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We’re wishing all our listeners, partners and friends a very merry and healthy Christmas! As a little treat we have uploaded our Christmas video STARS INSIDE to our media page. Let’s spread a bit of Christmas cheer in these challenging times!

We were delighted to be back live in Tallaght Library on the 6th of October for our creative writing workshop “Reaching For The Stars”! A fully booked workshop, a spacious room, face-shield for the teller and space slime for the kids – it was fun! We learned amazing facts about our planets, about black holes

Ready for some scary stories? Come and join Simone and Vinny the Vulture in this video for Fingal Libraries with Vinny’s encounter with a “scary” pumpkin and the story “Long Bony Fingers”! Do you dare to watch? Online until just after Halloween! Check out our Media page to watch the video.

Every year there is storytelling magic happening on the southern most island of Ireland, Cape Clear Island. The first weekend in September is firmly marked in our calendar. This year, like 2020, the festival took place online. While last year’s performers captured their stories on video for their story-hungry listeners, this year the festival was

StoryGate was delighted to be asked by the Goethe-Institut Dublin to work with them on a project about diversity in children’s books. “Who’s In Your Book” was a workshop held during Culture Night 2021 at the Goethe-Institut where Simone introduced her listeners to children’s books with divers characters and topics. The books introduced, discussed and

There is a lot of research going on at StoryGate at the moment! We were asked by Offaly Libraries to create a video for Heritage Week in August. It will be a video with stories originating from County Offaly. For this we are diving deep into the School’s Collection, a marvelous resource, to find stories

We are delighted to team up with The Chester Beatty this year for Cruinniú na nÓg, Ireland’s national day of creativity for children. We have created a new storytelling and puppetry adventure for this day. From 12pm tomorrow, 12th of June, our video “The Boastful Crow” will go online on the Chester Beatty website and

In our Puppetry and Science series, we create videos that combine storytelling with science and funny puppetry. Clondalkin Library has requested one of our videos and it will go online today, 19th of April! We are delighted to share with you “Inventors and their Stories – The Iceberg-Ship”. Go to our media page and check