Open Night – Span The World With Stories

Star and Shadow Warwick Street

Come with a story or come to listen, share what ever it is that brings us together. Open to all with Voices from the floor. £6 on the door

Maja Bumberak with Martin Manasse: Tales of Truthful Enchantment

The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, Heaton

In Hungary they say there is a place, where butter and cream cheese grow on trees… True or false?  Come and find out when you join us for an evening with Maja and Martin. First we take a journey to the world of tales born in the Carpathian Basin, where you can meet the shepherd who always […]

Open Night – New Year Good Cheer

Cobalt Studio 10-16 Boyd St, Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Welcome in the new year with us, don't let old acquaintance be forgot, come and share stories old and new! £6 for all

Cracking On Story Circle

For the next Cracking On session we will be trying something a little different....we will have one main story to listen to, explore and discuss. Come and hear Malcolm's tale and join the conversation! You never know where it might lead or what other stories it may spark. If you are keen to practice a […]

Malcolm and Joshua Green: Gone Cuckoo

Wylam Institute Church Road, Wylam

Part of Wylam Winter Tales Festival For millennia, the cuckoo’s call has inspired songs, stories and poems. Does he bring the spring? Does he tell our fortunes ? Was he the shapeshifter that became a hawk? Now the voice of the cuckoo is fading. Where has he gone ? www.wylamwintertales.org.uk

Malcolm Green: The Owl’s Gaze

The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, Heaton

Charting the course from Dr.Crofton’s parasitic worms to a tree that talks and the unsettling gaze of an owl Malcolm will guide us on a quest from science to story. Through encounters and surprising tales, we will scratch the veneer of our separate lives and dare to edge a little closer to that more-than-human world.

Sef Townsend: Tales of the Levant

The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, Heaton

For thousands of years the Levant has been a place of the crossing of cultures. Muslim, Jew, Christian and Druze, or the ever inscrutable Samaritan have shared stories here. At campfires, or in the many fabled caravanserai, from Jerusalem to Baghdad, or from Aqaba to Damascus travellers, pilgrims, merchants and soldiers have come together to bring, […]

Cracking On Story Circle

Following on from a successful story circle in January, we will again have one main story to listen to, explore and discuss. Come and hear the tale and join the conversation! You never know where it might lead or what other stories it may spark. If you are keen to practice a story too, there […]

ABC Virtual Night

Online!

You may have thought we were making history with the first cancelled A Bit Crack night in 30 years but arising from the ashes is the first A Bit Crack Virtual Night! Thanks to Emma for first suggesting it and Ben and Gill for helping us along, we can happily announce that Friday 3rd April […]

***CANCELLED***Local Voices – Emergence

The Chillingham Arms 89-91 Chillingham Rd, Heaton

We are so sorry that we have had to cancel an event for the first time ever! With the coming of spring comes new voices and fresh stories emerge...join us for an evening of local talented storytellers Ben Holden , Gill Davison  and Greg McCormick with music from Katherine Zesserson. Tickets on the door £8 (£6 […]

Online Open Night

Online!

Following on from the success of the first Friday of April’s online storytelling, we have decided to add an extra one – an open night this Friday, to which we have invited Friends of A Bit Crack to contribute to an evening. We have an all-star line up including: Tim Dalling, Richard Birmingham, Sef Townsend, […]

A Bit Crack Storytelling with Dominic Kelly

Online via Zoom

Join us for another evening of online storytelling! A Bit Crack have invited internationally acclaimed storyteller and performer Dominic Kelly to join us this month. Dominic brings a fabulous mix of personal tales, Swedish folktales and wonder tales and along with a few contributions from friends of A Bit Crack we are looking forward to […]