Buddhafield Festival - 16-20 July
Join RRR at one of the most beautiful festivals of the UK Season. Listen to Buddhist and philosophical stories as the sun sets in a Dorset field. Find out more information here.
Storytelling at the Bird's Nest Theatre- 7pm, 6th July 2008
Shipwrecked
Performed and written by Rachel Rose Reid
Dry-docked
on Deptford streets, the people watch the ships sail out to places yet
unseen, and hear only rumours of what lies beyond the horizon. What
were the tales they heard? Rachel Rose Reid tells worldtales and
wonders if we build lives like ships to prepare for stormy seas.
RRR is a winner of the UK's Young Storyteller of the Year. RRR
joins The Lab Theatre Collective, whose scratch nights serve to nurture
emerging talent and enrich the ARts Scene in South East London. Entry
is free! Come along to The Bird's Nest Pub, 32 Deptford Church
Street, SE8 4RZ.
London Festival of Architecture - Bloomsbury VIllage Fete - 11.15am, 5th July 2008, FREE
A festival of arts and local traders, selebrating the burgeoning renaissance of the area of London known as Bloomsbury Village. RRR will be telling tales to alongside Craig Jenkins from the Vayu Naidu Storytelling Theatre Company, to start the day.
Find your way to the stage here.
DIscover more about the Festival here.
Storytelling at the Poetry Cafe - 7.30pm, 2nd July 2008
RRR joins Nell Phoenix, Bill Young and Tom Bland at the inaugural session of a new storytelling night at London's famous Poetry Society headquarters. Tea, toast and tales aplenty!
22 Betterton Street, Covent Garden, London.
More details on 020 7240 4810.
www.poetrysociety.org.uk
RRR wins Mekhong Cocktail Competition - 16 June 2008
To celebrate the National Spirit of Thailand, ThaiBev and Theme Magazine held a three round UK wide competition top create new cocktails with the sugarcane and rice-based spirit Mekhong. RRR beat 10 finalists with her cocktails inspired by Thai culture and flavours.
www.thespiritofthailand.com
RRR at the Storytelling Cafe - 7.30pm, 17th June 2008
RRR tells tales for the much respected Storytelling Cafe, which has revived the love of paperfree telling around the Midlands.
Wednesbury Library, WAlsall Street, Wednesbury, WS10 9EH
Find out more information here
Mixology on the Food and Drink Show, LBC 97.3fm - 4.00pm, 8th June2008
RRR will be Bill Buckley's guest on LBC Radio's Food and Drink show,
discussing gin and gin cocktails - and how you can make your favourite cocktails at home?
Listen online at www.lbc.co.u.
Grantham Folk Festival - 30th May-1st June 2008
RRR will be part of a sparkly line up including the Sultans of Squeeze and Rachel Unthank and the Winterset. More details soon. In the meantime read more here.
Libraries Aloud! 7pm, 20th May 2008
Encouraging adults off their computers and back out into the Library, Richmond Libraries are running a series of performances throughout May to reinvigorate and remind residents of the potential of their local library. RRR will be performing an hour-long set at Hampton Library, Rosehill, TW12 2AB.
Turning the Tables: Heroes and Tricksters - 23rd of April 2008
RRR will join a company of tellers sharing tales of courage and cheek.
www.vayunaiducompany.org.uk
The Leather Exchange Pub, 15 Leathermarket Street, SE1 3HN
7.30pm £5 / £3 concessions.
Mixology on the Food and Drink Show, LBC 97.3fm - 4.30pm, 20th April 2008
RRR will be Bill Buckley's guest on LBC Radio's Food and Drink show,
discussing Vodka - what's the point of it? Why are some £5 and some £50? And how can you make your favourite cocktails at home?
Listen online at www.lbc.co.uk
Workshopping The Accidental Proteus for The Company of Angels 17th April 2008
Company of Angels has launched its third year of collaboration with the Soho Theatre in which young writers, directors & drama school graduates collaborate on creating a new piece for children. RRR will be workshopping preliminary concepts for Rachel Grunwald (RSC, SPID Theatre Company), in particular exploring how character transformations can be achieved and represented on stage.
Alden Biesen International Storytelling Festival, Belgium - 14-22nd April 2008
For
the past 12 years the Landcommanderij Alden Biesen has hosted an
international storytelling festival. Storytellers from many countries
bring stories for young and old and they all tell in their mother
tongue.
