Storytelling Events 2024
Saturday 16th March CAPEA NSW Professional Development Day
(Workshop)
Hosted by Royal North Shore Hospital
Storytelling Events 2023
The first half of 2023 was one of great personal loss and I didn't take on any storytelling work
Thursday 22nd June Storytelling Cafe
Hosted by Narara Eco Village
Storytelling Events 2022
Sunday 13th March Pat Glover Memorial Award for Storytelling - 2022
Award recipient
Competition for storytelling held annually as part of the Port Fairy Folk Festival
Sunday 26th June Sunday Storytelling Soiree (Performance)
A fund-raising, in-house storytelling event to raise funds for Coast Shelter (Central Coast, NSW)
$300 raised - Thank you.
Wednesday 9th November Sydney Local Health District/RPA Symposium
A new (old) way of connecting: Storytelling can have a place in health settings
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital - Nursing and Midwifery staff
Storytelling Events 2021
Friday 29th October Halloween Stories (Performance)
Hosted by University of Newcastle Student Association
Online event
Storytelling Events 2020
Friday 29th May Cross-cultural storytelling
Tandem storytelling with Stuart McMinn (Durragan Cultural Immersions)
Online
Storytelling Events 2019
Friday 31st May National Reconciliation Week Guest storyteller
Service Provider - Gosford, NSW
Private Organisation event
Storytelling Events 2018
Monday 22nd January University of Newcastle - Ourimbah (Workshop)
Using oral storytelling to Engage, Communicate & Inspire
UON Sydney Short Course 4 Hours, $150
To book, visit https://sydney.newcastle.edu.au/courses?s=storytelling
Friday 2nd March Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) Travels, Trials and Tribulations
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
https://www.longstoryshortstorytellinglive.com/
Thursday 8th March International Women's Day (Performance)
1.30pm Ourimbah Campus, University of Newcastle. Community event
See update details as the Facebook event post
http://bit.ly/2BMQCLx
Wednesday 28h March Regional Creativity and Wellbeing Seminar (Presentation)
The sustainability of storytelling as a practice of wellbeing.
Facilitated by Central Coast Council
Friday 6th April Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) Once
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
https://www.longstoryshortstorytellinglive.com/
Friday 4th May Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) What's your meme?
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
https://www.longstoryshortstorytellinglive.com/
Friday 14th May University of Newcastle (Workshop)
Sydney Using oral storytelling to Engage, Communicate & Inspire
UON Sydney Short Course 4 Hours, $150
To book, visit https://sydney.newcastle.edu.au/courses?s=storytelling
Tuesday 6th July University of Newcastle - Ourimbah (Workshop)
Sydney Using oral storytelling to Engage, Communicate & Inspire
UON Sydney Short Course 4 Hours, $150
To book, visit https://sydney.newcastle.edu.au/courses?s=storytelling
Friday 6th July Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) In the Spotlight
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
https://www.longstoryshortstorytellinglive.com/
Friday 3rd August Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) Back paddling
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
https://www.longstoryshortstorytellinglive.com/
Friday 1st September Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) tba
Changing the world, one story at a time
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
https://www.longstoryshortstorytellinglive.com/
Saturday 18th September University of Newcastle (Workshop)
Using oral storytelling to Engage, Communicate & Inspire
UON Sydney Short Course 4 Hours, $150
To book, visit https://sydney.newcastle.edu.au/courses?s=storytelling
Friday 5th October Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) tba
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
https://www.longstoryshortstorytellinglive.com/
Friday 2nd November Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) tba
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
https://www.longstoryshortstorytellinglive.com/
Tuesday 13th Novembe Central Coast Teacher Librarian's Network (Workshop)
The role of storytelling in research and education
St Peters Secondary College
Tuesday 27th November University of Newcastle Library (Performance)
Program launch - Guest storyteller
Auchmuty Library, Callahan Campus, University of Newcastle
Friday 7th December Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) tba
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
Storytelling Events 2017
Friday 7th February Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) Finding your voice
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
Friday 3rd March Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) Waiting
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
Thursday 30th March University of Newcastle (Seminar) Storytelling for customer service - Library staff forum
Video-conferenced from Auchmuty Library
Transcript and video available soon
Thursday 30th March UON Library Staff Forum, Callaghan Campus (Mini Workshop)
What's your Library story?
