Spring Awakening-  Stories and songs from three Celtic homelands.

Kama Roberts

Stories and songs to celebrate the arrival of spring,  the Goddess (and Saint) Brigid and the feminine life, death, life cycle.

Storytellers Maria Gillen, Shona Cowie and Kama Roberts return with stories and songs from their Celtic Homelands.This is the third event by the trio, in a series which celebrates the Celtic calendar of festivities through stories and traditions, old and new, from Ireland, Scotland and Wales. This time the theme will be nature and nurture.St Brigid&#x27;s day in Ireland is an important event and so this time Maria Gillen will be the host and will bring with her a surprise special guest.Many thanks to Kerry Writers Museum and CARAD in Rhayader for supporting this event.At the end of the event we open the floor to our audiences to share a story or a song. If you would like to be included please get in touch: kamaroberts2@gmail.com&quot;Thank you soooo much for another magical eve of stories :) :) :)&quot;&quot;Another wonderful evening of stories . Thank you all. So many great stories told with such great skill. You bring the stories to life ladies, thank you.&quot;&quot;Truly wonderful nourishing evening&quot;&quot;Wonderful evening, enthralling stories - thank you&quot;&quot;Thank you for the best evening In ages Wonderful story telling&quot;&quot; Beautiful stories Kama, Shona, Maria and Anna. Thank you so much for bringing so many people together from the North of Scotland to the Isle of Wight! I have had the most magical evening xx&quot;-Feedback from the Winter Solstice Event.ART WORK by James Jones-MorrisShona Cowie (Scotland)- Shona is a storyteller and facilitator whose background in Applied Theatre and training with L’Ecole Jaques Lecoq has supported a broad international career with diverse audiences. Shona founded story-education company Fosforo in Sao Paulo Brazil and travelled with her collective Senza across Europe and Tunisia to research and platform stories of Mediterranean migration. Since 2018 she has been working with European leaders in Applied Storytelling, The Village Storytelling Centre, with whom she became one of Glasgow’s 23 artists in the city’s Creative Communities Residency programme. Recently her work with young people was recognized as exceptional in an award granted by the Scottish Civic Trust. In 2019 Shona began a two year residency with The Simon Community Scotland, an organisation which supports people with experience of homelessness. She is dedicated to bringing front and centre, those who have been pushed aside in our stories.Kama Roberts (Wales). Kama trained as an actor at the Royal Welsh College and Music and Drama and has since worked as an actor, director and workshop facilitator. She started telling stories just over three years ago. During this time she has been collecting stories from her native Radnorshire, and re developing them for performance. She has since told at festivals and private events and has been regularly commissioned to tell stories from the local area by local organisations- often telling outdoors within the landscape that her stories have come from. She also tells stories with a new company &#x27;Emergency Turtle&#x27; which combines music, song, Shadow Puppetry and storytelling; the company was working towards it&#x27;s first proper tour when Covid struck.“Kama Roberts brings all the skills of her drama training and theatre experience into her storytelling and combines it with wit and rigour to make the stories of her native Radnorshire burst into life”- Michael Harvey, master storytellerMedicinal Storyteller – Maria Gillen (Ireland). During the Covid Lockdown Maria has hosted ZOOM storytelling sessions with global input for Storytellers of Ireland on St. Patrick’s Day and World Storytelling Day. She was Bean an Tí for the Mermaid of Ireland Bealtaine Festival. She has also been running popular Medicinal Story Circles online in New Zealand and Ireland.Maria works through the medium of Drama and Story Telling and has designed and delivered workshops on Building Resilience, Exploring Difficult Community Issues and Team Building in several environments. In 2018 and 2019 Maria featured as an emerging storyteller in the annual Cape Clear Storytelling festival. In 2018 and 2019 she won the The Mick McCarthy All Ireland Storytelling competition in Finugue with her own original tales harvested from her work with the six part story and collecting local wisdoms through story. She was a featured teller at the annual Listowel Writers Week in 2017. In 2017 she won the Butter Road Storytelling competition in Blarney with an original story about the Butter Roads.

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