In this bonus episode from the Scottish International Storytelling Festival 2019 I talk to Giovanna Conforto. Giovanna is the creative director of the Italian Storytelling Centre and performs and teaches throughout the world.

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http://www.italianstorytellingcenter.it/en/about-italian-storytelling-center/italian-storytelling-center-team/

Music by Kate Young.

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Another episode from the Scottish International Storytelling Festival 2019, this time with Canadian storyteller Michael Williams, who tells us about his experience using storytelling as a peace facilitator in the Middle East, and shares the tale of The Two Warriors.

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https://www.michaelwilliamsstorycoaching.com

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A bonus episode recorded during the Scottish International Storytelling Festival, featuring Cree elder and cultural leaderJoseph Naytowhow.

Learn more about Joseph at:

www.josephnaytowhow.com

And learn more about the Scottish International Storytelling Festival at:

https://www.sisf.org.uk

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Our guest this week is Liz Weir, a veteran storyteller from Northern Ireland who is known throughout the world and has received an MBE for her work.
 
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 www.lizweir.org
 
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 www.goastories.org
 
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A pre-Halloween special! This week we have a Haitian voodoo story. Not for children

A good introduction to voodoo:

https://www.ranker.com/list/history-and-stories-from-haitian-zombie-voodoo-mythology/christopher-myers

A great in-depth episode of the Mythology Podcast on voodoo:

https://history-podcasts.com/the-mythology-podcast

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This is an Inuit story which I first told in 2010, from a retelling by New York-based storyteller Laura Simms.

You can read about this story and its use by the Healing Story Alliance here:

https://healingstory.org/raven-and-the-whale/

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By popular demand... it's time to go a-viking!

This is one of the most popular Norse tales. It comes from the Prose Edda, the main source of Norse Mythology, recorded by Snorri Sturluson in Iceland in the 13th Century.

Recommended texts for getting started with Norse stories:

The Penguin Book of Norse Myths by Kevin Crossley-Holland (my favourite)

Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman

Myths of the Norsemen by Roger Lancelyn Green

I'd also highly recommend the Northern Myths podcast. 

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This week our guest is leading international storyteller Daniel Morden. I saw Daniel perform at Beyond the Border in Wales and was enraptured by his storytelling.

Daniel works with Hugh Luton to tell the Iliad and the Odyssey, and they were awarded the 2006 Classical Association prize for 'the most significant contribution to the public understanding of the classics'. Daniel has conceived and presented numerous documentaries on storytelling for BBC Radio Wales. 

In 2007 he won the Tir na n-Og Award for his book Dark Tales from the Woods and he has a number of publications available of his retellings of Celtic and Greek myths and legends.

Daniel is the host of the House of Stories podcast, in which he has in-depth discussions with the likes of Kate Tempest and Alan Moore.

Take a look through Daniel's publications here:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Daniel-Morden/e/B0034NT05G?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_2&qid=1568233123&sr=8-2

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This week we have the story of Vasalisa the Beautiful, the most famous Russian folk-tale.

The story was collected by Alexander Afanasyev for his Russian Folk-Tales collections, which were published between 1855-1863. It was made into a film by the same name, and has featured in the Hellboy cartoon as well as  various short stories. Most recently, Sophie Anderson used the story as the basis for her novel, The House With Chicken Legs, while Clarissa Pinkola Estes analysed the story in Women Who Run With The Wolves.

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House of Legends is back!

Our guest this week is Michael Harvey. Michael Harvey is an internationally performing storyteller and a recipient of the prestigious Creative Wales award. Recently he has worked with production company Adverse Camber on Dreaming The Night Field, a piece based on the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogion, which toured Australia earlier this year.

Michael was kind enough to share both an exclusive preview of his forthcoming show Taliesin, and to share a recording of Branwen, his retelling of the Second Branch of the Mabinogion. Both were created and performed in collaboration with Pauline Down.

Learn more about Michael, get exclusive downloads and follow him on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter at www.michaelharvey.org. 

Learn more about the Mabinogion at https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofWales/The-Mabinogion/

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