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Storyteller Directory: Wilf Merttens

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Name: Wilf Merttens

Location: Bristol

County: Avon

Telephone: 0794382888

Email: stanleywilfridmerttens@googlemail.com

Website: http://www.myspace.com/stanleywilfridmerttens

Wilf Merttens collects the little ribbons and cut offs of stories that gather in old men’s sock drawers and obscure chat rooms. He mixes them up with his dirty finger in an old jar until they make a dark and childish syrup.
It’s damned hot down the myth mine and the other miners grope in the dark to steal his pasty and its dusty and when he is born again rolling and coughing from the earth’s mouth a formidable old tale has built up in his throat and must be worked up and out before it gnarls his insides.
He tells poems, he brings legends, he jumps about.
He is young storyteller of the year 2009.
“In the world of storytelling, Wilf is going to be very big…” - Fiona Collins

• Has special needs experience
• Performs indoors
• Performs outdoors
• Performs to adults
• Performs to audiences over 100 in number
• Performs to audiences up to 100 in number
• Performs to audiences up to 40 in number
• Performs to pre-school age children
• Performs to primary age children
• Performs to secondary age children
• Performs to senior citizens
• Runs workshops for adults
• Runs workshops for children
• Travels anywhere in the U.K.
• Works in other art forms