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Iʼve raised £690 to tell 'Tenacious Tales' on 10 Tall Ships. I'm a Storyteller based in Scotland who specialises in stories of the sea.
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- Funded on Saturday, 14th September 2019
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As a professional storyteller I have a head full of stories but I have no head for heights - so I never thought I could climb the mast of a tall ship...let alone stay to tell a tale beyond the futtock shroud!
I was challenged to go as far as I could and then one step further!
As a rookie sailor in 2017 I joined the volunteer crew on the Tall ship 'Tenacious' sailing with the Jubilee Sailing Trust . With a help of their dedicated professional crew I did make it up the mast and alongside a captive audience of crew-mates I decided that a story of courage and tenacity was called for! I was so inspired by the work of the JST that I decided to sign up as volunteer crew to sail in their sister ship The Lord Nelson up the coast of Norway this summer.
Not many folk know this but Norway's most famous poet was born in my adoptive town of Leith, Scotland. I'm raising funds for this voyage as a research trip to learn more stories and make fast the maritime links between Norway and Newhaven and Leith and Lillesand with the challenge of telling tales on 10 tall ships as I go!
Sailing the seas of opportunity 2020 is designated 'The Year of Scottish Coasts and Waters' and 2022 is 'The Year of the Story' so with your sponsorship I want to make sure that our mutual maritime heritage is celebrated with true stories of tenacious sailors who dared to go as far as they could and then one step further!
A story should be told eye to eye, mind to mind and heart to heart.
I believe stories can change lives and sailing with the JST certainly changed mine; I have since worked with a range of youth and mixed ability groups telling Tenacious Tales of Tall Ships so please sponsor me to find new stories in Norway and 10 Tall ships on which to tell these tales so we can spread the joy of stories and the sea.
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Stuart Meadows
Sep 9, 2019
Thanks for the Stories Jan, keep up the good work!
£10.00
Anonymous
Sep 5, 2019
Good luck Jan, hope you get it...
Anonymous
Sep 2, 2019
You are so inspiring Jan!! Jaimie
£10.00
Ruaridh
Jul 2, 2019
What a wonderful project - you'll make a fantastic captain Jan!
£25.00
Anonymous
Jun 19, 2019
Lorna Shields
Jun 18, 2019
GO get em! X
£15.00
David Little
Jun 16, 2019
Good luck Jan. This will be a great success I'm sure.
£20.00
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Jan Bee Brown
Scotland
Jan works with a range of community groups throughout Scotland as both an artist and storyteller and she is curator of The Thrive Archive a personal research project to enable charities and communities to tell their own story www.thrivearchive.org