Sep 07 2009
2010 Festival – The programme
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International storytelling Festival 2010 – Schedule
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Preview: THURSDAY, 30th SEPTEMBER
Location: Santa Maria del Popolo, Piazza del Popolo 12
21.00 “Andalusian trilogy – stories from Judaism, Christianity and Islam” Pam Faro U.S.A.
Traditional stories from these three cultural traditions which lived together, in convivencia, in medieval Spain.
(Language: English / Italian)
22.00 “I alone love you – Peter and Mary Magdalene”
They couldn’t have been more different…they liked each other not… still they had in common the most important thing of their life: their love for Jesus.
A fisherman with a common life and a family and a common harlot with a life of extraordinary distress and misery meet the same man “by chance” and he will become the central figure of their lives and change them forever.
Earthly, strong, emotional, “Soltanto io ti amo – I alone love you” speaks of spirituality via the five senses and make the audience feel the scary depth of the waves Jesus walked on and the sticking dirt of the dust that somebody washed off his feet.
Paola Balbi and Davide Bardi, artistic directors of the International Storytelling Festival of Roma and Raccontamiunastoria Storytelling Company.
(Language: Italian)
Admission valid for both shows euro 10
FRIDAY, 1st OCTOBER
Workshops
11.00-16.00 “English ballad singing” – Graham Langley and Pam Bishop (U.K.)
Storyteller Graham Langley will be familiar to some students from his workshop at ast year’s festival. Both Graham and his partner, Pam Bishop, have been singing English folksongs and ballads since the 1960’s. Their workshop will be an introduction to the singing of English traditional ballads drawing parallels with the ballad tradition of Northern Italy. They will work with four very different ballads and rintroduce elements of ballad singing style.
(Language: English / Italian)
Maximum number of partecipants: 10
Venue: hall Appia
Admission: euro 30
11.00-16.00 “Storytelling and visual arts” – Frida Morrone (Italy-France)
(Language: Italian)
Venue: hall Conferenze
Admission: euro 30
17.00-18.15 Opening ceremony with stories and contribution from various artists, both Italian and international.
(Language: Italian / English)
Venue: hall Conferenze
Free admission
18.30-19.30 “TerraMare – Sea and Land” – Antonietta Pitzorno (Italy-France)
Stories of Mediterranean women. Strong, powerful women, determined to see their dreams come true.
Come and hear the story of the Mediterranean through the stories of its women: Land of migration, exile, revenge and wars… Sea of travels, trade, piracy. Words and singing alternate, caress each other singing gives a rhythm to words when the language is speechless gives voice to singing.
(Language: Italian)
FOLLOWS
19.30-20.00 “Once Upon A Time – Stories from England” – Martin Manasse (UK)
(Language: English / Italian)
Venue: hall Conferenze
Admission: euro 5 (valid for both shows)
20.00-21.00 “Seamless experience” – Heidi Dahlsveen (Norway)
Did you hear the rumour of the butterfly? Let me tell you how the devil try to catch it. Yes, these are stories about the devil, trolls, and how they try to spin the destinies into a endless circle of bad news.
The storyteller Heidi tries to untangle the stories and deliver them to you one, by one.
(Language: English / Italian)
FOLLOWS
21.00-22.15 “Messico e nuvole / Mexico and clouds” – Giovanna Cavasola (Italy-Mexico)
Mexican stories and legends.
A story trip across time and space.
Mexico is the land of a number of great and ancient cultures. Not only pyramids and archeological survived the centuries and are still witnesses of this undeniable truth, but we also have legends and stories to speak to us of the vision these people had of universe and universal truth.
Giovanna will blend in her stories these ancient voices with the ones late come from Spain, with the conquerors, and then form Africa, with the slaves.
(Language: Italian)
Venue: Anfiteatro
Admission: euro 10 (Valid for both shows)
21.30-22.30 Opening of the Art Exhibit “Telling Arts – The fusion of arts through storytelling”
with the Young Raccontamiunastoria Company, Agitart and with the special contribution of Angela Sajeva and Frida Morrone.
(Language: Italian)
Venue: hall Nagasawa
Free admission
22.30-23.30 “Lullabies not to fall asleep with” Gothic tales and horror stories from the Italian folklore, with the Young Raccontamiunastoria Company (Alessio Soccali, Matteo Ciocci, Veruska Temporin). Come and find out the dark side of the moon of the this most sunny country.
