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Friday and Saturday Night Tales for Grownups and Young Adults!
Saturday & Sunday Day Family Fun, Stories and Workshops!
Stunning Site Decoration, Access to Museum, Exhibits and Animals for a Year*!
*apply to museum with your ticket!
Saturday & Sunday Day Family Fun, Stories and Workshops!
Stunning Site Decoration, Access to Museum, Exhibits and Animals for a Year*!
*apply to museum with your ticket!
* Story Walks round the grounds * Stories of Fairy Gold folklore for families * Masterly storytelling * Fun for the family *
* Trickster tales* Mesmerising medieval tales * Camping * Music * Bar * Poetry* Kids Workshops * * Expect the Unexpected * Fabulous site decorations * Laughs * Strange Majesty - Merlin * * Fun * A feast of delights * Trees * Food * Access all areas of the Museum* * Labyrinth Workshop * The Golden Labyrinth * Spellbinding * Farm animals * Firepits * 
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FINAL PROGRAMME HERE!
Last update 22/8 - that's it folks, it's as good as it gets! 
, Vickie Rough Guide to Performance Times:
*The programme may change, we give you the best picture we can here* Events in Purple Free to Daytime Museum Goers! Other daytime events/workshops may be purchased on the day depending on availability - £7 per workshop/event. Friday Night Welcome Concert Doors open 17:30 1900 - Welcome our patron,Taffy Thomas MBE With music through the evening from Ceilidh band, Stookie Blue! A perfect feast of folk music from Norwich favourites! We start our festival at the food museum with a mini-banquet of stories and music ranging from the traditional to the frankly outrageous! We move from traditional tales from local tellers Gerry Donlon and Carl Merry, to invited tellers from further afield, Maria Gillen, Kes Morton, Roisin Murray, through added surprises from rap artist Alim Kamara and a small Shakespearean surprise from drag artist and festival friend Ed Wilcox, aka An Nemia, finishing with late night foodie festival surprise from the one and only Xanthe Gresham. All evening SOAPBOX and DECORATIONS with Amy Wragg, expect an early evening Electronic Poetry Experiment and a late-night, unplugged music and poetry jam! Also Art Club with Kelly Will. Amy's decorations will be lit with 1000's of fairy lights! Come along for the evening to see light sculpture to rival the best! Decorations! Soapbox & Decs 2022 Friday - The Kitchen Kundalini 9.00-10.00pm We finish with late night foodie festival surprise from the one and only Xanthe Gresham. Internationally renowned storyteller Xanthe Gresham Knight brews herbs, blends sweetmeats and tells tales of Goddesses, Buddhas and Holy Herbs. Plant lore and mythology have a tale for every malaise – including menopause and midlife crisis. Take a dollop of story – whatever is fresh and available. Knead in dates, spices and other choice ingredients. Flambe with goddess philosophy and indulge… Gresham unfurls each story like the petals of a lotus. At the end you leave with something beautiful created in your own mind. British Theatre Review 22:30 Fire Pit Late Night Stories for campers and performers with MC Gerry Donlon! (Campers and Crew only) - The Glade. All evening SOAPBOX and DECORATIONS with Amy Wragg, Saturday Day Events in Purple Free to Daytime Museum Goers! Other daytime events/workshops are included in day or weekend tickets or may be purchased on the day depending on availability- £7 per workshop/event 11 am - Clare Muireann Murphy - Good Morning Stories! - TITHE BARN - MC Vickie Holden Stories for all the family to start your day! Dublin born storyteller Clare Murphy has performed in more than 20 countries to audiences of 5 to 5000 people. Her work ranges from science-stories like UniVerse to socio-political pieces like The King of Lies to her beloved Irish mythology. She has had the honour of performing for President Mary Robinson as well as at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. 1130am - Jonathan Lambert and Richard York present Two Birds and a Bowman: Medieval Stories and Song for all the Family - OPEN AIR STAGE - FREE - MC Baden Prince Founder of the Feast of Fools Storytelling Club, traditional storyteller, multi-instrumental musician and composer, Richard York brings stories and music to events, schools, museums, heritage sites, and communities. Founder of the Hare Moon Storytelling Camp, and host of Norwich-based Males Tales, Jonathan Lambert is a musician, composer and storyteller well known around the region. We are so pleased he's telling tales with us at our festival! 