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  • Liz Weir and the Strength in Stories

    Liz Weir and the Strength in Stories
    Jan 8 2026
    Having told stories since 1973, storytelling has played a major part in her life and has taken Liz to five continents. Recently she attended the Marrakech International Storytelling Festival with 100 tellers from 33 countries where she took part in the successful attempt to break the World Record for the longest continuous oral storytelling session - 80 hours and 35 minutes.https://www.moroccoworldnews.com/2025/01/165264/marrakech-breaks-guinness-world-record-for-longest-storytelling-session/As she started telling stories in Belfast during our "Troubles" in Northern Ireland, a time when violence was raging on the streets, Liz learned how important the art of storytelling can be as it can encourage people to listen to each other. Listening to stories which may be very different from our own shows respect , and respect can lead to dialogue which can often lead to the peaceful resolution of conflict.She wrote an article about it here https://storynet.org/out-of-the-tunnel-and-into-the-light-of-peace/Liz is the Storyteller in Residence for a charity which promotes storytelling throughout Northern Ireland and her current focus is on training people from both sides of the Irish Border to tell stories - see https://www.armstory.org.uk/projects/border-talk-She does a lot of intergenerational storytelling, bringing our young people and elders together to promote this invaluable intangible art. Storytelling is a living tradition and we must inspire our young people to continue the rich tradition. It celebrates cultural diversity and hence encourages communication between people of all backgrounds.For more information, see her website:Liz Weir – Storyteller | Writer
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    49 min
  • Christina Cairns and the Creative Process

    Christina Cairns and the Creative Process
    Dec 25 2025
    Christina Cairns is a visual artist/writer/performer/song-writer/storyteller. She is a member of the Great Southern Storytellers and a frequent storyteller at their monthly story gatherings. She has told many stories to appreciative audiences in Denmark over the years.She is fascinated most of all by the power of story, the tales we tell ourselves, tales handed down generation to generation, and how these layers upon layers of story change across time, and shape us and the world we live in. She is inspired especially by fairytales, folklore and mythology, and likes to look at stories from new or different points of view, exploring the what-ifs and the if-onlys.There are no boundaries between the different aspects of her work; music and songwriting influence her artwork, poetry informs theatre ideas, theatre ideas bleed into visual works, and back again. She is also just a little obsessed with books, creating small, hand made and hand stitched illustrated booklets of poetry and storytelling.Christina writes and performs original song/storytelling shows. Her three solo shows The Wolf Bride, Fables and Treesong have featured at the Denmark Festival of Voice and Brave New Works; Windborne, a co-production with writer Linda Bradbury, was featured at the 2019 Denmark Festival of Voice, and she has most recently written and performed The Descent of Persephone at the 2025 Denmark Brave New Works Festival, in collaboration with Silvia Lehmann, another member of GSS.Christina holds a Diploma in Graphic Design and BA in Theatre and Literature. She lives with her family on the beautiful south coast of Western Australia, in Denmark, a little town that lies between forests of magnificent Karri trees and the Great Southern Ocean.To contact, please email her at greatsouthernstorytellers@gmail.com
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    40 min
  • Silvia Lehmann and Old Wisdom of Tales

    Silvia Lehmann and Old Wisdom of Tales
    Dec 11 2025
    Silvia Lehmann – Storyteller, Theatre Director, Community Facilitator Silvia holds a BA (Hons) and Graduate Diploma in Theatre Directing, Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne Australia (1995). She has lived in the small coastal town of Denmark in Western Australia for 17 years and regularly runs creative writing, acting, somatic movement and storytelling workshops. Silvia has facilitated many cross-artform community performance projects, including Living Testament (2016), The Fisherman and His Wife (2018), and The Spindle of Spoken Story, a 7-month storyteller development programme devised and delivered together with Nicola-Jane le Breton (2019). Silvia was playwright for Movementworks’ adaption of The Yellow Wallpaper (2011) and playwrighting coordinator/mentor on Feet First Collective’s Medusa (2024). Over 2023 Silvia worked on a concept of adaptation of the Baroque opera The Fairy Queen for Denmark Baroque. In 2023 Silvia created Great Southern Storytellers (GSS) together with Jeff Atkinson and Christina Cairns, telling traditional, mytho-poetic tales. GSS has run monthly storytelling circles in Denmark since November 2023, and holds regular storytelling workshops for the community.To contact her, email greatsouthernstorytellers@gmail.com
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    58 min
  • Claire Hennessy and Telling Tall Tales

