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Close up of a baby's head from behind, looking outwards towards a room which is blurred
Connecting Stories
The Village Storytelling Centre
Online
On a bright sunny day, we see high flats at a medium distance. Immediately above there is the underside of a urban pedestrian overpass, which ends in mid air and is fenced off without reaching a destination
What the Burn Saw
Victoria McNulty
Online
Tumshie
Eilidh Reilly
Online
Re: Connection
Gavin Inglis
Online
First
Hazel Glass
Online
The Immram I am In
Dan Gough
Online
Mirror Mirror in My Hand
Say Women, Nic Dickson (Artist-Researcher), Lauren Bianchi (Storyteller)
Tuesday 5 July 2022
SaltSpace
A woman holds a book, reading the story of The Girl and the Robber. We are looking over her shoulder at the page of the book.
1. More Than a Footnote: A Quest to Restore Queer Stories
Lauren Bianchi, Sarah Rankin and Colin White
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 7:30pm
CCA, Theatre
Choose Your Own Adventure: The Great Democratic Story Experiment!
Mark Borthwick
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 7:00pm
Zoom
Storyteller, Shona Cowie, leans towards us wearing a green houndstooth coat and cupping her hands in front of her.
Beware the Beasts
Shona Cowie
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 1:00pm
CCA, Theatre
In the centre are two black paper cut outs of silhouettes of a taller and shorter woman with a braid. These are pasted in front of rainbows made from woven fabric
Paper Rainbows
The Village Young Storytellers
Wednesday 6 July 2022
CCA, Cinema
Storyteller, Sita Brand, is speaking mid-performance facing and gesturing towards the right. She has short dark hair and is in darkness with three bright lights behind her.
The Boy with the Moon on His Forehead
Sita Brand
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 4:00pm
CCA, Clubroom
A split image, the left side shows mountains from above, the right shows a close up of foamy waves
Hear Us and Hasten
Ailsa Dixon and Ffion Phillips, with Shona Cowie
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 6:00pm
CCA, Theatre
The storyteller, Phil Okwedy, sits in front of envelopes and traditional Nigerian statues
The Gods are All Here
Phil Okwedy
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 8:00pm
CCA, Theatre
An illustration where blue circle frames a bright sun in an orange sky. There are clouds beneath the sun and silhouetted birds to the right
Exploring Death and Life through Storytelling: Grief and Loss
Rebecca LeMaire and Maggid Jim Brulé
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 2:30pm
Online
A pile of old airmail letters in their unsealed envelopes
Recapturing Our Lives Through Letters
Phil Okwedy
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 1:30pm
CCA, Clubroom
Leader of the workshop, Pyn Stockman, is seen in green gesticulting with her arms
Tell It To the Bees
Pyn Stockman
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 11:00am
CCA, Clubroom
An orange sunset over a calm turquoise sea and beach
Mental wellbeing for participatory storytellers (and artists) in precarious times
Colin White
Thursday 7 July 2022, 2:30pm
Online
Storyteller Phil Okwedy stands side-on looking at the camera against a stone wall covered in ivy
In Your Mind’s Eye
Phil Okwedy
Thursday 7 July 2022, 2:00pm
CCA, Theatre
View from above of the legs and feet, with a range of colourful shoes of five people standing on a geometric carpet
Finding Common Ground: Storytelling in a Conflicted World
Lauren Bianchi, Daiva Ivanuskaite and Arjen Barel
Thursday 7 July 2022, 3:00pm
CCA, Clubroom
View from above of the legs and feet, with a range of colourful shoes of five people standing on a geometric carpet
Voices of Peace
The Voices of Peace Storytellers with Lauren Bianchi and Daiva Ivanuskaite
Thursday 7 July 2022, 7:15pm
CCA, Clubroom
An orange sunset over a calm turquoise sea and beach
Mental wellbeing for participatory storytellers (and artists) in precarious times
Colin White
Thursday 7 July 2022, 12:30pm
CCA, Clubroom
Close up of a baby's head from behind, looking outwards towards a room which is blurred
Connecting Stories: Storytelling in the Early Years in a Post Lockdown World
Sarah Rankin and Daiva Ivanauskaitė, storytellers; Andy Gunn, film maker; Starcatchers, workshop leaders
Thursday 7 July 2022, 10:30am
CCA, Theatre
Storyteller, Daiva Ivanuskaite, is standing looking upwards with her eyes closed. She wears glasses and a green dress and both hands rest on her stomach.
