Creating original stories with Children (or anyone!) – a practical toolkit

Sunday, April 24, 2- 4pm NL time, $25

Facilitator: Olivia Armstrong

Duration: 120 mins

All levels welcome. Delivered online on Zoom

To register please e-mail storytellingstjohns@gmail.com .
Payments can be sent via e-transfer to storytellingstjohns@gmail.com using the password: Story, or by cheque to the St. John’s Storytelling Festival, PO Box 23084 Churchill Square, St. John’s, NL, A1B4J9.

Irish-born, London-based Olivia Armstrong has been a professional storyteller for almost twenty years. She creates and performs site-specific stories for many world-renowned heritage sites across the United Kingdom, including Windsor Castle, Buckingham Palace, Westminster Abbey, the National Gallery, Kensington Palace, and the British Museum. She has performed stories and discussed the art of storytelling on BBC Radio, and has devised and run storytelling training for English Heritage, the V&A, the British Library and Royal Museums Greenwich, on-board the Victorian tea clipper Cutty Sark. She performs to all ages and communities and has a rich knowledge and understanding of Irish and British folklore and seasonal customs, along with a profound love for the natural environment. She often uses these as inspiration for the stories that she tells.