Mythology — Award winning storyteller Michael Harvey's blog

Mythos and the impossibility of logically understanding the Mabinogi. Deep time and wide landscape are the warp an weft of mythology.

Landscape, Mabinogion, Mythology, storytelling, WalesMichael Harvey22 February 2021Karen Armstrong, Theology, mythos and logos, Trawsfynydd, Tomen y Mur, Annwfn, Adverse Camber, spear, the power of storytelling

The Big Lie of Storytelling

What is the power of storytelling and what is its power over us? Award-winning international storyteller Michael Harvey uses the stories of the Mabinogi from his home turf to try and answer these and other questions from the point of view of a working storyteller.

Landscape, creativity, Mabinogion, Mythology, storytelling, Wales, Quantum StorytellingMichael Harvey8 December 2020storytelling and power, Leeds storytelling takeover, fear, the power of storytelling, animate world, Tomen y Mur, The Big Lie of Storytelling, red thread

Guess What I Am! Questions for Taliesin

Storyteller Michael Harvey answers questions about mythology, the Mabinogion, and storytelling following an online performance of Taliesin for A Bit Crack storytelling club, based in Newcastle.

Celtic, Landscape, Mabinogion, Mythology, storytelling, WalesMichael Harvey5 November 2020Taliesin, Robert Graves, Gwilym Morus Baird, Colwyn Bay, A bit crack

The Music of Branwen

Mabinogion, Mythology, podcast, storytelling, WalesMichael Harvey1 May 2020Branwen, Pauline Down, shruti

Branwen - The Landscape of the Story and Songs

Celtic, chwedleua, Landscape, Mabinogion, Mythology, podcast, storytelling, WalesMichael Harvey10 April 2020Branwen, Anglesey, Ynys Môn, Pauline Down

Branwen - the podcast

The story of Branwen from the Mabinogi told by Michael Harvey with songs and music by Pauline Down

Celtic, chwedleua, Landscape, Mabinogion, Mythology, podcast, storytelling, WalesMichael Harvey2 April 2020Branwen, Anglesey, Ynys Môn, Pauline Down

Mabinogi Monday #10 with Angharad Wynne

A wide-ranging conversation between Michael Harvey and Angharad Wynne about the Mabinogi and its wonderful, magical and strange stories.

Mabinogion, Mythology, podcast, storytellingMichael Harvey9 February 2020Angharad Wynne, mabinogi monday, rhiannon, Annwfn

To Market To Market To Buy a Fat Pig

Things are not always what they seem. An accidental encounter with a pig can sometimes turn out to be so much more.

Celtic, Mabinogion, Mythology, Landscape, storytelling, WalesMichael Harvey2 February 2020Ychain Bannog, Henwen, Newport, nursery rhyme, Riverfront Theatre, getting lost

Mabinogi Monday #9 with Tamar Williams

Tamar Williams talks to Michael about her abiding interest in the stories of the Mabinogion, from encountering them as a child to telling them as a professional storyteller.

Mabinogion, Mythology, podcast, storytelling, WalesMichael Harvey20 January 2020mabinogi monday, tamar williams