Photos of Wendy performing at Family festivals across the United Kingdom.
Storytelling at the Eden Project I was thrilled to be commissioned to write three short stories for Eden Project Storytellers to perform throughout their summer of Celebration across the site. I offered a selection of stories from Africa and the Caribbean islands and they chose three of my favourites. I was later invited to visit […]
A day of storytelling in the Spinning Yarns Tent
Wendy was thrilled to be one of the Storytellers at the Bradford Literature Festival along with a diverse array of authors and poets. Setting up for Day 2 at the Bradford Literature Festival City Hall Green Room Inside Bradford City Hall
For the Greenwich Book Festival, Wendy was able to set up storytelling outside on the Greenwich University Campus.
The legend of Nian The Cultural Events team at the Science Museum, asked me to tell the story of Chinese New Year and the legend of the monster Nian. This was part of their Chinese New Year event called ‘China Lates’. An evening event filled with dance, presentations and storytelling to celebrate Chinese New Year. […]
National Storytelling Week The Book People asked me to contribute to their blog article about the importance for storytelling for children. This is in honour of National Storytelling Week which was started by Storyteller and Folklorist Del Reid. I was delighted to share some of my thoughts on how I feel it benefits children: ‘Oral Storytelling […]
Telling stories and celebrating the oral tradition National Storytelling Week runs from January 26th-February 2nd and was created by Storyteller and Folklorist Del Reid. He is a founding member of the Society for Storytelling and began National Storytelling Week 19 years ago! It is a fantastic celebration of the Oral Tradition with storytelling events being held […]
Furzedown Summer Festival At the weekend, I took part in a Garden Gig as part of the Furzedown Summer Festival with my fellow storytellers from South London Storytelling. We told stories into the night, in a beautiful garden with musicians to accompany us. Our finger food was themed to all of our stories with tropical […]
Last night I went along to watch Hannah Need, the Storyteller of Southfields in her show ‘Life, Death and Dreams along the Way’. As part of this year’s Wandsworth Fringe Festival, Hannah put together a wonderful storytelling evening filled with a mixture of true tales, fairy tales and folk tales. Her stories were woven together […]