Scottish International
Storytelling Festival 2012
Once Upon a Story Folktales of Europe
19 October – 28 October Box office: 0131 556 9579 Advanced Programme
www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk
Welcome to the world’s finest feast of traditional storytelling. Why do we keep telling the same stories in new versions? What is the place and role of fairy tales in the 21st century? Do folk tales hold important clues? In the 2ooth anniversary year of the Brothers Grimm, we look at folktales old and new and explore the enduring fascination of fairy tales for all age groups and cultures, and every generation. With performances, workshops, conferences, family storytelling spectaculars, music and film, SISF 2012 is the complete storytelling experience in Edinburgh, Glasgow and across Scotland.
Svenja Krüger
David Campbell
Festival Exhibitions 28 September – 3 November
19 September – 18 November
Kate Leiper – A Visual Treasury
Illustrating The Brothers Grimm
In Association with Floris Books. A magical eye is cast on Scotland’s treasury of folk and fairy in this visually stunning collection. Coinciding with the publication of A Treasury of Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales by Theresa Breslin and Kate Leiper, the exhibition ranges over the artist’s sustained work on the inspiration of the folk tale. Scottish Storytelling Centre, Exhibition open Monday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm and before evening events. Admission Free.
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Regina Sommer
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As Hallowe’en approaches, Scotland lights its seasonal storytelling hearth and welcomes all the nations to our festive glow. Don’t miss out on Scotland, old Europe, and the magic of live storytelling. Chiara Casarico
The Scottish International Storytelling Festival is kindly supported through the Scottish Government’s Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund, Creative Scotland and the City of Edinburgh Council.
Register now as a Festival Supporter to enjoy an array of fantastic benefits, including exclusive invites and great ticket deals. Enjoy personal perks while helping the Festival provide a world class forum for the art of storytelling. As a supporter you can enjoy:
> Access to storyteller welcome and Illustrations from A Treasury of Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales by Theresa Breslin and Kate Leiper are reproduced by kind permission of Floris Books. ©Kate Leiper 2012 02. The Scottish International Storytelling Festival 2012
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There is no better pleasure than the power of the spoken word taking listeners on a journey of the imagination. George Macpherson
Hansel and Gretel, The Travelling Musicians, Tom Thumb and many other fairy tales first appeared in print 200 years ago when Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm published their collection of German popular tales. They were eventually translated into 160 languages! This display showcases different translations and illustrations of the tales, as well as original letters by Jacob Grimm. National Library of Scotland, Exhibition open Monday to Friday, 10am to 6pm, Saturday 10am to 5pm and Sunday 2pm to 5pm. Admission Free.
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> 10% ticket discount on
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> Tour of the historic Netherbow area in which the Scottish Storytelling Centre is set
> 15% discount at Storytelling Café > A welcome pack > Participation in the Festival’s creative blog, through stories and discussion
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Opening Weekend - Enchanted City Friday 19 October Voices of Scotland
8pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre Storytellers and musicians from Scotland’s diverse traditions celebrate the tales and voices of an ancient and at the same time modern nation in a spellbinding evening to launch the Festival. Developed by Marion Kenny.
Saturday 20 October Meet the Fairy Queen
11am, Scottish National Portrait Gallery From Thomas the Rhymer on, Scotland’s poets and heroes keep meeting the fairies – with some unexpected results!
The Enchanted Museum
From 12.30pm, National Museum of Scotland A day of storytelling events and performances in the Learning Centre, with wandering storytellers and unexpected happenings for the whole family! A magic day in the palace of marvels.
Cecile Corbel: Composing for Studio Ghibli
Once Upon: Folk and Fairy Tales of Ireland
7.30pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre An irrepressible fountain of narrative magic and pure blarney, involving the good – don’t say little – people and the “other side”.
Sunday 21 October The Enchanted Wood
From 1pm, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh A day of storytelling indoor and outdoor, as Edinburgh’s Botanic Garden is peopled by fairy tales and magical trees including Apple Day, and the One Oak exhibition. Enchantments for all the family.