Wolf Girl
Daiva Ivanauskaitė and Agnė Čepaitytė
Thursday 7 July 2022, 8:00pm
CCA, Theatre
A figure in white stands in bridge pose on a beach, the waves lapping at her hands and feet.
Selkie Soul
Sonder Circus and Kittlin
Thursday 7 July 2022, 6:00pm
CCA, Theatre
A Game of Candles
Tim Ralphs and Sarah Liisa Wilkinson
Thursday 7 July 2022, 9:30pm
CCA and Online
#HELD(IN) – translation #HERO(INE)
Ferhat Kaplan, Tania Christina and Robbie Wallin
Friday 8 July 2022, 6:45pm
CCA, Theatre
Maud Wagner - USA's first professional woman tattoo artist. Aerialist. Mother.
Women Who Gave No F*cks
Lucy Lill and Alys Torrance are joined by Stephe Harrop, Shona Cowie, Daiva Ivanauskaitė and Gauri Raje.
Friday 8 July 2022, 9:00pm
CCA, Theatre
A number of black slates arranged on the ground each with a single chalk word which read "never judge a book by its cover"
Storytelling for community planning – a question of ethics
The Village Storytelling Centre and the Centre for Civic Innovation
Friday 8 July 2022, 2:00pm
CCA, Clubroom
The Aurus Project: Using Applied Storytelling with Marginalised Groups
Helen Mill and Shona Cowie, Village Storytelling Centre
Friday 8 July 2022, 2:00pm
Online
The Aurus Project: Using Applied Storytelling with Marginalised Groups
Helen Mill and Shona Cowie, Village Storytelling Centre
Friday 8 July 2022, 3:45pm
CCA, Clubroom
Five women walking under a stone arch are seen from behind
(Because) We’re Worth It Too
By The Simon Community, Scotland and Lauren Bianchi, storyteller
Friday 8 July 2022, 6:00pm
CCA, Cinema
A number of black slates arranged on the ground each with a single chalk word which read "never judge a book by its cover"
The Aurus Project – Digging For Inner Gold: Toolkit Launch
The Village Storytelling Centre and International Partners
Friday 8 July 2022, 11:30am
CCA, Theatre
3 performers are seen all in white in a pool at the bottom of a mossy waterfall. Two of the figures perform a dance lift whilst the other sits on a rock, looking straight at the camera
Cailleach
Mull Theatre and Sonder Circus
Friday 8 July 2022, 8:00pm
CCA, Cinema and Online
Close up picture of a dew-covered spiders web across a tree stump
Memory Web-Weaving
Sarah Howells, Write to Remember
Friday 8 July 2022, 11:00am
CCA, Clubroom
A laptop is shown with tiles of several different faces. The word Casglu is across the front
Casglu: Digital Storytelling – It’s Better than Nothing?
Beyond the Border in partnership with the Village Storytelling Centre
Friday 8 July 2022, 11:00am
Online
Exploring Digital Stories – An Experiment
Mark Borthwick, Hazel Glass, Dan Gough, Gavin Inglis, Victoria McNulty, Eilidh Reilly
Saturday 9 July 2022, 1:30pm
CCA, Cinema
A coiled string of multi-coloured fairylights is in the centre of the image. On the left a man with long curly hair looks to the top right, with his hands half-raised. On the right a women with short dark hair looks straight at the camera
Crossing Strange Spaces: An Exploration of Online Storytelling
Stephe Harrop and Tim Ralphs
Saturday 9 July 2022, 12:00pm
CCA, Clubroom
An illustration where blue circle frames a bright sun in an orange sky. There are clouds beneath the sun and silhouetted birds to the right
Exploring Death and Life through Storytelling: Dancing with Death
Rebecca LeMaire and Maggid Jim Brulé
Saturday 9 July 2022, 2:30pm
Online
Close up in black and white of old hands playing a harp
Harp and Carp
The People of Dunterlie, Daniel Serridge and the Folks Music Project
Saturday 9 July 2022, 6:00pm
CCA, Clubroom
Storyteller, Dan Serridge, wearing a tall white chef's hat, is lying on the floor with paper plates, felt-tips and a pink-paper pig mask in front of him.
