Blethers Autumn 2008

7th May 2014

Festival Takes Centre Stage / Puppets – Come out to Play / East of the Sun and West of the Moon / Storyboxes are Launched / Creative Words at the Big Tent Festival / Tell-a-Story Day / Nancy and Hamish Turner Storytelling Bursary / Storytelling For Social Change / Survey will point way forward for storytelling in Scotland / Storytelling for Health and Well-Being / Duncan Williamson: Ceilidh Man / Peace, Potatoes and Playing it by Ear – a Programme for Progress / Book Blethers / Edinbuergh’s Storytelling Champions / Stories for Literacy / Soup, Song and Story / Glasgow’s a City of Storytellers – Aye, That’ll be Right!/

TRACS (Traditional Arts & Culture Scotland, SCIO SC043009) is a co-operative network which champions our shared traditions of music, song, storytelling, dance, crafts, customs and local languages. TRACS brings together the Traditional Music Forum (SCIO SC042867), the Scottish Storytelling Forum (SCIO SC052330) and the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland (SCIO SC045085). Together we celebrate the local distinctiveness of Scotland’s places: our intangible cultural heritage. TRACS and the Forums have their registered office at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1SR. The Storytelling Centre is a partnership project between the Storytelling Forum and The Church of Scotland (SC011353).