The 2012 Festival is coming in June. Click on the Poster for more details.
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Join us as we celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Brother Grimm’s famous collection of fairytales. This programme kicks off a much larger community arts programme which is part of the 2012 Festival of Story (1-4 June) called ‘Grimm Waiheke’. Come along and explore some of the lesser known tales from this much loved collection. Each workshop includes a story and an expressive arts exploration of the tale. Tuesday 17th 10 – 12 The White Snake workshop Ages 6 + Cost $20 Imagine if you had the power to understand the language of animals. Explore your magical potential and discover your ‘power animals’ on this animal story orientated workshop. Wednesday 18th 10 – 12 The Golden Key workshop Ages 6+ $20 The discovery of a key takes us on an imaginative adventure. What does it open? A doorway, a treasure chest a portal to another world – you decide. Thursday 19th 10am and 11.30am The Golden Goose workshop 3 – 5 years Cost $10 A forty five minute fun interactive story adventure for those aged between 3 – 5 year and their caregivers. Music, movement and story magic. Friday 20th 10.30am Storytelling performance Grimms Fairytales Cost $5 per person $20 per family From the scary to the ridiculous come and hear stories both familiar and new. An hour long programme of storytelling with Tanya Batt for children and their families. Not suitable for those under 4 years of age.
FREE Youth film workshops with Waiheke Community Cinema 12/13th or 18/19th April 2 – 4pm Community Ed, Donald Bruce Rd Age : Teenagers Community Ed, Donald Bruce Rd Workshops in camera, sound & storyboarding for aspiring film makers.
Contact Baraka baraka@peace.fm or 372 7297 February is the month of love and…bikes. Could there be a better combination I ask you? That Valentines Day should fall during National cycle month, in my mind, is the universe directing you to go to the shed and throw your arms around your two wheeled friend in a loving embrace, to breathe air into those sad flat tyres and leap upon its seat – ready to ride!
To celebrate New Zealand National Cycle month, I am inviting ‘lovers of two wheels’ to join me for a Valentine Night Cycle on Tuesday 14th February. We will be meeting at the Story Centre at 8.45pm and heading off on a mystery cycle that will culminate in a romantic supper. This event is suited for those people whose bed time if after 8.45pm, who are confidant road cyclists and can cycle at reasonable speed for several kilometres.
If you are keen here’s what you need to know:
Meet at the Story Centre, Artworks Oneroa at 8.45pm Tuesday 14th February.
Light up your bike – yes xmas lights, head torches, lamps – you do need to be seen.
Dress up – remember cycling is no excuse for lycra but an excellent opportunity to kit up in latex, tutus, tuxedos, ball gowns or to decorate your helmet.
Bring something suitable for a shared supper.
A koha.
Any questions you can email me at tanya@imagined-worlds.net See you next Tuesday – and remember, get some fun between your legs – get a bike!
Spoke’ N Word Storytelling @ Oneroa Market 10am Saturday 11th February. Come and enjoy storytelling off the back of a bike. Learn about the history and hear some of the fabulous bikes tales created by children through out NZ during last years Waiheke to Wellington storytelling and cycle adventure. Kick off the New Year with a story adventure. The Once Upon An Island Trust joins forces with Zebez Creative and Waiheke Creative Family Resource to bring you a week of dragons, drama, dance, story and music to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Monday 23rd Jan. 2-4pm The Race for the Chinese Zodiac. Long ago in Ancient China, Jade Emperor proclaimed a mighty race. Come and listen to the story and create your own zodiac characters.Age 6 years plus +$20 Tuesday 24th Jan.10-12. Red Packet Day. Discover the wonders inside the red packet. You will be taken on a creative quest around china discovering and making the traditions associated with Chinese New Year.Age 6 years +$20 3-4pm The Race for the Chinese Zodiac.Join Kirsten and animals to cross the river and win a place on the Chinese Zodiac! A special art & music adventure for children and caregivers.3-5yrs.