(Language: Italian)
Venue: Mausoleo di Priscilla
Admission : euro 5
SATURDAY, 2th OCTOBER
Workshops
11.00-16.00 “Deep Imagery – Work and Play to Enrich Your Storytelling” Pam Faro (U.S.A)
Whether you are a beginning or an experienced storyteller, take your telling and performing skills to a new level with this Deep Imagery workshop. Pam will invite you to play and move and think, and to engage your imagination in ways that help you to be the best storyteller you can be.
(Language: English with Italian translation)
Venue: hall Conferenze
Admission: euro 30
11.00-13.00 “We all fall down / Tutti giù per terra” - Mariella Bertelli (Canada)
Developing a storytelling repertoire for very young children. Rhymes, tiny stories, finger games and foot patsies.
Level: For beginners/some experience
Maximum number of partecipants: 15
Location: hall Laboratori Didattici
14.00-16.00 “Raccontare con il corpo – body storytelling” – Chiara Visca (Italy)
Maximum number of partecipants: 15
Venue: sala Laboratori Didattici
Admission: euro30 for both sessions.
16.00-17.00 “I racconti del coniglio e altri animali messicani – The tales of the rabbit and
other mexican animals” – Giovanna Cavasola (Italy-Mexico)
A children show at the discovery of far away Mexico, its language and its culture through its fascinating stories.
(Language: Italian)
Venue: hall Didattici
Admission: euro 5
15.45-17.00 “Se questi sassi potessero parlare / Oh if these stone could speak” – Story walk on
the Appian Park to the discovery of its hidden places and stories
Location: Meeting Point at the Info Point Appian Park, opposite Domine Quo Vadis Church.
(Language: Italian / English)
17.00-18.00 “Lupa in Fabula” Giulia Troiano (Italy)
Alongside the scary wolf of some traditional tales, there is another wolf…a good one…a She -wolf, this time. Many ancient stories speak her : glorious Rome owes her its upbringing, and many women can swear that when they thought they were lost forever, thank to her they found again their path, they were born again. And what if the She -wolf still has something to say? What if we could meet her, listen to her? Would we be able to understand her and receive her gift?
“Tartan e Tortellini” Diana Bertoldi (Italy)
Italian stories and Scottish tunes to celebrate love at two different latitudes of Europe
Venue: Mausoleo di Annia Regilla (if you don’t join the previous story-walk , allow 30 minutes to get there for the location of the other venues)
Admission: euro 5
18.30-19.30 “Who can tell? ” – David Ambrose (Wales)
A collection of stories about prophecies and predictions, fate and fortune. The audience choose the direction of the program with the aid of the Fortune Cookie Box – who can tell what will be told?
19.45-20.45 “A Cauldron of Stories” – Michael Harvery (Wales)
A selection of stories from the Celtic countries full of humour, adventure, love and magic. The Celtic oral tradition is a rich treasury of stories with a flair for wild leaps of the imagination, an intimate connection to landscape and an earthy sense of humour.
(Language: English / Italian)
Venue: Anfiteatro
Admission: 10 euros for both shows
21.30-23.00 “Cu’ fu” – Charly Chiarelli (Canada)
Cu’Fu? (pronounced Koo Foo) translates into Who Did It? – a Sicilians response to life’s perplexing moments. Cu’Fu blends storytelling, acting and musical creativity in a way which leaves audiences spellbound. Charly’s work is also featured as hit TV specials on BRAVO and OMNI Television. Though Cu’Fu is an intensely personal story of cultural transplantation, it resonates with universal themes, making it a story for all times and all people. The scene of Charly getting his old Sicilian parents stoned on marijuana is exceptionally hilarious and profound. Charly’s work transcends tereotypes. His virtuoso harmonica playing ripples through elegantly interwoven scenes as he accompanies himself with a mosaic of original Anglo/Sicilian blues and haunting tunes from the old-country. Cu’fu is a one-person tour de force.
(Language: English, Sicilian, Italian)
Venue: hall Appia
Admission: euro 10
SUNDAY, 3th OCTOBER
Workshops
11.00-16.00 “Your Secret Storytelling Skills ” Michael Harvey (Wales)
In this workshop the group will work on the social skills of storytelling we all possess. They are an often overlooked gift and when fully appreciated and embodied promote a unique personal style, authenticity and spontaneity.
