Storytelling courses & holidays
Italian Storytelling Center
based: Forlì-Cesena, Italy
Storytelling and Italian culture and language workshops from a base in the small hamlet of Portico di Romagna, close to Tuscany. Storytelling focused on the transfer of content, as an education tool and teambuilding through storytelling.
| storytelling | Italian language | Italy |
Orkney Attractions – Orkney Folklore & Storytelling Centre
based: Orkney Islands, Scotland, UK
Learn the transformative power of story on weekend and week-long residential courses exploring the arts within a framework of storytelling. Courses are open to anyone, but will be of particular interest to those working in education, mental health and social care.
| storytelling | Scotland |
Society For Storytelling (The)
based: Shropshire, UK
A registered charity promoting the art of storytelling in England and Wales and offering storytelling workshops, gatherings of storytellers, as well as the annual National Storytelling Week. Also links to events, clubs and a directory of tellers.
| storytelling | UK |
Westcountry School of Myth
based: Devon, UK
Weekend retreats centred on the scholarship and myth telling of mythologist and master storyteller Dr Martin Shaw. From cosy residential centres on the moors of Dartmoor, courses will look into Russian fairy tales, Coyote folklore, Arthurian romances and beyond.
| storytelling | England |
Connie Regan-Blake Storyteller
based: North Carolina, USA
Hands-on weekend workshops and week-long retreats, for all levels of experience, with one of America's most celebrated storytellers.
| storytelling | USA |
John C. Campbell Folk School
based: North Carolina, USA
Short vacations/courses teaching a diverse range of time honoured crafts, music and dance in North Carolina. Week and weekend residential courses.
| dancing | felt making | storytelling | metal crafts | USA |
Scottish Storytelling Centre (The)
based: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Courses and workshops to develop storytelliers skills; short courses for people wanting to develop their storytelling, musicmaking, dancing and singing.
| storytelling | Scotland |
Traditional Arts Team (The)
based: Birmingham, Midlands, UK
Storytelling workshops and training, including occasional residential weekend courses and retreats with guest trainers.
| storytelling | England |
WALES: Ty Newydd, storytelling from the start
Storytelling from the start is a one-week residential storytelling course for beginners, offering opportunities to learn how to prepare and perform traditional stories. The course examines ancient folktales, fairy tales and myths – the building blocks for every story ever told.
The course is one of several story courses held at Ty Newydd Writing Centre in Cricieth, Gwynedd in rural North-West Wales. Course accommodation is provided in Ty Newydd house itself, a Grade II listed building with guest bedrooms, libraries, large dining room, kitchen and conservatory. Participants will have a room of their own and meals will be homemade using local ingredients.
Learn to share and tell stories yourself or simply enjoy listening to experienced tellers. The travel-quest storytelling section lists holidays, retreats, workshops and multi-day residential courses that include storytelling, particularly oral storytelling and the telling of tales.
Storytelling courses and workshops teach the skills needed to become a teller, including how to select, learn and tell a story. Some may be focused on a particular audience or on stories for a particular use, be it with children, in business, in health and therapy, in museums and schools etc.; while others will be just aimed at a general audience. We also list holidays and breaks that are simply about listening to and enjoying stories told by experienced tellers in a relaxed recreational setting.
Courses focused on the art of writing a story will be be found in our creative writing section».
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