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Anna Jarrett The Travelling Storyteller "Celebrating life and learning through creative arts & storytelling"
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"One of Australia's best storytellers."
Northern Territory News,
Australia
"The music and your soul touched stories were beautiful and unforgettable."
Jerald Hauser, Ph.D., Assoc. Professor in Education, St Norbert College, Wisconsin USA
"Anna is the most awesome workshop presenter I have experienced." Workshop participant, Glistening Waters International Storytelling Festival, New Zealand |
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT & WELLBEING
Storytelling in rural & outback communities
Stories and Music are the Heartbeat of the Community
Sharing stories and celebrating our lives and cultures, is an essential part of wellbeing for both individuals and communities. In traditional societies, the storyteller is the one who weaves the threads of community together, through words, song and music. We all have stories to tell. As a contemporary storyteller, my role is to help facilitate spaces and places where stories can be created and shared. I enjoy designing special projects which strengthen community identity and create a sense of joy, hope and harmony within the community. Storytelling is an ancient, accessible, powerful tool for individuals and communities to make connections, to learn new skills, to discover new knowledge and to explore possible solutions to community issues.
Sharing Family Stories. Snapshot Stories Workshop. Seniors Week. Parramatta
PROGRAMS & SERVICES
CURRENT PROJECTS
The national initiative for Stronger Families and Communities has created new opportunities for me to share my story shows and workshops in numerous regional communities around NSW. Starting with Dubbo in Childrens Week 2007, I have also travelled to Cobar and throughout the Walgett/Gilgandra region, working with a diverse range of community, family and childrens service providers. The combination of modelling storytelling and music through shows, then facilitating storytelling in the community through workshops with carers, parents and educators, is proving to be a successful and powerful formula. It is refreshing to find that so many communities are looking for their own solutions to community issues and exploring creative ways to address the complex task of raising healthy, happy children and families. Funding and project partners include NSW Dept of Community Services (DOCS), NSW Dept of Education & Training (DET), Barnardos, Centacare, Mackillop Rural Community Services ~view
album~ Cobargo Preschool. Photo Fiona Gross
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Writers Roadshow Project. A passion for writing
Poetry
week is an annual event which is celebrated across Australia. I was
invited by Mogo School to design and facilitate a project which would
celebrate the creative community, develop literacy skills and build
links between the school, home and the broader community. The project
involved a storytelling show, student workshops, staff training, parent
mentoring and a final performance of the students collaborative poems
for Poetry Week 2006. The creative journey was a steep learning curve as performance
poetry was a new form to the students. However, the outcomes were
exceptional as students enjoyed becoming poets and poetry was seen as an
exciting form of self expression. Funded
by NSW Dept Education & Training Literacy grant, Hosted by Mogo
P& C Project Subcommittee
Poetry Week Performance at Mogo Public School
A
multiarts creative workshop series for adults living with disabilities
in the Eurobodalla Shire. The focus of these workshops is on affirming
and empowering ability through skills development and creative
storytelling (music, song, drama and
Free Form Project, The Arty Party Celebration, Moruya July 2005
KANGAROO VALLEY PIONEER STORIES HISTORY ALIVE!
The first stage of an oral history project which involved inviting local dairy farmers and people from pioneering families to share and to record the stories of their experiences of life in The Valley. Some of the stories were crafted into a permanent audio installation for the Kangaroo Valley Pioneer Museum Park, launched in History Week 2005. Coordinated by Kangaroo Valley Historical Society and funded by IMB Community Foundation.
Making
History Come Alive. Elsie Dewhurst cut the ribbon to launch at
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