Storytelling swordplay: a study group for developing storytellers

Storytelling swordplay: a study group for developing storytellers

The study group is a ringside experience in wielding the swift blade of story to sharpen your own instincts as a storyteller. Join Simon and fellow scholars as he works his way live through a tale. It’ll be like Twitch for students of oral storytelling. Throw in...
A better kind of strength

A better kind of strength

  I am setting out again to write a letter to you about a moment in a story. What we should really call an incident. I’m trying to write as myself, not leaking into styles such as Henry Miller’s, Laurence Ferlinghetti or Milan Kundera. Nor the way everyone talks...
Dreamtime / Myths of wisdom and deep imagination

Dreamtime / Myths of wisdom and deep imagination

— It was our world, but turned over. Like it was turned over with a spade — Traveller folk tale The Dreamtime sits behind and largely creates the world we experience each day. By getting in touch with it, and learning of it through story, we can discover...
Dreamtime / Myths of wisdom and deep imagination

Dreamtime / Myths of wisdom and deep imagination

— It was our world, but turned over. Like it was turned over with a spade — Traveller folk tale The Dreamtime sits behind and largely creates the world we experience each day. By getting in touch with it, and learning of it through story, we can discover...
Becoming Mythic

Becoming Mythic

In oral nature-connected cultures, myth used to be an indispensable part of daily life serving as a way to remind us of our identity, to make meaning of our surroundings, and to pass on vital knowledge. This weekend invites you to listen deeply to myth and land so can...