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Pat Renton has worked as a storyteller for over 15 years and has gathered stories from many cultures across the world.

She believes that the beauty of stories is that they are for everyone and over the past years she has had the experience of working with all ages and in all kinds of places. Drawing people into the world of story is a magical thing to do.

Working in schools she encourages participation through rhyme, art, music, song, games and even dancing and in workshops she gives the opportunity for children and adults to create their own stories, share ideas and experiences and let their imaginations run free.

pat@abitcrack.com

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Pascale Konyn has been working as a professional storyteller since the early nineties, and tells stories gathered from many world cultures. Her storytelling has been described as "magical". Pascale has toured nationally, performing both as a solo artist and in collaborations with other artists and musicians. She is often commissioned to create stories within the oral tradition for particular groups or situations. She has a wealth of experience of working in wide range of contexts including community and education settings, from schools, libraries and theatres to the natural environment, with people of all ages.

She has also conceived and written picture books for children with environmental themes, and written a booklet for a local park, aimed at children, which interpreted historical research and encouraged ways that teachers could use the park for education.

pascale@abitcrack.com

Chris Bostock is a storyteller of great range and humour.

He tells stories from local legends to the great myths, ghost or fairy stories, jokes or ancient epics, in a style which is completely his own and is loved by his audiences.

He is also an entertainer of great inventiveness and creativity. He loves involving other people in the process of both storytelling and story-making and is always full of original and bright ideas for engaging people. He is as much at home working with a crowd in a football stadium or Theatre as he is with 5 pensioners in a day centre or a classroom of young people.He has a great gift for getting people of different ages and backgrounds to delight in each other’s stories.

Underneath all of the humour there lies a deeply compassionate and interested person committed to developing the art of storytelling. His enormous experience in the world of stories and workshops makes his listeners feel good about who they are and what they do.

chris@abitcrack.com

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Malcolm Green is a gifted storyteller, who has inspired listeners of all ages in over thirty years of storytelling.

His deep love and wide knowledge of the natural world is reflected in his choice of stories. He brings the world to life with his infectious enthusiasm for the life of birds and animals, coloured by his own observations of their lives.

Malcolm has lived in places as far flung as Cameroon and Iceland and brings the textures of these places to his storytelling. He tells stories for all ages in all conceivable venues.

He regularly runs Training Courses for Adults in storytelling skills. He has done a great deal of work with Countryside Wardens and Environmental Groups in using storytelling in the natural world. He has done much creative work with story in schools. He is the author of a book on Africa and several walk leaflets based on the use of story. Malcolm never fails to make the world seem a better place for his storytelling.

malcolm@abitcrack.com

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