This page is to let you know what we will be doing in the coming weeks and months

Sunday 15 June, 7.30 pm

Tales from the Arabian Nights:

A group performance by Storytelling in Hope, directed by June Peters

The Arabian nights is a classic collection of stories from Arabia, India and Persia. They recreate a fabulous and fanciful world of sorcerers, sages and Jinnis, but also of ordinary people who find themselves in extraordinary situations. And above all it’s a story about the telling of stories.   Come and learn how telling tales can save your life!

June comments “Since our first performance of 1001 nights 15 years ago, I have been enchanted by the story of Sheharazad telling tales to save her life. I return again and again to her huge repertoire of stories.  Many of the stories have a depth and a quality that makes them stand alone, some need to be heard in the context of the frame story in order to get a sense of the full range and subtlety of meaning. All are wonderfully flexible and malleable so we can constantly create new tellings and new meanings with these old stories. But whatever tales find ourselves telling in any new performance of 1001 nights, its essential message is of the capacity of the human heart to be touched and changed by the stories of others.”

The Old Bakehouse Theatre, Blackheath,  £6/£4 venue details

Sunday 28th September 2008, 7.30 pm

Xanthe Gresham: Isis Is You Sis

 If you've ever done online dating, set fire to the curtains burning relics of a recent love or generally lost your golden lotus then Isis Is You Sis.

Combining the comic moments of breaking up and the single slog with a pure rendition of Isis and Osiris, the Egyptian tale of love versus murder, rape and betrayal, Isis Is-You-Sis will cause such a sunrise in your soul you'll just want to get out there, throw your arms towards the dawn and Create Life, Love Life, Desire Life. How can you miss it?

The Old Bakehouse Theatre, Blackheath, £5/£3   venue details

Ring of Hope

Our weekly storytelling circle; Tuesdays 8.00 – 10.00pm, St. Mary’s Community Centre, Eltham. Click here more information or here for Venue details. Term time only. Please check website for current dates before travelling.

There will be no Ring of Hope meeting on the following dates:
Summer break - last meeting 15th July, restart 9th September 2008