A  storytelling weekend workshop for those wishing to tell stories to children or to other adults.

 

East Anglia is full of Folk tales and stories. Green children, black dogs, boggerts and will-o-the-wykes. Even the Dark Moon came down hereand walked in the fens. This one and two day course is to help discover and understand the storyteller in you using these Tales.

I have been asked to create a new form of workshop that will include favorite approaches from earlier workshops, but with a different emphasis. I have chosen the theme of best loved East Anglian Tales. Including The Dark Moon, Potter Heigham Drummer Boy, Black shuck and The Green Mist. This workshop is a friendly way into storytelling. Its for both the beginner and those who have started on the path of the Storyteller. You can book for either the first day, the second day or for both days. The 2nd day covers many more involved aspects of storytelling, shamanic approaches and performance.
 

The first day will retrace a couple of these East Anglian tales, uncovering and entering into their story so that you will never forget how to tell them.  `We will find out what it feels like to be Black shuck, see the world through the eyes of the moon, or skate across the broads as a ghost and how, as you beat your drum, it beats to the rhythm of of the story.. I will use a number of group  techniques for this including;

Lifting from the page. How to convert the written story into the oral.

Your story my story.  We all have a story to tell. 

Images and Landscapes. Stepping inside the stories of East Anglia and how the landscape helps create these stories

 

Finally we will see how the use of voice, movement, sound, silence, speed, clocking and of course preparation all play a major roll in this ancient art form.

T

The storytelling hut, made of straw bales and plastered with clay internally, both materials from the farm. 

Storytellers  from  Greenland!

Students Comments:

 A great day.  Thank you.  The tutor was excellent and I feel we only scratched the surface.  I would be very interested in an intermediate course.  Thank you also for the delicious lunch and hospitality.

I found the whole weekend to be absolutely faultless!  Paul and Mary-Jane ran a thoroughly enjoyable course and I shall be praising them to colleagues for weeks to come.  Anne and Bob were superb hosts.  The scenery and the farmhouse were utterly idyllic.

An excellent day - lots of useful information - skills and theory and ideas for using both of these in practice.

Very positive experience, stimulating and interesting.  Gave me a lot to think about and develop.  Would love to do more!

Wonderful.  A mystery has been opened to me.  Whether the skills will soak into my head remains to be seen!  A delightful group.  David.

Thank you for an amazing day on Monday. I can't wait to come back (I'd come for the food alone!)

Fantastic, haven't had such a wonderful weekend for years.Great venue and catering - incredibly good value re price of course.
Great fun and brilliant learning activity!  Hope to pursue it further.
Excellent day - well paced - gentle intro!
Brill - lovely food and venue.  Course excellent - definitely recommend this to friends and family.
What about an advanced course over a week?

Thank you for hosting such a truly memorable event.  The company, food and setting were exhilarating - the workshop deeply satisfying!