StoryCircles

Family & Children’s Island StoryCircles – Workshops for between 2 – 8 people. Parents and children welcome to an Orkney Islands Story adventure. Make your own Island Creatures and characters as puppets or masks. Create your own Storyboards and Storymaps.
Tell your own Island Story and take away a magical Orkney Island memory.

Discover and create your own heroes, villains and journeys…….and share your own magical stories with each other.Visit your own mysterious islands.

Workshops are led by Lynn Barbour who has extensive experience in communication arts, drama, Story circlesdance physical Theatre and the design and mask and puppet theatre, Lynn has developed creative learning programmes with  storytelling as the tool and method to help nurture the imagination and build  confidence in children who have difficulties in social skills, cognitive learning and communication.

Workshops are interactive where children and adults alike can create their own stories, tell their own tales, sing their Story circlesown songs and rhymes. Leave Orkney with your own folklore-inspired puppet or mask and create a storyboard to become ‘The Teller of Tales.

All materials are provided and include recycled and locally sources items, percussion and drums. Light Orkney refreshments provided also, including Orkney fudge and biscuits.

Cost: £50 All-inclusive workshop for a group of 4 people  – Maximum number – 8 people
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