Gairloch Museum Festival of Stories: Make Room for Stories

Gairloch Museum’s festival of stories, running from 2 to 13 September, features a packed programme of storytelling, performances, talks and guided walks for Scotland’s Year of Stories.

Guests include broadcaster Roddy Maclean who will lead Gaelic walks into the hillside behind the museum, Abe Locke whose illustrations were used to create a magical short animation about a Gairloch fairy tale – ‘The Gille Dubh: The Last of the Fairies’, Heather Yule with a suppertime performance inspired by the folklore of Otta Swire, and Andrew Crummy with some of the local stitchers involved in the Highlands & Islands tapestry project who will be telling their story in stitches. There will also be a celebration of local songs, local legends and even digital stories viewed using VR headsets.

Visitors are being invited to make themselves at home in the museum’s specially created (and highly retro) Room for Stories. Pull up a comfy chair, read some stories to family and friends, write a tale on the story wall, have a go at some story games and listen to some oral histories. Times and prices for events vary. Details of the full programme can be found on the Museum’s website