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Sally Pomme Clayton
“Some people are born to entertain – Sally Pomme Clayton has that magic in plenty, she is a dream-weaver, a spell-binder.” The Londonist Sally Pomme Clayton (please call her Pomme!) is a pioneering storyteller and writer creating unique performances and publications. With sparkling words, playful humour and haunting images she performs fairytales, romances, fragments of forgotten myths, witty folktales, mysterious legends and wild epics. She creates dark and gleaming stories set in strange worlds that seem strangely close. Her performances are captivating, tender, elegantly crafted and shot through with songs and unusual musical sounds. Pomme creates and performs stories for everyone, from: Soho Theatre to Northern Stage; Totally Thames to…
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Stories to build bridges
Stories to build bridges uses storytelling techniques to share the stories of asylum seekers and refugees. Sally Pomme Clayton has been developing Stories to Build Bridges since 2007 working with Southwark Day Centre for Asylum Seekers to value the traditions, languages, and culture of refugees. Stories to Build Bridges fosters oral traditions and encourages understanding between different faiths, languages, cultures and local communities. It gives value to refugees’ languages and heritage of stories, encouraging people to share and tell their stories. It passes on storytelling skills, and creates an atmosphere where people can value and share each others traditions. The project believes that stories can develop and foster dialogue, and build bridges across cultural, linguistic and…
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Mythic Imagination
Online workshops and performances were something positive that came out of the pandemic. Pomme created an online course where partipcants could explore images and meanings in fairytales and myths and be revived and sustained by the imagination. Do get in touch if you would like to host a mythic imagination event. Read what partipcants said about Mythic Imagination: ‘Really loved the workshops and was completely nourished and inspired by them.’ ‘Thank you again for such an expertly led session – my pen was flying over the notebook for a good hour afterwards stringing all the different thoughts together.’ ‘Your sessions were so inspiring.’ ‘It was magnificent, particularly the way that…
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Commissions
Sally Pomme Clayton creates unique stories, performances, scripts, lyrics, publications, linking to exhibitions, festivals, buildings, events, and sites, for arts organizations, businesses, galleries, theatres, and museums. She has been commissioned to create work for: Brent Libraries (2023); Omnibus Theatre (2019); Totally Thames (2018); The Tower of London (2018); Hillingdon Libraries (2017); Wellcome Collection (2016); The National Gallery (2014); The Royal Shakespeare Company (2013); The London Philharmonic Orchestra (2012); The Swedenborg Society (2011- 2012); The British Museum’s ‘A History of the world in 100 objects’ (2010 – 2011); Joglaresa (2009); The British Library (2005); WOMAD (2004); The Unicorn Children’s Theatre (2004 and 2000); Southbank Centre (2003 and 2002); Welsh National Opera (2002): Chichester…
