EDINBURGH 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 Scotland, 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 Walter Scott in the 200th anniversary of his first novel, Scottish Storytelling Centre further enquiries email [email protected] Waverley, 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 Royal Mile, within easy walking distance of JEFFREY STREET Scotland, Homecoming Scotland, City of Princes Street 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 Edinburgh Castle Holyrood Palace 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 COWGATE 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 –