The fourth Martineau Gardens’ Storytelling Festival returns for midsummer 2015, Saturday 20 June, 11am – 7pm. Look forward to a family-friendly day of storytelling, in the grounds of the beautiful community garden, presented by the Traditional Arts Team. Shadow puppets in the Dark Space, magical and mythological telling in the Epic Tent, campfire tales and the Wonder Tea Party are all on the programme for the Martineau Gardens Storytelling Festival. There will be storytelling performances, storytrails, live music, dance, arts, stalls, and crafts for children with delicious food from ChangeKitchen.
An exciting programme of storytelling is taking place, under cover, in hidden corners of the two and half acre leafy garden. From woodland glades to the sundial lawn, there will be a continuous stream of storytelling performances during the day aimed at everyone from little children right up to adults. There will be stories with food, stories with walks, stories with pictures and a continuous Pop-Up storytelling canopy where you can listen to one story or stay all day. Dark Space for Shadow puppets will include illuminated stories and projections and as the festival draws to an end, campfire tales will invite you to join the storytellers around the campfire for the finale.
Fun for children includes environmental crafts with Krafty Kids with Kika, interactive storytelling and mask making with Pyn Stockman at Roots and Seeds, plus baking stories at the Wonder Tea Party.
Performers include Graham Langley, Cath Edwards and Catriona Heatherington. There will be live music from Moseley Village Band and a performance from Beorma Border Morris dancers. Local artist, Tom Jones, will be ‘a wandering artist’, making instantaneous drawings of visitors and performers as souvenirs.
A festival wouldn’t be a festival without the food – delicious tapas, cakes and salads will be available all day from ChangeKitchen CIC.
