Storytelling Pathways

Storytelling Pathways is a six month programme, funded by Arts Council of England grant to start working with partners, the sector and underrepresented voices in storytelling to ensure we have a strong sector in England for the future. 

 

UPDATE: We have just announced our open forums and co-designer call outs. Scroll down for further information.

We have already started making strong partnerships across the 4 UK Nations, and one thing that we have noticed is the urgent need for more joined up support and development in how we nurture more storytellers and representation. 

Storytelling Pathways will be the seed for the start of us growing and amplifying underrepresented voices, including talent development, regional-national partnerships and supporting stronger career pathways.

Over the next six months we will be having open discussions, call outs, mentoring and dialogue, sharing opportunities and looking at creating specific programmes and residencies. 

Our first steps into the consultation process will see us host Online Forums with the storytelling community. These forums are open to anyone on their storytelling career journey, at any point, whether you are about to start out, or have been a storyteller for decades. We are also keen to hear from those who use storytelling in education, cultural and work settings. We are keen to hear anyone with a connection to storytelling. 
 

OPEN FORUMS

We are also reaching out to groups and networks specifically addressing the areas we feel underrepresented in storytelling currently. We will be having conversations across England and also speaking to neighbouring organisations in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland for inspiration and ideas too. 

We will be updating this page on how our consultation progresses over the next few months:

FORUM - is an online informal discussion space led by Adverse Camber, with guest facilitators and speakers sharing examples of their practice, including storytellers Tamar Eluned Williams, Katy Cawkwell, Arts Council Midlands Literature Officer Peter Stones and others.  

These sessions are an open, welcoming space for storytellers and other artists to meet, discuss their craft, share skills, and pool resources, with small group breakouts to chat about your own practice and questions. It’s also an opportunity for storytellers from across the UK to come together to share and discuss. These sessions in particular are around what the storytelling sector could look like in the future and what it needs to get there.  To book onto the Open Forums, please click on the Free ticket link and you will be taken to Eventbrite. We make all forum bookings through Eventbrite and will capture your name and email for us to send you the Zoom link for the event. There is a different link per event so please make sure you have signed up to the event beforehand.

Monday 18 November, 6 - 7.30pm (UK Time) - Online Open Forum - Storyteller Residencies - are you working in depth, in a particular location with a community or would you like to develop a residency like this? Led by Tamar Eluned Williams BOOK HERE

Monday 2 December, 6 - 7.30pm (UK time) - Open Online Forum - All about Touring - hear examples from storytellers who have organised their own national tours, with and without funding, with Katy Cawkwell and others.  BOOK HERE

Monday 16 December, 6 - 7.30pm (Uk time) - Open Forum led by Tamar Eluned Williams - topics for these and 2025's sessions will pick up on the hot topics raised by participants from earlier sessions. BOOK HERE 

Note on event:

Please note we ask all attendees to not share this link with anyone who hasn’t booked a ticket.

Unfortunately due to recent disruptions with hackers on our Online Open Forums, we have stepped up our security measures to ensure we create maximum space for the purposes we are meeting. All attendees will need to a have a Zoom account to be able to access this event. You do not need to pay for this, but to have a free profile on Zoom.

You will need to register and login to the event link, we recommend 10 minutes before the event, so we can check everyone’s ticket. Please make sure your name and email matches your login for Zoom.

We may not admit latecomers after 5 minutes of the event starting.

If you have technical difficulties, please contact naomi@adversecamber.org

If you do not have a Zoom account but want to be part of the conversation about storytelling pathways, please contact us naomi@adversecamber.org and we can

arrange for an alternative way.