Love and Transformation: Stories from beyond
Tickets: https://ticketpass.org/event/EKIBJH/love-transformation-stories-from-beyond
Everything we experience on this earthly plane harbours a cost.
And when love (and not mere desire) calls from outside the village, it may cost us everything we know. Leaving behind everything we are familiar with - in order to heed the whispers of the gods - will always turn us inside out, upside down and back to front. Only one thing is certain: along the way, we will be changed.
This summer in the The Convivial living room, join storytellers Isa Schöier and Will Wilson on a mythological journey exploring what happens when love and desire draw us out of our homes and into other worlds…
Isa will weave a tale which troubles and expands what it means to be human, what might befall us if we marry beyond our kin, and the surprising twists and turns in the most troubling of encounters….. love.
Will will share a story that stalks the shadow of a young king though the mythological understory who, in falling in love with someone from the wild, finds humility as he re-attunes himself to the proper way of things.
Come and experience old stories told in the old way, where the oral traditions offer opportunities to explore the ecologies of self, place and relationality.
We will intersperse the stories with food, enlivening conversation and conviviality.
Storytellers
Isa is a Swedish playwright and writing coach living in Stockholm between city and forest.
Her debut play in 1996 was Livingstone’s Children, which was performed in theatres across Sweden. She has since written almost 30 plays, returning often to themes of normativity, loneliness and friendship. Her play Lipstick for the Undead travelled internationally. She is currently developing her 2020 sci-fi story The Night People into a children’s book, due in bookstores in April 2026.
In recent years she has been treading carefully into mythological grounds, rekindling her childhood love of stories and fairy tales. This summer, she is finishing her MA in Poetics of Imagination, taking her first steps into the world of storytelling, and remains grateful to the stories that have carried her into this territory.
Will is a passionate and vibrant storyteller, mythologist and facilitator who splits his time between Fremantle, Western Australia and Devon UK.
Storytelling crept into his facilitation practice in unassuming fashion until boisterously taking its place at the centre. Like all things that arrive from the edge they trailed a scent of the wild, reminding us that we are the stories of yore and every moment since. Can you listen? Do you hear?
Turning towards this scent, Will began a pilgrimage back to his ancestral homelands of England and Scotland, during which he apprenticed to the oral traditions, tuned his ear to the old stories and completed a masters in Poetics of Imagination at Dartington Art School / Schumacher College.
@willwilsonstorytelller
What to expect
6pm - Arrive & settle
6.30pm - The Woman Who Married a Bear + discussion
7.20pm - Vegan dinner (outside in the courtyard, weather permitting)
8.10pm - The Red Bead Woman + discussion
9.30pm - Close
This event is BYOB for alcoholic beverages - a small selection of soft drinks will be available to buy at a low cost.
Tickets
Please refer to the following suggestions when purchasing your ticket:
£0 - no spare income
£5 - low spare income
£10 - medium spare income
£15 - high spare income
£20 - supporter ticket
If you are a volunteer or have volunteered with The Convivial, please consider your own contribution to the space when booking your ticket.
Tickets: https://ticketpass.org/event/EKIBJH/love-transformation-stories-from-beyond