Storytelling at The Courtauld Gallery
I had a brilliant evening storytelling last night for the Unearthing Exhibition at the Courtauld gallery. To ‘unearth’ is to reveal what […]
Author: Wendy Shearer
Exploring the natural history of Jamaica
As part of my project work on Animating the Caribbean Collections, I visited the British Museum with Dr. Amara Thornton – historian […]
The Great Exhibition Road Festival
I had such a wonderful time at the Great Exhibition Road Festival this weekend! Nearly 300 people crowded round to hear my […]
My Storytelling Residency at the British Library’s Animals Exhibition
From darkness with owls, bats & fireflies across the ocean with great whales, onto land in the dry desert with zebras, snakes […]
Windrush Anniversary celebrations at St John’s C of E Primary
Can you spy any of your favourite fruits in this display? Mangoes, banana fritters, fried plantain and even ROTI was being made […]
Storytelling at the British Library’s Animals Exhibition
This was my storytelling space today for community groups who were invited for storytelling and crafts at the British Library. Whenever I […]
Exploring The Image of the Black in Western Art Project
Yesterday was another fascinating and moving morning viewing prints from The Image of the Black in Western Art Project at Senate House […]
Windrush Celebrations at the V & A Museum
Today I the spent day at the Victoria and Albert Museum telling stories of shape shifting fairymaids & mermaids, fallen water spirits […]
Storytelling at Ally Pally’s 150th Birthday Party!
We celebrated in style for Alexandra Palace‘s 150th Birthday! Thanks to everyone who joined me for Caribbean trickster tales, we cosied up […]
Recording Oral History for the V&A Museum
Yesterday I spent the day recording Jean, from Poplar, East London by way of Belize (formerly British Honduras). The V&A has commissioned […]