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- About Me:
- Clare Muireann Murphy lives in Galway, in the West of Ireland and tell tales all over the world to all ages. Her work as a teller and performer keeps her busy. Her repertoire is full of Irish myths legends and folktales, as well as a cache of world folklore, wisdom tales, participation tales etc.
Clare has played both the Globe Theatre and the Barbican Theatre London by invite of the Crick Crack Club. She is listed on their website www.crickcrackclub.com as a recommended teller. Her other international festival work includes Kilkenny Arts Festival, Vienna Lit Festival, Singapore Out of the Box Puppet Festival, and Baboró Children's International Arts Festival.
Clare was nominated for an Arts Foundation Storytelling Fellowship in 2008. Clare was also awarded a Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Award 2007 for her community work through story. This award funded an inter-generational project (teenagers telling with elderly) in Autumn 2007 based on a similar project run by Sofia Maul in Lisbon. It also funded the very successful International project working with asylum seekers and refugees through story.
Her work includes, but is not limited to, performance. Clare has given workshops on story to many groups including theatre groups, teachers, youth at risk, travellers, university students and so on. She is a guest lecturer at National University of Ireland at Galway, lecturing in Storytelling in Spanish and Storytelling with Children.
Clare currently works in collaboration with Tommy Baker of Your Man's Puppets, www.yourmanspuppets.com. Their show Tales from the workshop has toured Ireland and abroad.
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Love from Vienna, Birgit
I know that Ohio is loving your work!!! Have a great time here!
Jonatha Wright
Thank you for sharing your gift of Storytelling. Tonight was magical. A wonderful audience, hung on your every word. You are so easy going, beautiful spirit and presence. What a joy to watch.... Happy travels. Be safe, be free.
I must add a little PS as comment on my own message: "It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult." (Seneca)
One more hug :-)
Birgit
please forgive my late answer! I finally found the tranquillity to watch the DVD about your community storytelling initiative and the international night of tales in Galway, I also reheared your presentation of the project in Lausanne that I have recorded. I am so touched, so enthusiastic about this project! I saw beautiful, self-confident pride people on stage, big storytelling talents who shared their gifts with their colleagues and with the audience - it is simply incredible if one knows in which circumstances they live as "asylum seekers". I felt so much power and warmth and sense of community when listening to them and watching them on your DVD, it is really moving! And it is such a good show - I imagine the amount of work they all invested together with you. A big big big compliment for this work to you Clare, and your storytellers! This is really a project that should serve as a model. Now I ask myself a lot of questions, like about how much experience in storytelling and community work and how much kowledge about the different cultural backgrounds would be necessary to do a similar project. Thank you for sharing this great experience at FEST in Lausanne, Clare, and thanks for sending me the DVD! A big hug, Birgit
I communicate with Sofia Maul, she wrote an article for the tandem book I edited, soon to be published. I was delighted to hear of her new daughter, and see the joy in her words. It was through Kevin Cordi's article in Storyteller that I first saw your picture, and read about the story you and Sofia performed together.
I see below that you did some work with Lyn Ford. Isn't she wonderful! We are both Ohio storytellers, and were in the same troupe in the early '90's.
I know you are involved in many wonderful storytelling activities. I will very much enjoy keeping up with your success. Jonatha Wright
The Festival was really an amazing experience...!!! :-)
Wish you were there...
:-)
thanks fo sending me the DVD - I'm really looking forward to receive it! I share your thoughts in your last comment about FEST - I think it is really important - and I will try - to stay in contact with the other storytellers and informed about their activities although as you admit it is not always easy besides our everyday life. (Seems also that we will also have to join facebook, don't you think/fear so?) And I hope I will be able to motivy the Austrian community to work closer together, at least to found a kind of association that enables them to participate in the international FEST community. I think you are a perfect stool pigeon :-)) Thanks! By the way I hope you also like me new photo, as I just changed it. Yours are great, I love especially those with the puppets.
All the best, my dear,
Birgit
I tried the Galway film festival but no luck, I think Eddie Lenihan has been seen on screen a lot over there. It is going to be in a film festival in Coloragdo though so maybe some interest will be generated from that.
Best and thanks
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