Performer Name: Cath Little
Show Name: Beyond the Glass Mountain Stories of love, loss and renewal told with words and moving pictures.
Show Description
A collaboration between Storyteller and Singer Cath Little and Crankie Artist Bronia Evers Stories of love, loss and renewal told with words, song and scrolling illustrations If the living and the dead could speak, what questions would they ask of one another? How can love and our connection with the natural world help us to remember and renew the parts of ourselves that have been forgotten? Beyond the Glass Mountain weaves traditional and contemporary tales, spoken and sung, with the simple visual magic of crankie theatre.
Self contained
60 minutes get in and 60 minutes get out.
We can adapt to the space available.
We will promote on our websites and social media platforms.
We can also supply posters and flyers.
Cardiff Storyteller and Singer Cath Little has “rough magic” in her voice, and in her words “the gift of the story comes through.” She has a strong belief in the power of stories to connect us to one another, to the land, and to the people who once lived here. She tells traditional stories from her Irish English heritage and her Welsh homeland. Cath enjoys re-imagining and retelling stories from The Mabinogion.
Cath helps run the Cardiff Storytelling Circle and curate their seasonal concerts, Tales for the Turning Year. She tells and listens to stories at Oasis, a Cardiff Charity which offers a warm Welsh welcome to refugees and asylum seekers. Cath keeps busy sharing stories in schools, libraries, museums, castles, cafes and fields. She has performed at festivals across Britain and Ireland and is the author of Glamorgan Folk Tales for Children.