Afternoon out to see 'Up down man' at Salisbury

We had a day trip out to Salisbury play house to see  a  play  called " Up down   man."

    Matty  was a young man with downs syndrome and he liked music and all he wanted out of life was a boyfriend  not a girlfriend. The story was   very good and it was about a family that didn’t believe that Matty  had  a life  of his own.  His family and Matty  were really missing their mum who was  no longer there with them  any more.  They all miss her very much. But he did love his dancing and we all thought he was very good, the performance he did was  really well done.

       All the characters did very well with their role, we felt  it reflected on our lives and  made us all think of our families and how it made us feel  about   his character, we understood the way that he was feeling as well.

   The  trip was possible to go on because we had a donation from the Lions club of Frome  that enabled us to go and watch up down man at Salisbury.

We are very grateful for their support and we all really enjoyed it.   Katie and Clemma 

Work Skills film

Hi from Work Skills  

We all attend Work Skills group on a Wednesday all day. The work skills group has been doing filming about things like where they live and other things what they get up to in their spare time and what their favourite hobbies are. It is really great because it makes us feel like actors and actress now doing the filming. We are all happy about doing the filming because it has encouraged me now and we have done the best film ever. We are all pleased about it because it is all finished. Myself and Peter's has finished because it is already done. We were really chuffed about doing the filming because it was something different on doing in the work skills group.  We worked as a team doing the filming and we worked by ourself with Ben then we put them on the computer or in pairs but when we put them on the computer.

Take a look at our preview.........

Presentation in Wiltshire by Katie

On  Friday 5th  February 2016 I went to Wiltshire Parents Carers Council with  Lara, Clemma, and Simon to do a joint  presentation.
We looked at different organisations stalls that  were promoting  their companies when we arrived. We saw the OST office staff  who were there speak to parents who may be instrested to sign up to any of our days services for their children and chat to us. Had a lovely buffet lunch provided by the WPCC.
Then  in the afternoon we did our presentation with me starting the introduction to the presentation. Then we showed 2 films about Storysharing and Hallsway Manor. We talked  about what  the organisation  does. I told them what we do at Office group and Storytelling group and answered questions, had a general chat with Simon about when I started OST and Clemma had a chat with Lara and the parents about what she does and how far she has come in OST.
We had question and answering time from the parents and Stuart said to everyone thank you OST for coming to do your presention you did a great job. I  really enjoyed it.
Then after presentation we went to say goodbye and chatted to everyone in the foyer, they were very pleased with what we did.
We had a great time  and felt pleased with ourselves .

Visit to Frome fm radio. by Robin.

On Thursday 28th January Robin,Tim and Simon  went to Frome fm's  'community open studios'
-There was a live show being presented with lots of different speakers talking about themselves and their groups.

It was so busy that we didn't get a chance to speak! But they were very friendly and showed us their schedules on the computer and how it works.

They were positive about us having a slot in the future talking about our artwork and storytelling, as well as all the other groups in Openstorytellers.

We are looking forward to keeping in touch with them.

Katie's Festive Pantomine

As well performing with OST on Mondays, I  do other performing in  my spare time . I do  pantomimes nearer Xmas.  This  year, the  Little Theatre is doing George and the Dragon in Wells.
Tickets are still on sale to come and visit us - hurry up buy your ticket or you will miss a good pantomime! My role in George and the Dragon is the chorus, dressed as a man, if you want to see more, please visit us at http://www.littletheatrewells.org/

Katie Branch

The Share Festival by Robin

In November, we ran a two days' open office as part of the Share Shop Festival in Frome, to show the pubilc what we do in the office.

Here I am chatting with Mary about my artwork

 We looked at computer work on the i-Pads and project work like posters, drawings and written information to give the public a taste of what skills we practice. Then we told them about what work we do for Openstorytellers and the events we've been involved in.
We showed people the videos we've made about some of our storytelling performances.
It was a brilliant day and I really enjoyed sharing with the public in Frome!

Here's Katie showing Corrie the Accessible Team Handbook

Living Stories Production Returns To The Independent Market

The Work Skills Group at Openstorytellers are feeling really confident about our next market challenge. Selling a fantastic new range of products at The Christmas Market. As well as eye catching adults T-shirts we have colourful, amazing kids T-shirts, bags and Christmas cards. Adults T-shirts will be at the cheaper price of £16.00, Childrens T-shirts will be at the price of £14.00, the Christmas Cards will be at thye price of £1.50 and the bags will be at the price of £10.00. Sticks To You is going to the Christmas market this year next to Openstorytellers stall. The Christmas Market is going to be in town and Opentorytellers and Sticks To You will be  outside Alan & Harris Astate Agents.