University of Glamorgan

The Well of the Saint and the Well of the Snake: Ecological Enchantment of a Local Landscape

Anthony Nanson of Bath Springs and Bath Spa University

Anthony is the author of Storytelling and Ecology and Words of Re-enchantment and co-author of An Ecobardic Manifesto
In this lecture he describes what happened when research for his new book Gloucestershire Folk Tales took him out into the landscape and townscape to see how the actuality and ecology of place could help to bring alive a county’s old and often forgotten folktales, and how at the same time the telling of the tales could re-enchant places associated with them and give voice to questions of ecological ethics that were latent in the stories.

The George Ewart Evans Centre is very pleased to be hosting this year’s annual Digital Storytelling Festival on Thursday 7th June. It will be held at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, but all bookings will be administered by us at the Centre.

Guest Speakers

• Annie Correal Cowbird

• Natasha Armstrong Historypin

• Joe Lambert Digital Center for Storytelling

Confirmed Speakers

• Professor Sioned Davies is Chair of Welsh and Head of School of Welsh at Cardiff University

• Dr Simon Heywood, Storyteller, Lecture in Creative Writing in the Schools of Humanities at University of Derby

• Darryl Jones, Head of English, Trinity College Dublin

• Professor Kristin Wardetzky, former Professor at the University of Arts in Berlin