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This week brings the Audacious Women Festival, lots of opportunities to get involved in storytelling and a child-friendly mix of stories and science!
Join Nadine Aisha for the first of our AWF events, How Dare She? An Audacious Woman Speaks where she will look at what it means to be an audacious woman and read from her debut poetry pamphlet, Still. On Wednesday historical novelist Sara Sheridan presents Feeling Fragrant? Memorialising Audacious Women, on the lost stories of women and campaigns to memorialise them. And on Thursday, another novelist, Catherine Hokin, will discuss her debut novel, a feminist retelling of the shadowy French Queen Margaret of Anjou at A Monstrous Regiment? Powerful Women and the Challenges of Ruling.
On Friday, explore how to use stories and storytelling in language teaching situations with Alice Fernbank at Storytelling in the Language Classroom. Alice has been using story with English language learners since 2010, and the day is open to teachers and tutors of all languages, at all levels and age groups. In the evening, why not head along to the monthly Guid Crack at the Circus Cafe for a relaxed evening of stories hosted by Margaret Bennett, who will tell tales of crofters, drovers and cowboys.
Saturday brings the annual Storytelling Network Development Day in Perth, with a broad theme this year of ‘Connecting’, where focus will be placed on audience development, support for sustaining local groups and developing local projects.
Also on Saturday here at the Centre, Experimental Stories: Life Through a Lens for children between 5 and 8 years will explore how stories and science intertwine, and how a lens makes you see everything differently!
Hope to see you there!
Morag & Lindsay
and all the Storytelling Centre Team