Stories of the World With

ZENDEH

49th Billingham International Folklore Festival of World Dance

22 students of Billingham South Community Primary School took part in ZENDEH residency in June 2013, creating Strories of the World

The Stories of the World featured all 11 countries which were scheduled to perform at the Festival 2013

Children learned from ZENDEH’s Artistic Director Nazli Tabatabai-Khatambakhsh and Associate Writer Steven Gaythorpe how to create a story and worked in small groups, with each group exploring one of the countries, creating characters and the story lines.

They learned how to present the stories on stage and used their

imagination to playact the stories they created.

They produced hand-made books with their stories with the help

ZENDEH Associate – Visual Artist Yvette Hawkins

At the end of the residency the children presented their own stories

on stage at the School Assembly

The stories created by children were documented in photos and

video and presented at the festival Gala Concerts

What children thought about their

experience: