Storytelling London
Find out where to experience the best storytelling in London.
Do you live in the area and wonder where you can experience and practice storytelling in London?
Luckily, London is a fantastic place for storytelling. A vibrant art scene, a broad offering of storytelling courses, and several storytelling venues.
Below you’ll see which venues to visit.
If you’re interested in exploring other ways of improving your storytelling skills, get in touch with us. We offer storytelling keynotes, workshops, and 1:1 coaching in London.
Storytelling venues in London
The Moth
- Overview: The Moth is the most famous story slam in the world. While most of its events happen in the U.S., The Moth, regularly, hosts shows in London.
- Type of Stories: High-quality, short, personal stories. The Moth gets plenty of story pitches and is picky about the stories that are shared. To pitch your story, you must record a 2-min extract from your story and submit it to www.themoth.org/share-your-story/pitchline.
- Dates: Wednesday, once a month.
- Website: www.themoth.org
Spark
- Overview: Spark is the UK's longest-running storytelling club. They are a very friendly place where people feel comfortable to share their stories.
- Type of Stories: Personal stories on a given topic (e.g., "change"). As the stories are, usually, not vetted by the organisers, each story is very unique in structure, style, and quality. To sign up, you can send an email to sparktruestories@gmail.com.
- Dates: Varying, but, usually, Wednesday once a month.
- Website: www.stories.co.uk
Storytelling Workshops in London
Do you want to listen to great stories and learn the art of storytelling?
If you’re interested in “Personal Storytelling”, The Spark is a fantastic venue. They offer regular workshops for beginners and more experienced storytellers.
If you’re more interested in “Business Storytelling”, we recommend getting in touch with us. Every few months, we host a workshop in London, in which we work with a small group of individuals. Over course of the workshop, we help participants identify and structure a pool of stories so they feel confident about delivering them.
By the end of the program, participants know how to tell truly inspirational stories and are excited about every opportunity to share them.