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Scottish International Storytelling Festival

The Scottish International Storytelling Festival returns in October 2024.

Scottish International Storytelling Festival

About Scottish International Storytelling Festival

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The Scottish International Storytelling Festival (SISF) is an annual celebration of storytelling, oral traditions and cultural diversity.

This year's festival will take place from 18th to 31st October.

Welcome to the world’s largest celebration of storytelling, anchored in Scotland, a nation of storytellers. Round that symbolic fire, experiences and memories are shared, and the torch of oral storytelling is passed on.

Upcoming Events at Scottish International Storytelling Festival

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

28th October 2024 - 31st October 2024

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!

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Scottish International Storytelling Festival: A Wolf Shall Devour the Sun

30th October 2024

Respected by ancient cultures yet cast as archetypal villain in European fairy tales, wolves were hunted to extinction in Scotland and beyond.

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Scottish International Storytelling Festival: Arcana 21

30th October 2024

This coming-of-age story is conveyed through spoken word, music and movement in the spirit of the Griot storytelling traditions from West Africa.

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Scottish International Storytelling Festival: How to Bring About a Peaceful Revolution?

30th October 2024

Join us for this hybrid performance at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, presented in film and on stage is hosted by Horst Edler.

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Scottish International Storytelling Festival: Gullrun’s Saga - She Built a Boat

31st October 2024

An original story inspired by the Icelandic sagas, about a young Norwegian woman fleeing Norway in 980 AD and journeying to Iceland to find her freedom.

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Scottish International Storytelling Festival: Open Hearth hosted by Ruth Kirkpatrick

31st October 2024

Hosted by Ruth Kirkpatrick, join Siannie Moodie, Marjolein Robertson and John Tantalonfor a relaxed evening of stories and music in the Netherbow Theatre!

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