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Oxford Storyteller Marguerite Osborne marguerite.osborne@dial.appleinter.net Telephone 01865 735471   Most of Marguerite's work is by private commission. These are her Programmes for the General Public 2008   A Mini-Workshop on Storytelling Skills following an Open Theme meeting of the Oxford Storytelling Society Thursday 7th February, 7.30 pm Town Hall, St Aldate's, Oxford Everyone welcome. Admission Free.   Alice's Journeys: Guided Tour An Oxford International Women's Festival event (The theme of the Festival is 'Women's Journeys') Saturdays 1st and 8th March Meet at the Museum of Oxford, St Aldate's at 2.30 pm Follow Alice's dream excursions through Wonderland and the Looking-Glass. Explore locations associated with the real-life Alice of Victorian times. Hear about zany characters from both worlds! On the tour we visit the Museum's ABC Gallery to look at the scissors and other childhood possessions of Alice Liddell, the model for Alice in Wonderland. We see the 500-year-old shop in St Aldate's where Alice Liddell used to buy her barley sugar sweets. In Through the Looking Glass an old Sheep presides over this shop. The real-life Alice was the daughter of Dean Liddell of Christ Church College. We enter the College's Great Hall to see a portrait of the Dean and another of mathematics don Charles Dodgson, who wrote the Alice books under the pseudonym of Lewis Carroll. Characters from the books are pictured in a huge stained glass window in the Hall. The tour is suitable for adults and for children of 6 plus. Cost: £6, Concessions £4, Children £3. (Includes entrance to Christ Church College.)     Travellers' Tales Wednesday 12th March, 10.15 am The Library, the Village Centre, Kennington, Oxfordshire Admission Free. Everyone welcome Organised by The Friends of Kennington Library For more information telephone 01865 730763     The Well at the World's End Thursday 13th March, 7.30 pm Friends' Meeting House, 43 St Giles, Oxford (The theme of the Festival is 'Women's Journeys') Marguerite and Steph West (Celtic harp) present traditional and topical tales and songs describing women's odysseys. Hear of amazing journeys, real and imaginary, serious and light-hearted, of voyages through inner and outer space and past and future time. Everyone welcome! Admission (including refreshments) £5/£4 An Oxford International Women's Festival event presented by the Oxford Storytelling Society Egg Tales Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire 'Britain's Greatest Palace', a World Heritage Site The Fifth Annual Easter Egg Challenge will be held in the Pleasure Gardens Easter Weekend, Friday March 21st to Monday March 24th. Follow the trail of clues! Everyone who completes the hunt will receive a delicious chocolate Easter egg. Marguerite will be giving four different storytelling programmes each day at 12.30, 1.30, 2.30 and 3.30 pm Her tales, for people of all ages, include Sinbad the Sailor discovers the Roc's Egg (pictured above) Rikki-Tikki-Tavi and the Cobra's Eggs 'This Egg will make our Fortune!': The Magpie's Nest Aepyornis Island Enjoy these stories as a rest from the hunt or as a reward when you've finished it. As part of a fortnight of Victorian themed family activities in the Pleasure Gardens of Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire 'Britain's Greatest Palace', a World Heritage Site Marguerite will tell intriguing tales about Victorian Children Weekdays April 7th to 11th and April 14th to 18th Four different storytellings each day at at 12.30, 1.30, 2.30 and 3.30 pm David Copperfield and the Friendly Waiter Illustration by Phiz from the novel by Charles Dickens Marguerite's colleagues at Blenheim Palace are Katy Gorman of 'Pottering About' and Face-painter extraordinary Louise. Visit to New England, USA - late April to late May Marguerite is one of the specially invited guest storytellers at the afternoon concert of ten-minute tales at the Granite State Story Swap for Storytellers, Librarians, Educators and Listeners   Mountain Top Music Center Main Street, Conway, New Hampshire, USA Saturday, May 3rd. 8:30 am to 5 pm More details from the organisers: andy@worldfellowship.org and omorrill@conway.lib.nh.us   Marguerite will be giving programs at storytelling clubs and other venues in New Hampshire and Maine Museum of Oxford St Aldate's, Oxford 0X1 1DX Tales of Magic and Enchantment Friday May 30th Half-hour programmes at 2 pm, 2.40 pm and 3.20 pm For over-fours - no upper age limit! Listen to traditional tales and join in role-play and music-making. Tickets £1 per person The stories are suitable for four years and over only. All under-sixteens must have an adult with them. Reserve your places at the Museum itself or by telephone on 01865 252761. Numbers are limited and pre-booking is strongly advised,