He established the Crick Crack Club in 1987, which provides events and workshops for adult audiences.īen Haggarty has worked with a number of large organisations, including The Barbican, The South Bank Centre and Shakespeare's Globe, and for various literature festivals. He also co-founded the Beyond the Border International Storytelling Festival, and was artistic co-director of this festival from 1993-2005. As a promoter and organiser of storytelling events, he organised the first International Storytelling Festival at Battersea Arts Centre in 1985, then two further festivals at Waterman Arts Centre in 1987 and at the South Bank Centre in 1989. He has played a key role in the revival of storytelling in the UK and is a proactive advocate for storytelling in a variety of areas. Since 2001 he has been the official storyteller with Chinese-American cellist, Yo Yo Ma's 'Silk Road Ensemble.' From 1999-2001 he was Britain's first official 'City Storyteller' in Gloucester. In 1985 he founded the Company of Storytellers with Hugh Lupton and Sally Pomme Clayton. He is a skilled improviser, performing solo, with other storytellers and with musicians. His repertoire includes 'Gilgamesh', numerous Irish Myths and the modern myth of 'Frankenstein'. He is particularly interested in Eastern European Wonder tales and Bronze Age and early Iron Age epics. He has performed all over the world, and has a working repertoire of over 350 tales for both adult and younger audiences. Ben Haggarty became a professional performance storyteller in 1981, having first worked as an 'image maker' with Welfare State International Theatre, then as a Theatre Director.
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