STORYWISE is providing the storytelling component of the Asian Civilisations Museum’s Fright Night on the evening of Friday 29th October 2011, so do come down and be spooked by THE DARKER SIDE OF TWILIGHT a haunting performance of Asian Horror Tales by by Kamini Ramachandran & Verena Tay.
Watch the ACM Fright night trailers.
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.
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 Children With Special Needs (Sat’ afternoon)
The Story Basket – Simple yet effective storytelling techniques to use with children (Sun’ afternoon)
and taking part in a showcase performance on both Saturday and Sunday evenings.
The Power Of The Tale – The Storytellers’ Showcase Performance
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 of the Asian Congress of Storytellers with a story, and then conducting a workshop on storytelling for children with intellectual disabilities in the afternoon. Then that same evening I will be performing in Ramayana, The Asian Epic at the National Museum Gallery Theatre.
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 Yau and their fantastic staff from Shakespeare4All. It was obvious that they are as passionate about drama education as I am about storytelling.
It was only my second trip to Hong Kong and though I didn’t get time for much sightseeing, I felt that by working closely with so many teachers I got a real insight into at least one aspect of the country.
For many of the teachers it was their first experience of storytelling and it was wonderful to watch them develop confidence in their telling abilities. Here are some photos of the workshops….
This demonstrates that you don't have to be good at drawing to tell a drawing story.
Many discoveries can come from the sharing of ideas.
Sheila and English HOD Mdm Shanthi Devi demonstrate how you can use questions to plunge into your imagination and create details for your story.
Image courtesy of Peranakan Museum, Singapore.
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.
The Ramayana Revisited Team of Tellers
From left to right: Dolly Leow, Sheila Wee, Juriah Atan, Helen Tan, Kamini Ramachandran, Jessie Goh and Nancy Leppard.
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.
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