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 Hugh Lupton’s interest in traditional music, street theatre, live poetry, and myth resulted in him becoming a professional storyteller in 1981. In 1985 he formed the Company of Storytellers with Ben Haggarty and Pomme Clayton to take storytelling to adult audiences. Over the last ten years he has collaborated with singer and composer Helen Chadwick, violinist Chris Wood, percussionist Rick Wilson, and artist Liz McGowan, widening and challenging the possibilities of the form.
www.hughlupton.com |
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 Cat Weatherill is a storyteller and writer. She's a strong physical performer, graceful one moment, grotesque the next! She can be fast and funny, or bewitchingly still. Sometimes she sings. She lives in Wales, a land of mist and magic. One of our great storytellers, vivacious and inventive: Michael Morpurgo.
www.catweatherill.co.uk
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 Martin Shaw is a storyteller, mythologist and rites-of-passage teacher. Director of the Westcountry School of Myth and Story, he is visiting lecturer on the Desmond Tutu Leadership Programme at Oxford University. An international teacher, he has received much critical acclaim for his new book A Branch From the Lightning Tree: Ecstatic Myth and the Grace in Wildness. Martin is planning an all night telling of the extraordinary Grail epic Parzival, a true story for change. He suggests strong coffee, sheepskin rugs and a thirst for high adventure as the essentials for attendance. Vast in scale, overwhelming in its beauty, this promises to be a high point in the weekend.
www.stalkingtherebelsoul.com
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 Jan Blake is one of Europe's leading storytellers who has been performing world-wide since 1986, starting out with Common Lore Storytellers and Musicians. She was born in Manchester of Jamaican parentage and specialises in stories from Africa and the Caribbean. She took part in the Word Alive! 2004 project, performing at the National Theatre with Daniel Morden and Hugh Lupton. |
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 Sue Hollingsworth has been a member of the Faculty of the International School of Storytelling which is currently based at Emerson College in Sussex since 1999. As well as performing and teaching in the UK, Europe and Africa, she is Director of Storymatters Ltd., a consultancy which takes storytelling into the world of business. She leads several week long story walks every summer, runs women's groups working with fairy tales and is especially interested in working with true life stories.
www.schoolofstorytelling.com |
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 Jane Flood is a compelling and bewitching teller with a repertoire of over 400 traditional stories, many gathered from her own travels. With an interest in landscape and story, Jane will be bringing stories from her current work with musician Fiona Barrow on the Neroche Project in the Blackdown Hills.
www.janefloodstoryteller.co.uk |
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 Robin Williamson is a musician, poet, teller and founder member of The Incredible String Band. Since going solo, this talented and humorous performer has explored his passion for myth, legend and ‘other’ world music. He says: ‘I’m a kind of Scots Irish mongrel which I always think entitles me to be both vague and mean’
www.pigswhiskermusic.co.uk |
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 Katrice Horsley is a woman who curry combs the dark underbelly of traditional fairy tales to perfection. In her performances she deftly takes the listener into the sensuous realms of story and language. Come surrender your mind to her words and travel together into the shared world of shadow and imagination.
www.katalysttales.co.uk
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 Clive Fairweather is one of the Westcountry’s leading traditional storytellers. He has worked with English Heritage, National Trust, and Early Music duo Misericordia. With a deep interest in folk history, Clive’s repertoire of over 400 stories offers living interactions with the past in stories that convey the dramas and delights of other times. |
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