Turn over a new leaf (From Free Press Series)

Turn over a new leaf

3:10pm Friday 10th October 2008

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A NEW chapter in entertainment begins next Saturday with the opening of the Stories Live in Monmouth festival at Bridges Community Centre.

Visitors are promised a great night out hearing poems and stories about the horrors and delights of childhood, and can even have a go at writing or storytelling themselves.

On Saturday, October 18 from 7pm to 9pm two of Wales’ great storytellers, writers, and poets will be performing live in Tall Tales of Growing Up. Mike Church and Francesca Kay have appeared on TV and radio, worked extensively with children and young people, and perform regularly throughout Wales.

Then on Sunday, the centre will be filled with workshops, exhibitions, tours, talks and performances. There will be a storytelling circle with Gilly Adams of BBC Capture, a tour of Drybridge House with Mrs Kay, a creative writing workshop with Paul Groves and creative types can make a zigzag format book and join in a poetry workshop with writing tutor Paul Henry.

The evening performance from 5pm to 6pm sees young people from Monmouth Comprehensive School performing poems they have created during a week’s residential with Mr Henry.

The three-day festival ends on Monday evening, at 7pm, with a performance by pupils of Overmonnow Primary who have been working with performance poet Mr Church to create their own stories inspired by Drybridge House.

The festival is funded by Monmouthshire County Council and the Arts Council of Wales, as part of Bridges’ Community Arts Programme. Workshops cost just £3 each – or £2 for concessions and £8 for a family ticket – with performances varying from £2 to £5.

Families are welcome and the bar at Bridges will be open on Saturday night.

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