1230pm - Sarah Lloyd Winder - A Story Walk with the Butterfly of Tales - IN THE TREES Step quietly into the world of story as we follow the Butterfly of Tales, on our walk. Stories of nature and adventure, and perhaps even a butterfly, will be told in the beautiful landscape of the Food Museum. Suitable for all the family. 1230pm - Stories of Place from local tellers - Simon Hooton, Chris Richardson, Rob Lenney and more- TITHE BARN What is it be East Anglian? Folk tales from the area, tales from our local tellers. 1pm - Maria Gillen - The Story That was Never Told - OPEN AIR STAGE - FREE - MC Baden Prince Maria is a vibrant storyteller who will tell a story at the drop of a hat and loves co-creating stories with anyone from the cradle to the grave. Stories for the whole family told and made from scratch. 2pm - Taffy Thomas – Fairy Gold! (music from Liz and Richard York)- TITHE BARN - MC Vickie Holden With over 300 traditional stories many of them woven into his magnificent story coat. Taffy’s head is bursting with stories, riddles and folklore. The first Storyteller Laureate, the artistic director of Tales in Trust, doyen of the Storyteller’s Garden in Grasmere and teller of tales on four continents, Taffy Thomas MBE is also, we’re proud to say, the Patron of the East Anglian Storytelling Festival. Taffy will invite us into different worlds with stories of Fairy Gold, featuring fairy magic and mischief, and tunes from Liz and Richard York to match. 2:15pm - 2:45pm MUSIC Stookey Blue, OPEN AIR STAGE - FREE! A perfect feast of folk music from Norwich favourites! 3pm - Alim Kamara - Family Stories! - OPEN AIR STAGE - FREE - MC Baden Prince As a child living in Sierra Leone, Alim would listen to Djelis (storytellers), admiring the way they wove lessons through their tales. He set up Storie Storie to inspire others through engaging storytelling workshops and performances based on these traditional Sierra-Leonean folk tales. Alim has a wealth of experience of sharing cultural and life stories that demonstrate success, disappointments, persistence and hard work to pupils across the UK. 330pm - Kestrel Morton, Muddyfeet - TITHE BARN - MC Vickie Holden "Blood and bone - Ash, water, smoke and stone - Let love be more powerful than greed." In a city built on the ruins of past mistakes - in a land locked in a pattern of creation and destruction - is there a way to cheat the fates and break the cycle? Is a better world possible? Kestrel Morton spins a visionary spiderweb of dark nightmares - glittering with the diamond-dewdrops of hope. A mythic recreation of a tale as old as time - Cinderella as you've never heard it before - Muddyfeet is a poetic epic, pitting dystopian future prophecies against the green shoots of change that seek to uplift and rewrite them. A story from yesterday - told for tomorrow. Suggested age limit of 12+ with trigger warnings for suicide, murder, cannibalism and violence. (Kes says... 'I've told the worst of it to children and they've loved it but the parents were horrified by what I was telling to children so they should probably be warned. It does have a happy ending, just a couple of gruesome bits! That's what happens when you use old German folk tales as inspiration...') Two Tellers Talking - Open Air STAGE - FREE 10am Dave Tonge and Taffy Thomas 430pm Shonaleigh and Marion Leeper Learn about the storytelling journey and the experiences of the finest storytellers from different traditions. Workshops 10am - 1130am Drop in Mazes with Richard Wood - IN THE TREES - FREE The basics of planning them and to ways to construct them. Plus their usefulness in marketing. With a LOT of string, we can even make one. 1030am - Angry Ghost stories with Mai Black - TRAINING ROOM This lively one-hour session will involve reading, discussing, and producing creative responses to poems written in the voice of Anne Boleyn, Genghis Khan, and Boudicca. It is suitable for experienced poets and non-poets alike. Afterwards, participants may like to enter their work into the free 'Angry Ghost Competition'. Details can be found at www.suffolkwritersgroup.com/angryghostcomp 12pm Drop in! Paper puppets with Hanna Brailsford - WORKSHOP ROOM - FREE Join Hannah Brailsford to hear the tale of The Brown Paper Boy and then make your own brown paper puppet character to start a whole new story. Children must be accompanied by an adult 1:30pm Percussion with Jonathan Lambert - WORKSHOP ROOM Description coming - it will be noisy! (Max 12 people) 2.45pm - 3.45pm Telling Heritage with Dave Tonge - WORKSHOP ROOM A segment of his three day workshop at the Ashmolean that focuses on adapting stories for use with objects and artifacts/in heritage spaces 4pm - 5pm Meet the author: Jan Williams - WORKSHOP ROOM Step into the spooky past of Tudor Suffolk as Jan Williams reads from her exciting new book The Ghost of Pendlesham Priory Events in Purple Free to Daytime Museum Goers! All day SOAPBOX and DECORATIONS with Amy Wragg, Saturday Evening (Ticketed) 18.00-19.00 Dave Tonge Trickster Tales from Many Lands - MC Jonathon Lambert with Dave Tonge There was once a trickster, a beguiler of the foolish, a cony catching cunning man, who journeyed from town to town, village to village and house to house wearing many different disguises... The Yarnsmith of Norwich himself, Dave Tong, takes us on one of his inimitable journeys through trickster stories from many lands, in a celebration of our shared worldwide culture of stories. 