Exploring the wisdom and imagination of wondertales

Star Anise Cafe, Stroud  

7:30-9:30pm

7:15 - doors open

£11 / £9con - pay on the door - includes a hot drink 

Wednesdays monthly 2024-2025:

25 Sept - Stories of Gold and Enchantment 

30 Oct -Dark and Wild Things with Emmy the Harp 

27 Nov - Paths and Lost Places

18 Dec - Light and Fire with Amy Cox 

29 Jan - Life, death and rebirth

Traditional wondertales (like the fairy stories collected by the Grimms brothers) are deeply layered metaphors for human experience. Magical, otherworldly and transporting, people find a deep pleasure in listening to them and in wandering through the imaginative realms they conjure up. And these stories are more than just entertainment. They have been passed on for hundreds of years because they explore life’s essential themes: 

 Love & loss, conflict & peace, oppression & liberation, trauma & healing, and so many more - all the challenges and possibilities of ourselves, our relationships, our communities, our nations, our species.

Wonder Night Cafe workshops offer participants a creative space in which to excavate the riches of a particular wondertale. Kind of like a book club for fairy tales.

Contact Hannah to book a private Wonder Night

Come into the forest and stray from the path, 

There are wonders and secrets hid deep in its heart,  

Music to snatch your feet swift into dance, 

And words to bewitch you given half a chance...

 Bringing together her love of ceilidh calling with her love of stories, Hannah interweaves the wild imagination of the Grimms' fairy tales with magical ceilidh dances. Come and dance your way through the story, becoming the characters, happenings and magic of the tale, accompanied by  the entrancing music of acclaimed folk musicians Paul Hutchinson and Matt Norman.