Scottish International Storytelling Festival

The Scottish International Storytelling Festival returns in October 2024.

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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.

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Upcoming Events at Scottish International Storytelling Festival

Talks and Lectures

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

28th October 2024 - 31st October 2024

Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Old Town

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!

Talks and Lectures

Scottish International Storytelling Festival: A Wolf Shall Devour the Sun

30th October 2024

Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Old Town

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

Theatre

Scottish International Storytelling Festival: Arcana 21

30th October 2024

Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Old Town

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

Film

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

30th October 2024

Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Old Town

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

Theatre

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

31st October 2024

Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Old Town

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.

Music

Scottish International Storytelling Festival: Open Hearth hosted by Ruth Kirkpatrick

31st October 2024

Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh Old Town

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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88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh West EH3 9BZ

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Festival of Migration

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, Various Locations Edinburgh

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, Various Locations Edinburgh

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, Various Locations Portobello

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Festival of Politics

, Edinburgh Old Town EH99 1SP

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