13th Folktales Festival
Greece, Kea 17-26 July 2015
Enchanted Island – Savonlinna
ENCHANTED ISLAND – LUMOTTU SAARI Puppetry Festival Sulosaari Island, Savonlinna 4.-5.7.2015 61°52’33″N 28°53’34″E
PROGRAM
PERRINE FERRAFIAT “Pulcinella -Tanssiva kutale” “The Great And Amazing Story Of Pulcinella” Ikäsuositus +12
SATU KIVISTÖ “Satu meni saunaan”
MIRA TAUSSI “Kätketyt hahmot”
MIKKO BREDENBERG “Kaislat vartioivat minua”
ANNA USCHANOV “Aidantakainen atlas”
Tarinankertoja MARKUS LUUKKONEN “Mun nimi ei ole Matti” Ikäsuositus +13
PITKÄT KORVAT -TYÖRYHMÄ “Poika, jolla oli pitkät korvat”
Con Trane
Lisäksi festivaalialueella: Karmalan Marionetit ulkoilevat!
@ Mezrab, Amsterdam
Three storytellers from widely different storytelling backgrounds come together to entertain and delight you in our humble storytelling space.
All the way from Finland travels Markus Luukkonen with his Finnish stories. Our Amsterdam Brit Simon Hodges tells tells us the tall tales of Finn McCall And Mezrab’s own Irano-Dutch Sahand Sahebdivani tells stories of… of…. Dol-phins? Shark-fins? Fin-ishing last?
Come and find out!
Doors open at 19.00, stories start at 20.00 (don’t be late)
Mezrab, Veemkade 576, 1019 BL Amsterdam, Netherlands
Free entry – donations welcome!
@ Milgi, Cardiff
A special international night of high-class storytelling and live music at MILGI!
Featuring:Martin Maudsley & Fiona Barrow (UK) Markus Luukkonen (Finland)
Callie Hill & Nathan Brinklow (Mohawk Nation, Canada)
Milgi, 213 City Road, Cardiff, Wales
From 8pm (arrive early to grab a good seat!) FREE entry (donations in the hat)
Hosted by Guto Dafis & David Ambrose
Check out their links below:
www.martinmaudsley.co.uk/
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOVWopVcw90
www.markusluukkonen.wordpress.com/
www.raisingthewords.com/nathan-thanyehtnhas-brinklow/
3Troubadours
Last week we were in a base camp in Gent (Belgium) and created the trio 3Troubadours. The trio and it’s perfromance “Mobile Dreams” will tour in Scandinavia from the 5th to 22th of August. The multilingual storytelling perfromance for adults combines folk tales, myths and personal stories with a pinch of magic, humour, poetry and song. (Languages: English, Finnish, Norwegian, Dutch and Finglish)
3Troubadours is a collaboration between the performance storytellers Markus Luukkonen (FI), Tom van Outryve (BE) and Torgrim Mellum Stene (NO). https://www.facebook.com/3Troubadours
Personal webpages: http://www.kloverknekten.no/en (Torgrim) http://www.tomvout.be (Tom) http://tarinoidenmaailma.fi (Markus)
From the Woods @ Hague
DISC is proud to introduce a storytelling show by Markus Luukkonen from Finland.
From the Woods
~Myths and folk tales from Finland with family legends~
Tuesday, May 26th Oude Molstraat 37, 2513 BA The Hague
Finland is a country of ten thousand lakes and an endless forests. It’s a country of Epic Kalevala and a land of heroe’s like Väinämöinen, Matti and Kullervo. Markus will bring stories from the Finnish woods to DISC!! The set of stories includes dreaming, more dreaming and some facts about reality.
“I looked at the endless ocean and I realised that I’m totally in a wrong place! I realised that the image of me and my soul is more like a forest and a small swamp lake”
AND there will be a special opening performance by the participants of our Beginner’s Course who will graduate in the very same day!!
DISC opens @18:30
The show starts @ 19:00
Entrance: €10,- (in cash please)
more detail from:http://bit.ly/1blbaZA
DISC – Dutch International Storytelling Centre
Living Room Stories @ Gent
Sat May 9th – Gent, Belgium
Three storytellers, Torgrim Mellum Stene (NO), Markus Lukkonnen (FI) and Tom van Outryve (BE) are doing a showcase of their recently developed performance in a living room in Ekkergemplein in Ghent, Belgium. This is the pilot for the show they will be doing a tour with in Scandinavia in August this year.
Weird and Wild @ London
Greetings Yellow Door Storytellers!
Come and find out what’s waiting for you behind the Yellow Door…
May 24th, Doors 6pm, Showtime 7-10pm
Behind the Yellow Door
232 Kingsland Road, E2 8AX London
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an intimate Sunday Storytelling experience in the cosy surrounds of Manero’s Private Members Club. Join us for a cheeky cocktail and a tale or two!
this month we are joined by …a firm favourite of the storytelling scene Abbie Palache
+ fantastic tale telling talent from the Continent (Finland to be precise) Markus Luukkonen
+ gorgeous tunes from beautiful musician and all round good egg (or vegan alternative) – Kid Called Sorrow
Sit and listen, or tell a story with an… Open Door story telling spot! 6 mins Fairy and folk tales, true life and love, crass and comic, verses and vocal – we welcome every fable and yarn – and if it fits our theme then even better! This month it’s…Weird and Wild!! To be guaranteed a spot, message us via Yellow Door Storytellers or email yellowdoorstorytellers@gmail.com
..we’ll be staying up late with a whiskey or two… see you there Storytellers!
Bedtime Stories @ Brighton
Bedtime Stories for Adults 18th May at 7:30pm Healthy planet, North Street, Brighton, UK
When was the last time you heard a really good story?Join us for tales of myth, magic and wonder stricly for grown ups!
Storytellers: Alexandra Schunemann, Arthur Dyer, Abbie Palache and Markus Luukkonen
Tea, coffee and hot chocolate by donation
£4 tickets on the door
May 8th @ Gent
De zere knie valt
May 8th at 8pm
In de Wolk, Warandestraat 13D 9000 Gent, Belgium
The Flemish storytellers of the narrator group The Sore Knee will challenge themselves in an evening of improvisation and music together with two foreign guest storytellers, Torgrim Mellum Stene from Norway and Markus Lukkonen from Finland.
Markus Luukkonen 