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Musical Memories of Martyn Bennett | Auditorium
19:00 - 23:00
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Sat 3 Oct
Musical Memories of Martyn Bennett | Auditorium
19:00 - 23:00
Doors Open 19:00
Sole on soil, step by step, feet felting the soft wool in our shoes, take a gentle walk with Storyteller and Artist Claire Hewitt down to the River. There she will share from her exhibition ‘Song of Tatha’, a poem honouring the water of the Tay and its origins. She will carry in her basket materials to draw, map, mark, create a meandering of signs and symbols tracking mapping our sensory journey steps into the Land of Story.
Bring a sit mat, waterproof coat, wear trainers or walking boots and layers to keep warm… and a thermos of warm tea to go with a slice of Claire’s delicious journey cake.
This workshop invites participants to immerse themselves in the heart of two of the stories within Stepping Into the Mythic exhibition and draw inspiration from the images and archetypes in both tales. Inspired by the journeys of these characters Claire will help participants map their own individual connection with the soul of the story using drawing, paint, natural materials, words, song and sound. Step into the mythic and visualise your connection with the story… working from heart through to hands.
Claire Hewitt is a professional storyteller and artist living in Highland Perthshire. For forty years she has been involved in gathering and inspiring local communities’ connection to their natural environment, and to one another, through the arts. For the last 20 years this has been through the carrying stream of the oral tradition, rooted in the landscape of Perthshire. She comments:
“My own artistic practice as a Storyteller has been enriched, nourished and supported manifold by this incredibly diverse community, human and wild, which stretches itself along the River Tay.”
Her practice over the years has developed from a Fine Artist & Community Artist, training as an Art Therapist, to working as a freelance Storyteller in Scotland and overseas in Africa, Japan, Finland, France, Norway, Estonia, Eastern Europe, Dubai, and India. Claire has been involved in projects with Historic Scotland; Pamis Sensory Storytelling Resources; RSGS; Plant-life Scotland; Scottish Poetry Library and Storytelling Centre; Scottish Forestry Commission and many Community based Storytelling projects, keeping the Oral tradition a living tradition; ‘Eye to eye, mind to mind and heart to heart.’
We are offering this workshop on a Sliding Scale pricing framework (thanks to funding from Creative Scotland). Please be honest and pay what you can afford:
Tier 1 | £5 | I have no or very limited expendable income
Tier 2 | £8 | I have some expendable income
Tier 3 | £10 | I have expendable income
Tier 4 | £12 | I have ependable income and would like to support others in accessing the arts
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