Host of guest storytellers will help celebrate Hillfoots tales and legends
The fourth‘Wild Hillfoots Storytelling Festival’takes place over a week later this month.
Hillfoots Tales will welcome a host of guest storytellers for a special week of events celebrating the stories and legends of the area’s people and landscape.
Now in its fourth year, the festival is part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival (SISF)‘Imagine’2021 and takes place from Thursday October 21 to Thursday October 28.
It begins with‘Legends at Legends’, an evening of storytelling about William Wallace with storytellers Padriag MacNeil and Joanne Dowd at
Legends Coffee House at the foot of the National Wallace Monument.
There is also an afternoon of informal storytelling,‘Story Fest Folklore’– with storytellers Laura Fyall, Eleanor Bell and Joanne Dowd – at the Woolpack Inn, Tillicoultry.
The‘Three Rivers Rising’ evening features story and song celebrating the history, folklore and music inspired by the Water of Leith, the Tay and the Forth at the Bridge Inn, Tillicoultry.
It will finish with the‘Wild Hillfoots Storytelling Workshop’ on traditional, oral storytelling skills.
Director of the Scottish International Storytelling
Festival Donald Smith said:“We invite you to imagine something different, somewhere else, someone else.
“To look again at the world around us.
“Human connections will continue to thrive through stories regardless of where we are in the world.
“Another great year for the Hillfoots Tales, imagining what might be possible with their stories.”
All events are bookable on eventbrite, check the Hillfoots Tales FaceBook page or Twitter @ hillfootstales for details, or email hillfootstales@gmail for further information.