Scottish International Storytelling Festival: The Flyting
Kirsty Law unpacks the tales within a myth, and explores them using folk song and oral storytelling.
About Scottish International Storytelling Festival: The Flyting
Inspired by an archival recording from 1952, where Hamish Henderson sat down with the great Traveller storyteller Jimmy MacBeath. An ‘In the Making’ work in progress sharing, followed by brief discussion.
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2024 marks the 35th anniversary of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival, coinciding with the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Since 1989, SISF has been building bridges between cultures, artists and audiences all over the world through the power of storytelling – connecting past, present and future. This year’s theme is ‘Bridges Between’. At a time where literal, figurative and societal walls continue to be constructed, we invite everyone to look beyond these boundaries and to celebrate the last and the next 35 years of storytelling with us.
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