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Land of the Dead, The
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| Sound recording, story; The Land of the Dead, a Haida Myth, of First Nation Canadian origin, told by Ben Haggarty, as part of The Grand Storytelling Festival Celebration, at The First International Storytelling Festival at Battersea Arts Centre, London, 2nd February 1985 | |
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| Story told by Ben Haggarty. A story about a beautfiul women who is taken to be the wife of a man in the land of the dead. She learns, with the help of an old women who appears as an owl, to sleep by day and live by night. When she has a child, it is half alive and half dead. She returns home and instructs her parents to keep the child in the dark for 12 days. Unable to resist looking at their grandchild, the women's parents take the child into the light, and so banish the women and her child back to the land of the dead forever. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | fair; poor |
| completeness:- | incomplete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 11 minutes, 27 seconds |
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| The First International Storytelling Festival took place at Battersea Arts Centre, (Venue Director Jude Kelly) London, in 1985, and was the first international festival of storytelling held in the UK. It ran for 7 days, from Monday Jan 28th to Sunday Feb 3rd. The festival was initiated and directed by Ben Haggarty who had been involved in running the West London Storytelling unit and Storytelling Unit Clubnights since 1982/1983. It was funded by a guarantee against loss from the GLC. The festival programmed included performances for adult audiences, talks and lectures, school sessions, a festival 'clubnight' and a teacher's conference on Storytelling in Education. | |
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| storytelling:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty male / British / born 30.11.1958 |
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| origin:- |
Canada
First Nation Canadian Haida |
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| images of Ben Haggarty performing for children during the festival | |
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| Festival poster | |
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| festival flyer front cover | |
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| festival flyer showing introduction | |
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| festival flyer showing festival timetable | |
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| festival flyer full page spread showing artists biographies | |
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| festival flyer back cover showing booking and access details for the festival advertisments and acknowledgments | |
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| additional festival flyer in orginal format ready for photcopying | |
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| Click to enlarge images | |
| programming:- |
Festival Artistic Director: Ben Haggarty |
| storytelling:- |
Lavender Hill, London, England: Battersea Arts Centre
02 Feb 1985 festival: The First International Storytelling Festival The Grand Storytelling Festival Celebration The Festival Clubnight |
| gift from:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty |
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