A Menu With a Difference
Like it suggests, Settle Stories Create Cafe has a menu which can have different ‘specials’ each week and a staple diet. No, this is not a menu to eat and drink (although there is always cake and coffee, tea, and fruit teas on offer.) The staple diet is relaxation, fun and different creative activities each […]
A Month in the life of …
We’re delighted to have Louise Cross to our team at Settle Stories. Louise was the successful applicant for our Event Manager Internship. She promised to write regularly for our blog. Here is this month’s contribution. It’s been over two months that I have been working at Settle Stories and those months have flown by in […]
An Office Job
We’re delighted to welcome Louise Cross to our team at Settle Stories. Louise was the sucessfull applicant for our Event Manager Internship. We wanted to develop this opportunity for a young person to work in our ambitious team in the brilliant Yorkshire Dales area. The post was made possible thanks to funding from Great Place […]
Returning Home – review
Reviewed by Gill O’Donnell Following an extraordinary voyage over sea to Iceland, via Orkney, Shetland and the Faroes, undertaken in collaboration with Sophie Ramsay, cellist and singer Sarah Smout has now returned home to Craven where she is currently working on creating a performance which captures this journey, Throughout their trip they recorded a variety […]
Rapunzel – Become a Hairdresser for Nature!
Family fun activity for the Summer Hols! Derived from the German fairy tale by Fredrich Schulz, it was The infamous Grimm Brothers adaption that put Rapunzel firmly on the map in 1812. It tells the tale of a pregnant lady who craves the herb Rapunzel and sends her husband out to gather some. He is […]
The Gingerbread Man
Family fun activity for the Summer Hols! I remember the shock I felt as a child when I learnt the outcome of the story “The Gingerbread Man.” As an adult you rejoice in the fate of the cocky little gingerbread man who was eventually gobbled by a fox! When you’re young, it’s a bit of […]
Settle Writers Group – Q & A on Creativity
Jane Emmison, one of our trusty volunteers, came to get creative at our Create Cafe and Settle Writers Group this Summer. After producing some great work and loving the involvement in the groups, she had a few questions for Jessica who had set the Writers Group into motion! How & When did Settle Writers Group […]
Environmental connections – Q & A with Sarah Smout
As society starts to take climate change more and more seriously, spoken word artist and musican Sarah Smouts work is more urgent than ever. Sarah performed at The Joinery in late August. Sarah is a young, local artist from Craven. She performs around the world but rarely on home turf. We caught up with her […]
Creativity v’s Curriculum
Stories touch everyone’s imagination, but none more so than children. That is why storytelling and that arts play such an important part in a child’s life. As budgets get cut, there is already evidence of a decline in bookings for such activities as sending storytellers into schools, which we here at Settle Stories are huge […]
Volunteers – the lifeblood of Society
When was the last time you gave something back to your community? Maybe you helped a neigbour. Perhaps you volunteered at your local theatre? Maybe you gave some time to a community garden project. Remember the feeling you got from giving something back? If you’re anything like me, it’s a warm fuzzy feeling. My experience […]