Calling young writers and artists! Or those who’d just like to give it a go.
Spark your creativity with this series of workshops in an exciting partnership between the Highland Folk Museum and Storylands Sessions.
Each month, we will gather at the Museum’s Am Fasgadh building to be inspired by unique objects in the Museum’s collection. Spooky huts, old shinty sticks, funny costumes and so much more. These will be springboards for your imagination and you can travel wherever it takes you, writing poetry, stories, drama or comedy!
The workshops are offered to anyone aged 13-18 - no writing experience needed.
Visual artists are also welcome to come and sketch or paint. Please book in the normal way and bring your own materials.
This will be a relaxed, fun and welcoming workshop for anyone to join.
The workshops take place on the first Tuesday of every month starting 4th of February (except July) from 5-6pm. You can come to as many or as few as you like, but there is a discount for a block booking.
PLEASE NOTE: Some workshops involve walking to a location in the wider museum so all participants must be ready to depart AT AM FASGADH by 5pm. We suggest arriving 10 minutes early. Likewise, it is essential that guardians arrive for pick-up NO LATER than 6pm. Storylands Sessions and HFM staff cannot wait with young people beyond this time as another workshop follows soon after.
Bring paper or notebook, pencils or pens, a playful spirit AND outdoor clothing.
These workshops are mainly led by Sessions co-host and local author, Merryn Glover. Merryn's books, Of Stone and Sky and The Hidden Fires: A Cairngorms Journey with Nan Shepherd are set in Badenoch, Speyside and the Cairngorms. Her first novel, A House Called Askival, is set in India, where she grew up. She has also written plays and short stories for BBC Radio and is a regular contributor to the Guardian Country Diary. AND she is a qualified English and drama teacher who has led workshops for young people for over 30 years.
Other workshop leaders will be Karen Hodgson Pryce, Andrea Turner and Barbara Henderson.
PROGRAMME 2025
1. Feb 4th: FABRIC Merryn Glover
2. March 4th: MUSIC Andrea Turner
3. April 1st: FOOD Karen Hodgson Pryce
4. May 6th: TREES Merryn Glover
5. June 3rd: CHILDHOOD Barbara Henderson
July - no workshop
6. Aug 5th: FIELD Karen Hodgson Pryce
7. Sept 2nd: SPORTS Merryn Glover
8. Oct 7th: FAITH Barbara Henderson
9. Nov 4th: CRAFTS Andrea Turner
10. Dec 2nd: FIRE Merryn Glover
The Highland Folk Museum, run by Highlife Highland, is mainland Britain’s first open-air museum. Workshops will take place both inside and out and about when the weather is fine.
