Ariel & her Forest Nymph character were delighted to be a central part of the Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh Corroborree Festival, in conjunction with Festival 2014 as part of the Commonwealth Games Cultural Festival, and the first of Ariel's two Gaelic-language projects involved in the nationwide festival. Working with Jillibalu Barns-Riley, a native speaker of Australian Aborginal...
12-4pm, Sunday 27th of April, Tramway, Glasgow
Confident Gaelic-speaking performers aged 16+ and comfortable with improvisation, are sought for paid Gaelic and bilingual street theatre performances during this year's Festival 2014 including Merchant City Festival. Festival 2014 is the citywide celebrations alongside the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. Performers will work in two...
Other than the sight of a warm & comfy bed, not much can beat arriving back from work & meetings in Inverness at one in the morning to find nearly 30 more Thank You letters from the children of Millbank Primary for Sìne's Goldilocks Storytelling & Drama sessions. Since they're all so wonderfully cute and I've finally figured out how to show a few of them here, a wee selection is...
Such a lovely surprise from the P1-4 Gaelic class in one of the schools on my latest Highlands workshops tour – 17 handwritten thank you letters (with pictures) from the entire class after my Gaelic Goldilocks storytelling and drama session. I was very chuffed... and of course the class received a very special sparkly letter from Sheena herself as well..! (Unfortunately my website isn't...
Just back from some amazing international Gaelic talent development and skill sharing in Manhattan, New York - so much learned and so inspiring! I received some great news while training as well - on foot of the runaway success of the Gaelic and Bilingual Circus Skills & Creative Storymaking workshops tour of the Highlands last October - November and the high demand for the workshops,...
Phew! Coming out of the busiest 8 weeks of my life, delivering some 70 workshops in Gaelic and bilingual circus skills, Halloween Storymaking and drama in 38 schools across Scotland and Ireland... 25 performances for Hopscotch's touring Viking show, a major festival in the West of Ireland, two festivals for my Gaelic Street Theatre troupe in Belfast, more stilt performance at the Royal...
Circus Skill workshops at the Royal National Mod in the Paisley Express and so much positive feedback on my Halloween and Circus Skills Workshops from my Highlands schools tour! If you right click on the first image, select 'View Image' and then use the magnifying function, you can read all of the teacher and student feedback from the evaluation forms....
Incredibly busy at the moment, touring with a great theatre company, performing at the Westport Arts Festival in Ireland and taking Gaelic street theatre to Belfast for two events 5-6th October, with circus skill workshops coming up at the Royal Gaelic Mod in Paisley, Scotland very soon!
Delighted to have just finalised travel arrangements for repeat bookings for the Rainbow Bubble Fairy for two summer events in Northern Ireland! Even though it's a bit more expensive to book my characters in Ireland and Northern Ireland now since I relocated to Glasgow, it's a great sign of the respect for my work held by Event Managers and a welcome boost in confidence during these...
In some really exciting news, this week see the launch of the world's first professional Scots-Gaelic Street Theatre Collective sònaSonas in Glasgow! As founding Director and Manager, I am honoured and privileged to have a truly fantastic group of talented and experienced Gaelic-speaking performers on board and you can find out more about us at our website http://www.sonasonas.co.uk/Why not...
So after nearly two years work, my bilingual (Scots Gaelic/English) circus-theatre show, An Gille agus Maighstir Tìm/Boy and Mr Time has finally reached the stage of funding applications and scheduling for a prospective national tour of communities and schools in Scotland later this year, with some truly fantastic partners.
While we wait for funding decision so we can confirm...
So it's been a long time since my last update and so much has happened, I've had no time until now to keep up news! So the big news is I've relocated to Scotland to continue work started last year on developing Scots Gaelic circus and street theatre! My bilingual Circus Theatre play 'An Gille agus Maighistir Tìm'/Boy and Mr Time is scheduled for a national tour of Scottish schools and...
It's been another incredibly busy time with Gráinne Mhór's very successful first international festival outing at the Glasgow Merchant City Arts Festival, leading to her first appearance on BBC Alba / Scots Gaelic TV news! The crowd response to this fully bilingual walkabout act was fantastic with lots of child-friendly dueling and smiles. Unfortunately Gráinne left without pillaging any...
Síona Scéalaí / Sheena Storyteller gets her first newspaper writeup!
Coalisland Post
Creative close to Coalisland Irish-language book club
July 10, 2012.
Coalisland Library was transformed into a magical world of witches, singing animals, ships and spells as this year’s Irish language children’s book club drew to a close for the summer.
Book...
Possibly one of the nicest bits of feedback I've ever received! From Dan Gordon, the scriptwriter for the Pat and Plain Project's "She was alright when she left us" drama in schools plays, after working with me on one of the project workshops.
“You are an amazing force of nature in its purest form – the kids are very lucky to have such a terrific role model in their midst....
My very first booking for a professional gig in Scots Gaelic! So excited about taking Gráinne Mhór to Glasgow for a festival in late July - I've been working very hard on my Scots Gaelic so I'm really looking forward to using it! Now just to think of how I can adapt Gráinne Mhaol's patter to more suited to a Scottish context...suggestions on a postcard!
As I'm insanely busy at the...
It's alway great to get good feedback from a client, and it's not often I'm stunned, but sometimes it's nice to overhear what clients and bookers really think..(Booker) "I've been dying to use her for ages, I'd say she's brilliant!" (Onsite Manager) "She is, she's fantastic!"
Thanks to the lovely Dublin-based Promotions Agency for letting me know how happy they were with my work as...
Welcome to my updated website! It's been a long time coming – here you will find comprehensive information on all my work in the arts as well as ideas for your event or workshop. This month I'm having fun with primary school children in Tyrone with Bilingual Storytelling/Storymaking workshops as Síona Scéalaí (Sheena Storyteller). It's always lovely to hear teachers saying 'even they...