Nick Hennessey: Dreaming the Great Bear

Name: Nick Hennessey: Dreaming the Great Bear
Start: 2025-11-15T19:30:00+00:00
Location: Child Okeford Village Hall, DT11 8EX

Schedule

Sat, 15 Nov, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Child Okeford Village Hall, DT11 8EX | Blandford Forum, EN

Here in the Finnish far north the light is just a little too bright and the dark a little too blinding, the rivers flow fast and deep and it’s all too easy to get lost in the forest. Internationally acclaimed storyteller and musician Nick Hennessey forges a world into being. With electric harp, vocal looping and acoustic wizardry, he conjures a cosmos of the imagination. Expect a remarkable, elemental epic and a world of sound as we enter the wild, playful, and surreal territories of the Finnish myth, the Kalevala.
An internationally acclaimed storyteller, playwright, folk singer, song writer and musician, Nick Hennessey has been storytelling around the world for over 20 years, performing at venues such as the South Bank Centre and Royal Albert Hall. Nick has also broadcast documentaries for BBC Radio 4 and had musical work featured on BBC Radio 3’s Late Junction.
“Finely honed and earthy vocals, candid lyricism and vivid ballads” BBC Radio 2
Suitable 12+
Running time: 70mins no interval
Touring Dorset with Artsreach, the county’s rural arts charity