2012 Festival

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

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.