UK Tour with Glen Hansard
Martin is delighted to be supporting Glen Hansard in his UK tour in April, covering nine venues in Edingburgh, Glasgow, Gateshead, London, Leeds, Bristol, Brighton and Liverpool. For ticket details see here.
Read MoreMartin is delighted to be supporting Glen Hansard in his UK tour in April, covering nine venues in Edingburgh, Glasgow, Gateshead, London, Leeds, Bristol, Brighton and Liverpool. For ticket details see here.
Read MoreDuring this enforced hiatus of the everyday, what, amongst all that fell away, are the threads you want to deepen into? What has value? Over the gathering, we will move between mythic and personal narratives, and the teeming creel of associations we have with that big word Storyteller. Martin will be working into Celtic stories and philosophy, to include a rare telling of the Invasion Tales of Erin and the Arrival of the Tuatha De Danann.
Read MoreThis gathering focuses around the mythic feminine and the Underworld within story, especially the story of Psyche and Eros. Supported by conversation around the story of Inanna and many fairy tales Martin has told over the years, this will be an illuminating journey for both women and men.
Read MoreA day journey into the stirring Celtic myth of Tristan and Isolde, a profoundly powerful story about the many gradations of love, grief and ecstasy. This is a time when a woman can also be a hawk that flew straight from the heart of the sun, a time when a man is enraptured by the bone white moon.
Read MoreMyth binds us to soul, place, magic and history. Since pre-history we have gathered to be divinely discombobulated by myth’s power, to gratefully consume the spiritual roughage of its images. Join master storyteller Martin Shaw for a day getting near the heart of the matter: why do we still need storytellers? What is their archaic relationship to magic? Expect to leave with at least one story to tell, and a reservoir of approaches to honour the courting of such tales.
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