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Happy New year from Storytelling Cafe! As always we have a wonderful year planned full of stories and storytellers who will delight you with tales from all around the world.
We're starting off 2020 with a magical spark as we welcome Tim Ralphs with “ How to spin enchantment”.
Spin and weave the tangled roving into one thread of magic. Snap the scissors shut right before the happily ever after.
17th Century Italian Giambattista Basile travelled from Venice to Naples collecting the most marvellous fairytales. Tim Ralphs rouses them from their inky sleep in a joyful performance that dances from the frivolous to the magical.
This is an array of some of the most lyrical, characterful and hysterical fairytale stories ever offered up for performance. Seven Godmothers, a sleeping Prince, a weeping girl and an enchanted doll that makes its owner crave more stories. MORE STORIES!"
As well as enchanting stories that are sure to have you under their spell, you will also be able to sample the delights of Kitchen Garden Cafe. With a wide selection of food, drink and cake you'll be sure to have a magical evening!

Sometime in 1871 the great Breton folktale collector François-Marie Luzel sat down in front of a man called Guillaume Garandel in a village called Plouaret, ready to add another story to his bulging collection of traditional tales. Imagine his surprise when the story unravelled in a twisted tale of cross-dressing, attempted seduction and a huge hairy man in a story that defies categories and leaps, hairy and smelly, out of the collective imagination, demanding to be heard.