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| Welcome to the Archive - for current events, click the Events button, above.  Events at the Star and Shadow Cinema Friday 2nd November 2012, 7.30pm The Ghost Of A Story In It's Telling Performed by Jamie CrawfordThis Year on All Souls Night Jamie will be interspersing some seasonal shockers with bittersweet reflections on the storytelling life, and posing the question: What place is there for the old stories today? Jamie returns after 7 years with his wit, warmth and charm from his native Brighton. Tickets £7/£4  Friday 7th December 2012, 7.30pm The Shahnameh - The Persian Book of Kings Performed by Xanthe GreshamEnter a world of romance, tragedy and war, where fathers and sons may be strangers in battle, beauty can be a curse and femme fatales may condemn young men to journey through fire. A contemporary interpretation of a great Iranian epic. Tickets £7/£4  Friday 4th January 2013, 7.30pm New Beginnings With Voices From The FloorThis could be your chance to welcome in the new year with a story that you have found, alongside members of A Bit Crack and other local voices. Our theme is renewal and new beginnings - what will you resolve to tell? Tickets £7/£4 Events at the Star and Shadow Cinema Friday 4th May 2012, 7.30pm It's Grimms up North: The Water of Life and other stories Performed by A Bit Crack and friendsTwo hundred years ago the Brothers Grimm published their remarkable collection of tales. We are celebrating them in two evenings filled with folk and wonder tales. Stories of dark woods and great ambition, stories of love and hate, stories to make you laugh and stories to make you sigh. Tickets £7/£4 Friday 6th April 2012, 7.30pm Fools, Thieves and Adventurers Performed by Pascale KonynTales for our times, stories from yesterday for now... Come and meet all sorts of characters, the bold and the desperate, cowards and tricksters, innocents and bounders. Listen to stories of changing times, bravery, wisdom and of course, magic. Travel back to the past, and as the stories run their course it may seem as if the past is not so different to the present. Tickets £7/£4 Events at the Chillingham Arms Friday 2nd March 2012, 7.30pm Goosewing Performed by Christine McMahonSpecially commissioned by Festival at the the Edge, "Goosewing" is the creation of internationally renowned storyteller Christine McMahon. Told with Christine's characteristic northern wit and warmth, "Goosewing" is a bittersweet tale of loss, hope and redemption. And there are mice involved...You may even discover what is a goose! Tickets £7/£4 89-91 Chillingham Road Newcastle upon Tyne Tyne and Wear NE6 5XL Phone: 0191 265 5915 Events at The Star and Shadow Cinema Friday 3rd February 2012, 7.30pm The Comb and the Veil Performed by Gary CordingleyA story about honey. Honey bees and mankind's relationship with this industriously humble insect. Gary Interweaves fact, myth, bee lore and life experience to bring you an entertaining and informative evening of storytelling. Gary Cordingley lives in the North East of England where has been telling stories professionally for about 15 years and keeping bees for about 6. This is the first time he has told a story about bees (almost). Gary is combining the two arts and is hoping to share with you his love for both. Tickets £7/£4 Friday 6th January 2012, 7.30pm Open Night Performed by anyone!The floor is open, the stories are waiting and the next teller could be you! Here is a chance for listeners to become tellers and share the stories closest to your heart alongside A Bit Crack - or just come and listen, youÕll be just as welcome. Tickets £7/£4 Events at The Cumberland Arms Wednesday 7th December 2011, 8pm Shearwater Performed by Malcolm Green and Tim DallingIn this performance we will take you to the world of seabirds through scientific, personal and mythical stories. We will dive deep into ancient myths where feathers and fur tangle and fly with the Shearwater as she dances 6000km over the waves to Iceland. (Please note this performance was originally advertised as 20th October) PRICES TBC The Cumberland Arms Off Byker Bank Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE6 1LD Tel: 0191 265 6151 Events at the Star and Shadow Friday 2nd December 2011, 7.30pm Talking Bones Performed by Harry Beamish and A Bit CrackHear the stories of the land dreamed up where the archaeology stops. The Reivers of Staward Pele, the masons marks on the walls of Langley Castle, the secrets lying beneath Sewingshields Crags in the shadow of the Roman Wall. Harry, the archaeologist from the National Trust