Upcoming In-Person
Events and Workshops
Under a Faol Moon.
6.30pm Friday 1st may 2026 at the Old Mill, Killin.
An immersive evening of storytelling and live music exploring the world of local wolf legends, created and performed by storyteller Amanda Edmiston and harpist Céline Boisson.
Wolves roam through Scotland’s stories, but Killin has a wolf tale all its own. This newly commissioned piece for Stirlingshire’s ‘Carnival of the Wolf’ weaves together local wolf-lore, guises and spells that celebrate collaboration and community resilience when the Faol Moon (Wolf Moon) of hardship hails the most testing of days. Through story and clàrsach soundscape, discover how keeping our wolf legends alive keeps the land and communities alive – glimpse into how our ancient wolf-lore for a sustainable and magical future. An atmospheric performance with herbal tea and snacks provided.
May stories and beautiful Music at Langley tracks.
An evening of music and story:
Amanda Edmiston,
Conrad Bird,
Joshua Arnold and Therine,
Langley Tracks,
the beautiful old Station House in Langley, Northumberland. 7pm, 9th May 2026.
Workshop at Cample Line
Sunday 17th May 1-4pm
Herbal stories weave threads throughout every culture. Join Amanda at the unique Dumfries and Galloway place that is Cample for a herbal folklore workshop alongside their current exhibition – The Unearthed by Anderson Borba for an afternoon of stories, plants, recipes and remedies.
In the workshop, Amanda will use storytelling to introduce traditional, nature-based knowledge, taking familiar plants that grow all around us and looking at their roles in folklore and as traditional remedies over many generations.
There will be plenty of chance to explore the plants in Cample’s greenspace and share inherited stories, memories and insights. We will also create small folded books from ethically sourced handmade plant papers and use them to create our own ‘hidden herbals’.
Online with The Folklore Centre, Todmorden
06 May 2026, 19:00 – 20:00
Traveller's Tales and the Healing Herbs that help us navigate the paths.
A story-led journey with Amanda Edmiston (Botanica Fabula) taking a look at the folklore, fairy tales and legends that have followed travelling communities and communities that have travelled and the healing plants that feature in them.
Amanda's book Collected Curiosities is out this June and she has created this talk for the Folklore Centre she will be blending traditional storytelling, her own herbal knowledge and offer insights into her research into her own family's English Romany connection and her work researching Scottish traveller tales (with kind permission of her mentor Jess Smith), and suggesting herbal teas from the stories that you could safely prepare, affordably access and sip as you listen to this evenings session!
If you’re looking to book the Midsummer crown making and plantlore workshop at the A.K Bell Library in Perth on the 13th of June, don’t worry you’ve not missed it, bookings haven’t gone live yet. We’ll share it here ASAP, or check their events page HERE because the places will go fast!
Botanica Fabula at Dilston Physic Garden,
Saturday 11th July 2026 2-3.30pm
Adukts £10, Children/Concessions £7, Family ticket £25
Join herbal storyteller: Amanda Edmiston in the Sitooterie at Dilston Physic Garden, for a magical step into the world of the Botanica Fabula: a place where fairytale, legend, folklore, traditional plant use, social history and science meet, for this multi-sensory storytelling session suitable for all ages.
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