Community
Storytelling
Groups

" It's refreshing to take part in the friendly and entertaining exchange of stories without the need for any sort of technology."

Malcolm Campbell, Community Worker, West End Community House

Community Storytelling Groups are
easy and fun They enable groups and individuals to
highly accessible discover and share their stories
flexible and adaptable learn new skills and confidence
low cost involve a wide range of community members
suitable for most ages develop community pride and awareness
Formation

A good way to follow up on community support for a storytelling group is with a number of storytelling workshops. The workshops can introduce a range of storytelling and group facilitation and maintenance skills and initiate a series of community storytelling sessions. The workshops can also present a wide range of story and storytelling resources existing in libraries, the internet, storytelling guilds and festivals.
Content

Community Storytelling Groups can make use of a wide range of different types of stories and themes to explore and build local community. These can include:
personal and family stories traditional stories from cultural groups
stories from local history stories of disadvantaged groups
stories about local successes folk tales and fairy tales
contemporary stories about the local environment, characters or problems
Linking and Development

Once established, your Community Storytelling Group provides lots of opportunities to involve other community groups. Your local group could explore, for example, different local themes to involve different community groups or you could initiate a cross artform community cultural development project. Examples include:
the group visits local hostels and aged care centres with a reminiscence story set group works with local musicians and community groups to use stories as a basis for song writing and concert performance
local history and cultural group stories transformed into murals local stories become basis of a community web site
catering & hospitality trainee course participants involved in performance and arts cafe link up with local choir to run combined storytelling / choral concerts
run a fundraising storytelling concert for a local charity or community service organisation
Examples of Community Storytelling Groups
West End Community Storytelling Group
Queensland Storytelling Guild
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Daryll Bellingham, Storyteller
P.O. Box 5300, West End, Q4101, 
Brisbane, Australia
Tel. 61 (0)7 3846 3135
Mob. 0417 478408
Email. mail@storytell.com.au 
 
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Revised: 16th April,2002
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