‘Tis Tales teller Monty is giving a new performance of his first show from back in February, 2023 — Unforeseen Consequences: Travelling the Road — at FuBar, Ryde, on Saturday September 21st, 2024, 3-4pm, as part of the first Isle of Wight Steampunk Festival.
‘Tis Tales tellers Holly and Monty will be appearing at the first Isle of Wight Steampunk Festival in Ryde on Saturday, September 21st, 2024.
Show times:
A three day beer’n’spoken word festival at Waverley Holiday in park, East Cowes, Friday-Sunday Spetember 13th-15th, 2024? What’s not to like about that? Particularly when there are stories too…
‘Tis Tales teller Monty will be doing a couple of twenty minutes slots around about 4.50pm on Saturday, and 2.15pm on Sunday.
For a second year in a row, we honoured to be hosting the Somewhen Storytelling tent at Chale Show, Saturday-Sunday, 3rd-4th August, 2o24.
Featuring tales for all ages throughout the day, both days.
| Time | Storytelling/Activity | Aimed at | Led by |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 | Opening tales – Porridge and pots | All | Sue Bailey |
| 11:30 | Musical stories | 3+ | Izzy Norwood |
| 12:00 | Monsters and mayhem | 8+ | Nell Phoenix |
| 12:30 | Circus skills | All | Alicia Dent |
| 1:00 | Kings, coins and Chickens | 5+ | Holly Medland |
| 1:30 | Tales from the sea | 4+ | Sue Clark |
| 2:00 | Magical Gardens | 4+ | Nell Phoenix |
| 2:30 | Musical stories | 3+ | Izzy Norwood |
| 3:00 | Circus skills (outside the tent) / Myths and magic transformations (inside tent) | All / 7+ | Alicia Dent / Sylvia Clare |
| 3:30 | Stylish Stories | 5+ | Holly Medland |
| 4:00 | Closing tales – Beds and Byes | All | Sue Bailey |
| Time | Storytelling/Activity | Aimed at | Led by |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11:00 | Tales from the sea | 4+ | Sue Clark |
| 11:30 | Jack the lad’s dreaming | 8+ | Monty Hirst |
| 12:00 | Magical gardens | 4+ | Nell Phoenix |
| 12:30 | Sing some stories | 3+ | Bev Barber |
| 1:00 | Stylish stories | 5+ | Holly Medland |
| 1:30 | Porridge and pots | 3+ | Sue Bailey |
| 2:00 | Monsters and mayhem | 7+ | Nell Phoenix |
| 2:30 | Sing some stories | 3+ | Bev Barber |
| 3:00 | King’s chickens and coins | 5+ | Holly Medland |
| 3:30 | Island Tales | 8+ | Monty Hirst |
| 4:00 | Chillout tales | All | Anyone |
We’re delighted to announce that on the weekend of Sat/Sun August 3rd-th, 2024, we have the wonderful Nell Phoenix back on the Island, with a couple of short all-comers sets in our story tent at Chale Show, and full adult audience storytelling set at CHOYD (Yarmouth Community Hall) on Saturday, August 4th, 2024, 7pm.
So if you’re wondering what to do about getting your next cultural fix as Ventnor Fringe comes to a close, now you know….
Tickets available here: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/somewhen-storytelling
Closing off our storytelling festival within a fringe, your last chance to catch a Somewhen Storytelling set at Ventnor Fringe, 2024, with our ‘Tis Tales performance “Elemental Tales” — Saturday, July 27th, 2024, Ingrams Yard. Tickets available here.
For a second year in a row, it seems our “story festival within a fringe” headline act has had to cancel… Sara Liisa has been hit by the Covid lurgy, and unfortunately won’t be able to perform this week…
Headlining our “storytelling festival within a fringe” series of events, the fabulous Sarah Liisa Wilkinson will be back on the Island on Friday, July 26th 2024, at Crackerjack time, 5pm-6, in Ingrams Yard, with her show The Girsl and the Snake Witch.
Tickets for all the storytelling shows we’re supporting available here.
With Ventnor Fringe week upon us, don’t forget that the Island Storytellers’ “gang show” will be hitting Ventnor Library this Wednesday, July 24th, 2024, 7-9.30pm. Tickets available here.
Island Storytellers’ is an informal story circle that meets once a month, somewhere on the Island, to swap tales and share stories. For more details, see the Island Storytellers’ Facebook page. (Also see here.)
If you were hoping to catch ‘Tis Tales teller Holly’s show Middle Age Crisis at the Ventnor Arts Center next week as part of Ventnor Fringe, this show has now sold out 🙂
Holly is also performing in two other shows next week — as part of the Island Storytellers gang show The Seven Ages on Wednesday, 24th July, 7—9.30, at Ventnor Library, and with ‘Tis Tales for Elemental Tales on the second Saturday of Ventnor Fringe, Saturday, July 27th, 2024, 11am—noon, Ingrams Yard.
Tickets for those shows still available via links on https://tistales.org.uk/ventnor-fringe/ .
Building on our funded Somewhen Storytelling project last year, we’re please to announce a whole host of storytelling related events at this year’s Ventnor Fringe, with shows from a wide range of Island-based storytellers and a welcome return to the Island from Sarah Liisa Wilkinson.
Ticket links for all shows available here: https://tistales.org.uk/ventnor-fringe/
