IN THE CLASSROOM
The Storytellers project is fully integrated into the Romand school curriculum, connecting music, language and visual arts. Each edition is designed as a complete learning tool that helps pupils develop listening, speaking, reading and creative skills through a musical and literary work.
Beginning in 2025/26, Storytellers launches a four-year cycle inspired by the elements — Earth, Water, Air and Fire — with original stories by René-Claude Emery. The 2025/26 edition – Terrokois explores the element of Earth: its landscapes, emotions and the bonds that connect us to nature and to one another.
The project unfolds in three stages:
- Classroom preparation using a pedagogical booklet created for teachers.
- Artistic workshops led in schools by a professional musician, an illustrator, and an actor-author.
- A final performance combining narration, live music and projections of the children’s drawings.
In 2024/25, the project reached 1,315 children through 59 workshops and 17 performances across the cantons of Valais, Vaud and Fribourg.
This new cycle builds on that momentum, enriching children’s artistic experience while strengthening links with the Romand curriculum.
TEACHING GUIDES
CAMP STORYTELLERS
During the Verbier Festival, Camp Storytellers invites children to dive more deeply into the story of Terrokois.
Over five days, participants explore music, movement, narration and visual creation alongside professional teaching artists.
The camp concludes with a theatrical performance in French at the Verbier Cinema, where the children take the stage to tell the story, in musical collaboration with Trio Concept (Laureate of the Verbier Festival Academy’s Prix Yves Paternot), who perform the music from the project.
Camp Storytellers is open to children aged 5 to 12. Activities are conducted in French, but non-French-speaking children are welcome and supported throughout. The camp offers an immersive and collective experience, where each participant becomes part of the story through imagination, movement and collaboration at the heart of the Festival.