Meet the Storyteller: Maria Koroleva
5pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre An opportunity to hear about the life and work of a Russian storyteller and researcher, who is renewing old traditions with young people.
Story Gatherers – Russian Folk Traditions with Grigory Bondarenko
4pm, Filmhouse The renowned Breton harper and composer introduces her music for the inspiring animated film set in Japan. Go in search of the little people and discover friendship and love. An insight into the work of Studio Ghibli.
6pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre An introduction to the oldest and most authentic Russian folk traditions, with some live demonstrations!
Story Gatherers – Ireland’s First Collectors
7.30pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre Folktales interweave with harp and song in an evocation of the distinctive Breton’s distinctive world of poetry, mystery and humour.
6pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre An introduction to the folklore pioneers and their discoveries with storyteller Jack Lynch. 04. The Scottish International Storytelling Festival 2012
Once Upon: Folk and Fairy Tales of Brittany
Festival Week: Edinburgh – Folktale Europe Monday 22 October Education Workshops
9.30am, Scottish Storytelling Centre | 1pm, National Library of Scotland A day for educators covering sensory storytelling for children with learning difficulties, and the creative interchange between storytelling and picture making. In the morning The Box of Delights: A Multi-Sensory Box of Delights will be led by Ailie Finlay and Professor Barbara Fornefeld. In the afternoon A Treasury of Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales will be led by Theresa Breslin and Kate Leiper.
Stories and Cures
2pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre This programme, running through the festival, explores the relationship between people’s experience of illness and medical science, past and present. The sessions combine research and creative sources with discussion and workshopping.
Meet the Storyteller: Nina Naesheim 5pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre An opportunity to hear about the life and work of one of Norway’s most talented and entertaining storytellers.
Story Gatherers – Scots, Slavs and Svans: Living Traditions in Rural Europe
6pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre James MacDonald Reid takes you on a unique journey encountering and sharing local storytelling traditions across Eastern Europe.
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Fiona Herbert
Once Upon: Folk and Fairy Tales of Norway
7.30pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre Enter a rich and strange northern world of earthbound mortals and fabulous creatures, whose paths cross and collide.
Tuesday 23 October Stories and Cures
2pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre This programme, running through the festival, explores the relationship between people’s experience of illness and medical science, past and present. The sessions combine research and creative sources with discussion and work-shopping.
Meet the Storyteller: Gosia Litwinowicz
5pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre Hear about the life and work of one of Poland’s pioneering storytellers, traditional singers and researchers.
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Story Gatherers – Recovering Poland’s Traditions
6pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre Michal Malinowski describes the richness of Poland’s traditions and his own approach to collecting and continuing storytelling today.
Once Upon: Folk and Fairy Tales of Poland 7.30pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre A night of music, song and story brings you into Poland’s kingdoms of the imagination.
Wednesday 24 October Picturing the Grimms
2pm, National Library of Scotland Learn about the life and work of the Brothers Grimm, and explore the relationship between story and illustration. German storyteller Regina Sommer will introduce the stories collected by the Brothers Grimm. Theresa Breslin and Kate Leiper, co-creators of the new A Treasury of Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales will explore the creative relationship between narrative and picture making.
Arthur’s Seat: Myth, Lore and Legend
5pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre An exploration and evocation of Arthur’s Seat – familiar to all yet layered in mystery! In association with Luath Publishing and Speed of Light, whose EIF/Cultural Olymiad project illumined the light and dark places of Edinburgh’s sacred mountain.
Story Gatherers – The Alan Bruford Memorial Lecture
6pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre The Lecture will explore Scottish Borders Minstrelsy and the Brothers Grimm and is kindly supported by the School of Scottish Studies Archives. 06. The Scottish International Storytelling Festival 2012
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
7.30pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre Three powerful tales, three heroines, three word spinners, three traditions of ScotlandGaelic, Norse, and Scots. It’s a witch’s brew of story… but can it have a happy ending?
