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The Arabian Nights: Night 21. A special online session
From March 18, 2020 until March 21, 2020The session will be held on Saturday, March 21 at 7:30 p.m.
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On Casa Árabe’s Instagram channel.
The session will be held on Saturday, March 21 at 7:30 p.m.
The session will be held on Saturday, March 21 at 7:30 p.m.
In Spanish.
On Saturday, March 21, #juststayhome / #quédateencasa, and 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. This time around, 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 Saturday, March 21 at 7:30 p.m.
As common threads, Héctor Urién will be using “symbols” and “fantasy,” two concepts which play the role of the well-known “Open Sesame!” to help tell us some of the stories from "The Arabian Nights" related with those concepts, in his vivid voice.
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.
Casa Árabe has wished to keep this performance scheduled to show its commitment to culture and its support for the creative.
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 common threads, Héctor Urién will be using “symbols” and “fantasy,” two concepts which play the role of the well-known “Open Sesame!” to help tell us some of the stories from "The Arabian Nights" related with those concepts, in his vivid voice.
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, bearing in mind that we all need to stay inside our homes with our families, Hector Urién has designed a special session next Saturday which is appropriate for all audiences. We hope you will get online to enjoy them with us!
Casa Árabe has wished to keep this performance scheduled to show its commitment to culture and its support for the creative.
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.
