The Crick Crack Club
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The Crick Crack Club is a UK-based performance
Programming
Crick Crack Club events have taken place at The British Museum, The British Library,
The Crick Crack Club works with a core of around a dozen UK-based established performance storytellers (plus additional international artists from Northern Europe, the US and the wider world) and between five and ten emerging artists.
The Crick Crack Club is the operating name of The Centre for International Storytelling which is a registered Charity.[4] It receives funding from grant-giving organisations such as Arts Council England and The Paul Hamlyn Foundation.[5][6]
History
The Crick Crack Club was the first performance storytelling club to be established in the UK.
Between 1988 and 1995, The Crick Crack Club promoted weekly events in several venues in London. From 1995 to 2001, the club organised monthly events at The Spitz, in Spitalfields, including its renowned 'Grand Lying Contest'.[9] During this time it also organised numerous monthly events and mini-festivals in regional arts venues throughout England and elsewhere in London, including at Battersea Arts Centre, The South Bank Centre and Hoxton Hall. In addition, the Norfolk storyteller, Hugh Lupton, ran a successful monthly branch of the club during this time at the King of Hearts Arts Centre in Norwich.
From 1991–1993 Ben Haggarty was assisted by storyteller Daniel Morden, and in one year they put on 125 events across England and Wales. In 1993, in partnership with David Ambrose of St. Donats Arts Centre in Wales, the Crick Crack Club created what was to become one of the most celebrated and festive annual storytelling festivals: the Beyond the Border International Festival of Storytelling and Epic Singing. Ben Haggarty, the Crick Crack Club's Artistic Director co-directed Beyond the Border from 1993 to 2005 with specific responsibility for choosing the storytellers, while David Ambrose selected the musicians, puppeteers and other theatrical entertainers.
The Crick Crack Club entered into a partnership with Barbican Education at
Origins of the name
In the francophone islands of the Caribbean, storytellers who want to tell a story calls 'Cric?’ and those who want to hear respond with the affirmation 'Crac!’.[11] Given the Northern British usage of Crack (Irish: Craic) to denote a story, Ben Haggarty coined the name Crick Crack Club in 1988. (Variations of the name have been subsequently used by independent groups in Edinburgh 'The Guid Craic Club', in Newcastle, 'A Bit Crack' and in Stockholm ‘ The Crick Crack Café').
Audio archive
The Crick Crack Club holds the
References
- ^ a b Crick Crack Club, Home. "About Us". www.crickcrackclub.com. Crick Crack Club. Retrieved 12 December 2014.
- ^ Miller, Carl (13 October 1988). "A treasure house of humour, romance and myth". City Limits.
- ^ "UK Storytellers Page". www.crickcrackclub.com. Crick Crack Club.
- ^ "Charity Details". beta.charitycommission.gov.uk. Retrieved 20 February 2018.
- ^ Paul Hamlyn Foundation Yearbook 2008/2009
- ^ Arts Council Annual Review 2009
- ISBN 1-898878-06-4
- ^ Windsor, John (20 August 1994). "The Crick Crack Club, the driving force behind the revival (in storytelling)". The Independent.
- ^ review by Judith Palmer, The Independent 06.04.1999 The winner of the "Hodja Cup" in 2010 was Hugh Lupton.
- ^ McMillan, Ian (1 February 2008). "The Matter of Britain: proving storytelling is alive and well". The Times. Retrieved 5 October 2010.
that most vital and exciting storytelling organisation... Thanks in many ways to the Crick Crack Club... storytelling is on the crest of the wave at the moment
- ^ "Teaching Merle Hodge's Crick Crack, Monkey: A Lesson Plan". ufdc.ufl.edu. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- ^ "LCIS Archive".