One of the photos up on our Just Shed flickr group was this

And it got me wondering what it was about, a quick email to Theatre Orchard Projects and I got the answer it seems like Sheds are playing a big part in the education and community theater in the Bristol/North Somerset Area.

A shed-load of stories from around the world…

Students and adults from many cultural backgrounds have been working with leading media artists to create an interactive installation of digital stories in a bespoke shed, designed in association with Somerset Wood Recycling. Storyshed is on a miniature ‘world tour of North Somerset’, transporting visitors into other realms with personal stories that surprise and enrich – a celebration of home and away and a crossing place for both.

Storyshed is part of a wider project – Windfalls – that highlights and celebrates cultural diversity in North Somerset. Through Windfalls, arts practitioners from a variety of disciplines are also working in primary schools with children who have English as a second language. Each group of children shares their stories, songs, photos and objects and shapes the resulting audio-visual material into a short film to share with the wider school community.

Windfalls is part of Theatre Orchard Projects ‘community cohesion through the arts’ strand, ROOTS – kindly funded by Mediabox and Find
Your Talent."

The stories created during this project can be viewed at “http://www.bristolstories.org/

Anyway the Story shed is ‘appearing’ again this weekend 10th and 11th July in Weston Super Mare .

Other Bristol-area shed-related things:

Ship of Fools artist group made Starshed a while back

Bristol artist Luci Gorell Barnes made Bookshed

and another Bristol artist Eileen Haste made a charming digital story called Shed Heaven

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The artist Elena Thomas who covered some allotment garden sheds in fabric some months ago is back.

” We have some fantastic shed related events coming up and thought you’d like to know about them: The first is the debut of Shed Songs, a live performance by Dan Whitehouse in one of my sheds at an art and quilting exhibition in Stourbridge on 31st July”

good luck to them both, sheds, fabric and songs what a trio!

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The excellent Shedworking book from Alex (shed judge and bloke behind the legend)

Shedworking is an inspirational illustrated handbook which no shedowner will want to be without. The book features shedworkers and shedbuilders from around the world who are leading the alternative workplace revolution, and looks at why shedworking is a greener way of working, improves work-life balance and accelerates your productivity. It is inspired by the author’s Shedworking website which has been internationally acclaimed for the groundbreaking scale of its architectural coverage, featuring many previously unpublished images of garden offices and shedlike atmospheres, offices on roofs, sheds inside ‘traditional’ offices and on wheels, as well as cutting edge Le Corbusier designed models for the back garden, all-glass shed offices and buildings ‘built’ using living trees. Along the way it offers a whistle-stop tour of famous sheds from Pliny the Younger’s summerhouse and the composing retreats of nineteenth century composers Grieg and Mahler to award-winning twenty-first century fantasy writer Neil Gaiman’s gazebo. In short, Shedworking offers a manifesto for those wanting to change their working lives for the better and go to work in the garden.

or a home brewkit of course

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Our friends over at Waltons have been running a shed design competition and they have announced the winner.

Walton's shed

Carmel Cannon from Beverley, whose Tudor Craft Shed impressed our judging panel. Carmel’s winning shed design was based on the existing Walton’s Potting Shed, but incorporates an overhang on three sides, giving it an attractive “Tudor” effect.

As promised, Walton’s will be building and delivering the winner’s shed design, so watch this space for photographs of the winning garden shed design!

I wonder if they will enter it for shed of the year 2011? as we need some sheds from the ages of Britain maybe a caveman shed, a norman shed or a even a Celt one

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An eagle eyed sheddie to be, who just so happens to shop at John Lewis here in Cardiff, spotted this in their magazine.

They also sell a great range of these posh sheds if you have the budget.

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