| TAFFY THOMAS TOUR SCHEDULE 2012 | ||
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| Sun 1st Jan | 4pm | Borrowdale Hotel, Keswick Hotel guests only |
| Tue 3rd Jan | 7.30pm | Watermill Inn, Ings, Windermere, South Lakeland Storytelling Club |
| Sat 21st Jan | 1.45pm | Wordsworth Hotel, Grasmere, Wordsworth Trust Arts & Books Festival more>> |
| Wed 25th Jan | daytime | Four Oaks Primary School, Liverpool. School only |
| Thu 26th Jan | various | Trafalgar Junior School Twickenham , Part of Twickenham Storytelling Festival |
| Sat 28th Jan | 1pm | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery. Launch of Second Laureate for Storytelling |
| Tue 31st Jan | daytime | Little Crosby School, near Liverpool. School only |
| Wed 1st Feb | daytime | Cramlington Learning Village, Northumberland. School only |
| Thu 2nd Feb | daytime | Dame Allans Junior School, Newcastle-on-time. School only |
| Fri 3rd Feb | 3.30pm | Wilson's Endowed School, Over Kellett, Lancs. 3 Golden Apples with John Crouch. School only |
| Tue 7th Feb | 7.30pm | Watermill Inn, Ings, Windermere, South Lakeland Storytelling Club |
| Wed 8th Feb | morning | Low Wood Hotel, Ambleside, Workshop for Cheshire head teachers' conference |
| Fri 10th Feb | 7.30pm | Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. Cardiff Storytelling Circle. Richard Berry rjhberry@msn.com |
| Sat 11th Feb | 12 noon | Glanfa Stage, Millennium Centre Foyer, Cardiff, Public performance more>> |
| Tue 21st Feb | daytime | Our Lady of Victories School, Keighley, School only |
| Tue 28th Feb | Daytime | Alderley Edge Community Primary School, School only |
| Wed 29th Feb | Daytime | Gwladys Street Primary School, Liverpool, School only |
| Thu 1st Mar | Daytime | Gwladys Street Primary School, Liverpool, School only |
| Tue 6th Mar | 7.30pm | Watermill Inn, Ings, Windermere, South Lakeland Storytelling Club |
| Mon 12th Mar | Morning | Cancer Care centre, Slynedales, Lancaster. Invited audience |
| Mon 12th Mar | afternoon | Cancer Care centre, Kendal, Invited audience |
| Mon 19th Mar | daytime | Ellel St John's Primary School, Galgate, Lancs, School only |
| Tue 20th Mar | Evening | Museum of Rural Life, Reading University, "Tales of Land & Sea, more>> |
| Wed 21st Mar | Evening | Farnham Maltings, Surrey, Tales from the Tale Coat. more>> |
| Thu 22nd Mar | Daytime | Bourton Meadow School, Buckingham, school only |
| Fri 23rd Mar | Evening | The Sanctuary, St Michael's Church, Ewell, Surrey, 3 Heads in a Well Storytelling Club more>> |
| Sat 24th Mar | various | Barcelo Daventry Hotel, Children Adopted from China - private booking |
| Wed 28th Mar | daytime | Badalona infants' school, Spain, School only |
| Tue 3rd Apr | 7.30pm | Watermill Inn, Ings, near Windermere. South Lakeland Storytelling Club, free entry |
| Sat 7th Apr | daytime | Easter in the Storyteller's Garden, Grasmere. £5 adult, £3 child, £12 family ticket |
| Sun 8th Apr | daytime | Alnwick Garden, Northumberland.more>> |
| Mon 9th Apr | daytime | Alnwick Garden, Northumberland. more>> |
| Wed 18th Apr | afternoon | Grasmere riverside storywalk, School booking for St Phillip's Warrington |
| Fri 20th Apr | afternoon | Grasmere riverside storywalk, School booking for St Phillip's Warrington |
| Sat 28th Apr | 12 noon | Lancaster Central Library, for Lancaster University Volunteers Unit |
| Wed 2nd May | morning | Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival, Wellesbourne School |
| Wed 2nd May | afternoon | Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival, Shottery St Andrew's School |
| Thu 3rd May | morning | Stratford-upon-Avon Literary Festival, Hampton Lucy School |
| 11th-13th May | all weekend | Halsway Manor, Somerset Songs & Stories of the Quantocks - for details & bookings more>> |
| Thu 17th May | evening | Grasmere YHA or Storyteller's Garden. performance for Pennine Way Primary School, Carlisle |
| Sun 20th May | 2pm | Marton Arms, Thornton-in-Lonsdale. Woolly Yarn Day for Cancer Care & St Oswald's Church |
| Thu 24th May | 1pm | Rheged, Penrith, Workshop for Cumbria Children's Services |
| Sun 27th May | 2pm | St Mary's Church, Ambleside, Churches Together in Ambleside picnic |
| 2nd-9th Jun | various | Grasmere Festival of Story Walks, Part of "Tales and Trails" project |
