Kersti Ståbi tells The Hairy Girl
The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, HeatonThe Hairy Girl thunders through the world on her goat, beats up troll hags, saves her sister from a grim destiny, and uses all her cunning to find a future for them both.
Tom Van Mieghem and The Tell Tale Heart
The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, HeatonBelgian Storyteller, Tom Van Meighem, explores the intriguing life and work of the master of mystery and macabre, Edgar Allen Poe, in this fascinating new performance that dances between biography, poetry and story.
CHANGELINGS by Adderstone
The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, HeatonHigh on a windy mountainside sits a cailleach, a hag whose days as a powerful goddess are long behind her (if they were ever quite as impressive as she remembers).
Bahja!
The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, HeatonBring stories, find your bahja!
Talkin’ ’bout our generation.
The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, HeatonHigh on a windy mountainside sits a cailleach, a hag whose days as a powerful goddess are long behind her (if they were ever quite as impressive as she remembers).
There Be Tyrants. Martin Manasse and Meidi Goh.
The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, HeatonHigh on a windy mountainside sits a cailleach, a hag whose days as a powerful goddess are long behind her (if they were ever quite as impressive as she remembers).
Malcolm Green and Josh Green: The Story Stone
The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, HeatonThe rock exploded into an infinity of fragments, each one a story – a moment on the journey of humans walking this land from the time of ice to the present. Each one a picture of a portent, a possibility or a way to go. Through tales of both a mythic and personal nature Josh […]
Open Night: Pollinating the Summer
The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, HeatonJoin us for a chance to share your story - as lived by you, dreamed by you or told to
you.- and listen to others as well. Help us keep oral storytelling alive.
“The tongue can paint what the eyes can’t see.” – Chinese Proverb
Xanthe Gresham Knight presents “The Bag of Wonders”
The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, HeatonStorytelling as sharp as a lemon and sweet as a nut. Accept it or not, we’re all hooked on our baggage system, whether it’s a clutch bag or a holdall, but forget what’s in yours, and come and rummage around in Xanthe’s bottomless bag. Between the kitchen sink and old train tickets lies a pick […]
Season of Mists and Mellow Fruitfulness
The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, HeatonJoin us for a chance to share your story - as lived by you, dreamed by you or told to
you.- and listen to others as well. Help us keep oral storytelling alive.
The Telling of Stories led by Chris Bostock and Malcolm Green
Cobalt Studio 10-16 Boyd St, Newcastle upon Tyne, United KingdomHaving stories to hand, whether they are myths or folk tales, stories from history or science or your own personal stories, deepens and enlivens our communication. This is true in our own personal lives, as well as in the spheres of education, healing, entertainment or activism...you name it! Join us for a day to gently […]
Ben Haggarty and Steph Brittain present The Bodies on the Beach
The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, HeatonA fatherless son A daughter’s lament A pig stolen from its spit Fires burning out at sea And a dream On the westernmost tip of Ireland, a beach of crystal white sand once ran crimson with the blood of a never-ending magical battle — the last battle fought by the epic hero, Fionn MacCumhaill. Ben […]