Tales from across the pond - ZOOM event
Thu 18 Jan
|Zoom
Armstrong Storytelling Trust is delighted to support Tales from Across the Pond. Storytellers from Derry Public Library, New Hampshire USA will join with AST storytellers from Derry Central Library, Northern Ireland for an evening of folklore and tales.
Time & Location
18 Jan 2024, 18:30 – 20:00
Zoom
About the Event
Featured storytellers and musicians
From this side of the pond
Liz Weir
Liz Weir is a storyteller and writer from Northern Ireland. She was the first winner of the International Story Bridge Award from the National Storytelling Network, USA, which cited her “exemplary work promoting the art of storytelling”.
Liz Weir has told her stories to people of all ages on five continents. She has performed in pubs and prisons and hospital rooms. She worked on stages in the mighty Vanderbilt Hall of New York’s Grand Central Station and in the Royal Albert Hall.
Liz Weir has worked for people with very different cultural backgrounds – for children from Israel and Palestine, at universities in Germany and Wales, on TV between South-Africa and Canada. And she appeared at major events, such as the National Storytelling Festival in Tennessee and the Australian National Storytelling Festival.