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| Sound recording, story and song; a folk tale of West African and Nigerian origin at the High Summer Storytelling Clubnight, in the Garden of No. 4 Shaa Road, Acton, London, 21st July 1984 | |
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| A story told by an unidentified storyteller. The story explains the West African belief that the first born twin is the youngest twin, because it is pushed out of the womb, by the older and stronger sybling. The story is followed by a description of how in West Africa it is thought that the only way to make peace with twins is to cook them a meal made with palm oil, and how in Nigeria, a special ceremony and song is performed for twins so that they may become members of society. | |
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| The storyteller refers to Helen and Rick; storyteller Helen East and musician Rick Wilson. | |
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| audience:- | adult; contributing storytellers |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | fair |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 5 minutes, 33 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 female |
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| origin:- | Nigeria, Africa, West |
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| Flyer for the High Summer Storytelling Clubnight | |
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| Flyer for the High Summer Storytelling Clubnight | |
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| Click to enlarge images | |
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storyteller; promoter: Ben Haggarty storyteller: Daisy Keable; Georgiana Jerstad; Georgiana Keable storyteller; musician: TUUP; Godfrey Duncan |
| storytelling:- |
Shaa Road, 4, Acton, London, England
21 Jul 1984 storytelling club: Storytelling Unit Clubnight storytelling club: High Summer Storytelling Clubnight |
| gift from:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty |
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