Couldn’t be there? Or want to relive it? We’ve recorded a selection of this year’s festival highlights so you can enjoy them from wherever you are. Press play and join us for some of the performances, the people and the atmosphere that made this year’s festival so special.
21 October 2026 | Scottish Storytelling Centre
Join us in reliving the Open Hearth performance from our opening night of the 2026 Scottish International Storytelling Festival.
Hear from storytellers Ruth Kirkpatrick, Evrim Ölçer Özünel, Ian Stephen and musician Ceylan Hay (Bell Lungs) for an evening of magical stories and music in the Netherbow Theatre.
27 October 2026 | Scottish Storytelling Centre
Join us to relive the Open Hearth performance from 27 October at the 2026 Scottish International Storytelling Festival.
Hear from storytellers Bea Ferguson, Tom Muir, Sinéad O’Brien, and musician Maryem Tollar, for an evening of magical stories and music in the Netherbow Theatre.
29 October 2026 | Scottish Storytelling Centre
Tradition accrues and is transformed through relational and referential encounters, both anticipated and unanticipated, between uncertain and precarious human and more-than-human lives.
Amid displacement, migration, and the loss of languages and species, Dr. Tiber Falzett (Head of Irish Folklore in the School of Irish, Celtic Studies and Folklore, University College Dublin) asks what these ways of knowing carry, and what is lost when the voices that carried them fall silent.
Presented in memory of Scottish scholar Alan Bruford, in partnership with the University of Edinburgh’s Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies as part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival for 2026.
31 October 2026 | Scottish Storytelling Centre
Join us in reliving the Open Hearth performance from our final night of the 2026 Scottish International Storytelling Festival.
Hear from Harp and Carp (Daniel Serridge and Neil Wood), Morvern Graham and Marjolein Roberton for an evening of magical stories and music in the Netherbow Theatre.
TRACS (Traditional Arts & Culture Scotland SC043009) brings together the Traditional Music Forum (SC042867), the Scottish Storytelling Forum (SC020891) and the Traditional Dance Forum of Scotland (SC045085). TRACS is based at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, which is a partnership project between the Storytelling Forum and The Church of Scotland (SC011353).
