Children's Storytelling Workshop and Story Showcase Morning - Bardic Chair of Gloucester Day

The Folk of Gloucester is hosting a children's storytelling workshop and showcase on Saturday 21 November, part of a full day of storytelling for the whole family. It runs from 10:30 to 12:30, with the workshop taking up the first hour and the showcase the second. It's aimed at ages 7 to 14, and it's free, though there are only 10 child spaces available, so you'll want to get in early.

The morning is part of the Society for Storytellers' Young Storytellers Week and the Gloucester Storytelling Café's Bardic Chair of Gloucester Day. The workshop itself is hands-on: children take part in activities to find their favourite story and become storytellers themselves, playing with and telling traditional tales. Everyone leaves with a storyteller badge and a certificate. The second hour is the showcase, where they get to share what they've worked on.

It's just one part of a day that runs from morning to evening. There's also an adult storytelling workshop and a Bardic Chair Story Slam, so if you're bringing the kids along, there's plenty to keep you occupied too. The venue, The Folk of Gloucester, is a Tudor timber-framed building that once housed the city's Folk Museum; it's now a community space run by Gloucester City Council for exhibitions, events and activities. Inside there's a café serving homemade lunches, cakes and hot drinks, and an on-site Ed Shed with two modern meeting rooms. The building and its garden are free to look around, and nearby is Beatrix Potter's House of the Tailor of Gloucester, where she created one of her most loved characters.

The workshop runs from 10:30 to 11:30, followed by the showcase from 11:30 to 12:30. It's free, for ages 7 to 14, with 10 child spaces available.