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The Arabian Nights. A new online session
June 18, 202007:00 p.m.
ONLINE
Casa Árabe's Instagram channel.
07:00 p.m.
In Spanish.
On Thursday, June 18, enjoy "The Arabian Nights" with Casa Árabe and Héctor Urién.
Every month, we look forward to a new session of "The Arabian Nights" with Héctor Urién at Casa Árabe. We are offering a live online version of his performance on our Instagram channel so we can all enjoy the tales from this Arabic literature classic without leaving our homes. The event will be taking place on Thursday, June 18 at 7:00 p.m.
With a contemporary sensitivity, and using only his voice, presence and live discourse, Urién’s art as a storyteller takes us on a journey from a Baghdad souk to the cave where a genie dwells, and from the islands of the Indian Ocean to the domains of the Serpent Queen.
Héctor Urién (Madrid, 1977) makes his living from telling stories. As a professional storyteller, he produces his artistic work and stagecraft at theaters in Spain and Latin America. Drawn by his curiosity and and a deeply ingrained scientific streak, Urién has developed his own regular storytelling workshop in Madrid, where students and teacher discover the inner workings of stories and the mystery of oral storytelling together. As an on-stage storyteller, his most original and inspiring project is related with "The Arabian Nights", which he continues to tell every Tuesday night at a small theater in downtown Madrid. A narrator of short, straightforward tales, he has taken part in several domestic and foreign festivals, as well as co-directing the annual festival “Ávila de cuento” (“Storybook Avila”), and he recently had an essay published by the “Palabras del candil” publishing firm: "La narración fractal: arte y ciencia de la oralidad (Fractal storytelling: the art and science of oral tradition)", in which he presents an innovative, surprising perspective on storytelling, backed by chaos theory and fractal geometry.
As you may be aware already, "The Arabian Nights" was not originally a set of tales meant for children, which is why we have always referred to these events as “oral storytelling for adults” in our programming. As an exception, Hector Urién has designed a special online session which is appropriate for all audiences. We hope you will get online to enjoy them with us!
Héctor Urién (Madrid, 1977) makes his living from telling stories. As a professional storyteller, he produces his artistic work and stagecraft at theaters in Spain and Latin America. Drawn by his curiosity and and a deeply ingrained scientific streak, Urién has developed his own regular storytelling workshop in Madrid, where students and teacher discover the inner workings of stories and the mystery of oral storytelling together. As an on-stage storyteller, his most original and inspiring project is related with "The Arabian Nights", which he continues to tell every Tuesday night at a small theater in downtown Madrid. A narrator of short, straightforward tales, he has taken part in several domestic and foreign festivals, as well as co-directing the annual festival “Ávila de cuento” (“Storybook Avila”), and he recently had an essay published by the “Palabras del candil” publishing firm: "La narración fractal: arte y ciencia de la oralidad (Fractal storytelling: the art and science of oral tradition)", in which he presents an innovative, surprising perspective on storytelling, backed by chaos theory and fractal geometry.
