An interview with illustrator, storyteller and event creator Peter Stevenson talking about image, story, memory and landscape.
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Cyfweliad gyda’r storïwr Dafydd Davies Huges, dyn sy’n nabod tirwedd Cymru yn well na neb.
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Performances, workshops, discussions, provocations and more, all weekend and all in the Carriegeworks in Leeds 8-10 March 2019
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How the great Scottish Traveller singer and storteller made her mark on the participants at the Bleddfa Week of Storytelling over twenty years ago.
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You can find all the interviews with the storytellers I talked to for the first series of Mabinogi Monday right here.
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Naomi Wilds, producer with Adverse Camber productions and director of Beyond the Border International Storytellling Festival talks about her extensive experience of working with artists who perform stories from the Mabinogi.
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Fiona Collins is a storyteller based in North Wales and has been a leading light in the UK storytelling revival from the early days and has gone from strength to strength since then and is a passionate advocate for young storytellers, particularly those from Wales. She brings her passion and humour to this conversation about the Mabinogi
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Cardiff based storyteller Cath Little talks about her storytelling practice with some fascninating insights on the little-told ‘romances’ of the Mabinogi, particularly Iarlles y Ffynnon / The Lady of the Fountain and Geraint and Enid.
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MIchael Harvey in conversation with Dafydd Davies-Hughes. As well as being a storyteller based in the myth soaked landscape of the Llŷn Peninsula in North Wales he is also the director of the visionary social enterprise Menter y Felin Uchaf.
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In introduction to the Mabinogi Monday series of podcasts with practicing contemporary storytellers
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Hugh Lupton sets this telling of Four Branches of the Mabinogi at the time it would have been written down bringing social and political tensions into the mix of the magic and wonder of these stories.
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Whilst teaching in special schools I discovered early on that the most disruptive/disturbed children LOVED to be told stories. As soon as I ditched the book and started just telling, they became totally held. Cindylou Turner-Taylor talks about storytelling and the impact of Bleddfa storytelling courses.
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A great opportunity for a Welsh woman storyteller - applications are now open for the Esyllt Harker commission
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Gwobr Goffa Esyllt Harker yn barod i dderbyn ceisiadau - cyfle gwych i storiwraig o Gymru
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There was a Scottish storyteller, Mags Smith, who said she would also tell a story but needed a few moments to sort it out. At that point a voice in my head said “Andy, why don’t you tell a story?” Andy Johnson shares his storytelling journey and how Bleddfa courses helped him...
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Storytelling changed my world view, not like a bolt of lightning but in a gradual and real way, like growing a new skin. I learned in that first week at Bleddfa that stories from the oral tradition matter. That they are more than simply entertaining but have a real truth, if you give it time.
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Storytelling is simple, right? You have a story – you tell it. Wrong! Because first you need a story. My first afternoon at Bleddfa I didn’t have one. All we’d been asked for was a small personal story – but though I racked my brain, nothing came...
Storyteller Phil Okwedy tells something of his storytelling journey and the role that training at Bleddfa Storytelling Courses played in it
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Bleddfa storytellers tell us what they have been up to...
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