The work will be held in a constructive and supportive environment and there will be time for whole group, paired and individual work.
Maximum number of partecipants: 20
(Language: English / Italian)
Venue: hall Appia
Admission: euro 30
11.00-16.00 “Nella pelle del racconto: come indossare una storia – In the skin of the story:
how to wear your story” Giovanna Cavasola (Italy-Mexico)
(Language : Italian)
Maximum number of partecipants: 15
Venue: hall Conferenze
Admission: euro 30
15.00-16.00 “La cucina dell’amore – l’amore della cucina / The cooking of love – the love for cooking ” Frida Morone (Italy-France)
The audience will be invited at a wedding reception, going on for ten days, where food and kitchen will be the main ingredients of three sweet love stories.
“The princess of Naples disregarding her father’s advice, doesn’t want to marry. None of her suitors looks any near to the man of her dreams. When her father orders her to choose a husband, she decides she would rather create a perfect husband with her own hands.
She asks for twenty kilos of flour, twenty kilos of almond paste, ten kilos of sugar, and then garnets, sapphires, pearls and threads of gold and she starts working locked in her own room.
She passes the flour through the sieve, day after day, night after night, for six months.
She makes a mountain of flour, dig a hole in its middle and fills it with water, adds other ingredients and then starts kneading. Day after day, night after night. Andeventually she has a giant dough, and she shapes it to make her future husband…”
(Language: Italian)
Venue: Anfiteatro
16.00-17.00 Graham Langley, Pam Bishop and volunteer participants of “English ballad singing” workshop
Venue: hall Appia
Admission: euro 10 for both shows
16.00- 17.00 “Tutti giù per terra / We All Fall Down” – Mariella Bertelli (Italy-Canada)
A children interactive show, involving visual panels and rhymes, tiny tales and
fingers games both in English and Italian.
(Language: Italian / English)
Venue: hall Laboratori Didattici
Admission: euro 5
17.00-18.30 “Salotto Raccontamiunastoria – Open floor”
A great story swap, where everybody, professional teller or audience is welcome to tell a story.
A colorful party of stories from all over the world, in true spirit of sharing and giving.
Venue: Mausoleo di Priscilla
Admission: euro 5
19.00-20.00 “Fanes: La leggenda della Terra delle Montagne / Fanes – the legend of the mountain land” – Chiara Visca (storyteller), Armin Barducci (live drawing), Roberta Montisci (accordion)
“The Fanes had grown big thanks to this legacy that everybody knew about, because to know about your roots means to be wise”
Since the beginning of times legends, and creation myths are passed on by storytellers and their stories inspire visual artists. They try to bring back with their work the magic and mysterious visions of the stories.
“The legend of the kingdom of the Fanes” tells about kings and queens, heroes and heroines, witches and wizards, animals and magic creatures, legacies, spells and battles….all the traditional stuff of Northern Italy folklore..but also feelings, fears, and courage, the very own qualities of our people from the mountain.
The settings is the Dolomite region, but also the sky above them, the Kingdom of the Eagles, and of the hidden lands, the kingdom of the Whistlers.
Sounds, words, images intertwined together by the voice of Chiara Visca and the drawings of Armin Barducci, on the notes of the accordion of Roberta Montisci will take the audience to the high mountains of the Dolomites. Everyone will experience a magic and timeless trip on the haunt to the only real existing treasure: the understanding of one’s own roots.
(Language: Italian)
Venue: hall Conferenze
Admission: euro 10 for both shows
20.30-21.30 “Uncle Olaus survives the Titanic” Pam Faro (U.S.A.)
The true story of one of the survivors of the Titanic tragedy, told by his very own grand-niece (Language: English / Italian)
Venue: Anfiteatro
22.00-23.30 “Sex and the city 1200: erotic tales Boccaccio’s Decameron” – Paola Balbi, Davide Bardi, Roberta Montisci, Mariella Bertelli, Charly Chiarelli
Sexy, deliriously funny, but also sometime touching and personal, “Sex and the city 1200” is a patchwork of old erotic tales given to the audience with a contemporary and straight language.
Four storytellers and two musicians of different background and ages tell with humour, enthusiasm and poetry the timeless story of “how life goes”…and also some of their own personal thoughts about it.
(Language: Italian / English)
Venue: hall Appia
Admission: euro 10