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The Amsterdam Storytelling Festival: Giles Abbott - Lightning & Lies - The death of Balder

What if even the gods cannot escape fate? To save the apple of your eye, would you be willing to give up the eye itself? Can Odin gain more insight by seeing less? And how can he protect his son from blind envy? In this perhaps greatest of Norse myths, you follow a father trying to protect his child. We mourn the loss of the light and draw comfort from the hope that it will return. English language. Please note: the stated end time is an indication.

The Amsterdam Storytelling Festival: Giles Abbott - Lightning & Lies - The death of Balder

Dates

Sat 7 Nov19:00 - 19:50

Location

Podium Mozaïek, Bos en Lommerweg 191, 1055 DT Amsterdam
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About Gilles Abbott

Giles Abbott became a storyteller after suddenly and severely, though not completely, losing his sight at the age of 25. Since then, he has performed both at home and abroad. Every two years, he creates a new show with which he goes on tour. He has performed in the United Kingdom, Europe, India and Egypt. He possesses an ‘impressive stage presence’, a ‘poetic flair for language’ and ‘a voice like molten chocolate’. Something to perhaps add to your waffles?

About the Amsterdam Storytelling Festival

When the days grow darker and colder, it is time to come together and warm our hearts with stories. This year, The Amsterdam Storytelling Festival invites you to meet the Seer - not as a fortune teller, but as someone who hears truth. Blind to appearances and distractions, the Seer notices what others overlook and sees what remains invisible to ordinary eyes.

Through performances, lectures and workshops, the festival offers space for stories that dare to explore the uncomfortable, the invisible and the unknown. From inner worlds to the boundaries of life and death, from visions to imagination… unspoken truths, looming disasters, secrets behind masks. The Seer knows. Who dares to listen?

Accessibility

General accessibility provisions and information

Present, available or allowed

  • Service dog allowed
  • Wheelchair accessible entrance

Provisions for people with reduced mobility

Present, available or allowed

  • Stairs with handrail
  • Lift
  • Accessible restroom
  • Mobile payment

Not present, not available or not allowed

  • Personal assistant
  • Guide lines
  • Hearing loop (t-coil or headphones)
  • Sign language interpretation provided
  • Closed captioning
  • Open captioning
  • Hidden disability Sunflower-keycord recognised here
  • Low stimulus hours
  • Sensory experience
  • Audio description
  • Accessible information
  • Material in Braille
  • Passageways that are sufficiently wide

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