These stories were meant to be heard.
Over the weekend of the 13th to the 15th March 2015, Aberystwyth Arts Centre will host an unedited bi-lingual day-long illustrated telling of the four branches of Y Mabinogi. The stories will be told by Welsh/Welsh based storytellers Cath Little, Christine Cooper, Dafydd Davies Hughes, Fiona Collins, Guto Dafis and Michael Harvey. There will be a specially commissioned exhibition of visual art featuring Ceredigion based illustrators, and Maria Hayes will be drawing live and projecting her drawings during the telling, so creating a second exhibition. The project will include a talk by Sioned Davies, discussions, papers, informal tales, a twmpath, cake from the cafe, and will be curated by Peter Stevenson.
http://ymabinogi.moonfruit.com
Friday 13 March
11am – 4pm: Symposium
Glendon S. Farquhar: 'Dating the Four Branches'; Nely Elys van Seventer: 'Efnisien and the Nordic Tradition'; Rowan Zhao: 'The Function of Time Indicators in the Four Branches of the Mabinogi';
Kit Kapphahn and Kate Leach: 'Exile and Agency for the Women of the Four Branches'; Jackie Burek: 'Narrative and Memory in the Four Branches'; Rhun Emlyn: 'The Historical Background to the Mabinogi'; Michael Harvey: title tbc; Sioned Davies: title tbc; Huw Owen: title tbc
Cinema Sinema
11.00 Rhun Emlyn: 'The Historical Background to the Mabinogi-
11.20 Glendon S. Farquhar: 'Dating the Four Branches-
11.40 Rowan Zhao: 'Classifying the Four Branches of the Mabinogi; a discussion of genre-
12.00 Michael Harvey; 'Performing Y Mabinogi – a storyteller's perspective-
12.30 Lunch
13.30 Sioned Davies; 'Translating the Mabinogi; some challenges-
14.00 Kit Kapphahn and Kate Leach: 'Exile and Agency for the Women of the Four Branches-
14.20 Jackie Burek: 'Narrative and Memory in the Four Branches-
14.40 Tea Te
15.00 Jeremy Turner; 'Page to Stage; Dragging traditional material back to life-
15.20 Nely van Seventer; 'Efnisien and the Nordic Tradition.'
15.40 Fiona Collins; 'The Storytellers standing behind us as we speak...'
5.00pm Film Ffilm; Otherworld, 2002. Cinema Sinema.
7.45pm Sharron Kraus a Harriet Earis; Friends and Enemies; Lovers and Strangers: Songs
Inspired by the Mabinogi. Performance Studio Stiwdio Perfformiad;
Sadwrn Saturday 15 March Mawrth
Y Mabinogi. Performance Studio Stiwdio Perfformiad
11.00am 1 Pwll Pendefig Dyfed, gyda Michael Harvey, Guto Dafis a Dafydd Davies Hughes
1.30pm 2 Branwen ferch Llyr, with Cath Little, Christine Cooper and Fiona Collins
4.00pm 3 Manawydan fab Llyr, gyda Michael Harvey, Guto Dafis a Dafydd Davies Hughes
6.30pm 4 Math fab Mathonwy, with Cath Little, Christine Cooper and Fiona Collins
With live drawing by Maria Hayes, Peter Stevenson, Sarah Byfield
8.30pm Dance Twmpath gyda'r Grassie Busville Band.
Sul Sunday 15 March Mawrth
12 midday Sioned Davies; 'Word, Image, Ideology; The Victorian Mabinogion.' Performance Studio Stiwdio Perfformiad.
1.00pm Chwedlau Stories , Jez Danks, storytellers and artists, Cafe Caffi Exhibition
2.00pm The Eagle and the Owl, Tryptych Theatre. Performance Studio Stiwdio Perfformiad;
3.00pm Maybe informal stories and chat in the Cafe with cake? We shall see. Hywl fawr.
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