Scottish International Storytelling Festival Opens with a Northern Theme

The 36th Scottish International Storytelling Festival (SISF) has the theme of Lights of the North and takes place in Edinburgh and across Scotland this late Autumn.  Over the 11 days of the festival, celebrated storytellers from Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Germany will join leading voices from Scotland in a programme of traditional storytelling. NorwegianContinue reading “Scottish International Storytelling Festival Opens with a Northern Theme”

An Evening with Carlo Rovelli: Celebrating 10 Years of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics

Internationally recognised as one of the most inspiring scientific thinkers of our time, is Carlo Rovelli who currently directs the quantum gravity research group at the Centre de Physique Théorique in Marseille, France. This September marks a decade since Rovelli’s book Seven Brief Lessons on Physics first presented to the world its poetic vision of science.Continue reading “An Evening with Carlo Rovelli: Celebrating 10 Years of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics”

Children’s Theatre Company Catherine Wheels Announces New Development Fund

Scotland’s celebrated producer of work for children and young people, Catherine Wheels Theatre Company, announces a new call out with Make Space, whose aim is to appeal to artists and collectives for the research and development of new ideas and new work for children, with a focus on schools. Practitioners can be from any creativeContinue reading “Children’s Theatre Company Catherine Wheels Announces New Development Fund”

Submissions Now Open for the Popcorn Writing Award 2025

Established in 2019 by the film and theatre production company Popcorn Group, Popcorn Writing Award 2025 is now open for submissions. This unique award celebrates bold, imaginative new writing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, offering a £6,000 prize fund that goes directly to writers recognised for their notable, groundbreaking scripts. Further to the prize fund,Continue reading “Submissions Now Open for the Popcorn Writing Award 2025”

Karine Polwart Announced as Dr Gavin Wallace Fellow for Year’s Writing Residency

Karine Polwart is a well-respected Scottish writer, musician and storyteller whose work, that evokes a richness of place, hidden histories, scientific enquiry and folklore, spanning collaborations, solo performances, poetic essays, picture books, theatre projects and radio documentaries. She has been chosen by Edinburgh’s Fruitmarket Gallery to be the recipient of this year’s Dr Gavin Wallace FellowshipContinue reading “Karine Polwart Announced as Dr Gavin Wallace Fellow for Year’s Writing Residency”

Film Calling for Ban on Greyhound Racing up for Top Prize at Film Festival

The 6th Big Syn International Film Festival, that is the world’s biggest sustainability film festival, had a grand opening at Europe’s biggest screen, London’s Piccadilly Lights, where it reached over 45 million in 120 countries. It is led by a Grand Jury of OSCAR, BAFTA and EMMY award-winners and leaders from the United Nations, House of Lords, as wellContinue reading “Film Calling for Ban on Greyhound Racing up for Top Prize at Film Festival”