Tomorrow (Saturday) Tenby Museum and Art Gallery is lucky to have two events by renowned storyteller, illustrator and writer Peter Stevenson.

On Saturday morning between 11 am and 12 pm, Peter will be holding a proactive Crankie workshop. Crankie’s are long textile scrolls rather like the Bayeux Tapestry that move within the frame of a wooden box when the handle is cranked.

They were built to illustrate stories and songs, like an animated film long before electricity and live streaming films was dreamed of.

Many scrolls are painted in silhouette and illuminated from behind to create a sense of shadow puppetry.

For the workshop Peter will be demonstrating how to make a crankie using a matchbox! Spaces for this workshop are limited to 16 so please contact the museum if you are interested

In the evening (at 7pm) Peter will be telling stories from his book ‘The Moon-Eyed People’.

A lone man wanders from swamp to swamp searching for himself, a wolf-girl visits Wales and eats the sheep, a Welsh criminal marries an ‘Indian Princess’, Lakota men re-enact the Wounded Knee massacre in Cardiff, and mountain women practice Appalachian hoodoo, native healing and Welsh witchcraft.

These stories are a mixture of true tales, tall tales and folk tales, that tell of the lives of migrants who left Wales and settled in America, of the native and enslaved people who had long been living there, and those curious travellers who returned to find their roots in the old country.

They were - explorers, miners, dreamers, hobos, tourists, farmers, radicals, showmen, sailors, soldiers, witches, warriors, wolf-girls, poets, preachers, prospectors, political dissidents, social reformers, and wayfaring strangers.

The Cherokee called them, ‘The Moon-Eyed People’.

The stories here tell of the past and present migrations of people between and within Wales and America.

There are no ends or beginnings, no comforting morals, no boundary walls, and certainly no happy ever afters.

They are snapshots of easily forgotten lives, a photographic album full of yellow-stained sepia images in a chronological jumble all of their own.

These are folk histories, stories of people with confused identities, who developed roots in more than one culture.

Tickets for the talk can be pre-booked at the museum so please do contact us if you wish to attend.

You can contact at anytime via email ([email protected]) or via telephone (01834 842809) between Wednesday and Saturday.

Tickets for the talk are £5 (or £4 with a Friends of Tenby Museum membership card).