Roehampton Club Storytelling Workshop

Well done to all the brave parents who took part in the Roald Dahl Storytelling Workshop on Saturday at the Roehampton Club, they bravely butchered, beefed up, bombasticized and bedazzled a fairy tale to perform it to their proud children. My favourite moment was watching the children's eyes shine as they told their part of the tale.

Press Release

The Roald Dahl Museum and Story Centre
81-83 High Street, Great Missenden, Bucks, HP16 0AL
P R E S S R E L E A S E
Sarah Mooney: Storytelling Under a Full Moon
Following Sarah Mooney’s recent sell-out success at the Museum with What planet are you on?, in which she enthralled audiences with imaginary journeys into outer space, we are delighted to welcome Sarah as our new Storyteller in Residence for the Summer season. Sarah has planned some phizz-whizzing events and activities for us over the coming months including a special re-telling of her favourite Roald Dahl story James and the Giant Peach.
"The objective of my storytelling", says Sarah, "is to transport children to a place where they feel safe and secure enough to explore their innermost thoughts, and find out what they really want to be in this world".
As well as sessions for Museum visitors and in local schools, Sarah will also be working for a week in July with young mums at Aylesbury Young Offenders Institute. The Put the Book Down project aims to build confidence and encourage mums to explore their creativity and storytelling potential in order to enthral their children with their very own swishwiffling stories.
A huge fan of Roald Dahl herself, Sarah will be using the residency as an opportunity to study the master storyteller’s archive, housed here at the Museum, using it as inspiration for a fresh batch of stories – along with some animation sessions - which will feature in our Summer workshop programme. Sarah hopes that Roald Dahl will help her become "braver in the brutality of my storytelling".

Snakes Head Frittalli, they are the purple heads bobbing next to this Maple, watch out for them in my new story about witches and insects............

Folk Tales

Folk Tales is the coolest storytelling night in the u.k. A beautiful sea hut nestled by the river where Bristols freak folk get to air their creative meanderings. Last week it was my turn, along with the tender and magical Rachel Dadd and wigg who played such sweet and brave music that I could almost see the fairy folk clambouring in through the windows and nestling on the shoulders of these enchanting musicians.
I got to tell a deliciously dark and bloody story, Blue beard. Visceral, sexy and sick. It's not often in storytelling that you have an audience that will let you use the macabre as your playground and I loved it.Telling stories like that helps me to explore in full the worlds that you may just catch a whiff of in my usual stories. Riding it right down into the underworld was enriching and exciting.

Folk Tales is from 8-10 on the last wednesday of every month at bristol Sea Scout Hut.