Click on
the links below to contact other organisations connected
with storytelling
GAS is affiliated
to the Scottish Storytelling Forum, which is run by the
Scottish Storytelling Centre in Edinburgh. The Centre runs a
wide variety of workshops and courses and hosts a range of
events throughout the year.
A special annual
focus is the Scottish International Storytelling Festival at
the end of October for around two weeks.
Storytellers from
around the UK and many other countries have featured in recent
years and the festival is an excellent opportunity to network
with folk who are involved in the storytelling world as
tellers and listeners.
The
Society for Storytelling is particularly geared
for storytellers living and working in England and Wales but
has no restriction on membership. Its website is definitely
worth a look - there are several links to festivals and events
- and membership of the organisation includes a regular
magazine called StoryLines, which is worth reading to keep
abreast of the national and international storytelling
scene.
Aberdeenshire
Arts This site is your gateway to information
about the arts in Aberdeenshire. It is maintained by
Aberdeenshire Council's Arts Development Team and provides
news, events, information about funding and contacts for
the local arts. GAS events are often publicised here, and if
you have an arts group, it's easy to upload your event there
too!
http://www.en.sgeulachdan.com/ Proiseact
Sgeulachdan - the Gaelic Storytelling Project.
With the help of the local community, members of the Gaelic
Arts Agency Proiseact nan Ealan, aim to capture and
regenerate the ancient Celtic bardic and storytelling
tradition. See Storynews for details.
Storytellers'
Websites:
Our own Pauline has
a new shiny site to promote her storytelling
activities
GAS Webmaster,
Fiona-Jane Brown's own site
Storyteller, oral historian and
educationalist, Heather Forest PhD, is based
in Huntingdon, New York state, USA. Her material is
mainly aimed at school-age children, and she has published a
number of educational resources in book and audio
format.
From her website -
Heather's minstrel style of storytelling blends original
music, folk guitar, poetry, prose and the sung and spoken
word. She has toured her repertoire of world folktales for the
past thirty years to theatres, major storytelling festivals,
and conferences throughout the United States and
abroad.
Storyteller,
singer and editor of Facts and Fiction magazine,
Peter Castle hails from Belper,
Derbyshire. Family and friends help Pete out on his
gigs. Site has a shop, a link to his daughter Lucy's
site, and a few other things.
International
storyteller, Dale Jarvis from St.
John's, Newfoundland, hosts the St. John's storytelling circle
and the infamous Haunted Hike, where in his alter ego
of Rev Thomas Wyckham Jarvis, he takes Newfees and visitors
alike on a tour of the city's spooky sites, telling the tales
as he goes. Dale in his other life is a folklorist and
writer.
Storytellers Circle of
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
My friends Nancy
Muzzatti, Cindy Campbell and Linda Winham made me very welcome
when I visited Halifax, Nova Scotia. I had tea with
Cindy and Linda and was dead impressed by all the projects
they've been involved in, so I thought it only right to link
to their group. They have storytelling workshops and
hire themselves out for storytelling gigs - so if you want to
know more, especially if you're going to Nova Scotia on
holiday - email Linda lwinham88@hotmail.com
Glasgow
storyteller, Michael Kerins' site,
which features his character, wee
tom. Events, links, story resources, contact
details. Very entertaining site, orientated towards
children.
Rona
Barbour, sister of the above
MK, resides near Manchester, and is involved
in storytelling in schools, and healing through storytelling.
Born in Glasgow too, Rona has been around the world sharing
her own brand of tales.
Taffy
Thomas, MBE, currently artistic director of
Tales in Trust, the
Northern Centre for Storytelling, in Grasmere, the Lake
District, and owner of the Tale Coat.
Taffy's 'tale coat'
was as much a star at the Traditional Storytelling
Weekend in 2005 as this great storyteller himself! The
coat 'does what it says on the tin', it is decorated with all
the characters and images from Taffy's own tales, marvel at
this amazing work of art!
David
Brown, a GAS regular and storyteller
specialising in the ancient epic tales of Europe, including
Britain, Iceland, Scandinavia. Reworking the style of
the old Celtic and Viking sagas, David believes in remaining
faithful to the tale itself to suit audiences young and
old. He has a number of CDs of his tales. The website
features these, the story list for adults, children and his
contact details. The site is part of the The
Great British Storytelling SiteRing
STORIESplus... is
John and Noreen Hamilton. We are
storytellers with a particular interest in the use of stories
in education and in environmental and historical
interpretation. Based in Scotland, stories aimed at schools
and children's educational groups. celticstories@hotmail.com or Tel 01721 723 643
From
William Ness, storyteller, a lovely
site for children with lots of educational content. He
also presents more philosophical thoughts at www.poetician.biz
Other
sites:
Archaeolink
Prehistory Park, Oyne, Aberdeenshire:
Archaeolink is a multi award winning living history park and
visitor attraction, with a central focus on education,
participation and fun. It is also GAS's new partner in
storytelling events in the Grampian area. Archaeolink
will be hosting 'Family Friendly Meets' where children can
enjoy the ancient art of storytelling, which is odler than the
Mesolithic farmers themselves!