Friday 7th April Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) Out of the frying pan
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
Friday 5th May Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) Emergence
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
Tuesday 9th May University of Newcastle (Workshop) Humanities Seminar Series, Ourimbah
Using storytelling for Creativity (Rehearsal for VIVID Ideas, Sydney
Friday 26th May University of Newcastle (Workshop)
Sydney Using oral storytelling to Engage, Communicate & Inspire
UON Sydney Short Course 4 Hours, $150
To book, visit https://sydney.newcastle.edu.au/courses?s=storytelling
Friday 26th May VIVID Ideas 2017 (Workshop)
a collaboration between UON Sydney and VIVID Sydney 2017
Workshop 2 hours, $20
To book, visit https://sydney.newcastle.edu.au/courses?s=storytelling
Friday 2nd June Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) Into the Deep, Dark Night
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
Tuesday 4th July University of Newcastle (Workshop)
Sydney Using oral storytelling to Engage, Communicate & Inspire
UON Sydney Short Course 4 Hours, $150
To book, visit https://sydney.newcastle.edu.au/courses?s=storytelling
Friday 7th July Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) Should have known better
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
Friday 4th August Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) Twice shy
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
Saturday 26th August University of Newcastle (Workshop)
Using oral storytelling to Engage, Communicate & Inspire
UON Sydney Short Course 4 Hours, $150
To book, visit https://sydney.newcastle.edu.au/courses?s=storytelling
Friday 1st September Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance)
Changing the world, one story at a time
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
Friday 6th October Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) What if?????
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
Monday 9th October University of Newcastle (Workshop)
Using oral storytelling to Engage, Communicate & Inspire
UON Sydney Short Course 4 Hours, $150
To book, visit https://sydney.newcastle.edu.au/courses?s=storytelling
Friday 3rd November Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) Aggggggghhhhhhhh!
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
Friday 1st December Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) Imagine
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
Thursday 7th December University of Newcastle (Workshop)
Using oral storytelling to Engage, Communicate & Inspire
UON Sydney Short Course 4 Hours, $150
To book, visit https://sydney.newcastle.edu.au/courses?s=storytelling
Storytelling Events 2016
Friday 7th February Long Story Short - Storytelling Live On the edge
7pm The Millery Café, Ourimbah Campus, University of Newcastle, Public Event, Over 16's
$10 includes light supper
Saturday 5th March WoW Wave of Wisdom, Ourimbah Campus - International Women's Day Expo
Storytelling performance by Long Story Short hosts and story discussion
Wed 9th March Ourimbah Campus, Tertiary storytelling for a purpose
Using storytelling for relevance in Health Science teaching - 3rd Yr Podiatry
Sunday 20th March WoW Wave of Wisdom, Kincumber: World Storytelling Day
Storytelling performance by Long Story Short hosts and story discussion
Friday 1st April Long Story Short - Storytelling Live On the edge
7pm The Millery Café, Ourimbah Campus, University of Newcastle, Public Event, Over 16's
$10 includes light supper
Wednesday 11th May ABC Central Coast 92.5 Radio Interview
Chatting about the value of storytelling and Long Story Short - Storytelling Live
Friday 3rd June Long Story Short - Storytelling Live Chilled to the bone
7pm The Millery Café, Ourimbah Campus, University of Newcastle, Public Event, Over 16's
$10 includes light supper
Friday 5th August Long Story Short - Storytelling Live Longings
7pm The Millery Café, Ourimbah Campus, University of Newcastle, Public Event, Over 16's
$10 includes light supper
Friday 7th October Long Story Short - Storytelling Live Waiting
7pm The Millery Café, Ourimbah Campus, University of Newcastle, Public Event, Over 16's
$10 includes light supper
Friday 2nd December Long Story Short - Storytelling Live Running out of time
7pm The Millery Café, Ourimbah Campus, University of Newcastle, Public Event, Over 16's
$10 includes light supper
Storytelling Events 2015
Friday 17th July Long Story Short - Storytelling Live Things that go bump in the night
7pm Kincumber Neighbourhood Centre, Kincumber Street, Kincumber
Public Event, Over 16's $10 includes light supper
Monday 31st August St Peters Catholic College, Tuggerah
Researching and Constructing a story for telling Yrs 8 & 9.
