Beeston Tales - Yamanba

Beeston Tales is a monthly storytelling night meeting just outside Nottingham. We host our events at Our Lady of the Assumption church hall, Foster Avenue, Beeston, Nottingham, NG9 1AE Parking at the venue. Short walk from a tram stop. Cake and drinks will be available, feel free to bring your own booze! But you can also watch from the comfort of your own home by joining our (unfortunately still a bit temperamental) livestream via Zoom. You'll have to bring your own booze to that as well though.

There is a hypnotic feel to the tales: you’re back round that prehistoric campfire again, rapt. – Matt Turpin, LeftLion. (Read full review.)

Let yourself be transported to worlds that are otherwise unreachable. – Bryony Ashmore, Nottingham City of Literature. (Read full review.)

Yamanba - (or, She’ll be Coming Round the Mountain)
 

A tree floats down a river from the mountain and becomes a sacred statue: compassion personified. At the river’s source squats an old, old lady whose fury can eat you alive, or keep you as safe as if you yourself were the mountain. People call her a demon - but once she was a goddess ... maybe. Who is she really? And in a time when youth, beauty and granted wishes are all that matters, who even cares?

For years, the figure of Yamanba has led Laura a merry dance round the mountain to the myths, legends and parables of East Asia - plus the outer reaches of her own unenlightened mind - chasing the echo of a being that can still, if she wants to, raise holy hell.