Feast of Fools
Daniel Serridge
Saturday 9 July 2022, 2:00pm
CCA, Theatre
Exploring Digital Storytelling – an Experiment: Artist Panel Discussion
Eilidh Reilly, Gavin Inglis, Dan Gough, Mark Borthwick
Saturday 9 July 2022, 2:30pm
CCA, Cinema
I Hope Your Flowers Bloom
Raymond Wilson
Saturday 9 July 2022, 9:00pm
CCA Theatre and online
Nefarious Practices
Allison Galbraith, Shannon Stevenson and Gaston Welisch
Saturday 9 July 2022, 7:00pm
CCA Theatre and online
A woman holds a book, reading the story of The Girl and the Robber. We are looking over her shoulder at the page of the book.
1. More Than a Footnote: A Quest to Restore Queer Stories
Lauren Bianchi, Sarah Rankin and Colin White
Tuesday 5 July 2022, 7:30pm
CCA, Theatre
Storyteller, Shona Cowie, leans towards us wearing a green houndstooth coat and cupping her hands in front of her.
Beware the Beasts
Shona Cowie
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 1:00pm
CCA, Theatre
In the centre are two black paper cut outs of silhouettes of a taller and shorter woman with a braid. These are pasted in front of rainbows made from woven fabric
Paper Rainbows
The Village Young Storytellers
Wednesday 6 July 2022
CCA, Cinema
Storyteller, Sita Brand, is speaking mid-performance facing and gesturing towards the right. She has short dark hair and is in darkness with three bright lights behind her.
The Boy with the Moon on His Forehead
Sita Brand
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 4:00pm
CCA, Clubroom
A split image, the left side shows mountains from above, the right shows a close up of foamy waves
Hear Us and Hasten
Ailsa Dixon and Ffion Phillips, with Shona Cowie
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 6:00pm
CCA, Theatre
The storyteller, Phil Okwedy, sits in front of envelopes and traditional Nigerian statues
The Gods are All Here
Phil Okwedy
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 8:00pm
CCA, Theatre
A Game of Candles
Tim Ralphs and Sarah Liisa Wilkinson
Thursday 7 July 2022, 9:30pm
CCA and Online
A figure in white stands in bridge pose on a beach, the waves lapping at her hands and feet.
Selkie Soul
Sonder Circus and Kittlin
Thursday 7 July 2022, 6:00pm
CCA, Theatre
Storyteller, Daiva Ivanuskaite, is standing looking upwards with her eyes closed. She wears glasses and a green dress and both hands rest on her stomach.
Wolf Girl
Daiva Ivanauskaitė and Agnė Čepaitytė
Thursday 7 July 2022, 8:00pm
CCA, Theatre
#HELD(IN) – translation #HERO(INE)
Ferhat Kaplan, Tania Christina and Robbie Wallin
Friday 8 July 2022, 6:45pm
CCA, Theatre
Maud Wagner - USA's first professional woman tattoo artist. Aerialist. Mother.
Women Who Gave No F*cks
Lucy Lill and Alys Torrance are joined by Stephe Harrop, Shona Cowie, Daiva Ivanauskaitė and Gauri Raje.
Friday 8 July 2022, 9:00pm
CCA, Theatre
Nefarious Practices
Allison Galbraith, Shannon Stevenson and Gaston Welisch
Saturday 9 July 2022, 7:00pm
CCA Theatre and online
I Hope Your Flowers Bloom
Raymond Wilson
Saturday 9 July 2022, 9:00pm
CCA Theatre and online
Storyteller, Dan Serridge, wearing a tall white chef's hat, is lying on the floor with paper plates, felt-tips and a pink-paper pig mask in front of him.
