Scottish Storytelling Centre

16/10/2025

🐉 A girl faces a dragon.
⚔️🛡 Songs and stories are her weapons and her armour.
Join storyteller Daiva Ivanauskaitė-Brown for a magical tale about courage and dreams.
This performance brings together tales and tunes from Lithuania and Scotland, with live music from Gaynor Barradell.
🎟️ https://shorturl.at/dxqKB

13/10/2025

We’re committed in making this year’s Scottish International Storytelling Festival more accessible than ever.

A selection of performances are available exclusively in British Sign Language (BSL) - created to be enjoyed by D/deaf audiences and BSL users throughout the festival.

🎥 Learn more about these BSL performances and get your tickets today - https://bit.ly/4h9epWW

13/10/2025

On Wednesday with Macastory’s help, create your own mini-saga, learn it and tell it in the style of the ancient Viking Skalds. Prepare for sea monsters, battles & even a visit from the gods. Cast the mystical story runes, then it’s up to you what happens next!
🎟️ shorturl.at/lVodK

08/10/2025

Experience all the family fun this October!

The Scottish International Storytelling Festival is back and packed with magic for all ages these school holidays. From cosy bears, dragons, snowy forests and enchanted gardens - we have something for everyone!

Here is a snapshot of some of the shows we have on offer,
🦋 A Dispute with a Butterfly - Sat 11 & 12 Oct
🎭 School for Skalds with Macastory - Wed 15 Oct
🐉 Dragon Tale - Fri 17 Oct
👀 Through Your Eyes & 🌻BLOOM - Sat 18 Oct
🌲 Tales of Cold Forests & Cosy Bears – Sat 25 Oct
🥕 Botanics Storytelling Day – Sun 26 Oct
💧 Riverwoods Folk Tales – Sat 1 Nov
✨ Plus many more stories, family ceilidhs and crafts throughout the festival.

Book your tickets now and explore all shows https://bit.ly/4nICJ3J

07/10/2025

Join us on Thursday evening for Q***r Folks' Tales 4th anniversary show and another q***rer-than-q***r line up! As always, LGBTQ+ storytellers galore from around Edinburgh and Scotland share stories of q***r lives, past, present and future.

Hosted by Edinburgh’s Turan Ali who is joined on Thu 9 Oct by stand up Giulia Galastro, writer and illustrator Themo H. Peel and poet and writer Orla Shortall.

🎟 https://shorturl.fm/PRGZt

02/10/2025

🎶✨ Trad & Folk Musicians ✨🎶

Join us this weekend for these fantastic workshops on Recording & Releasing Your Music, with industry experts Euan Burton (Glasgow), and Tom Oakes Music (Edinburgh). We will cover how to prepare for recording, what to expect in the studio, how to move from finished tracks to public release, plus more! 📀

📍 GLASGOW | Scottish Music Centre
Fri 3 Oct | 2-5pm

📍 EDINBURGH | Scottish Storytelling Centre
Sat 4 Oct | 2.30-5.30pm

🔗 Book your place now through the link in comments!
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These workshops are supported by TRACS - Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland through Creative Scotland Multi-Year Funding.

02/10/2025

✨ Essential Skills Workshops for Traditional Musicians ✨

Join us this weekend for a practical workshop with Ailie Robertson - Composer Harpist which aims to help you take control of your finances, build sustainability into your career, and approach funding applications with clarity and confidence.

📍 GLASGOW | Scottish Music Centre
Fri 3 Oct | 10am - 1pm

📍 EDINBURGH | Scottish Storytelling Centre
Sat 4 Oct | 10.30am - 1.30pm

🔗 Book your place now through the link in comments!

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These workshops are supported by TRACS - Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland through Creative Scotland Multi-Year Funding.

15/09/2025

A young man stands in front of us, trying to persuade us to fund a museum to honour his uncle. He is visibly uncomfortable: he wasn’t meant to be giving this presentation. It was supposed to be Jo, his mother.

When Vincent van Gogh dies at the age of thirty-seven, shortly followed by his brother Theo, it is left to Theo’s widow Jo to carry on his legacy. Thanks to Jo and her son Vincent Willem the painter of Sunflowers is one of the most beloved artists in the world.

Through the words of the artist, his brother, his sister-in-law and nephew, discover the genius that the world almost forgot…

Written by Rebekah King, performed by Philip Kingscott and produced by Peapod Productions.

Tickets via the link in the comments!

11/09/2025

02/09/2025

Easy Sundays are back after a fantastic Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the fun doesn’t stop here!

Join artist Kate Leiper and storyteller Ailie Finlay (from My Kind of Book) for some relaxed and cheery sensory stories, play and art.

Part of the Accessible Book & Story Mini-Festival 2025

More info & 🎟️ https://shorturl.at/ghKoM

Suitable for All Ages 🥰

01/09/2025

The moon begins to form as the moon spinners wash their wool in the sea, winding it again into a white ball in the sky and re-creating the phases and cycles that guide our seasons, and our stories...

Lughnasadh is the last of the four great Celtic festivals (after Samhain, Imbolc and Beltane), embracing the changing seasons, connecting with the rhythms of nature and the ever-turning Wheel of Life. September brings the second of three harvest moons in Lughnasadh, the Corn Moon.

To celebrate we present another great Moonspinners session! Hosted by Claire Mcnicol, with featured tellers Beverley Casebow and Anne Hunter and guidance and social flow from Linda Williamson.

Moonspinners events follow two distinct phases, with the first half of performance in the Netherbow Theatre, followed by a social and conversational flow upstairs in the Storytelling Court with a chance to digest and discuss the stories amongst friends old and new.

More info & Tickets Via the link in the comments!