The Village Storytelling centre, Gasglow

On Thursday  7th July 2017 ,
Nicola and I  attended  Glasgow Village  Storytelling  Festival  at  the Centre for Contemporary  Arts.
I  enjoyed  seeing the evening  performances  which was the talking hands group with  interpreters  telling their life stories ., It made me feel with different emotions happy, sad  and also like joining  in signing  the song Amazing Grace . I found it very interesting and I  would to  take those skills to use in my storytelling.  I  enjoyed watching     Carl Cough  and Tony Evans     doing a few stories,   "The Old Moll"- the lady of the lake  with  Tony Evans  miming  the stories  including   the stone cutter. Tony was miming to Carl he wanted to tell a story , Carl said you couldn't tell a story without  wearing a waistcoat  so he dug it out  got it on I  found it was  very funny.


Our  performance  of Jack Review went very well  Nicola was  happy with what I remembered  of the stories , fortunately we only had a small audience of five people and in our workshop  we had 10 people joining us  they enjoyed the workshop and  joined in and told a quick story of Cariwens  Cauldron , I  enjoyed their  meals they gave us on Thursday and brought my self some earrings .
I would  like to visit and be part of the village  storytelling  centre again .


Katie Branch  

Creative Histories

We went to Bristol Zoo Gardens on the 19th July 2017 for the Creative Histories Meeting in the Clifton Pavilion. The first talk was with Daphne Knott and Ghislaine Peart called Threads of Time which was about The Travelling Case of John Radcliffe I thought their tapestries were great. Then the Secord talk was run by Creative Wiltshire and it was about Collecting Cultures and we looked at arts and crafts plus performances. Then it was us Open storytellers we did a talk about Fanny Fust we got the audience involved in making fans and acting out the court case and they enjoyed it. We had a celebration and I show my artwork and looked at some artwork on display.

     

storytellers at the giant jam.

Openstorytellers went along to the Giant Jam at  Ammerdown centre at Rad stock.
We told two stories at the event which were Knight and Days in the Kitchen and King of the Goblins. The audience enjoyed our Saturday night fever dancing and being goblins.
I thought the day went really well and everybody performed brilliantly, plus I watched three live music bands and took part in a ukulele music workshop. Everyone enjoy the refreshments in the garden on a nice day and enjoy our storytelling. We thought the jammy dodgers were the best.

 
The people said we were the best storytellers they had ever seen.        
Robin

Bradley I enjoyed the Big Giant Jam being part of all the events and
telling stories with Open Story Tellers performing to the public.
I also enjoyed loops disco and and being part of the hearts beats Workshop
I recorded some of the music Hearts beats made .
I went home and remixed the hearts beats with other music
The event was funded by the National Lottery