Scottish Storytelling Centre

Star of TV shows such as Penn & Teller: Fool Us and Dirty Tricks, Ali Cook presents an awe-inspiring array of illusionary entertainment. Ages 12+.

Horse + Bamboo Theatre presents a play about the extraordinary story of Angus McPhee, a crofter from the Western Isles who spent 50 years in a Highland psychiatric hospital producing incredible woven grass costumes, which ended up being exhibited in the early days of the CCA (then Third Eye Centre).

Andrea Dworkin: radical feminist. Alan Bissett: man. One microphone. Bissett plays himself, and one of the most original, reviled women in history, telling stories from his own life and from Dworkin’s. Expect an unflinching examination of porn culture, laughter and Led Zeppelin. From the team behind Fringe hits…

Local artists and producers set up their stalls with all sorts of fun stuff to riffle through in the Storytelling Court.

A relaxed session of oral storytelling, poetry by memory, music and song.

Scottish Storytelling Centre. Enjoy oral storytelling, poetry by memory, music and song in the relaxed ambience of the Storytelling Café. Come prepared with a piece to perform or just to enjoy the evening. Featuring a special guest host and many friends. Ages 14+.

David Campbell & Janis Mackay. Out of the northern mists the ancient hag of the mountain ridges – The Cailleach – dropped from her creel the peats that formed her beloved Caledonia. Join master storytellers David Campbell and Janis Mackay, with musician Wendy Weatherby, as they tell in words and haunting music, the…

Musician Kate Young leads this session in pairing voice and fiddle, offering tips and advice on how to accompany song. Two years' experience and the ability to play by ear required. Ages 12+.

Immigrants to Scotland tell stories about making the country their home in an open mic setting. Musicians Roxana and Peter Vilk lead the session. Booking is essential.

Close-up magic from Lewis Barlow, award-winning conjuror and magical consultant to the BBC. Ages 8+.

For the 25th anniversary of the explosion of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, this new play gives voice to six hypothetical passengers before and after the event. A US intelligence agent, a Scottish investigative journalist, a retired couple and a mother and her stepdaughter challenge each other with humour…

Mind magic from the mentalist maestro and creative consultant to Derren Brown. Ages 14+.

A collection of four short films made by refugee and asylum seekers.

Drawings (subtitled 'A graphic history of Scotland from 1314–2014') by artist who is also Senior Lecturer in Drawing & Fine Art at the University of Cumbria.

The playwright and poet launches his first full-length poetry collection, after cutting his teeth on a couple of chapbooks.

Time-travelling Victorian tricksters astound with their spiffing spectacles. Ages 7+.

Poorboy. Cameron is in NYC. Eilidh lives in Scotland. The technology in their pockets keeps them constantly in touch, but you can't hold someone in your arms over Skype and a text doesn't show you someone's smile. A challenging, ambitious and universal story told on a very human scale, Pirates and Mermaids is an…

Poor Polly Buckwheat is in a bit of a pickle! If she doesn’t turn a roomful of straw into gold by morning the greedy King will turn a bit nasty. But should she accept the help of an eccentric dwarf who mysteriously appears in her prison cell? Of all the fairy tale characters, Rumpelstiltskin is the most mixed up. He is…

Blind Poetics, Illicit Ink, Inky Fingers and Writers’ Bloc have put aside their differences to come together for National Flash Fiction Day (just kidding they probably all get along just fine). A number of Edinburgh's finest bring their terse, compact stories to the stage to prove tiny stories can still pack a wallop.

The beautiful Starbird loves her chicks and when the sun sets, she flies up high with sparkling wings, and shows them how to light up the stars until they sing, giggle and glow. But when a greedy hunter enters her magical forest, everything changes… Storytelling theatre with a dazzling fusion of Scottish and African…

Award-winning children's entertainer Tricky Ricky presents his spell-binding show for all the family.

Would-be wizards and aspiring conjurors battle to win a cash prize and the chance to compete at next year's festival. The under 18s compete in the morning, while the afternoon contest is open to all ages. Ages 10+.