Storytelling with Michael Harvey Michael Harvey

Phil Okwedy is currently on tour with the production company Adverse Camber with his new show The Gods Are All Here. I say 'new' but this show is a lock-down baby that was a couple of years in creation. I worked with Phil on the show and this is the story about how it grew from a glint in his eye to a funded touring production.

This is another fascinating insight into the moment that someone knows that an uncomfortable shift into a creative lifestyle cannot be put off any longer.

A great storytelling discussion with Jane Flood, who was one of the first people I met on my storytelling journey.

We talk about landscape and mythology and how they can be dynamic and recognisable parts of our lives and how they can implicate and surprise us in our own daily lives.

We discuss how Jane got into storytelling and how a recognition of the potency and reality of storytelling enriches our own experience and informs how we live our lives.

Jane and I will be running Story-Land -Ritual on October 1st in Somerset. You can get more information here  It's  a one-day, in-person, experiential course to reconnect us with stories and each other. 

Letting go is another important theme and we talk about how stepping back can be a dynamic force in our creative development and how, by stepping back consciously,  we can create a safe and dynamic place for the less experienced to develop and flourish.

Award-winning, international storyteller and director Michael Harvey is in conversation with Indian-born, UAE resident, multi-disciplinary artist Shereen Saif.

Shereen and Michael have been collaborating over lockdown on a Shereen's new project 'A Woman's Mind' based on the story of Ahalya from the Ramayana. In September they will work together in Dubai to put the final touches to the production and including live Indian music.

A Woman's Mind is sponsored by the Abu Dhabi Cultural Foundation

Sharon Blackie is a writer and teacher who is on a mission to reconnect us to our mythical past and the landscape around us with academic rigour, openness, imagination and humour.

This  conversation ranges wide and includes an exploration of the Peredur/Perceval story from the Welsh and French Arthurian cannon, a good look at the Cailleach - the wild, wise and scary old woman of Irish mythology, as well as how we can use these stories and our landscapes to reconnect to each other, our creativity and our time on the planet.

Learn more about Sharon's writing, teaching and podcasts here https://sharonblackie.net/

Trafodaeth gyda'r storïwr a'r cerddor Guto Dafis. Siaradon ni am y ffordd mae Guto wedi trin chwedl Manawydan o Drydedd Gainc y Mabinogi a sut mae'n  defnyddio y Gymraeg a'r Saesneg ochr yn ochr wrth adrodd, wedi ysbrydoli gan ei fagwraeth dwyieithog.