The 2007 festival with 35 story tellers, 180 hours of story telling,
12.000 people and 19.000 tickets turned the Alden Biesen Festival into
one of the largest storytelling festivals in Europe. RRR will be
appearing from 14-16 April.
The Society for Storytelling Annual Gathering, Exeter - 4-6th April 2008
Each year the SfS holds a Gathering where members and non-members
can get together to explore various aspects of storytelling in a
practical way. Workshops will be available for professionals and for enthusiasts.
RRR will be a guest storyteller at the Saturday night Ceilidh, providing breathing space between the dancing.
www.sfs.org.uk
Mixology on the Food and Drink Show, LBC 97.3fm - 4.30pm, 30th March 2008
RRR will be Bill Buckley's guest on LBC Radio's Food and Drink show,
discussing trends in the ontrade and how to make your favourite cocktails at home.
Listen online at www.lbc.co.uk
Russian Tales @ Radio Gagarin - 6pm-1am 16th March 2008
Sunday socialism with Balkan, Russian, Baltic and Gypsy sounds from Max Reinhardt&Misha Maltsev, plus Oi Va Voi and Angelina & the Gypsy Punks playing live, art and performances including RRR telling a Russian tale or two.
£5
Notting Hill Arts Club, 21 Notting Hill Gate, London W11
Nearest Tube: Notting Hill
The Rising Sap - StoryNights@Torriano - 8pm, 12th March 2008
With the nearing of the Equinox, Rachel will be sharing songs and tales of new growth and the returning of the light from across the earth, to launch us into the new Spring season.
£6
Torriano Meeting House, 99 Torriano Avenue, London NW5
Nearest Tube: Kentish Town
YSOY 2008 - 10am-5pm, 8th March 2008
RRR will be co-hosting the YSOY Awards 2008 with fellow 2007 finalist Timothy Mark Ralphs.
Come along and support the burgeoning tale telling talent aged from 15-25.
£5
The Library Theatre, Paradise Place, Birmingham
World Book Day on BBC Radio London 94.9fm - 11.30pm 6th March 2008
Hear RRR live on the Late Show, discussing tales and the telling of them with Jumoke Fashola.
March - Part of The MUJU UpstArts Festival - The Tricycle Theatre, 1pm-8pm 2nd March 2008
A whole day of entertainment including, films, theatre, video installations, live mural-making, multi-cultural music, fashion, comedy, food, performance poetry, photography, kid’s activities, discussion groups and more; All produced by Muslim and Jewish artists working together.
RRR will be acting in the Tricycle's Muslim-Jewish Theatre Company's production of 'March' a new devised play commissioned for the day.
£5
The Tricycle Theatre, Kilburn HIgh Road, London
The Festival is held in memory of Esther Gluck
www.muju,org,uk
The Bookniks' Cabaret - Jewish Book Week February 28th, 9.30pm, London
An eclectic fusion of music and spoken word with a dose of Yiddish swing, the
popular Bookniks Cabaret returns: hosted by Laoise, with writer and stand-up comic Lana Citron, poets Adam Taylor and Eva Salzman, novelist Rudolph Delson and storytellers Rachel Rose Reid and Ellaya Ayal Mor. Book Week with a twist.
£5, The Royal National Hotel, Bedford Way, London WC1
www.jewishbookweek.com
Love, Loss and Libido in the Leathermarket - February 14th 2008
RRR will be telling tales with the Vayu Naidu Storytelling Theatre Company: For one night only, banned are the fluffy red hearts and the ‘2 for 1’ couple deals. Instead we invite you to kick back, relax and enjoy our interactive and cynical spin on all that Valentine’s day rubbish. Enjoy stories of blind dates gone horribly wrong, of loves that were never meant to last and relationships in all their strange and wonderful guises: be they cyber, hetero, homo or even... of a kinky nature? www.vayunaiducompany.org.uk
Slaithwaite Moonraking Festival - February 9th 2008
RRR will be telling tales to those that gather at the Yorkshire village of Slaithwaite to celebrate the smart smugglers who hid their booty by telling soldiers they were raking for the moon in the canal.
