Welcome

Welcome to the Scottish Storytelling Centre and Network, the home of Scotland's stories. 

The Centre is the ideal place to discover live oral storytelling, develop your own storytelling skills, or find out more about storytelling in your area. Download the latest edition of Blethers for news on recent projects across Scotland.

The Centre also presents a seasonal public programme of storytelling, theatre and literature, supported by exciting visual arts, craft and multimedia exhibitions... Read more

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Training

Download the new training programme Connecting with Culture (Apr-Dec 2012)

Connecting with CultureLiving with Ballads
(Skills 2) Fri 25 May, 1.30-4.30pm
Sheila Stewart shares her unrivalled repertoire of Scottish Traveller ballads, and speaks about a lifetime of singing and interpreting words and music. Read more.

Stories and Cures
(Themes and Traditions | Skills in Context) Sat 26 May, 10.30am-5pm
How have our perceptions of illness and of medical science changed over time? Is the human factor significant scientifically as well as emotionally? Read more.

Events

Download the full Apr - Jun events programme

Ailie Finlay and Marie Louise Cochrane

This Friday, 25 May, we have double the choice of performance goodness with BSL stories in performance to mesmerise at the Centre and  monthly Guid Crack club at The Waverly Bar. Closely followed by toddler fun with Scottish Opera’s Sensory O and exploring Stories and Cures for a weekend full of stories and discovery.

   

Visiting us

Come and enjoy Edinburgh's vibrant cultural centre on the Royal Mile. Visit the historic John Knox House and discover Scotland's stories.

The award-winning Centre is situated inJohn Knox the heart of Edinburgh's literary and cultural quarter. Opened in 2006, the Centre incorporates a Cafe, Theatre, Storytelling Court  and Library. Read more

Festival

Festival LogoWell the Storytelling Festival is over for another year…and what a fantastic 10 day celebration of storytelling and traditional arts it was. Thank you to all of you who came to join us, and all our international guests whom we wish a safe journey home!

TASD logoRelease the natural storyteller in you! Tell-a-Story Day is the national celebration of oral storytelling, all over Scotland people will be sharing stories. Read more

   

What we do

Through its partnership with the Scottish Storytelling Forum, the Centre supports a national Network of storytellers involved in outreach projects with local authorities, environmental agencies, community centres and libraries, engaging with all age groups and diverse cultures of modern Scotland and providing opportunities for the socially and educationally excluded to take part in community-based, inclusive cultural experiences. As the headquarters of the Network, the Centre strives to reinforce Scotland's vigorous contribution to a worldwide revival of interest in storytelling and storytelling traditions.

What is storytelling?

Stories are everywhere around us in newspapers, books, on TV and on the Web. But storytelling happens when the story is told person to person, live, without print or technology. Storytelling is a unique human skill and is one of our oldest artforms. We believe storytelling is for everyone.

The Scottish Storytelling Centre is a partnership between the Church of Scotland and the Scottish Storytelling Forum, financially supported by these partners and by the Scottish Arts Council Lottery Fund, the City of Edinburgh Council, Scottish Enterprise Edinburgh and Lothian, and a wide range of charitable donations.

   
 
 
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