Family Storytelling: The Big Red Hen & Friends at The National Museum of Rural Life, East Kilbride, Scotland. Easter Holidays 2024.
My Family Storytelling Show, as part of the J F Campbell of Islay Exhibition, at The National Library of Scotland, April 2024.
Family Storytelling at The National Library of Scotland, Easter 2024.
The Well At The Worlds End.
The Woolly Pet
Stories from J F Campbell of Islay's Collection at the NLS.
The Blacksmith's Son & the Fairies.
Swiftly over the forest of thorns.
Half-Term at The National Museum of Rural Life, East Kilbride, Scotland. February 12th to 14th, 2024.
Storytelling for families in the museum's theatre. A Scottish folktale, How to Flummox a Fairy, from Funny Folk Tales for Children, by Allison Galbraith (2023, History Press -see Books)
Delighted to announce that we WON the Health & Wellbeing Category at last night's #NatureofScotland Awards in Edinburgh! Whispers from the Woods & Wilds was a great partnership project with Scottish Wildlife Trust, Operation Play Outdoors & Lanarkshire Folk Tales, working with Glasgow's refugee and asylum seeking community and supported by the Community Stories Fund and National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland.
I enjoyed writing these book reviews for Shepherd.com - Check them out: The best world folktales for reading to everyone age six plus (shepherd.com)
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I worked with Dr Yvonne McFadden and Dr Arthur Mcivor on The Lost Villages Project in Dalmellington and Auchinleck, East Ayrshire, in May and June 2023. A fantastic look at the coal mining villages, the people (and a horse called Darkie) who lived and worked there. You can learn more about Strathclyde Univerity’s Oral History Centre and The Lost Villages project here: The Lost Villages | An Oral History of Miners' Rows and Deindustrialisation in East Ayrshire, Scotland.
Working with Keep Scotland Beautiful & The Scottish Book Trust in May 2023 for their School’s Live Lesson Week - Scotland’s Nature. Here’s a link to a video of my lesson for Early Years & Primary Schools: Allison tells the story Magpie’s Nest from Dancing With Trees, Eco-tales from the British Isles (2017 History Press) Live Lesson