BATH THEATRICAL COSTUME HIRE FROME

On Thursday 14th of September we all visited Bath Theatrical Costume Hire in Frome
We found costumes for Fanny and Henry for our story about Fanny Fust, We're going to use them
For our showcase at the Brigstow which is  on the 24th of October in Bristol, where we will show some scenes from the story as well as some songs and Activities from the 18th Century.

Handling Session

Bath Fashion 
Museum Handling session
Tracey, Katie, Susie, Jade and Leah went to the Fashion Museum to
research costume in detail on Friday 8th September.

We arrived at the Fashion Museum. We went upstairs to a room with loads
upon loads of books. Fleur Johnson was great and worked with us all day.
We learned such a lot.Fleur got out some corsets. The dress we saw was
absolutely exquisite, amazing
I’m amazed because they had to hand sew the dresses, and a girl who did
this would have made herself go blind, sewing by candlelight.

Flour said that the clothes we tried on are designed for us to try on,
but the ones we went to see were originals and very delicate.

The shoes were silk so on a rainy day they would get damaged.  They
would wear cloaks and put  hoods over our heads.  They would only walk
short distances.  So either you did not go out, or the carriage would
take you right to the front door of where you were going.  Poor people
wore leather shoes. A bonnet kept you warm in the winter.

I thought Oh a bonnet! and I was just about to try it on, but she said
no.  Hairspray and perfume and grease and sweat will damage them. Light
and warmth do too.

In the 18th C they would put on a petticoat, then a corset, then a
dress, then some fascinators, like a scarf then gloves then wig, then
bonnet, then cloak.  I said “Cor Fleur, I would have to be up at 4
o’clock in the morning to get all this gear on!” I was really
gobsmacked. They wore different clothes for different occasions.  

Alice hopes to revisit the museum to look at all the books. 

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