18:00 – 19:00 Justas Mazeika // Dying to Live

19:15 – 20:15 Rosanna Lowe // Treeplay: Tongues in Trees (bring a torch with you)

 

Thursday 16^th September

17:30 – 18:30 Georgie Steele // Pig V. Wolf

18:45 – 19:45 Annie  Sheppard // Truth Will Out

20:00 – 21:00 Bernadette Heheberger // The Listening Hand

In this storytelling performance I invite you to journey inwards and discover the inner world of shadows and light, sound and silence, storm and peace. As these polarities dance, we witness a creation of worlds that emerge from emptiness as waves in the Ocean, and disappear again back to where it all began.

Having been born, we inevitably have to experience dying, and we die in many different ways throughout our lifetime and beyond. So let us gather around the eternal fire of our hearts and listen to the stories of our ancestors, and let us see what treasures can we find there for ourselves and for our loved ones. 

Shakespeare (As You Like It)

Often the word for world was forest, but most of our forests are ghost forests now.

But can Ghost Forests spring back to life, if we help to nurture those seeds? Trees are our great protectors, but how do we protest and protect them? Drawing on life stories, contemporary eco-activism, the Welsh poem The Battle of the Trees and Norse and Mayan World Tree myths, Tongues In Trees is a promenade story and song sharing through the

trees of Emerson College, a listening to the tales told by, about and for our most beloved trees. 

Is the relationship between trees and humans our sweetest love story or our most important fight against climate change? In these urgent times, how can we listen to the Wild Wise Woods and slow down to grow like trees?

 

I am also a carer for my two sons, who have Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy. 
Two days after they were diagnosed, I told a story in public for the first time. It was the tale of ‘The Three Little Pigs’. Ever since then, our family story and the story of the Pigs have been intertwined.

And I want to know:

How do you rebuild your life when the Big Bad Wolf has blown it down?

How do you find your voice as a character you never thought you’d play?

And in real life, can there be a happy ever after?

‘Pig v. Wolf’ is a heartfelt and ridiculous tale, told from the frontline of family disability.

I invite you to join me around the fire where I will share stories about my recent journey to the volcanic island of La Gomera.