7 Sisters at Guesthouse

7 Sisters Storytelling at Guesthouse

Oral storytelling is ‘eye to eye, mind to mind and heart to heart’ and 7 Sisters Storytelling at GuestHouse is committed to hosting high quality professional storytelling events within a community context.

Tuesday 9 January ‘Stories to Bring the House Down’ with Nell Phoenix

As the door to 2024 swings open, there is no better performer to welcome in the year than the ‘mercurial and captivating’ Nell Phoenix. Let’s celebrate with a new-start-night of chuckles, cackles, cake and community as Nell shares her best-loved stories and jokes, proverbs and riddles.

Why was Cinderella so bad at football?
What would bears be without bees?
What do you call a pile of cats?
Join the word-party,
Celebrate absurdity,
Wave the flag of freedom
And be happy fools.

‘Phoenix is a mercurial and captivating performer’
David Fargnoli, Soho Theatre

‘I found Nell’s performance stunning; full of wit and extraordinarily poetic.’
Reinhold Erzählbühn, Berlin, Theater oN

7.30pm to 9.30pm at the Hillcrest Centre, Newhaven BN9 9LH.
Tickets £10  / £8 concession on the night and in advance through: Eventbrite

Tuesday 13 February ‘The Bag of Wonders’ with Xanthe Gresham Knight

Storytelling as sharp as a lemon and sweet as a nut.

Accept it or not, we’re all hooked on our baggage system, whether it’s a clutch bag or a holdall, but forget what’s in yours, and come and rummage around in Xanthe’s bottomless bag. Between the kitchen sink and the old tube tickets lies a pick and mix of marvels, fibs and fables. See what you can pull from this lucky dip!

An audible feast! Gulf News, Waiheke Island New Zealand

Gresham is a truly great storyteller who unwraps each story like the petals of a lotus. British Theatre Review

7.30pm 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

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 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.

Tickets: Eventbrite