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Tailspinners

Monthly Night of the Storyteller from Tailspin at The Miller, London Bridge

Dame Fortune's Wheel & the Three Estates

A storytelling journey back the three Estates of Medieval times: Those who work, those who pray and those who fight..

The Shaming of Agnes Leaman

A fusion of factual stories taken from the Mayor's Court of Tudor Norwich with traditional folk tales from that time. 

Tell It Play It

An all-day workshop with Sharon Jacsties and Pete Mona at Torriano Avenue. 

Book Launch: Somerset Folk Tales

Sharon Jacksties launches her new book, Somerset Folk Tales, published by The History Press.

Out of Eden

Storytelling performance with Sue Hollingsorth, woven around Sue's journey from Eden to Addo in South Africa.

Storytellers Studio

This is one of a series of monthly training days preparing storytellers for performance.

A Thousand and One Nights

The fabulous Egyptian storyteller and performer, Chirine El Ansary returns to the Crick Crack Club.

The Monkey King

Meet the Chinese Monkey King - transformed and improvised as you'll never have seen him before.

Stroud's Story Cabaret

Part of Site Festival: Stroud's storytellers perform Without this Art: stories of Art, Craft & Making with painter Ione Parkin.

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Latest news

George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling annual symposium This year's symposium takes the theme of Storytelling and Anniversaries - including the bicentenary of the publication of Grimms' Fairytales More


Summer Storytelling Festivals Festival at the Edge, Beyond The Border, The Westcountry Storytelling Festival and more. The summer season of celebrating stories is upon us. More


Scotland's Young Storyteller Award The Scottish Storytelling Centre launches its first Young Storyteller Award this April More



New Green Canterbury Tales Tales to Sustain propose a nationwide storytelling pilgrimage to Canterbury in 2013 More



Storytelling on Resonance FM 104.4 Giles Abbott leads a discussion on storytelling on London's arts radio station More



Young Storyteller of the Year 2012 Congratulations to the winners of this year's YSOY contest which took place in Birmingham Library Theatre on 10 March 2012. Find out who won and watch video of the winners More


Somerset Storytelling Festival With the national calendar of storytelling events continuing to grow, we welcome a new addition to this year's festival circuit More



News from the Board Strenghtening ties in the Society... Helping you get in touch with local Area Reps — helping us to spread the news about Storytelling More


Publications: Grand Sale Due to a change in publishing policy, the SfS is no longer going to publish their booklets in paper format only, so we are selling our entire stock for the amazing price of £1.00 per copy. More


National Storytelling Week, 28 January - 4 February Thousands of people took part in this year's National Storytelling Week at events across the UK More



Interview: Richard Hamilton The Society talks to the author of The Last Storytellers: Tales from the Heart of Morocco about the disappearing hlaykia of Marrakesh. More


New Storytelling Laureate Katrice Horsley has been named as the second Storytelling Laureate, taking over from Taffy Thomas in January 2012. More



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