Author: A Bit Crack

With Sally Pomme Clayton, Panos Ghikas & Fotios Begklis

Thursday 17th September, 7.30
Northern Stage, Barras Bridge
Newcastle upon Tyne

A séance of live sounds, images, stories – summoning ghosts.

“I’d heard my Grandfather’s stories of spirits many times,but they …

With Ruth Kirkpatrick

Friday 1st July, 7.30pm
Cobalt Studio, 
Ouseburn
Newcastle upon Tyne

 “Now the cattle raids over the border have ceased, it’s time to gather together with story and song!

Friday 3rd October, 7.30pm 
Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne

Pascale Konyn: The Beaten Gold of Kirkhaugh
In 1935 Herbert Maryon made a brief excavation of a burial mound near Alston, unearthing questions which have grown more potent with …

Friday 5th September, 7.30pm 
Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne

Storytellers Pascale Konyn and Pat Renton rejoin forces as The Cat’s Whiskers, telling tales in their own inimitable style. True to the mysterious nature of the cat, they won’t …

Friday 1st August, 7.30pm
Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne

This could be your chance to celebrate the Summer with a story, poem, song or even a riddle, alongside members of A Bit Crack and other local voices.

Come …

Friday 4th July, 7.30pm
Star and Shadow Cinema, Newcastle upon Tyne

If stones could speak: traditional tales rooted in the Irish landscape. Liz Weir – the storyteller’s storyteller – returns after far too long to thrill us with tales of …

Friday 7th November, 7.30pm 
Chillingham Arms, Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne

Tonight is a chance for anyone who has a story, a song, a joke or a poem that they’d like to share. Whether you’ve never told a story in public …

Emily Hennessey 

Friday 3rd April, 7.30pm
Chillingham Arms, Heaton
Newcastle upon Tyne

Scandalous god, shape-shifter, wheeler-dealer, seducer and assassin… you can’t live with him, and the world can’t exist without him.

In the dark North where Gods and Giants hammer …