PROJECTS

MAZED WEST is currently celebrating of the folktales of west Cornwall, telling tales through Cornwall and beyond with puppets of tale collectors and Penzance boys Robert Hunt and William Bottrell in The Piskey Path puppet show. We have built a new website to journey through the tales of Cornwall and meet storytellers, writers and tale collectors, with more information for folklorists, and an events page to lead you to live storytelling performances. Cornish Tales for Kids podcast features Cornish schoolchildren telling their tales of place. More episodes coming soon. Children from the podcast schools also illustrated Anna Chorlton’s latest book Cornish Folk Tales of Place Mid and West Cornwall (History Press 2025), alongside Mazed artists.

Schools: Penpol Primary School, St Buryan Primary Academy, St Dennis Primary Academy, Sennen School.
Podcast funded by Feast.

MONOCHROME MAZED  ran a series of workshops in schools and community venues to illustrate ‘Cornish Folk Tales of Place, North and East Cornwall’ by Anna Chorlton.(History Press 2018).
The illustrations were exhibited at Looe Library, Launceston Library and the Liskerrett Community Centre, Liskeard.

Schools: Egloskerry School,  Looe Primary School. Funded by Feast.

MAZED NORTH, 2017, retold and illustrated the folktales of North Cornwall, inventing Cornishibai along the way, and introducing a unique dual marionette puppet of Padstow folklorist Nellie Sloggett. Six schools were involved working with Cornish artists to picture their tales of place.
Artwork from the project was exhibited at The Castle, Bude and at The Society for Storytelling’s Gathering at Plymouth University.

School: Blisland School, Boyton School,  Bude Infants School, Nanstallon Community Primary, Padstow School, St Kew Community Primary School.

Funded by Feast and The Heritage Lottery Fund

The original MAZED project in 2013 made a collection of the folktales of South East Cornwall, which are included on this website.

12 schools were involved learning, telling and making art about their local tales, then voting for their favourite tale at a droll tea party. These stories were animated for a geolocational app, and inspired the  Mazed Tales book.

A specially commissioned puppet of Liskeard’s umbrella mending droll teller Bill Chubb was the poster boy of the project.

Mazed was made in partnership with Awen, and nurtured by the Liskerrett Community Centre in Liskeard.

Mazed was nominated for an innovation award at the Celtic Media Festival.

The children’s artwork featured in an EXHIBITION at Liskeard Museum.

Schools: Callington Community College, Calstock Primary School, Darite Primary School, Duloe School, Liskeard Hillfort Primary School,  Looe Community Academy, Millbrook Primary School,  Polperro Community Primary, St Cleer School, St Martins Primary Liskeard,  St Nicholas C of E Primary School Downderry, St Steven’s Primary Saltash.

The project was funded by FEAST, the Heritage Lottery Fund, Cornwall Council, Liskeard, Looe and Polperro Town Councils.