Poetry and storytelling

Poetry and storytelling

As part of TradFest, Edinburgh’s newest Festival, the Storytelling Centre have put together a series of…
From Frozie-Toesie to Goosie Gander, a bevy of birds take centre stage at the Scottish Storytelling Centre on…
Over 250 years after his birth, Robert Burns’ influence on Scottish language and culture is alive and well.
With her brand of magical and mythical storytelling, Xanthe Gresham Knight cuts across the lines between…
First Reading of a new play about the life of Belle Stewart, a cultural icon, and Scottish Traditional…
This year’s Imaginate Festival, Scotland’s international festival of performing arts for children and young…
Cinderella, Snow White, Hansel & Gretel... We all know a tale that features an evil stepmother with the…
Gaelic musical traditions and influences are thriving throughout Scotland, with the strong impact of the…
Between Monday 8 and Wednesday 24 July, the Life & Deaf Association will be travelling the length and…
The first Scottish Women’s Health Fair in 1983 saw women coming together from across Scotland to explore…
''Five fabulous years – it’s just flown by – but the possibilities for this artform are endless and there’s…
LGBT History Month takes place throughout February, aiming to replace ignorance and prejudice with knowledge…
Seven years after its original inception, Donald Smith’s adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic…
ā€œAfter nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.ā€ -- Philip…
Inspired by St Andrew himself, ā€˜Fisherman’s Feast’ has received support through Scotland’s Winter Festivals…
When EdinburghGuide.com started covering the Fringe festival at the beginning of the millennium, John Ritchie…
Celebrated annually on Robert Burns’ birthday, 25 January, Burns Night gathers Scots around the world to pay…
200 years on, meet David Livingstone through the eyes of the Africans who knew him.
Esc f8, the country’s only theatre company dedicated to producing science fiction is to take its maiden…
A bit sick of Christmas? Come indulge your dark side with a modern dramatisation of RL Stevenson’s 'The…