Welcome

As the tide went out on the shipbuilding history of Govan, many families in the community were left without work and meaning. Modern Govan has been left high and dry by this post-industrial legacy; roots are being lost, values are becoming blurred, and the fast-flowing current of modern life is leaving many behind. At GalGael, we have created a cultural anchor point around which local people are re-kindling skills, community and a sense of purpose. While our boats imaginatively reconnect elder and youth… people and place… urban to rural communities, the insider and the outsider… old ways and new… our past to our future. They serve as a powerful metaphor for transformation - recreating an inspirational folklore for the modern age.

We welcome you to our website; the pages that follow will share a little of our work; expressing the people side of what we do (folk), the skills and training side (work) and setting these in their urban and rural contexts (place). We hope you find your time here as inspirational as we find our daily work.

To make a donation, click here.

We often talk about being a creative community and that has led some muscially talented people to put together a CD, which you can sample and buy here! The idea and production were all done by volunteers and participants!

Find the new Govan Folk University we're involved in here!

For regular updates, please visit our blog here!

GalGael now have an emerging social enterprise - GalGael Timber. With support from the Third Sector Enterprise Fund we hope that the operation will make a significant contribution to the financial sustainability of GalGael. So if you're looking for Scottish hardwoods for construction or furniture making or just a few logs for your fire - get in touch!

To find out more about the Birlinn or Hebridean Galley, please follow this link;

http://www.galgael.org/birlinn/

For more information on the Dorna trans-european project, click here.

website funded by Communities Scotland's Futurebuilders investment programme