Making Marvellous Stories with Danyah Miller
Join award-winning storyteller Danyah Miller for an interactive spontaneous storytelling hour. Oral storytelling underpins literacy, including fluency, vocabulary acquisition, writing, recall and memory skills. We’ll play story games, making up fresh, new stories together to spark our imaginations. You’ll take home tips and tricks for endless storytelling fun. Let’s create lasting memories together!
‘We left full of ideas and inspiration.’ Mum of boys, aged 7 and 9.
Saturday 29 June, 10.30am
Edinburgh Central Library, Free
Reasons for sharing oral stories include:
- Stories help us to focus and concentrate
- Stories improve our literacy skills
- Imagination increases our capacity to solve problems and innovate.
- Stories teach us about the world, encouraging us to value ourselves, respect others and care for the world.
- Spending social time with our family and friends can boost our confidence, improve our mental health and reduce loneliness.
- Stories can inspire us to achieve more than we believed possible.
Danyah Miller
Danyah Miller is an international solo performer, writer, and story trainer.
She has adapted or written, and starred in five award-winning theatrical solo shows, including Michael Morpurgo’s ‘I Believe in Unicorns’ which has enjoyed three London West End seasons. Danyah regularly delivers storytelling training in-person and online in Europe and UK. Her book, ‘Seven Secrets of Spontaneous Storytelling’, is published by Hawthorn Press.
