Founded in 1998 by Peter Hilken with a small group of friends, we

have grown to a group of over 30 core members, paying annual

subscriptions, but we also welcome larger audiences drawn from

all over the Cambridge area.  As well as our regular meetings, we

put on special events such as workshops, rehearsed group

tellings, and, for the first time in 2007, a storytelling festival.  We

are affiliated to the national Society for Storytelling and have

hosted events for them.

So what do we mean by storytelling and why do we do it?  When

we tell stories, we don’t read from books: we don’t recite from

memory.  We hear, or find stories from all over the world, and retell

them in as many different styles as there are people present. 

Sometimes we change them completely, improvising new

elements or revising them to fit the modern world: sometimes we

keep closely to the traditional language of earlier versions. 

Sometimes our stories come from our personal, family or

community traditions: sometimes we search for the oldest, the

strangest, the most distant stories we can find. 

Read our annual report for 2009-2010.