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The Shaming of Agnes Leaman
March 12, 2010 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm – Norfolk, UK
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Dave Tonge - The Yarnsmith at Norfolk, UK
March 12, 2010 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm
The Shaming of Agnes Leaman-Fact meets Fiction at The King of Hearts
On the 10th of September 1561 Agnes Leaman was processed through the streets of Norwich, before being ducked in the river Wensum by Fyebridge, just yards from a Tudor house; now...
- Medieval Comic Tales at Colchester castle on February 15, 2010 at 6pm to February 19, 2010 at 7pm
- Medieval Comic Tales at the British Museum on January 16, 2010 all day
Dave Tonge - The Yarnsmith at Norfolk, UK
March 12, 2010 from 7:30pm to 9:30pm
The Shaming of Agnes Leaman-Fact meets Fiction at The King of Hearts
On the 10th of September 1561 Agnes Leaman was processed through the streets of Norwich, before being ducked in the river Wensum by Fyebridge, just yards from a Tudor house; now...
Hello Dianne
I would love to be on your list even though in truth I'm not much of a twitterer or facebooker! MY website is... http://www.theyarnsmithofnorwich.com/
Best regards, Dave
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- About Me:
- With few qualifications I went from job to job: most offered money but little else. I was still left with the nagging feeling that I could have done so much more. Eventually with the support of my partner and sons I went back to college, and attained an ACCESS qualification, a B.A, M.A and the first year of a PhD; all in various aspects of English History. I also began working for the Norfolk Museum Service as a guide and freelance educator and it was here that I met many interesting people and co founded an alternative history tour business; Tangle & Hump, Pedlars of the Past. It was also where I had my first meeting with a real live story teller; Stewart Alexander! Over time he introduced me to telling and we founded Past Imagined, Historical Tale Tellers. It was at this point I ran away from my PhD to become a full time itinerant teller of tales! That was six years ago and although we still work together, the majority of my work now is as the Yarnsmith of Norwich. Telling at castles, monastic sites, historic houses, museums, festivals, fayres and schools all over England.
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- http://theyarnsmithofnorwich.com
Dave Tonge, 'The Yarnsmith ''s Blog
Story blog updated
I have just added an adaptation of one of Aesop's fables on my story blog. It's one I always include in my halloween story sessions. Just go to http://talesfromtheyarnsmith.blogspot.com/2009/11/of-knight-and-widow.html
I hope you enjoy it!
Dave the Yarnsmith
I hope you enjoy it!
Dave the Yarnsmith
Posted on November 9, 2009 at 3:59pm —
My dairy updated
As some of you will know, I have been keeping a diary on another blog site telling of the places I have told at this year. The idea being that I have a written record for myself,family and friends. I visit some wonderful sites, but am often too busy to really look around and the blog was supposed to force me into making time for each place. Although in truth I have been very busy telling and created a bit of a rod for my own back, writing blogs when I should be going through new stories! For tha… Continue
Posted on September 16, 2009 at 2:28pm —
A riddle from Sherwood Forest or anywhere else for that matter!
Like many storytellers I like to add a riddle or two to my sessions to add a bit of interest. They are particularly good when waiting for a crowd to arrive. I often use them to set up a particular tale and as a means for an audience to 'earn a story. If they get the riddle righ… Continue
Posted on July 17, 2009 at 11:30am —
Not all stories are for children!
A ribald French fabliaux awaits you on my story blog. Just click HERE.....
Posted on June 16, 2009 at 9:35am —
The Diary of an Itinerant Storyteller
This year I am keeping a diary/blog of all the venues I'm telling at this year. Its called...
The Diary of an Itinerant Storyteller
Its just been updated with trips to the British Museum, a Medieval fayre, a Castle and an Elizabethan Manor House. Fell free to check it out...
Dave the Yarnsmith
The Diary of an Itinerant Storyteller
Its just been updated with trips to the British Museum, a Medieval fayre, a Castle and an Elizabethan Manor House. Fell free to check it out...
