32 Fringe Events at the Scottish Storytelling Centre

Fringe 2025

Welcome to the Scottish Storytelling Centre Fringe programme 2025, with 32 different events to explore this August!

Join us on a journey through traditional and contemporary storytelling, music, theatre, spoken word and shows for families.

Stories need an audience – people to hear them, imagine them and pass them on – so we invite you to join this carrying stream and become part of the story this Fringe. Whether seeing a show, browsing our bookshop or refreshing yourself at the Haggis Box Café, the Scottish Storytelling Centre is the perfect place for locals, families and visitors to meet. Our programme for August is specially curated to reflect the energy and variety of our year-round offer, so you are also very welcome any time of the year.

There’s food in the eating place, drink in the drinking place, and stories in the listening place – it’s all there waiting to be enjoyed.

We look forward to welcoming you this August!

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Scottish Storytelling Centre | Ionad Sgeulachdan na h-Alba

Welcome

The Scottish Storytelling Centre is a vibrant arts venue and the world’s first purpose-built Centre for live storytelling, programming a year-round traditional arts calendar of live storytelling, theatre, music, exhibitions, workshops, family events and festivals.

The Centre's ethos can be summed up nicely by the Scottish Traveller proverb, “The story is told eye to eye, mind to mind and heart to heart”, which suggests a welcoming spirit, inclusive nature and a place where anybody can share their creativity and humanity.

The building is owned by the Church of Scotland (Scottish Charity No SCO11353) and has a programming partnership with TRACS (Traditional Arts and Culture Scotland) (SCIO SC043009), hosting the Scottish International Storytelling Festival each autumn and operating as a base for their national work across Scotland and beyond.

‘This joyful, noisy, energy-filled space brims with a love of live storytelling and its power to make us think and imagine. 10/10!’
(The Guardian)

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Step Inside History

John Knox House

A-listed building dating back to 1470 which houses an exhibition exploring the Scottish Reformation.

A very unique and historic setting for small-scale events, like wine-tastings or intimate wedding blessings.

A guided tour of the house can also be arranged as part of your event, plus Story Tours for those wanting further insight into Old Edinburgh and its characters.

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“Arguably the most picturesque dwelling house in Edinburgh’s Old Town” (Frommer’s)

Need a Venue?

We'll help tell your story

We’ve had parties, conferences, ceilidhs, workshops, wine tastings, book launches, exhibitions and small weddings taking place in our venue.

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When are you open?

Opening Times

We are currently open Monday – Sunday, 10am-6pm.

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