Category: Blog
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January E-Mail – Upcoming Gigs – Free Show: “The Queen of the Court of Claywood Flats” – Reflections on 2020
For those of you not on my mailing list, here’s the email I sent out this month. Details of how you could sign up are at the bottom. Fellow Story Lovers, Firstly, and perhaps most importantly, Happy New Year. I appreciate it’s a bit late for that now – you’ve almost certainly already got the…
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The “Human-ish Podcast” talks about storytelling
The “Human-ish” Podcast, creation of Dinaay Sharma, is an exploration of the fundamentals of the human experience, whether that be an interview about the nature of the mind or the importance of movement or the role of storytelling. You can guess which episode I was part of, right? This is a long, involved discussion, about…
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SKELETOR! (and other baddies.)
Here’s something exciting! I’m working on a new show at the moment, and it will be having its first outing live, on Zoom, as part of the Strange Times Online Storytelling Club. We’re not even going to charge for a ticket, just ask for donations. When Tim Ralphs was a child in the 80s he…
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The Buried Moon
Earlier this year I was a part of Adverse Camber’s amazing GAZING season of online stories for lockdown. Here’s me telling “The Buried Moon.” Enjoy! Subscribe to Tim Ralphs’ Mailing List
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Taking the Devil to Zurich
In May of 2019, I had the pleasure of being part of the GESCHICHTENOASE – International Storytelling Festival in Switzerland. It was a beautiful festival, “an urban storytelling oasis”, taking place primarily in a flower filled glasshouse in The Old Botanical Garden. Film-maker Thomas Radlwimmer was on hand to record things and he’s created this…
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Something for the Turning of the Year
After Bedevere’s second attempt to throw Excalibur into the lake, he returned to his King: ‘Lord, please. It’s impossible for me.’ ‘Seems impossible, sweet friend. Remember that Christmas morning the hawthorn flowered, the day we found Lancelot. Seemed impossible. But it happened, as if by giving ourselves again and again to the unknown we opened…
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Sharon Blackie on “Falling out of Myth” and the Mythic Imagination.
Sharon Blackie at TEDx talking about the Mythic Imagination. I love how her examples of “Post-heroic” stories are all old, old tales.
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Storytelling and the Body ~ Michael Harvey ~ Workshop, 12 Sept 2019
We’re being visited, in September, by the amazing storyteller Michael Harvey. You can read more about his Wednesday night show, Uncaged at the usual Beeston Tales page. Michael will be staying on with us for an extra day, and spending Thursday running his highly acclaimed training on Storytelling and the Body. Michael has trained extensively…
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Hand Pulled History
One of the most interesting projects of last year was a commission from The Walkley Historians to devise a show based around pub life in Walkley, Sheffield, during the Victorian period. My first thought was to bring on board the wondrous Roo Bramley to provide some music and song. Our grand endeavor culminated in three…
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Ana Lines ~ Reflecting Fridas plus workshop and Mexican Feast ~ 14 November
Something pretty special is going to be happening on the 14th November at Beeston Tales. It’s the return of one of our most popular tellers, the amazing Ana Lines, with her show Reflecting Fridas. “Ana Lines does more than tell stories, she animates them through her performances. Her Frida Kahlo biography, intertwined with inter-generational tales,…
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Pirate legends will climb wherever they want
Last Saturday, I was part of Leeds Royal Armouries’ “Legends” programme. They take a character worthy of a whole weekend of events, open up the museum and go to town. For June, they were looking at “Blackbeard”, with events ranging from cannon demonstrations over the dock to pirate courts abiding by the official regulations. Here’s…