Ian Douglas is a story Teller. He has been travelling the country up and down introducing his talents to schools, libraries and street theatres for over 15 years. What started as a passion has turned into a career and Ian is never more at home than spinning a story, sharing an anecdote from British folk tales and world myths. Ian originally was a performance artist who can also add fire breathing and stilt walking to his talents. Very recently Ian came to our college and i experienced his craft first hand. His passion was notable as he included his audience into warm up exercises and ice breakers so that we all felt at ease with each other. As his stories unfolded he would often include one of us into stories so attention was focused throughout. He stated that traditional folk stories tend to loop back to the beginning and links to the moral of the story. Ian said he likes to collect these stories and that they vary from place to place. Watching Ian's methods in action was inspiring and connects well to my Major project of story telling and interacting with over people. I hope to use his skills to collate my own stories and tales to feed into my own work.
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