National Storytelling Week

Date published: 24 January 2012

Libraries across Bury are once again taking part in National Storytelling Week from 28 January to 4 February.

National Storytelling Week is in its 12th year and in 2011 gained a combined audience of 17,000 people aged from three to 93. The aim is to increase public awareness of the art, practice and value of storytelling, engaging audiences with tales of myths, folk and all the great traditional legends from around the world.

Storytelling can be found enriching lives everywhere: from nurseries to schools, from bereavement aids in hospitals to strengthening communication in the business sphere, from reminiscence centres to support groups for those with special needs, and in theatrical performances.

Parents and toddlers are invited to attend any of the usual story and rhyme time sessions held at the following local libraries:

• Monday (2pm to 3 pm), Radcliffe Library, Story Time
• Monday (10am to 10.30am), Unsworth Library, Rhyme Time
• Tuesday (2pm to 2.45pm), Prestwich Library, Story Time
• Tuesday (10.30am to 11am), Radcliffe Library, Rhyme Time
• Tuesday (10am to 10.45am), Tottington Library, Rhyme Time
• Tuesday (2.15pm to 2.45pm), Whitefield Library, Story Time
• Wednesday (10.30am to 11.30am), Bury Library, Story Time
• Thursday (2.15pm to 3pm), Unsworth Library, Story Time
• Friday (10.30am to 11.15am), Tottington Library, Rhyme Time
• Saturday (11.30am to 12.15pm) every two weeks at Unsworth Library, Story Time

(please check with the library for the next session)