Past Events
December 2025
A Christmas Journey…with Maria Credali – Sold Out!
A traditional storytelling show for adults, featuring yuletide tales and traditions from around the world. You are invited to join us on a Christmas journey—a voyage across countries and cultures, through tales and traditions as unique and as varied as snowflakes. Along the way, we’ll encounter curious characters: spiders and shepherdesses, wolves and witches. We’ll come face to face with the fearsome Krampus and the kindly Tomte. We’ll hear the legend of the Yule Cat, who’s not nearly as cuddly…
Find out more »January 2026
Vikings in the Midlands – 10 week history course
Do you love history? Are you fascinated by the Viking Age? Or maybe you’re just looking to learn something new in 2026! This exploratory and fun history course delves into the thrilling history of the Viking Great Army. We will focus on their famous winter camp in Repton, as well as who the Vikings were, what they believed and why they invaded the Midlands kingdom of Mercia in the mid 800s. Along the way, you’ll be introduced to a range…
Find out more »The RAF Fauld Explosion 1944. Sold Out!
This talk looks in detail about the terrible explosion that occurred in November 1944 at Fauld, just north of Burton. Fauld was a massive underground armaments store and the occurrence was the 4th largest man-made explosion during World War 2, causing tremendous damage In Burton and it also had an impact in places like Lichfield.
Find out more »Dancing Spy: Agent Josephine Baker. Sold Out!
If you enjoyed the talk about 'The WW2 Spy Princess' Noor Inayat Khan, then you may also like this one. Have you heard of Josephine Baker — the dancer who wowed France with feathers and fame? But did you know she also risked her life as a spy in the French Resistance? Join Sundeep Braich to uncover the secrets behind the Dancing Spy’s double life.
Find out more »February 2026
Letters through Time – Storytelling with Maria Credali. SOLD OUT!
Letters through Time – The true tale of the "poet postman," an ordinary man with an extraordinary story. An Arts Council England funded commission for Festival at the Edge. Like many thousands of others, Simon Evans was quite literally a broken man, in more ways than one, after his terrible ordeal in the trenches of WW1. Having been badly wounded, he was sent home to recover, then returned to his postal round in Liverpool, where he struggled to deal with…
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