Storytelling swordplay: a study group for developing storytellers

Storytelling swordplay: a study group for developing storytellers

The study group is a ringside experience in wielding the swift blade of story to sharpen your own instincts as a storyteller. Join Simon and fellow scholars as he works his way live through a tale. It’ll be like Twitch for students of oral storytelling. Throw in...
Understory: hidden tales from the Netherlands and nearby

Understory: hidden tales from the Netherlands and nearby

 “It was just like our time now, but as though turned over with a spade” The Boy with the Golden calf, Gypsy story Join us for an afternoon of masterful performance from storyteller Simon Hodges and visionary percussionist Gijs Anders van Straalen. They’ll bring their...
Storytelling swordplay: a study group for developing storytellers

Storytelling swordplay: a study group for developing storytellers

The study group is a ringside experience in wielding the swift blade of story to sharpen your own instincts as a storyteller. Join Simon and fellow scholars as he works his way live through a tale. It’ll be like Twitch for students of oral storytelling. Throw in...
Storytelling swordplay: a study group for developing storytellers

Storytelling swordplay: a study group for developing storytellers

The study group is a ringside experience in wielding the swift blade of story to sharpen your own instincts as a storyteller. Join Simon and fellow scholars as he works his way live through a tale. It’ll be like Twitch for students of oral storytelling. Throw in...
A better kind of strength

A better kind of strength

  I am setting out again to write a letter to you about a moment in a story. What we should really call an incident. I’m trying to write as myself, not leaking into styles such as Henry Miller’s, Laurence Ferlinghetti or Milan Kundera. Nor the way everyone talks...