Although one of this week's themes was "Once upon a time Adventures" we think that "Operation Arctic Adventure" would have been more appropriate. With this week's snow, and many schools closed or unable to get to StorySpark in the Ark, StorySpark had to go to them!
Storyteller Pat Ryan was a trouper, eager to go wherever there were children wanting stories. He and I ventured out to Scoil Iosagáin on Wednesday where his stories and riddles were a great hit: some of the boys even taught him some new ones. Meanwhile, storyteller Clare Murphy was on the case in St. Audoen's NS and collected more original stories for our audio archive.
On Thursday, Clare was snowed in, so Pat and I made the short walk across town to Temple St. Children's Hospital, where we had a lovely welcome from the children, parents, play therapists and medical staff. It was great to have such enthusiastic listeners for the stories; hopefully the children will be creating their own with the materials we left.
Yesterday we DARTed out to St. Anne's in Shankill where, to our surprise, most of the school population were story-ready. Pat told stories for the whole school in two sessions, while storyteller Fiona Dowling and I did workshops with 6th and 2nd Class. We managed a few more stories for our audio archive, including one from the whole 2nd class together, bringing our audio story total up to 103!
As you know, this weekend's events are cancelled, but Niall de Burca will be in next week, ably assisted by myself, Clare, and Fiona in StoryLab.
- Caoileann Appleby
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