Storytelling on world book day at Fosseway school.

On Thursday 2nd of March Bradley and Robin  from Openstorytellers went to fosseway School and
did a storytelling of Uwangalema.
Uwangalema is a story of African  animals  that include a zebra, a lion, a Rhino and a Tortoise.
The story starts off with all the animals in a valley in Africa. Over the last few days the animals started to forget the name of the magic tree in the valley of Africa.  On the hills of  the valley lived a god, the god knew the name of the magic tree. During the day animals took turns to go up the hill and find out the name of the tree.

We thought the 2 groups we performed to were very good listeners and they took part in all the discussion of the story. The first group was post 16 and the second was primary, the story was suitable for both and they all enjoyed it.
We would like to go back and work with Fosseway school in the future on new projects or a workshop.

.STORYTELLING IN A CARE HOME

Critchill Court Care Home in Frome, this is a home for the Elderly and some of them have Dementia. 

We did a storytelling performance and told the” Wassail story” which is a story about Somerset apples and people wassailing all over the town.

Everything went very well, we enjoyed telling the story and they enjoyed the joy and laughter of the story and singing.

CLEMMA FLEAT, KATIE BRANCH, AND NICOLA GROVE

We were invited to do a story for national story week, but sadly we couldn’t make it then. But we were able to go back today 2^nd of March on the national book day, to do a performance with a sing song too. The Audience liked the story and they joined in with the singing.

MONEY MONEY MONEY. It bought a sparkle and joy to them all, we enjoyed it too and hope hope to go back soon and perform again.

BY CLEMMA AND KATIE 2^ND MARCH 2017

Katie and Clemma telling stories at the children's festival

Open Storytellers Work Skills Group are commissioned to write an easy read leaflet for the town

 Our Work Skills group - Mike, Peter, Charlotte, Tracey and Katie have been working with Kate Hellard from Frome Town Council to create an easy read leaflet all about the town.  

We met up with the 5 town rangers and with Chris Stringer the Environment Manager. We asked them lots of questions about their work with open spaces, parks and rivers. We also met two Town councillors Sheila Gore and Peter Macfadyen. They told us that they are there to help people and listen.  We all went to see the offices on Palmer Street and saw there were lots of stairs and it was very small. It is so good that they are moving to the new Town Hall. We met lots of people who work there and they were really excited about the leaflet.

The last final few weeks have been really difficult as it has been a challenge to make all the information into easy read language.  We have achieved so much and its built our confidence. We have been doing lots of teamwork and the leaflet is now almost finished.  Soon people will be able to sample the leaflet and give us some feedback.

WATCH THIS SPACE! 

By the Mike Bulmer (BOND 009) Work Skills Group