Into The Blue
with Storytellers from A Bit Crack Storytelling Friday 6th of May, 7.30pm Cobalt Studio 10-16 Boyd St Newcastle upon Tyne Tyne and Wear NE2 1AP INTO THE BLUE A quartet of quipsters bring you stories for a new beginning. The voices of A Bit Crack will tell legends, old and new, of creation and transformation as we celebrate […]
Find out more »The Magician’s Apprentice
With Sally Pomme Clayton Friday 3rd of June, 7.30pm Cobalt Studio 10-16 Boyd St Newcastle upon Tyne Tyne and Wear NE2 1AP What happens when magic goes wrong? Performance storyteller Sally Pomme Clayton rummages through hats and rabbits, smoke and mirrors, wands and tarot cards, searching for spells. She conjures powerful female magicians from fragments […]
Find out more »Rites of passage re-written…
With Catherine Heinemeyer Friday 2nd September, 7.30pm Cobalt Studio 10-16 Boyd St Newcastle upon Tyne Tyne and Wear NE2 1AP Suitable for 13+ (young people very welcome) I have been in a foreign country these last three years, though I have rarely wandered far from home. It’s a country I remember, but it has changed: adolescence. […]
Find out more »ATLANTA
With Ben Haggarty Friday 4th November, 7.30pm Cobalt Studio 10-16 Boyd St Newcastle upon Tyne Tyne and Wear NE2 1AP A retelling of the myth of Atalanta – a fierce tale of a remarkable virgin hunter and devotee of Artemis who sure as hell doesn’t want to have anything to do with men... […]
Find out more »The Howken Field
With Nick Hennessey Friday 3rd February, 7:30pm Cobalt Studio 10-16 Boyd St Newcastle upon Tyne Tyne and Wear NE2 1AP "Beneath the low sky there is a field. At its edge two ravens speak of families and feuds, of those that have fallen and of those yet to be born into the world of the hollow wind. […]
Find out more »The Sunlight of the Gods
With Chris Bostock Friday 3rd March, 7:30pm Cobalt Studio 10-16 Boyd St Newcastle upon Tyne Tyne and Wear NE2 1AP Tales from the Norse mythology Join us on a great saga. Holiday with us in the far North. Hear something of the ancient eddas, the poems that carry the stories of the Norse Gods and […]
Find out more »Iron Age, Iron Horse
With Pascale Konyn & Chris Jones 25th March 2017 1pm - 4pm Elsdon Village Hall Elsdon Northumberland NE19 1AA Join us in Elsdon, one of the most historic villages of Northumberland National Park for an afternoon to stir your imagination and spark your creativity..... Chris Jones, Historic Environment Officer for Northumberland National Park, will begin […]
Find out more »Love In The Shadows
With Sally Pomme Clayton Friday 7th April, 7:30pm Chillingham Arms Chillingham Road Heaton Newcastle upon Tyne Tyne and Wear NE6 5XN Dust off your heart, dance with the devil. Kiss in the dark, a romantic revel. Under the stars, abandon your woes, Venus in furs, love in the shadows! Love in the Shadows is sheer, […]
Find out more »The Moon’s Two Wives and other tales for dark times
With Helen East & Rick Wilson Friday 5th May, 7:30pm Chillingham Arms Chillingham Road Heaton Newcastle upon Tyne Tyne and Wear NE6 5XN Please Note Change Of Venue Storyteller Helen East and percussionist Rick Wilson, major figures in the storytelling revival, create a dynamic combination of words, rhythm, movement and music. Narrative meanders in and out […]
Find out more »Gone Cuckoo
With Joshua & Malcolm Green Friday 2nd June, 7:30pm Cobalt Studio 10-16 Boyd St Newcastle upon Tyne Tyne and Wear NE2 1AP Stories and Songs of a Secret Messenger It’s shortly after dawn at RAF Fyingdales on the North York Moors and a male cuckoo soon to be named Vigilamus is having a 4.5 gm transmitter […]
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