Stamps ? What kind of stamps?
15/08/2012
14/08/2012
About our storytelling
Today is the last day in Edinbourgh, but the Spark Storytelling continues in London.
From September, in three different venues, each a bit different format.
True personal and carefully crafted stories told live - around a chosen theme each time.
Here is the review of our Edinburgh performance (I was the one from Hungary - and no, it was not about a dog, I never had one. My stories were about War and my doll. For Home. Father's tale helping me thirty years later, for Family. Desire to hold hands, for Desire (and some other desires). Last year stand-up adventures in Culture Shock told with humour.
And here is the Article of how she has perceived us.
From September, in three different venues, each a bit different format.
True personal and carefully crafted stories told live - around a chosen theme each time.
Here is the review of our Edinburgh performance (I was the one from Hungary - and no, it was not about a dog, I never had one. My stories were about War and my doll. For Home. Father's tale helping me thirty years later, for Family. Desire to hold hands, for Desire (and some other desires). Last year stand-up adventures in Culture Shock told with humour.
And here is the Article of how she has perceived us.
Telling Tales
Broadway Baby Rating: ****
If
everyone has a story to tell, one that’s worth listening to, then why
is it that the only stories that shift copies off shelves and set
Twitter alight are the births, marriages and deaths of the rich and the
famous? As part of Grant’s True Tales, Spark London have come to
Edinburgh to question a celebrity obsessed era that only wants to hear
one type of tale and to deliver an important alternative: a tight and
beautifully told ten minute story written and performed by the person
it’s about.
It’s a flawless story
telling format that took this very reviewer from her seat at Riddles
Court to every corner of the globe in just under an hour, transported by
voices from every age and every background. I began in post war
Hungary, travelled through a Countdown obsessed Britain, en route
Cardiff’s Taff River, before crash landing on a Caribbean island.
The
stories were funny, elegant, and articulate and each one threw a light
on a life previously unknown. You might enjoy one more than another,
speaking for myself stories regarding childhood pets are usually lost on
me, but they’re all worth a listen.
Each
tale is delivered like a carefully gift wrapped package which has
dropped unexpectedly onto your doormat. The stories are carefully
crafted but not contrived for the sake of performance and because each
one is so personal, the performer cares about how it reaches you.
Riddles
Court provides an enchanting setting for the course of the evening. A
story telling mood is set from the moment you walk into the tree lined
courtyard, a short story suspended from each leaf and written by the
pens placed in front of you.
Yes,
the storytelling is interactive but in an utterly charming and
inoffensive way. Depending on the theme of each evening - mine was
family - you will be asked to impart just a few lines based on your own
colourful personal history. A few good ones are selected to read out in
an interlude between the performers who have already mastered the art.
Each of these few short lines proved to be performance worthy and
persuaded people to believe that, in the space of their own memory, a
treasure chest full of “ordinary” stories are waiting to be cracked
open.
If you fancy dusting off
any stories yourself, Spark are holding a 24 hour Storyathon and
workshops to support the shakier storyteller before they perform.
Spark London should not just be stumbled on; they should be booked in advance and seats should be taken with anticipation.
Reviewer:
Kirsty Allen
Kirsty Allen has written 12 reviews for Broadway Baby since joining the team in 2012.
09/08/2012
Edinburgh Fringe from 4 to 9 Storytelling
I will be in Edinburgh from 3 to 10, telling from 4th another 10 minutes
6 different true stories each afternoon.
6 different true stories each afternoon.
Riddle’s Court is an A listed building located close to Edinburgh Castle. Dating from the late 16th century, it is one of the finest surviving merchant’s houses on the Royal Mile. The Scottish Historic Buildings Trust moved its offices into Riddle’s Court in 2011 to help secure the building’s future, involving a major project to repair, conserve and enhance Riddle’s Court to create the Patrick Geddes Centre for Learning and Conservation.
Text supplied by venue or third party.
The themes of the afternoon change every day
Saturday August 4 , Family
Sunday 5 th, Home
Monday 6th, Unexpected
Tuesday 7th, Desire
Wednesday 8th, Culture choc
And, for me, that day also : standup comedy with Funny's Funny to finish in Edinburgh.
The show will continue now, with others, different wonderful storytellers.
Comment on it already::
Hey! Anyone going up to Edinburgh this is a show to come along to. I'll be telling a story on the 4th but the whole run of shows is filled with fantastic storytellers such as Radcliffe Royds, Emily Lewsen, Julie Kertesz, Joanna Yates and Tony Hickson! D.P
The Independent.published also an article about this event.
07/08/2012
Press on our storytelling - day one.
Grant's True Tales Presents Spark London Storytelling
Telling Tales in BroadwayBaby.com
Venue Number 16. Riddle's Court,
322 Lawnmarket,Edinburgh, EH1
2PG. 4-14 August 17:30 (1 hour 30
minutes).
If everyone has a story to tell, one
that’s worth listening to, then why is
it that the only stories that shift
copies off shelves and set Twitter
alight are the births, marriages and
deaths of the rich and the famous?
As part of Grant’s True Tales, Spark
London have come to Edinburgh to
question a celebrity obsessed era
that only wants to hear one type of
tale and to deliver an important
alternative: a tight and beautifully
told ten minute story written and
performed by the person it’s about.
It’s a flawless story telling format
that took this very reviewer from her
seat at Riddles Court to every corner
of the globe in just under an hour,
transported by voices fro every age
and every background. I began in
post war Hungary, travelled through a
Countdown obsessed Britain, en
route Cardiff’s Taff River, before
crash landing on a Caribbean island.
The stories were funny, elegant, and
articulate and each one threw a light
on a life previously unknown. You
might enjoy one more than another,
speaking for myself stories regarding
childhood pets are usually lost on
me, but they’re all worth a listen.
Each tale is delivered like a carefully
gift wrapped package which has
dropped unexpectedly onto your
doormat. The stories are carefully
crafted but not contrived for the sake
of performance and because each one is so personal, the performer
cares about how it reaches you.
Riddles Court provides an enchanting
setting for the course of the evening.
A story telling mood is set from the
moment you walk into the tree lined
courtyard, a short story suspended
from each leaf and written by the
pens placed in front of you.
Yes, the storytelling is interactive but
in an utterly charming and inoffensive
way. Depending on the theme of
each evening - mine was family - you
will be asked to impart just a few
lines based on your own colourful
personal history. A few good ones
are selected to read out in an
interlude between the performers
who have already mastered the art.
Each of these few short lines proved
to be performance worthy and
persuaded people to believe that, in
the space of their own memory, a
treasure chest full of “ordinary”
stories are waiting to be cracked
open.
If you fancy dusting off any stories
yourself, Spark are holding a 24 hour
Storyathon and workshops to support
the shakier storyteller before they
perform.
Spark London should not just be
stumbled on; they should be booked
in advance and seats should be
taken with anticipation.
[Kirsty Allen]
05/08/2012
04/08/2012
Going, going, gone!
going from where we sleep to the Riddles Court venue, for the spark grant's whiskey storytelling event.Picture is not by me even if I have taken a very similar today.
I am ready!
Even if I could barely come out from the shower in the student's room. I decided, it is time to loose weight indeed.
02/08/2012
Use slides - a photo speaks (or lies)
Well, not all the bridge was as quiet as this part of it...
But it still demonstrates, because I could take it, there is less people in centre London then usual, during the games, not more. Projected, or even a photo in hand, it will convince even more what you are saying. If that is what you want to prove. Before the games, last night just before opening, there very many on the bridge.
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