Travel 10,000 years in one day from the
Mesolithic to a Roman Marching Camp, with indoor and outdoor
exhibitions, featuring hands on activities, workshops and
guided tours everyday, Archaeolink is a dynamic historical
experience for all the family.
Situated in the beautiful countryside of
Aberdeenshire in the shadow of the dramatic Bennachie mountain
range, the park occupies a central location in the diverse
archaeological landscape of North East
Scotland.
Elphinstone
Institute, University of Aberdeen: Centre of the
study and promotion of North-East Scotland's folklore in its
contemporary and historical settings. Home of the
Elphinstone Kist - a North-East Doric poetry and language
resource aimed at children, designed by Sheena Blackhall &
Les Wheeler. Elphinstone also holds traditional events
throughout the year such as the Traditional Storytelling
Weekend (April); the Cullerlie Singing Weekend (July); and
storytelling/singing events on a monthly basis.
Aberdeen University English
Department
They feature
readings, text, sounds, and other useful links. Ideal
for teachers looking for history project material! Do email us
with your thoughts on this resource, we at GAS would like to
see much more of this type of material
online.
Scottish Culture
& Traditions Association. Promotes the
teaching of traditional Scottish music/song/langauge through
adult evening classes at Harlaw Academy, Aberdeen, during
the school term, and ceilidhs during the year. GAS
honorary president Stanley Robertson holds ballad and story
classes there on a regular basis
Lives
in the Oil Industry - The Oral History of the UK
North Sea Oil & Gas Industry. A project managed by GAS
friend, Hugo Manson, for Aberdeen University. For the
last five years Hugo has been meeting and interviewing many
people involved with North Sea oil to create this
project.
The project comes in
a line of oral histories covering the fields of industry,
society and the arts recorded by The British Library since the
start of the National Life Story
Collection in 1987 by Professor Paul
Thompson.
Oral history, as
Hugo says himself, is just another storytelling activity, and
we are pleased to represent such a project here. Much
like the Persephone Project, Hugo has been hearing the stories
of those who made the oil industry what it is today.
Hugo is also
involved in AROHA (Aberdeen & Region Oral
History Association), which has links with
Aberdeen City Council, Aberdeen University History Dept, the
Town & County History Society and GAS.
The
Stonehaven Folk Festival: one of our
annual local folk fests, which takes place in July every
year, and features the World Paper & Comb Championship,
the Aqua Ceilidh amongst a host of great folk artists.
Contact meg_findlay@yahoo.co.uk for
details.
Scots
Language Resource Centre: this is the home of
all things Scots Language (that's Doric to you and me in the
North-East, folks!) at the AK Bell Library in
Perth.
The
Scottish Book Trust has a direct link with the
Scottish Storytelling Centre, in that all storytellers
registered in the SSC directory can also gain access to the
directory run by SBT. This in turn provides access to
financial support for storytelling sessions, where
organisations successfully apply for vouchers to part-pay the
cost of a hiring a storyteller. Even if you're not a
storyteller, it is worth looking at their site to find out
about the variety of events and programmes which SBT
organises.
Lapidus
is an organisation representing practictioners in the
therapeutic field, using story, poetry, writing and other
media to work with a range of clients. Another site worth
checking to discover the diversity of the arts in practice.
If you want to
spread your storytelling wings, then take off to this site,
which is the National Storytelling Network of the
US. Learn about the development of the
renaissance of interest in storytelling in North America; you
can subscribe to StoryTelling Magazine, their bi-monthly
publication, and learn about their annual festival, now in its
32nd year - which usually has anything from 5000 to
10,000 people attending - imagine that! They run conferences,
special interest groups and provide a vast range of
storytelling resources. Storytelling is such a versatile art
form, you might as well find out about how folk are developing
their work on both sides of the pond, if not
beyond!
Tim
Sheppard's Ultimate Storytellers' Resource -
Full of useful links to storytelling sites, stories, FAQ, etc.
Based in England, Tim himself is a fellow
storyteller.
Storytellers'
Blogs
A "blog" or
"weblog" is a site where people can voice their opinions -
storytelling blogs tell stories and invite comments. Visit two
blogs which belong to GAS members!
Search
Out A Story
General storytelling
searches - why not simply go into a search engine (e.g.
www.google.co.uk) and type in
"storytelling" as a search word - you might be lucky to get
only 10,000 possible hits. It'll take you the rest of your
life to read through all the references but there are some
amazing finds out there! Go for it!!!
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