Festive Season Wrap Up: 18 December 2014

INVITATION

Please join us for a drink, a show and/or a meal, meet your committee and celebrate the end of a remarkable year.

We have new members, who we have not had the opportunity to get to know and old members that we have not seen for months.

And we take great pride welcoming newcomers.

WHERE: THE DOCK LIBRARY THEATRETTE HERE

WHEN: Thursday 18 December

DRINKS AND NIBBLES:  5.00pm  We will have some beautiful organic wines for you to taste from Captains Creek (Hepburn). Checkout their website HERE

followed by …

SHOW: 6.00pm As the River Tells It. With Storyteller and resident oddity, Roslyn Quin.

A free event. This is the final performance of the Words on the Wind series.

No need to book (More details HERE)

(Words on the Wind is a series of free storytelling shows at the new Library at the Dock, that has been running from July through to December 2014.)

DINNER: 8.00pm We a have booked a table at Pok Pok, 801 - 803 Bourke Street Docklands HERE (If you can’t find us, text or phone Jackie: 0412 2100 98)

JOINING THE COMMITTEE

We are now planning our 2015 events, workshops and social gatherings. If you are a member and would like to join the committee we would welcome you. We meet monthly by teleconference and we are also exploring metropolitan and regional gatherings. Enquiries: storytellingvic@live.com.au

pic: Atticus Barkly Thompson is a Story Dog and a dear friend. He doesn't tell stories, he listens. You can read about his work and the work of his colleagues HERE. I just thought his smiling face would brighten your day! 

Jackie K (Blog editor)

WORDS ON THE WIND: As the River Tells It. ROSLYN QUIN 18 December 2014

As the River Tells It, is the final performance of the Words on the Wind series.

Storyteller and resident oddity, Roslyn Quin takes the audience on a trip around the new myths of the Docklands.

In the shadowy mirrors of her stories, immigrant's tales transform in to soulful spirits, colourful characters feel a little too familiar, and a old monster gets a new breath of life. As the River Tells It, is an immersive, original storytelling performance of transformation, inspired by the myth and history of the Docklands. Roslyn brings her haunting tales to the stage with music, puppetry and movement, to draw the audience into a world of familiar strangeness and to wonder at the waters around.

When:   Thursday 18 December, 

               Theatre Doors open 5.30pm for 6pm start

Where:  The Library at The Dock HERE

Words on the Wind is a series of free storytelling shows at the new Library at the Dock, running from July through to December 2014.

 ENQUIRIES CONTACT: 

Anne E Stewart on 0408 550 945 or email anne@anneestewart.com.au

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WORKSHOP

Beyond Rhyme Time: Storytelling for Adolescents to Adults with Clare Coburn

THURSDAY 4 December FREE

There are still a few places. 

BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL as we would like to offer you afternoon tea!

Details HERE

           

NEW WORLD DREAMING with Andrew McKenna and Peter Fernon 2014

When family history becomes a gripping tale.

A new work, developed by Peter and Andrew created for Storytelling Australia Vic's project  Words on the Wind, was premiered at The Library at the Dock on the 20th November. The fifth in a series of six, New World Dreaming is the second collaborative piece, the first being Teena Hartnett and Jackie Kerin’s The Ways of Winged One and Women.

In the 1850s Andrew’s Irish great, great grandparents fled the blighted potato fields of Donegal and reached Melbourne, via India in rebellion. They arrived in Melbourne in summer, to a welcome of bushfires, wild dogs and news of the Great Melbourne Telescope gazing at the heavens.

Peter’s in-laws left Calabria in the 1950s, where the war had destroyed the established order in their village. Women did men’s work and men, especially the ones who had been prisoners of war, had glimpsed other ways of life. When the old order began to reassert itself those who expected more of life had to look elsewhere. 

These stories are compassionate and moving. Immaculately researched and eloquently told. The idea of people having to move away from their land, language and culture to create a new life away from all that was once loved and familiar resounds powerfully for those trying to reconcile their good fortune with the displacement of others.

Genealogists - you would especially love this show.

To learn more about our next show with storyteller Roslyn Quin on December 18 or to enquire about Andrew McKenna and Peter Fernon,  check out the Storytelling Australia Victoria website.

Words on the Winds shows are FREE and made possible by Melbourne City Council grants and the Library at the Dock.