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WOSAS : F1157	WOSAS/CD369/track3 R1225.wav
Sound recording, story and joke; a joke and a nonsense story and folk tale from Japan, told by Nick Hennessey in the Blue Garden at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 2nd July 2005.
Commentary by Nick Hennessey about the Japanese sense of humour and humurous storytelling, followed by story told by Nick Hennessey. A story about a lazy man who sleeps under a persimmon tree, and ignores the fruit which falls on his head. The persimmon sets seed and a tree grows on his head. The man harvests the fruit and sells the persimmons in the market. The other fruit sellers become jealous and cut the tree from the man's head while he sleeps. The man finds he has a stump on his head. On the stump mushrooms grow, and the man then sells these in the market. The other mushroom sellers become jealous and dig out the stump from the man's head while he sleeps, leaving a hole in the man's head. Rain fills the hole in the man's head and it fills with fish. The man sells the fish in the market, but the other fish sellers become jealous, and they fill in the pond while the man sleeps, leaving a boggy field on the man's head. In that field the man grows rice. He has a very good harvest year after year and becomes rich. He meets a women and they marry.
audience:-	adult
recording quality
condition:-	good
completeness:-	complete
duration:-	0 hours, 7 minutes, 41 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:-	storyteller; singer; musician: Nick Hennessey male / British
origin:-	Japan
	Festival programme
	Nick Hennessey performing during the festival
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programming:-	Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose
administration:-	administrator: St Donats Arts Centre
storytelling:-	St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art Centre: Blue Garden 02 Jul 2005 festival: Beyond the Border Festival
gift from:-	St Donats Arts Centre

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