More from our night in the Black Box on 30 May when the theme was Regret. Two stories that could hardly be more different - Walker Ewart with a beautiful story of loss and regret & Richard O'Leary with an hilarious insight into the mind of a would-be revolutionary in the 1980s.
It was a warm spring evening on 30 May in the Black Box when Caroline Orr told us about the one who got away even if he was a "backslider"; Patrick McKiernan told of his regrets about his late father and Claire Mitchell who was pimping out her dog. Hosted by Paul Doran & Padraig Ó Tuama with a few little mini-tales of their own.
Here is a single story from Paul Hutchinson on some misbehaving Boy Scouts on a trip to London, told at Lisburn Civic Centre on 2 May, 2018.
Two amazing women, both first-timers at tenx9, with two brilliant stories told at a special evening in conjunction with Unison on LGBT awareness on 16 May, 2018. Both stories involve turning the tables on aggressors: Amanda Verlaque tells of a death threat and Heather Fleming has a story of defiance with mild eroticism & a couple of well-used F-bombs.
Here are three more stories from our evening in Lisburn on 2 May 2018: Jane Searle and her Enid Blyton past; Pádraig Ó Tuama & his magnetism for the odd, especially on aeroplanes; Sean Harvey & his online gaming past (& present).
Here is Eliza MacCafferty with a funny, romantic tale of teenage love, angst & environmental awareness played out at the Donegal Gaeltacht told in the Black Box in Belfast on 25 April 2018 when the theme was - appropriately enough - LOVE.
Tenx9 was invited to Lisburn and its fantastic civic centre to host an evening, 2 May 2018, on the theme - GAMES. Here are three stories from that evening: Helen Killick & some meteorological games; Malachí O'Doherty who gamely saved the day; twosome Cheryl & Alan Meban who tag-teamed a story about extreme board-gaming. Your hosts are Pádraig and Paul.
On 28 April 2018, the village of Hillsborough Co Down got a flavour of tenx9 as part of the Festival of Literature and Ideas. We have three stories on the theme Village Life: Jacqui Kerr on a much-missed neighbour; Maureen Boyle looking out from her village to the world; Jan Carson on the poshest village in England with Paul Doran hosting.
Here is Helen McClements with a very powerful story from 25 April when the theme was Love. (Apologies for one or two sound glitches.)
Love was in the air, love was all around, love was all you needed in the Black Box on 25 April 2018: Lisa Albrecht got her mother a date; Paul Bond was torn between the Holy Fathers and his true love; Helen Killick had a honeymoon nightmare featuring lentils.....loads and loads of lentils and Paul had to make an apology, anyone can make a mistake.
