Since 1994 I've been developing ways of reaching out to work with other artists and other mediums. Each successful project in the city or outback has shown how powerful this can be. I can now suggest a number of different artists whose skills compliment my storytelling and story-creation skills and processes.


Narelle is a well known children's book author/illustrator ('Leaf Tail', 'High Above the Sea', 'The Best Beak in Boonaroo Bay', 'The Hunt' and 'Sand Swimmers). She has been shortlisted three times now in the Children's Book Council Awards and won the Picture Book Award in 1996. Narelle offers workshops to schools in which she presents the principles of efficient illustration and the magic of the linocut medium, assisting students to create linocut illustrations for their own or fellow student's stories.

Working together we are able to bring students a full story creation, writing, illustration and publishing experience. The boost in self esteem, communication skills and creativity is obvious. Most stories have been published internally in hard copy or world wide web forms. Commercial publication is possible however. 'Goanna Jumps High', created in a project in Urandangi, has been recently published by Magabala Books

For schools and organisations a Story Publishing Project allows for:

• empowerment and acknowledgement of participants' creativity;
• creating an identity for groups and individuals;
• development of skills in using narrative structure;
• creative development of oral, literary, and visual arts skills for participants;
• development of participant's infotech skills;
• cooperative online interaction with other projects both locally and globally through the publication Web site and email;
• ongoing development of the Website as either an Internet or Intranet site;
• allows for many cross curriculum and extension possibilities
• fundraising possibilities through sale of hardcopy publications, prints, CD's, calendars etc.

• School
  
  • Can you see in 3G - Green, Grey or Ghastly? is the latest school publishing project from Regents Park and the surrounding cluster of state primary schools.
  • The For Green Eyes Only web site was published in 1999 and was the result of the Literary Day of Excellence on Environment Day at Regents Park State School.
  • The Fortitude Valley State School Electronic Storytelling Publishing Project can now be viewed online. You can read about how we went about working with students and developing the pages as well.
  • The Thornlands State School Sharp Point Publishing Project is an excellent example of a school project involving developing the skills of student authors and illustrators and publishing their stories with fellow students as characters and local Thornlands settings on the new school Web site.
  • Robertson State School, Extended Learning Program, September 1998, is the work of 12 student authors taking part in this three day vacation school creativity and publishing project.
    
• Community
  
  • Brisbane Stories is an exciting city wide project initiated by the Brisbane City Council. 'Crossing Boundaries' is an exploration of the changing and diverse cultural experiences of West End from before colonial occupation to the present multicultural society. I was commissioned to collect and create a range of stories from and about West End residents and worked with Vanessa Fisher and Marie Biggens to publish these on the Brisbane Stories site.

A specific project for particular outcomes can be designed for your school or your class.

• Stories can have a particular focus eg 'family' or 'the local environment' or 'the children's own lives' etc.
• They can be focussed around a particular genre - eg anecdotes, folktales, tall stories etc or have a broad approach.
• The project can aim for publication in a range of forms eg published 'in school', externally, commercially, internet, multimedia etc depending on project goals and budget.

Costing is usually based on a per day charge of approx. $400.00 per artist. Quotes can be provided for general publishing or narrative workshops or for specific web publishing sites or pages. For more information about our Storytelling Publishing projects or a quote contact me:-

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

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