Company Profile

 
Who We Are:

Maggie Weber and Susan Samm are professional storytellers – alias StoryRoots.

What We Do.

StoryRoots present Performance Storytelling for young audiences and also StoryRoots lead a range of storytelling based training workshops for early years workers,  designed to promote the workers skills and confidence to  develop a ‘live storytelling’ ethos in their own settings.

 
Where We Work

‘Your wish is our command’ StoryRoots will listen to your requirements and work with you to meet these. Contact us: susan@storyroots.com

 A miscellany of recent work includes:

Libraries - StoryRoots extensive work in libraries across Bedfordshire has featured themed stories for St. Georges’s Day, Tales From The River Bank, Nature Stories, Nautical Adventures and Traditional Tales From Around The World amongst others.
 
Museums  -  StoryRoots have been regular storytellers at theme and family days at Stockwood Park Museum, Luton.

 
Pre- Schools - StoryRoots sessions at these regular slots around Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire are popular with the under fives. 

 Primary Schools – StoryRoots regularly perform in schools in Beds, Bucks and Herts. Sessions are tailored to meet the school’s requirements.

Other work includes- Local Groups and Play schemes; Charity Presentations;  Leighton Buzzard Canal Festival; Forest Centre, Marston Vale ;BBC Springwatch Event, Bedfordshire; Macintyre celebration party; Adoption UK family days ;work with Bedfordshire Rural Communities Charity; Letchworth Art Centre. and many many more….

Adult Storyteller Workshops- StoryRoots regularly lead a series of adult workshops: ‘Breaking Away From Print’. These workshops are in demand as both full and part day workshops, and are becoming increasingly popular with education authorities and individual settings keen to further practitioners storytelling skills.

 And also: work in progress!

StoryRoots work with Manor Farm Environmental Centre in Leicestershire. They lead outdoor workshops in Manor Farm’s secluded woodland. The workshops are designed to inspire practitioners to use story and storytelling to enhance children’s experiences outdoors.

For more details go to www.manorfarm.info or phone 01509 852525

Further workshops ‘in the pipeline’