and storytellers, Chris, Pat and Malcolm give their own different interpretations. PRICES £7 / £4 The Star and Shadow Cinema Tel: 0191 261 0066 Events at Alston Town Hall Saturday 12th November 2011, 7.30pm Talking Bones Performed by Paul Frodsham and A Bit CrackThe Celtic stone head of Ayle, the urn containing childÕs ashes from Ingram, the sunken oak trunk coffins from Wyden Eals. How did they get there, who made them, who found them? Paul, the archaeologist from the North Pennines AONB will give an explanation from the known facts. Chris, Pat and Malcolm will tell imagined stories inspired by these same discoveries. PRICES £6/£4 Alston Town Hall, Alston, Cumbria, CA9 3RF Tel: 01434 382244 Events at Haydon Bridge Friday 11th November 2011, 7.30pm Talking Bones Performed by Harry Beamish and A Bit CrackHear the stories of the land dreamed up where the archaeology stops. The Reivers of Staward Pele, the masons marks on the walls of Langley Castle, the secrets lying beneath Sewingshields Crags in the shadow of the Roman Wall. Harry, the archaeologist from the National Trust and storytellers, Chris, Pat and Malcolm give their own different interpretations. PRICES £6/£4 Haydon Development Trust, Haydon Bridge, NE47 6HW Tel: 01434 684944 Events at the Star and Shadow Friday 4th November 2011, 7.30pm Talking Bones Performed by Paul Frodsham and A Bit CrackThe Celtic stone head of Ayle, the urn containing childÕs ashes from Ingram, the sunken oak trunk coffins from Wyden Eals. How did they get there, who made them, who found them? Paul, the archaeologist from the North Pennines AONB will give an explanation from the known facts. Chris, Pat and Malcolm will tell imagined stories inspired by these same discoveries. PRICES £7 / £4 The Star and Shadow Cinema Tel: 0191 261 0066 Friday 7th October 2011, 7.30pm Salt Performed by Ken Patterson, Richard Scott and Chris BostockFollowing their successful recent tours to village halls, theatres and The Sage Gateshead the tuneful trio is back on the road with a new show. Packed with lots of opportunity for audience participation, origami and original salt art live on stage, as youÕve never seen it before with stories from the sea and of fish and ships PRICES £7 / £4 The Star and Shadow Cinema Tel: 0191 261 0066 Talking Bones at The Education Room, Hexham Saturday 3rd September 2011, 10am - 4pm Talking Bones: Finding Vanished Voices A workshop in archaeology and story making by David MetcalfeTraces of the ways our ancestors lived litter the landscape of the British Isles Ð in sites from caves to graves, middens to mines and farmsteads to fortifications, and in objects from pins to pots, buttons to boats and stones to bones. These traces give us indications of how our forebears spent their time and effort and show us glimpses of what they thought important. And broad progressive changes in climate, sea level, plant cover and animal populations, as well as particular catastrophic events, have all affected the lives of people in Britain during the past. Drawing on the archaeology of the North East of England and looking specifically at the area around Housesteads, this interactive workshop will explore imaginative pathways for bringing the past to life through oral narrative. Engaging in practical ways to help make sense of the past through the creative use of story in relation to specific sites and objects, the workshop will focus on story-making but will involve participants in story-telling. The workshop will also involve asking questions about approaches to interpreting archaeological evidence, about the limits of intelligent speculation around what might have been, and about the role of imagination in scientific problem-solving. The workshop will appeal to storytellers, educators, archaeologists, environmentalists, heritage managers and anyone interested in local history, folklore and what life may have been like for people living in the landscape in former times. PRICES £80 for organisations, £60 private bookings The Education Room Housesteads Farm Hexham NE47 6NN Events at the Star and Shadow Earthy Strong Performed by David MetcalfeStories and songs of life, love and death, from history and legend. Journey from the Anglo-Scottish Borders to the Welsh Marches, from Ireland to North America, to Languedoc, to the Holy Land and back again Ð in the company of warriors and holy men, exiles and assassins, and rivals and lovers - as storyteller, singer and guitarist David Metcalfe unearths links between folk tradition, history and archaeology. PRICES £7 / £4 The Star and Shadow Cinema Tel: 0191 261 0066 At The Cumberland