Feast of Fools
Daniel Serridge
Saturday 9 July 2022, 2:00pm
CCA, Theatre
Re: Connection
Gavin Inglis
Online
First
Hazel Glass
Online
The Immram I am In
Dan Gough
Online
Tumshie
Eilidh Reilly
Online
On a bright sunny day, we see high flats at a medium distance. Immediately above there is the underside of a urban pedestrian overpass, which ends in mid air and is fenced off without reaching a destination
What the Burn Saw
Victoria McNulty
Online
Close up of a baby's head from behind, looking outwards towards a room which is blurred
Connecting Stories
The Village Storytelling Centre
Online
3 performers are seen all in white in a pool at the bottom of a mossy waterfall. Two of the figures perform a dance lift whilst the other sits on a rock, looking straight at the camera
Cailleach
Mull Theatre and Sonder Circus
Friday 8 July 2022, 8:00pm
CCA, Cinema and Online
Five women walking under a stone arch are seen from behind
(Because) We’re Worth It Too
By The Simon Community, Scotland and Lauren Bianchi, storyteller
Friday 8 July 2022, 6:00pm
CCA, Cinema
Exploring Digital Stories – An Experiment
Mark Borthwick, Hazel Glass, Dan Gough, Gavin Inglis, Victoria McNulty, Eilidh Reilly
Saturday 9 July 2022, 1:30pm
CCA, Cinema
Leader of the workshop, Pyn Stockman, is seen in green gesticulting with her arms
Tell It To the Bees
Pyn Stockman
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 11:00am
CCA, Clubroom
A pile of old airmail letters in their unsealed envelopes
Recapturing Our Lives Through Letters
Phil Okwedy
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 1:30pm
CCA, Clubroom
An illustration where blue circle frames a bright sun in an orange sky. There are clouds beneath the sun and silhouetted birds to the right
Exploring Death and Life through Storytelling: Grief and Loss
Rebecca LeMaire and Maggid Jim Brulé
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 2:30pm
Online
Close up of a baby's head from behind, looking outwards towards a room which is blurred
Connecting Stories: Storytelling in the Early Years in a Post Lockdown World
Sarah Rankin and Daiva Ivanauskaitė, storytellers; Andy Gunn, film maker; Starcatchers, workshop leaders
Thursday 7 July 2022, 10:30am
CCA, Theatre
An orange sunset over a calm turquoise sea and beach
Mental wellbeing for participatory storytellers (and artists) in precarious times
Colin White
Thursday 7 July 2022, 12:30pm
CCA, Clubroom
Storyteller Phil Okwedy stands side-on looking at the camera against a stone wall covered in ivy
In Your Mind’s Eye
Phil Okwedy
Thursday 7 July 2022, 2:00pm
CCA, Theatre
An orange sunset over a calm turquoise sea and beach
Mental wellbeing for participatory storytellers (and artists) in precarious times
Colin White
Thursday 7 July 2022, 2:30pm
Online
View from above of the legs and feet, with a range of colourful shoes of five people standing on a geometric carpet
Finding Common Ground: Storytelling in a Conflicted World
Lauren Bianchi, Daiva Ivanuskaite and Arjen Barel
Thursday 7 July 2022, 3:00pm
CCA, Clubroom
Close up picture of a dew-covered spiders web across a tree stump
Memory Web-Weaving
Sarah Howells, Write to Remember
Friday 8 July 2022, 11:00am
CCA, Clubroom
A laptop is shown with tiles of several different faces. The word Casglu is across the front
Casglu: Digital Storytelling – It’s Better than Nothing?
Beyond the Border in partnership with the Village Storytelling Centre
Friday 8 July 2022, 11:00am
Online
A number of black slates arranged on the ground each with a single chalk word which read "never judge a book by its cover"
The Aurus Project – Digging For Inner Gold: Toolkit Launch
The Village Storytelling Centre and International Partners
Friday 8 July 2022, 11:30am
CCA, Theatre
The Aurus Project: Using Applied Storytelling with Marginalised Groups
Helen Mill and Shona Cowie, Village Storytelling Centre
Friday 8 July 2022, 2:00pm
Online
A number of black slates arranged on the ground each with a single chalk word which read "never judge a book by its cover"
Storytelling for community planning – a question of ethics
The Village Storytelling Centre and the Centre for Civic Innovation
Friday 8 July 2022, 2:00pm
CCA, Clubroom
The Aurus Project: Using Applied Storytelling with Marginalised Groups
Helen Mill and Shona Cowie, Village Storytelling Centre
Friday 8 July 2022, 3:45pm
CCA, Clubroom
An illustration where blue circle frames a bright sun in an orange sky. There are clouds beneath the sun and silhouetted birds to the right
Exploring Death and Life through Storytelling: Dancing with Death
Rebecca LeMaire and Maggid Jim Brulé
Saturday 9 July 2022, 2:30pm
Online
A coiled string of multi-coloured fairylights is in the centre of the image. On the left a man with long curly hair looks to the top right, with his hands half-raised. On the right a women with short dark hair looks straight at the camera
Crossing Strange Spaces: An Exploration of Online Storytelling
Stephe Harrop and Tim Ralphs
Saturday 9 July 2022, 12:00pm
CCA, Clubroom
Re: Connection
Gavin Inglis
Online
First
Hazel Glass
Online
The Immram I am In
Dan Gough
Online
Tumshie
Eilidh Reilly
Online
On a bright sunny day, we see high flats at a medium distance. Immediately above there is the underside of a urban pedestrian overpass, which ends in mid air and is fenced off without reaching a destination
What the Burn Saw
Victoria McNulty
Online
Close up of a baby's head from behind, looking outwards towards a room which is blurred
Connecting Stories
The Village Storytelling Centre
Online
Choose Your Own Adventure: The Great Democratic Story Experiment!
