Last week we had a fabulous open night at the monthly A Bit Crack storytelling evening. Themed ‘Summer Love’, we heard a fabulous collection of stories from a local Northumberland folk tale to stories from Canada, Japan and worlds beyond! …
Author: Chris Bostock
A Story Sharing Evening
We held a story sharing evening in May round us discussing the cultural ownership of stories and what we learn from the stories we tell. Stories are truly air plants, that grow with their telling. We visited a Carpenter’s last …
BLOG 2018
New Beginnings – We’ve started to review how we develop A Bit Crack Storytelling and are gathering bright minds to steer us into the future.
Soup has been shared, tea has been drunk, dreams are being dreamed. Do come and …
Hunting the Kings Forest
Chris with Class 3 from Castle Carrock School May 2014
While others have a tree, stones or even a mound in the ground to focus on, I’ve got a Valley and it’s a wet one too. At any rate on …
The Thorn in the King’s Foot
Chris Bostock
Friday 1st May, 7.30pm
Chillingham Arms, Heaton
Newcastle upon Tyne
Curses, crises, crowns and reconciliation.
Drawing on folk tales from near and far, Chris invites you to join him for a evening of dreaming and scheming. Your help …
Geltsdale
Geltsdale
Friday 14th March 2014
The Road sign that announces that you have arrived at Castle ( long gone unfortunately) Carrock clearly says Please Dance. This is a trick because the locals clearly also want you to sing, smile and …
Story creation with Hugh Lupton
Following our research into the different sites and the time we had spent working in their local communities, we set off to grow our stories – the fiction to compliment the facts that Paul and Jessica had shared with us. …
Story creation at Thirlwall Castle
Four 4 days in May Chris Bostock worked with pupils form Greenhead First School to share, discover and create stories around Thirlwall Castle. Having an existing legend of lost treasure was of course a great spring board, but that didn’t …
Open Night – Eat Your Words
Friday 3rd January, 7.30pm
Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne
An Open Night of food related stories. Just how was the Nail Soup made? Who ate The Bone? How good a cook was Gretel? and share some Tongue Meat …