Writers of Wales Event Booking Details

DAVID AMBROSE

20 Ewenny Road, Wick, Vale of Glamorgan, CF71 7QA
Tel/Fax: (01656) 890289
Mobile: 07724 117278
Email: da@davidambrose.co.uk  

SUBJECTS OFFERED:
1. Traditional stories, legends and myths from Wales and the world, including:

Tales From Wales
A set of stories firmly rooted in the land of Wales – folk tales, fairy stories, fragments of Arthurian myth – giving audiences a glimpse of the Celtic folk imagination.

Off The Page
Stories drawn from the great storybook collections, including Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Perrault’s Mother Goose, Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, The Arabian Nights. Suitable for Book Clubs, National Book Week, etc.

Ghosts, Witches and Ghouls
From the mists of Celtic Britain to Russia’s distant Steppes, tales of witches and fairies, ghouls and ghosts suitable for the Hallowe’en season. Plus a couple of Ghost Lover songs from the British ballad tradition…

The Place of Sunrise
A programme of traditional stories of hope and courage from The Middle East, originally commissioned by the National Museum of Wales as part of Festival of Muslim Cultures 2006, and interwoven with details of a personal journey overland from Wales to Nazareth undertaken with storyteller Megan Lloyd in 2007

Who Can Tell?
A collection of stories about prophecies and predictions, fate and fortune, created for the 2006 Cardiff University ‘Future Matters’ International Conference. The audience determine the programme with the aid of the Fortune Cookie Box. Who can tell what will be told……?

2. Schools creative writing workshops using imagery in traditional tales

AGE RANGE:
All ages including senior citizens

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS:
Vegetarian


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