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Storytelling

Environmental & historical presentations.

Storytelling is a powerful and compelling art form, astonishingly effective when used as an interpretive tool. The ruined, deserted castle, is filled with voice, sound, movement and colour through the simplicity of richly woven language. The spoken voice, gesture and importantly, eye contact form an extraodinary bond between teller and listener. The story is claimed by the listeners imagination who see and experience it in their own unique way.

Storytelling can achieve many things:

  • Helps us empathise with people of the past
  • Breathes life into an historic site
  • Nurture our relationship to the natural world
  • Provides context or the bigger picture
  • Reinforces concepts and ideas
  • Illuminates 'dry' facts and information
  • Inspires creativity and fire the imagination

WildWords, environmental presentations leaflet, Click here (PDF)

Tabard, historical performances leaflet, click here (PDF)

"Man lives surrounded by his stories and the stories of others, he sees everything that happens to him through them." Sartre

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Image. Tudor perfomance at John Skelton festival, Norfolk

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