The festival ends the following weekend with up to 3000 participants making a lantern procession through the moonlit streets.
www.slaithwaitemoonraking.org
Songs, Stories & Something Curious at Limmud - 21-26th December 2007
RRR returns to Limmud Conference, storytelling alone and performing in collaboration with director/actor Joel Stanley's Merkavah Theatre Company, author and poet Matthue Roth, facilitating poetry workshops with human rights NGO Rene Cassin, and occasionally sleeping.
Grand Marnier & CCK Celebrate 4 years of decadence and discovery, 6th December 2007
RRR has co-ordinated the sponsorship of the 4th Birthday party of London's only fair-trade and free-thinking erotic cafe and shop Coffee Cake and Kink.
Grand Marnier, a rich full-flavoured triple sec, & is famously perfect for adding extra warmth to high quality coffee.
The night will be filled with handmade cake, Monmouth coffee and a host of unusual Christmas presents...!
Many thanks to Ben Pick at Cellar Trends for his support.
For more about RRR's spiritual work, please click on the Mixologist page tab.
Sudanese Stories at The Tricycle Theatre - 2nd December 2007
A groundbreaking arts festival fusing film, music, drama & visual art with cutting-edge debate to inform, inspire and equip you to take action about the crisis in Darfur; with guest speakers including Mia Farrow.
RRR will be storytelling, performing stories gathered from Darfuri refugees in the UK, and found in hidden pages.
Sunday 2nd December from 11am to 10pm. Entry £5. The Tricycle Theatre, 269 Kilburn High Road, NW6 7JR. Box office 020 7328 1000 www.actfordarfur.org.uk
A Darkening Harvest & further tales, Kent Storytelling Club, 28th November 2007
RRR will be sharing tales of darkening days and bright harvests from around the world. How can we know the bright days will return when all the evidence suggests they are leaving us?
Doors open 7.30 for an 8pm start.
The Hastings Arms Danes Hill 18 Lower Rainham Road Gillingham Kent ME7 2YD
Mine - 22nd-24th November 2007
RRR will be playing the part of Elizabeth in a new play by award-winning Australian playwright Jane Bodie at Hampstead Theatre, London.
Book tickets on 020 7722 9301
Alchemy & Education - from November 2007
RRR is currently running off-trade and public trainings in the UK for U'luvka Vodka, winner of many prestigious awards and accolades, and named by Class magazine as an 'Iconic Brand in the making'.
If you would like to know more about U'luvka or about the possibility of learning a little alcoholic history, spirit tasting techniques or vodka mixology, contact Rachel here or at rachel@uluvka.com
A Darkening Harvest - 23rd September 2007
As the September session of Greenwich Storytelling Company coincides with the Autumn Equinox, RRR will be sharing tales of darkening days and bright harvests from around the world. How can we know the bright days will return when all the evidence suggests they are leaving us? Why must change happen when it hurts? And why was Bear so keen on running around on rainbow bridges?
Two time winner of Sidmouth’s Junior Storytelling Competition and
this year’s Young Storyteller of The Year at Birmingham’s Midland
Arts Centre, Rachel has developed a brand of storytelling cabaret in London, telling folk stories and singing songs amidst the glamour at venues including Battersea Arts Centre, The Lost Society, The Theatre Museum and Jermyn Street Theatre, as well as at festivals including this year’s Festival at the Edge and Beyond the Border.
Workshopping Hamlet with Daniel Kramer - 13-17th August 2007
In 2008 Daniel Kramer will be directing Hamlet in London and then New York City. RRR will be part of the first development of the adaptationI exploring how we can make Hamlet, Shakespeare and Theatre exciting to a TV oriented audience.
Daniel’s recent directing credits include Woyzeck (Gate Theatre, London and St Ann’s Warehouse, NYC), Bent starring Alan Cumming (Trafalgar Studios), Hair (Gate Theatre) and Angels in America at the Lyric Hammersmith.
Festival at the Edge, Shropshire, 20-22nd July 2007
A weekend of delights: tall tales, terrific tellers, magical music, together in a magical setting...Festival at the Edge is a story telling festival. Stories to make you laugh, cry and wonder. FATE is a festival for everyone, not just for those already bitten by the story bug.
From Friday to Sunday, there is always a choice of something on offer - the best international storytellers in performance, music, comedy, poetry and related arts. If you want to participate, there are workshops, story rounds and sessions. At night the bonfire sessions continue until late (or dawn!). RRR will be telling alongside Tim Ralphs and Joanne Blake on Sunday. http://www.festivalattheedge.org/