Community Projects, Performance, Film and Beyond!
Verbal
HERBAL MAGIC
in other contexts
Film recorded live at The Scottish Storytelling Centre, Edinburgh, as part of a day long event looking at Scottish folklore as The Taibhsear Collective, with folklorist Scott Richardson Read (The Cailleach’s Herbarium ) and musician Debbie Armour (Burd Ellen) .
Over the years Amanda has lead and co-created a number of other projects and pieces which don’t quite fit into the categories of ‘schools’ or heritage’,
Projects which aim to gather stories or memories of plant use within communities which then bring people together and inform work created by the community or by artists from other disciplines, such as The Ruglen Ropewalk a story and sculpture trail created for community gardening charity Grow 73 or multidisciplinary workshop and performance pieces, like Scotia Botanica with ecologist, writer and storyteller Lisa Schneidau and film maker Zephyra Durkin or Handing On with artist and storyteller Jean Edmiston and film-maker Basharat Khan commissioned by The Scottish International Storytelling Festival.
Amanda has also created and delivered pieces for Radio Scotland, Retroviseur Production’s Lost for Words, ~Singapore International Storytelling Festival and Earth Up, with The National Storytelling Network of America
Herbal Storytelling has a magical way of bringing people together.
We are, after all, storytelling animals, we understand and remember things told to us as stories.
We all need, love and thrive if we connect to plants and these projects help take herbal storytelling to people in all kinds of places!
Project Archive
Outside the Box: Possible Formats
FOR VENUEs
She also creates sessions in a similar vein for venues and festival programmes, she has created interactive family workshops for Edinburgh International Science Festival and Achamore Botanic Gardens amongst others, find out more about her sessions for organisations at the link below.
SHORT STORIES
Amanda also shares short sessions of plant-embellished stories, designed to encourage literacy and creativity and increase respect and understanding of our relationship with plants and the natural landscape. These sessions work well if you have many classes all wanting short, twenty-minute sessions over a day for World Book Day or a similar event.
She has shared similar pieces live and online for over 8 years with the National Literacy Trust’s Young Readers programme.
You can see one of these online mini-sessions here:
Beyond the UK
Amanda has co-created immersive weekends of workshops and performance in the Hudson Valley and has a tour of talks and workshops planned across the west coast in America in 2025.
She’s also toured schools and colleges in China with Pana Wakke so if you have an exciting idea for a tour, an event or a project, do not hesitate to get in touch!
Each project is unique, designed and created as a collaborative process with the organisation, event, artists or institutions involved.
The focus and themes and how they connect to community and environment often shifts as the stories and plants reveal themselves.
But each one starts with a conversation and a passion to create something meaningful.
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Get in Touch
Curious to explore the process of creating a custom-tailored projectwith Amanda?
Tel +44 7884107466