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Becoming Virgin, Tales from the
Convent
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a Stories about Storytelling story; Indian
Mythology story; Hindu Mythology story
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Sound recording, story; Becoming Virgin, Tales
from the Convent, a combination of reminiscence, original tale,
folk tale, wonder tale, stories about storytelling, aetiological
or how and why stories, and Indian and Hindu mythology told by
Sally Pomme Clayton in the Bradenstoke Hall at the Beyond the
Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South
Glamorgan, Wales, 5th July 2003
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An introduction with commentary about why we
tell stories, followed by a series of stories told by Sally Pomme
Clayton, about her experiences in a convent school as a child,
including forbidden acts, pillow fights, an account of a fellow
pupil becoming ill, underwear, sex education, meeting boys and
being instructed to practice their virginity by the nuns. These
accounts are interspersed with traditional tales, including a
story about ten wise and foolish virgins all travelling to marry
the same man; a section from Indian mythology which tells of the
milk maids or Gopi girls falling in love with Krishna and of
Krishna stealing their clothes whilst they are bathing; the tale
of two girls falling in love with two stars, but then trying to
escape back to Earth; a story of Prince searching for fruit from
the garden of the Virgin Queen to give to his dying father, and a
story about the moon who has two lovers, one a good cook and one
a good storyteller.
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This performance was orginally commissioned by
the Literature Department of The South Bank Centre,
London.
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audience:-
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adult
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recording quality
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condition:-
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fair
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completeness:-
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complete
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duration:-
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0 hours, 57 minutes, 19 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: Sally Pomme Clayton
female / British
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Festival programme
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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: Bradenstoke Hall
05 Jul 2003
festival: Tenth Anniversary Beyond the Border Festival
Tales from the Convent Becoming Virgin
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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