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Creative Partners

Creative Partner: Scottish Storytelling Centre

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We are the leading national agency for oral storytelling in its traditional and contemporary form, and co-ordinate year-round tailored outreach projects with people of all ages and backgrounds. 

Click here for info on Storytelling and Curriculum for Excellence.

We are a leading provider of storytelling training and CPD.  We also run a year-round programme of events and exhibitions at the centre.

Storytelling Support Network.

The Network was established to encourage teachers and trainee teachers to use storytelling to enhance the curriculum. It offers a bank of stories/story resources appropriate to different topics and areas of the curriculum as well as tips and ideas on how teachers can support each other in the development of their storytelling skills. And all for free! You can find the website here.

Resources and CPD

Create a culture of storytelling and creative learning: Storyboxes are a colourful and inspirational resource that keeps children creating and retelling stories year after year.

We offer Interactive and tailor-made training events: workshops for children and adults orStoryrich CPD for teachers and staff.

For more information on any of these contactlinda@scottishstorytellingcentre.co.uk

Creative Partners, Events, News

PICTISH STONE STORIES :OPEN WORKSHOP DAY FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS

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SCOTTISH STORYTELLING CENTRE 

Sat 16 Feb

11am & 2pm (1hr)

Free Drop in – age 7+

LAST CHANCE to interact with the Pictish Stones! This colourful lively exhibition of art from our ancestors of the Scottish ancient carved stones of Pictland offers a wealth of stories and puppets to play with.

Come along to meet and have a creative session with exhibition artist MARIANNA LINES and storyteller/ puppet maker artist SYLVIA TROON.

There will be stories from all, including you the participants, a chance to make your own wee Pictish puppet, and to do some drawing art from the stone images. New dramatic Pictish puppet figures will also be there to meet you.

It’s a new story, an open story, an endless story!

Tell your story.

Don’t miss this last chance to play with the Stones! Last day of Exhibition in the Storytelling Centre’s Court.

CPD, Learning, News, Opportunities

Chantin’, Dancin’, Clappin’ and Tellin’: Accessible Routes into Music, Movement and Storymaking

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Saturday 2nd February 10.30am-4.30pm

Scottish Storytelling Centre, 43-45 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1SR

Crafting your Skills 

A holistic and dynamic day offering practical and creative insights and strategies into music, voice, rhythm and story making for all ages. Pete Baynes (musician and animateur) and Allison Galbraith (storyteller) will share accessible techniques for tapping into our musicality, creativity and imagination, using step by step building blocks that can be used in all kinds of group settings. No experience in music or storytelling needed, but come prepared for serious fun!

£36/£30 Network members
General bookings: 0131 556 9579
Book online

(please note that a £1 handling fee per card transaction will be charged)
Workshop aims :
 

-To explore music and movement as elements of storytelling 
-To develop skills and techniques in working with musicality and creativity
-To develop techniques which stimulate and enhance childrens’ story-making and storytelling skills
-To play games and examine their teaching potential
-To have fun making music and telling stories
Allison Galbraith trained in theatre and dance and has been performing and teaching expressive arts for the last twenty-five years. She lives in Lanarkshire and works full-time as a storyteller and trainer; specialising in working with people with additional support needs and tailoring her storytelling sessions to suit every kind of community and all types of groups.

Pete Baynes is a musician, theatre practitioner and community artist. He works in schools, especially with early years, and with community groups, drawing on the Orff Approach to engage in creative play, music and movement. He recently appeared at the Netherbow Theatre as the Minotaur with Elements World Theatre.
Become a Network Member! – More info here.
Let’s Interplay!
(Crafting Your Skills)
Tue 5 Feb, 6-8.30pm
This workshop will introduce simple yet powerful forms for creating stories in the moment by taking the stuff of our life experiences and creating stories from it. Using the Interplay method – based on a series of incremental ‘forms’ that lead participants to movement, stories, silence, song, ease and amusement – Mairi Campbell (musician, singer and dancer) leads this session to inspire our stories and connection with others. Expect to laugh, play, connect and explore; discover your hidden resources and be surprised by what you can do! No experience needed – open to all. 

£20/£18 (Network members)

General bookings: 0131 556 9579
(please note that a £1 handling fee per card transaction will be charged)
Scottish Storytelling Centre

43-45 High Street, Edinburgh, EH1 1SR
Reception +44 (0)131 556 9579

reception@scottishstorytellingcentre.com


The Scottish Storytelling Centre is a registered Charity No. SCO 11353
News, Opportunities

‘Tell-a-story-day’ 26th October 2012

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Invite a Storyteller
Schools and Communities Outreach Programme
 
If you haven’t already done so, it is not too late to organise a storyteller visit to your school or community group in October or November as part of the Tell-a-Story Day campaign!
 
Celebrate oral storytelling and take your school or community to a magical world of enchanting fairy tales, scary Halloween stories or treasured family legends. Booking a storyteller is cost-effective, entertaining and inspiring. 
  
The cost of a visit is £154 for a half day (2 sessions, 2 hours) and £250 for a full day (4 sessions, 4 hours). Prices are inclusive of travel costs and VAT.
  
See the lists below for what the storytellers in your area can offer. To book a storyteller or for more information, contact Davide at davide@scottishstorytellingcentre.com or call 0131 652 3272.
 
Click here for more info about storytelling in the classroom. And remember, the Scottish Storytelling Centre also provides free storytelling resources as part of the Tell-a-Story day campaign.
 

 
Aberdeen, Highlands and Islands 
Glasgow and the West
Edinburgh, Lothians and Fife
Dundee, Falkirk, Perth and Stirling 
Scottish Borders
 

Tell-a-Story Day is presented by the Scottish International Storytelling Festival and Luminate: Scotland’s creative ageing festival.

Illustrations from A Treasury of Scottish Folk and Fairy Tales by Theresa Breslin and Kate Leiper are reproduced by kind permission of Floris Books. ©Kate Leiper 2012

CPD, Creative Learning, Creativity, Opportunities, Primary schools, Secondary schools

CPD – Scottish Storytelling Centre

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Connecting with Culture

Courses and workshops

May to Dec 2012

Scotland’s storytellers, songmakers, musicians and dancers have come together to offer a feast of participative culture for all those who are involved in arts, education and community making across Scotland.

The new training programme for May to December is ready to download.

 

CPD, Creative practitioners, Early Years, Opportunities, Primary schools

CPD: Stories Count

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Put some fun in your Maths!

Storytelling in practice | Learning | Sat 28 Apr | 10am-4pm | £48/£44 Network Members

A practical workshop for teachers and classroom assistants who want to find fun new ways into Maths. Storyteller Senga Munro has a long experience of working with children in the classroom and in community settings. In this full day workshop she shares practical story activities to re-invigorate your teaching of mathematical vocabulary and concepts for P1-4.

Programme

Click here for more information.