Above: Pomegranates festival poster image courtesy of featured dancer Yilei Chen. Detail photograph by Feifei An initiative of the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland (TDFS), this pilot edition of Pomegranates starts with a professional development workshop featuring dancers, musicians, visual artists and storytellers at the St Leonard’s Land Dance Studio, the University of Edinburgh on … Continued

This World Storytelling Day, 20 March 2022, SISF celebrates the traditional art of oral storytelling with the release of 11 world-class storytelling performances, available to watch on demand for a limited period. Audiences can purchase an all-access pass from 7 March 2022 for the launch on Sun 20 March 2022, including fully BSL interpreted versions. … Continued

Scottish Storytelling Centre kick off Year of Stories 2022 with new series of LGBTQ+ storytelling evenings, Queer Folks’ Tales, hosted by drama producer Turan Ali and featuring celebrated writers Val McDermid, Jo Clifford. Queer Folks’ Tales is a new, bi-monthly storytelling evening, starting on March 3rd 2022, presented by the Scottish Storytelling Centre. This series … Continued

Overview Title: Operations Officer, Scottish Storytelling Centre Salary: £24,016-£25,977 per annum (salary is subject to a pay and grading review) Location: Edinburgh Hours: 35 hours Closing date: Tuesday 1 February, 12:00pm Reference number: 02/22 You will play a pivotal role within the Scottish Storytelling Centre team by coordinating the day-to-day operation of the Centre including front of house, catering liaisons, John … Continued

Overview Title: Box Office Supervisor, Scottish Storytelling Centre Salary: £24,016 – £25,977 per annum (salary is subject to a pay and grading review) Location: Edinburgh Hours: 35 hours Closing date: Tuesday 1 February, 12:00pm Reference number: 03/22 You will play a pivotal role within the Scottish Storytelling Centre team by overseeing and supervising the box office within the Centre, leading a … Continued

The seventh in the Traditional Music Forum‘s Spotify playlist series featuring musicians and bands from the Scotland Online Directory of Musicians. Each month a new playlist is created showcasing the fantastic traditional music Scotland has to offer. Directory of Musicians Spotify Playlist #7 is a Christmas playlist for December, featuring music from The Outside Track, … Continued

It’s Book Week Scotland! From the 15 – 21 November we’re joining the annual celebration of stories, books and reading, by hosting a book sale in our independent bookshop at the Scottish Storytelling Centre. Our offer? Buy any 2 books or more and get 10% off (excluding already discounted items), as well as 20% off … Continued

You can now watch all the performances from the launch of the Scotland Online Directory of Musicians on the TMF YouTube channel. Amazing music from Maeve Mackinnon with Luc McNally & Ali Levack, Rachel Hair & Ron Jappy, and David Foley & Jack Smedley with Jenn Butterworth.

After a difficult 18 months for so many, the Dee and Don Ceilidh Collective are delighted to launch a series of workshops encouraging people to not only connect with their local landscape and each other online but to work with some of Scotland’s most revered traditional musicians to learn specially composed music and song. The … Continued

After last year’s first-time success, the SISF Instagram art challenge returns due to popular demand! Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. (Michelangelo) For this year’s SISF 6-day Instagram art challenge we are asking you to pick your personal heroes and to … Continued