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REGRETFULLY POSTPONED — the coughing, however, continues…:-( Upcoming this week — Thursday, May 9th, 2024 — ‘TisTales teller Monty will be back at Babushka Books in Shanklin with a set of Island-based tales and legends. The first half of the show will feature a legend of how Godshill got its name, a macabre tale from Arreton, and a well known, and still told, children’s nursery tale that was originally set in Shanklin… The second part will feature a work-in-progress historical tale of life in the city of vice that was Newport in the 1850s, an evangelical preacher with a penchant for publishing inflammatory tracts, and a link to Jane Eyre… ...

**POSTPONED DUE TO ILLNESS — REPLACEMENT DATE TO BE ANNOUNCED** We’re pleased to announce our first ‘Tis Tales set at the Coffee House, Lake, (on the No. 8 bus route, opposite Morrisons, next to Aldi; other supermarkets are available, just not there…), on Thursday, April 25th, 2024, doors at 7pm, first story 7.15, tickets £6 available from the ’ Tis Tales ticket site. So come all ye and hear Holly, Monty and Sue regale you with tales for grown ups of fantastical beasts and maybe a mythical monster or two… ...

Another outing for ‘Tis Tales teller Monty with Ryde based harpist Theresa Ellis, also featuring special guest Jenni Charity, at Monkton Arts, Ryde, on Wednesday April 10th, 2024. Doors 7pm, first story 7.15pm. Tickets, price £5, are available here.

A mathematician finds a gift from a god. Blacksmiths beat out the music of the spheres. And why are there turtles everywhere? Where does myth meet science? Is it only in the middle of the night when we half wake and half sleep? In this timeless place of wonder and insight, time stretches and a fissure opens that builds a dream bridge between many worlds… All you need to know: ...

Clare Murphy, a highly respected international storyteller will be leading a storytelling workshop from 9.00-5pm on Wednesday 6th March, 2024, at Quay Arts, Newport. It will focus on developing new and different ways to communicate [ Clare Murphy, training]. Clare says: Whether you are a climate change scientist, a paramedic, a UN Policy maker, an academic, you need to be able to talk fluently about your work and make an impact on your audience. Storytelling skills will help you and your team improve your impact and message, no matter what sector you work in. ...

Making use of the extra day in the year, Holly and Sue will be telling a set of tales on the theme of luurrrrve, and where it takes you, at Medina Bookshop in Cowes, on Thursday, 29th February, 2024 . Doors open at 6.15 for 6.30pm start. A wife plays a trick on her husband, a soldier holds a secret and a woman has a tough choice selecting a husband. Discover the funny, thoughtful and shocking place that love can take you in these wonderful traditional stories old by island-based storytellers Tis Tales. ...

Just a reminder that this week is National Storytelling Week, as promoted by the Society for Storytelling (who seem to have decided that now is a good time to refresh their whole website, which is to say, the site is currently down…;-) If storytelling still means little more to you than reading bedtime tales, to children, from illustrated books, then DEFINITELY LEAVE THE YOUNGER KIDS AT HOME and come to see one of the sassiest tellers of traditional tales that I think I’ve ever seen: Sarah Liisa Wilkinson’s “Strange Girls, Beautiful Monsters” is on at the Cowes Combined Services Club, Tuesday, Jan. 30th, 2024, 7pm, tickets available here. Not really for children.. ...

It’s that time of year when the National Storytelling Week comes around again — Saturday, 27th January - Sunday, 4th February 2024 — and we’re starting things off early with a performance by ‘Tis Tales teller, Monty, alongside harpist Theresa Ellis, at Babushka Books, Shanklin, on the theme of Tradtional Tales from England and Wales. _Poor Sir Orfeo, a King of Winchester whose wife has been taken prisoner by the fairies. A master harper, can he beguile the good people to win her back? _ For the sorceress Ceridwen, a year and a day is a price she’ll happy pay to brew a potion of inspiration for her talentless. But when the prize goes elsewhere, a magical chase ensues…. ...

As the new year begins, what better way to start than with a Somewhen Storytelling promoted storytelling event in Cowes as part of National Storytelling Week…. If you haven’t been to a storytelling show before, try this one… A girl enters the woods clutching a skull with burning eyesAnother tumbles out of a barrel and falls in loveA third erupts into the world riding a goatOne more opens a forbidden door… ...

For your delight and delectation, the Island Storytellers will be present two storytelling showcases on the theme of “The Twelve Days of Christmas” in Ventnor on Saturday, December 16th, 2023: Ventnor Exchange, 11.30-12.30 St Catherine’s Hub (in St Catherine’s Church opposite Ventnor Exchange), 1.30-2.30 The Island Storytellers monthly storyround is also in Ventnor this month, Thursday, December 14th, 7-9pm, Ventnor Library. This is an informal, round table telling event, all welcome, tellers, old and new, and listeners alike. ...