Virtual & in-person storytelling events
Dates when Wendy is performing in the day for children and families or in the evening for adult audiences at public events with libraries, Museums, Galleries, festivals and much more. See photos from past events.
Guest speaker & storyteller at the Royal Festival Hall, Skylark Cafe
Date: Wednesday 25th May
Time: 2pm – 3pm
Address: Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road, London, SE1 8XX
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Rewilding Cinderella in Brighton
Dates, Times & Venues:
Saturday 28th May: 2pm-4.30pm, 6pm-8.30pm
Venue: Waterhall Rewilding Site, Waterhall, Saddlescombe Road, BN45 7DB
Tickets £10-12: https://www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/rewilding-cinderella-164078/
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Sunday 29th May: 2-4.30pm
Venue: Waterhall Rewilding Site, Waterhall, Saddlescombe Road, BN45 7DB
Tickets £10-12: https://www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/rewilding-cinderella-164078/
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Thursday 2nd June: 7pm-10.30pm (online)
A preview of the online recordings plus LIVE tellings with Q&A discussion.
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rewilding-cinderella-tickets-328025522167
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Saturday 4th June: 2pm-4.30pm
Venue: Onca Barge, Brighton Marina, The Waterfront, BN2 5UU
Tickets £10-12: https://www.brightonfringe.org/whats-on/rewilding-cinderella-164078/
A fairy tale performance like no other. 13 artists have formed a Storytelling Choir and offer a radical reweaving of Cinderella in this storytelling concert. This amazing outdoor performance takes place amidst Sussex hills, with stories from England and Iran, Haiti and Russia, Japan, Bulgaria and Scotland are woven together with poetry and song, to explore the global, local and intimate journey of the wild ash girl. Storytellers will guide audiences across the hills and through the forest as they tell their stories. You will be invited to join in songs, poetry and a forest spell!
Join world-renowned artists and performers Wendy Shearer, Tunde Balogun, Hannah Battershell, Marina Evans, Sophie Gibson, Joanna Gilar, Kestrel Morton, Nana Tomova, Gauri Raje, Laura Sampson, Fleur Shorthouse Hemmings, Philippa Snell and Heulwen Williams. This is a 13+ event.
Bedtime Stories for the National Literacy Trust
Date: Tuesday 31st May
Time and Venue:
11:00-11:30am at Hastings Library, Brassey Institute, 13 Claremont, Hastings, East Sussex, TN34 1HE
12:00-12:30pm at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, John’s Place, Bohemia Rd, Hastings TN34 1ET
In collaboration with the National Literacy Trust, join Wendy Shearer, one of the author’s of Bedtime Stories: Beautiful Black Tales from the Past for a reading and party storytelling of the tale ‘Mary Seacole’. Wendy will also be signing copies and you can receive one at the event or purchase one from your independent Book Shop.
Hendon Pageant Festival at the RAF Museum
Date: Thursday 2nd June
Times: 10.30, 11.30, 13.30, 15.00
Address: Royal Air Force Museum London, Grahame Park Way, Colindale, NW9 5LL
Join Wendy Shearer for stories of flight and royalty in faraway lands where you will meet larger-than-life characters from East & West Africa! Everyone is invited to join in with music and movement
Tickets: https://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/whats-going-on/events/raf-museum-hendon-pageant/
Women Who Give No F*cks at Cranborne Earth House
Date: Saturday 16th July
Time: 7.30pm
Venue: Cranborne Earthouse, Dorset, BH21 5R
The Crick Crack Club presents a StoryJam production called ‘The Women Who Gave No F*cks’ with Wendy Shearer, Sarah Liisa Wilkinson, Nell Phoenix, Lucy Lill, Alys Torrance, & Laura Sampson.
Join us for a fantastic evening with six tip-top tale-tellers as they slam down the stories. You the audience vote and award the prizes for the most death-defying, world-creating, super-woman in myth or legend. These are the Women Who Gave No F*cks.
(Suitable for adults 18+)
The Viktor Wynd Museum Online Event
Date: Sunday September 11th
Time: 8-9:30pm
Venue: Online Zoom Event
Hosted by The Last Tuesday Society and The Viktor Wynd Museum, Wendy will be telling stories gathered from many islands, with themes of magic and mystery, love and loss.
Surrey Storytelling Night
Date: Friday 23rd September
More details soon.