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Sedna Princess of the
Sea
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Sound recording, story; Sedna Princess of the
Sea, an Inuit creation myth, told by Taffy Thomas, in the Big Top
at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit
Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 9th July 2000.
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Introduction to Taffy's Tale Coat. David
Ambrose is invited to choose an image from the coat to determine
the story which Taffy will tell, followed by a story told by
Taffy Thomas. A story about a beautiful young Inuit girl, Sedna,
who leaves her family and her home to marry a stranger. The
stranger takes her to the land of the birds. Sedna discovers that
she has married the King of the Birds and is deeply unhappy.
Sedna's father and brothers come to rescue her. The King of the
Birds persues their canoe and creates a storm. To save themselves
the brothers try to throw Sedna over the side of the canoe. Sedna
clings onto the side of the canoe, so her brothers prick her
fingers and as her blood hits the water it creates dolphins. The
brothers cut the backs of Sedna's hands, and her blood creates a
walrus. Her father cuts her wrists and her blood creates a blue
whale. As the blue whale spouts water ,it sweeps Sedna away and
her brothers and father are saved.
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audience:-
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family
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recording quality
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condition:-
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good
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completeness:-
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complete
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duration:-
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0 hours, 12 minutes, 18 seconds
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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.
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storytelling:-
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storyteller: Taffy Thomas
male / British
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origin:-
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Inuit
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festival programme
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Taffy in his Tale Coat at the British Museum in 2003
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Click to enlarge images
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programming:-
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Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty
Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose
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administration:-
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administrator: St Donats Arts Centre
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storytelling:-
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St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art
Centre: Big Top
09 Jul 2000
festival: Beyond the Border Festival
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gift from:-
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St Donats Arts Centre
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© The London Centre for International Storytelling:
2007