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April 2020
Online Open Night
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!
Find out more »ABC Virtual Night
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…
Find out more »***CANCELLED***Local Voices – Emergence
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)
Find out more »March 2020
Cracking On Story Circle
Following on from a successful story circle in January, we will again have one main story to listen to, explore and discuss. Come and hear the tale and join the conversation! You never know where it might lead or what other stories it may spark. If you are keen to practice a story too, there will also be a chance for a few other short stories. Free to attend and hosted in a lovely living room in Jesmond…RSVP to Chris…
Find out more »Sef Townsend: Tales of the Levant
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…
Find out more »February 2020
Malcolm Green: The Owl’s Gaze
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.
Find out more »Malcolm and Joshua Green: Gone Cuckoo
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
Find out more »January 2020
Cracking On Story Circle
For the next Cracking On session we will be trying something a little different....we will have one main story to listen to, explore and discuss. Come and hear Malcolm's tale and join the conversation! You never know where it might lead or what other stories it may spark. If you are keen to practice a story too, there will also be a chance for a few other short stories. Free to attend and hosted in a lovely living room in…
Find out more »Open Night – New Year Good Cheer
Welcome in the new year with us, don't let old acquaintance be forgot, come and share stories old and new! £6 for all
Find out more »December 2019
Maja Bumberak with Martin Manasse: Tales of Truthful Enchantment
In Hungary they say there is a place, where butter and cream cheese grow on trees… True or false? Come and find out when you join us for an evening with Maja and Martin. First we take a journey to the world of tales born in the Carpathian Basin, where you can meet the shepherd who always told the truth, and discover that Hungarians and English have things in common… In the second part of the evening Maja will introduce us to…
Find out more »November 2019
Open Night – Span The World With Stories
Come with a story or come to listen, share what ever it is that brings us together. Open to all with Voices from the floor. £6 on the door
Find out more »October 2019
To Dream The Impossible Dream
Chris Bostock speaks in stories. From Thor’s trails in the land of the Giants to Perseus pursuing his lofty goals - from Percival’s pursuit of the Holy Grail to Coyote’s search in the land of the Dead, there are hero’s reaching out to fulfil their dreams. What were they and what are we seeking? - this is our quest. The writer Joseph Campbell wrote : Heros venture forth from the world of our common day into the regions of supernatural…
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