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Sound recording, talk, stories and song, a talk and creation myth, aetiological or how and why story told by Alma Kunuanbaeva, followed by epic singing and story from Kazakhstan, sung and told by Almas Almatov, as part of the programme The Bardic Tradition, in the Main Tent at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 6th July 1996.

Alma Kunuanbaeva talking about the tradition of Kazakh epic singing and epic singers, including a story told by Alma Kunuanbaeva about the creation of man and God not having enough brains or enough emotional conciousness to go around mankind. The story explains the creation of epic singers, people created with high intelligence, full emotional conciousness and beauty. Followed by an introduction to epic singer Almas Almatov; sections of epic song and a story about epic singers told by Almas Almatov with translation from Alma Kunuanbaeva.

audience:- adult
language:- Kazakh; English
    recording quality
condition:- good
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 48 minutes, 25 seconds

Beyond the Border Festival was founded in 1993 by Ben Haggarty, Artistic Director of the Crick Crack Club, and David Ambrose, the then Director of St Donats Arts Centre, Wales. The Festival was founded as The Beyond the Border International Festival of Storytelling and Epic Singing, but became known simply as Beyond the Border. The festival ran from 1993 to 2006 co-directed by the two founders: with Ben Haggarty programming storytellers and David Ambrose programming musicians. Since 2007 the festival has been directed by David Ambrose. The festival is a weekend event running on the first weekend of July annually; attracting around 2,500 people from across Britain and from overseas. The festival is sited at St Donats Arts Centre and in the grounds of St Donats Castle in the Vale of Glamorgan on the South Coast of Wales. Beyond the Border was initiated as part of the UK Year of Literature in 1995. The successful bid submitted by Academi Wales, prominently featured a storytelling festival. The original Director of the UK Year of Literature was Maura Dooley, who had been at the South Bank Centre in London when Ben Haggarty ran the Third International Storytelling Festival there in 1989. Maura Dooley supported the proposal brought to her by Ben Haggarty and David Ambrose to hold an International festival and series of summer schools at St Donats Castle and to begin Beyond the Border in 1993 in order to build an audience and a core of Wales-based artists for the Year of Literature in 1995. However before the plan could be implemented Maura Dooley resigned from her post (the position was later taken by Sean Dorran). Despite this, St Donats Arts Centre was committed to the festival and Beyond the Border was launched in July 1993. The 1993, 1994 and 1995 festivals were accompanied by summer schools, which produced a number of storytellers including Megan Lloyd, Francis Maxey, Richard Berry and Michael Harvey.

storytelling; singing; talk:- speaker; storyteller; translator: Alma Kunuanbaeva
female / Kazakh / occupation cultural anthropologist; ethnomusicologist

storytelling; singing; talk:- storyteller; epic singer: Almas Almatov
male / Kazakh

origin:- Kazakhstan, Asia, central


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Festival programme

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programming:- Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty
Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose


administration:- administrator: St Donats Arts Centre


storytelling; singing; talk:- St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art Centre: Main Tent
06 Jul 1996
festival: Beyond the Border Festival
The Bardic Tradition


gift from:- St Donats Arts Centre


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