Friday 11th September Gosford High School, Gosford
Researching and Constructing a story for telling Yrs 8 & 9.
Friday 18th September Long Story Short - Storytelling Live
7pm Kincumber Neighbourhood Centre, Kincumber Street, Kincumber
Public Event, Over 16's $10 includes light supper
Saturday 19th September Rose Scott Womens Writers Festival, Sydney
"Tell on" quoth the King: The enduring legacy of Scheherazade
Tickets available from the Festival page
Friday 16th October School of Nursing & Midwifery, Uni of Newcastle, 25th Anniversary Dinner
October/November tbc Caravan of Stories
Singleton and Muswelbrook, Upper Hunter, Workshops and performances
Details to be confirmed. Check the Caravan of Stories website and Facebook page for updates
Friday 20th November Long Story Short - Storytelling Live
7pm Kincumber Neighbourhood Centre, Kincumber Street, Kincumber
Public Event, Over 16's $10 includes light supper
Sunday 13th December The Web - Tales told live
2pm The Friend in Hand Pub, Glebe
Public event, $10 at the door
Storytelling and music
Saturday 16th March CAPEA NSW Professional Development Day
(Workshop)
Hosted by Royal North Shore Hospital
Storytelling Events 2023
The first half of 2023 was one of great personal loss and I didn't take on any storytelling work
Thursday 22nd June Storytelling Cafe
Hosted by Narara Eco Village
Storytelling Events 2022
Sunday 13th March Pat Glover Memorial Award for Storytelling - 2022
Award recipient
Competition for storytelling held annually as part of the Port Fairy Folk Festival
Sunday 26th June Sunday Storytelling Soiree (Performance)
A fund-raising, in-house storytelling event to raise funds for Coast Shelter (Central Coast, NSW)
$300 raised - Thank you.
Wednesday 9th November Sydney Local Health District/RPA Symposium
A new (old) way of connecting: Storytelling can have a place in health settings
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital - Nursing and Midwifery staff
Storytelling Events 2021
Friday 29th October Halloween Stories (Performance)
Hosted by University of Newcastle Student Association
Online event
Storytelling Events 2020
Friday 29th May Cross-cultural storytelling
Tandem storytelling with Stuart McMinn (Durragan Cultural Immersions)
Online
Storytelling Events 2019
Friday 31st May National Reconciliation Week Guest storyteller
Service Provider - Gosford, NSW
Private Organisation event
Storytelling Events 2018
Monday 22nd January University of Newcastle - Ourimbah (Workshop)
Using oral storytelling to Engage, Communicate & Inspire
UON Sydney Short Course 4 Hours, $150
To book, visit https://sydney.newcastle.edu.au/courses?s=storytelling
Friday 2nd March Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) Travels, Trials and Tribulations
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
https://www.longstoryshortstorytellinglive.com/
Thursday 8th March International Women's Day (Performance)
1.30pm Ourimbah Campus, University of Newcastle. Community event
See update details as the Facebook event post
http://bit.ly/2BMQCLx
Wednesday 28h March Regional Creativity and Wellbeing Seminar (Presentation)
The sustainability of storytelling as a practice of wellbeing.
