This is a past event
Scottish International Storytelling Festival - Aberdeen Event
This event is co-sponsored by the Elphinstone Institute and the Scottish Storytelling Centre, and is part of the 2018 Scottish International Storytelling Festival, 'Open Word–Open World'.
A continuing collaboration between Pakistani singer Sara Kazmi and Scotland-based musician Sarah Hayes joins an exchange of stories and poems between Pakistani poet Shazea Quraishi and Scottish storyteller Ian Stephen. Enjoy a lively journey in music, song, story, and poetry from the Isle of Lewis to Lahore.
Ian Stephen is from Stornoway, Isle of Lewis, and still lives there though he travels widely as a sailor as well as a performer, author and tutor. A graduate of Aberdeen University, Ian is a writer and storyteller as well as a volunteer skipper with traditional boat trusts on Lewis. His storytelling is indebted to his connections with the maritime world, developed during a Creative Scotland project to navigate through Scotland’s sea stories. He now passes on Lewis stories, some previously unrecorded and researches and revives Hebridean stories. He is the author of Western Isles Folk Tales, (The History Press, 2015), illustrated by Christine Morrison who also collaborated on his current book, Waypoints - Seascapes and Stories of Scotland's West Coast, (Adlard Coles Nautical/Bloomsbury, 2017). His poetry and fiction is published in many countries. A selected poems, Maritime, is published by Saraband, who also published his novel, A Book of Death and Fish.
This event is FREE, no booking required.
- Hosted by
- Elphinstone Institute
- Venue
- Linklater Rooms, Kings College, AB24 3FX
- Contact
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For more information contact the Elphinstone Institute on 01224 272996 or elphinstone@abdn.ac.uk