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Scottish International Storytelling Festival: Tree of Memory - Honouring the Elders

Share a life well lived and honour your own elders at the Tree of Memory, weaved and created by Katie Warner. Supported by the Scottish Storytelling Forum. All welcome!

Scottish International Storytelling Festival: Tree of Memory - Honouring the Elders

About Scottish International Storytelling Festival: Tree of Memory - Honouring the Elders

28th October:

Claire McNicol hosts a celebration of Irish and Scots storyteller Audrey Parks, with friends and family.

29th October:

Liz Tulloch hosts a celebration of her father, Shetland storyteller Lawrence Tulloch.

30th October:

Tim Porteus and Donald Smith host a celebration of Edinburgh storytellers Jack Martin and John Fee.

31st October:

Douglas Mackay hosts a celebration of all our honoured elders, with a basket of blessings to all absent friends at the Tree of Memory, weaved and created by Katie Warner.

Presented in partnership with To Absent Friends and Good Life, Good Death, Good Grief.



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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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