Chris Bostock: The Storyteller
As part of Exhibition Park Cafe's summer season Chris will be lighting up the bandstand with free storytelling sessions.
The Golden Apples of the Sun – open night
Open to all comers to share your wonder, wisdom or wealth of knowledge through stories. Celebrate summer and your dreams in this ever changing world.
Medusa – Gary Cordingley
The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, Heaton“Gary Cordingley takes an ancient Greek myth of power and betrayal and drags it by its hair into the 21st century in a brave, searching, extraordinary storytelling performance."
Content Warnings: Explicit reference to sexual abuse and rape.
A Crack in the Pennines
The Old Chapel, CoanwoodRichard and Jill will be welcoming Chris Bostock, Nick Hennesy, Malcolm Green and other friends to an afternoon and evening of story telling at the Old Chapel in the Pennines on Saturday 24th September. All welcome.
Autumnal Stories – Open Night
The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, HeatonJoin us for another Open Night of Autumnal Stories when voices can flow from the floor - the air can be rich with memories and dreams and wonders can be shared.
We do hope one of them will be yours.
A Seat of Softest Fur… and other fateful bargains – Jo Blake.
The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, HeatonWhat is going on in the world? How did we get here? Where are we going? Can we do anything about it? Jo Blake does not have the answers to these questions...
Cracking On
Cracking on sessions present an opportunity for a group of people to explore what a story means to them in discussion with others. The sessions are designed to be informal and relaxed. There are usually between 6 and 16 people at a session. The storytellers: Chris Adriaanse from Berwick on Tweed and Maja Bumberak from […]
Welcome the New Year
The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, HeatonJoin us for an Open Night full of voices from the floor to give ourselves a bright start to 2023.
Dog Almighty – Emily Hennessey
The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, HeatonWild, irreverent, stupid, wise, dangerous and outrageously rude, Coyote has questions. Big Questions. Looking for answers he crosses land and sky, pisses down rabbit holes, vomits up his siblings, cheats death, shits and shags and wreaks havoc everywhere he goes. Emily Hennessey celebrates the great Native American trickster, the original creator and fool, riffing on […]
The Curlew’s Return – open night
Unfortunately Heather, who was our teller for March, is unable to be with us so we will be having an open night
“How to Spin Enchantment” – Tim Ralphs
The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, HeatonTim has kindly stepped into the breach this Friday with this exciting show. Phil Okwendy has cancelled
Growth Rings – Malcolm Green and Josh Green.
The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, HeatonGaze at the fissured trunk of an ash tree to where the branches sweep down like candelabras and through the lattice of leaves see one-eyed Odin and two ravens giving him a message … kraak kraak.
Come on a walk through time and space in which the trees, the stars, the birds and our ancestors speak in music and story threads that connect the ancient past to an uncertain future.