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TITLE: Taffy Thomas: Storytelling ‘Tales In Trust (NORTH)’DATE: Fri 2nd Aug - Sun 4th Aug 2024 (3 days)
PRICE: £295 (deposit to secure place £150)
LED BY: Taffy Thomas with Mossy Christian
VENUE: Stones Barn CA6 6PW
PARTICIPANTS: Maximum 22
***£150 IS THE DEPOSIT PAYMENT ONLY. This will secure your place on the course. We will ask you to pay the balance some weeks before the course start date***
THE COURSE LEADER(s):
Taffy Thomas, MBE, is England’s first storyteller laureate and patron of The Society for Storytelling. Taffy received The English Folk Dance and Song Society Gold Badge award in December 2010. With Taffy’s head bursting with stories, riddles and folklore, professional storyteller Giles Abbot once commented, “when Taffy goes it will be like a library burning down.”
Mossy Christian: Award winning professional musician, singer, and dancer, specialising in the musical traditions of Lincolnshire and Yorkshire. Drawing on a rich repertoire of traditional dance tunes and folk songs, charting the lives of everyday people, in their work and recreation, from the 1700s to the present day, his shows are a treat not to be missed. As a respected researcher, Mossy has presented and published multiple papers including: ‘The Midwinter Traditions of Lincolnshire’, ‘The Musical Pennock Family of Goathland’, and the folk-song collectors Frank & Ethel Kidson.
COURSE CONTENT: The weekend will be packed with workshops, performances, presentations and story rounds. Bring your stories to share, your instruments if you play, and most importantly, your ears. In previous years, at Halsway Manor, where the workshop has previously taken place, session titles have included: ‘From Field and Furrow’, ‘Weaving Straw and Spinning Yarns’, ‘A Banquet of tastes, tunes and tales’, ‘Hobbs, Bogards and Brownies: Fairy Magic and Mischeif'.
England’s first storyteller laureate Taffy Thomas MBE will be coming to Stones Barn for the first time with Mossy, for a weekend of workshops, performances and presentations to delight all who wish to tell a tale or just relax and listen. Storytellers stand on the shoulders of those who’ve gone before: teachers, tradesmen & women, travelling people, parents and grandparents. These ghosts have given us tales to tell and urge us forward.
Mossy Christian “Come listen to my tale” - Examine the history of broadside ballads, and what modern storytellers can learn from the stories and songs they contained. From the late sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries, broadsides were prevalent as affordable and readily available sources of entertainment. This crude form of street literature employed subjects as varied as ancient legends, public executions, and the loss of RMS Titanic.
WHO IS IT FOR: Tellers of all levels of experience, and those who just want to listen; after all, as Taffy rightly says, “if speaking were more important than listening, we’d have two tongues and one ear.”
“I am new to storytelling. I am now interested in taking up the art, and have already made contact with a storytelling group.” 2016 Halsway Participant
“As ever it was BRILLIANT!!! Part of my annual storytelling calendar.” 2021 Halsway participant
FOR MORE INFORMATION:
https://forgottenlands.org/
VENUE INFO:
https://stonesbarn.co.uk/course-timetables
https://stonesbarn.co.uk/stay-onsite (important info)
https://stonesbarn.co.uk/stay-nearby (some suggestions)
[email protected] 01697748424
LOCATION
Stones Barn, Cumbria, CA6 6PW
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Stones Barn, Roweltown,Carlisle, Cumbria, United Kingdom