Dave the Yarnsmith
Posted on May 19, 2009 at 8:49am —
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- At 11:30am on November 3, 2009,
Debs Newbold said…
- Hi Dave,
Yes I am proud to say that I am a Morris dancer. I belong to a side called Sharp Morris and we dance out of Cecil Sharp House in Camden. We caper very high and love a good stick dance. We've been "dancing out" ie dancing for the public since April, and we do mostly Cotswold Morris. Our teacher is a bit like a mild mannered English Yoda (without the ears). I love it. I'm off to practise tonight in fact, and would be glad to lead you into the dance. The question is, how? What would you like to know? Which dances to start with, which traditions are which? Of course the best thing would be to meet with a fiddle player and I will teach you a jig. Then we could have a pint of cider! But since we are too geographically challenged for that, let me know how I can help and I would be glad to earn a story off you! x
- At 4:03pm on November 2, 2009,
Debs Newbold said…
- How'd your Apple-gig go then, Dave? Mine was a riot! Although I had only the time to drink one pint of cider myself. I wrote an original tale for the evening concert in the end...but couldn't resist the giant apple/onion story for the kids in the afternoon. Ha!
- At 11:59am on September 17, 2009,
Debs Newbold said…
- Thanks Dave! I really enjoyed that - it's a great tale. With your permission, I'll certainly be a-telling that one! Cheers! It'll be interesting to see if it works just as well with an apple; a really big onion is just such an inherently funny image, I think. Lets give it a go and compare notes. And do let me know if you are still short of material for Ely; I am still hunting round for stuff at the Vaughn Williams Library so if I find anything more I can pass it on to you. In the meantime, here's a big groaner: Why didn't the two worms baord Noah's Ark in an apple? 'cos you were only allowed on in pairs!
Oh dear........
Thanks again, kind Sir. Debs x
- At 11:02am on September 17, 2009,
Debs Newbold said…
- A really, really big onion? How can a gal pass up the chance to hear a tale like that! Tell me more of your onion-lore. I am sat at my kitchen table writing an original tale about cider apples, such is the dearth of apple related tales in my world. I have had a bit of fun researching the cider making process - so many great words; pommage, must, scratting! If you're looking for other apple-related bits though, there is always the legends around William Tell and Johnny Appleseed. There's The Apple of Discord, a nice Greek myth - ooh, and not forgetting that Hercules' 11th Labour was to scrump some apples from the goddess Hera's apple tree (in the Garden of the Hesperides). There is also this joke: How do you make an apple puff? Chase it 'round the garden! (I will groan for you there!).....Looking forward to getting to the CORE of the onion story! Ha! Is it a MANY LAYERED tale? (OK, OK I will stop now, sorry).
- At 7:19am on September 17, 2009,
Debs Newbold said…
- Hello Dave,
Hope all's well. Apple season is upon us and I am already busy scrumping and cooking up cobblers! I am preparaing a short set for adults around apples. I have to tickle the wassailing bones of the audience in the middle of a folk concert. I was thinking cider might be a good topic for this audience. I wondered if you had any cider-y nuggets yourself? Or, if not then tell me..what's ypour favourite cider?
- At 11:25am on June 17, 2009,
Abigail Ifatola Jefferson said… - Thank you. I look forward to meeting lotsaaa new folks. Talk to you soon...
- At 9:14am on May 6, 2009,
Debs Newbold said…
- Hiya Dave,
Ooh, yes, I love a good growl, me. I think that photo was me giving the dragon a bit of a go. The audience were better at it than me, though! Hope all is well with you. I am doing a Story Walk for families on Hampstead Heath this weekend, and was just strolling there today when I found the Saxon Ditch said to date from the time of Ethelred the Unready (986 onwards, I think). It's got me looking for a last minute tale I can try and squeeze in when we pass the ditch on the walk. I certainly don't need to find one, as I've got enough material, but I would really like to tell a wee something that links to the Saxons, the ditch, or old Ethelred. I thought you might be the man to ask, so if you think of owt......Happy May-ing!
- At 7:04am on April 24, 2009,
Carolyn Stearns said… - I see you are in Merry Olde England. Your venues sound wonderful. I too am intrigued by the historical tale but mostly 18 th and 19 th century. I sometimes wander back further than that. I slipped into this career late and sorry to have missed so much but was set at farming until such bad allergies have driven me from the dairy farm. I still do the horses here at home and limit my exposure but cow dander is off limits and since we milk 300 there is no avoiding it except not to go at all. When the cows are lose in the road I go and any emergency. I absolutley love storytelling though it is perfect career for me and I am having so much fun!
- At 3:52pm on April 21, 2009,
Kat Quatermass said… - Hi Dave
Hope you'll go and visit the museum now you know of it!
Is Dez and Ali's museum, I just help them out a bit (and have no other website of my own for now)
I assume you aren't related to the storyteller Sally Tonge then!
- At 2:04pm on April 21, 2009,
Bill Dawson said… - A very fine website you have Dave and if you work words as well as you work wood then I look forward to seeing you some time.
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