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an Arabian Nights; 1001 Nights; Sheherazade's Tales story

Sound recording, story; sections of the epic cycle 1001 Nights, or The Arabian Nights or Sheherazade's Tales, told by Chirine El Ansary as part of the programme Arabian Nights, in the Bradenstoke Hall at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 1st July 2005.

Introduction by Giles Abbott followed by story told by Chirine El Ansary. A story of three sisters, each of whom marry according to a whimsical wish - one to a pastry chef, one to a cook and the other to a sultan. The two less well off sisters become jealous of their sister who becomes the Sultan's wife, and when she gives birth they swap her newborn children for strangled dogs and float her babies down the river, where they are found by an old man.

audience:- adult
language:- English; Arabic
    recording quality
condition:- good
completeness:- complete
duration:- 0 hours, 35 minutes, 13 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: Chirine El Ansary
female / Egyptian / Muslim / African / French / born 28.04.1971

storytelling:- Master of Ceremonies: Giles Abbott
male / British / occupation performance storyteller

origin:- Middle East
Arab world


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Festival programme

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Chirine El Ansary at the opening ceremony of 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: Bradenstoke Hall
01 Jul 2005
festival: Beyond the Border Festival
Arabian Nights


gift from:- St Donats Arts Centre


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