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East of the Sun, West of the Moon
Bear King, The
White Bear King, The
Sound recording, story; East of the Sun, West of the Moon or The White Bear King, a Norwegian wonder tale told by Sally Pomme Clayton, as part of the eighth West London Storytelling Unit Clubnight, at Common Stock Theatre, Hammersmith, London, 18th December 1983
Story told by Sally Pomme Clayton. A King has three daughters. Following a dream, the youngest daughter finds a bear with a golden wreath in a forest clearing. She agrees to marry the bear in return for the wreath. Each night for three years, the bear turns into a man and fathers three duaghters, but the bear takes each child away as soon as it is born. The King's daughter follows the advice of her mother, and lights a candle at night to see what her husband looks like as a man. This seals the bear's fate to be married to the troll hag who had bewitched him. The King's daughter follows the bear to the troll hag's castle. On her journey she collects three magical items from three young girls; a pair of golden scissors which cut lace and ribbon from the air, a jug which pours endless supplies of liquid and a cloth which provides endless supplies of food. Using these items the King's daughter enters the castle of the troll hag and releases the bear. On their return home, they collect the three young girls who had given her the magical items, who are their three daughters.
East of the Sun, West of the Moon is a traditonal tale which was collected and written down by folklorists Peter Christen Asbjornsen and Jorgen Moe.
audience:-	adult; contributing storytellers
recording quality
condition:-	fair
completeness:-	complete
duration:-	0 hours, 20 minutes, 15 seconds
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.
storytelling:-	storyteller: Sally Pomme Clayton female / British
origin:-	folklorist: Peter Christen Asbjornsen folklorist: Jorgen Moe Norway Scandinavia
	Images of clubnight events at Common Stock Theatre
	White master-copy of flyer for clubnight 6, clubnight 7 and clubnight 8.
	Green version of flyer for clubnight 6, clubnight 7 and clubnight 8.
	Click to enlarge images
administration:-	storyteller; promoter: Ben Haggarty storyteller: Daisy Keable; Georgiana Jerstad; Georgiana Keable storyteller; musician: TUUP; Godfrey Duncan
storytelling:-	Hammersmith, London, England: Common Stock Theatre 18 Dec 1983 storytelling club: West London Storytelling Unit Clubnight storytelling club: Clubnight 8
gift from:-	storyteller: Ben Haggarty

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