On this full moon night we had a visit from a young Scottish-Dutch storytelling friend, who is also a great grandneice of Orkney's beloved poet, George Mackay Brown. Please enjoy our blether with stories.
In this episode you'll hear about:
- Ailsa's experience of learning about her heritage from Tom
- Orkney stories and their histories
- letting folk stories continue to grow in our own time
- encouraging new storytellers
- the delights of spontaneity in storytelling
- a wee tale from Aberdeenshire - Fittie's Portion
- "young" storytellers, and how not to be defined by age or other labels
- Ailsa's School of Storycraft for kids
- telling stories about things you care about; defeating apathy and reconnecting emotionally
- local history storytelling
- stories about kindness; "heart stories"
- Ailsa tells her heart story, Kate Crackernuts, which is not - as is commonly misunderstood - an English tale, but was collected in the Orkney Islands
- finding earlier versions of folktales
- Gaelic waulking songs
- ... and a bonus story, which Ailsa first heard from her granddad, Fraser Dixon: The Story of Tam Bichan - from Dingieshowe, Orkney
- contact Ailsa Dixon here: https://tracscotland.org/storytellers/ailsa-dixon/
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