19.30-20.45 Clare Murphy 9 Muses of Queens Crescent - MC Roisin Murray The nine muses of inspiration and inkling wander the back streets of a metropolis in search of their missing mother - the Goddess of Memory. Wading down rivers of stories, appealing to their sat navs, and invoking ancient myth, they struggle to bring back their Titan mother. Musing on history, comedy, tragedy and poetry, performance storyteller Clare Murphy mashes up Greek myth, Egyptian epic, folklore, neuroscience and technology to explore the place where our mind slips, and memory and forgetfulness merge. 21.15-- 22.15 Late Night stories: Edge-Walkers - MC Clare Murphy Our late-night storytellers explore the many different edges that women walk in their lives: what kind of edge is up to them. The edge of destiny? Of disaster? Of a leap into the unknown? MC Clare Murphy will guide us through a ground-breaking show that will take you to some strange liminal spaces. With Xanthe Gresham, Shonaleigh Cumbers, Mai Black, Hannah Brailsford, Vickie Holden. 1030pm - Fire Pit Late Night Stories for campers and performers. GetOnTheSoapbox - All Saturday Evening! Sunday Morning (Ticketed) Events in Purple Free to Daytime Museum Goers! Other daytime events/workshops are included in day or weekend tickets or may be purchased on the day depending on availability- £7 per workshop/event 10am - Simon Heywood - Strange Majesty, a story of Merlin - TITHE BARN - MC Dave Tonge Award-winning writer and storyteller Simon Heywood combines music, song and storytelling to bring new life to a forgotten treasure trove of tales, remembering the strange majesty of the kings of Albion, from Brutus to Belin, Locrin to Lear, Arthur, Merlin and Vortigern. Strange Majesty is a companion piece to Simon Heywood's book The Legend of Vortigern, published in 2013 by the History Press as part of their Ancient Legends Retold series. 1130am - Shonaleigh - The Golden Labyrinth! - TITHE BARN - MC Hannah Brailsford Shonaleigh Cumbers is a storyteller. Not just any storyteller. She’s a Drut’syla. She’s a living tradition holder. It’s a tradition you probably won’t have heard of. It’s a tradition that flourished in Jewish families, but that was almost wiped out during the holocaust: as far as we know, Shonaleigh is the last Drut’syla, whose telling and teachings are filled with the wisdom, depth and humour of her bubbe, her grandmother, Edith Marks, from whom she learned her craft. When you think of King Solomon what words come to mind? Wisdom, maybe? Justice? If that is the case, my friends, remember, history is kind… The story you will not have heard, of King Solomon, the Queen of Sheba, and the Hoopoe with his crown of feathers. 1300 - 3 minute farewell tales to delight from festival tellers! - TITHE BARN MCs Marion Leeper and Sarah Lloyd-Winder A tray of delicious nibbles from the whole brilliant cast of featured storytellers. A farewell picnic of savoury story delights 10am - Children's story round with Taffy Thomas - OPEN AIR STAGE - FREE Come and tell your own story and listen to some of our best children's storytellers! 10am - Wants and Offers Storytellers new material - Workshops Training Room Roisin Murray and Carl Merry Come to get a first sight of innovative new shows being trialed! 11am - Planet Saving Walk with Simon Hooton - IN THE TREES Explore some of the museum’s paths and tracks with Museum trustee and conservation expert Simon Hooton, hear stories about man’s interactions with the environment in our region over the centuries, and begin to shape your own planet-saving story. 1115am - Children's dressing up with Janina Vigurs - OPEN AIR STAGE - FREE Delve into Janina's trunk of treasures for a session of dressing up, role play and story making. For children of all ages GetOnTheSoapbox all morning With Weekend MCs - Baden Prince and Vickie Holden *The programme may change due to circumstances we can't control. We aim to give you the best picture we can here* FINAL PROGRAMME HERE!
Last update 22/8 - that's it folks, it's as good as it gets!
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