Fanny Fust Progess so far

I n  July 10th.We went to the Bath Fashion  museum and  and looked at 18th century clothes that Fanny Fust might have worn. We  tried  on some of the clothes. We also visited the Royal Cresent - it showed us about life in 18th century -Women and Men had separate rooms. We also got other trip booked  to visit Bath fashion museum to handle the clothes.

In September 4th  We have also been  learning  18th century  dance with Ann Hinchcliff and Caroline David  with  the songs  to  lillibullero and over the  hills.

We also have been researching 18th century buildings in own  homes, flowing work colleges guide line and looked in the Frome museum and the Frome Library.

24th October we  are showing our work on Fanny Fust at Brigstow  institute showcase in Bristol.

funny fust news from Tracey

For our Funny Fust Project we are finding out about life in the 18th century.
We are looking for 18th century buildings and stories where we live.
We all live in different places. I decided to make a information sheet to help everyone.
18th century buildings had triangular roofs shapes with Pillars. These are called Porticos.
I found some pictures on the internet of these types of buildings. Jade and I thought we could find stories at local Libraries and local Museums. 
Here is what l put together.  

Heartbeats done fundraising for openstorytellers

On  Thursday 27th  July 2017 Heartbeats held a music workshop at the Hub Nub  for 2 hrs with a refreshment break  for anyone to join in and make music  with Jane and Russ  who runs  the heartbeats group. People who came    included me Bradley and mark who are the Heart beats members,we show other people how we start the session, warm up saying their names ,split into groups make our own piece  of music.  Then shared with other groups  what we have made  .there  were 16 of us came to the fundraising  music workshop,   to the music workshop we went around the circle  saying what we enjoyed  had fabulous evening .





by Katie Branch

NEWS FROM TIM

In April open storytellers moved into the Hubnub centre in Frome and said goodbye to the Black swan.
We have applied for and won a grant from the heritage lottery fund to explore the story of 'Fanny Fust', a girl with learning disabilities who lived in the 18th century.

On Mondays we are working on Fanny Fust story and music from the 18th century, as well as practicing 'Gareth of Orkney'

On the 2nd of July we performed at the Giant jam.

On the 10th of July we went to Bath to look at buildings from the 18th century
We had our AGM at the HubNub, I did a power point on my life story.

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