Arms, Byker Friday 5th August 2011, 7.30pm Open Night Performed by Anyone!Making a grand return to The Cumberland Arms, Byker, A Bit Crack will host Open Night. The floor is open, the stories are waiting and the next teller could be you! Here is a chance for listeners to become tellers and share the stories closest to your heart alongside A Bit Crack - or just come and listen; youÕll be just as welcome. PRICES £4 The Cumberland Arms Off Byker Bank Newcastle Upon Tyne, NE6 1LD Tel: 0191 265 6151 Events at the Star and Shadow Friday 1st July 2011, 7.30pm There are Fairies in the Gutter Performed by Ursula Holden GillThis is not an evening of cosy Victorian gossamer fairies. Ursula Holden GillÕs stories are about the world we all inhabit and think we are familiar with. A world of edginess, danger and confusion. Ursula however reminds us Ð through her unique, affectionate, charming, off-centre and very funny view of the world Ð that it is also a world of wonder and enchantment. PRICES £7 / £4 The Ruined House of Skin Performed by Nick Hennessey"A ruined house of skin and bone, the hag sits winding up a thread. It is a thread that draws us slowly, inevitably into the withered arms of age. It is our ruin. But on her tongue is a song, on her breath the fragrance of truth." Storyteller, singer and harpist Nick Hennessey returns with the story of a great search and the ultimate journey. This programme is a reconfiguration of Irish mythology that lays bare our thirst for truth. PRICES £7 / £4 At the Caedmon Hall, Gateshead Saturday 7th May 2011, 7.30pm For one night only: A Single White Egg Presented by A Bit Crack - StorytellingStories and Music inspired by seabirds told by Malcolm Green and Tim Dalling at The Caedmon Hall, Gateshead In this performance we will take you to the world of seabirds, through scientific, personal and mythical stories - woven together with songs and instrumental music. We will dive deep into ancient myths where feathers and fur tangle - where woman and bird become one. We will fly with the Shearwater as she dances 6000km over the waves to Iceland. We will stare into her burrow where she lays a single white egg. PRICES £7 / £4 The Caedmon Hall, Gateshead Tel: 0191 433 8420 Events at the Star and Shadow Friday 6th May 2011, 7.30pm Away with the Fairies Told by Michael and Wendy Dacre'The Dacres Take You Away with the Fairies!' feature some of our old favourites - tales that have grown with us over the years, like children you just can't get rid of. They are evidence of encounters with other worlds, sometimes terrifying, sometimes helpful, always disturbing and mind-bendingly strange. Accounts of The Fair Folk, the Other People, ghosts and spectral dogs, spine-tingling brushes with the innumerable spirits that inhabit the invisible world all around us, bringing death, disappearance and even a change of fortune. Some of the stories link the Dacres with the North, while others are rooted on Dartmoor, upon whose bleak uplands we lived for a time. All the tales cross that border between one world and the other, for good or ill. PRICES £7 / £4  Friday 1st April 2011A Night of Fools Presented by A Bit Crack - StorytellingFeaturing a motley crew of Chris Bostock, clown or clone, Malcolm Green, madcap mayhem, and Pat Renton, jester minute. Come with your own foolish stories, and help decide who will win remarkable prizes : A Banana skin, A wooden spoon, Half a turnip, A complete turnip, A Red nose.  Friday 4th March 2011Here's to The Hare! - A toast to the beginning of Spring told by Ruthie Boycott-GarnettNow that the snow has melted away and shoots of green are poking through the soil, take a moment to celebrate that Spring feeling with an evening of Stories with Ruthie Boycott-Garnett. Ruthie's stories come from the earth, she plucks them from the hills of Yorkshire, drains them from the English coast and catches them from the hearths of old women's living rooms. She will warm your heart with elemental, ethereal tales whilst the drone of the hurdy gurdy evokes a world you will want to be invited into..." PRICES £7 / £4  Friday 4th February 2011Seven told by Adam Bushnell with Musician Ian McKone.Wrath, Greed, Gluttony, Lust, Envy, Pride, Sloth. Seven Stories. Seven Deadly Sins. Join local author and storyteller Adam Bushnell and local musician and traditional singer Ian McKone for an evening you won't forget. There will be a mixture of the familiar and the unfamiliar but all told in a new context. Reflect upon the nature of the ÔselfÕ while Adam and Ian entertain you. PRICES £7/£4 |
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