Scottish International Storytelling Festival
The Scottish International Storytelling Festival, returns in October 2021 and will be centered around our changing environment and different world.
About Scottish International Storytelling Festival
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Imagine something different. Imagine pasts, futures, or a timeless other. Dip into dreams and desires, old and new, lost worlds and worlds still to become. Imagine from the outside in, and the inside out. What would a different world look like in your dreams?
Our programme for the 2021 Scottish International Storytelling Festival is now live and on sale, with an eclectic mix of online events spanning across the globe and small-scale face-to-face events in Edinburgh and across Scotland.
Including the Community and Families programme there will be 190 live performances across Scotland. These involve over 100 musicians and storytellers from Scotland, and a further 30 from Europe, North America, Latin America, Africa, and the Pacific Islands.
For the first time SISF 2021 has extended an open invitation to storytellers, based or working in Scotland, to join the Festival’s creative process by submitting a proposal on the theme of ‘Imagine’.
Human connections will continue to thrive through stories, regardless of where we are in the world. Please come with us as we imagine what might be possible!
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Upcoming Events at Scottish International Storytelling Festival
Exhibition: From Her Cave
From Her Cave by Miren Asiain Lora is an exhibition at the Scottish Storytelling Centre from 15th to 31st October as part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival.
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Global Hearth
Scottish hosts invite international storytellers to gather round the digital hearth for relaxed sessions of stories from home and abroad. The perfect way to end (or begin) your day!
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Open Hearth
The Festival’s famous Open Hearth returns to the Netherbow Theatre for a relaxed traditional session of stories and music.
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Global Lab
Global Lab is an open community of creativity and co-learning, hosted by the Scottish International Storytelling Festival
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Talking Statues Walking Tours
Explore the stories of people from history, immortalised (in bronze), but murky in people’s memories – a fighter, surgeon, scientist, philosopher, an explorer and a politician.
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Story Tours: Heart of Midlothian
Join storyteller James Spence and National Library of Scotland curator Ralph McLean on a journey around the closes and wynds of Edinburgh’s Old Town.
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Wild Hillfoots Storytelling Festival
Hillfoots Tales welcome a host of guest storytellers for a special week of events celebrating the stories and legends of our people and landscape including:
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Guid Crack Storytelling Session
Join us online for three sessions of Edinburgh’s long-running storytelling night, with a special guest storyteller each time!
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Cottongrass
Harriet Grindley and Maria MacDonell, with musician Kai Dudley use words, music, image and physicality to conjure a constellation of dreams from a momentous journey of life.
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Family Day at the Botanics
Join the Scottish International Storytelling Festival for a day of family fun with storytellers popping up throughout the community garden in the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
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John Muir and the Missionary’s Dog
Join Richard Medrington and Rick Conte from 'The Man Who Planted Trees' and storyteller Andy Cannon, on the trail of the legendary John Muir.
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