The Botanic Gardens will be brimming with fairy tales this afternoon to celebrates the Scottish International Storytelling Festival …
Wind your way to enchanting storytelling hubs all around the Garden. If you’re lucky some of our roaming storytellers might find you first!
The main storytelling hubs will run a series of 15 minute sessions on the hour, at twenty past the hour, and at twenty to the hour between 1pm and 4pm: feel free to come and go between these sessions.
Yarns in the Oak Lawn Storytelling Village, 1pm – 4pm
The Yurt welcomes children up to 5 and their families
The Teepee welcomes children ages 6/7 + and their families
Tales in the Temperate Palm House, 1pm – 4pm
The Palm House welcomes adults and children
Stories in the Gateway Decking Outdoor Auditorium, 1pm – 4pm
The Auditorium welcomes adults and children
Please note these sessions will run weather permitting
A Box of Delights in the Gateway’s Patrick Geddes Room, 2pm – 2.45pm
Fun for all and particularly suitable for children with additional support needs
Roaming storytellers will be on hand to treat you to a story on the spot –
you may find some in the Chinese & Queen Mother’s Memorial Garden Pavilions!
Featuring the Storytelling Festival guest storytellers, SYT Family Storytime and some of the Botanics’ own Talking Trees Storytellers.
Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh