2010: First Tales
After storytelling for organizations including ProNatura (Genève, Année de la Forêt 2010), Action de Carême/Pain Pour le Prochain (Suisse Romande, 2010), and AustFest (Pays de Gex, 2010), there was clearly space for a bilingual storytelling organization in the Grand Genève region.
2011: Le Puits the Story Well Founded
‘Article 5, Actions’ include using storytelling:
– in workshops, & creative writing classes;
– to support national & international organizations’ campaigns;
– to invite public thought about cultural & natural entities (plays, sculptures, soils, weather).
2011-13: Engagements
From 2011, our storytelling interventions included: work in primary schools such as the Ecole Jean D’Arc (GEX; in French), and the Ecole Internationale – Le Châtigneraie FOUNEX; in English). We also visited libraries including the one in our commune of Cessy, and offered storytelling & art classes locally in Bretigny.
2017: EcoPoetry
We offered a creative writing workshop & brought French ecopoetry to château gardens in Bourg en Bresse, for Les Amies de la Garde.
2019: Songlines of Resurgence
We designed & facilitated an international workshop to explore the potential for poetic song to further equitable climate change adaptation in farming communities in Nepal and Senegal.
2021: Art et Arbres
Supporting les Amies de la Garde, we designed a children’s enchanted story-walk, through their château woodlands in Bourg-en-Bresse.
2022: Séisme
We organized a rehearsed reading of the French version of Duncan Macmillan’s play Lungs at the CERN Globe, to catalyse debate on sustainable consumption.
