Posts about storytelling, landscape and culture with a focus on Welsh material and places. Mostly by me but also featuring plenty of guest posts and interviews.
Whilst teaching in special schools I discovered early on that the most disruptive/disturbed children LOVED to be told stories. As soon as I ditched the book and started just telling, they became totally held. Cindylou Turner-Taylor talks about storytelling and the impact of Bleddfa storytelling courses.
Read MoreThere was a Scottish storyteller, Mags Smith, who said she would also tell a story but needed a few moments to sort it out. At that point a voice in my head said “Andy, why don’t you tell a story?” Andy Johnson shares his storytelling journey and how Bleddfa courses helped him...
Read MoreStorytelling changed my world view, not like a bolt of lightning but in a gradual and real way, like growing a new skin. I learned in that first week at Bleddfa that stories from the oral tradition matter. That they are more than simply entertaining but have a real truth, if you give it time.
Read MoreStorytelling is simple, right? You have a story – you tell it. Wrong! Because first you need a story. My first afternoon at Bleddfa I didn’t have one. All we’d been asked for was a small personal story – but though I racked my brain, nothing came...
Storyteller Phil Okwedy tells something of his storytelling journey and the role that training at Bleddfa Storytelling Courses played in it
Read MoreBleddfa storytellers tell us what they have been up to...
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