What’s StoryLab?

StoryLab began with a three week showcase for young storytelling talent, ending with National Tell-A-Story Day on Friday 26th October.

StoryLab is all about experimenting with storytelling, concocting your own stories and playing with different ways of making stories – trying out live storytelling skills, exploring high tech and low tech stories through film making, animation, art, drama, dance, music, creative writing or puppet theatre.

What's happened so far? Here's a selection of some of the events that took place:

• The Great Bird Exchange: Craft, storytelling and exhibition with beautiful birds created and decorated. Bird Exchange has helped hundreds of Scottish and Ugandan children exchange bird images, raising funds for Ugandan projects and creating links between Scotland and Africa.
• A screening of 'Tales of Earthsea' at the Filmhouse - Ursula le Guin's legendary books brought to life in an amazing Japanese animated version.
• Giant's Chaos with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, where participants created their own music, learned a new song and took part in a mini concert withe musicians from the SCO.
• Gamemaker workshop - the latest software was used to explore storytelling in computer gaming.
• Kalahari stories were told by Kelone Khudu-Petersen at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
• Storyteller Robert Howat took audiences on to the streets of Old Edinburgh telling tales of the characters who once roamed there.
• Captured! was a mask-making and storytelling workshop at the Royal Museum of Scotland
• Moving Stories for Wee Ones brought a fun, lively and interactive morning of stories and creative movement for pre-schoolers to the Scottish Storytelling Centre.
  

Get Involved!

Want to find out more about future StoryLab events and get involved as a StoryLab member? Visit www.storylab.co.uk or email storylab@scottishstorytellingcentre.com, or ring us on 00 44 (0) 131 652 3272.