The Storytelling Weekend 2012
Saturday 25th - Sunday 26th February
A Tale Trail for Children
at The National Botanic Garden of Wales
Photo by Darren Boxer
Hello there! Thanks for visiting our Blog Story Gallery. Before we look at the children's Pictures for Poster Ideas, here's a bit of a bit of back ground ....
Cheryl Beer, Freelance Creative Director, is currently visiting schools across Carmarthenshire, facilitating Story & Marketing Workshops for a Wonderful Weekend of Tale Trail set in the beautiful grounds of The National Botanic Garden of Wales.
PRESS RELEASE
A weekend of wonderful and warming tales is on the agenda for the Storytelling Weekend at the National Botanic Garden of Wales.
The event takes place in various venues around the Garden on Saturday and Sunday February 25-26 and features a number of silver-tongued story-tellers, including Anne Lister, Jeff Rees, Sophie McKeand, Suzanne Hughes Owen, Sam Collins, Grethe Gillman, Helen Davies, Lloyd Roberts and Bob Edwards, Teena Gould.
Creative Director Cheryl Beer, who will also be telling tales accompanied by musician Heather Summers (funded by Community Music Wales), has been running a series of workshops with local schoolchildren who will be designing the official fliers and posters for the event. She said:
“This event is a bit of a departure for the Garden; it’s the first story-telling event they’ve had but there are so many fabulous stories to be told and the Garden is the most inspirational setting, it seems the perfect venue for us.
“We’re hoping that lots of people – young and old – will come along and get involved."
The idea, says Cheryl, is that the stories will be themed through the day but visitors will also be able to dip in and out of the various events: “We have musical story tellers, graffiti storytelling, and one of our story-tellers tells her tales through the medium of collage. For the more traditional story lovers, we also have Jackanory Twist with Magic Carpets in the Theatr Botanica.Outside we have Story viaTai-Chi as well as Characterisation Story, it’s all about taking part, getting involved – and having fun.”
The Storytelling Weekend takes place from 11.30am-4pm on both days. There is no additional entry cost but Normal Gate prices apply: full details from http://www.gardenofwales.org.uk/
Cheryl can be contacted on cherylbeermusic@gmail.com / www.cherylbeer.co.uk
By Tai Mai
Children's GALLERY
During workshops children listened to the story of Blodeuwedd, watched a short film about the National Botanic Garden of Wales and then worked as a team to plan the story trail, come up with a name for the event and to design ideas for posters and fliers.
By Skyler
The designs are so beautiful that David Hardy, Marketing & Communications Manager for the Garden and Cheryl, have decided to display them all here in this Blog. Now the 150 children who will take part, will be able to share their work with each other in advance of the big event.
There will be a Digital Gallery at The Story Weekend Children's Tale Trail so that the children and their families will see their art work displayed full screen within The Great Glasshouse 25th & 26th February 2012
By Ebony
These are the first finished pictures for poster design ideas from the children of Year 5 and 6 at Ysgol Y Ddwylan (Ddwylan Primary School)
By Tegan Age 10
By Martin: Age 10
By Anisha: Age 10
By Hannah: Age 11
By Toby: Age 10
By Holly: Age 10
By Cameron
Watch out next week for more beautiful children's Pictures for Poster Ideas
Please Note: Welsh Translation of this blog can be obtained from The National Botanic Garden of Wales.
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