Jekyll and Hyde – A Mercat Tour for SISF
8.45pm, Royal Mile Mercat Cross Experience our Jekyll and Hyde city, above ground and below! Beginning from the Mercat Cross beside St. Giles Cathedral and then descending... in association with Mercat Tours.
Thursday 25 October Stories and Cures
2pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre This programme, running through the festival, explores the relationship between people’s experience of illness and medical science, past and present. The sessions combine research and creative sources with discussion and work-shopping.
Meet the Storyteller: Giovanna Conforto
5pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre Enter the heart of Tuscany, where Giovanna and her stories belong.
Story Gatherers – The Peer Gynt Trail
6pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre Heidi Dahlsveen celebrates the richness of Norwegian storytelling in this centenary year of Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, affectionately known as “Norway’s Grimm”.
Giovanna Conforto
Once Upon: Folk and Fairy Tales of Italy
Meet the Storyteller: Regina Sommer
7.30pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre Humour, charm and wickedness in the sun as you are transported to Italy with Tuscan stories and music.
5pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre Meet a talented storyteller whose life has moved from a chance encounter to the centre of German’s storytelling renaissance.
Friday 26 October
Story Gatherers – Who Told the Grimms?
Tell-A-Story-Day: Old and Young
Wise or wicked, brave or fearful, heroes and villains, old and young. Traditional stories bridge the generations, and show how we share the same emotions and challenges. So why not have your own storytelling event and bring your community, workplace or families closer together through the power of stories, old and young. For more information on the TASD Campaign please visit our website.
Stories and Cures
2pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre This programme, running through the festival, explores the relationship between people’s experience of illness and medical science, past and present. The sessions combine research and creative sources with discussion and workshopping.
Box office: 0131 556 9579
6pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre Where did the Grimm Brothers get their stories? Who were the storytellers? Kristin Wardetsky takes us to the root of the matter with some intriguing insights.
Once Upon: Folk and Fairy Tales of Germany
7.30pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre An unparalleled feast of stories from the heart of Europe, home of the Grimm’s and much else besides…
Follow That: Festival Guid Crack
7.30pm, The Waverley Bar, St Mary’s Street Edinburgh’s renowned open monthly storytelling session takes the Festival themes on a journey to who knows where, with open floor opportunities for everyone to share their stories.
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Festival Week: Glasgow – Folktale Europe Monday 22 – Wednesday 24 October
Tuesday 23 October Story Gatherers – Italian Gleanings
Scottish Youth Theatre – Family Storytime
10.30am, Brian Cox Studio, The Old Sherriff Court An action packed hour of entertainment for families, provided by SYT’s cracking storytelling company of dynamic young storytellers.
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
1.30pm, Brian Cox Studio, The Old Sheriff Court Three powerful tales, three heroines, three word spinners, three traditions of ScotlandGaelic, Norse, and Scots. It’s a witch’s brew of story… but can it have a happy ending?
Monday 22 October Story Gatherers – Ireland’s First Collectors
5pm, Edwin Morgan Studio, The Old Sherriff Court An introduction to the folklore pioneers and their discoveries with storyteller Jack Lynch.
Once Upon: Folk and Fairy Tales of Ireland
7pm, Brian Cox Studio, The Old Sherriff Court An irrepressible fountain of narrative magic and pure blarney, involving the good – don’t say little – people and the “other side”. 08. The Scottish International Storytelling Festival 2012
5pm, Edwin Morgan Studio, The Old Sherriff Court An introduction to Italian folktale traditions and their recreation by creative masters such as Italo Calvino. With Diana Bertoldi.
Once Upon: Folk and Fairy Tales of Italy
7pm, Brian Cox Studio, The Old Sherriff Court Humour, charm and wickedness in the sun as you are transported to Italy with Tuscan stories and music.
Wednesday 24 October Story Gatherers – Great Scot: John Francis Campbell of Islay
5pm, Edwin Morgan Studio, The Old Sherriff Court Stuart McHardy celebrates Scotland’s greatest folktale collector and the importance of the treasury of Highland and Island stories his team collected.
