It's National Storytelling Week!

In 2001, the Society for Storytelling took steps to ensure that their championed artform would get the recognition it deserved - as the oldest artform that has bound mankind together from before caves were painted to the latest in scientific discoveries.

Since then, National Storytelling Week heralds events up and down the country in celebration of the spoken word and its unrivalled power over the imagination. In 2009 alone, 16,000 people of various ages enjoyed storytelling performances in schools, arts centres, libraries, theatres, museums, pubs, book shops, retirement homes and prisons... all in the one week!

Snail Tales will be celebrating the week with Colne Engaine Primary School in Essex, who have invited us along for a Little Birds "Storytelling Festival". Children throughout the school will enjoy traditional storytelling, and some will create their own brand new fairy tales from scratch - which could end up being adapted with puppets and song for a UK theatre tour!

Check the Society for Storytelling's website for the National Storytelling Week event near you: just click here!

2010-01-30