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Sound recording, story; a creation myth and
aetiological tale or how and why story from Haiti, told by Mimi
Barthelemy, in the Big Top at the Beyond the Border Festival, St
Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 7th
July 2002.
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Introduction by Ben Haggarty, including
commentary about his introduction to storytelling, followed by
story told by Mimi Barthelemy, with translation by Ben
Haggarty.
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Crick Crack call and response, followed by
story about why Haitians wear rings in their noses. A women sits
by her sick son all night. She collaspes with exhuastion, but is
woken by a hummingbird. The hummingbird tells the women to swim
in the sea to the place where the rainbow is. The women swims to
the rainbow. Coloured rings fall out of the rainbow into her
hands. The women squeezes the rings together to form a
multicoloured ring which she puts into her nose and immediately
she smells perfumes and fragrances. She returns to her child, to
find that he has died. She smells the scent of a tree at the edge
of the village, the 'kinkinna tree', and realises that the
quinine of the tree can heal other children, even though her own
has died.
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audience:-
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adult
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language:-
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French; Creole; English
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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, 14 minutes, 37 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: Mimi Barthelemy
female / Haitian / American, South / Sri Lankan / African, North
/ French
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storytelling:-
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storyteller; translator: Ben Haggarty
male / British / born 30.11.1958
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origin:-
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Haiti
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festival programme
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Mimi Barthelemy
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Ben Haggarty and Mimi Barthelemy
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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
07 Jul 2002
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