What's On
Book Launch
Buckinghamshire Folk Tales is a collection of stories from around the county of Buckinghamshire, including 18 stories from the 'new town' of Milton Keynes.
Come to the Book Launch on the 21st Sept 3.30pm - 7pm at Stony Stratford Library, 5-7 Church Street, MK11 1BD
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Curious House of Stories: A South Coast Storytelling Festival
Red Phoenix is performing among an amazing line up of storytellers including: Sarah Rundle, Dave Tonge, Carl Merry, & Sef Townsend to name but a few. The storytelling festival in Hastings is part of the annual Steampunk Festival; The Circus of Curiosities.
14th&15th Sept (11am-6pm) St Leonards Show Ground, Magdalen Rd, St Leonards, TN37 6EG.
Stony Storytellers: Coaching Classes
These are for people interested in oral storytelling, we request no reading aloud allowed. On the 4th Tuesday of every month (not August or December), we meet at Studio 3.2, York House in Stony Stratford MK11 1JQ to flex our storytelling muscles and build skills. We start each Septemeber with the basics and throughout the year build skills, and if participants wish we present a showcase in early July. The first session this year is the 24th Sept, followed by the 22nd Oct, and 26th Nov. £10 per session, £5 concessions.
Preparing the Parable
The first of four annual full-day oral storytelling workshops. This workshop provides participants new to storytelling, or wanting to refresh their skills, with; where to find stories they wish to work with, how to approach learning a story, and starting the journey to hone their own style of storytelling.
This workshop will be followed in 2020 by 'Spinning the Story (intermediate level), Topping the Tale (advanced level) and a themed workshop open to all levels, TBC.
26th October, 10am-4.30pm