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Pedlar of Swaffham, The
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| Sound recording, talk and story; including The Pedlar of Swaffham, a folk tale from Britain and a creation myth from Australian aboriginal culture, told by Hugh Lupton, as part of the Crick Crack Club conference, Celebrating 20 years of Storytelling Revival , Hoxton Hall, London, 3rd February 2002. | |
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| The talk includes comments about multicultural education in relation to oral stories; an outline of how Hugh Lupton came to storytelling and who has influenced him; comments about ownership of culture; the relationship between stories and place, and ideas of 'Englishness' and English traditions. The talk is combined with stories - an English folk tale, The Pedlar of Swaffham, and an aboriginal creation story. | |
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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, 30 minutes, 31 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: Hugh Lupton male / British / English / Welsh / occupation performance storyteller |
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| origin:- |
storyteller: Hugh Lupton male / British / English / Welsh England, Britain Australia Australian aboriginal |
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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 |
| storytelling; talk:- |
London, England: Hoxton Hall
03 Feb 2002 conference: Celebrating 20 years of Storytelling Revival |
| gift from:- |
The Crick Crack Club |
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