$10 Wednesday 25th Jan.10-12: Light up your life! Prepare for the lantern festival and be dazzled by the weird and wonderful ways we can make our lights shine! Create a lantern and a Fu paper cut.6 years +$20 2 -3pm New Years’ Rituals Thursday 26th Jan. The Tale of Chester Choi. 10am-2pm. Set on the coast of the South China Sea we meet Chester Choi – one bad Chinese Dragon. What is his secret?Workshop includes building a dragon & making it dance. Sampling Chinese Cuisine and Chinese music.6 years +Cost: $30 Friday 27th Jan 9-11pm The Pet Dragon. A story about adventure, friendship and reading/writing Chinese characters.Make your own dragon and make him sing and dance!6 years +$20 Guo Nian – Chinese New Year Celebration! 11-12pm Countdown time…Experience the colours and magic of Chinese New Year. Come celebrate the stories, art and music from the year of the dragon!All Ages.$5 The Story Centre is open to the public Wednesdays 12 – 3pm and Thursdays 9.30 – 12.30 with Debra Wallace of the Waiheke Creative Family Resource. Bookings essential. Workshop places limited to 10 in each session.Phone 0212963149 or email storycentre@gmail.com
Come and share the sack of stories storyteller, Tanya Batt has collected on her recent adventure around the world. From spicy Indian tales through to shadowy stories from the forests of Russia – the only passport you’ll need is your imagination. Monday 17th 10 – 12 Burmese Puppet Workshop Come and listen a traditional Burmese puppet story and make your own simple marionette puppet. ^Ages 6+ *Cost $20 Tuesday 18th 10 – 12 Indian Sculpture Workshop Join us and share the stories and traditions associated with India’s favourite god, the elephant headed Ganesha. ^Ages 6+ *Cost $20 Tuesday 18th & Thursday 19th 2- 3pm The Story Train A special story adventure from the East to the West using movement, song and craft for three and four year olds and their caregivers. Ages 3 – 5 Cost $10 Wednesday 19th 10 – 12 Stories from the Chinese Opera Come and explore the fabulous colourful and dramatic world of Chinese Opera and create your own opera mask. ^Ages 6+ *Cost $20 Thursday 20th 10 – 12 Nomadic Tales of Mongolia Come and discover the world of the nomadic Mongol through story and games. Make your own felt creation. ^Ages 6+ *Cost $20 Friday 21st 10 – 12 Russian Doll making workshop Venture into the forest to meet ‘Old Bony Legs’. Make your very own set of story Matroshka dolls. ^Ages 6+*Cost $20
*Workshop charges include a simple morning tea and all materials. ^ 4 & 5 five year olds are welcome if accompanied by an adult. Workshops are limited and bookings are essential.
Be part of the great storytelling and cycling adventure from Waiheke to Wellington. Waiheke’s Wheely grand send off. Monday 31st January 12.15pm Artworks Courtyard Bring bikes, trikes, skateboards, roller-skates and wheel your way down to Matiatia to farewell Tanya 10 – 12 Bike Stories Workshop with Tanya Batt. Suitable for those 5 years plus. Attendance by koha. Bookings essential 0212963149 or storycentre@gmail.com For full tour schedule see link above. Storytelling for growing understanding 17th – 21st January 2011 The ‘Once Upon An Island Trust’ in conjunction with the Auckland Council invite you to join us under the spreading branches of an ancient Pohutukawa tree for a week of storytelling and making in the beautiful Whakanewha Regional Park. Monday 17th Bush Princesses & Native Flower Faeries 10 – 12noon Come and recreate yourself as a bush princess or native flower faery and learn about the flowers and plants that grow in the bush. Best suited for those 5 years plus Cost: $10 Tuesday 18th Tales of Tane Mahuta 10 – 12 noon Come and share stories about trees. Learn to identify native trees and about their special gifts. Involves storytelling, bush walking and workshop. Best suited for those 5 years plus Cost: $10 Wednesday 19th Special Workshop with guest clay worker and storyteller Michael O’Donnell 10 – 12 noon Best Suited for those 5 years plus Cost $10 Tales from the Story Tree 6 – 8pm Bring a picnic and join Tanya Batt and Michael O’Donnell for stories under the giant Pohutukawa Tree. Suitable for all ages Cost $5 per person or $20 per family Thursday 20th Birds of the Bush 10 – 10.45 & 11.15 – 12 noon A special workshop for children ages 3 – 5 and their caregivers. Come and meet the birds of the NZ and bush and embark on an interactive storytelling drama. For those aged 3 – 5 years Cost: $5 Friday 21st From Sea to Shore 10 – 12 noon Come and explore the beach and wetlands and discover the stories and treasures hidden away. Best Suited for those 5 years plus Cost $10 Directions: Upon entering the park drive approximately 1.5km to the first car park on your right that has the sculpture and notice board. Go through the bollards on your left and walk a few hundred metres to the tall, very large pohutukawa tree.
