Tell-a-Story Day Case Study

Crafting The Arts: Voluntary Arts Scotland`s 2nd national Conference
Friday 30th & Saturday 31st October

Voluntary Arts Scotland is part of Voluntary Arts, an organisation whose aim is 'to promote participation in the arts & crafts' across the UK and the Republic of Ireland.

At our conference this year we will be working with representatives of the Scottish community and voluntary arts and crafts sector to discuss the benefits of taking part in the arts and crafts, how we can maximise, measure and promote these benefits by working together and get more people taking part and having fun!

In order to celebrate Tell-a-Story Day we will be encouraging everyone involved in the conference to share their stories, and work together to create a story of their hopes for participatory arts and crafts in Scotland. We will also ask our guest speakers and performers to incorporate storytelling into their sessions throughout the day.

The conference will be a great place to take part in practical sessions, learn from other
people's experiences and gain knowledge on a wide range of topics. We'll also have a
smattering of arts and crafts activities, good food, entertainment, information stalls and more.

The conference programme will be updated on www.vascotland.org.uk as speakers and workshops are confirmed.

Claire English
info@vascotland.org.uk

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Tam O’Shanter and Other Tales

Tell-a-Story Day at Gleneagles Adult Resource Centre in Perth will open with a multi-sensory story for people with profound and multiple learning disabilities. The group will then be joined by friends who will perform alongside them in a dramatisation of Tam O’Shanter to celebrate the Homecoming and the 250th anniversary of Robert Burns.

Communication for most people with profound and multiple learning disabilities is non-verbal and multi-sensory storytelling is a great way to promote interaction, capture attention, develop recognition and comprehension as well as encourage anticipation and response. Through multi-sensory storytelling people with profound and multiple learning disabilities are offered the opportunity to express emotions and share in the enjoyment of engagement.

The Tam O’Shanter and Other Tales project is a partnership between PAMIS and the Adult Resource Centre at Gleneagles and is great for many reasons. Not least because it offers the chance for people to participate in many different ways: creating the scenery, narrating the story from a Braille version of the poem or simply coming along to the event.

Tell-a-story-day enables people with profound and multiple learning disabilities to fully participate to a national celebration that recognises the power of storytelling and the ability it has to engage with people whose communication is non-verbal. Most importantly, it offers them the opportunity to have good fun.

Maureen Phillip
m.phillip@dundee.ac.uk

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