Magic Torch are delighted to reveal that we have received funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund "Your Heritage" programme to deliver a new project - "Tales of the Oak", which over the next 18 months will create a new storytelling club and publish two new books.
The new project will include
- opportunities to be trained by the Scottish Storytelling Centre on how to use oral tradition to celebrate local heritage
- new research in local and national archives to collect supernatural tales and local folk stories
- publication of a fully illustrated "scary storybook" retelling local legends and stories for children 4-8 years old
- publication of a 1950s style "terror comic" featuring scary stories and retellings inspired by local legends and ghost stories
- a new storytelling club, with sessions running Winter 2012, Spring / Summer 2013 and again in Winter 2013
- a chance for local schools to be involved in a Scary History competition; pupils will be asked to submit their own scary story with the winning entry included in the childrens book or illustrated for the comic.
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We are not looking for people to do a formal presentations, or give a performance; it’s not a book reading or a drama group. We want to draw inspiration from the tales that folk used to be tell around firesides. Those folk were not professional storytellers, neither are we. We want to help restore an old oral tradition by creating a new living tradition.
We'll be sharing regular podcasts of stories from the club on our Soundcloud page and hopefully via itunes as well.
The blog will be the main way to follow what's going on in the project, so be sure to bookmark us, or subscribe via email / feedburner.
The entire project is volunteer run, with all the funding being used to pay for project outputs like storytelling training or the publications.
If you've been following the blog for awhile, you'll know that over winter we like sharing ghost stories. In fact, our first book, published in 2000 even included a few. We've had stories about cursed trees, sad tales of forgotten loves and over on my own blog Stramashed there's been the tale of The Duchal Well and some sugar sheds flash fiction based on the urban legend of The Catman
But there's always more to hear
- what's the story with the Arts Guild ghost, surely now lonelier than ever?
- any Cappielow Ghouls?
- any truth to the rumour of Roman legionnaires marching over the moorland behind Kilmacolm?
- is Ravenscraig haunted?
Project funders, Heritage Lottery Fund, are keen to hear from Inverclyde groups with other heritage project ideas. Interested groups can find out more from the website www.hlf.org.uk or by contacting Development Officer Louise Hastie directly on LouiseH@hlf.org.uk.
We love collecting and sharing stories, and this new project will let us do that in all new ways, we're looking forward to you getting involved. You can contact us at aulddunrod@gmail.com
For now, here's one we made earlier....
For now, here's one we made earlier....
About the Heritage
Lottery Fund
Using money raised through the National Lottery, the Heritage
Lottery Fund (HLF) sustains and transforms a wide range of heritage for present
and future generations to take part in, learn from and enjoy. From museums,
parks and historic places to archaeology, natural environment and cultural
traditions, we invest in every part of our diverse heritage. HLF has supported more
than 26,000 projects, allocating over £4 billion across the UK and more than
£1/2 billion across Scotland. www.hlf.org.uk
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