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/

Storytelling with Michael Harvey

Storytelling Conversation with Sharon Blackie

Cyfweliad ffraeth a threiddgar gyda&apos;r storïwraig Tamar Eluned Williams www.tamarelunedwilliams.com  Mae hi&apos;n sôn am ei thaith o&apos;r theatr i&apos;r chwedl a dod nôl i Gymru a&apos;r deunydd oedd wedi bod yn rhan ohoni eirioed - y Mabinogi.Siaradon ni am rym y chwedlau arnon ni fel rhai sydd yn eu hadrodd a&apos;r effaith ar y gynulleiddfa; natur &apos;carpiog&apos; naratif y Mabinogi fel adlewyrchiad teg a deinamic y byd sydd ohoni; grym cymdeithasol chwedleua fel arf diwylliannol sydd yn gallu gwneud ei hunan yn anweladwy ac wedyn camu ar lwyfan fawr a llawer mwy.

Dydd Mercher y Mabinogi gyda Tamar Williams

A story from Reverb. A father-son collaboration between Michael Harvey, storyteller and author, and bass player Fred Harvey-Love.This was a commission from the Festival at the Edge, a storytelling festival based in Shropshire in 2010 and includes stories from an international repertoire based around the theme Boys and Men.In this concluding story we return to the beginning to find out what happens at the end of Duncan Williamson's story 'The Thorn in the Kings Foot'.

Reverb 5 - Healing

Reverb 4 - The Three Brothers' Story

A story from Reverb. A father-son collaboration between Michael Harvey, storyteller and author, and bass player Fred Harvey-Love.This was a commission from the Festival at the Edge, a storytelling festival based in Shropshire in 2010 and includes stories from an international repertoire based around the theme Boys and Men.This story was adapted from a story in Michael Meade&apos;s collection &apos;Men and the Water of Life&apos;

Reverb 2 - The Hunter's Story

The seven survivors return to Wales. While they have been away another king has come and seized the throne. The survivors drift into a dreamworld where time stands still. The spell is broken, they return to reality and tell the story.

Branwen 6 - Seven survivors, enchantment and two burials.

The Hall of Peace is opened and the Irish and Welsh assemble for a feast. Efnisien starts a fight that turns into an all out battle in which nearly everyone is killed. Bendigeidfran and the survivors return home to Wales.

Branwen 5 - Treachery, Fire and War.

Bendigeidfran leads his army over the sea to Ireland to save his sister, Branwen. A truce is declared and a huge feasting hall built that even Bendigeidfran, the giant king, can enter.

Branwen 4 - A leader must make himself into a bridge.

Efnisien's actions catch up with Branwen. She goes from queen to mistreated servant. She enlists the help of a starling and calls her brother, the giant Bendigeidfran, to her aid.

Branwen 3 - Branwen and the Starling

The giant king Bendigeidfran sees ships coming from Ireland. It's Matholwch, the king of Ireland who has an interesting proposal to unite the two families and countries. A feast on Anglesey is arranged but Efnsien, Bendigeidfran's half-brother, is not invited and he takes a bloody and cruel revenge for this insult. This causes problems between the two kings which are solved by Bendigeidfran (the king of the Island of Britain) giving Matholwch (the king of Ireland) a magical cauldron from the Otherworld, the Cauldron of Rebirth.Matholwch recognises the cauldron and tells the story of how he first came across it and his encounter with two giants and their terrifying children.Once the cauldron is given there is peace between the two kings and their countries and Branwen sets sail with her new husband, becomes High Queen of Ireland and has a baby boy, who she calls Gwern, after the alder tree.

Branwen 2 - Efnisien's Revenge and Branwen's wedding

The landscape of Wales and the parts of the country where the story takes place and an introduction to the main characters of the story.

Branwen 1 - Introduction

Angharad Wynne is a storyteller based in South Wales. She has a particular love for the stories of the Mabinogion and has a clear and deep connection with both the landscape of the stories and the characters in them. She has made a particular study of Rhiannon from the first and third branches.She is an important figure in the contemporary cultural landscape of Wales and has played a major role in projects and institutions including the Wales Millennium Centre and Beyond the Border International Storytelling Centre and musicians including Catrin Finch and 9 Bach.She organises a range of myth and walking events including landscape expeditions that  explore the history, archaeology, myths and 'dreaming' of the land. She also runs  retreats and workshops including Return to Centre, In the Footsteps of the Ancestors and Dreaming the Land held at Cae Mabon in the  foothills of Snowdonia in May each year.     Storytelling and running workshops take her far and wide, from Wales,  to Festivals in Portugal and as far afield as India this year. She  combines her deep knowledge of the ancient mythology and spiritual  traditions of Wales with insights drawn from wisdom and healing tales  from indigenous cultures across the world.In this far ranging conversation we talked about…The Mabinogion as a stratified piece of landscape   Our shared humanity with the characters of the MabinogionArchetypal nature of the characters and their godlike natureMabinogion characters as types of real people and inspiration as role modelsOtherworldly space co-present with the ‘real’ worldAnnwfn and Nwyfre - Otherworld and cosmic energy. Land

Mabinogi Monday #10 with Angharad Wynne

A few minutes of informal conversation between Michael and Tamar about the importance of the Mabinogi and the business of being a storyteller.Mutual support network for storytellersSelf-sufficiency vs communityThe dislocation between social media and what storytelling actually isThe importance of rootedness and connectedness that storytelling offers

Mabinogi #9 EXTRA with Tamar Williams

We still had a few moments left before Katy had to go and prepare for her performance and I took the opportunity so show her the images of the figure on top of Carn Ingli. I had the photographs with me on my laptop and they provoked some fascinating observations. Recording in a car gives really good sound quality until a delivery lorry parks beside you. Sorry about the revving and beeping!Here’s what we talked about in the EXTRA session...Showing Katy photographs of Carn Ingli and the pregnant giantess on its summit.The multivalent nature of imagination and stories in landscape.Getting lost and the strange relationship of strangeness and familiarity in landscape.The Otherworld - again!

Mabinogi #8 EXTRA with Katy Cawkwell

Croeso i bodlediadau sy'n ymdrin â byd y chwedl a chreadigrwydd. The nitty-gritty of storytellingpresented by award-winning, international storyteller Michael Harvey. I'm starting with some interviews with my storytelling colleagues who also tell stories from the Welsh epic cycle of stories the Mabinogi. Most of these are in English and there will also be some in Welsh.Y mae podlediadau Cymraeg wedi eu recordio gyda chyfranwyr sy hefyd wedi cael eu cyfweld yn Saesneg ond noder bod nid fersiynau Cymraeg o'r cyfweliadau Saesneg mohonynt ond eitemau gwahanol.storytelling site https://www.michaelharvey.org/book site https://michael-a-harvey.com/

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Storytelling with Michael Harvey

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