About & Description

The ‘Story House’ is multi platform storytelling and story making programme. It draws its inspiration from the tradition of illustrated storytelling, in particular from Japanese Kamishibai.

The ‘Story House’ is multi platform storytelling and story making programme. It draws its inspiration from the tradition of illustrated storytelling, in particular from Japanese Kamishibai. A story is told as a series of illustrations are revealed supporting the narrative. The illustrations are held in a house, whose opening doors reveal the pictures. The ‘house’ operates as both an intriguing framing device and metaphor for the dwelling each human being operates as, as a ‘home for story’. The ‘Story House’ aims to actively engage audiences in the process of storytelling and story making. Stories performed and illustrated by adults, are created as art pieces to inspire children’s own story creations with the view that adult and child story art sit along side one another, equals in the story continuim.