As part of the South West District Arts Festival, Sheila will be conducting a parent/child storytelling workshop at Jurong West Public Library on Saturday 15th October from 2pm to 3.30pm.  For enquiries call 6332 3255.

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I am really looking forward to taking part in the Malaysia International Storytelling Festival which takes place  on 10th & 11th September. It will be a richly packed weekend, I will  doing 4 workshops. Step Into Storytelling – A  workshop on basic storytelling  skills for beginners   (On both mornings) Telling Together – Interactive Storytelling For […]

September for me  means the Singapore International Storytelling Festival.  It’s the time I  get to  meet some of my storytelling friends from around the world and to make some new friends. There is  always lots of sharing of stories and ideas and always something interesting to learn. This year I will  be opening the  second day […]

In February and March 2011 I conducted a series of seven 2-day storytelling workshops for English teachers  in Hong Kong. These workshops were commissioned by the English Alliance (SCOLAR) which is part of the Hong Kong Bureau of Education. I was fortunate to work with wonderful local partners on this project; Dr Vicki Ooi, Lynn […]

Sheila telling an episode from the Ramayana at the RAMAYANA REVISITED exhibition at the Peranakan Museum, Singapore.

Storywise was commissioned by the museum to develop a storytelling programme in which a team of six storytellers told consecutive episodes from the Ramayana in the exhibition space. This programme which was very well received by museum patrons of all ages and nationalities, ran over a series of the museum’s Open House events in 2010 and 2011.

This is my part of the innovative 4-person keynote at the conference at the Penang State Library in Butterworth, Malaysia. My fellow keynote presenters were, Margaret Read MacDonald, Wajuppa Tossa and Jeeva Raghunath.

Click here to take a look at my videos on the art of storytelling made by Bananamana.com.