7 Sisters at Guesthouse
Tuesday 13 August 7.30pm Morgan le Fey – Xanthe Gresham Knight
Live at the Hillcrest Centre, Bay Vue Road, Newhaven, BN9 9LH. Tickets on the door and online: £8/£10 Buy tickets online here.
The pavement of patriarchy tried to obliterate the true Morgan le Fey. But wildflowers have a habit of breaking through concrete.
Blackthorn for binding, Nettle for weaving, Agrimony for sight.
Morgan was the witch, not the bitch of Camelot. In this performance for adults, Xanthe lets plants tell the tale of the woman who blew the whistle on the Knights of the Round Table.
Yarrow for healing, Mugwort for dreaming, Hawthorn for the heart.
‘Speaks like a woman spitting jewels’ Arts Council of England for ‘LitUp’
‘Unfolds each story like the petals of a lotus.’ British Theatre Review
Tuesday 9 July 7.30pm TuuP – ‘Tiger’s Whisker’
Live at the Hillcrest Centre, Bay Vue Road, Newhaven, BN9 9LH. Tickets on the door and online: £8/£10 Buy tickets online here.
TuuP is The Unorthodox, Unprecedented Preacher. Born in Guyana and raised in Acton, his style is one of total improvisation, unbounded charisma and alarming spontaneity. He’s also the creative lyricist and vocalist of the highly influential dance music collective, Transglobal Underground. TUUP has performed throughout the UK, Europe, Central Asia, Asia and North and South America.
Tiger’s Whisker is a collection of stories delving into the nature of healing – ‘You are the potion, you are the amulet, you are the cure.’
Tuesday 11 June 7.30pm, GuestHouse Storytelling, MC for the Ash Tree and Peter Chand, ‘Grimm’s Sheesha’
Live at the Hillcrest Centre, Bay Vue Road, Newhaven, BN9 9LH. Tickets on the door and online: £8/£10
Come join us for an evening of enchanting tales and captivating stories with the one and only Peter Chand. Get ready to be transported to a world of magic and wonder as Peter weaves his storytelling magic.
British Indian storyteller Peter Chand is one of Europe’s most renowned storytellers and is constantly in demand for his tales of life, love, and the supernatural. He has shared his tales across Britain and has also performed in Norway, France, Lithuania, Austria, Canada, and Singapore amongst other countries.
Peter is also part of the organising team of Festival at the Edge, which is the oldest storytelling festival in England., and was the Storyteller in Residence at The Story Museum in Oxford.
He has just been awarded an Honorary Fellowship by the University of Wolverhampton for his Storytelling activities and for championing storytellers from a global majority heritage.
Pete’s story’ Massage Oil is published in ‘A Herba Mythica’ – The Myths and Folktales of Sacred Healing Plants. MORE DETAILS HERE
‘This is like an audience with Paolo Coelho’ Kemi B. Litera London
Tuesday 14 May 7.30pm The Best of the old Guesthouse – a community storytelling evening
A chance to reprise some of our favourite stories from our community storytelling evenings over the 16 years the club has been in existence.
Anne-Marie, Umi and Wendy (the last committee, otherwise known as ‘the three wise women’ or ‘crones’) – would like to invite anyone who has told a story or stories at the GuestHouse over the years to join us for the evening with their best or favourite tale, crafted and polished up for the occasion.
Or just come and listen, because where would the GuestHouse be without all you listeners? Let’s make this the best community storytelling evening we’ve ever had.
Please contact Umi – umisinha.writing@gmail.com to book a ten minute slot and we’ll try to fit in as many of you as we can.
Tuesday 9 April The Mighty Goddess – Pomme Clayton
The myths of the goddess are subversive, outrageous, familiar, unknown, forgotten – spectacular! Meet: Vesta the fiery virgin warrior; Cybele, the mother goddess who fathered a child; Ishtar, Goddess of love and war, who journeys to the Land of the Dead. Follow the goddess from creator to crone in tales of lust and greed, death and destruction, transformation and rebirth.
Expect spells, songs and stories and a chance to receive a message from the Goddess’s oracle! The Mighty Goddess is for ADULTS ONLY – and contains some graphic content.
The stories are drawn from Pomme’s latest book The Mighty Goddess (The History Press 2023) a collection of 52 goddess myths that mixes myth and art with 52 fabulous papercuts by artist Sophie Herxheimer.
“Fiery, thrilling, powerful storytelling,” – Bloomsbury Festival
7.15pm to 9.30pm at the Hillcrest Centre, Newhaven BN9 9LH.
Tickets £10 / £8 concession on the night and in advance through: Eventbrite
Tuesday 12 March, Dark Tales of the Fairies – Tim Ralphs
In 1691 Reverend Robert Kirk, Minister of the Parish of Aberfoyle, dipped a quill-pen into ink and began to write about his life with the Other Crowd. The Good People. The Fairies.
Join Tim Ralphs (British Award for Storytelling Excellence winner 2012, **** Fringe Guru, Edinburgh Fringe 2014) on a tour of stories from all over the British Isles that explore the strange relationship between the Us and Them. Often dark, twisted, and superbly strange, Tim asks what it means that we have fallen out of relationship with our nearest neighbours. He invites you, for one night, to Believe in Fairies.
7.30pm to 9.30pm at the Hillcrest Centre, Newhaven BN9 9LH.
Tickets £10 / £8 concession on the night and in advance through: Eventbrite