June 12, 2020June 13, 2020Caribbean Folktales, Past Events Bold, Brave, Chilling Stories Word Spun Last night’s Word Spun event was superbly hosted by Hannah Brailsford from Spinning Yarns Theatre. I was thrilled to be […]
April 22, 2020April 22, 2020Caribbean Folktales, Writing stories La Diablesse In my first book of Caribbean Folktales to be published by The History Press , I’m writing about a variety of characters […]
February 20, 2020October 7, 2020Past Events, Storytelling at Museums British Museum Wendy Shearer performing Greek myths from Homer’s ‘Iliad’ and ‘The Odyssey’. There were over 200 people attending each day during half term […]
February 7, 2020April 3, 2020Primary Schools, Storytelling National Storytelling Week 2020 Trafalgar Junior School in Twickenham invited Wendy to take part in their 10th Annual Storytelling Festival during National Storytelling Week. In previous […]
January 8, 2020January 9, 2020Writing stories New Book – Caribbean Folktales When I began thinking of ideas for my new book of ‘Caribbean folktales’ I knew that gathering the stories would unravel many […]
December 16, 2019December 17, 2019Storytelling, Writing stories Caribbean Stories ‘As dawn kissed the sky, she looked out of her window and saw a ball of flames darting through the tamarind trees. […]
November 29, 2019April 3, 2020Past Events, Primary Schools, Storytelling A Festival of Stories at Grazebrook Primary A wonderful day of storytelling with Nursery classes right through to Year 4 for Grazebrook Primary School’s Festival of Reading and Stories.
November 1, 2019December 17, 2019Past Events, Storytelling An evening of African and Caribbean storytelling It was a wonderful evening listening to the debut performance of Baden Prince Jr tell Caribbean folktales. Sef Townsend hosted the night […]
October 24, 2019December 17, 2019Past Events, Storytelling, Storytelling at Museums Little Feet at the British Museum