Upcoming Events

The Wonder Night Cafe: 

A monthly night of stories, cake and conversation 

Star Anise Cafe, Stroud  

7:30-9:30 pm

( 7:15 pm Doors)


Wednesdays monthly 2024-2025:

27 Nov - Paths and Lost Places, with Bronia Evers

18 Dec - Light and Fire, with Amy Cox 

29 Jan - Life, death and rebirth, with Marcus Pibworth


Tickets on the door:

£11 / £9 including a hot drink 

Ceilidhs for Christmas

14 Dec – Trinity Rooms,  Stroud, with Diatonics: https://balfolkstroud.uk/cps/gigs/ceilidhwiththediatonics-e6dba1.php


20 Dec – Cecil Sharp House, London, with Brown Boots Ceilidh Band: https://www.kneesupcecilsharp.co.uk/programme.html


21 Dec – Greenbank Pub, Bristol, with Greenbank Ceilidh Collective: https://hdfst.uk/e118881


Past Events

The Joy of Storytelling 

9-11 Feb 2024
St Luke's Therapy Centre, Stroud
£150

A practical workshop for story lovers of all ages 18-118, exploring how to tell traditional stories and what wisdom and joy we gain from this ancient art form. 


Led by Hannah Moore and storyteller, song-sharer and herbalist Hannah Robson


For more info and to book, please visit:
https://www.the-peach.org/events

Dolls, Trolls & Iron Feet

The Storytelling Hut

Emerson College

Sat 14 April 2024

7:30pm


£10/donation on the door


 West of the Moon presents Dolls, Trolls and Iron Feet, a storytelling tapestry that weaves together three wondertales full of wisdom and magic. 

Each story is woven in and out of the others with music and song by storytellers Lu Orza, Mica Sinclair and Hannah Moore.

Join them to travel with the wild third daughters of these stories as they follow their hearts and journey into unknown realms to find love and light, running with the white bear king Valemon, questing for Finist the Bright Falcon and facing trial by fire in the chicken-footed hut of Baba Yaga.

https://sites.google.com/view/westofthemoon/home 


The Fairy Tale Ceilidh

19:30

Sat 25 Nov 2023

The Pound Arts Centre

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.

Stories for the Heart 

12-14 Jan 2024
Hill House Retreat, nr Stroud
£160-£200

A weekend exploring the wisdom and medicine to be found in traditional stories - a retreat for the new year focused on imagination, reflection and creative practice



More info and bookings

Fate, Faith & Fortune

19:30-21:30

Wed 7 Aug

Sidmouth Folk Festival

https://sidmouthfolkfestival.co.uk/

 
Storytellers Hannah Moore and Fiona Eadie bring you an evening of wisdom and humour from the old tales.  

Join them for a journey along the sometimes comic, sometimes dangerous, path between choice and chance, in this programme full of fools and sages, hurdles and  hiccoughs, doom and destiny...

Restorative Stories

Exploring how we can build our capacity for compassion and actively humanise each other, inspired by the wisdom of traditional tales


A series of drop in online workshops that invite creative thinking and deep reflection about living and working restoratively, about how we cultivate a culture of compassion and develop our practices of actively humanising each other, drawing on folk and fairy tales that explore these themes. 


Bittersweet - 13 June

Twist of Fate - 22 June

Sticks and Stones - 3 July

Snake skins -  18 July

Read more


Timings: 10:00-12:00

Location: Online 

Price: £12 standard /£9 concession /£6 low waged

Tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/hannahmoore 

Stand alone - you are welcome to any or all of the sessions.

The Tree of Stories

Traditional tales for reconciliation and resilience

A workshop exploring how we can use stories to work for peace within ourselves, in our communities and across the divides we encounter in the world. 


Read more


20 July  2023

10:00-16:30

St Ethelburga's Centre for Peace and Reconciliation, Bishopsgate, London


Price: £60 - or contact me to discuss what's affordable for you - 'people over profit'!


Email hannahmoorestoryteller@gmail.com to reserve a place.

Stories for the Heart

A weekend retreat in Sladebank Woods sailing on the sea of stories, enjoying the wonders of traditional tales and creative excavating the depths they invite us to explore.


Stories for the Heart is a weekend workshop for anyone interested in the medicine of storytelling, who wants to experience and explore how we can use both true and traditional tales for personal and communal healing, for empowerment, understanding, connection and social change.  Read more


14 - 16 July  2023

Sladebank Woods, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 1PF


Arrive 19:30 Friday - depart 16:00 Sunday


Price: £140 - or contact me to discuss what's affordable for you  - 'people over profit'! - Any contribution is welcome.

Story Walk

The Nailsworth Walking Festival 2023

Walk the paths of Woodchester’s hidden valley, exploring its lakes, wooded slopes and meadows whilst listening to the beautiful story of the Nixie of the Millpond. It’s a fairy tale of promises, enchantments, love, loss and the magic of dreams. 

Thurs 1st June

7pm - 9pm

Start: Woodchester Priory, Roman Catholic Church, St Mary’s Hill, Woodchester, GL5 5HP. 

Total walking distance: approximately 3 miles.

Free. 

Booking is essential

Dogs: Yes. 

Info: Jo Hofman on 07753 228942. 


The Wonder Night Cafe

Star Anise Cafe, Stroud, GL5 1QG

The Wonder Night Cafe: an evening of stories, cake and conversation.

- Exploring the wisdom and imagination of traditional wondertales.


3rd Tuesday of the month: 18 July

Tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/hannahmoore/937941 

 Or cash on the door

£10 / £8


Wondertales (like the Grimms' fairy stories), are magical, otherworldly and transporting. There is wisdom and medicine for us in these tales, and they offer us powerful imaginative tools for exploring the concerns we live with.

At the Wonder Night Cafe, storyteller and facilitator Hannah Moore offers a different story each month, and holds space afterwards to discuss and creatively respond to what you find in the story - over hearty helpings of Sar Anise's delicious tea and cake.