It’s that time of year when we feel we’ve none of this left… Money. So come tell your true money stories at the first tenx9 of 2026: rich or poor, wastrel or fiscal conservative. Get in touch with your story here.

It comes around every year & yet still gets us in a tizzy! Come along & enjoy nine Christmas stories - better than Dickens, ours are true & we might even have a wee surprise too. Get in touch with your story here.

Come & celebrate Christmas with a difference with nine true festive stories that will make you laugh, cry & believe in Santa all over again. Submit your true story here.

Free as always but be sure to book your tickets here.

Fall is our November theme - what does that bring to mind? Another word for autumn? A gravity induced accident? A moral plummet from the high ground? Make your own mind up & submit your true story here.

Don't forget to join us in Belfast’s Black Box. Always free.

Delighted to be back in Limavady’s Roe Valley Arts Centre to celebrate Hallowe’en with nine true stories. Get in touch with your tale of terror here.

Free as always but be sure to book your tickets via the venue website here.

Join us for nine true stories on the theme Cheers! in the Black Box! Whether it’s positive, negative, funny or tragic get in touch with your stories here.

We are delighted to be back in Derry/Londonderry for Columbafest for nine true stories on the theme Faith. A word that carries so much meaning & weight, how would you interpret it? Free as always but please remember to book your seats here.

Funded by PEACEPLUS in partnership with Derry City and Strabane District Council managed by Special EU Programmes Body.

It’s a local expression meaning… well you decide for yourself. Be as literal or as imaginative as you like but whatever, send your true stories to tenx9 here.

As we cling on to the last balmy days, we want your Summer stories: cruel summer, summer lovin’, easy living, whatever your experience. Get in touch with your true story here.

Join us in the Black Box for an extra tenx9 on the theme America. Still in love with the land of the free? Disillusioned with the home of the brave? Got a great J1 summer story to share? Get in touch at the usual place.

Maybe it’s the smell of smoke in the air in July but the theme for this month is Fire. Get in touch with your true stories & remember interpret as you see fit. Submit your stories here.

We’ve teamed up again with Belfast Photo Festival for nine true stories on the theme Natural. Maybe you tried the nudist beach, maybe you destroyed the garden, maybe you’re unnatural! Whatever your true story, it must have a photo connected. Submit your stories here.

Come & join us for true stories on the theme Plants at a special mini-tenx9 at the Brink! site on Union St. Whether you’re a successful horticulturist or kill every plant you own, get in touch here. Don’t forget to join us for a Sunday afternoon with a difference. Find out more here.

Tenx9 is delighted to be part of Brink Summer Solstice at their site on the Belfast Stories location. This will be a mini-tenx9 offering true stories on the theme Plants. Remember when you thought the weeds were deadly Triffids? Or you killed every house plant you ever owned? Or you rewilded a whole mountain? Get in touch here.

Join us for an evening of confession as we hear nine true stories on the theme Sin. Do you dare to bare your darkest secrets to the tenx9 audience? Of course you do! Submit your true story here.

We’re delighted to partner with the NI Mental Health Arts Festival for nine true stories on the theme: MIND. Get in touch with your stories here & please note the venue, one that’s new to us. Register for your FREE tickets here. Can’t wait!

It’s St George’s Day so why not a collection of true stories on the theme English? Maybe it’s a story set in England or peopled by English or learning English. You decide. Get in touch as ever here.

The tangled issue of Class is our theme for March. Have you a story of snobbery, wealth or just school! Maybe even something/one in your life who was “class”. Interpret in your own way & get in touch with your true story here.

Channel your inner boffin with your Chemistry story - gassy disaster in class? Romance in a lab coat? You decide. Get in touch with your story here.

Such a delight to again be part of Out to Lunch for our first tenx9 of 2025 & our theme is Moving - moving in, moving out, emotionally moving? You decide. Get in touch with your true stories here.

Nine true stories for the festive season. Always a great night & an escape from the relentless pressure of Christmas with a few added surprises. Get in touch with your story here.

Come & join us for true Christmas stories at Portstewart’s lovely Flowerfield Arts Centre. What a joy to be back here for the festive season. Submit your stories here.

Interpret as you see fit but as the nights get longer the theme for November’s evening of true stories seems rather apt. Get in touch with your true story here.

Delighted to be back in Limavady for true stories of Hallowe’en. Get in touch with your tales of ghosts and witchery or something else entirely that’s linked to the time of year. Submit your story here.

Free as always but be sure to book your tickets here.

Whether it’s the official Care system or another form of care - and we’ve all been there - then get in touch with your true story here.

We are delighted to be coming to Donegal for the first time to take part in the Frances Browne Library Festival 2024. Our theme is HOME. If you’ve a true story that fits, then get in touch with us here.

Be sure to book your free tickets here.

Feeling lucky? Get in touch with your true stories & join us in the Black Box for a fantastic evening.

We’re delighted to return to Newry for 2024’s Iúr Cinn Fleadh. Our theme is simplicity itself: Newry. So get in touch with your stories - whether a native, blow-in or visitor - here. Come join us in Don Bosco social club on Upper Water St. Always free.

The world may seem ugly but we know life is full of Beauty. That’s our theme for August so get in touch with your beautiful true stories here.

Whether it’s a holiday from Hell or Heaven, or you just love the classic Madonna (or Cliff) song, get in touch with your Holiday true stories here and join us in the Black Box on July 31st.