Come join us for a lovely storytelling night!

New commission opportunity!

Following the success of our commissions over the last few years, we are again looking for two new pieces of oral storytelling work to be performed as part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival’s go local programme in October. The commissions are designed to explore language and identity with a particular emphasis on contemporary Glasgow. Our previous commissions have gone on to be performed in a variety of different locations both nationally and internationally. All commissions have the opportunity to be mentored and supported by the storytellers at The Village and be introduced to a variety of people across the Scottish, UK and European storytelling network. 

For full description and application please click here.

Lloyd Darko is an aspiring actor, filmmaker, director, and writer based in Glasgow. Being born and raised in Glasgow with Ghanaian family heritage has come with its obstacles and trials, but it has led Lloyd to an empowering journey of creative expression.

Lloyd’s storytelling practice is rooted in powerful, character-driven narratives that explore themes of identity, trauma, resilience, and faith. His work aims to give voice to underrepresented stories and spark meaningful reflection.

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Josey-ann is an artist and writer living in Glasgow and is interested in telling stories about class, work, women, inequality, mental health, history and art. For the last few years, Josey-ann has been telling stories through historical objects in her work as a museum educator. Now part of the emerging storytellers project with the Village, Josey-ann is excited by the opportunity to make historical stories that are not told widely into folklore.

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Liam Campbell is 22 years old, live in the northeast of Glasgow and have wanted to be an actor since 15th.
Studied at Elmvale primary school from in Springburn, and ST Rochs secondary school, which led him to study 3 years of acting and performance in Glasgow Clyde college.

He’s life is centred around helping others, ‘because I can’, it’s in his nature to help others. For the past two and a half years, he have worked at the community centre, as a community centre assistant. He’s a participant at Toonspeak young people’s theatre and Overdrive Dance company; with this, he have become a freelance artist for schools and theatre companies, teaching young people drama games and skills.

During the holidays he work at Summer in the city, a summer camp delivering these workshops, having the kids learn scripts, perform them for their friends and families. He had enrolled in the next generation project with Youth Theatre Arts Scotland.

Peilin is a (re)emerging wanderer who looks at entanglements. Drawn by her Hakka heritage, transcontinental relocation and global mythologies, she explores values, and survival strategies through stories.

She interprets storytelling as a way of reconnecting our circumstances as part of a larger, evolving organism/. Through this placement, Peilin hopes to explore how stories are told, shared, and lived in contemporary Scotland—across languages, communities, and mediums. Peilin will focus on humanising historical contexts through shared emotional textures—meanings and coexistence of loss/grief and joy/hope, with humour. She is particularly interested in multilingual storytelling, while uncovering both resonances and divergences in stories from various roots.

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Visit exhibition Home and Hope created by the adults from Glasgow communities and inspired by the Tenement House and Agnes Toward’s life!

Enter the living room full of stories, memories from the past, moments in the present and dreams for the future. These short stories explore participants’ experiences of making Glasgow their home – no matter if the person was born in Glasgow or arrived here much later in their lives. The stories are connected to the handmade artwork objects like cushions, wallpaper, pictures, pieces of furniture, and dishes –  all to celebrate the living room as a space of identity, cultural continuity and belonging. They bring the sense of common joy of receiving guests, dining together, playing games, and sharing stories. The living room space also is used for individual creative work, reflections and rest.

Come and get involved in the experience of Home and Hope. Immerse and reflect on your own stories about home, whether it may be Scotland or beyond.

This exhibition was produced through workshops delivered by storytellers Daiva Ivanauskaitė-Brown and Trinidad Cabezón Droguett and artists Hannah Brackston and Lababa Naqvi with our adult community storytelling groups: Pollok Voices – gathering adults from Greater Pollok area and beyond; Voices of Peace – migrant and refugee women art and storytelling group for South West of Glasgow; This Woman’s Voice – a storytelling group of women at the Pollokshaws Community Hub; Wheatley Care Maryhill Livingwell Service – storytelling group for adults with individual support needs. Home and Hope was one of the thematic projects for “Our Stories Our Voices 2023 – 2025”, led by The Village Storytelling Centre in partnership with the Tenement House & The National Trust for Scotland.