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The Owl’s Gaze – Reflections from Richard

21 February 2020Blog

The Owl’s Gaze was a remarkable and, for me, important storytelling experience. It was a story of Malcolm’s life and of his developing thinking – the stories we heard both informed those changes and represented them.

The gaze of the …

Let a New Story Begin…

31 December 2019Blog

Here we are, A Bit Crack and friends gathered around searching for new stories.

It was a game, a bit of fun but it got me thinking; we couldn’t change what was in front of us in the newspapers but …

‘Stories are the way Nature teaches…’

12 December 2019Blog

Reflections on ‘Tales of Truthful Enchantment’ written by Steve

“A moment in a story in Maja’s set, before the break, became for me a motif running through Martin’s tales-within-tales in the second half. A retired railway worker covets a gold …

To Dream The Impossible Dream – A review by Mark Benjamin

6 October 2019Blog
Inviting us to follow Don Quixote, in spirit if not in deeds, Chris set the scene for our journey into the dreamtime with his usual panache, declaiming the Don’s manifesto before moving seamlessly into the story of his early life

Politics and Indian Storytelling

10 September 2019Blog

Kerima Mohideen performed an evening of storytelling with the title: If Trees Could Speak. What was striking about it was its weaving of contemporary politics with myth, story and her own experiences.

In the first half we heard a story …

Sharing Stories On A Summers Night

15 August 2019Blog

Local Voices; An Evening of Delight

14 July 2019Blog
Three local tellers and a musician came together and gave us an evening of absolute delight.
From tales of cowboys to the struggle of the miners ,to shape shifting and wonder seemingly incongruous but linked together seamlessly  because each story

Carried Away in Story

14 July 2019Blog

Back at the Cobalt after having to host our events at other venues, feels like a homecoming. I do like the way that the building tucked away as it is, is still no distance from the city centre. It’s an …

If Not now, When?

2 June 2019Blog

As we drift into an unprecedented crisis for our beautiful planet earth with climate change, mass extinctions and threats to the very survival of humanity, what role is there for the storyteller?

It is on the agenda for sure with …