Storytelling Is a Skill You Can Learn

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There’s a moment most of us carry somewhere. The year everything changed. A family story that only you remember properly now. The thing you try to explain at parties when […]

Before Eve, There Was Lilith

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Most of us know Eve. Practically nobody grows up knowing Lilith, and there’s a reason for that. She turns up in ancient Jewish folklore as Adam’s first wife, made as […]

Fits of Laughter: Review of The Forgotten Tales

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Review of Yorkshire Festival of Story event The Forgotten Tales by Jon Buckeridge on 15th August 2020. Reviewed by Gill O’Donnell for The Craven Herald and Pioneer. If you want […]

Inhabiting Stories: Blood & Gold Review

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Review of Yorkshire Festival of Story event Blood & Gold by Mara Menzies on 11th August 2020. Reviewed by Gill O’Donnell for The Craven Herald and Pioneer. Without doubt this […]

Stepping Back in Time: Ey Up Elsie Review

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Review of the Ey Up Elsie Series from Yorkshire Festival of Story 2020. Reviewed by Gill O’Donnell for The Craven Herald and Pioneer. Watching this I felt as if I […]

NO ONE PUTS MERLIN IN THE CORNER

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Blog written by Sarah Bennett   Once and Future King tells the Arthurian legends like you’ve never known before, from the real force behind King Arthur: our very own immortal, […]

Q&A: Tremendous Tales with Ursula Holden Gill

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In November 2019 we’ve got the savvy sassy storyteller and ex-Emmerdale star Ursula Holden Gill visiting us at The Joinery. Urusla will be making us laugh and cry 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, […]