A weekend of fairy tales, music, film and visual arts, celebrating the roots and branches of storytelling and traditional music from Wales and the World. Aberystwyth Storytelling Festival returns to Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Friday 6th December to Sunday 8th December, with three days of folk tales, music, puppetry, dance, discussions, film, song, art, exhibitions and cake. This year the festival rambles through stories and the landscape, exploring the roots and branches of story in west Wales. Xanthe Gresham and Nick Hennessey tell of Morgana le Fey and medieval misogyny, Christine Cooper tells the Battle of the Trees, Ceri Rhys Matthews Rambles Through Stories and Tunes and the Welsh Landscape. Your Man's Puppets return with a Musical Menagerie and a singing sloth. Phil Okwedy tells Tales of the Welsh Drovers. Peter Stevenson, Ceri Owen-Jones, Elsa Davies and Valeriane Leblond lead you into an encounter with the dark Otherworld of the Shaking Tale. Martin Maudsley adds the unhappy ever afters to Grimms Tales. French Puppetry Company It's Tŷ Time return with Object Theatre, Rrose Selavy's Surreal Midnight Stitchery, Fiona Collins and the Young Storytellers, Ailsa Mair Hughes and Pixy Tom with a live soundtrack to the 1926 film the Adventures of Prince Achmed by Lotte Reiniger, Mary-Ann Constantine on Living with Lake Ladies, Josian Fauzou tells Tales from Mauritius, Jez Danks with tall stories and a fiddle, winter tales for kids with Milly Jackdaw and Jo Vagabondi, story circles with Guto Dafis, David Ambrose, Amanda Smith and Cath Little, Siani Pob Man an exhibition of illustrators and Welsh folk tales, a traditional Twmpath or old Welsh dance, art installations with Mar Shro Gora and Lindy Martin, Music with Hieronymus, Workshops, Talks, Discussions, Book Signings, and informal stories in the bar and the cafe, and the Arts Centre's Ginger and Lemon Cake! Full details of the festival can be found on the website here: http://aberstoryfestival.wordpress.com/ Festival Tickets are £35 and day tickets are available: Friday £12; Saturday £20; Sunday £15. Tickets for individual shows will be sold at £6 shortly before each show, if there is space available. To book contact Aberystwyth Arts Centre ticket office 01970 62 32 32 or go online www.aber.ac.uk/artscentre. ENDS |
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Friday, November 22, 2013 |
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