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Leave it at the River
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| Sound recording, story; Leave it at the River, a folk tale told at the tenth West London Storytelling Unit Clubnight, in an unidentified venue in London, 1984 | |
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| A story told by an unidentified storyteller. Two monks are out walking. They come across a beautiful women who needs help to cross the river. The youngest monk carries her across the river and sets her down on the other side. The two monks continue their journey in silence. When they reach their destination, the older monk rebukes the young monk for having carried the women across the river. The young monk points out that he left the women on the river bank, while the older monk had carried her in his mind for the entire journey. | |
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| audience:- | adult; contributing storytellers |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | fair |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 3 minutes, 42 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 male / young person |
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storyteller; promoter: Ben Haggarty storyteller: 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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