StoryQuest

Museums, galleries, theatres and other cultural venues are awash with stories waiting to be told. We invited them to open up their collections and secret places to create an event that celebrated stories through the spoken word.

Cultural venues were invited to join the StoryQuest national festival by running a storytelling event in their venue between 2nd November and 30th November 2007 and entering a competition to win a site-specific storytelling commission, created and performed by one of the best performance storytellers in the land.

Their challenge was to use oral storytelling to bring their venue, collections or exhibits to life in new and exciting ways. The prize will go to the venue that organised the most inventive and inspiring event.

Venues were advised that the stories told could be traditional folk tales, fairy tales or myths; jokes, sayings or proverbs; local legends or true stories connected to their venue or its collections.

StoryQuest events could be simple or complex; could take an hour, or a day, or a week; could take place inside or outside, in galleries, teaching rooms, or even broom cupboards; they could be at the break of dawn or in the middle of the night; events could involve banquets or lead to great inventions… wherever, whenever and however the organisers thought a story might ignite the imaginations of their visitors.