We are delighted that Shane the Storyteller will be at our Queen’s Platinum Jubilee event on Sunday 5th June in Cliff Park. You can find him in our Picnic Area from 11am onwards.
I tell Oral Stories at numerous Festivals of all types, as diverse as the Cambridge Folk Festival to ‘Kenya in The Park’ , “The largest (African) festival of its kind in Europe”). I regularly tell and work with stories in Schools. For three years I have been the weekly ‘inhouse’ storyteller at an Alternative Education Community, in Essex. For five years I have regularly told stories for Chelmsford Mencap, students. And for the past three years I have also been the regular storyteller for a children’s Bush Camp in Surrey.
I have told Oral Stories in a very wide variety of locations, nationally and internationally. Some of the locations include; as a privileged guest at an Aboriginal Metis people’s, community circle, in Canada, in 1997; In Woodlands; at a Children’s Hospice; on an ex-Pirate Radio Ship; around Camp Fires; on a Canal Boat Theatre; from a Beech Hut; in an Outdoor Amphitheatre; in an HMP Prison children’s waiting area; at many Storytelling Clubs. I have also developed, Walkabout Street Storytelling and Walkabout Festival Storytelling. During my time in Morocco, I co-facilitated several storytelling workshops. I have been commissioned to record an audio story for a bereavement service. I have recorded an audio Ghost Story for a local radio station. I was asked by The Society of Storytelling, to contribute to a schools storytelling package, I contributed an audio story, as well as some guidelines, on how to enhance telling oral stories to children. (This fantastic comprehensive package, is still available from the Society of Storytelling).
Shane the Storyteller