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SUMMARY:How Not To Flee A War (In Person)
DESCRIPTION:‘How NOT to Flee a War’ is a first-hand talk by Ukrainian journalist Maria Romanenko\, co-presented with her partner Jez Myers\, telling the story of their attempt to escape Kyiv as Russia launched its full-scale invasion on 24 February 2022. \nWhat begins as a surreal morning of explosions and disbelief quickly becomes a frantic and uncertain decision: whether to stay\, where to go\, and how to leave a city rapidly emptying under threat. Built around their real journey out of Ukraine\, the talk uses personal storytelling and images from the road to show what the first days of invasion felt like from the inside. \nRather than a polished narrative of survival\, Maria and Jez describe the experience with blunt honesty and dark humour – the endless traffic\, exhaustion\, panic\, misinformation\, and the reality of borders under pressure. Through Maria’s perspective as a Ukrainian\, and Jez’s as a British partner caught inside the unfolding disaster\, the talk becomes both a gripping personal account and a wider reflection on displacement\, resilience\, and what it means to lose your home overnight. \nSince launching in 2022\, the tour has grown into a nationally recognised speaking series and a leading awareness-raising campaign across the UK and Europe. At its heart is the powerful talk\, ‘How NOT To Flee a War’\, which tells the gripping story of their escape from Kyiv to Manchester. \nTheir story has resonated around the world\, with coverage from BBC\, ITV\, Sky News\, CNN\, and many more. \nWith upcoming talks scheduled at the Welsh\, Scottish\, and Danish Parliaments\, alongside a headline slot at Lewes Speakers Festival\, this is one not to miss. \nBiographies\nMaria Romanenko is a Ukrainian journalist and co-founder of All For Ukraine. Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Hromadske International\, one of Ukraine’s best-known news organisations\, she is the only Ukrainian recipient of the Prime Minister’s Points of Light Award. Since relocating to the UK\, Maria has focused on supporting displaced Ukrainians and raising awareness through talks\, including the widely delivered How NOT to Flee a War. She has conducted over 1\,000 mainstream media interviews since arriving in the UK and is a regular commentator across national and international channels. \nJez Myers is a community champion and CEO of All For Ukraine. A recipient of Manchester City Council’s prestigious Pride of Manchester Award\, he brings a dual background in business consultancy and civic engagement. After fleeing Ukraine with Maria\, Jez has advised local and national bodies on supporting displaced Ukrainians\, as well as assisting multiple Ukrainian charities. He is also Chairperson of the Spirit of Manchester Awards\, the largest voluntary sector awards in the North West of England.
URL:https://settlestories.org.uk/whats-on-event/how-not-to-flee-a-war/
LOCATION:The Joinery\, Dawsons Court\, Market Place\, Settle\, North Yorkshire\, BD24 9ED\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Networking,Talk
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SUMMARY:Folklore and Future on the Settle-Carlisle
DESCRIPTION:We open with something rather special – a live recording of Dave Goulder performing his own song\, ‘The Settle and Carlisle’. Dave was a passed fireman on the line\, meaning he was licensed to drive. Three minutes of guitar and voice\, and you’re right back there. \nThe first presentation\, on Wednesday 27th May\, brings you the real stories of the railwaymen who kept this line running – people like Derek Soames and Jim Taylor\, whose ingenuity and dedication were\, frankly\, extraordinary. Brought to life by Peter Fox’s original cartoons and drawings\, a retired deputy headmaster and lifelong railway enthusiast. \nThe second\, on Wednesday 3rd June\, takes you back to the time when the whole line – not just Ribblehead – faced permanent closure. This is the story of how it was saved\, told by someone who was there\, with access to people and places that simply would not be possible today. \nTwo presentations by local historian Bob Swallow. Come on your own or bring a friend. There will be a warm welcome\, a good story\, and plenty to talk about afterwards.
