Tales from the City of Shadows and Magic: a weekend of storytelling with Shonaleigh
At Neuadd Goffa Mynydd Llandygai, LL57 4LQ
Join a Tellers, Tales, Tradition weekend near Bangor, North Wales – or connect up from wherever you are via Zoom.
You are invited to a unique, immersive weekend of storytelling for adults with Shonaleigh, the world-renowned tradition bearer and storyteller.
This is a rare chance to hear these ancient tales in the light and on the tongue, stories untold for two generations and barely spoken of for decades.
The City of Shadows and Magic appears as part of ‘The Song of Lilith’ and it is huge: it contains twenty-seven doors, each with a different story behind them. This weekend is a chance to go through as many of those doors as we can.
We will find out about Lilith’s early life, her engagement with Babylon and the rest of society at that time. We will also hear tales of the other women, men and children that inhabit The City of Shadows and Magic.
If you have heard ‘Song of Lilith’ before this weekend will give you a much deeper understanding of that story cycle; if you haven’t heard it before this series of stories related to Lilith will make sense on their own.
Shonaleigh is a Druts’yla, and carries on a living unbroken oral tradition passed down from grandmother to granddaughter. She knows around 4,000 tales that she can recall on request, using the lost art of ‘stories within stories’.
The ‘Song of Lilith’ belongs to the Cycle of Hillel, which is itself the first of twelve epic, latticed, interlinked cycles of stories passed down through generations of Jewish women.
This telling will be recorded as part of the Last Drut’syla Project to create an archive of this tradition’s stories. This is an unmissable opportunity for anyone interested in stories or in oral and lost cultures to come and help document and archive this tradition through listening, requesting stories, and asking questions.
Suitable for adults and 14+ only.
This will be a hybrid event: either attend in-person in Mynydd Llandygai (we will supply lunches, teas and snacks) or virtually via Zoom.
Book at www.anadlu.com