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Storytelling Ceilidh with the Burgh Blatherers: Deep Blue Sea

Join Edinburgh's own Burgh Blatherers on 18th June for the next open-floor storytelling night taking place throughout the year!

Storytelling Ceilidh with the Burgh Blatherers: Deep Blue Sea

About Storytelling Ceilidh with the Burgh Blatherers: Deep Blue Sea

Join Edinburgh's own Burgh Blatherers for a series of regular open-floor storytelling nights taking place throughout the year, a cosy gathering in the relaxed surroundings of the Storytelling Court with refreshments available from the Haggis Box Café. Hosted by Bob Mitchell and members of Burgh Blatherers storytelling club, who will transport you with their own stories and imaginative weavings while offering you the chance to tell your own tales!

Sailors, fisherfolk, pirates and explorers. Leviathan lurking beneath the waves, the cry of the seabirds above. Bring us adventures and songs of the sea and shore!

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