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| Sound recording, talk and story; a talk; an apocryphal tale and a Japanese ghost story and folk tale told by Muriel Bloch at the inaugural meeting of the Society for Storytelling (The SfS), at Birmingham Central Library, Birmingham, England on the 19th of June 1993 | |
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| Talk by Muriel Bloch, with reference to the creation in France of the National Association for Storytelling and the difficulties of this prcoess, including the difficulties of defining storytelling and storytellers and claiming an identitiy as professional storytellers. Followed by two stories. | |
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| A story about God throwing Adam out of the Garden of Eden. When he leaves, Adam chooses a large diamond to take with him, but drops it in a stream. He dives in after it, only to find thousands of other diamonds which had been dropped by all the others who had been thrown out of heaven before him. | |
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| A story about a man who sees a women with no face, who is the ghost of a servant girl who had been wrongly accused of breaking a plate by her master. On hearing this, the man realises how so many servants remain faceless to those they serve, including to himself. | |
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| audience:- | Society for Storytelling members |
| recording quality | |
| condition:- | fair |
| completeness:- | complete |
| duration:- | 0 hours, 21 minutes |
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| storytelling; talk:- |
speaker; storyteller: Muriel Bloch female / French |
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| origin:- | Japan |
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| meeting programme | |
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| Click to enlarge images | |
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administrator: The Society for Storytelling |
| storytelling; talk:- |
Birmingham, England: Birmingham Central Library
19 Jun 1993 members meeting: The Inaugural Meeting of the Society for Storytel |
| gift from:- |
storyteller: Ben Haggarty |
email to The LCIS