We teamed up with Belfast Pride and here are four warm, brave, funny stories from 26 July 2018 in the Black Box when the theme was Stand Up: Fidelma Carolan on her "Dyke Power" days; Patrick McKiernan standing up to school bullies; Donna Black who wants to marry the woman who nursed her back to health and Walker Ewart who refused to stand up and go to the missions. Padraig & Paul are your hosts.
Three great stories from different events in 2018: Jane Searle who told of coming home at our evening in Hillsborough; Malachí O'Doherty who admitted he was a stuck-up wee bastard when the theme was Regrets; Geraldine who was "Lost" in anxiety and fear, a story touching on issues of suicide, which she told at the Solas Festival in Scotland in June.
At the NHS tribute David Burke referred to a story about a 'personal' donation he made after a diagnosis of cancer. After a rummage through the tenx9 archives, we found it. So here it is recorded at Corrymeela on 1 April 2018.
Tenx9 was honoured to be asked to take part in a celebration of the 70th birthday of the NHS on 5 July 2018 at Stormont. Here are two stories from that day plus a poem: David Burke tells how becoming a patient made him a better doctor; surgeon Mark Taylor pays tribute to his grandad and those who treated him over his final years while Colin Dardis has a rousing poem to say Happy Birthday to the health service.
Three more stories from June's Roadtrip evening: Eliza MacCafferty on a field trip from hell; a brooding tale of menace from Paul Hutchinson and Sean Mullin with a story from New Zealand which features a Swedish football team & Radiohead...yes, Radiohead.
Competing with record heat and the World Cup, there was a full house at the Black Box on 27 June for Roadtrip and the audience did not miss out: Richard O'Leary almost got engaged in China; Gareth Higgins had an excruciating encounter with lovely waitress Melani; Heather Fleming lived to tell the tale of an ancient camper van, just about. But Paul kicks it off with an appeal.
It was a glorious, hot Scottish summer's day at the Solas festival in Perth on 24 June. Tenx9 was there to hear stories on the theme Lost - here are three of them: Gyda won hearts & broke hearts with a tale of depression and loss; Ciaran McQuaid found something just as he thought he had lost it and Rachel Weiss, mother of three, who really should not be allowed near children.
Four stories from a sunny Saturday evening in a marquee in South Belfast, 16 June 2018, on the theme Habits as part of the Belfast Book Fair Lit Crawl. Margaret McClory on life in a habit as a nun, a debut from Louise Reddick on teenage habits, Caroline Orr - the girl who can't say no and Jane Searle on childhood rituals. Your hosts are Pádraig & Paul.
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.
