A Crack in the Pennines

The Old Chapel, Coanwood

Richard 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, Heaton

Join 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.

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, Heaton

Join 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, Heaton

Wild, 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 […]

“How to Spin Enchantment” – Tim Ralphs

The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, Heaton

Tim has kindly stepped into the breach this Friday with this exciting show. Phil Okwendy has cancelled

£8.00

Growth Rings – Malcolm Green and Josh Green.

The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, Heaton

Gaze 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.

Stealing Thunder Festival

A storytelling festival organised by Emily and Nick Hennesey and featuring Malcolm and Josh Green! http://stealingthunder.co.uk/

Open Night

The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, Heaton

Welcoming voices from the floor. Where one story ends another begins. Join us for an evening of memories, dreamings and stories of all kinds, keeping stories alive. Without you there would be no listening, without you there would be forgetting, without you there would be no telling

Storyround open night

The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, Heaton

Join 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