Jan Blake is quite simply one of Britain’s finest female storytellers, performing in theatres and festivals the length and breadth of Europe.

Born in Manchester to Jamaican parents, she now lives in London where she is Consultant on Storytelling at the National Theatre, and also works with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, The Deptford Albany, the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith and Battersea Arts Centre.

With her strong singing voice and witty and exhilarating performance style, Jan tells West African and Caribbean stories with a passion and power that captures the imagination of all ages.

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In the style of the Celtic bards, Nick Hennessey accompanies himself on harp and whistle to perform stories drawn mainly from Irish, Welsh and English legends and folk-tales.

Nick is also a powerful and prize-winning ballad singer. In 1999 he began work on performances of the Finnish national epic, the Kalevala, and in 2000 became World Champion of Kalavala Rune Singing at the annual Finno-Ugric Festival in Espoo, Finland.

More Saturday lunch hour storytelling entertainment. This time two different voices and an hour of intertwining tall tales, some of them, like Jack’s beanstalk, very tall indeed......

PHOTO: IAN LAWRENCENorwegian Ch

 Mae Guto Dafis yn dweud storïau gydag egni a hiwmor, a chanu a chware’r melôdiyn, ac mae ei gymeriad ffraeth a thwymgalon yn creu perthynas arbennig gyda’i gynulleidfa.  Y mae wedi perfformio fel chwedleuwr yng ngwyliau yng Nghymru a Lloegr yn ogystal a theithio fel cerddor i Lydaw, Iwerddon, Estonia a’r Alban.

Bydd Guto yn dweud storïau yn Gymraeg a’r Saesneg fel rhan o Ddiwrnod Cymraeg mae’r Ganolfan en ei drefnu i deuluoedd.

Guto Dafis tells stories with energy and humour, and sings and plays the melodion, and his droll warm-heartedness creates a special relationship with his audience.  He has performed as a storyteller in festivals in Wales and England as well as travelling as a musician to Brittany, Ireland, Estonia and Scotland.

Guto will be telling stories in Welsh and English as part of the Millennium Centre’s Welsh Language Family Day.

 'Frankenstein'

Performance storyteller Ben Haggarty

Musician and vocalist Sianed Jones

A story of power unleashed, the search for a creator, our fear of the unknown and our fascination with the grotesque.........

Enter a world of feverish collective dreaming, as performance storyteller Ben Haggarty and musician & vocalist Sianed Jones present an intense electrified interpretation of Mary Shelley’s modern myth. 

Internationally renowned for his playful and dynamic performances, Ben Haggarty will be accompanied by multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and composer Sianed Jones, who has been variously described as having  a voice that sounds like a Wailing Welsh Banshee, a Soft Seducer and a Passionate Revolutionary.

Sat 24th January - 12.45pm

The Foyer, Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff

Saturday Lunch Hour Storytelling

Coinciding with The Scottish Ballet production of Tchaikovsky’s ‘Sleeping Beauty’ at The Wales Millennium Centre, one of Wales' most popular storytellers tells some of Europe's most famous fairytales.