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SUMMARY:How To Find And Tell Your Story
DESCRIPTION:You have stories. Learn how to find one and tell it well.\nA practical 2-hour workshop that turns lived moments into stories people listen to. \nThis workshop is for people who struggle to tell their own stories. If you go blank when asked to share an experience\, talk in circles\, or aren’t sure what makes a story worth telling – this is for you. \nIn this practical 2-hour online workshop\, you’ll learn how to spot stories in your own life\, shape them using a simple structure\, and tell one story with confidence. \nYou’ll leave with one story shaped and told aloud\, and tools you can reuse.\n\nWhat You’ll Learn \n\nHow to recognise which moments contain real stories\nA clear story structure that works every time\nHow to open a story and keep people listening\nHow to cut what isn’t needed\nPractice telling your story out loud\n\nThis Workshop Is For You If \n\nYou freeze when someone asks you to tell a story\nYou need to use personal stories in work\, interviews\, or everyday life\nYou’re curious about storytelling but don’t know where to start\nTeachers\, therapists\, managers\, parents\, job-seekers – anyone who needs to hold attention\n\nWhat People Said About the February Workshop\n“Unlocked something I’ve been blocked on for a very long time — solid gold.”— Clare \n“The content was well presented and explained and I felt relaxed enough to risk telling a very personal story and thoroughly enjoyed the experience and my listeners’ reactions.”— Umi \n“Fun\, engaging\, productive\, nourishing — definitely worth getting up at 6am for.”— Delta\, USA \nPractical Details\nDate: Tuesday 7th April 2026\, 2–4pm GMT\nFormat: Online (Zoom)\nPrice: £16.50 / £12.50 Early Bird until 28th February\nExperience needed: None.
URL:https://settlestories.org.uk/whats-on-event/how-to-find-and-tell-your-story/
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SUMMARY:Beguiling for Beginners: An evening of trickster tales with Dave Tonge (Online 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-online-event/
LOCATION:North Yorkshire
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:SOLD OUT: StoryLab: Craft Your Story In Six Weeks (April '26 Intake)
DESCRIPTION:StoryLab: Craft Your Story In Six Weeks\nNOW SOLD OUT  \nOnly 1 place remaining. \nMost people struggle with storytelling for the same reason. \nNobody taught them the mechanics\, so their stories drift. They over-explain. They start too early\, end too late\, and miss the moment that actually matters. People nod politely. Nothing lands. That’s not a talent problem. It’s a craft problem. \nStoryLab exists to fix that. \nThis is practice-based. Not theory. \nSix weeks. Same people. Same Zoom room. One story\, built properly from Week 1 to Week 6. No inspirational fluff. No “just be authentic” nonsense. You’ll craft your story both ways: written (~1500 words) and told aloud (5-7 minutes). Same story. Two forms. Real craft. \nThe six weeks:\n\nWeek 1 (April 15): Getting them to lean in \nWeek 2 (April 22): Raising stakes and tension \nWeek 3 (April 29): Structural frameworks \nINTEGRATION WEEK (May 6) – Time to write and practice. No session. \nWeek 4 (May 13): Scene craft \nWeek 5 (May 20): Character\, voice and conflict \nWeek 6 (May 27): Cut to the chase\n\nBy Week 6 you’ll have: \n\nOne complete story – written (~1500 words) and told aloud (5-7 minutes without notes)\nSix professional techniques you can use on any story after this\nYour Story Bank framework for building the next one\n\nThis only works if you show up.\nYou’ll write between sessions. Practice aloud in small groups. Give and receive feedback. \nTeaching is recorded and available for 7 days\, but this isn’t a “watch it later” experience. \nIf you want passive content\, there are cheaper options. If you want skill\, this requires participation. \nWho this is for:\nStoryLab is for people ready to stop circling storytelling and start doing it properly. \n\nWriters who want their work to land in the body\, not just on the page\nPeople preserving personal or family stories before they disappear\nAnyone who uses story as a tool – teaching\, leading\, communicating\nThose who know they have stories but haven’t learned how to shape them\n\nYou don’t need a story chosen in advance. That’s what Week 1 is for. \nWhat You Get:\n\n6 x 90-minute live sessions (3 weeks + integration break + 3 weeks)\nSmall\, consistent cohort – maximum 12 people\nDirect teaching + guided practice in breakout groups\nOne complete story in two forms: written and told aloud\nSix techniques you’ll reuse for the rest of your life\nTeaching recordings (available 7 days)\nStory Bank method for ongoing work\n\nNo certificates. No gold stars. Just skill. \nA note from Sita:\n“I’ve spent four decades telling stories – in prisons\, on stages\, in funding rooms\, and in the moments that actually matter. What I know for certain: storytelling isn’t magic. It’s method. \nThe same techniques work whether you’re writing for the page or speaking aloud. Whether you’re crafting a memoir piece or pitching an idea. Whether you’re preserving a family story or telling the truth about your life. StoryLab isn’t about becoming ‘a storyteller’. It’s about learning how story works\, so you can use it deliberately\, ethically\, and well. Six weeks. One story. Written and told. Real craft.” \nDates & investment\nWhen: Wednesdays\, April 15th\, 22nd\, 29th + May 13th\, 20th\, 27th  \nTime: 7:00–8:30pm GMT  \nWhere: Live on Zoom  \nSize: Maximum 12 (1 place remaining) \nEarly bird (by March 28th): £217 Standard: £247. Payment plans available. \nQuestions welcome. But fair warning: this is for people ready to practice\, not just think about it. \nNot sure yet? There’s a 2-hour Finding Your Story workshop on 7th April. Think of it as Session Zero – try the framework\, experience the teaching. If you want to continue\, the early bird StoryLab rate applies automatically. \n 
URL:https://settlestories.org.uk/whats-on-event/storylab-craft-your-story-in-six-weeks/2026-04-15/
LOCATION:https://settlestories.org.uk/whats-on-event/storylab-craft-your-story-in-six-weeks/2026-04-15/
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SUMMARY:The Village of Two Rivers: Earth Day Event for KS2
DESCRIPTION:Live professional storytelling for Earth Day  \nThis engaging KS2 storytelling session invites pupils into a Himalayan village where inequality has become normalised. While the East side enjoys clean water and good health\, the West side struggles with illness and scarcity. \nThrough the actions of Deeya and Dorji\, and the wisdom of Elder Karma\, pupils explore what happens when communities move beyond fear and choose to work together. The story gently challenges ideas of “not having enough” and shows how shared action can transform wellbeing for everyone. \nDelivered by a professional storyteller\, this session supports learning around empathy\, social justice\, cooperation and global citizenship\, with no preparation required.
URL:https://settlestories.org.uk/whats-on-event/the-village-of-two-rivers-earth-day-event-for-ks2/
LOCATION:https://settlestories.org.uk/whats-on-event/the-village-of-two-rivers-earth-day-event-for-ks2/
CATEGORIES:LKS2,UKS2
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