The East Anglian Storytelling Festival aims to increase the awareness and enjoyment of storytelling in East Anglia through a festival that celebrates and promotes storytelling as a thriving, modern, vibrant art, that is accessible and relevant to all. That may all sound rather highbrow, but we are all about inclusivity and having a good time - this is not about a rarefied niche form of art - it's about connection and fun.
2024 will be our ninth annual festival. The Food Museum in Stowmarket is our permanent home and our festival dates are 17-19 May 2024.
We pride ourselves on presenting programmes with a diverse mix of storytellers from different cultures, backgrounds and styles, and have a particular focus on young people and children. Our featured tellers come from all over the country and are known nationally and often internationally. There are storyrounds where anyone can tell their own story. We feature music and dance from local artists, and a spoken word stage as well as storytelling. We feature workshops in performance, writing and storytelling.
We do outreach in schools and libraries as part of our festival programme.
We offer festival goers the opportunity to camp in the Museum grounds and engage local services to facilitate that.
We are all volunteers giving our time for the love of stories however we work hard and we love what we do - we are proud of the progress we have made.
