The festival begins at 7pm Friday 30th November. Saturday and Sunday, 1-2 December, offer a range of events in the afternoon and evening.
New! See the Friday, Saturday and Sunday programmes for details about the time and venue for each performance.
See the Gallery for images and links to particular performances.
Here is an overview of what is on for each day:
Friday, 30th November, 7pm-late
- Grand Festival Opening Ceremony
- Sarah Rundle Gawain
- Music by Heironymus
- Art exhibition Petrified in Storyland with Zoe Childerley
- Aberystwyth Storytelling Festival Fringe Presents:
- A Cabinet of Curiosities The Dancing Bear and the Doll
- Music by Mackerel Sky
Saturday 1st December, 1pm-late
- TUUP and Sheema Mukherjee The King and the Corpse
- Josian Fauzou The Breach
- Fiona Collins with Jem Hammond Tales and Tunes of Wales: The Legend of Pryderi
- Jason Wood
- Mary Jacob performs Rrose Sélavy, Come Into My (Surreal) Parlour (Games)
- New! The People’s Collection Wales
- Afternoon workshops and performances by Rachel Auckland (Can Storytellers Save the Planet?), YaRn Storytellers (Earth Stories) and others, open mic
- Films, performances, storytellings and installations in The Box,
including Site/Memory Mapping by Rebecca Woodford Smith and Mikyoung Jun Pearce, and many more - Music by Brian Swaddling, Coppins & Musgrave, New! Côr Gobaith Heironymus, Kate Binningsley, and Quercus Burlesque
Sunday 2 December, 1pm-late
- Michael Harvey Stories from the Black Mountain
- New! Christine Cooper Old Welsh Stories and Songs
- Cath Little The Lady of the Fountain
- Your Man’s Puppets The Brothers Stachamoose
- Louise Zlotnicki Merrymakers Children’s Stories
- Milly Jackdaw and Victoria Robinson The Nightingale
- Young Storytellers of Wales with Fiona Collins and Bronwen Hughes
- Afternoon workshops and stories for children, with Jason Wood (Learning to Tell Stories to Tell), and more
- Films, performances, storytellings and installations in The Box
- New! Celtic music by Ceri Owen-Jones and Elsa Davies, Christine Cooper, Hieronymus, and Stepping Stones
- Evening dance workshop followed by Fest Noz Breton Dance with live music by Kantref
Storytellers will be roaming the Arts Centre all weekend telling tales wherever there is an audience.
An exhibition of film, live performance and visual storytelling will be taking place in The Box at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre.
An exhibition of Zoe Childerley‘s photographs, Petrified in Storyland, will be in Oriel 2 at the Aberystwyth Arts Centre.
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