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.
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.
We are currently hosting 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. Further information and dates can be found on our What's On page.
Mon 10 Feb: 6 – 7.30pm – Storytelling Performance - Working with a Designer
Cardiff based puppeteer and designer James Jones Morris and producer Kama Roberts talk about how to develop a design for storytelling performance, based on their recent experiences working on Y Llyn (the Lake) with Michael Harvey, Stacey Blythe and Eeva Maria-Mutka. As always, there will be chances to talk about your own experience in breakouts before sharing experiences together.
Mon 24 Feb: 6 – 7.30pm – Shape of Your Work
What does it really mean to make a living from storytelling? How do storytellers build and maintain different strands of work? What does a portfolio career vs a "pure" storytelling career look like, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of working in different ways. Join professional working storytellers for a frank discussion of their income strands and creative outputs, and map out how storytellers' careers differ and converge in reality.
Monday 10 March: 6 – 7.30pm – Schools Storytelling: “A Voice to Tell Our Story” and “Everyday Magic”
Caroline Preston from Beaford Arts in North Devon will share her perspective on their recent three year project with 10 primary schools in North Devon, working with researchers from the University of South Wales and artists from North Devon including storyteller Lisa Schneidau. Anne Johnson from Everyday Magic, a London based charity which has been bringing storytellers, musicians and schools together for seventeen years, will share her experience. Two inspiring examples, to prompt your thoughts and questions about working in schools as a storyteller today.
Monday 24 March: 6 – 7.30pm – Next Steps in Networking – your thoughts for the future
This final session in the current series of Storytelling Pathways events invites you to reflect on what you’ve enjoyed most and what else could be useful as Adverse Camber develops the next stage of its Storytelling Pathways programme. Have your say on what the future looks like, and what else you’d like to see happen.
Mentoring Programme Update
We’re delighted to share that Adverse Camber has been successful raising funds from The Foyle Foundation to pilot a new mentoring scheme for storytellers based in England as part of our Storytelling Pathways programme.
In all conversations, mentoring comes up repeatedly as a way to help nurture development and we’re delighted that alongside continuing conversation about useful pathways, we can bring a new opportunity to the table, thanks to the hard work of our fundraisers and the valuable contributions of everyone who’s been part of the conversation so far!
We have started to have the conversations about mentoring in an open online conversation.
Following this conversation, we will be shaping the new scheme with our Storytelling Pathways co-designers, and launching the scheme in the New Year.
We are now recruiting for 5 mentoring places. Find out more here
