Frome Festival Storywalks

As part of this years Frome Festival, Storywalks has a special family event to make a storywalk in a day. Here are the words from the Rook Lane Trust and Break 3 who are sponsoring the event and making it as close to free for participants as possible.

 Storywalk in a day at Rook Lane Chapel, Frome. 

4th July 2015

As part of Shape Shifting and Story Walking at Rook Lane, help Break 3 create a new walking story to hide in the winding streets of Frome town. Led by artist / technologist Chris Jelley, this workshop will harness your writing in response to particular, peculiar, places in Frome, and geo-locate them in those locations through the power of the Storywalk engine.

Think geo-caching, but words. 

The tale created will be available to the wider public to download and explore through the rest of the Festival week. 

Workshop is based at Rook Lane Chapel but will involve stepping out and exploring Frome. 

Sounds great I am sure you agree, but what will it entail?

Storywalks is a simple concept, just imagine sticking a note it to a tree and then another a little down the lane, followed by a third just round the corner. To read you have to physically be there in the location and walk between those notes. Storywalks does this digitally by pinning words to a virtual map inside the Storywalk Engine, which sounds complicated but it really isn't.

The words can then be read on any smart phone just by opening the story in your phones browser. Once this page is open you then just walk to the location set (here a tree but could be anywhere) and the text will reveal. On the 4th July we hope to pin a story to the streets of Frome, it might be a treasure hunt, or just a reading journey as there are lots of options and possibilities with Storywalks, perhaps too many!

Once complete the walk will be open and available for all to view along with other tales created by Gifted and Talented pupils from Frome schools.

This is the page where all the stories will sit, just open in your phone and then click on a story and follow the instructions. But be patient, save the web address for later when we can publish the stories for all to read and explore.

http://frome.storywalks.info

So don't delay, book in your family now and snatch up one of the exclusive Storywalks seats.

If you can then please bring your iPad as we'll need all the tech we can get, and don't forget to pack a lunch to keep those imagination cells in top order.

Tickets are £5 per family from the Frome Festival Box Office 01373 455420

Also here is a little link to Grass Roots Liturature who have a short window for applying for grants under £500, enough to bring some Storywalks shenanigans your way perhaps!!