| Tue 5th Jun | 7.30pm | Watermill Inn Ings, near Windermere, South Lakeland Storytelling Club - free, Tales of Kings and Queens |
| Thu 7th Jun | Daytime | Great North Museum, Hancock, Newcastle, "Salty Tales" with the Keelers. FREE, more>> |
| Thu 12th Jun | Morning | Thwaites Primary School, Cumbria, School only |
| Wed 13th Jun | 1.30pm | Storyteller's Garden for Loweswater Ladies, Private booking |
| Thu 21st Jun | Daytime | Litherland High School, Bootle, School only |
| Sat 23rd Jun | 7pm | Allan Bank, Grasmere (National Trust), Fairy Gold at Midsummer more>> |
| Mon 25th Jun | 10.30am | Storyteller's Garden - story walk, for Singleton CE Primary School, Poulton-le-Fylde |
| Mon 25th Jun | Evening | Grasmere YHA, for Davyhulme Primary School |
| Tue 26th Jun | Evening | Helena Thompson Museum, Workington, Invited audience |
| 27 - 28th Jun | Morning | Building to Progress, Aberkenfig, South Wales Community work for Beyond the Border Festival |
| Fri 29th Jun | Afternoon | Nazareth House Care Home, Cardiff, "Take These Chains…" for Beyond the Border outreach |
| 29th - Jul 1st | t.b.c. | St Donat's Castle, Vale of Glamorgan, Beyond the Border Storytelling Festival more >> |
| Mon 2nd Jul | Morning | New Horizons Day Centre, Barry, Community work for Beyond the Border Festival |
| Tue 3rd Jul | 7.30pm | Watermill Inn Ings, near Windermere, South Lakeland Storytelling Club - free |
| Wed 4th Jul | 7.30pm | Bookcase book shop, Castle Street, Carlisle, Book signing - "Cumbrian Folk Tales" 01228 544560 £3 refundable on purchase |
| Fri 6th Jul | Daytime | Broomfield SILC school, Leeds, School only |
| Wed 11th Jul | Daytime | St Begh's Catholic Primary School, Whitehaven, School only |
| Fri 13th Jul | Daytime | Godley Community Primary School, Hyde,School only |
| Sat 14th Jul | 2.30pm | Friends Meeting House Keswick, Cumbria, Keswick Literary Group - Joyce Fisher 01900 813444 |
| Sat 28th Jul | 11am & 3pm | Waterstones, Kendal, Book Signing "Cumbrian Folk Tales" |
| Tue 31st July | 3.30pm | Storyteller's Garden Grasmere, Lake District Summer Music joint event more>> |
| Tue 7th Aug | 7.30pm | Watermill Inn Ings, near Windermere, South Lakeland Storytelling Club - free |
| Thu 9th Aug | 7.30pm | Quaker Meeting House, Keswick, Book Signing "Cumbrian Folk Tales" for "Bookcase" bookshop |
| Sat 11th Aug | 2pm | Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond, Yorkshire, Tales from the Tale Coat more>> |
| Fri 17th Aug | Daytime | Tynemouth Station, Northumbria, Summer event - storytelling with craft workshops |
| 18 - 24th Aug | various | Whitby Folk Week, more>> |
| Sat 25th Aug | various | Solfest, north Cumbria, more>> |
| Sun 26th Aug | 12.00 & 2pm | Grasmere Sports and Show, Marquee 51more>> |
| Wed 29th Aug | 5.30pm | Keswick Moot Hall & Oxfam Shop, Renewal of Fairtrade Town certificate - celebration - free |
| Sat 1st Sep | 4.30pm | Tweedies Bar, Grasmere, Grasmere Guzzler Beer Festival more>> |
| Tue 4th Sep | 7.30pm | Watermill Inn Ings, near Windermere, South Lakeland Storytelling Club - free |
| Thu 6th Sep | 7pm | Allan Bank, Grasmere (National Trust), Official launch of "Cumbrian Folk Tales" - invited audience |
| Sat 8th Sep | evening | Allithwaite Community Centre, Private birthday party |
| Thu 13th Sep | daytime | Airbusiness Academy, Toulouse France - Consultancy |
| Wed 19th Sep | Daytime | St Phillip's Westbrook Primary School, Warrington, School only |
| Thu 20th Sep | Daytime | St Phillip's Westbrook Primary School, Warrington, School only |
| 21-23rd Sep | various | Halsway Manor, Somerset, Residential storytelling weekend hosted by Taffy more>> |
| Fri 28th Sep | Daytime | Liverpool Newly Qualified Teachers' conference, Workshops for teachers |
| Sat 29th Sep | t.b.c. | York Library for Phrase Arts, British Awards for Storytelling Excellence |
| Mon 1st Oct | evening | YHA Hawkshead, Cumbria, Performance for Metropolitan University trainee teachers |
| Tue 2nd Oct | daytime | YHA Hawkshead, Cumbria, Workshops for Leeds Metropolitan University trainee teachers |
| Tue 2nd Oct | 7.30pm | The Watermill Inn, Ings, near Windermere, South Lakeland Storytelling Club - free |
| Thu 4th Oct | daytime | Lansbury Bridge School, St Helens, School only - National Poetry Day for Windows Poetry Project |
