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John C. Campbell Folk School
based: North Carolina, USA
website: www.folkschool.org
Short vacations and courses teaching a diverse range of time honoured crafts, music and dance in a beautiful location in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Offering year-round week and weekend residential courses.
| dancing | basket making | felt making / felt work | storytelling | weaving | knitting | quilting | printmaking | calligraphy | wood crafts | metal crafts | musical instrument making | music playing courses | USA |

 John Muir Trust
based: Hampshire, UK
website: www.jmt.org
The 'Activities Programme' offers adventurous activities and exploration in beautiful wild areas, canoeing and sea kayaking trips, conservation work, story telling, music, wilderness skills, medicinal plants. Also see their 'Conservation Work Parties' where you can volunteer to help carry out conservation work. The John Muir Trust is a registered Scottish charity with the aim of protecting and conserving wild places and increasing awareness and understanding of such places.
| charity expeditions / holidays | working /volunteer holidays | gap year | ethical / eco tourism | survival courses | canoeing / kayaking | sea canoeing / sea kayaking | herbalism | storytelling | UK |

Cape Clear Storytelling Festival and Workshops
based: County Cork, Ireland
website: indigo.ie/~ckstory
for details of the International Cape Clear Storytelling Festival and storytelling workshops
| storytelling | Ireland |

 Scottish Genealogy Story Tours
based: Scotland, UK
website: www.scottish-genealogy-story-tours.co.uk
Guided genealogy tours on the West Coast of Scotland, including 'story tours' with a professional Seanachaidhean (traditional Scots/Irish storyteller).
| genealogy / family history | storytelling | Scotland |

 Shaggy Dog Storytelling Club (The)
based: Yorkshire, UK
website: www.shaggydogstorytellers.com
Storytelling club offering weekend workshops designed to encourage and support people who want to learn about storytelling.
| storytelling | England |

telling stories to children
based: Massachusetts, USA
website: www.tellingstoriestochildren.com
Short summer storytelling courses in the historic seaport of Marblehead, MA.
| storytelling | USA |

 Ty Newydd
based: Gwynedd, Wales, UK
website: www.tynewydd.org
The National Writers' Centre for Wales offering residential courses in writing, poetry and drama as well as writers retreats and Welsh language courses.
| writing | poetry | storytelling | retreats | television / radio | Welsh language | Wales |

 Wild Times
based: Bristol, UK
website: www.timsheppard.co.uk/wildtimes/
Couses and workshops the skills of storytelling and improvisation.
| storytelling | UK |

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