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A short production that explores the religious symbolism in the brothers Grimm’s versions of Cinderella, Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood.

The stories (brilliantly adapted by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy) are read by Jeany Spark, who’s currently featuring as Kenneth Brannagh’s daughter in the BAFTA Award-winning TV series ‘Wallander’.

The production includes songs specially written by Nick Bicat and Philip Ridley, and recorded by (amongst others) Peter Knight of Steeleye Span and Maartin Allcock, formerly of Fairport Convention and Jethro Tull.

Grimm Tales takes place at 2pm on Saturday 27 March in Christ Church
Cathedral, Oxford, as part of the Sunday Times Oxford Literary Festival.
Tickets are £10 and available in advance from the box office on 0870-343
1001 or www.oxfordliteraryfestival.com

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Four of the seven for Martin Pynes album, 7 Pictures

The highlights of my education work in 2008/9 include:

• Making four Fairytale books with Foundation Phase children in the Swansea area. The books tell the stories entirely in images and are designed to encourage oracy. The work was exhibited at the Dylan Thomas Centre in Swansea in October 2008. Another project is planned for June/July 2009.

• A residency on Tory Island (Donegal) in July 2008, in connection with my Selkie project. I worked with a group of young people (aged 6 – 28) from the island and we made an exhibition for the festival. The group threw themselves into the project and we made drawings on the rocks at the harbour and at Green Port (where the seals are). We then developed the work into Photoshop montages. The final exhibition had digital prints of the work made outside, prints of the montages and a DVD playing with the soundtrack made up of some of the children singing in Gaelic. Also, a senior member of the community told a native Tory Selkie story, again in Gaelic.

At the 6.00 pm Sunday services during Lent, Canon Edmund Newell will be joined by comedy writer and performer Andy Hamilton, actors Lynda Baron, Amanda Symonds and Anthony Newell to explore the spiritual dimension of four of the brothers Grimm’s classic fairy stories. During the series we shall be exploring Cinderella, Hansel and Gretel, Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood.

Illustration from Little Red Riding Hood, 2006 by Maria Hayes.

For more information please contact:
Mark McVay
Press Officer
020 7246 8321
mark@stpaulscathedral.org.uk

This new publication is a communication manual for Partnership Practitioners.

I was commissioned to draw at the International Conference in Cambridge 2006 and the drawings have been used to fully illustrate this document. I was also invited to write a “think piece”.

This publication is available at www.ThePartneringInitiative.org

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