Scottish International Storytelling Festival 2008
24th October - 2nd November 2008

Following the Standing Other Stones workshop on the 25th October 2008 we are pleased to be able to release online a selection of content produced by the participants. Here's an extract from 'Untitled' -

But rain remained, and wind, they have never left me, and now they bring me gifts. Fragments of earth. Fragments of life. Promises of warmth. The mosses have grown. The plants have whispered. They see for me. They hear for me. They live. They tell me...

Scottish International Storytelling Festival 2008
24th October - 2nd November 2008

Following the Standing Other Stones workshop on the 25th October 2008 we are pleased to be able to release online a selection of content produced by the participants. Here's an extract from 'Stone Song' -

I liked the small things which grew around me,
I liked the grit and the silt.
Things which come as a mass, a quantity.
Non-count things
Small things

Scottish International Storytelling Festival 2008
24th October - 2nd November 2008

Following the Standing Other Stones workshop on the 25th October 2008 we are pleased to be able to release online a selection of content produced by the participants. Here's an extract from 'Stone in Two Voices' -

When you walk these streets,
Which are the whorls of embroidery in my gown,
The music of your footfall reaches me.
The cadence of your thoughts.
The harmony of your heartbeats.

Scottish Book Trust, 55 High Street, EH1 1SR
Saturday 25th October 2008, 10am - 6pm

This one-day workshop at the Scottish International Storytelling Festival took a look at traditional stone worship and its modern manifestations.

Stones are pretty durable - they have been around for a good while. Yet despite their apparent hardness, they have been quietly absorbing a whole range of human behaviour over the years, some of it serious and enlightened, and some of it downright outrageous and crazy. Ordinary folk, drunkards, kings, gods and spirits have all devoted time and attention to these seemingly silent objects.

Everyone has the potential to develop a special relation to a stone of their own choosing, be it standing or lying, polished or rugged, urban or rural. Focusing on a selection of urban stones, the participants discovered alternative methods of storytelling relating to the worship of ancient stones and their contemporary alternatives.