Scottish International Storytelling Festival

That's a wrap for this year's festival 🙌

Thank you so much to all the storytellers, musicians, artists, supporters and audiences who joined us at the Scottish Storytelling Centre and across Scotland to help make our 35th-anniversary festival such a success.

We hope you've come away enriched by the power of storytelling and that we'll see you again next year!

Don't miss our Open Hearth session tonight, closing out our festival in style! 💛

Our festival sadly comes to a close on Halloween but we are going out in style with our final Open Hearth session 🙌

Join Ruth Kirkpatrick, Siannie Moodie, Marjolein Robertson and John Tantalon for a special night at the Scottish Storytelling Centre full of wonderful stories and music.

Starts from 6pm, some tickets still available!

🎟️ https://bit.ly/SISF2024OpenHearth3110

Our festival sadly comes to a close on Halloween but we are going out in style with our final Open Hearth session 🙌

Join Ruth Kirkpatrick, Siannie Moodie, Marjolein Robertson and John Tantalon for a special night at the Scottish Storytelling Centre full of wonderful stories and music.

Starts from 6pm, some tickets still available!

🎟️ https://bit.ly/SISF2024OpenHearth3110

Join us today for our online Global Lab 'Germany & Scotland, Hidden Heritage' at 2pm, and 'West-East-West: Stories From a Still Divided Germany' at 8pm!

🎟️ https://bit.ly/SISFGermanyEvents

It is 35 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and this milestone also coincides with the founding year of our festival.

To mark this, we have some special guest storytellers from Berlin next week as part of our 'Bridges Between' programme to share stories and films from their divided and reunified city.

Find out more 👇

https://www.sisf.org.uk/news-post/newsid/25986-marking-35-years-with-stories/

The Tree of Memory...🌲

For the final week of our festival, storytellers and audiences are invited to gather at the Tree of Memory by artist Kate Warner in the Scottish Storytelling Centre.

Hear stories of our tradition bearers, and add a leaf to honour elders and celebrate your own memories of lives well lived.

Find out more here 👇

https://www.sisf.org.uk/news-post/newsid/25990-tree-of-memory-honours-storytellers/

How wonderful is this? 🙌

Storyteller Anne Pitcher has sketched some of the wonderful events at the festival, here's one of 'Torn from the Same Cloth' with Kirsten Milliken and Neel Debdutt Paul at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.

A beautiful way to capture storytelling in action!

📣 Penultimate Open Hearth session of the festival tonight!

Join special guests Marion Kenny, Jeeva Raghunath and Daniel Serridge for a cosy night of stories and music at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.

Book to come along in person, so watch our livestream later on at 8pm on here or YouTube!

🎟️ https://bit.ly/SISFOpenHearth27Oct

It is 35 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, and this milestone also coincides with the founding year of our festival.

To mark this, we have some special guest storytellers from Berlin next week as part of our 'Bridges Between' programme to share stories and films from their divided and reunified city.

Find out more 👇

https://www.sisf.org.uk/news-post/newsid/25986-marking-35-years-with-stories/

Our special guest storyteller Jeeva Raghunath brings an evening of stories exploring food and Indian woman power.

Join us tomorrow for 'Spicy Tales from India' ]at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, featuring curry, superstition, rumour and punishment.

Jeeva has been touring around Scotland as part of our Go Local events and will also feature as part of this Sunday's Open Hearth evening!

Celebrate the humanity and artistry of Peig Sayers, The Queen of Irish Storytellers.

Join us at 4pm & 6pm today at Scottish Storytelling Centre for two special events about this extraordinary woman, featuring original transcripts of recordings of Peig's stories.

🎟️ https://bit.ly/SISFPeigSayers24

Costume, film, field recording, folk song and electronic sound come together in the magical Òran Mhòir tonight at the Scottish Storytelling Centre.

Join storyteller Eileen Budd and experimental folk duo Burd Ellen for this multimedia performance exploring the Gaelic lore of the intertidal zone.

Some tickets still available!

🎟️ https://bit.ly/SISFÒranMhòir

Tonight's Open Hearth line-up!

Storyteller Shona Cowie, acclaimed author and bard Martin MacIntyre, and piper Fin Moore join us at the Scottish Storytelling Centre for a wonderful evening of stories and music.

Still some tickets available so come along for a fantastic time!

🎟️ https://bit.ly/SISF24OpenHearth2

What a wonderful evening at the Scottish Storytelling Centre last night to officially begin our 35th anniversary festival 💛

Two sold-out shows, new and familiar faces, and sensational storytelling of course!

It’s almost time…💛

The stage is set and we are so looking forward to welcoming you all to the venue for the start of 35th Scottish International Storytelling Festival!

There’s a jam packed programme of events on over the next 2 weeks, more info and tickets can be found via here https://www.sisf.org.uk

See you soon!

Today celebrates the first UNESCO International Day of the Intangible Cultural Heritage! 💛

This day underscores the essential role intangible heritage plays in promoting global unity, sustainability, and cultural diversity.

Our online Global Lab event 'Germany & Scotland, Hidden Heritage', hosted by Steve Byrne, looks at the intangible cultural heritage of both countries and discusses how such treasures are being passed down to future generations.

Find out more: https://bit.ly/SISFGlobalLab2024

Shared cultural memories are vital, but how do they work? And what is the role of storytelling?

Global Labs is a series of special online workshops that will take you behind the scenes of some key creative projects as part of the festival.

Coming up...

🇯🇲 Scotland, Slaver Nation (Mon 21 Oct)
🇮🇳 Folklogue Studio India (Tue 22 Oct)
🇵🇸 Tell a Child In Gaza’s Tale (Mon 28 Oct)
🇩🇪 Germany & Scotland, Hidden Heritage (Tue 29 Oct)

All of these are on a Pay What You Can basis!

Find out more 👇

https://bit.ly/SISF24GlobalLabs