Past Events

We are inviting back old friends who have been to visit us over the past year to share stories of hope and wonder at this time of confusion and disorientation. From London we welcome back Kerima Mohideen, from Glasgow Gauri Raje, from Hungry Maja Bumberack, from Cumbria Nick Hennessey and from Newcastle Martin Manasse and Chris Bostock. As always, our open nights promise to be a wonderful journey through the world of stories. The event is free to attend and…

Join us for another evening of online storytelling! A Bit Crack have invited internationally acclaimed storyteller and performer Dominic Kelly to join us this month. Dominic brings a fabulous mix of personal tales, Swedish folktales and wonder tales and along with a few contributions from friends of A Bit Crack we are looking forward to another evening of escaping into stories. Dominic earns his living as a storyteller and was due to be our guest teller this month at the…

Following on from the success of the first Friday of April’s online storytelling, we have decided to add an extra one – an open night this Friday, to which we have invited Friends of A Bit Crack to contribute to an evening. We have an all-star line up including: Tim Dalling, Richard Birmingham, Sef Townsend, Martin Manasse and others. Please contact us via the webpage or Facebook for the zoom details and join us for an evening full of surprises!

You may have thought we were making history with the first cancelled A Bit Crack night in 30 years but arising from the ashes is the first A Bit Crack Virtual Night! Thanks to Emma for first suggesting it and Ben and Gill for helping us along, we can happily announce that Friday 3rd April is back! Join us on Zoom to hear a few stories we have thrown into an online melting pot. Full details have been sent in…

We are so sorry that we have had to cancel an event for the first time ever! With the coming of spring comes new voices and fresh stories emerge...join us for an evening of local talented storytellers Ben Holden , Gill Davison  and Greg McCormick with music from Katherine Zesserson. Tickets on the door £8 (£6 hardship rate, £10 philanthropist rate)

For thousands of years the Levant has been a place of the crossing of cultures. Muslim, Jew, Christian and Druze, or the ever inscrutable Samaritan have shared stories here. At campfires, or in the many fabled caravanserai, from Jerusalem to Baghdad, or from Aqaba to Damascus travellers, pilgrims, merchants and soldiers have come together to bring, share and tell each other’s stories which have survived for generations. Sef brings a veritable caravan of stories gathered from his many years of visiting these…

Charting the course from Dr.Crofton’s parasitic worms to a tree that talks and the unsettling gaze of an owl Malcolm will guide us on a quest from science to story. Through encounters and surprising tales, we will scratch the veneer of our separate lives and dare to edge a little closer to that more-than-human world.

Part of Wylam Winter Tales Festival For millennia, the cuckoo’s call has inspired songs, stories and poems. Does he bring the spring? Does he tell our fortunes ? Was he the shapeshifter that became a hawk? Now the voice of the cuckoo is fading. Where has he gone ? www.wylamwintertales.org.uk