Story-Telling Events, Hull and East Yorkshire.

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The Simon Heywood Weekend.

Friday 6th / Saturday 7th March, 2020
Simon Heywood has worked for twenty years to international acclaim as a writer, storyteller, musician, and workshop leader. He holds a PhD on contemporary storytelling and has taught folklore, storytelling and creative writing at a number of universities.

His work has been recorded and broadcast nationally.

He is the author of The Legend of Vortigem (History Press, 2012).

He shared an award for Outstanding Collaboration at the 2012 British Awards for Storytelling Excellence, for commissioned work on the Epic of Gilgamesh with Tim Ralphs.

• Friday evening: 6th March, come and be entertained
• Saturday morning, 7th March, come and sharpen your story telling skills

Friday March 6th, 2020

STRANGE MAJESTY

... they rode there, helmed
With a strange majesty that the heathen horde
Remembered after all were overwhelmed ...

The famous tales of Arthur are only one small part of a long cycle of legends of the kings of ancient Britain: tales of heroes and villains, courage and cowardice, glory and crime, and triumph, tragedy and treason, stretching down generations, coming to a head in a final war between the Britons and the seaborne Saxon invaders.

Award-winning writer and storyteller Simon Heywood combines music, song and storytelling to bring new life to a forgotten treasure-trove of tales; remembering the strange majesty of the kings of Albion, from Brutus to Belin, Locrin to Lear, Arthur, Merlin and Voitigem.

Strange Majesty is performed by Simon Heywood, and is a companion piece to his book The Legend of Vortigem, published in 2013 by the History Press as part of their Ancient Legends Retold series. [ Webmaster's Alert ]

• Friday 6th March
• 19:30 for 20:00
• At BEEHIVE JAZZ AND ARTS CAFE
• 73 Newland Avenue, HU5 2AL
• Tickets £7 or pay what you can
• Booking essential, by e-mail hullstorytellers@gmail.com

Saturday March 7th, 2020

TRICKS OF THE TRADE

Simon Heywood's Workshop: Dodging the Dross

• Basics of Oral Story Telling and Style
• Storytelling research - how to find the good ones
• Writing and telling stories short and long

• Saturday March 7th
• 10:00 until 13:00
• At St. Vincent's Social Club, 32 Queen's Road HU5 2QP
• Car Park on Elm Street, just around the corner
• Tickets £20
• Booking essential, by e-mail hullstorytellers@gmail.com