Ailsa Dixon ~ Scottish Storytelling Past, Present & Future

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 TomOrkney stories and their historiesletting folk stories continue to grow in our own timeencouraging new storytellersthe delights of spontaneity in storytellinga wee tale from Aberdeenshire - Fittie's Portion"young" storytellers, and how not to be defined by age or other labelsAilsa's School of Storycraft for kidstelling stories about things you care about; defeating apathy and reconnecting emotionallylocal history storytellingstories 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 Islandsfinding earlier versions of folktalesGaelic waulking songs... and a bonus story, which Ailsa first heard from her granddad, Fraser Dixon: The Story of Tam Bichan - from Dingieshowe, Orkneycontact Ailsa Dixon here: https://tracscotland.org/storytellers/ailsa-dixon/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.