URL:https://settlestories.org.uk/whats-on-event/folklore-and-future-on-the-settle-carlisle/2026-06-03/
LOCATION:The Joinery\, Dawsons Court\, Market Place\, Settle\, North Yorkshire\, BD24 9ED\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Talk
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SUMMARY:Folklore and Future on the Settle-Carlisle
DESCRIPTION:We open with something rather special – a live recording of Dave Goulder performing his own song\, ‘The Settle and Carlisle’. Dave was a passed fireman on the line\, meaning he was licensed to drive. Three minutes of guitar and voice\, and you’re right back there. \nThe first presentation\, on Wednesday 27th May\, brings you the real stories of the railwaymen who kept this line running – people like Derek Soames and Jim Taylor\, whose ingenuity and dedication were\, frankly\, extraordinary. Brought to life by Peter Fox’s original cartoons and drawings\, a retired deputy headmaster and lifelong railway enthusiast. \nThe second\, on Wednesday 3rd June\, takes you back to the time when the whole line – not just Ribblehead – faced permanent closure. This is the story of how it was saved\, told by someone who was there\, with access to people and places that simply would not be possible today. \nTwo presentations by local historian Bob Swallow. Come on your own or bring a friend. There will be a warm welcome\, a good story\, and plenty to talk about afterwards.
URL:https://settlestories.org.uk/whats-on-event/folklore-and-future-on-the-settle-carlisle/2026-05-27/
LOCATION:The Joinery\, Dawsons Court\, Market Place\, Settle\, North Yorkshire\, BD24 9ED\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Community Event,Talk
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SUMMARY:The Silver Reserve - Live Music
DESCRIPTION:There is music that performs at you. And then there is music that finds you.\nMatthew Sturgess\, who records and performs as The Silver Reserve\, makes the second kind. On a classical guitar\, with carefully layered loops and a voice that carries the weight of things honestly felt\, he crafts songs that don’t rush toward meaning. They circle it\, wait\, and then\, quietly\, they arrive somewhere true.\nWe all carry a reserve\, don’t we? Something set aside for the moments when the world sits heavy. A place inside where beauty\, steadiness\, and the particular comfort of being understood still live. Matthew’s songs seem to know where that place is. They are written from it.\nThis is an evening to set down what you’ve been carrying. To sit with music that asks nothing of you except your presence and gives something back that’s hard to name but easy to feel.\nBeauty\, darkness\, hope\, and joy\, all held in the same breath.\nJoin us in person at The Joinery in Settle\, or from wherever you are in the world online. \nWhat others have said:\n“Songs of warmth and beauty that scratch at the inside of your heart. In a world that sits heavy on your chest\, this is music that reminds you how to breathe.” – Thea Gilmore\, Cooking Vinyl\n“Miniature masterpieces amid towering sonic architecture.” – Louis Brennan\n“Beautiful\, fragmentary songs which slowly dismantle you.” – Seamus Fogarty\, Domino Records\n“Perfectly bleak beauty… a hugely talented songwriter.” – Simon Godley\, God is in the TV\n“Quietly spellbinding.” – Andy Brown\, Soundlabhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-D0t6eUzjYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn32z4lPdC4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUHENx6JoCo
URL:https://settlestories.org.uk/whats-on-event/the-silver-reserve/
LOCATION:The Joinery\, Dawsons Court\, Market Place\, Settle\, North Yorkshire\, BD24 9ED\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:Beguiling for Beginners: An evening of trickster tales with Dave Tonge (In Person Event)
DESCRIPTION:A celebration of cunning men\, cunning women\, coney catching\, and all manner of artful deceit. \nThere’s a figure on the road. Sometimes in robes\, sometimes in rags. Selling pots one day\, pardons the next. Potions to pins\, prayers to promises. \nEverything for sale. Nothing quite true. \nJoin us for an evening of delicious deceit with Dave Tonge\, the Yarnsmith of Norwich\, as he conjures the tricksters\, rogues\, and cunning folk who walked England’s roads and worked their craft upon the foolish\, the greedy\, and the gullible. \nThese aren’t gentle stories. They’re sharp-edged and irreverent. The kind of tales that got whispered in alehouses and shared on market days\, stories the common folk told about those who lived by their wits when the world offered nothing else. \nThis is storytelling as it was meant to be: profane\, philosophical\, and utterly compelling. \nWhat You’ll Experience\nDave Tonge specialises in the tales that rarely make it into polite collections. The stories told by the poorest folk – the ones who had to live by their wits because they had nothing else to trade. \n\nConey Catching: the art of parting a fool from his money (and the delicious vocabulary that went with it)\nCunning Folk: those who walked the line