Surprise!
Dear Blog Readers
This week I was surprised and delighted to learn that I have been nominated for a Lifetime Achievement Award. I wonder if you’d help me?
The awards are being run by BASE (British Awards for Storytelling Excellence) and this is the first year they are being given. The administrators are storytellers Peter Chand and Shonaleigh and the BASE website will be going up on the Internet on August 12th.
Meantime, further nominations are being collected. The more I receive, the more likely I am to be shortlisted. Would you be willing to help build up my nominations?
For me, getting this award would be a recognition of all the kinds of storytelling I most believe in – the ordinary (and always extraordinary!) sessions and courses with schools, community groups, teachers, parents etc. etc. etc. This kind of work is rarely in the limelight but especially in these times of funding cuts, it’s even less likely to receive public support and recognition.
There are many other things I’m proud to have done including the Drill Hall Workshops, Time for Telling, By Word of Mouth, Travels With My Welsh Aunt, Storytelling Cookbook, Lifting the Sky, SfS Publications, Shemi’s Tall Tales, festivals and performances galore and this Storytelling Starters Blog.
But it’s for all the day-to-day and routine stuff – and in heartfelt thanks to all the people I’ve worked with over the years – that I’ve agreed to allow my name to go forward.
To nominate me, please email awardstory@gmail.com and request a nomination form. On the first page, when you receive it, click on Lifetime Achievement Award (about half-way down). On the second page, say very briefly why you’d like me to get it (no more than 150 words). Then please return the form to awardstory@gmail.com
My very great thanks for all help received. And by the way, if and when I get shortlisted, I’ll be coming back to ask you to vote for me too!
Mary
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