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
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
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
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.
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.
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.