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National Storytelling Week at New Park Primary School 2017
It is always my pleasure to return to New Park Primary School in Liverpool. Especially during National Storytelling Week. Like many of the schools I visit it’s a place of joy and welcome. “Hello Gav! Are you telling our class stories today?” “Have we got you today?” “You are the story man!” New Park Primary…
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January Storytelling Offer For Schools
An introduction and a special offer for a day of Digital Storytelling in your school. View this email in your browser (This is a copy and paste from a recent Mail Out – Join the Mailing List Here) “After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.” ― Philip…
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A Giant Week of Stories
Being a storyteller and telling stories is such a privilege. I get to have the focused rapt attention hundreds of pairs of eyes in a day. I get to laugh with whole gangs of young people. And I certainly believe that if you can make a room of eight-year-olds chuckle consistently then you have made…
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BBC Get Creative Day 2016 – Free Storytelling & Workshop
This Saturday is the BBC Get Creative Day in Liverpool. I will be running two free storytelling session the Liverpool Central Library plus a free workshop on how combine story telling with Digital Editing. Full of tips and techniques to make your stories and presentations come alive, bring your own tablet, phone and…
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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…
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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…
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Time Liners and Light Night Liverpool
Time Liners has been an epic and delightful project. Led by Cathy Cross for her new arts and design company Make Space Create Ltd, it reached a peak on Friday the 15th of May 2015, for Liverpool’s Light Night. What a privilege to be part of this incredible event and to be a Culture Liverpool…
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‘Time Liners’ Listening To Stories
Below are a few words I put together for a PR launch of the Time Liners project. Cathy has set up a new company, Make Space Create Ltd, and was invited by Culture Liverpool to contribute to Liverpool’s Light Night and the One Magnificent City celebrations of 175 years of Cunard. I was invited to…
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Stories told by the people who were there.
Before half term I was invited to Fallibroome Academy as part of their arts festival for two days Digital Storytelling within 4D creatives pop up. The theme of this fantastic few days; with the school inviting various primary classes for many different arts experiences; was Flight. I offered a range of stories which also included a…
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The Power of The Press…
Stop the Press! http://www.bostonstandard.co.uk/news/education/education-news/pupils-imagination-sparked-by-state-of-the-art-4d-classroom-at-free-school-1-6523236 Well it might be too much to do that but if somebody could get me a paper copy, I’d like like to show my mum what I do… Boston Pioneers opened recently with a 4D creative space and I had the joy of sharing story telling with the year 1’s,…