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It's been a long few months
Submitted by goodale on Thu, 2011-11-24 22:41
When I redid my website I fully intended to keep a regular blog, but, as is often the case, life got in the way before I could get into the habit. It has been a long few months and I've been pretty busy. Some of the highlights were:
- The annual meeting of the Federation for European Storytelling (FEST), which happened in June in Toledo, Spain.
- That was immediately followed by the Guadalajara Storytelling Marathon - 46 hours of non-stop storytelling.
- I hadn't been back long before I went to Cae Mabon to study the Odyssey with Hugh Lupton and Daniel Morden
- July started with a weekend of stories with Taffy Thomas and Shonaleigh at Halsway Manor in Somerset.
- Later on I was an Artist Liaison at Festival at the Edge (FatE), a marvelous storytelling festival held in Much Wenlock in Shropshire.
- August was full of folk festivals, most notably Sidmouth Folkweek where I co-hosted two story rounds a day with Moe Keast from Cornwall, as well as doing a couple of stints in the Children's Festival, and Whitby Folk Week where I taught string figures and stories to children, when they weren't making willow figures with Serena Hodgsom
- In September I went to Italy to tell Beowulf at the International Storytelling Festival in Rome, and the went to Pompei, Herculaneum and Cumae sightseeing.
I do intend to write up many of these as blog posts, as well as musing about other things which have cropped up in the course of time, such as engaging multiculturalism through storytelling, using storytelling to help schools engage with the wider community, and approaches to bilingual/multilingual storytelling.
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