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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 and her repertoire is full of myths legends and folktales from Ireland and around the world.
Clare was nominated for an Arts Foundation Storytelling Fellowship in 2008. Clare was also awarded a Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Award for her social work through story in 2007. This award funded an intergenerational project in Autumn 2007 based on a similar project run by Sofia Maul in Lisbon. The second project funded by this grant will work with the international refugee and asylum seeler communities in Galway to put on a storytelling show in 2009.
Clare has featured at festivals around Ireland and the world including Kilkenny Arts Festival, Vienna Lit Festival, Singapore Out of the Box Puppet Festival, Baboró Children's International Arts Festival and will be playing Shakepeare's Globe Theatre in November 2008. She is an invited teller on the Crick Crack Club website: www.crickcrackclub.com
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, Autumn 2008 as part of the new Children's Studies Programme.
Clare has done a lot of creative collaboration work over the past 3 years. She has worked extensively with Rab Swannock Fulton in local storytelling ventures and social projects. She has also worked on creating and developing shows with Tommy Baker of Your Man's Puppets (www.yourmanspuppets.com). She is currently working with singer Jwana Stevenson on a collaborative project weaving song and story together.
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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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