News - December 2011
Voices of the Stones - Multi-Media Project
Voices of the Stones is an exciting multi-media project that I am starting in January 2012 on behalf of The Sleeping Giant Foundation. The project will involve creating a narrative for our ancient standing stones through video, photography, animation and storytelling.
We will be running workshops throughout Jan-March with renowned storyteller Owen Staton, award winning artist and animator Dave Marchant and myself. The workshops will culminate in the development of a narrative for five of the stones in our area and the filming and production of a DVD over the following summer.
These stones have watched over the valley for thousands of years, what stories they can tell. I invite you to find them and enjoy telling them.
The first session is on Saturday 14th January 2012 from 10am-3pm in the Classroom at Craig y Nos Country Park. I am also working with two local schools in the weekdays, but am looking for a group of people (any age!) to create your own stories and these workshops will be run at the weekends. Bring a stills camera with you, or your mobile with a camera and I look forward to seeing you there.
Kaleidoscope Abercraf
We're into the filming of for this documentary and there have been some very powerful interviews. Filming will continue in Jan-Feb of 2012, then I will be editing during the spring.
Once again I have had such support from the local community for this project and people have given freely of their time for interviews and coming forward with archive images.
Tales from the New Inn - Storytelling CD
Owen Staton has just released his first storytelling CD and can be bought from his website at www.owenstaton.com.
It contains an hour of great storytelling centred around the strange happenings at the New Inn in Ystradgynlais from 1810-1812. I've done the artwork for it and do a brief bit of storytelling myself on the last story which was great fun.