between healer and charlatan\, always one step ahead of the law and two steps ahead of their clients\nDisguises and Deceptions: how one trickster wore a hundred faces and sold a thousand lies\nThe Philosophy in the Profane: what these irreverent tales reveal about human nature\, greed\, gullibility\, and the gap between wanting and wisdom\n\nThis isn’t storytelling from a book. It’s storytelling from the road\, the alehouse\, the market square – places where stories had to earn their keep by being good enough to remember and sharp enough to repeat. \nDave brings these tales alive with period richness and wit. He knows how they sounded in the mouths of the folk who first told them. He honours their edge\, their humour\, and their refusal to offer easy comfort. \n“It’s a multi-layered tapestry of the profane and philosophical.” – Maria Credali\, storyteller\,  \nWhy These Stories Matter\nWe live in a time of elaborate deceptions. Scams in our inboxes. Lies dressed up as truth. Promises that dissolve when you reach for them. \nThe trickster tales know all about this. They’ve been teaching the same lessons for centuries: how to spot a con\, how to question what we want to believe\, how to laugh at our own foolishness instead of drowning in it. \nBut more than that\, they remind us that cunning – the ability to survive by wit alone – was once a necessary art. Not everyone had land or title or trade. Some had only their tongues and their nerve. \nThese stories honour them. The ones who walked the cunning road because no other road was open. \nAbout Dave Tonge – The Yarnsmith of Norwich\nDave Tonge is a jobbing teller of tales. An itinerant journeyman who performs at festivals\, museums\, heritage sites and schools\, from Lindisfarne Holy Island in the north to Arundel Castle in the south. \nHe works regularly for English Heritage and national museums like the Ashmolean in Oxford. He’s written three books: Tudor Folk Tales\, Norfolk Folk Tales for Children\, and Medieval Folk Tales for Children. \nBut his real expertise is in bringing the past alive through the stories that never got written down in church records or royal chronicles. The bawdy\, clever\, irreverent tales that common folk told each other when they wanted entertainment that tasted like truth. \nDave can perform in full period costume or ditch the doublet for a fine trilby hat. He’s equally at home on heritage sites and at storytelling festivals\, including Taffy Thomas’s Tales in Trust and Festival at the Edge. What sets him apart is this: he doesn’t sanitise. He doesn’t sentimentalise. He tells the stories as they were told – with all their wit\, wickedness\, and wisdom intact. \nWho Should Come \n\nLovers of history who want the stories that didn’t make it into the textbooks\nStorytelling enthusiasts hungry for tales with edge and authenticity\nAnyone curious about how ordinary folk survived\, schemed\, and sometimes thrived\nThose who appreciate wit\, wordplay\, and the art of a well-told lie\nPeople who suspect that the sanitized versions of folk tales are missing the best bits\n\nYou don’t need to know Tudor history. You just need to enjoy a good story told by someone who knows their craft\, and isn’t afraid to let the stories keep their teeth. \nEvening Details\nDate: Thursday 9th April\n Time: 7pm\n Location: The Joinery\, Settle\, or Online \n Investment: £16 \n“Immense energy and spirit… that’s what gave it the wow factor!” – Marion Leeper\, Cambridge Storytelling Club \n“Your storytelling skills stand out… you share the stories rather than just tell them.” – Stafford Knott Storytelling Club \n“A spellbinding evening… a triumph of memory\, mirth and marvellous mischievous story-weavage!” – Oakham Castle
URL:https://settlestories.org.uk/whats-on-event/dave-tonge-beguiling-for-beginners-in-person-event/
LOCATION:The Joinery\, Dawsons Court\, Market Place\, Settle\, North Yorkshire\, BD24 9ED\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Performance
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SUMMARY:The Three Little Pigs: National Storytelling Week Event for EYFS
DESCRIPTION:Live online storytelling | 30 minutes | Free \nJoin us for a lively EYFS storytelling session as part of National Storytelling Week\, featuring a much-loved retelling of The Three Little Pigs. \nThrough repetition\, rhythm and shared listening\, this familiar story supports young children to explore resilience\, effort and working together in a way that feels playful and accessible. Delivered live by a professional storyteller\, the session is designed to hold attention\, encourage listening\, and spark imagination. \nPerfect for early years classrooms or assemblies\, this is a calm\, engaging experience that drops straight into the school day with no preparation required.
URL:https://settlestories.org.uk/whats-on-event/the-three-little-pigs-national-storytelling-week-event-for-eyfs/
LOCATION:The Joinery\, Dawsons Court\, Market Place\, Settle\, North Yorkshire\, BD24 9ED\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:EYFS
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