Storylands Sessions Show
Celebrate Diversity through music, poetry, and performance, with featured guest harpist, composer, and teacher Emma Wright.
Location
Kincraig Church Hall is located next to the Cairngorms Christian Centre at the top of The Brae and is wheelchair accessible via ramp. More information at https://alvieandinshchurch.org.uk/visit-us/
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Highlights
- In person
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About this event
Our fully inter-generational show runs from 7pm - 9.30pm drawing out the storytelling, music, poetry and song of the area, and features an invited guest to share about their work in the arts, heritage, ecology or adventure spheres. From 2025, a special addition to the shows will be the displaying of visual art and photography, curated by Aila Shafer.
Our next gathering will be part of the Badenoch Heritage Festival, so please note it takes place on the third Tuesday of the month – a week later than usual.
Tuesday 14th October, 2025
Theme: Lights of the North
Some prompts to inspire your contributions: light and dark, night skies, stars & constellations, all things North
Contributions from all ages are welcome and for our young performers we offer a Stagecraft Session, a free interactive rehearsal session from 5.45pm-6.45pm, open to all young people from 5 to 25 who have tickets for the Show. Everyone under 16 to be accompanied by a guardian.
Featured Guest: Daiva Ivanauskaitė-Brown
Our October theme is Lights of the North – celebrating stories, songs, and creativity that illuminate the dark months and shine with northern inspiration.
✨ Guest: Daiva Ivanauskaitė-Brown ✨
We are looking forward to welcome professional Lithuanian storyteller Daiva Ivanauskaitė-Brown, now based in Scotland. For over a decade, Daiva has shared stories inspired by Lithuanian and Scottish myths, folklore, literature and lived experience. She has performed at major storytelling festivals across Europe – from the Scottish International Storytelling Festival and the Village Storytelling Festival, to events in Spain, Italy and her native Lithuania – as well as at community events, libraries, schools and museums.
Daiva trained through the Scottish Storytelling Centre Apprenticeship Programme and has worked with leading masters of the craft. In addition to her performances, she is an applied storytelling practitioner with The Village Storytelling Centre in Glasgow, creating powerful projects with children, young people, women’s groups, migrants, people with disabilities, and many others whose stories are less often heard.
Her repertoire ranges from mythical legends to contemporary tales, often woven together with music and collaboration. Whatever the form, Daiva’s storytelling is full of heart, bringing people together through the oldest and most human art: sharing stories.
For guidance on how to contribute at a Storylands Sessions event, see below.
Programme
Our young performers will be programmed into the first half, but are welcome to stay the whole time, and our guest will feature in the second half.
The programme gets filled up very quickly, so performance slots need to be booked in advance. Read on...
We welcome:
- folk who just want to come along and listen. You don't have to perform to be taking part and thunderous applause is always appreciated!
- all kinds of stories: historical, myth and legend, your own experiences - or a mix!
- poetry: ideally your own, but your faves from other poets are welcome, too
- music: traditional, contemporary, original or borrowed; instrumental or sung; solo or ensemble
- art, photography, video and other multi-media presentations
We’ve even had step-dancing!
Anything on theme will do, up to five minutes, remembering that there usually children at the show.
You can offer a performance contribution on the spur of the moment on the night, but our programme is usually full and priority for slots will go to those who book in advance – which you can do in just a few minutes using our easy online form.
Performers can have a free ticket. Please fill out the form FIRST to find out if there’s space in the programme. We’ll reply with all the info you need to have a great time at the Sessions, but if there isn’t space for the upcoming show, we’ll invite you back to perform at a future one.
If this event is booked out, you can register for the Waitlist as tickets may become available closer to the day. NB: each waiting list entry is for ONE TICKET only, so please make a separate registration for each ticket you would like.
Kincraig Church Hall, The Brae, Kincraig, Inverness-shire PH21 1QD
(Located next to the Cairngorms Christian Centre)
Directions https://alvieandinshchurch.org.uk/visit-us/
UPCOMING STORYLANDS SESSIONS EVENTS
11th November - Reflection
9th December - Hidden Worlds
WORKSHOPS 2025, commencing February.
Find out more here about our 2025 Word & Image Workshops with Merryn Glover and Folk Music Workshops with Hamish Napier .
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Storylands Sessions is proud to be funded by Creative Scotland and by generous anonymous donors.
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