Facilitated by Central Coast Council
Friday 6th April Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) Once
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
https://www.longstoryshortstorytellinglive.com/
Friday 4th May Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) What's your meme?
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
https://www.longstoryshortstorytellinglive.com/
Friday 14th May University of Newcastle (Workshop)
Sydney Using oral storytelling to Engage, Communicate & Inspire
UON Sydney Short Course 4 Hours, $150
To book, visit https://sydney.newcastle.edu.au/courses?s=storytelling
Tuesday 6th July University of Newcastle - Ourimbah (Workshop)
Sydney Using oral storytelling to Engage, Communicate & Inspire
UON Sydney Short Course 4 Hours, $150
To book, visit https://sydney.newcastle.edu.au/courses?s=storytelling
Friday 6th July Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) In the Spotlight
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
https://www.longstoryshortstorytellinglive.com/
Friday 3rd August Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) Back paddling
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
https://www.longstoryshortstorytellinglive.com/
Friday 1st September Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) tba
Changing the world, one story at a time
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
https://www.longstoryshortstorytellinglive.com/
Saturday 18th September University of Newcastle (Workshop)
Using oral storytelling to Engage, Communicate & Inspire
UON Sydney Short Course 4 Hours, $150
To book, visit https://sydney.newcastle.edu.au/courses?s=storytelling
Friday 5th October Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) tba
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
https://www.longstoryshortstorytellinglive.com/
Friday 2nd November Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) tba
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
https://www.longstoryshortstorytellinglive.com/
Tuesday 13th Novembe Central Coast Teacher Librarian's Network (Workshop)
The role of storytelling in research and education
St Peters Secondary College
Tuesday 27th November University of Newcastle Library (Performance)
Program launch - Guest storyteller
Auchmuty Library, Callahan Campus, University of Newcastle
Friday 7th December Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) tba
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
Storytelling Events 2017
Friday 7th February Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) Finding your voice
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
Friday 3rd March Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) Waiting
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
Thursday 30th March University of Newcastle (Seminar) Storytelling for customer service - Library staff forum
Video-conferenced from Auchmuty Library
Transcript and video available soon
Thursday 30th March UON Library Staff Forum, Callaghan Campus (Mini Workshop)
What's your Library story?
Friday 7th April Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) Out of the frying pan
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
Friday 5th May Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) Emergence
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
Tuesday 9th May University of Newcastle (Workshop) Humanities Seminar Series, Ourimbah
Using storytelling for Creativity (Rehearsal for VIVID Ideas, Sydney
Friday 26th May University of Newcastle (Workshop)
Sydney Using oral storytelling to Engage, Communicate & Inspire
UON Sydney Short Course 4 Hours, $150
To book, visit https://sydney.newcastle.edu.au/courses?s=storytelling
Friday 26th May VIVID Ideas 2017 (Workshop)
a collaboration between UON Sydney and VIVID Sydney 2017
Workshop 2 hours, $20
To book, visit https://sydney.newcastle.edu.au/courses?s=storytelling
Friday 2nd June Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) Into the Deep, Dark Night
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
Tuesday 4th July University of Newcastle (Workshop)
Sydney Using oral storytelling to Engage, Communicate & Inspire
UON Sydney Short Course 4 Hours, $150
To book, visit https://sydney.newcastle.edu.au/courses?s=storytelling
Friday 7th July Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) Should have known better
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
Friday 4th August Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) Twice shy
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
Saturday 26th August University of Newcastle (Workshop)
Using oral storytelling to Engage, Communicate & Inspire
UON Sydney Short Course 4 Hours, $150
To book, visit https://sydney.newcastle.edu.au/courses?s=storytelling
Friday 1st September Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance)
Changing the world, one story at a time
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
Friday 6th October Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) What if?????
