2026 Events
Here is the first peek at our 2026 programme, with more day & weekend events to be added in the coming months. To REGISTER INTEREST for events, please fill out the form at the bottom of the page and specify which event(s) you would like to receive updates for when booking becomes available. Booking will become available in the coming weeks.
We will also have multiple day events both on -site and in other locations which dates will be added upon confirmation.
Work Party & Fireside Ceilidh
Come celebrate the coming of spring and help prepare the land at the Shieling.
There will be a range of tasks from painting, garden tending & simple carpentry to keep hands busy during the day.
In the evening we’ll light the fire and share stories, songs and music under a starlit sky.
Bring food to share and we’ll prepare a hearty stew for the evening.
Car share recommended.
Family Camp
Bring friends young and old to the Shieling for our first family event of the year. Nestled deep in the beautiful highland landscape, days will be filled with outdoor adventure, foraging, games, craft, fire, story and song.
Activities will be primarily aimed at 5-12 year age group, with younger & older children welcome. Parents and guardians will be an active part of the camp.
The Camp will include
Nature connection and exploration
Foraging and animal tracking
Outdoor games
Handcrafting
Song and storytelling
Fire lighting
Wild Pizza making
Scavenger hunt
Mudag weaving weekend
This is a collaboration with HGSDW, Naturally Useful & The Shieling Collective.
Join us for this weekend workshop, as we are guided in learning to weave the ''Mudag/Muirlag'' basket, facilitated by Karen from Naturally Useful. https://www.naturallyuseful.co.uk/
HGSDW: https://hgwsd.co.uk/
The Mudag is a traditional Scottish, egg-shaped, enclosed basket used historically in the Highlands/Islands to store, warm and dispense wool for carding and spinning. Often made from willow or marram grass, these baskets were placed near the fire to soften the wool's lanolin, making it easier to work.
Details of workshop:
This workshop will be a 2-day event, held at The Shieling.
You are invited to camp, or if you fancy it, there are bothy/cabin rentals available.. You can also travel to and from the venue each day if you desire to. We do encourage folk who are able to stay to do so, as it'll be a great opportunity to come together by the fire together with some Guild members and like-minded people. You can even bring your spinning, knitting or other craft projects for the evening fire-side craic!
Places are limited to 12 spots, with Guild members given first choice, before offering a place to those outside of the Guild.
Craft & Culture Day
We welcome you to join us for this event of demonstrations, workshops, talks & craic by the fire.
A collaboration between the Shieling Collective & other local artists/facilitators.
Join us for a day at the Shieling, as we open our season of events, we welcome you to come along for tasters of traditional crafts & cultural activities, from waulking the cloth, wool spinning & natural dyes, fire-side storytelling, butter churning, plant ID and more!
BYO lunch/snacks, a simple dinner will be provided.
We begin the day at 10am
Workshops/activities until 1pm, finish for lunch
2.30-5pm Activities continue
6pm dinner
7pm finish
Hide Tanning Weekend
During this three-day sheepskin tanning course, you will learn one Scotland’s traditional hide tanning methods to create a wool-on bark-tanned sheepskin.
Working slowly and attentively, you will be guided through the core stages of tanning with native tree barks, developing a practical and embodied understanding of this endangered craft. Alongside this, we will offer a simple overview of other tanning methods historically used in Scotland, placing bark tanning within its wider cultural and ancestral context.
Hosted by Bethan Bray and Lisa Krause of Woodland Tannery, in collaboration with The Shieling Collective.
Wool-craft Introduction Day
Join us for a day of introduction to wool craft at the Shieling
From wool preparation (carding, spinning, plying, dyeing) to basic felting,
There will be the option to choose workshops in either spinning or felting.
We begin at 9.30am
Lunch break at 12pm
Workshop continues from 1pm-4pm
No previous experience required.
Craft and Culture Camp
Calling all craft & culture-lovers & learners, from experienced to complete beginner -
We welcome you to a weekend at the Shieling, to immerse in activities such as wool spinning & craft, storytelling, Waulking the cloth & Gaelic song, Highlander survival skills, butter churning, and more! Come and weave a traditional creel basket.
Hosted by the Shieling Collective in collaboration with local facilitators & artists.
Healing Across Waters
Deep Roots ALBA & Sli na Sinsear EIRE collaborate on a Highland decolonial immersion, welcoming Gaels of Irish & Scottish descent back onto their ancestral homelands through a variety of workshops, ceremonies & craic! Together we explore what it means to restore our cultural identity, heal from severance and settler identities for those born and living on the colonies across the globe.
You can apply via the link
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScHinQ4ZWE4S-YaBhbIIoFvBccx9zlsHSOddBM1BqxnY1xsbQ/viewform
Willow Harvest Cèilidh
Join us here at the Shieling Collective as we harvest from our relatively humble willow coppice.
We invite you to come along to join this collective effort; and excuse to come together!
The fire will be going, the kettle will be on, and stew will be served!
Music, songs, poetry & stories welcome by the fire after the days work is complete!!
Là Fhèill Brìghde Story-Ceilidh & Crafts
Join us for an afternoon of craft, story, & song sharing as we gather to honour Là Fhèill Brìghde, the day of Brigid!
Join Aoife Lowden & Dougie Mackay of the Shieling Collective, who will both share craft, story & song, and open the floor to hear from you all in the old-style of the Ceilidh. We will have space to sit around in a circle, play music/tunes together and have a free-form sharing.
Register Interest
Please fill out the form below stating which event, and we’ll be in touch once booking becomes available.