LORE of the LAND: Tales, Trials and Environmental Justice - Accessing Law through Storytelling

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What’s on offer? 

This is an 'around the fire' storytelling event professional storyteller Milly Jackdaw and Lucy Finchett-Maddock will work interactively with participants and audience members to tell chosen Welsh tales from history and folklore, in order to communicate and identify principles of law found within ‘lore’. The focus of the stories would be specifically around environmental justice, such as ‘Rhyfel y Sais Bach‘ by Eirion Jones on common rights and stewardship, and those most relevant to climate change and the environment, selected from the Mabinogion.  

What is it about? 

Participants will be introduced to basic storytelling methods, as well as areas of law concerning the environment (with particular focus on the Wellbeing for Future Generations Act 2015), think about the usefulness of storytelling as a method for giving access to the law.  

Who is leading the event? 

Lucy Finchett-Maddock, School of History, Law and Social Sciences at Bangor University 

Milly Jackdaw, Professional Storyteller  

Who is it open to? 

The events are open to adults and young people, particularly useful for young people, for them to understand the relevance of today’s law within folklore and storytelling traditions in Wales, but not exclusively so.  

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