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24
September 2012
The Clackmannanshire Storytelling Festival will be celebrating 'The Year of Creative Scotland' with a week long programme of storytelling, writing poetry and the arts, from the 27th October until 4th November 2012.
The festival is expected to welcome audiences from across the UK and beyond and will launch with events delivered in partnership with the Scottish International Storytelling Festival, and culminating in the celebration of some of the best of contemporary Scottish Poetry at the 'Alloa Poetry Jamboree'
Clackmannanshires Enterprise and Environment Convenor with responsibility for Tourism, Councillor Donald Balsillie, said: "The storytelling festival has something for everyone and is for all ages. It should t attract a lot of interest and hopefully bring people from outwith the area to enjoy what Clackmannanshire has to offer"
In true Scottish storytelling tradition, Resonate Arts House, Alloa's resident artists, photographers and film makers will join to create an interactive Arts Installation entitled 'Oslo Market', bringing a taste of International old Europe to your door, transporting the streets of Oslo from the 1800s through time and space, capturing the tales of poets and writers of the day to produce an intriguing environment for young and old to experience right here in Clackmannanshire.
The 'Word-Wide Photolog 7' is a specific storytelling project that runs throughout the week and unites the writing public, the written word, photography, the world wide web and the number 7 which, has been a mystical number in many a great story since the beginning of time.
This interactive arts installation compliments two exciting workshops to be held at Resonate Arts House:
Professor Heidi Dahlsveen from Oslo; will share 'The Storyteller's Secret' This is a practical workshop for beginners, and will give confidence in how to convey a story, find stories and develop story structure.
'All Cut Up' is a special event with the Scottish Poetry Library, exploring the art of cut-ups, and giving the audience an opportunity to make some of their own old-new poems.
'Meet the Author' - Stuart MacBride, the No. 1 bestselling author of the DS Logan McRae series, will be visiting Alloa Town Hall to talk about his 2012 best selling novel 'Birthdays for the Dead'.
The 'Alloa Poetry Jamboree' launches on Friday 2nd November at Alloa Tower and promises to be genuinely inclusive festival of the very best of Scottish contemporary poetry - traditional and left-field, pastoral and urban, raw and cooked, performance and print-based. It will make connections where none have been guessed at before, and shake up stereotypes about poetry (and poets) with it's exciting mix of readings and readers including:
Dorothy Alexander, Bill Herbert, Jim Ferguson, Kathleen Jamie, David Kinloch, Frank Kuppner, Tom Leonard, Gerry Loose, Peter Manson, Lila Matsumoto, Nick-e Melville, Drew Milne, Danny O'Rourke, Samantha Walton and Jennifer Williams.
The Clackmannanshire Storytelling Festival is sponsored by Creative Scotland and Clackmannanshire Council and supported by The Scottish Book Trust, The Scottish Poetry Library and the International Scottish Storytelling Festival.
Although many events are free, pre- booking may be required by calling 01259 450000.