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DESCRIPTION:A Red Indian in full war-dress armed with bottles of prairie me
 dicine\, an exploding bucket\, Japanese demons\, and a voice from plague-ri
 dden London in 1665\, all feature in a live story-telling event to be held 
 at Wellcome Collection on 18-19 July.
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\nFour especially commissioned sto
 ry-tellers will use performances\, Japanese story boards and live demonstra
 tions to tell their stories\, each inspired by one of four different object
 s in the Wellcome Library.
\n
\nStory-lovers of all ages will be transporte
 d to London during the Great Plague of 1665-1666\, to the magical land of J
 apanese spirits and demons\, to Clapham Common in the 1890s - where assista
 nts dressed as Red Indians touted Sequah medicines whilst volunteers had th
 eir teeth pulled - and taken on a school trip to San Diego in the mid 1990s
  to hear Francis Crick's colourful personal account of his early youthful\,
  and at times explosive\, experiments.
\n
\nThese four stories\, spanning d
 ifferent countries and centuries\, bring to life four fascinating items in 
 the Wellcome Library - the world's greatest collections of books\, manuscri
 pts\, pictures and films relating to the history medicine.
\n
\nFamilies an
 d adults are welcome at this free event\, which also includes audio-descrip
 tion of the four central objects for the visually-impaired\, as well as spe
 ech-to-text live subtitles (on Saturday 18 July) and BSL (on Sunday 19 July
 ) for the hearing-impaired. 
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\nStorytellers and their inspiration
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\nM
 arvellous Medicine Show
\nLonny Evans
\nInspired by oil painting 'Sequah on
  Clapham Common'.
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\nLonny will use her skills at audio-description to br
 ing to life this lively scene of the Sequah 'American medicine show' on Cla
 pham Common in the 1890s\, when there was a great public interest in Native
  American culture.
\n
\nRokuro-Kubi
\nSarah Rundle
\nInspired by a coloured
  woodcut of Japanese masks.
\n
\nUsing a Japanese storytelling technique ca
 lled Kamishibai\, and inspired by this Japanese woodcut\, Sarah will perfor
 m the story of 'Rokuro-Kubi'\, taken from 'Kwaidan' by Lafcadio Hearn.
\n
\
 nA grand day out
\nCassandra Wye
\nInspired by thank you letters from schoo
 l children\, sent to Francis Crick after a visit to the Salk Institute.
\n

 \nCassandra will tell the story of a school trip to visit Francis Crick\, c
 o-discoverer of the structure of DNA\, and the stories he told children to 
 inspire them about science.
\n
\nThe letter in the mud
\nCatherine Swingler
  / Kate Stonham
\nInspired by John Moore's letter\, sent from plague-ridden
  London in 1665.
\n
\nCatherine will perform a piece inspired by a letter w
 ritten in 1665 by merchant John Moore during the Great Plague. The story ha
 s been written by Kate Stonham and produced by Walk Tall Media. 
SUMMARY:Stories from silence
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