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Imagination and Storytelling -
Writing in the Air
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| Sound recording, talk; Imagination and Storytelling - Writing in the Air, including true life tales and reminiscence, by Sally Pomme Clayton, as part of the Crick Crack Club conference, Celebrating 20 years of Storytelling Revival , Hoxton Hall, London, 2nd February 2002. | |
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| Introduction to conference by Ben Haggarty. Introduction to Sally Pomme Clayton by Ben Haggarty, followed by a talk combined with stories by Sally Pomme Clayton. The talk includes comments on assumptions about traditional art forms; the relationship between orality and literacy; the art of a storyteller; the role of imagination in the work of a storyteller; the nature of story in relation to truth, and the role of metaphor. | |
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| Programme notes: The Crick Crack Club presents the richest and most entertaining performance storytelling events in Britain. These are stories for adults, taking you into the extraordinary, and sometimes uncomfortable, world of unbowdlerised Fairytale and Myth. Pioneers of the Storytelling revival reflect on 20 years at the front-line of active intervention to revive and rediscover this primal narrative art. | |
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| The conference comprises R539, R540, R541, R542, R543, R544, R545, R456, R547, R548. | |
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| audience:- | adult; Celebrating 20 years of Storytelling Revival conference delegates |
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| condition:- | good |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 40 minutes, 48 seconds |
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| The Crick Crack Club was founded by Ben Haggarty in 1987 and was the first regular performance storytelling club to be established in the UK. From the outset, the club operated with a programme of storytellers put in place by an artistic director, Ben Haggarty. It had no 'floor spots' whereby anyone had the opportunity to tell stories. The club was created in response to a recognised need for there to be sufficient UK storytellers to perform competent, formal evening shows for adult audiences in the proposed 1989, 15 day long, Third International Storytelling Festival at London's South Bank Centre. In the autumn of 1987 the first season of 26 weekly Crick Crack Club events was launched in a pub theatre (The Chair) in Ladbrook Grove, with the expressed aim of trying out new artists and providing an opportunity for established artists to develop their skills and repertoire for adults. Jenny Pearson of the Kew Storytellers helped Ben Haggarty with the organisation of this first season.The Crick Crack Club promoted weekly events in various venues in London between 1987 and 1995, and then monthly events at the Spitz from 1995 to 2001. During this time it also organised numerous monthly events and mini-festivals in regional arts venues throughout England. In 1991/92 wth £10,000 from the Arts Council Literature department it tried to establish a touring circuit promoting 120 events in a year. Daniel Morden gave invaluable administrative support during this period. In 1993, in partnership with David Ambrose of St. Donats Arts Centre in Wales, the Crick Crack Club Club created the Beyond the Border International Festival of Storytelling and Epic Singing. Ben Haggarty co-directed Beyond the Border from 1993 to 2005. Since 2001 the Crick Crack Club has worked on a peripatetic basis, programming in various venues and in partnership with various organisations, and in 2003 began a long-term partnership with Barbican Education in London, to promote 9 events a year in the Barbican Pit Theatre | |
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| storytelling; talk:- |
speaker: Sally Pomme Clayton female / British / occupation performance storyteller |
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| storytelling; talk:- |
Master of Ceremonies: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 / occupation performance storyteller; promoter |
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storyteller: Sally Pomme Clayton female / British |
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| Hoxton Hall publicity | |
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| Crick Crack Club publicity | |
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| administration:- |
administrator: The Crick Crack Club |
| programming:- |
Crick Crack Club Artistic Director: Ben Haggarty |
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London, England: Hoxton Hall
02 Feb 2002 conference: Celebrating 20 years of Storytelling Revival |
| gift from:- |
The Crick Crack Club |
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