Thursday 29 October 2015

Frome Sharing Festival



Openstorytellers are happy to be involved in The Frome Sharing Festival, which is taking place throughout November.

On Wednesday the 11th and 18th of November, the work skills group will be having an information share at the Openstorytellers studio in the Blackswan.

On Thursday the 19th and Thursday the 26th of November the office skills group will also be having an information share.

On Monday the 23rd of November the storytelling group will be having a story swap at the Frome share shop.

Please read more here https://sharefrome.files.wordpress.com/2015/10/finalprogramme005.pdf 


Thursday 15 October 2015

Bardic Chair Competition by Robin and Clemma

The Bardic Chair competition happened on the 24th of September, at Rook Lane Chapel, Frome.

Who was there? Openstorytellers group, Taffy Thomas, Nick Hennessey and his wife, Dr Nicola Grove, Jem Dick, a Cornish lady and a Romanian woman, there were loads of people there.
Nick Hennessey tells his story about Robin Hood

There were lots of storytellers doing individual stories.
Nick Hennessey told a story about Robin Hood and the Old Woman: that was a funny story, everyone was laughing.
And his wife told a story about the Coyote. Nicola told a Japanese story about the old woman. The Cornish woman told a story about a train and ice-cream. The Londoner woman told a story about a farmer. 


The Openstorytellers storytelling group

Our telling of the Stone Soup story was good, even the song went well!
Taffy Thomas

Taffy Thomas won the Bardic Chair Competition he told a good story about the Monkey that was on his storytelling coat. We thought it was very funny. 

Taffy Thomas in the Bardic Chair