WOSAS : F581
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WOSAS/CD210/track2
R623.wav
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Ananse and the Sky God
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an Ananse story
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Sound recording, story; Ananse and the Sky
God, an Ananse story, a trickster tale, creation myth and
aetiological tale or how and why story from Ghana, told by The
West London Storytelling Unit, at the second West London
Storytelling Unit Clubnight, at The Last Chance Centre,
Hammersmith, London, 19th May 1983
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Story told by members of The West London
Storytelling Unit. Ananse goes to visit Papa God to ask for his
stories, Papa God asks Ananse to find him a python, a leopard,
some hornets and a forest spirit. Ananse tricks each animal in
turn and takes them to Papa God. Papa God gives Ananse his
stories, but Ananse drops them as he is climbing back to earth,
and they fall all over the globe, which is how stories came onto
Earth.
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audience:-
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adult; contributing storytellers
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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, 17 minutes
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The West London Storytelling Unit at this time comprised Ben
Haggarty, TUUP and Daisy Keable.
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The West London Storytelling Unit (W.L.S.T.U), was founded in
1981, by members Ben Haggarty, Godfrey Duncan and Daisy Keable
and based in an Afro-Caribbean Youth Centre, the Priory in Acton.
The members worked together and as solo artists, telling stories
mainly in school and community contexts in London. Over time
performances for adults also began to be developed. In 1983
W.L.S.T.U became The Storytelling Unit with Marva Cumberbatch,
Pomme Clayton and Daisy Keable. In or around 1985 Daisy Keable
and Marva Cumberbatch left the Storytelling Unit, at which point
Ben Haggarty rejoined and worked with Sally Pomme Clayton for a
brief period before the group was disbanded. The increased
interest and demand for storytelling performance for adults led
to the formation of The Company of Storytellers in 1985.
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The West London Storytelling Unit Clubnights or The Storytelling
Unit Clubnights were begun by Ben Haggarty, TUUP and Daisy Keable
in 1982 shortly after beginning to work together as the West
London Storytelling Unit (W.L.S.T.U). They took place on roughly
a fortnightly basis during the atumn and winter months, in
community centres in Acton, Shepherds Bush and Hammersmith. The
clubnights were an opportunity for anyone to come and tell a
story, or perform music on the condition that it had a toe-hold
in tradition. The performance of original poetry and the reading
of original writing was actively discouraged as there were plenty
of other fora for 'new writing' elsewhere in London. In 2007 Ben
Haggarty explained that the clubnight format was in part inspired
by the College of Storytellers, but with the aim of doing
something less bourgeois, for a younger audience and which was
not dominated by Idries Shah's mission to promote his vision of
Sufi storytelling. The clubnights also took inspiration from the
anarchy of the London Musicians Collective clubnight events in
Camden. The clubnights led Ben Haggarty to inaugurate the First
UK International Storytelling Festival at Battersea Arts Centre
in London in January 1985. After the 1985 festival a few further
clubnights were run, before ending in 1986. The clubnights were
superseded by the formation of the Company of Storytellers who
pioneered the touring of adult evening shows throughout the UK,
and by the formation of the Crick Crack Club in 1987, which
focused on the programming and development of professional
storytellers, their performance skills and their repertoire for
adult audiences.
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storytelling:-
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storytelling group: The West London Storytelling Unit
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storytelling:-
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storyteller: Daisy Keable; Georgiana Jerstad; Georgiana
Keable
female / British / Norwegian
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storytelling:-
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storyteller; musician; singer: TUUP; Godfrey Duncan
male / British / Guyanese
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storytelling:-
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storyteller: Ben Haggarty
male / British / born 30.11.1958
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origin:-
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Jamaica
Caribbean
Ghana, Africa
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White version of flyer for clubnight 2
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Blue version of flyer for clubnight 2
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Clubnight letter written my members of The West London
Storytelling Unit
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Letter written to Time Out listings magazine about listing the
clubnight
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Click to enlarge images
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administration:-
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storyteller; promoter: Ben Haggarty
storyteller: Daisy Keable; Georgiana Jerstad; Georgiana Keable
storyteller; musician: TUUP; Godfrey Duncan
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storytelling:-
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Hammersmith, London, England: The Last Chance Centre
19 May 1983
storytelling club: West London Storytelling Unit Clubnight
storytelling club: Clubnight 2
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gift from:-
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storyteller: Ben Haggarty
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© The London Centre for International Storytelling:
2007