Lindsey Gibb has been telling stories with the Ecomuseum for most of its first five years. A professional storyteller based in Perthshire, with over ten years’ experience, she loves discovering and telling stories about Scotland.
She has performed at the Edinburgh International Storytelling Festival and the Enchanted Forest, as well as creating and delivering workshops for a variety of audiences. Her love of history and nature is reflected in her stories and in her work in Environmental Education and Wildlife and Species Protection.
Lindsey telling the story of Vanora on Barry Hill in 2023, photo Clare Cooper
In this section, you can watch films or listen to recordings of Lindsey telling stories especially for the Ecomuseum:
Firstly, in 2021, as part of the first phase of our Museum of Rapid Transition programme, Lindsey created a new StoryBank for us called ROOTED. She researched, curated and then told thirteen stories on film, each of which illuminate how past communities from all cultures across the world understood their interdependence with trees and passed on that knowledge and the values that went with it, through stories, myths and legends:
Secondly, Lindsey has also told a series of stories from the wider Cateran Ecomuseum area, which you can listen to below:
The Awakening
The Story of Vanora
The Story of Diarmuid and the Boar
The Story of the Shearer of Glenshee
The Story of Clach a’ Chlarshair or The Harpers Stone
The Story of a Stony Dilemma
The Story of the Baobh
The Story of Colly Camb
The Story of the Clutching Hand