The 2025 Scottish International Storytelling Festival, which runs from the 22 Oct – 1 Nov 2025, explores Scotland’s northern identity, sharing tales, songs and myths from the world’s northern arc, which bridges Finland to Iceland and connects Germany to Norway, with Scotland in between.

Over 11 days, some of the North’s most celebrated storytellers will join leading voices from Scotland to bring a feast of world-class storytelling, music, workshops, and shared experiences to Edinburgh and venues across Scotland.

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A huge thank you to all who joined us and took part in the Scottish Storytelling Centre Fringe programme 2025. We had another incredible month of stories, with 32 different performances showcased on repeat throughout August!

It was a lovely 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 were delighted that record numbers joined us in this carrying stream and became part of the story this August.

We look forward to welcoming you again for another Fringe in August 2026, but in the meantime we are open all year round presenting the same kind of great work! 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’ve had parties, conferences, ceilidhs, workshops, wine tastings, book launches, exhibitions and small weddings taking place in our venue.

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