Scottish International Storytelling Festival: Something Old, Something New
Storyteller Colin Urwin shares the process he uses to forge stories that sound as if they’ve been around for millennia.
About Scottish International Storytelling Festival: Something Old, Something New
Storyteller Colin Urwin shares the process he uses to forge stories that sound as if they’ve been around for millennia. ‘Something borrowed’ can be family anecdotes or scraps of folklore; ‘something blue’ might be a memory or emotion. Colin will guide participants through a process of creation in which ‘something old’ can be reimagined and turned into a wonder tale that is not just ‘something new’ but eminently tellable.
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People have been sharing stories since before language began. It is a subtle, complex and endlessly entertaining way of being human. Spend a morning with the best in the field to improve your skills and raise your ambitions. Hosted by Festival Director Donald Smith.
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Join us as we explore, question and celebrate the Right To Be Human. This year, on the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we consider the many challenges we face, from human health and wellbeing to the health and future of our planet. However, there is also a worldwide movement to meet these challenges, and to exist imaginatively, fairly and in community with the whole diversity of life. Storytelling has embraced these values from the dawn of culture and stories today can help us be more connected to the world around us, as well as our rights, showing us how to be more alive and creative as humans.
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