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Adverse Camber tours feature both epic and contemporary stories from a range of cultures, created and performed by leading UK storytellers plus UK and international musicians. We have also developed a new, exciting strand of digital offers to complement live programmes.

TWO GREAT WORKS FROM WELSH STORYTELLER & MUSICIAN, GWILYM MORUS-BAIRD…

As the world gears up for COP26, the UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, we’re offering one audio / online and one live, in person event from Gwilym that both make space for conversations about Climate Change.

4 TALES TO SAVE THE WORLD (digital)
NOW BOOKING FOR NOV – DEC 2021

An audio storytelling & music experience plus live event on Zoom.

A brand-new piece of storytelling and music in four parts, created and recorded by Welsh singer-songwriter and storyteller, Gwilym Morus-Baird. This original work draws on specially commissioned tales from four of Wales’ leading short storywriters – Kate Hamer, Joao Morais, Mary-Ann Constantine and Bethan Dear – and original music composition, creating four distinctive worlds, imagining a futureWales following climate crisis.

AUDIENCE MEMBERS RECEIVE: a series of emails with audio downloads for each 20 minute tale, plus an invitation to join Gwilym and one of the writers for a Zoom event filled with live music and conversation.

4 Tales to Save the World provides the opportunity for your community to come together with the artist on Zoom to talk about the stories, climate change and anything else sparked by the material.

BOOKING INFORMATION

  • Available on demand for a date to suit your community – a perfect event to ignite hopeful conversations about climate change around COP26.
  • Fee £350 includes audio downloads of four finely crafted 20 minute stories with music, plus 1-hour live event on Zoom featuring music & conversation with Gwilym and one of the writers.
  • Available with Welsh / English material, stories told in English.

THE ABERYSTWYTH WALL (live)
ON TOUR IN WALES, FEB – MAY 2022

Live performance storytelling and music with Gwilym Morus-Baird & Ben MacCoed

A modern retelling of the traditional Welsh folktale of Cantre’r Gwaelod, a mythical Welsh kingdom now lost beneath the waves of Caeredigion Bay. The modern tale is set a hundred years in the future where sea level rises have forced the inhabitants of Aberystwyth to build a gigantic sea defence around the town.

On one particular night, the wall attendant witnesses a monstrous storm surge that threatens his diverse community.

The music, composed and performed by Gwilym, accompanied by Ben, draws on influences as varied as Welsh folk ballads and electric live-looping. Layered harmonies, Welsh language song and intricately woven guitar add another dimension to the piece, full of beauty and longing.

The Aberystwyth Wall explores a future Wales where the worst of the climate crisis has come to pass and yet, offers a heart-warming tale of human connection, community and belonging.

BOOKING INFORMATION

  • TOURING PERSONNEL x 2 – Gwilym Morus-Baird & Ben Macoed
  • RUNNING TIME – 50 minutes
  • TARGET AUDIENCES – suitable for 12+, appeal to audiences who enjoy live music: folk / acoustic / ambient / electronic; contemporary stories, new writing, spoken word, those keen to engage with stories & conversations about Climate Change / environmental themes; poetry, literature, fantasy & science fiction lovers.
  • WRAPAROUND ACTIVITIES – Gwilym is very experienced in hosting discussion events and giving talks and would be happy to offer Q&A about his work and / or climate change / Welsh folktales & the environment.
  • GET IN / GET OUT – 2 hour get in if using lighting spec & amplification, 1 hour if acoustic /15 minute get out.
  • SPACE REQUIREMENTS – ideally 4m (w) x 2m (d) by 3m (h) but flexible to larger or smaller spaces. Can work from floor or stage.
  • VENUE CAPACITY – studio scale show best suited to audiences up to 200.
  • TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS – optional lighting design & amplification (using in house technician, or artists can be self sufficient).
  • FEE – £500 guarantee versus 70/30 box office split

PHIL OKWEDY: THE GODS ARE ALL HERE (live)
ON TOUR IN WALES FROM MAY – NOVEMBER 2022

Sparked by the discovery of a series of love letters from his father in Nigeria to his mother in Wales, Phil Okwedy has created a compelling and powerful, one-person performance storytelling piece that mixes extraordinary and everyday stories of myths, folktales and song from the African diaspora with Phil’s personal experiences of growing up as a child of dual heritage in 1960 &70’s Wales. 

Phil Okwedy is a Welsh performance storyteller and myth-maker, born in Cardiff to a Welsh mother and Nigerian father. He draws deeply on his dual heritage and multiple cultures and performs regularly in storytelling clubs and festivals across Wales and England, as well as internationally at Kea Festival in Greece and Fabula Festival in Sweden.

Phil has recently been working with National Theatre Wales on Go Tell the Bees and has just been commissioned as part of Literature Wales’ Representing Wales, Developing Writers of Colour programme.

The Gods Are All Here has been developed with Arts Council of Wales Individual Stabilisation Funding.

BOOKING INFORMATION

  • TOURING PERSONNEL x 1 – Phil Okwedy, with occasional producer support. 
  • RUNNING TIME – 2 x 50 minutes plus interval (2 hours running time with interval) 
  • TARGET AUDIENCES – Suitable for ages 12+ and will appeal to audiences who enjoy true stories, or imagination-based storytelling, spoken word, small-scale / studio theatre, those interested in experiences of dual heritage, racism, fostering and adoption. The piece will also appeal to poetry and literature lovers as well as those that enjoy the fantasy genre. 
  • WRAPAROUND ACTIVITIES – Phil is an experienced and engaging workshop leader, who can give talks, or share extracts of the piece, the story of the letters or other topics for community groups, schools, men’s groups, including creative sessions on storytelling, working creatively with family history. 
  • GET IN / GET OUT – 2 hour get in if using lighting spec and amplification, 1 hour if acoustic; 15 minute get out 
  • SPACE REQUIREMENTS – ideally 4m (w) x 2m (d) by 3m (h) but flexible to larger or smaller spaces. Can work from floor or stage.
  • VENUE CAPACITY – studio scale show best suited to audiences up to 200.
  • TECHNICAL REQUIREMENTS – optional lighting design, projected imagery and amplification (using in house technician) Acoustic performances with large copies of letters on easels also possible. 
  • FEE – £400 guarantee versus 70/30 box office split

VÅR: THE STORY OF HERVOR (digital)
NOW BOOKING LIVESTREAMED PERFORMANCES
SAT 19 & SUN 20 FEBRUARY 2022

An exceptional live digital storytelling experience – Norse saga, autobiography and electroacoustic music come together for a captivating, high-quality online performance. 

Broadcast live from a beautiful laftehus within a Norwegian forest, this one-hour live, online performance is part of a two-hour immersive storytelling experience that includes a pre-recorded prologue, epilogue and Zoom

“The most effective and engrossing collaboration between storytelling and film I have seen.” 

Shining a light on an almost forgotten Norse saga of a Viking warrior woman, VÅR is created and performed by two outstanding Norwegian artists – storyteller, Mimesis Heidi Dahlsveen and composer / musician, Kristin Bolstad. VÅR is a fascinating exploration of memory, power, loss, war and identity. 

AUDIENCE MEMBERS RECEIVE: advance access to an online ‘room’ containing links to pre-recorded audio prologue, the live broadcast takes place on YouTube to ensure high quality, plus links to the epilogue and post show Zoom Q&A. 

For more information of to pencil in dates for any of these events, please contact jenny@adversecamber.org