Christmas at Barrington court by Bradley

Open storytellers Performed  for members of the National Trust  at Barring ton court
on Saturday the 3rd of December.
 We did 2 performances- 4 shows. We did  Silent night twice, the boy and the dead wren, father Christmas and the little donkey.

A member of the audience was really interested in our storytelling work-
and said they learned more of Silent night  from watching us perform.
 They learned the story of silent night- the story behind the song.

with Silent night we used a kavad, an  Indian storytelling  storyboard box
to help the audience understand the story.

A Child  from the Audience was really interested helping opening and closing the doors on the kavad,
she was fascinated with the story board and Jem our group leader  let the child help him with the kavad.

Barrington court is a good place to perform  for shows and gigs like storytelling.
The storytelling group performed in the great hall at Barring ton court.
Last Christmas at Barrington court  with storytelling gig  the story we peformed,
 the  character role I was doing had a bit of street dancing role in the story.


The room is suitable for all shows and gigs and myself and other members of open storytellers have enjoyed previous storytelling gigs there in the great hall at Barrington court.

Important disability campaigner passes away

On the 20th August 2016 Lord Brian Rix died.
 He was 92 years old he was a disability campaigner.
Lord Rix's oldest daughter was born in 1951 with Downs syndrome. He had campaigned for disabled rights ever since.
He became a member of the House of lords and helped to change the laws to improve the lives of people with disabilities.
Lord Rixs work was very important to Openstorytellers with his work as a campaigner .

Performance King of the Goblins at South Petherton

On Friday 11th  November 2016, Katie , Tim , Bradley, and Jem
went to South Petherton To "getting the ball rolling".
 We performed the king of the goblins in front  of different organisations . The company  who organised it was called Take  Art. Viv Gorden read  a poem that she  wrote and  told us about  the dance show she organised.
   We  all joined in a discussion  how the  other people perform  in different ways than   we perform. The event held at St David s chapel everyone enjoyed listening to our story  it was great event  and Sarah said thank you  to   Open StoryTellers    for coming.

By Katie branch 17.11.2016

BARDIC CHAIR WINNER

BARDIC CHAIR NIGHT;


WHERE IT WAS AT ROOK LANE CHAPEL FROME

WHEN 20TH OCTOBER

WHO WENT? OPENSTORYTELLERS AND OTHER STORYTELLERS

HOW DID IT GO? WENT VERY WELL THE CHAPEL IS LOVELY AND THE STORIES I HEARD WERE FANTASTIC I THOUGHT THE NIGHT WAS GREAT TAFFY THOMAS OUR FRIEND INTRODUCED THE STORYTELLERS AND OPENSTORYTELLERS GROUP, TAFFY'S STORIES WERE GOOD ALL THE STORIES WENT WELL EVEN TIM LUMLEY SMITH'S STORY WAS GREAT TOO.

BEST BITS WERE TIM'S STORY THE GOLDIE LOCK PICKER AND THE BEAR BURGERS WHAT A STORY IT WAS EVERYONE LOVED IT WAS GREAT I ALSO LIKED SHARON'S STORY ABOUT THE PRAWN FUNNY STORY I THOUGHT EVERYONE ENJOYED ALL THE STORIES. THERE WERE A FEW DIFFERENT KIND OF STORIES SOME WERE FUNNY, AND SOME WERE TRADITIONAL AND THE STORY WE PERFORMED WAS CALLED UWANGELEMA IT'S ABOUT A WISE PERSON THAT LIVES ON TOP OF A MOUNTAIN AND SOME AFRICAN ANIMALS ALL THEY WANTED IS WATER AND FOOD WAS A FUNNY STORY US STORYTELLERS PRETENDED WE WERE ANIMALS THINK EVERYONE LIKED OUR STORY WE GOT A GOOD LAUGH ANY WAY.

WHO WON? A LOVELY MAN CALLED DRIFT SNOW BARGER WHAT A SAD BUT GOOD STORY ALSO HE TOLD IT SO WELL IT MADE ME LAUGH I WAS HAPPY THAT HE WON THE BARDIC CHAIR THOUGHT HE DONE GREAT.  

Paralympics 2016

Paralympics 2016.
Team GB did really well at the 2016 Paralympics . They were second in the medal table finishing behind China.

Dame Sarah Story won a record 14 medals in Rio.Team GB won 147 medals -64 of them gold.

Athletes with intellectual disabilities have been allowed to compete since 1996 but scandal in Sydney in 2000 meant that some athletes were stopped from competing - Some Spanish basketball players tricked people into believing they had a disability but they didn't . They were stripped of their medals.
Because of this it was only in 2009 that a new system was put in place -This meant that it was only in 2012 that people with intellectual disabilities could compete again .

Its great to see people with learning disabilities being treated equally in the Paralympics again.

Storytelling at the Sailsbury arts centre.

On Saturday 17th September Robin, Tim and Jem from Openstorytellers did a performance at the Salisbury arts centre. In the first half we told stories on the environment like Uwangalema, and The Twelve months and everyone enjoyed the stories.
After dinner in the Secord half we told stories like The little green man, Silly Jack and Goldilockpicker and the three bears.
 It went very well with some good comedy from the two sea gulls- they liked Silly Jack, hearing about the donkey on his shoulders and Openstorytellers laughed with joy!
There was loads of entertainments like The two sea gulls and the Jungle explorers, plus The pig farmers. We also performed with Salisbury group Mind the Gap, and Musicians from the Salisbury art centre.
Open storytellers did very well with this gig on Saturday.


              

Summer Fair Connections Radsock

On  Friday 19th  August Katie Bradley and Jem  went to the  Connections Centre  in Radstock to do Six stories  for people with People with Learning with disabilities and Carers and parents.

We told 3 stories 11-11.30 then told the other 3 stories  11.30 to 12.00pm. Everyone  really enjoyed our stories and one of the service users asked if we could come back to visit them to do some more stories, one of the staff asked us how long does it take us to rehearse the stories. We said about 6 weeks .

They invited us to stay to join them for a bbq outside but due to the bad weather we had it in the hall.  It was lovely lunch ,thank you to the connection centre for having us to share our stories with them and the bbq.