"Winter Stories, is an exciting new production by Small World Theatre, which brings together puppetry, music and storytelling in a multilingual performance (English, Welsh & Spanish).

It tells the story of a world dominated by headlines of climate catastrophe and global warming and questions what future winters will be like.

Winter Stories takes an imaginative peek into that future with performances at Canolfan Byd Bychan on 18, 19, 20 & 21 February 2009 at 7.30 pm.

Winter Stories is Small World Theatre's first performance in their new centre Canolfan Byd Bychan, a building that has been designed and constructed with the principles of ecological sustainability at its core.

Much of the set andc props for this ambitious and creative production have even been made from recycled materials.

Be prepared for a demonic puppet booth holding the repository of folk memory and the wisdom of millennia as conveyed through the world?s very last polar bear and its shamanic handlers.

Winter Stories is a true collaborative project, involving professional performers, members of the local Cardigan community, the Llandysul Stroke Group and Cardigan Youth Theatre.

A highlight of the performance will be the transformation of the oak wood joisted interior into an enormous stringed instrument providing for some chilling atmospherics.

As strings are hammered and bowed a climactic tempest will be evoked from the very structure of the building.

Incorporating climate change, the digital switchover and even Barack Obama's inaugural presidential address this show promises to be a feast of contemporary ideas and images.

And if that's not enough to blow away the Winter blues the sonorous songs of Don Ioan and his Mexican Welsh Mariachi band will warm even the coldest of hearts.

Winter Stories is an intergenerational project funded by the Arts Council of Wales."