Festival 2025

FRIDAY 20TH – SUNDAY 22ND JUNE 2025.

TBC. WATCH THIS SPACE!

World-class performance storytelling with myths for kids and fairytales for grown-ups! Expect sitar concerts by the babbling beck, late night silent disco, storywalks through the valley, ceilidhs, kids’ tents, music and making workshops, loose parts play, lovely food and drink in a beautiful green valley in the Lake District.

Stealing Thunder Storytelling Festival is a welly-boot-ique festival of wonder. Enter a world of playfulness, epic stories & wild enchantment… and the occasional sheep.

Festival includes camping, delicious food, great coffee and (of course) a bar.

2023 FESTIVAL is now a happy dream – thank you for joining us!

Creation Myths for Families
Indian Raag Meditation by the beck
G’n’T at the Bar!
Fellrunner Dr Julie Carter
Medieval Puppet Shows
Storywalks through the valley
Scandi-Folk Music
Fairytales for Grown Ups
Late Night Strange Things
Gamelan for Under 5’s
Cheers
The Unorthodox Unprecedented Preacher, TUUP!
Arthur Ransome Folktales
Original Legend of the Ring from Norse Myth
Singing with Swedish Kersti
Lantern Making Workshop
Gone Cuckoo
Strange Girls. Beautiful Monsters.
Guided Fell Running

  

Our dazzling line up of World-Class Storytellers include:
TUUP,
Hugh Lupton
Pandvani108
Katy Cawkwell
Sarah Liisa Wilkinson
Ben Haggarty
Lucy Lill
Theatre of the Small
Katty Wtterwulghe
Dominic Kelly
Malcolm Green

With music from:
Sitar player extraordinaire Sheema Mukherjee
Scandi-folk duo Vicki Swan & Jonny Dyer
Swedish singer Kersti Ståbi
Viola d’Amore player John Dipper
Drummer Josh Green
Tabla player Rav Neiyyar
French horn & guitar player Raoul Neumann
 
Workshops with:
RagTagArts
Festival of Light
MagicalStoryJars
Lakeland Arts

Stealing Thunder Storytelling Festival is a formidable collaboration between

Cumbria’s own Stealing Thunder

Crick Crack Club

Kendal Mountain Book Festival

Pandvani108

Super Great Kids’ Stories

Together we’re creating a small festival with a big imagination, jam packed with incredible performers, shows and magic for ALL ages.

We’re making it for you – so join us!

 

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