Being Human Festival 2024: Death's Grin: A Night of Shared Stories
Schedule
Wed Nov 13 2024 at 08:00 pm to 10:00 pm
UTC+01:00Location
Wolverhampton Art Gallery | Wolverhampton, EN
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Storytellers Daisy Black and Jason Buck dig into their repertoire of shadows to bring you light and dark stories about redemption, grief and laughter in the face of Death’s grin. With one teller’s tales setting another teller thinking, this performance weaves a rich thread of tales that, like an individual’s life, will never be told in the same way again. The audience will gain a good understanding of how people in the past conceptualised death, wove stories around it and coped with grief and loss through humour, faith and storytelling.Daisy Black is a storyteller, medievalist and English Literature lecturer at the University of Wolverhampton. Often moving, occasionally political, frequently feminist and regularly funny, Daisy’s stories underline the relevance and vibrancy of medieval narratives for today’s world. She has performed at folk, history and literature festivals, museums, heritage sites and performance venues across the UK, Europe and USA.
Jason Buck: Drawing on traditional favourites and introducing new ideas, Jason's stories are told in the oldest and best ways – as live performances, for modern audiences. He has performed across the UK and Europe, and, online, to audiences from Hong Kong to California, blending traditional and contemporary motifs, vocal sound effects and pure, unadulterated fantasy. Jason has written and illustrated seven collections of his own stories, and won prizes in storytelling competitions.
This event is suitable for all members of the public aged 12 and over. Children 16 and under must be accompanied by an adult.
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Where is it happening?
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Lichfield Street,Wolverhampton, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
