Storytale Festival 2020

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Funded on
27 Nov 2020

Storytale Festival 2020 celebrates stories for tots to teens with 15 events over 5 days led by Bristol creatives. Travel to inspirational places with wonderful authors, illustrators and storytellers.

£7,833 Raised of £7,825

19 Backers

100%

Updates

Storytale Festival 2020 hit its fundraising target!6 years ago

Brilliant news, thanks everyone!

15 Donations worth £2086 years ago

6 years ago We've hit our target

Difficult decision6 years ago

After a long hard think and lots of discussion with my family, I decided to donate some of our savings to the Storytale Festival fund. I was worried that without it we wouldn't make the target so we'd lose the kind donations we've received. Hopefully this means we can start planning next year's festival :)

Storytale Festival 2020 has reached 90% of its target!6 years ago

Ellie Freeman pledged £9456 years ago

One day left!6 years ago

We're really close to the closing date for this now. We could really do with as much help as possible to try and reach our target. Please spread the word if you can.... It will mean we can pay our creatives and hopefully hold another festival next year. Fingers crossed!

10 backers!

10 people have backed Storytale Festival 2020!6 years ago

Whoop, 10 people have pledged since fundraising began!

Not long to go!6 years ago

We've had such a lovely response to our online festival, with views from new supporters in this country and beyond! It's really exciting and it's encouraged us to start thinking about next year. We'd love to reach our target and be able to pay this year's artists and hopefully they'll want to be part of future festivals too.

First pledge!6 years ago

Thank you for our first pledge! It may look like we're almost there but this is just the beginning for us. The funding in place represents the time the project team have put in already so we haven't got any money in the bank to pay bills yet... Every little helps and we really appreciate it.

http://www.storytalefestival.com

Kate and I ran Storytale Festival last year, with other 1000 people participating in 43 events in 27 venues with 26 creatives. It was hugely successful and we're really excited to be working together again to create a mini online version. We have huge support from Grounded Cloud and J Farrington Copywriting as well as a host of others such as publishers, libraries, bookshops and schools.

I’m a Director of Brave Bold Drama CIC, a not-for-profit theatre company which aims to dismantle the financial and cultural barriers that prevents some members of the community from engaging with the arts and accessing opportunities to explore their own creativity. I have brought in processes for planning, regular meetings and scheduling for Creative Workspace, a community arts centre in Withywood, a deprived part of the city. I’m chair of the local community partnership, Action Greater Bedminster, and have run consultation sessions on issues such as planning, transport and recycling. I have built relationships with the council, residents and organisations to help inform and enable the community. I worked for Playing Out CIC for two years, organising events including the 5 year anniversary party, promoting the concept at events, meetings and with groups and schools, and working closely with residents. I managed a small team of activators for 6 months and there were 100 streets in Bristol that had played out by the time my contract finished.

I’m working with Kate, the Director of Children’s and Teen Events at the Hawkesbury Upton Literature Festival, a free festival in a village north of Bristol. Kate has experience of taking creative writing workshops into schools and has also been involved in events at the Bristol Festival of Literature and at the Oakwood Literature Festival in Derby.

Project Owner: Ellie Freeman The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.