Once Upon The Aire...

Storytelling Nights in Leeds, West Yorkshire

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The storytelling club took place monthly from January 2008, until some time in mid-2012. Thanks to everyone who ever came along and listened to the tales - it was great fun while it lasted!

Storytelling Events

Stories from the Floor

Hope summer is treating you all well!

Once Upon the Aire will be getting together in August at The Grove. This month we'll be enjoying STORIES FROM THE FLOOR, an opportunity for that story that can't wait to leave your tongue to get around.

Date and Time: 
Thursday, 5 August 2010 - 8:00pm
Entry Fee: 
£3.00

Much Love and Flower Power

Featuring: 
Stories from the Floor
Date and Time: 
Thursday, 1 July 2010 - 8:00pm
Entry Fee: 
£3.00

From the Odd

Featuring: 
Tim Ralphs

Tim Ralphs is a compelling, experimental teller with a curiosity for pushing stories to their limits. From The Odd is his kaleidoscopic re-imagining of some of the most familiar material in myth, folktale and playground nursery rhyme – handled with reverence, love, sewing scissors and a welding iron. Each performance is re-stitched and re-soldered, each story and image re-visited and re-imagined. Encounter Orpheus' Lyre, urban landscapes, the Devil playing scrabble, stars, sheds, and jocular cannibals. Let Tim take you to the edge, and bring you back FROM THE ODD!

Plus - as always there will be an opportunity to hear stories "from the floor" so if there's a story you're dying to tell, bring it along!

Date and Time: 
Thursday, 3 June 2010 - 8:00pm
Entry Fee: 
£4.00
Concessions: 
£3.00

The Merrie Month of May

Featuring: 
stories from the floor

Forecast: Sunny spells, with a chance of Morris Dancers.

Join us in a celebration to welcome the coming summer. May-poles and picnics; sand-castles and marching bands. The promise of joy, and the slightly bonkers things that we do whenever there's a hint of sunshine.

If there's a story you've been itching to tell, bring it along to entertain us - or just come along and listen to the strange and delightful tales.

Resident story-tellers Peter Findlay and Andrew Macpherson will be on hand to make sure the goblins don't drink all the Pimms by themselves.

Please note that the Leeds Story Nights are moving back to Thursday evenings, and our new venue is the Grove Inn!

Date and Time: 
Thursday, 6 May 2010 - 8:00pm
Entry Fee: 
£3.00

Darkest England

Featuring: 
Simon Heywood

When the green field comes off like a lid,
revealing what was much better hid ...

Simon will take us on a rummage through the storytelling skeletons in the English national closet. Advisory: may contain extreme peril and violence, black dogs, dead moons, flying children, rose trees and Charles Dickens' least favourite bedtime story.

Plus, there'll be a chance to hear stories 'from the floor', so if there's a tale you've been dying to tell - now's your chance!

Note: we have a different venue this month. We'll be in The Grove Inn, Back Row, tucked just behind Bridgewater Place (under the Dalek).

Date and Time: 
Tuesday, 6 April 2010 - 8:00pm
Entry Fee: 
£4.00
Concessions: 
£3.00