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2023 looks to be an exciting year for storytelling. Festivals, events and World Storytelling Day are just around the corner! We have a number of workshops and events planned for Spring and will post more updates shortly. For now, we wish all our listeners, story-lovers, friends and partners a very happy new year! May it

This year, Simone teams up with Limerick Libraries to bring the festive spirit to you. With festive folktales from many countries and little-known winter traditions, she will entertain and enchant you. Dates and Places: 26th of November: Dooradoyle Library – get in touch with library for booking details. 3rd of December: Limerick City Library –

It’s coming up to Mid-November and with this my three months project in the wonderful Scoil Naomh Cualán in Borrisoleigh is drawing to an end. Every Tuesday, I have gone to the school to tell stories, research stories and create stories with the children and the enthusiasm of both children and teachers has blown me

We will be visiting Louth Libraries on the 17th and 24th of September with our new family storytelling and puppetry show. Performing as a family for families, we will bring stories without many words, amazing puppetry, laughter and a bit of clowning to the library to welcome new families to the community. Sessions will take

Many thanks to Aisling Meath for the feature about the wonderful Cape Clear International Storytelling Festival which took place from September 2nd to 4th this year – live and online! Here the link to the article A Storytelling Pilgrimage to Cork Island, featured in the Echo.

2nd to 4th of September 2022 We’re back at the Cape Clear International storytelling festival! Magic happens every year on the first weekend in September when master storytellers and musicians gather to celebrate stories and songs and how they connect us. This year, for the first time in the last two years, the festival will

We’re delighted to be performing in Mayo this summer, July 16th, with our storytelling and puppetry family shows. First up are two sessions in Ballina Library: 16th of July, 11am: Giggle Time with Katie Katerpillar 16th of July,12noon: Naughty Stories with Vinny the Vulture After these we will travel to Castlebar Library for another session

On the 11th of June, Ireland celebrates its annual day of free creative activities for children and young people. Michael and Simone will be celebrating this day with sock-puppet workshops for Fingal Libraries. Taking place in both Rush and Balbriggan Library, these workshops show kids how to create their own sock-puppets and lets them in

For April Autism Awareness Month, Simone was delighted to perform in Roscrea Library for three pre-schools and schools, offering sensory story time. The stories were told using sensory props to enhance the experience and were very well received. Stories told included the Ukrainian folktale The Glove (see our media page for a video of the

Simone was invited to take part in DCU’s third Write to Read Biennial Young Writers Academy, organized in conjunction with Poetry Ireland. For this fantastic project, sixty children from different schools in Dublin are brought to DCU to meet six children’s books authors who will work with them over a course of five weeks. Authors