Myths on the horizon!

 Myths on the horizon

 

from ancient places to Victorian follies,
our stories might grow anywhere

legends might grow
from the smallest flower....

Through July and August 2014, Derbyshire Myths and Legends (DML) workshops will surface like sea serpents in libraries across the county. Linking the wider ideas and objectives of this year's Summer Reading Challenge's Mythical Maze* theme (and we'll talk more about this in a blog or two) with our own county, DML sessions will invite participants to hear stories from Derbyshire, invent their own stories (the myths no-one has ever heard before) and find creative ways of telling those stories

We have three artists who will be working on the project:

• Debi Hedderwick is a dance artist with a keen interest in animating stories through dance and theatre
• Maria Whatton is an award-winning storyteller with a love of myths, folk tales and legends which she brings to life through performance 
• Gordon MacLellan (Creeping Toad) is a storyteller, artist and puppeteer with a keen interest in the environment

...or wait for us in
the reflections of a still pool

Individual artists will lead workshops in different libraries and there will be 4 days of grand spectacle and extra-fabulous workshops where all three artists will work together with visitors to create mazes of myths and labyrinths of legends….more details will follow

Rather than swamp everything with all the workshops at once, we'll publish dates and venues of workshops in three stages.

Workshops

• are free
• are aimed at 8 - 12 year olds and spaces are limited so places need booking.
• will either be morning or afternoon: there will be another workshop in a nearby library in the other half of the day

Contact your local library to book a place and to check times: find details for your local library through the county library service

Hawthorn trees gather legends
like honeybees

Library	Date	Artist
Alfreton	9/8/14	Maria
Ashbourne	30/7/14	All the artists!
Belper Bolsover	23/8/14 6/8/14	Maria Debi
Borrowash	6/8/14	Maria
Brimington	11/8/14	Gordon
Chapel-	19/8/14	Gordon
Chesterfield	1/9/14	All the artists!
Clay Cross	18/8/14	Maria
Clowne	28/8/14	Gordon
Creswell	28/8/14	Gordon
Dronfield	9/8/14	Gordon
Duffield	23/8/14	Maria
Eckington	2/8/14	Gordon
Gamesley	18/8/14	Gordon

stories of our landscape have been told for many years

Highlighted dates are two of our all day excitements! plunge into a maze of imaginations with our team of creative labyrinth-workers!

The Reading Agency and Libraries present 

Mythical Maze Summer Reading Challenge 2014

Images: pictures from this blog include:

• Solomon's Temple, Grin Low, Buxton
• orchid on Grin Low
• Blackwater at Calke Abbey, Ticknall
• Hawthorn tree on Grin Low
• The River Wye - an image from the Enlightenment! project by Derbyshire Museums

If you have exciting pictures we might use, we'd be pleased to see them (but make no promises!)