Star Anise Cafe, Stroud  

7:30-9:30 pm

( 7:15 pm Doors)

Wednesdays (and a Sunday) - Spring 2025:

Sun 30 March - Storms & Silver Hands: Stories of Power

Wed 30 April - Stories of Hope & Fresh Horizons, with Amy Cox

Wed 28 May - Stories of Courage and Heeding the Call, with Ashley Howard

Wed 25 June - Stories of the Sun, Moon and Stars

Tickets on the door:

£12 / £10 concession including a hot drink 

Old tales with fresh ideas for current times

Stand-alone sessions exploring how traditional stories carry rich gems to help us develop our emotional intelligence and our ability to face the troubles in the world. 

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, develop our practices of actively humanising each other and engage with struggle and injustice from a place that is resilient, compassionate and hopeful - drawing on folk and fairy tales that explore these themes. 

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Bittersweet - Thurs 15 May 2025

Sticks and Stones - Thurs 29 May  

The Heart Drums - Thurs 12 June

Snake skins -  Thurs 26 June

Twist of Fate - Tues 8 July

Timings: 10:00-13:00 UTC

Location: Online (Zoom)

Tickets: https://buytickets.at/hannahmoore/1638054 

Prices
Per workshop: 

£40 Standard / £55 pay it forward / £24 low income
For all 5 sessions:

£160 Standard / £220 pay it forward / £96 low income

For those with no income, please email about bursary possibilities.

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

19:30-21:30

Wed 21 May 

Nailsworth Town Hall

£8

Nailsworth Festival

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...

Sunday 25 May

The Greenbank Pub, Bristol, BS5 6DP

11:00-17:00

£5

Bookings & more details

The Trinity Rooms, Stroud , GL5 3AZ

7:30-9:30pm

(7:15pm Doors)

A young person sets out on the road.

They have nothing, not even their hands.

All they hold onto is faith that regrowth is possible,

somewhere out in the wide and waiting world.

In The House in the Wild Woods, traditional storyteller Hannah Moore entwines the fairy tale of The Handless Maiden with true stories of agency and hope.

Amy Cox, cellist and singer, weaves in folk music and songs to take you deeper into the magic...

Together, they invite you to on a stormy, starry journey into what it means - out the the soil of troubled times - to grow back wild and full of wonder...

Tickets: www.tickettailor.com/events/hannahmoore

Early Bird (until 10 May): £10

Standard: £16

Concession: £12

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

Sat 29 March 2025 

The Storytelling Hut,  Emerson College

Sun 30 March 2025 

Star Anise Cafe, Stroud

7:30pm

Tickets on the door

A young person sets out onto the road. They have nothing, not even their hands. They can only hold onto conviction, prayers for help, and faith that regrowth is possible, somewhere in the wide and waiting world...

Storms and Silver Hands is  dark and starry journey, weaving together the wondertale of The Handless Maiden with stories from around the world that speak to heartache and hope - stories that remind us of what is possible, if we set our minds to the world we want to live in....

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. 

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 

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.

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

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

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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.

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. 

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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.

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. 

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.