Category: Creative Practice

  • End of Summer Storytelling Treat…

    End of Summer Storytelling Treat…

      …or planning for the new term in September.   With the right space and timing it is possible to see a whole school in a day! Cultural. Creative. Inspiring. Funny. A little bit tense… (Mild Peril…)   No coach required for this end of term Cultural Event! Why not CONTACT me for a chat?…

  • The Lost Boy Workshops – Theatre in The Quarter

    The Lost Boy Workshops – Theatre in The Quarter

    It’s been an absolute pleasure to work again with Theatre in the Quarter. I have been delivering workshops, preparing schools, mostly year fives but some key stage 3 and 4 classes, for their attendance at Theatre in The Quarter’s latest play: The Lost Boy. Before I carry on, if you are reading this before 7 May, can…

  • PopUp Storytelling @ Storyhouse, Chester: WayWord Festival, Feb 2016

    PopUp Storytelling @ Storyhouse, Chester: WayWord Festival, Feb 2016

    Back for 4 days of free storytelling in 2017! 21st to the 24th of Feb – Half Term Fun! Details Here!   Blog from 2016: What a treat it was to be the Resident Storyteller for this ever growing Literary and Arts Festival. A lovely day of traditional and improvised storytelling for Storyhouse, that saw…

  • Back to The Conway Centre I go

    Back to The Conway Centre I go

    As a freelancer I am fortunate enough to have a number of long term working relationships with organisations, people and places. The longest standing of these is the Conway Centre, standing tall on Anglesey. I write this just before I pack my car and head down one of my favourite roads, the A55. (Now my job…

  • An 8 minute Holiday to LIMF

    An 8 minute Holiday to LIMF

    August Bank holiday weekend 2015 was that rare thing. A bank holiday where it (hardly) rained. In partnership with make space create and Cathy Cross I was part of the family fun area for the Liverpool International Music Festival. (#LIMF) Sponsored by Liverpool John Lennon Airport, Cathy and her design & build team (funded and incredibly…

  • Characters of Cronton 6th Form College

    Characters of Cronton 6th Form College

      It’s always fun to play about, show off, be the centre of attention. Hold court with a tale, with the story well told, that gets better in the telling each time.(Or is that just me?) Those stories come easily, we know where the  beats are, where the laughs will come.  We love meeting new people, so…

  • Sensing Spaces ISTA Riyadh 2014

    Sensing Spaces ISTA Riyadh 2014

    Being a freelancer brings with it a range of opportunities and experiences. Some are there just to be grabbed and taken hold of firmly, this was one of them. The chance to travel to Saudi Arabia and to work on my second ISTA drama and theatre festival. I suppose I’m allowed to say I’ve been a…