Monday 31st January Spoke ‘N Word – From Waiheke to Wellington 10 – 12noon workshop Cycle send off 12.30pm – riding from Artworks to Matiatia Wharf Join us for the send off of the great storytelling and cycling adventure from Waiheke to Wellington. Pedal into the Story Centre for a storytelling and making workshop all about bikes. Using the traditional Japanese kamishibai children will share and create stories all about cycling. Workshop suitable for children 5 – 10 years Ride to Matiatia all ages
Sunday 31st October 2 – 4pm, The Story Centre On all Hallows Eve, Peter-Peter Pumpkin eater can’t find his wife, Purerehua. He suspects the worse when all he finds is her old, crumpled coat outside the entry to the underworld. Peter enlists a group of brave champions to venture into the underworld to find Purerehua. Sending them of with his blessings and ‘a guiding star’, the brave heroes and heroines enter the underworld (of Alison Park) meeting witches, skeletons and all manner of ghouls who challenge the children to complete tasks associated with death and the afterlife in exchange for their assistance. Will our champions find Purerehua? And what will they learn about our strange upside down Halloween. This is truly a quest of life and death! Bookings essential. $5 per person
Out of the Book – Take a Look!School Holiday Fun 4th – 8th OctoberHelp us celebrate New Zealand flavoured tales with a weeks worth of story-book festivties. A children’s Readers and Writers Festival to tie in with the adult literature Festival ‘Words on a Small Island’. This event aims to encourage reading and writing and a love of stories in the children/families of Waiheke through a series of performances, readings and workshops with local and top NZ children’s writers and illustrators. The programme will take place at the Story Centre, Library and Theatre at Artworks. Secret Seals Workshopwith Julia Forbes & Tanya BattTuesday 5th October 10 – 1pm(Participants need to bring their lunch) Based on the storybook ‘The Secret Seals’ written by local author Julia Meeks, this interactive workshop will explore the stories of Waiheke and their connections to other mythologies. Participants will have the opportunity to make their own ‘secret seal’ using clay and the sawdust firing method. 5 years plus Cost: $25A Twisted Fairy TaleWith Stu DuvalWednesday 6th October 10.30 – 11.30A spontaneous retelling of favourite fairy tales….but with a hilarious twist. Highly interactive Join the fabulous storyteller, author and artist Stu Duval for an hour of world class storytelling entertainment. NZ’s answer to Rolf Harris! Artworks Theatre. Cost $30 family or $10 per person Cartooning WorkshopWith Stu DuvalCome and learn skills around how to create your own cartoon illustrations. Stu Duval artist and writer of several cartoon instruction manuals will lead you through the process and make you a ‘cartooning’ star. 6th October 1.30 – 3pmCost $10 Where the ‘Waiheke’ Wild Things AreAn early childhood story programme with Tanya BattThursday 7th October 10am and 11.15amCome and share this much love tale by Maurice Sendak, performed using the beautiful story blanket created at Upcycle during the Festival of Story and given a unique Waiheke twist by storyteller Tanya batt. An interactive session of story, music, craft and movement. Ages 3 – 5 years Cost $10Celebrating NZ Children’s WritingWith Gavin Bishop, Tessa DuderFriday 8th October 10.30am – 3pm10.30 Meet the Author Session - Artworks Theatre – Koha Come and meet two of NZ’s top story book creators. Here them talk about their work and where their stories come from. 1 – 2.30pm Workshops A chance for you to work alongside a top NZ writer and illustrator. ‘Where do ideas come from?’ A workshop in writing with Tessa Duder ‘Picture This!’ An illustrating workshop with Gavin Bishop
Ages 7 plus Cost $10 Workshops $10 per child Spring into Halloween31st October 2010 2pm Alison ParkA special interactive seasonal celebration that embraces our history and hemisphere. Stories in parks, in the bush and on beachesJanuary School Holidays 2011There’s no better place to be in summer than outside. Join us for stories up trees, in the sand, by the sea and over hills. Line up includes storywalks, stories on bikes and due to popular demand the return of the interactive storytelling adventure created for this years Once Upon an Island Festival of Story, The Korimako’s Quest. Mythological WaihekeOctober 2010 – March 2011A series of creative writing workshops kindly funded by Creative Communities devised to inspire and create works for the ‘Mythological Waiheke Story Trail’. Twelve stories will be selected to form a beautifully illustrated book of stories grounded in the Waiheke landscape. The book will form the basis of a self guiding story trail to be launched at the 2012 Waiheke Festival of Story. Bookings and queries phone 0212963149 or email storycentre@gmail.com |
Story-o-phile and frock-o-holic Tanya Batt resides on the mythical isle of Waiheke, in the Hauraki Gulf, Aotearoa, New Zealand. The ‘Once Upon an Island’ Story Centre is her unique heartful creation. Dubbed the ‘story centre of the universe’, it is a physical space for the audible art of story making and telling. The Story Centre in the ‘HQ’ of the Once Upon an Island Waiheke Storytelling Festival, held over the Queen’s Birthday Weekend of June every two years. 
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