Mark Borthwick
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 7:00pm
Zoom
An illustration where blue circle frames a bright sun in an orange sky. There are clouds beneath the sun and silhouetted birds to the right
Exploring Death and Life through Storytelling: Grief and Loss
Rebecca LeMaire and Maggid Jim Brulé
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 2:30pm
Online
A Game of Candles
Tim Ralphs and Sarah Liisa Wilkinson
Thursday 7 July 2022, 9:30pm
CCA and Online
An orange sunset over a calm turquoise sea and beach
Mental wellbeing for participatory storytellers (and artists) in precarious times
Colin White
Thursday 7 July 2022, 2:30pm
Online
The Aurus Project: Using Applied Storytelling with Marginalised Groups
Helen Mill and Shona Cowie, Village Storytelling Centre
Friday 8 July 2022, 2:00pm
Online
A laptop is shown with tiles of several different faces. The word Casglu is across the front
Casglu: Digital Storytelling – It’s Better than Nothing?
Beyond the Border in partnership with the Village Storytelling Centre
Friday 8 July 2022, 11:00am
Online
Five women walking under a stone arch are seen from behind
(Because) We’re Worth It Too
By The Simon Community, Scotland and Lauren Bianchi, storyteller
Friday 8 July 2022, 6:00pm
CCA, Cinema
3 performers are seen all in white in a pool at the bottom of a mossy waterfall. Two of the figures perform a dance lift whilst the other sits on a rock, looking straight at the camera
Cailleach
Mull Theatre and Sonder Circus
Friday 8 July 2022, 8:00pm
CCA, Cinema and Online
An illustration where blue circle frames a bright sun in an orange sky. There are clouds beneath the sun and silhouetted birds to the right
Exploring Death and Life through Storytelling: Dancing with Death
Rebecca LeMaire and Maggid Jim Brulé
Saturday 9 July 2022, 2:30pm
Online
I Hope Your Flowers Bloom
Raymond Wilson
Saturday 9 July 2022, 9:00pm
CCA Theatre and online
Nefarious Practices
Allison Galbraith, Shannon Stevenson and Gaston Welisch
Saturday 9 July 2022, 7:00pm
CCA Theatre and online
Mirror Mirror in My Hand
Say Women, Nic Dickson (Artist-Researcher), Lauren Bianchi (Storyteller)
Tuesday 5 July 2022
SaltSpace
Close up of a baby's head from behind, looking outwards towards a room which is blurred
Connecting Stories
The Village Storytelling Centre
Online
Storyteller, Shona Cowie, leans towards us wearing a green houndstooth coat and cupping her hands in front of her.
Beware the Beasts
Shona Cowie
Wednesday 6 July 2022, 1:00pm
CCA, Theatre
In the centre are two black paper cut outs of silhouettes of a taller and shorter woman with a braid. These are pasted in front of rainbows made from woven fabric
Paper Rainbows
The Village Young Storytellers
Wednesday 6 July 2022
CCA, Cinema
A figure in white stands in bridge pose on a beach, the waves lapping at her hands and feet.
Selkie Soul
Sonder Circus and Kittlin
Thursday 7 July 2022, 6:00pm
CCA, Theatre
Storyteller Phil Okwedy stands side-on looking at the camera against a stone wall covered in ivy
In Your Mind’s Eye
Phil Okwedy
Thursday 7 July 2022, 2:00pm
CCA, Theatre
Storyteller, Dan Serridge, wearing a tall white chef's hat, is lying on the floor with paper plates, felt-tips and a pink-paper pig mask in front of him.
Feast of Fools
Daniel Serridge
Saturday 9 July 2022, 2:00pm
CCA, Theatre

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