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Monkey Misery
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Monkey Trouble
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| Sound recording, story; Monkey Misery, a folk tale from Haiti, told by Ben Haggarty as part of Storytelling in the Cafe, in The First International Storytelling Festival at Battersea Arts Centre, London, 30th January 1985 | |
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| Crick crack call and response, followed by a story told by Ben Haggarty. A story about Monkey who tastes something delicious, which he believes is something called 'misery', but is in fact honey. Monkey goes on the search for more misery, a search which finally takes him to Papa God. Papa God gives Monkey a sack with a dog in it. | |
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| This is an early telling of the story by Ben Haggarty. Ben Haggarty originally took the story from Diane Wolkstein's book The Magic Organge Tree, in which monkey looks for misery. He later heard the story from Rita Ademokum as part of a story collection project run by the West London Storytelling Unit in the 1980s. Rita referred to Monkey searching for trouble and in later tellings of the story by Ben, Monkey searches for trouble, rather than misery. | |
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| audience:- | adult |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | fair |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 7 minutes, 31 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:- | Haiti, Grenada, Caribbean |
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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
30 Jan 1985 festival: The First International Storytelling Festival Storytelling in the Cafe |
| gift from:- |
storyteller: Marian Oughton |
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