Timm Holmes's Blog

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It has just come to my attention that the image links in the Celebrate section on timmholmes.com have stopped working. I’m working on a fix to allow you to follow those links to read more about each story and the groups of young authors that created them. Advertisements

Start A Story is now a 30-minute kids show! The group story building workshop I run for kids from kindergarten to grade five has been produced into a 30-minute pilot for a new children’s television show by Rogers TV Cable 22 in Ottawa! Featuring the creativity of Mrs. Stanley’s grade 2/3 class at Metcalfe Public … Continue reading Start A Story the TV Show!

  John Young Elementary School invited me to read, storytell, and speak with an assembly of their primary classes this past Friday September 21st. It was my first visit of many school visits this fall. Scroll to the bottom to see the entire schedule. Some children had seen me before at book stores, and at … Continue reading And… We’re Off!

The promise was that we’d work together as a group and write a children’s story. When we were done I would storytell their tale to prove to them that they had written a great story! Then I would flesh out the text and produce a limited edition book for these young authors. Promise fulfilled! Start … Continue reading New Book, New Inspiration

What Indigo intends to do with their community rooms could be a fantastic way to draw like minded people together! I am honored that they think enough of my Start A Story workshop to invite me as one of their first community experiences! I’m really lucky to have fallen into this life as a storyteller. Some … Continue reading Starting Stories, Building Community

Registration is live for #TDSummerReadingClub at Ottawa Public Library / Bibliothèque publique d’Ottawa! #StartAStory this summer! https://bit.ly/2r9lZrQ Advertisements

One year ago today Indigo Barrhaven hosted me for the book launch of Peanut Butter & Dragon! What a year it has been exciting hearts, inspiring minds, and celebrating the creativity of those around me both young and young at heart! The support of Chapters/Indigo has been paramount to my success with no less than … Continue reading One Year Ago Today.

Rockcliffe Park Public School kindergarten Dinos shared Arrow Root cookies with me because making a story made us hungry! Anyone catching on to where our title came from? I was taken aback by the level of detail this group of kindergartens brought to their awesome story! The teacher and I saw a number of different ways … Continue reading The Hungry Dinosaur

When the Girl Guide leaders reached out to me with short notice, I already had another Start A Story booked for that Monday morning, and it was my first day at a new job. It was going to be a tight fit to get them in, and I wasn’t sure I’d be up for it … Continue reading Eloise the Unicorn?