Fire Springs' work draws on the varied backgrounds of the five members.
Fire Springs weave together stories, poems and music to inspire and entertain
Kevan Manwaring holds an MA in the teaching and practice of creative writing from CardiffUniversity and teaches creative writing for the Open University and Imperial College London. He won the Bardic Chair of Caer Badon in 1998 and has since helped set up bardic chairs elsewhere and performed widely as storyteller and poet – in Italy, Malta, and the USA as well as Britain. He’s the author of The Bardic Handbook (2006), Lost Islands (2008), the ongoing Windsmith Odyssey, and several collections of poems.
David Metcalfe is a storyteller and folk singer-guitarist; also a lifelong student of history and former field archaeologist, with degrees from the universities of Aberystwyth and Newcastle upon Tyne. In his many years’ work investigating how well publicly funded organisations use their resources, he has co-authored numerous reports and publications and developed a particular interest in the way organisations formulate, articulate, and regenerate their corporate narratives.
Kirsty Hartsiotis studied history of art at Warwick, medieval studies at York – where she was a member of the Lords of Misrule theatre group – and museum studies at Leicester. She is a storyteller and writer with a special interest in history and the heritage industry, in which she’s worked for more than ten years as a curator and educator, organising many exhibitions and conducting field research in Greece.
Richard Selby has many years’ experience of work in primary education and has run diverse courses about the arts – for pupils and teachers – and school arts productions. He’s now a storyteller, writer, and bookseller with a keen interest in modern art and modern poetry. The Fifth Quarter – his collection of prose, poetry, and tales about Romney Marsh, in Kent – was published in 2008.
Anthony, Kirsty, Richard, David, Kevan
