THREE storytellers from Wales, Scotland and Ireland will be teaming up to broadcast a series of online events celebrating the arrival of spring next week.

‘Spring Awakening’, the third event in a series, will be broadcast on Monday, February 1, from 8pm to 9.30pm and celebrates the Celtic calendar of festivities through stories, songs and traditions from their homelands – including the Goddess and Saint Brigid and the feminine life, death, life cycle.

The storytellers are Kama Roberts, who works for the Willow Globe Theatre near Llandrindod Wells, Maria Gillen from Ireland and Shona Cowie from Scotland.

Kama, a native of Radnorshire and former student at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, began storytelling three years ago. She has been collecting stories locally and re-developing them for performance at festivals and private events.

Shona trained with L’Ecole Jaques Lecoq and also travelled across Europe and Tunisia to research and tell stories of Mediterranean migration. She speaks about those who have been pushed aside in her stories.

Maria was Bean an Ti for the Mermaid of Ireland Bealtine Festival. During the Covid-19 lockdown, she has hosted Zoom storytelling sessions with global input for Storytellers of Ireland on St Patrick’s Day and World Storytelling Day.

Kama said that she had been working with Maria and Shona to broadcast online storytelling evenings, since the Celtic new year, Samhain.

“We have also been building a collaboration between Kerry Writers Museum and Community Arts Rhayader and District (CARAD) and hope that, beyond this pandemic, this relationship will develop into live events and festivals in each of our home countries,” she said.

“The events have had really brilliant feedback and regular and loyal audience. The next storytelling evening will have nature and nurture as its theme.”

Maria will be the host as St Brigid’s Day in Ireland is an important event. She has a special guest – Nuala Hayes, an Irish actress and chair of Storytellers of Ireland.

At the end of the evening, the storytellers will open the floor to the online audience to share a story or a song.

Anyone wishing to get involved can email or call Kama Roberts on kamaroberts2@gmail.com or 07875 021391. To get involved on the day, visit https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/137632589781.