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Galleries and Gardens
“Thank you for gracing us with your wonderful performances last night. You were, as ever, a pleasure to work with and your storytelling held the audience captivated.” The Horniman Museum Sally Pomme Clayton has extensive experience of creating stories with exhibitions, objects, sites and buildings, indoor and open air spaces. She has been working with museums, galleries and heritage organizations for more than 25 years, responding to surroundings, bringing collections, buildings, gardens and archives to life through narrative performance. She uses stories to inspire and share, create and interpret. She sees her role as guide to the imagination – taking the audience inside an object or location to reveal hidden…
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Families
Enter a world of wonder and enquiry with the whole family. Storytelling reaches across generations and brings them together. Pomme thinks that telling stories for families is deeply important and creates a special circle of listening that has lasting effects. An adult listening to a story helps a child listen; a child’s enjoyment of a story is enjoyment for an adult, and both adult and child begin to value stories more. They then take the story away, talk about it together, share it, and it becomes a memory seed that grows inside them both. Pomme performs for families in libraries, museums, festivals, schools, galleries, theatres, parties, halls, art and heritage…
