About Family Under 5s Workshop: Meet Anansi
We’re starting the new year by celebrating our favourite African & Caribbean trickster Anansi. Join storyteller Wendy Shearer for an interactive and sensory storytelling adventure. Join in with music, move and dance to the beat, explore our sensory props and listen to our crafty tales.
Then explore colour and material as we create our own storytelling props.
Please book one ticket per participant.
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Wendy Shearer
Wendy Shearer is a performance storyteller, oral historian and writer of Guyanese heritage.
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She is the author of Caribbean Folktales: Stories from the Islands and the Windrush Generation and two children’s books: African and Caribbean Folktales, Myths and Legends and Spooky Stories of the World and is one of the author’s of: Bedtime Stories: Beautiful Black Tales from the Past.
Renowned for weaving African and Caribbean diaspora histories with folklore, Wendy has been described as a masterful storyteller, bringing hidden and lesser-known stories to life with joy and cultural sensitivity.
She weaves African and Caribbean diaspora histories with folklore and myths to amplify the voices of marginalised communities and decolonise representation at heritage sites.
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