| Fri 5th Oct | daytime | Gwladys Street Primary School, Liverpool, School only |
| Sun 7th Oct | 2pm | Ilkley Playhouse, West Yorkshire, Fairy Gold show for Ilkley Literature Festival more>> |
| Mon 22nd Oct | 10am | Brewery Arts Centre cinema, Kendal, Introduce film "Kikou & the Sorceress" for National Schools Film Week. |
| Tue 16th Oct | Afternoon | Royal York Hotel, York, Conference for therapists working with people with cochlear implants |
| Thu 18th Oct | 10am | Apollo Cinema, Barrow-in-Furness, Introduce film "Mirror, Mirror" for National Schools Film Week. |
| Sun 21st Oct | 12.45pm | Seven Stories, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Talecoat Show for Oxfam, more>> |
| Sat 27th Oct | evening | Grasmere Sports Field, Bedtime Stories for Caravan Club rally |
| Sun 28th Oct | 1.35pm | Depart Lakeside, Newby Bridge on MV Tern, The Ghost Ship - stories for Halloween from Taffy's book "Cumbrian Folk Tales" more>> |
| Wed 31st Oct | 3pm | Daniel Hay Library, Lowther Street, Whitehaven, Halloween Stories |
| Wed 31st Oct | 7.30pm | Halloween at the Storyteller's Garden, Grasmere, Taffy's annual Halloween extravaganza - £5, £3, £12 Family Ticket 015394 35641 |
| Thu 1st Nov | Daytime | Ulverston Library for Cumbria Wildlife Trust, Animal & sea stories |
| Fri 2nd Nov | 1.30pm | Senhouse Roman Museum, Maryport, Half-term storytelling |
| Sun 4th Nov | afternoon | Senhouse Roman Museum, Maryport, Storytelling and authors' panel for Maryport Literary Festival |
| Tue 6th Nov | 7.30pm | The Watermill Inn, Ings, near Windermere, South Lakeland Storytelling Club - free |
| Tue 13th Nov | afternoon | Staveley House care home, Dalton-in-Furness, >performance for residents |
| Thu 15th Nov | afternoon | A school in Loughborough area, Outreach work for Tales at the Watermill |
| Thu 15th Nov | evening | Shepshed Watermill, near Loughborough, Tales at the Watermill - public event. Email: nickfathers@sky.com 0116 236 3739 |
| Fri 16th Nov | morning | A school in Loughborough area, Outreach work for Tales at the Watermill |
| Fri 16th Nov | 7pm | Ashby de la Zouch Rotary Club, >members & invited guests |
| Mon 19th Nov | 11am | Black Swan Arts Centre, Frome, Somerset, visit to Open Storytellers |
| Mon 19th Nov | evening | Halsway Manor, Somerset, talk for delegates on storytelling course |
| Sat 24th Nov | t.b.c. | Ulverston Dickensian Festival, Cumbria, "Talk Turkey" with chef John Crouch - storytelling with food! |
| Sun 25th Nov | t.b.c. | Ulverston Dickensian Festival, Cumbria, more>> |
| Sun 2nd Dec | 12.00/3.00pm | Priory Theatre, Percy Street, Tynemouth - Tynemouth Christmas Fayre £4. Christmas stories with music. 0191 258 6100 more>> |
| Mon 3rd Dec | morning | Bury, Greater Manchester, Private booking for Manchester home educators |
| Tue 4th Dec | 7.30pm | The Watermill Inn, Ings, near Windermere, South Lakeland Storytelling Club - free |
| Fri 7th Dec | 3.30pm | Wilson's Endowed CE School, Over Kellett, "Talk Turkey" with chef John Crouch 01524 732097 |
| Sun 9th Dec | 7.30pm | Eaglesfield Village Hall, West Cumbria, "Talk Turkey" with chef John Crouch for Arts Out West. tel.01900 826539 |
| Wed 12th Dec | daytime | Heron Hill Primary School, Kendal, School only |
| Fri 14th Dec | 7pm | Theatre By the Lake, Keswick, Fireside Stories for Christmas more>> |
| Sat 15th Dec | 7pm | Theatre By the Lake, Keswick, Fireside Stories for Christmas with Ian Douglas more>> |
| Sun 16th Dec | 7pm | Theatre By the Lake, Keswick Fri 21st Dec, Fireside Stories for Christmas with Ian Douglas more>> |
| Tue 18th Dec | 10.15am | Victoria Hall, Grange-over-Sands, University of the 3rd Age. more>> |
| Fri 21st Dec | 7pm | Theatre By the Lake, Keswick, Fireside Stories for Christmas (as for other dates) |
| Sat 22nd Dec | 7pm & 9.30pm | Theatre By the Lake, Keswick, Fireside Stories for Christmas with Ian Douglas more>> |
| Wed 26th Dec | Teatime | Borrowdale Hotel, near Keswick, Christmas storytelling for hotel residents |
| Sun 30th Dec | 11am, 2pm | The Sage Gateshead, Northern Rock Hall, Two performances of "Towards Twelfth Night" with Taffy Thomas & Friends, more>> |
| For further information contact TALES IN TRUST Church Stile Studio, Grasmere, Cumbria LA22 9SW tel 015394 35641 | ||