Alex Kanefsky

Come and see my new show 'Disgusting Creatures', premiering at the rather wonderful Story Museum in Oxford. 

Come out from behind the sofa! 

Emerge from the duvet! 

Conquer your fears!  

Or at least stare at them right in their grotesque face:  complete with 10,000 eyes, d...

Very excited to share extracts from two excellent written responses to my Creative Curators session on Dystopian Fiction at Stoke Newington School. 

Following two storytelling sessions exploring creating stories from physical objects (more about that here) student...

I'm totally blown away by the responses to this session with year 5 at Jubilee Primary School. 

We devised our own creation myths, based on stories from the Aboriginal Dreamtime tradition. Pupils followed this 1 hour session by creating their own written versions of th...

Another discovery made this week is what I believe to be an innate understanding we (and children in particular)  have of story structure.

Often in Tellings I might ask ‘what happens next’? It’s a leading question – an invitation to debate.

When I create stories w...

As it’s National Storytelling week, I thought I’d record some thoughts I’ve had recently over storytelling with young people. I only found about this of course via twitter – how else do we find out about these things? But anything that throws this collective method of...

Today I delivered the final session of the Creative Curators project @ Stoke Newington School with Year 9 students. 

Last week saw the students providing objects as a stimuli for starting a story which we crafted together in the classroom. I saw two classes, resulting...

So Thursday got off to a fine start with the beginning of the Creative Curators project @ Stoke Newington school. I worked with two Year 9 English groups, using objects as a stimulus to create stories relating to the genre of Dystopian Fiction. Which was lucky as I LOV...