The Light Balances

Kama Roberts

The Gather In Collective invite you back to celebrate a belated Mabon.

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This brings us back to where we started in the Celtic Calendar, which the Gather In Collective have been following with their popular series of storytelling events. As the wheel of the world turns, coming together like this has rooted us, in a year that has felt so unrooted. Join us and gather in again as we complete the cycle. This is Mabon, the tipping point of the year, the start of the inevitable sigh as the sap of trees returns back to their roots deep in the earth, changing the green of summer to the fire of autumn, to the flaming reds, oranges and golds. This is a time of harvest, of rejoicing the fruits of our labor; a time to give thanks to the waning sun and give thanks to each other. Towards the end of the evening, we throw the floor open to you and welcome you to share a short story or song of your choosing. Please get in touch with shona.cowie@gmail.com if you would like to have slot.The Gather In Collective is an exciting collaboration of three women storytellers from Ireland, Scotland, and Wales and enriched with a wider web of supporting collaborators. A wonderful connection that has been born out of the Global pandemic.&quot;It&#x27;s things like these that actually make me think there is something good about the pandemic as well...the event felt so intimate even though from afar&quot;- Audience feedback.

The Gather In Collective will be joined by Special Guest Lisa Schneidau, who is a storyteller and environmentalist based on Dartmoor. She seeks out, and shares, traditional stories about the land and our complex relationship with it. Lisa is the author of Woodland Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland (History Press, 2020) and Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland (History Press, 2018). She tells stories at events, nature reserves, arts centres and schools, including performance storytelling, training and storytelling development within education, as well as helping to run South Devon Storytellers and Dartmoor Storytellers. Lisa trained as an ecologist and has worked in British nature conservation for over twenty years, in roles as diverse as farm advisor, lobbyist and conservation director.
 Find more information about Lisa’s storytelling performances, projects and writing at www.lisaschneidau.co.uk
…Lisa captivates her audience, and makes you ponder whether the land always has a tale to be told and a voice to be heard… Beaford Arts on Tangle of the Commons
 ….a book of folk tales tailor-made for 21st century environmentalists…. Jini Reddy, Resurgence &amp; Ecologist, reviewing ‘Botanical Folk Tales of Britain and Ireland’

Shona 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 trained as an actor at the Royal Welsh College and Music and Drama and has since worked as an actor, director and workshop facilitator and most recently a storyteller. She has a particular focus on collecting, re-developing and telling stories from her native Radnorshire. She is 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 'Emergency Turtle' which combines music, song, Shadow Puppetry and storytelling. Please follow @KamaRoseRoberts on FB for details of upcoming events.
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“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 storyteller

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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