Storytelling & Traditional Tales two-day workshop

Onsite at the Ashmolean.

Join this practical workshop to discover the techniques needed to help you hone your storytelling skills.

Storytelling expert and medievalist Dave Tong will focus particularly on how stories from 1,000 years ago can be modernised whilst still maintaining some of their original narrative.

During the sessions, you will:

• Use objects from the Ashmolean collections as inspiration and examples of medieval narratives, looking at their messages and meanings to inform your creative thinking.
• Explore how, just like the stories, the objects themselves can be made more relevant to a modern viewer because of the story you tell about them.
• Delve into the past and the storytelling traditions in literature, such as Chaucer, pilgrimage in many lands, rulers and subjects, and the everyday life of the Medieval world.

All materials will be provided.