The Shieling Project has a huge potential to inspire all its visitors to appreciate and learn Gaelic. From the stories, songs and place-names of shieling life, to inclusion of Gaelic within tasks and routines around the site, the project can show fluent speakers, learners and those totally new to the language the rich weave of Gaelic within the … Continued

The Village Storytelling Centre has an opening for a Storyteller! Title: Storyteller Reports to: Executive Director Location: Pollok with travel throughout Glasgow and surrounding areas Hours: 35 hours per week, to include regular evening and weekend work (time off in lieu will be given) Salary: £22,263 plus pension pro rata Holiday entitlement: 28 days and … Continued

Highland playwright, John Burns, and storyteller, Bob Pegg, come together to create a new play set in a mountain bothy. Ardross Hall,  Saturday 11th February 8.00 pm The Highlands are world famous for some of the best mountain scenery in the world; but perhaps less well known are the bothies that populate the hills and … Continued

Image © Historic Environment Scotland Stories, Stones and Bones: ‘Voyage of Discovery’ project at Trinity House celebrates £8,000 Heritage Lottery Fund grant as part of the Year of History, Heritage and Archaeology 2017 The Scottish Storytelling Forum has received a Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) Stories, Stones and Bones grant of £8,000 to work with young … Continued

Following the success of their 2016  Storytelling Festival, The Village Storytelling Centre have been funded by Creative Scotland for a second year to produce a festival in July 2017, ‘Roots and New Shoots.’ The culmination of last year’s festival was marked by the performance of a specially commissioned piece called, ‘A Circumnavigation’ by Storyteller Ian … Continued

Be part of the Gather Festival and organise an event! 4th – 12th of March 2017 Gather is an annual festival which celebrates the diverse communities and cultures of Edinburgh and its university. The festival is a space to come together, cross boundaries in new ways, showcase global culture, harness new opportunities and skills and connect … Continued

Now into its second year Inverness Storytelling Festival returns with a quality selection of storytellers, musicians, singers and poets from near and far. After a successful launch in 2015, the embers of last year’s event still smoulder in the hearth as this year’s festival expands over 8 days.  It opens with Bob Pegg’s “Black Dog … Continued

Voluntary Arts Scotland, a partner in the Scottish International Storytelling Festival’s #DareToDream campaign 2016, will host a civic conversation at this year’s Scottish Rural Parliament. Civic Conversation, a useful tool in community planning, opens up dialogue for the multiple perspectives which combine to make a community. The approach finds its strength in an inclusive process, … Continued

The Scottish Recovery Network and Scottish Poetry Library’s Living Voices programme are collaborating to deliver a series of workshops on Working Creatively with Small Groups, the first of which, dealing with Talking, Listening and Storying, will take place at the Scottish Storytelling Centre on Friday 7 October. This workshop will focus on looking specifically at … Continued

Kicking off TRACS’ autumn workshops programme will be two complementary workshops on bringing alive the practices of song and story. On the 1st of October, Penny Stone and Ellie Logan lead Bringing the Song Alive, while the following week Allison Galbraith, Andy Cannon and Donald Smith will host Bringing the Story Alive. Donald Smith, Director … Continued