National Storytelling Week 2008
Just Some of the Many Storytelling Events happening this week
30th January The 2008 Public Sector Narrative Conference-Storytelling for Change
We are pleased to be able to announce the 1st Public Sector Narrative Conference: 'Storytelling for Change', will be held at the Cardiff International Arena (CIA) on Wednesday 30th January, 2008. The keynote speakers include Prof. Aidan Haligan and Dr. Geoff Mead while the afternoon sessions provide a number of interactive workshops.
This FREE event is hosted by our partners Public Service Management Wales (PSMW), The Wales Centre for Health (WCfH) and the National Leadership and Innovation Agency for Health (NLIAH).
Storytelling is one of the most evolved forms of human communication. It offers an efficient and effective tool to convey complex and difficult to quantify information. Research suggests that sharing experiences through narrative or stories fulfils multiple organisational roles.
Stories present a perfect way of engaging people. Storytelling has proved time and time again that it is the most effective mode of communication across a variety of different organisational domains. More than anything else stories makes information more memorable and meaningful.
Today, there is growing recognition that storytelling has an important role to play in the success of an organisation and its employees.
Sign up for this exciting conference and learn the practicalities of utilising stories in the workplace.
To join the PSMW mailing list contact psmw@wales.gsi.gov.uk or call 029 2068 1289
Christine Wilson
Centre for Research & Innovations in Care Sciences (CRICS)
Faculty of Health, Sport and Science, University of Glamorgan Glyntaf Campus
Pontypridd
CF37 1DL
Tel: 01443 483832
26/01/2008 - 27/01/2008 Jacobs Coat Time: 11.00am, 12.00noon, 2.30pm & 4.00pm
Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans, Cardiff, CF5 6XB
A story about creative recycling. Part of National Storytelling week. Tel: 02920 573466
Free
http://www.visitsouthwales.com/thedms.asp?dms=13&feature=82&GroupId=1&venue=1011054&easi=true
TUESDAY 29TH & WEDNESDAY 30TH JAN: 11-4p.m.
NAT. MUSEUM OF WALES, ST. FAGAN'S-THE OAK INSTITUTE
"THE TIGER, THE THIEF AND THE MAN WHO LOST HIS WALLET"
and camelbags more family stories from India, told by
NIGEL WATSON
as part of the Saraswati Festival
02/02/2008 - 03/02/2008 Stories from the Celtic Tradition Time: 11.00am, 12.00noon, 2.30pm & 4.00pm
Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans, Cardiff, CF5 6XB. Free
Tel: 02920 573466 http://www.southernwalesevents.com/thedms.asp?dms=13&feature=84&GroupId=1&venue=1011054&easi=true
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Thursday January 31st
6.30pm
Haverfordwest Library
Tales from three highly acclaimed storytellers
David Ambrose
Megan Lloyd
Elin Alaw
Suitable for adults and families with children aged 11 and over
Tickets £3 (£2 concessions) accompanied children free
available from:
Haverfordwest Library
Dew St
Haverfordwest
SA61 1SU
Reserve
by phone or email
01437 775244 haverfordwestlendinglibrary@pembrokeshire.gov.uk
Kerstin Sklarczyk will do two sessions of storytelling next Friday (1st Feb 08) at Victoria Primary School, Penarth
Details from Kerstin 029 20 531 341
FRIDAY IST FEB 8p.m. BUTCHER'S ARMS, Canton ( next to Chapter Arts Centre)
"STORYTELLING and THE TEENAGE IMAGINATION"
PROF. MIKE WILSON will be reconsidering some of his
earlier research on young people and their social
repertoire of stories, suggesting connections to
broader teenage views of storytelling and how & why it
forms part of their contemporary sense of the world.
Mike is a joint Founder/ Director of the George Ewart
Centre for Storytelling, attached to the Faculty of
Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of
Glamorgan. He has a sustained background as a
professional storyteller, and in community theatre.
David Ambrose
Director
BEYOND THE BORDER
WALES INTERNATIONAL STORYTELLING FESTIVAL
....this is to remind you that the next in our regular monthly series of First Saturday Storytelling events at the Wales Millennium Centre is on SATURDAY 2ND FEBRUARY,
when storyteller FRANCIS MAXEY presents ‘SHIP OF DREAMS’.
