Recent work
2012
Performances
The Tower of Bagel, Yard of Tales, Market Harborough; Matlock Storytelling Café, Matlock; Torriano Storynights, London; The Maltings, Farnham; Tales at the Wharf, Hebden Bridge; Menorah, Manchester; Word of Mouth, Manchester; Shepshed Watermill, Loughborough; Leicester Shul, Leicester
Robin Hood, The Story Forge, Sheffield; Oundle Literature Festival, Oundle; Tales at the Wharf, Hebden Bridge; Dragon’s Breath, Dronfield; Milgi’s Yurt, Caerdydd / Cardiff
Darkest England, West Country Storytelling Festival; Essex Storytellers
Appearances at Sheffield Folk Festival, Sheffield; Eccleshall Woods, Sheffield; Tales and Trails Storywalks Festival, Grasmere; Festival at the Edge, West Country Storytelling Festival; West Bridgford Literature Festival; Didsbury Festival; Beacons Festival, Sheffield; Off the Shelf Literature Festival, Sheffield; Morley Hall, Leeds; Ordsall Hall, Salford; The Telling, Doncaster
Teaching and Workshops
Storytelling Symposium, Canolfan Adrodd Storiau George Ewart Evans / George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling, Pryfisgol Morgannwg / University of Glamorgan
Creative Writing and Narrative Arts, Halsway Manor, Crowcombe
After Grimm conference, Kingston University
2011
Performances
Darkest England, Cambridge Storytellers, Unitarian Church, Cambridge; Festival at the Edge
Jack and Not the Beanstalk, Festival at the Edge
Robin Hood, Festival at the Edge
The Tower of Bagel, The Story Forge, Sheffield
Kala Kahani, Kala Sangam, Harrogate Theatre
Grand Concert: XVth International Brigade Memorial Trust, Sheffield Trades and Labour Club
Appearances at Festival at the Edge. Whitby Folk Week
Featured storytelling for Telling Tales, St Marks and Central Primary Support Schools, Knowsley, Liverpool; Uttoxeter Storytelling Festival, Thomas Alleyne’s School, Uttoxeter; Wisewood and Loxley Timber Art Project
Teaching and Workshops
1-day workshop, Cambridge Storytellers, St Andrews Church Hall, Cambridge
Heywood’s Triangle, introductory storytelling workshop, Festival at the Edge
2010
Performances
Gunpowder, Treason and Plot, Flying Donkeys, The Voice Box, Derby
Gilgamesh, Lawrence Batley Theatre, Huddersfield
Tales of Robin Hood, Nottingham Library
Myths of Mercia, Festival at the Edge
Darkest England, Leeds Storytelling Club, Warwick Folk Festival, Folk Against Fascism, Matlock Storytelling Cafe
The Middle Yard, Settle Storytelling Festival
Featured storytelling in Flying Donkeys, Folk Against Fascism Sheffield, Shropshire schools, and elsewhere
Teaching and Workshops
Young Tongues workshops, Burton on Trent, for Young Storyteller of the Year
Creative Writing lectures and workshops, Derby University: Tricksters and Outsiders, Losing the Plot, Invisible Visions
Creative Writing workshops, Nottingham Contemporary
Storytelling workshop, Warwick Folk Festival
2009
Performances
The Middle Yard: Brewhouse, Burton on Trent; Peel Centre, Peel, Isle of Man
Myths of Mercia: Birmingham Children’s Library
Darkest England: The Fat Cat, Sheffield; Tales at the Wharf, Stubbing Wharf, Hebden Bridge; Cartmel Village Hall; Rockingham Castle, Northampton; The Briton’s Protection, Manchester; Flying Donkeys, The Voice Box, Derby
Telling Stories: Wellcome Trust International Engagement Workshop, Bengaluru (Bangalore), India
Featured storytelling, Junior Yearly Meeting, Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)
Teaching and Workshops
Telling Stories: Wellcome Trust International Engagement Workshop, Bengaluru (Bangalore), India
Seminar on contemporary storytelling, School of English, University of Sheffield
2008
Performances
The Middle Yard, National Centre for Early Music, York; The Voice Box, Derby; Otley; Literature Festival; SAGE, Newcastle; Library Theatre, Sheffield; Normanton, Lincoln, Richard Attenborough Centre, Leicester; Hay-on-Wye Literature Festival
Derbyshire Tales and Legends, Quarndon Village Hall
Featured storytelling at Burton Storytelling Circle; Brewhouse, Burton on Trent; Busk Meadows School, Sheffield; Phoenix Music Club, Companions Club, Sheffield; Rotherham Children’s Book Festival; Stephenson’s College, Melbourne; Festival at the Edge; Sandall Beat Woods, Doncaster; The Beacons, Parkwood Springs, Sheffield; Bamford Recreation Ground; Noel Baker Community College, Allenton, Derby
Javalaka at New Rock Folk Club, Maltby; TUC May Festival, Chesterfield
Teaching and Workshops
Abbot Beyne School, Burton on Trent
Holmfirth Library
Ilkley Literature Festival