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
Monday 9th October University of Newcastle (Workshop)
Using oral storytelling to Engage, Communicate & Inspire
UON Sydney Short Course 4 Hours, $150
To book, visit https://sydney.newcastle.edu.au/courses?s=storytelling
Friday 3rd November Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) Aggggggghhhhhhhh!
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
Friday 1st December Long Story Short - Storytelling Live (Performance) Imagine
7pm The Lounge Room 2/342 Manns Street Gosford
Thursday 7th December University of Newcastle (Workshop)
Using oral storytelling to Engage, Communicate & Inspire
UON Sydney Short Course 4 Hours, $150
To book, visit https://sydney.newcastle.edu.au/courses?s=storytelling
Storytelling Events 2016
Friday 7th February Long Story Short - Storytelling Live On the edge
7pm The Millery Café, Ourimbah Campus, University of Newcastle, Public Event, Over 16's
$10 includes light supper
Saturday 5th March WoW Wave of Wisdom, Ourimbah Campus - International Women's Day Expo
Storytelling performance by Long Story Short hosts and story discussion
Wed 9th March Ourimbah Campus, Tertiary storytelling for a purpose
Using storytelling for relevance in Health Science teaching - 3rd Yr Podiatry
Sunday 20th March WoW Wave of Wisdom, Kincumber: World Storytelling Day
Storytelling performance by Long Story Short hosts and story discussion
Friday 1st April Long Story Short - Storytelling Live On the edge
7pm The Millery Café, Ourimbah Campus, University of Newcastle, Public Event, Over 16's
$10 includes light supper
Wednesday 11th May ABC Central Coast 92.5 Radio Interview
Chatting about the value of storytelling and Long Story Short - Storytelling Live
Friday 3rd June Long Story Short - Storytelling Live Chilled to the bone
7pm The Millery Café, Ourimbah Campus, University of Newcastle, Public Event, Over 16's
$10 includes light supper
Friday 5th August Long Story Short - Storytelling Live Longings
7pm The Millery Café, Ourimbah Campus, University of Newcastle, Public Event, Over 16's
$10 includes light supper
Friday 7th October Long Story Short - Storytelling Live Waiting
7pm The Millery Café, Ourimbah Campus, University of Newcastle, Public Event, Over 16's
$10 includes light supper
Friday 2nd December Long Story Short - Storytelling Live Running out of time
7pm The Millery Café, Ourimbah Campus, University of Newcastle, Public Event, Over 16's
$10 includes light supper
Storytelling Events 2015
Friday 17th July Long Story Short - Storytelling Live Things that go bump in the night
7pm Kincumber Neighbourhood Centre, Kincumber Street, Kincumber
Public Event, Over 16's $10 includes light supper
Monday 31st August St Peters Catholic College, Tuggerah
Researching and Constructing a story for telling Yrs 8 & 9.
Friday 11th September Gosford High School, Gosford
Researching and Constructing a story for telling Yrs 8 & 9.
Friday 18th September Long Story Short - Storytelling Live
7pm Kincumber Neighbourhood Centre, Kincumber Street, Kincumber
Public Event, Over 16's $10 includes light supper
Saturday 19th September Rose Scott Womens Writers Festival, Sydney
"Tell on" quoth the King: The enduring legacy of Scheherazade
Tickets available from the Festival page
Friday 16th October School of Nursing & Midwifery, Uni of Newcastle, 25th Anniversary Dinner
October/November tbc Caravan of Stories
Singleton and Muswelbrook, Upper Hunter, Workshops and performances
Details to be confirmed. Check the Caravan of Stories website and Facebook page for updates
Friday 20th November Long Story Short - Storytelling Live
7pm Kincumber Neighbourhood Centre, Kincumber Street, Kincumber
Public Event, Over 16's $10 includes light supper
Sunday 13th December The Web - Tales told live
2pm The Friend in Hand Pub, Glebe
Public event, $10 at the door
Storytelling and music