2009 .................................................................................
performances, workshops and courses
Click for more information
Workshop - Celebrating our Difference - UK
Workshop - What's there to laugh about? - UK
Course - Fit for a Feast - France
Course - The True Vine - Crete
............................................................................................................
UK - Dorset, England, Gaunts House: 10 – 12 July - WORKSHOP - Celebrating our Difference
Join me with friends and storytellers Sue Hollingsworth and Geoff Mead for a joyful celebration of the dynamic potential of masculine and feminine, female and male, yin and yang. Working with traditional and biographical stories, we will explore, uphold and celebrate our wonderful difference. No previous experience of storytelling is necessary.
This event follows a similar very successful workshop run in June 2008. It is for men and women as individuals or as couples. The group will be limited to a maximum of 15.
Cost: £250 per person including accommodation, workshop and all meals
“We laughed a lot, cried a little and shared some wonderful tales. As well as an inspired way of exploring and celebrating our differences, the weekend was a never-to-be-forgotten introduction to the joy and power of storytelling” (Participant 2008 Workshop)
To book and for further details, email Geoff Mead at hermesconsulting@aol.com
............................................................................................................
UK - Sussex, England, Emerson College: 19 - 24 July - WORKSHOP - What's there to laugh about? Finding an inner smile for dark times
With David Confino and Ashley Ramsden
Playful and serious, engaging and contagious push-ups for anyone feeling the crunch.
Your two facilitators will invite you into games and stories which will release the champagne of your inner laughter. We will find the dynamics of humour through improvisation, making up stories, scenes and characters, finding your confidence and ability gently within the group whilst taking risks, letting yourself go and allowing your imagination to run riot. A week of releasing your comic creativity in this open, stimulating and thoroughly enjoyable course.
For details and bookings www.emerson.org.uk or call +44 (0) 1342 822238
............................................................................................................
France: 15 - 21 August - COURSE - Fit for a Feast: Storytelling and Food in France
What makes for a good feast? What are we really hungry for? What is it we really share? Around the table we have told stories for thousands of years. Often at these times intimate things are uttered that could not have been spoken elsewhere. The gathering of food, it’s preparation, consumption, digestion and the washing of dishes all feed into the substance of story and storytelling as well as being a metaphor for the storytelling process itself. This is a course for beginning or experienced storytellers with an appetite for stories and soul food and the desire to develop a taste for how to prepare, cook and garnish a story fit for a feast.
Our week will be spent in the heart of rural France at the large and inviting home and garden of Andrew and Bernie Carnegie. Bernie, who you may remember as a wonderful cook at Emerson College, will be preparing a sumptuous feast for us every evening including home grown veggies where we will bless, toast and eat delicious food as well as tell stories. Needless to say, this course is not suitable for anyone on a special diet (vegetarians are catered for) or anyone desperately trying to lose weight!
Cost: £525 per person for accommodation in shared rooms in the main house (max 8 people) OR £475 per person for accommodation in 4 bed superior tents in the grounds (max 8 people). It also includes all meals, tuition, airport transfers and mid week trip but does not include flights to Limoges via Ryan Air if needed.
Course limited to 16 participants, so book early!
Course Leaders: Ashley Ramsden and Sue Hollingsworth
Contact:
Emerson College
Forest Row
East Sussex
RH18 5JX
England
Telephone and fax
Telephone: +44 (0)1342 822238
Fax: +44 (0)1342 826055
............................................................................................................
Crete: The True Vine: an exploration of Christ and Dionysos - COURSE. Friday 28 August - Saturday 5 September
Dionysos brought wine to mankind; Christ said wine was his blood. Two divine beings for whom the vine is a powerful sacred symbol. Are there other similarities in their stories? What powerful energies do these divine beings personify? How do Christ and Dionysos live in us as a principle and a source of inspiration?
This will be a week to explore, through storytelling, the stories, myths and legends that surround these two iconic figures.
The beautiful Valley of Amari in Crete, rich in Byzantine churches and ancient temples, will inform our work. Surrounded by caves, gorges and other sacred sites, we will harvest and tread grapes, make wine, dance, sing and tell stories as people have done here for thousands of years. The goddess Demeter will also be present in the baking and breaking of bread, nurturing us in our work together and in the joyful sharing of delicious Cretan cuisine.
Course Leaders: Ashley Ramsden and Stella Kassimati
Cost per person, excl. travel - €530 per person
includes: tuition, accommodation, meals
To book, please follow the link to www.friends-of-amari.org
back to top
............................................................................................................