My Storytelling

 

• Performances,
• Workshops,
• Projects and
• Special Events.

• is 45 to 60 minutes long
• contains 3 or 4 stories suitable to the age group and interests of the audience
• is energetic and
• encourages audience participation.

Workshops
I run a variety of workshops including:

• The Gift of Stories - a series of workshops for primary and secondary students with an emphasis on developing oral expression and creativity and on learning traditional storytelling skills.
• Bringing Stories Alive - a workshop for adults (especially teachers, students, librarians, child care workers, parents).
• Creating and Publishing Stories - a workshop series or project for adults, secondary and upper primary students. Participants create or retell stories and then illustrate and publish them in a range of ways.
• Comprehensive Storytelling Course - a course for beginners (or refresher) 1 night per week for 5 weeks .
• Tell Me a Story (before you go to bed) - a course for parents and carers, three 2hr workshops

Storytelling Publishing Projects
a special service for schools and community groups including:

• facilitating the creation, telling and development of student's own stories
• developing expression, creativity and cooperativeness
• illustrative techniques
• publishing stories 'in school', 'on the Web', or commercially

I've worked collaboratively with a number of professional visual artists to offer this service.
Interested? Here's some more details.

Special events
Storytelling can be enjoyed in many forms and venues. I can arrange:

• Storytelling Cafes, Concerts and Festivals.
• Assistance with the creation of your own local storytelling guild or club.
• Conference Packages including entertaining openings, after dinner storytelling, workshops and closings all related to a conference theme or goals.
• Community Arts/Development Projects using storytelling workshops as a basis for discovering participants' own stories of importance and developing ways for them to creatively express them.
• Storytelling Pot Luck Suppers in your home or community centre - I tell stories and help create a light and enjoyable atmosphere where it is safe for everyone to join in and enjoy themselves.

Contact me if you would like more information or a quote.

Experience
I've been storytelling with children and adults in kindergartens, preschools, schools, libraries, vacation centres, festivals and community venues in Queensland and New South Wales for over eight years now. I've taken an active interest in promoting storytelling and am currently a member of the Queensland Storytelling Guild.

I've had the pleasure of running workshops not just in schools but as inservice training for teachers, librarians and child care workers. Such organisations as The Creche and Kindergarten Association, The School Libraries Association of Queensland, and the Kindergarten Union have invited me to run workshops at their major conferences.

Increasingly I have been employed to facilitate personal and community development and community arts projects in Brisbane with a variety of community and special needs groups.

Information & quotes
If you would like to request any further information about my storytelling services, to ask for a quote for a performance, workshop or project, or to make a booking don't hesitate to contact me.

Daryll Bellingham, Storyteller
P.O. Box 5300, West End, Q4101, Brisbane, Australia
Tel. 61 (0)7 3846 3135
0417 478408
Email. dbelling@optusnet.com.au

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