With Tears in my Navy Blue Eyes (Gail Snyman)
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Storytelling workshops to accompany a 30-date regional tour of the South African storyteller’s one-woman show to teenage audiences, describing her life in a small township from the Separate Areas Act to the first free vote. The sessions led to considerable e-mail contact between pupils in Durban townships and West Midlands schools.
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Before the Deluge (Guy Hutchins)
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Over six weeks, 120 Nursery School pupils created a soap opera of stories about creatures in a 16th century Dutch painting in their local art gallery. By the end of the project their teachers were skilled enough as storytellers to be able to create tales about any picture in the gallery suggested by the children (Gulbenkian Award commendation)
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Fancy a Curry? (Guy Hutchins with Harjinder Matharu and Company)
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A tour of rural venues promoting storytelling to new adult audiences. Interested local people cooked an Indian banquet with Guy through the day; and in the evening they brought their families and friends to sample the food, listen to classical Indian music and enjoy stories collected from the same villages as the recipes. |
Adventures in the Unknown (Kate Green, Guy Hutchins)
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Sixty Year 8 pupils in two High Schools brought in their special/significant objects; created stories about them; then photographed them and merged text and images using Adobe Photoshop. Work in progress was tested on their peers eight miles away via e-mail.
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When Hippo was Hairy (Jah-Man Aggrey, Sandra Golding and Guy Hutchins)
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Eighty Year 8 pupils collaborated to dance, drum and act a two thousand year old Bantu story against a backdrop of banners printed using traditional East African techniques.
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Who Do You Want To Be? (Martyn Briggs and Guy Hutchins)
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15 adults with learning difficulties created a performance piece around identities they would like to have involving music, mime, strip cartoons, storytelling and bowler hats.
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The Talisman (Chitraleka Bolar, SV Balakrishna, Guy Hutchins and Andrew Kristy, for Birmingham Royal Ballet)
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Seventy teenagers composed, created and performed an original cross-cultural ballet inspired by Beowulf and Das Avatar (the ten incarnations of Vishnu)
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Up and Away! (Martyn Briggs and Guy Hutchins)
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Thirty-five seven-year-olds learned enough about narrative and aeronautical design to make stories, then design and make their own flying characters to be in them. See a picture of Martyn and his flying designs here.
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The Alpha Centauri project (Guy Hutchins)
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All 6 — 9 year olds in a Shropshire village interviewed each other, their parents, grandparents and great-grandparents to make a video describing how being a young person in the village has changed over four generations. The results were then beamed to Alpha Centauri, to help young aliens in their project on How Earth-humans Live. |
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