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Raven, The
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| Sound recording, story; The Raven, a European wonder tale told by Verena Keable at the tenth West London Storytelling Unit Clubnight, in an unidentified venue in London, 1984 | |
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| Story told by Verena Keable. A story about a princess who enlists the help of a man to break the spell under which she has been cast, since her mother cursed her as a child. The man is challenged to enter a house, stay the night there, but not eat or drink anything. He attempts this, but on three occasssions the old women living in the house persuades him to drink some water and he falls asleep. The princess then leaves the man with a magical loaf of bread and a magical bottle of wine, which are never empty; a letter, and a ring. The letter tells the man to rescue her from the golden castle of Stromberg. He uses the loaf and the bottle of wine to enlist the help of two giants, who help him find the castle, but he cannot enter it, as the castle stands at the top of a glass mountain. He then gains futher magical items from two robbers; a saddle, a stick and a cloak of invisibility, which allow him to enter the castle, find the princess and marry her. | |
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| audience:- | adult; contributing storytellers |
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| condition:- | fair |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 13 minutes, 4 seconds |
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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:- |
storyteller: Verena Keable female / British |
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| origin:- | Europe |
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storyteller; promoter: Ben Haggarty sstoryteller: Daisy Keable; Georgiana Jerstad; Georgiana Keable storyteller; musician: TUUP; Godfrey Duncan |
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London, England
1984 storytelling club: West London Storytelling Unit Clubnight storytelling club: Clubnight 10 |
| gift from:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty |
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