Jean Edmiston Past Experience

Storytelling Experience

1999 – 2001 Artist in residence with Take Art! an arts development organisation in Somerset . I undertook 4 short residencies in preschool settings through their Take Part preschool project.

Consultancy work with Parents and early years workers contracted by Somerset Impact and Somerset LEA preschool advisors.

1999 – 2005 Writer with Threshold Prize – working with Yr 5/6 pupils from Primary Schools in Somerset .

1991 - 1994 Regularly attended storytelling workshops run by Mary Medlicott and Karen Tovell in London, firstly at the Drill Hall Arts Centre and later at the Holborn Centre for the Performing Arts. These innovative workshops gave me the valuable opportunity to work alongside other storytellers practicing and refining my skills and also creating new stories and developing ways of working with stories and with people of all ages and in different settings.

1992 - to present day I have worked continually performing stories, writing and developing new stories, and running workshops with children and adults. I have worked in primary schools, secondary schools, colleges, art centres, museums and in libraries, regionally and nationally.

1996 - 1998 Coordinator and storyteller for the Tutte Yate Project in Burrowbridge. I worked as part of the River Parret Trail project with the people of Burrowbridge, discovering, rediscovering and creating stories about the village and the people and their sense of the place that they live in.

This was a successful community project, which gave rise to a one-day exhibition of the work produced by the group in Burrowbridge Village Hall. The event was very well attended and filmed by local TV and BBC2. The material produced has been put into book form and is kept in an archive in the village school as a reference resource for the children and the villagers.

1995 - 1996 Freelance storyteller and education officer for the Museum of East Asian Art . My work here has been to develop workshops for schools to make the museums handling collection more accessible, and to run regular workshops in the museum for families and inset sessions for teachers.

1996 - 1997 Director of The Society for Storytelling, working as part of a team of nine directors running this national society of over 400 members Storytelling/writing and performing with 1st Cut Theatre Company.

1996- current day Workshops at Bath Spa Universiry College for Primary PGCE students.

1998 Commissioned, by Taunton Deane Arts Development Officer, to write a story for Ten Apples for Taunton Arts Trail.

1997 - 1998 Storyteller in Residence at the Horniman Museum London with Exhibition of Japanese Art.


	Storytelling Experience 1999 – 2001 Artist in residence with Take Art! an arts development organisation in Somerset . I undertook 4 short residencies in preschool settings through their Take Part preschool project. Consultancy work with Parents and early years workers contracted by Somerset Impact and Somerset LEA preschool advisors. 1999 – 2005 Writer with Threshold Prize – working with Yr 5/6 pupils from Primary Schools in Somerset . 1991 - 1994 Regularly attended storytelling workshops run by Mary Medlicott and Karen Tovell in London, firstly at the Drill Hall Arts Centre and later at the Holborn Centre for the Performing Arts. These innovative workshops gave me the valuable opportunity to work alongside other storytellers practicing and refining my skills and also creating new stories and developing ways of working with stories and with people of all ages and in different settings. 1992 - to present day I have worked continually performing stories, writing and developing new stories, and running workshops with children and adults. I have worked in primary schools, secondary schools, colleges, art centres, museums and in libraries, regionally and nationally. 1996 - 1998 Coordinator and storyteller for the Tutte Yate Project in Burrowbridge. I worked as part of the River Parret Trail project with the people of Burrowbridge, discovering, rediscovering and creating stories about the village and the people and their sense of the place that they live in. This was a successful community project, which gave rise to a one-day exhibition of the work produced by the group in Burrowbridge Village Hall. The event was very well attended and filmed by local TV and BBC2. The material produced has been put into book form and is kept in an archive in the village school as a reference resource for the children and the villagers. 1995 - 1996 Freelance storyteller and education officer for the Museum of East Asian Art . My work here has been to develop workshops for schools to make the museums handling collection more accessible, and to run regular workshops in the museum for families and inset sessions for teachers. 1996 - 1997 Director of The Society for Storytelling, working as part of a team of nine directors running this national society of over 400 members Storytelling/writing and performing with 1st Cut Theatre Company. 1996- current day Workshops at Bath Spa Universiry College for Primary PGCE students. 1998 Commissioned, by Taunton Deane Arts Development Officer, to write a story for Ten Apples for Taunton Arts Trail. 1997 - 1998 Storyteller in Residence at the Horniman Museum London with Exhibition of Japanese Art.