Scottish International Storytelling Festival 2024 – United Kingdom

2024 marks the 35th anniversary of the Festival, coinciding with the 35th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Since 1989, SISF has been building bridges between cultures, artists and audiences all over the world through the power of storytelling – connecting past, present and future.

The theme of the 2024 Festival is ‘Bridges Between’. At a time where literal, figurative and societal walls continue to be constructed, SISF 2024 invites practitioners within the wider storytelling and creative community to look beyond these boundaries by submitting a proposal on the theme ‘Bridges Between’.

Funding Information

• They hope to select up to ten proposals. Applicants will be asked to select the category which applies to their proposal.
  • Five new work opportunities are available at an average fee of £5,000.
  • Five development work opportunities are available at an average fee of £3,000. Applicants should state how this new staging would be a clear development from the original work.
  • In addition to the ten selected proposals, the Festival will also support a limited number of projects in the first stages of development and/or from early career storytellers, by including them in the SISF programme as work in progress. A fee of £500 will be provided to support a work in progress.

What they are looking for?

• Work which relates and responds to the theme of the 2024 Festival.
• It may be completely new, or a development of something that has been performed no more than five times and in limited locations.
• It should draw on the creative methodologies of oral storytelling and may include collaboration with other artforms if desired.

 Eligibility Criteria

• Each proposal must be submitted and led by a storyteller based in Scotland.
• Applicants must show a successful track record of performance work.
• Each applicant is limited to one proposal.

For more information, visit Traditional Arts & Culture Scotland.