    Claire Hennessy and Telling Tall Tales
    Nov 27 2025
    British-born Claire Hennessy is co-founder/producer of Six Feet Apart Productions, producing online and in-person storytelling shows and festivals. She was a recipient of a 2024 NSN Oracle Award. She’s a GrandSlam finalist at The Moth, the National Storytelling Festival, and West Side Stories. She was a featured teller at the 2024 St Louis Storytelling Festival, the 2021 and 2024 Women’s Storytelling Festivals and the 2023 Sacramento Valley Storytelling Festival. She helps organize the Bay Area Storytelling Festival and is a Board Member of the Storytelling Association of California. She’s performed on The Risk! Podcast, Better Said Than Done, Good Liar’s Club, Moonshine Stories, among others. She is hoping to find an agent for her humorous memoir before she is too old to go on a book tour.You can find out more about Claire at: Six Feet Apart ProductionsStorytelling Association of CaliforniaThe Bonkers Brit
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    49 min
  • Jeff Atkinson and A Life of Deep Meaning

    Jeff Atkinson and A Life of Deep Meaning
    Nov 13 2025
    Jeff is a storyteller from the edge of the known world or, if you prefer, a small town on the South Coast of Western Australia called Denmark. He runs a monthly community storytelling circle and is involved in running rights of passage ceremonies, in men's work and gatherings at which he has been known to tell a story or two. Jeff has a keen interest in the intersection of story, myth and ritual.Jeff spent twenty years telling small stories with finely honed words often serving questionable ends. Hitting middle-age and embarking on the inward journey that often begins at that time of life, he has come to understand that his calling is to spread bigger, grander stories in service of the goal of re-enchanting the world by re-kindling our imaginations.You can find out more about Jeff by emailing him at greatsouthernstorytellers@gmail.com
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    48 min
  • Vanessa Woolf and Innovative Ideas

    Vanessa Woolf and Innovative Ideas
    Oct 30 2025
    Vanessa is “London’s resident storyteller” her trailblazing story events for adults have led to a partnership with TimeOut Magazine, a TEDx talk in Stormont NI and many TV /radio performances. She’s founder and lead storyteller of Connection With Wonder (previously London Dreamtime) programming training and projects as well as very popular live events. She’s founder of Space for Storytelling a free crowdfunded support for London’s storytelling community.You can find out more about her on Instagram
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    51 min
  • Ken Jones and Yarning on Country

    Ken Jones and Yarning on Country
    Oct 16 2025
    Uncle Ken Jones, NAIDOC Male Elder & Proud Boandik ElderUncle Ken is founder of Bush Adventures, a family company that takes guests on personalised tours of the Limestone Coast, telling the stories of Boandik Country. He has He has dedicated over 50 years of his life to conservation efforts , including on the state Aboriginal Heritage Committee, which oversees and advises on the preservation and protection of Aboriginal sites and remains.Pulan the Spirit Bird and the Bunyip is the story he shares.info@bushrepair.com.auwww.bushadventures.com.auFacebook: Bush Adventures
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    1 h
  • Karmit Even-Zur and Energetic Knowing

    Karmit Even-Zur and Energetic Knowing
    Oct 2 2025
    Karmit’s work history spans diverse experiences, interests and competences from the healing arts, and the arts & crafts world. Her unique skill-set provides a deep perspective for transformational work, and in working with soul searching questions. Her studies encompass human ecology and earth healing modalities as well as energy healing systems and shamanic practices. Karmit is the founder of Earth speaks, an educational initiative combining earth energy work)and creative expression. Earth Speaks offers seminars and journeys, where people explore holistic connections to the landscape, build a renewed relationship with Place and experience its sacred aspects. Participants develop sensitivity to living systems in nature – cultivating an awareness of the wild, the unseen, and the conscious aspects of the earth.Her work explores the sacred sources of story in the realms of the imagination where everything is possible. She is passionate about creating new narratives that combine ancient, nature based thinking with contemporary forms and needs. She believes the Oral Tradition acts as a healing salve; helping us to stitch together our fragmented perceptions of the world.https://www.earth-speaks.net/IG earthspeaks https://www.instagram.com/earthspeaks/?hl=en
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    55 min
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