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Girl who Married the Moon, The
Sound recording, story; an Alutiiq or Eskimo creation myth, how and why, or aetiological story, told by Gayle Ross, as part of the programme Inuit Throat Singers and Gayle Ross, in the Main Tent at the Beyond the Border Festival, St Donats Art Centre, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales, 6th July 1996.
Story told by Gayle Ross. Two cousins, fall in love the moon. The moon comes to earth and agrees to marry one of the women. They demand that he marries them both. He agrees, but warns that the journy to his land is long and requires great patience. On the way one of the cousins disobeys his instructions to keep her eyes shut, she opens her eyes, and falls back to earth. The other cousin goes to the house of the moon and they are married. The moon forbids her to look in one room of the house. When the girl gets bored and lonely she begins to explore her new land and then the forbidden room. She finds the masks of the moon. Unable to resist it, she sets the mask of the full moon on her face, once it is on, she cannot remove it. The moon returns and finds her. He agrees to share his work with her and since then the waxing moon has been the man in the moon and the waning moon has been the women in the moon.
audience:-	adult
recording quality
condition:-	good
completeness:-	complete
duration:-	0 hours, 11 minutes, 2 seconds
Performing in programme Inuit Throat Singers and Gayle Ross were Gayle Ross, Nellie Echalook and Mary Iqualluk. Belgium ethnomusicologist Etienne Bours was also present on stage.
Beyond the Border Festival was founded in 1993 by Ben Haggarty, Artistic Director of the Crick Crack Club, and David Ambrose, the then Director of St Donats Arts Centre, Wales. The Festival was founded as The Beyond the Border International Festival of Storytelling and Epic Singing, but became known simply as Beyond the Border. The festival ran from 1993 to 2006 co-directed by the two founders: with Ben Haggarty programming storytellers and David Ambrose programming musicians. Since 2007 the festival has been directed by David Ambrose. The festival is a weekend event running on the first weekend of July annually; attracting around 2,500 people from across Britain and from overseas. The festival is sited at St Donats Arts Centre and in the grounds of St Donats Castle in the Vale of Glamorgan on the South Coast of Wales. Beyond the Border was initiated as part of the UK Year of Literature in 1995. The successful bid submitted by Academi Wales, prominently featured a storytelling festival. The original Director of the UK Year of Literature was Maura Dooley, who had been at the South Bank Centre in London when Ben Haggarty ran the Third International Storytelling Festival there in 1989. Maura Dooley supported the proposal brought to her by Ben Haggarty and David Ambrose to hold an International festival and series of summer schools at St Donats Castle and to begin Beyond the Border in 1993 in order to build an audience and a core of Wales-based artists for the Year of Literature in 1995. However before the plan could be implemented Maura Dooley resigned from her post (the position was later taken by Sean Dorran). Despite this, St Donats Arts Centre was committed to the festival and Beyond the Border was launched in July 1993. The 1993, 1994 and 1995 festivals were accompanied by summer schools, which produced a number of storytellers including Megan Lloyd, Francis Maxey, Richard Berry and Michael Harvey.
storytelling:-	storyteller: Gayle Ross female / American, North / First Nation American / Cherokee
origin:-	Alutiiq Eskimo
	Image of the performance showing Gayle Ross, Nellie Echalook and Mary Iqualluk
	Festival programme
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associated:-	translator: Etienne Bours
associated:-	throat singer; singer: Mary Iqualluk
associated:-	throat singer; singer: Nellie Echalook
programming:-	Festival Co-Director: Ben Haggarty Festival Co-Director: David Ambrose
administration:-	administrator: St Donats Arts Centre
storytelling:-	St Donats, Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan, Wales: St Donats Art Centre: Main Tent 06 Jul 1996 festival: Beyond the Border Festival Inuit Throat Singers and Gayle Ross
gift from:-	St Donats Arts Centre

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