dunch – Support from the Start

Having successfully secured a partnership between East Lothian Council and Children’s Classic Concerts (CCC) this year, I invited schools in the 3 test site areas for Support from the Start to participate.

Children from Wallyford Primary School, Whitecraig Primary School and Elphinstone Primary School will now have the opportunity to attend a concert in The Usher Hall in Edinburgh this Sunday 1st November. CCC offer a fun and lively introduction to live orchestral music for children in upper primary. The concert features the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, the Orchestra of Scottish Opera and the Scottish Chamber Orchestra and allow for lots of audience participation and is equally engaging and inspiring for adults as much as children.

I have spare FREE tickets for this Sunday’s concert and would like to invite YOU and yours to attend. It begins at 3pm and last just over an hour. CCC is a very highly regarded organisation, and would be a wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon. Please e-mail hduncan@eastlothian.gov.uk before 2pm on Thursday 29th October.

For further information http://www.childrensclassicconcerts.co.uk/

Scottish Storytelling Centre

Training and Development Events:

Health and Wellbeing

“We never had so much need of storytelling and its healing powers.”

George Mackay Brown, poet, storyteller and patron founder of the
Scottish Storytelling Centre

Stories play a crucial role in our ability to relate to each other and the world around us. In an ever-changing world, storytelling provides an invaluable vehicle for the creative sharing of thoughts, experiences and feelings, and is a useful tool for building confidence, communication skills and resilience, and facilitating personal and community development and transition.

It’s no wonder then that Health and Wellbeing plays a key role in our 2009/10 Connecting with Stories training programme. Ranging from events exploring emotional literacy and sensory stories, to intergenerational storytelling and storymaking, the programme brings together a wealth of skills and experience from professional storytellers working across a range of health and wellbeing settings with people of all ages.

Bookings: 0131 556 9579 or reception@scottishstorytellingcentre.com

Storytelling and Mental Health
Saturday 3rd October 2009, 10.30am-4.30pm
Join storytellers, professional staff and carers in a full day event exploring storytelling across a range of health and wellbeing contexts. Share and discover ideas, best practice examples and innovative and exciting approaches to stories and storymaking with children, young people, adults and older people. Led by a creative team from the Scottish Storytelling Centre, including Millie Gray and Lesley O’Brien.
£32 (£26 Scottish Storytelling Network members)

Stories to Live By: Storytelling and Emotional Literacy
Monday 26th October 2009, 10.30am-4.30pm
Emotional and behavioural issues in the 10-14 age range can be a pressure point and spill over into a additional learning support needs. Can story provide a language for emotional literacy and a way of addressing the big themes appropriately? Journey, transition and growing up are at
the core of the world’s great stories. Led by Michael Williams, Ruth Kirkpatrick and Wendy Woolfson.
£32 (£26 Scottish Storytelling Network members)

Life Storying: Reminiscence, Autobiography and the Art of Story
Saturday 21st November 2009, 10.30am-4.30pm
How to evoke, shape and share your own personal stories. Is there a particular skill to life storying, and how do you create personal connection between your story and those of others? Led by Millie Gray and Noel Cochrane.
£32 (£26 Scottish Storytelling Network members)

Between the Generations: Sharing the Stories
Saturday 28th November 2009, 10.30am-4.30pm
Society needs places and spaces that bring the generations together, from Grannie and Grandpa stories to the fresh discoveries of the early years. This day of participatory workshops and storytelling performances is for two, three or even four generations to attend together. Full details to be announced in the Scottish Storytelling Centre’s What’s On events
programme.
£32 (£26 Scottish Storytelling Network members)

Sensing the Stories
Tuesday 5th January 2010, 10.30am-4.30pm
Can narrative be a means of exploration and expression for those with disabilities and additional support needs? For this day the whole Storytelling Centre will become a multi-sensory laboratory for ‘learning through the senses’. Led by a creative team from the Scottish Storytelling Centre.
£32 (£26 Scottish Storytelling Network members)