Business Overview

The Orkney Folklore and Storytelling Centre is an Island Heritage and Creative Learning Centre sitting in Sandwick,in the middle of the UNESCO World Heritgae site 'The Heart Of Neolithic Orkney just 3 miles from the Ring Of Brodgar,Ness of Brodgar , and the Standing Stones of Stenness and 2 miles from Skara Brae,the Stone Age Village sitting in Skaill Bay on the North West Atlantic coast of the Orkney Mainland Island.
The Centre's primary aim is to promote the Orkney Islands and Scottish Highlands oral traditions of storytelling,folklore and customs,sagas,ballads,song,poetry and rhymes through events,programmes and StoryCircles workshops that combine Orkney and Scottish legends,lore and social customs with traditional Island music,song and dance.
By offering,exploring,recording and presenting the social customs,folklore traditions,beliefs,legends and lore through expressive arts, traditional and contemporary narratives embraced in the ancient storytelling art we share and discover some of the ancient oral customs and celebrations of these Islanders who worked the land and fished the seas or as the Orkney writer George MacKay Brown called his fellow Orcadians 'The Fishermen with Ploughs'.