Thursday 25 October
The Goethe Institute in association with Glasgow University:
Story Gatherers – The Russian Collectors
The Brothers Grimm
Story Gatherers: Who Told the Grimm’s?
Friday 2 and Monday 5 November The most recent research and insights are shared at this bicentenary colloquium. For further information contact Jacqueline.Gorczynski@glasgow. goethe.org
5pm, Edwin Morgan Studio, The Old Sherriff Court Explore the great Russian folk tale tradition and its major collectors with Maria Koroleva.
5pm, The Goethe Institute Where did the Grimm Brothers get their stories? Who were the storytellers? Kristin Wardetsky takes us to the root of the matter with some intriguing insights.
Grimm Fun: An Interactive Study Day Narrative Magic: Transformations through Storytelling
Once Upon: Folk and Fairy Tales of Germany 7pm, The Goethe Institute An unparalleled feast of stories from the heart of Europe, home of the Grimm’s and much else besides…
Once Upon: Folk and Fairy Tales of Russia 7pm, Brian Cox Studio, The Old Sherriff Court Russian stories, old and new, with lots of Scottish connections.
Once Upon: Folk and Fairy Tales of Scotland
7pm, Brian Cox Studio, The Old Sherriff Court Lowland and Highland, ancient and freshminted, Scotland’s storytellers are irrepressible and multiplying at an alarming rate! Enjoy the crack, with some songs thrown in. Box office: 0131 556 9579
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Finale Weekend – Fairy Tale World Saturday 27 October The Fairy Tale Conference
10.30am, Scottish Storytelling Centre A day to celebrate fairy tales – their sources, audiences, meanings and mysteries, with a galaxy of storytellers and researchers.
Hearthside Tales
10.45am & 12pm, Gladstone’s Land Scotland’s stories for the young, and young at heart, at one of Edinburgh’s most atmospheric firesides.
A Tale O Twa Touns – A Mercat Tour for SISF
2.30pm, Royal Mile Mercat Cross From Gladstone’s Land to the Georgian House in Charlotte Square, Mercat Tours spirit you from the Old Town world to the new. In the meeting of these two different cultural and historical worlds we find much of Edinburgh’s magic. Starting from the Mercat Cross beside St. Giles Cathedral.
Grimms Sheesha with Peter Chand
6pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre South Asia holds up a mirror to our favourite Grimm stories. Did they begin in the East told by travellers, migrants and gypsies or are they just universal? It’s all in the entertaining, magic hands of our own British-Punjabi Genie, Peter Chand.
Ring of Faery; Ring of Fire
7.30pm, Scottish Storytelling Centre The faery realm is one of danger, as well as allure. Dealing with “the other side” may be intoxicating but it can also be deadly. You can win through if you know the right stories though… join the ring.
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Sunday 28 October Storytelling – Global Movement
11am, Scottish Storytelling Centre As international storytellers and activists gather in Edinburgh, it’s a good chance to take stock on the state of the arts, future directions, and indulge in some plain old fashioned networking.
Fest on Tour - Tales on the Move
Guest storytellers will visit Argyll and Bute, Perthshire, Dundee, Aberdeen, Caithness and Sutherland, Dumfries and Galloway to meet with local performers and audiences.
East of the Sun and West of the Moon
3pm, Queens Hall Three powerful tales, three heroines, three word spinners, three traditions of ScotlandGaelic, Norse, and Scots. It’s a witch’s brew of story… but can it have a happy ending?
A Circle of Saints
5pm, Queens Halls Who are the saints past and present? A reflective circle of stories about bridge builders and pioneers who make a difference.
Hallowe’en Hosting
7.30pm, Queen’s Hall The night of the circle is Scotland’s ancient New Year festival. In this season, the worlds of light and dark, life and death draw close. The veils are spirit thin. Storytellers from Scotland and across Europe share this moment of transition to our winter world.
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Once Upon a Story Folktales of Europe Advanced Programme Full programme available in August. Event tickets on sale September.
19 October – 28 October Box office: 0131 556 9579 www.scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk