29th November 2008

Poster

Twelve years ago, whilst living on the border of Scotland, Simon was introduced to a master storyteller called Angela Knowles. She acted as a mentor for him over the next few years and he worked with her regularly in a storytelling initiative called The Telling Place.

For the last five years, Simon has worked half time as an Anglican Priest in order to do more storytelling on both a professional basis and purely for fun. Simon’s stories include traditional folk and fairytale, sacred stories, personal and historical stories. He has told at the usual assortment of places: festivals, theatres, pubs, schools, cafes, places of worship and historical interest, outdoors and overseas! He also does workshops and courses in storytelling skills when requested, although he maintains that all you need as a storyteller you already have within you.

Simon has recently been awarded Golden Yarnspinner award at the Bristol Storytelling Festival.

A spell binding evening indeed!