The Village Storytelling Festival
Hear us and Hasten
Wed 6 July 2022
![BSL interpretation](https://www.cca-glasgow.com/media/events/BSL-LOGO.jpg)
BSL interpretation
![Wheelchair accessible](https://www.cca-glasgow.com/media/events/WheelchairAccessible-200.png)
Wheelchair accessible
![A split image, the left side shows mountains from above, the right shows a close up of foamy waves.](/imager/events/101001/Hear-Us-and-Hasten-Image-No-text_515cffaa34c7b727c9423a5db08aae1f.jpg)
Image credit: Shona Cowie
Ailsa Dixon and Ffion Phillips, Storytellers | Shona Cowie, Collaborative Director
Hear Us And Hasten is a collaboratively devised storytelling performance deeply rooted in the North Sea and North Welsh landscapes of the performer’s homes. Created with support from the Village Storytelling Festival and Tasgadh by two of Britain’s leading young storytellers, Ffion Phillips and Ailsa Dixon It is an upfront reckoning with the climate‘s fragility and those narratives, both old and new, which so easily cast young women’s bodies into the jaws of waiting beasts. But, this show is, most importantly, a celebration of being alive, right now. As Ffion and Ailsa say - it’s a triangle; story, people, landscapes, if connection between any of these three is weak we all suffer.
![Young storyteller, Ailsa Dixon, smiles at the camera against a background of blue skies and mountains.](/imager/events/101000/Ailsa-Headshot_7ce1106f2420ea419060bc782a653af3.jpg)
![Young storyteller Ffion Phillips, looks towards us, leaning against and holding on to a tree trunk covered in ivy](/imager/events/101002/Ffion-Head-Shot_7ce1106f2420ea419060bc782a653af3.jpg)
Ailson Dixon / Ffion Phillips