Janina Vigurs Storytelling

02/11/2025

✨ Once Upon a Parent ✨
A storytelling workshop for parents, grandparents, aunties, uncles, and anyone caring for little ones.

This Friday 10am - 2.30pm

Do you want to deepen your connection with your brilliant small person?

Do you want to make them feel special, valued and like the best kid in the world?

After 20 years of experience I'm running my first public storytelling workshop where I’ll share easy techniques to help you build confidence, spark creativity, and connect with your child through story — no books, just your voice and imagination.

🗣 Learn how to tell tales from memory
📚 Explore folk + fairytales as story scaffolds
🎲 Play games that unlock creativity
🧵 Weave stories into your everyday moments
🍪 Plus: leave with a story in your pocket + biscuits in your belly

Perfect for complete beginners — supportive, relaxed, a little bit magical and fairly ridiculous.

🗓 Friday 14th November
🕙 10am–2.30pm
📍 Near Saffron Walden
💷 £60
🎟 Limited spots — link is here
https://www.tickettailor.com/events/janinavigursstorytelling/1892220?fbclid=PAb21jcAN0DaZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp7bLk2V_z7vsQc01tQb6M7gffWJqohzHuFUOiA7V2ZQmkb8-XFe8cWR-7sro_aem_PGtQgtzHdttKwRv-qKQsXQ

19/10/2025

Once Upon a Parent: A storytelling course for grown ups.

Join me for my first ever public storytelling workshop created for parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and caregivers who are new to storytelling, with a focus on building confidence, learning simple techniques, and connecting with their children through story.

I've been storytelling, (that means using no books,) and telling the tales in my head for nearly 20 years. So many adults have listened with their small people and at the end have approached me saying...

"Oh that was so wonderful, you're brilliant. I could NEVER do that"

The thing is, they can.
YOU can.
Without a doubt.
I'll be sharing my secrets for the very first time.

I'll help you feel comfortable telling stories aloud from memory in a supportive, low pressure environment.

You'll learn simple storytelling structures, games and techniques.

We'll explore folk and fairytales as ready-made story frameworks that you can use and adapt.

I'll show you how to weave stories into your day.

Encourage your creativity and connection with your small person through storytelling.

You'll leave with a story in your pocket, links for further discovery and some excellent biscuits in your tummy.

This is happening on Friday 14th November, 10am-2.30pm near Saffron Walden and costs £60

Reserve your place here

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/janinavigursstorytelling/1892220?fbclid=PAb21jcANholBleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABp429Vd0ds9aAARagL8G8EmGhhAB8jdZ97pSXlVtDz1HHOWZV1ePS0ZsV1maq_aem_jp0Cv_SJYpg47fUFr4eyOw

12/10/2025

I had a brilliant night listening to poetry and songs from John Hegley courtesy of .
While I'm not able to perform due to my VERY broken ankle, I can listen as I still have two ears that work perfectly.

I've loved John's poetry for a long time. His stoic delivery of the absurd and loving care of the ordinary speaks to my heart.

We worked together over 25 years ago on a production of the 1950s musical The Pajama Game at Birmingham Rep. I was part of the stage crew, building and shifting scenery and he was front and centre, singing, dancing and playing a man from America and not Luton.

We spoke about it and marvelled at what a ridiculously long time ago 1999 was. He was then, and remains now, a very good human.

What with my joy at discovering poetry on neurodiversity and delight at playing with words I fear, dear reader that I am being dragged into the riptide of prose.

I will never leave the mainstream of storytelling, but I am developing a tributary that's meandering across lush meadows. I bloody love words and I look forward to continuing to be irreverent, passionate, ridiculous and enthusiastic about many things in an additional medium.

Scroll to see an unsolicited photo of three people who collectively managed to get me out of the house for the first time in six weeks. And it wasn't to a hospital. I bloody love them too.

27/08/2025

I'll be at tomorrow evening squeezing the last drops of joy from the summer holidays.

Bring your kids down from 6-7pm, grab a drink from the bar, dinner from the food trucks, I'll fill them full of smiles and tire them out in the garden and you can have an hour off duty.

Sound good?
See you there!

26/08/2025

New fings brewing..TLDR workshops will be happening!

I was diagnosed with ADHD earlier this year and a rather lovely thing that it's brought to the table is permission.

Permission to be the slightly awkward but quite affable big silly that I've always been, but not entirely sure that I was allowed to be that.

I'm relaxing into the fact that my sparkling brain never rests, and I'm pushing myself in new directions to keep it happy.

Part of that will be workshops for parents and those who work with small people, which is hugely exciting.

Other things will be clown training for my performance development, some therapeutic nature-connection work with young people, and a writing and performance collaboration with a brilliant (and equally silly) artist.

All this alongside my already solid offer of storytelling for schools, community groups, at my Wonder Monger nights, parties, festivals, village fêtes and opening of donkey sanctuaries*.

Anyhow, here's a flipping brilliant and cute photo of my face by the flipping brilliant

*I've never told in a donkey sanctuary before but would LOVE to. Who can hook me up with a donkey person?

thought you guys would appreciate knowing.

24/07/2025

I'm running out of words to describe my feelings.

I genuinely don't know how and .lammy are sleeping at night.

Please, if you're not the sort of person to email your MP, maybe you could be today.

Link is in my bio

24/07/2025