Scottish International Storytelling Festival: In the World and Out of It

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A pilot performance where storytelling, music and live visual art are intertwined in an evocation of traditional tales and ballads handed down from Stanley Robertson.

About Scottish International Storytelling Festival: In the World and Out of It

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Sheena Blackhall, Maria Sappho and Kate Steenhauer present a pilot performance where storytelling, music and live visual art are intertwined in an evocation of traditional tales and ballads handed down from Stanley Robertson, the Scottish Traveller tradition bearer.

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Storytelling is a store of collective memories, experiences and values. Relax, and delve into those Collective Treasures in the genial company of the festival’s storytellers, as they celebrate our common humanity.

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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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