MORE THAN 4,500 children from across the county are set to come together to celebrate the joy of storytelling at a special festival.
Hosted and organised by the University of Worcester, the 10th Beeline Storytelling Festival for Children will see some of the country’s leading storytellers, authors, illustrators and performers come to the city until November 5.
The line-up for this year’s festival is poet, broadcaster and comedian, Ian McMillan, and Cartoonist of the Year Tony Husband, who will perform together, authors Alan Gibbons and Chloe Inkpen, and professional storyteller Daniel Morden.
Former Children’s Laureate and two-time Carnegie Prize winner, Anne Fine, is returning to the Festival for the second time this year.
The festival kicked off on Saturday (October 8) and organiser Steve Boffy said: “We are delighted that Anne Fine has agreed to come back this year. She was fantastic back in 2011 and the children coming along to her shows this year are in for a real treat.”
“The Festival celebrates storytelling in all its forms, creating fun, inspirational, experiences for schoolchildren from across the two counties and we are proud to now be in our 10th year of delivering this event.
“Each year, as well as the schoolchildren, we involve hundreds of University of Worcester students, from trainee teachers to those studying drama and theatre, who gain real-world experience of either hosting an event or learning how to incorporate storytelling into the classroom.”
As part of the Festival there will be family storytelling sessions at The Hive each Saturday which are open to all.
Visit www.thehiveworcester.org/events for more information on the family events for Beeline.
