Helen Sant. Photo by Graham Smith.
Since 2003, I was a children's storyteller in schools and museums and at a variety of venues from boats to festival tents until 2019.
I also led ghost walks and pub tours for adult audiences and delivered talks on ghosts and the paranormal. I was the first person, as far as I know, to run a haunted pub tour in York. (see some very old footage below!)
Today I'm concentrating on delivering public speaking, comedy writing, performing stand up comedy and am available for storytelling or presentation projects. The kinds of projects I would be happy to get involved with, are listed below, but you can drop me a line to see if I can help.
I also led ghost walks and pub tours for adult audiences and delivered talks on ghosts and the paranormal. I was the first person, as far as I know, to run a haunted pub tour in York. (see some very old footage below!)
Today I'm concentrating on delivering public speaking, comedy writing, performing stand up comedy and am available for storytelling or presentation projects. The kinds of projects I would be happy to get involved with, are listed below, but you can drop me a line to see if I can help.
Here is a selection of places I have told stories as a general storyteller and as a ghost storyteller
Acomb Explore Library
Bar Lane Studios
Beningbrough Hall
Black Swan
Café Ambience
City Screen Basement
Dean Court Hotel
Eagle & Child Pub
Exhibition Hotel
Exploring the Extraordinary Conference dinner
Fleeting Arms
Friends' Meeting House - where I hosted two story festivals
Golden Fleece
Grimoire bookshop
Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate for York Lit fest
Jacob's Well, Trinity Lane
Royal Oak pub
Speakeasy
Steiner School
Waterstones
Wormholes bookshop
York Castle Museum
York Library
York Museums Gardens Observatory - for Illuminated York
York Railway Institute - hosted storytelling festival
Yorkshire Terrier
York Unitarian Church
York outdoors leading historical and ghost tours
Outside York:
Barnsley Art Gallery
Bedale woods for a naming ceremony
Bolling Hall, Bradford Literature Festival
Dalton Forest grounds summer event
Galtres/Parklands Festival
Harewood House grounds
Heart Café, Headingley
Howarth Storytelling Circle
Howsham Mill
Kirkstall Abbey Gothic Festival for the British Film Institute
Leeds City Museum
Leeds Thackray Museum
Middlethorpe Hall corporate event
Nottingham Festival
Preston Park
Scarbrough Library for Scarborough Lit Fest
Stockeld Park, Wetherby
Sutton Bank Centre
Thirsk library
Towneley Hall, Burnley
Wakefield Library
World Peace Café, Manchester fringe festival
Some of my clients have been:
British Film Institute, National Trust; York Museums Trust and various councils, museums and local schools.
Acomb Explore Library
Bar Lane Studios
Beningbrough Hall
Black Swan
Café Ambience
City Screen Basement
Dean Court Hotel
Eagle & Child Pub
Exhibition Hotel
Exploring the Extraordinary Conference dinner
Fleeting Arms
Friends' Meeting House - where I hosted two story festivals
Golden Fleece
Grimoire bookshop
Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate for York Lit fest
Jacob's Well, Trinity Lane
Royal Oak pub
Speakeasy
Steiner School
Waterstones
Wormholes bookshop
York Castle Museum
York Library
York Museums Gardens Observatory - for Illuminated York
York Railway Institute - hosted storytelling festival
Yorkshire Terrier
York Unitarian Church
York outdoors leading historical and ghost tours
Outside York:
Barnsley Art Gallery
Bedale woods for a naming ceremony
Bolling Hall, Bradford Literature Festival
Dalton Forest grounds summer event
Galtres/Parklands Festival
Harewood House grounds
Heart Café, Headingley
Howarth Storytelling Circle
Howsham Mill
Kirkstall Abbey Gothic Festival for the British Film Institute
Leeds City Museum
Leeds Thackray Museum
Middlethorpe Hall corporate event
Nottingham Festival
Preston Park
Scarbrough Library for Scarborough Lit Fest
Stockeld Park, Wetherby
Sutton Bank Centre
Thirsk library
Towneley Hall, Burnley
Wakefield Library
World Peace Café, Manchester fringe festival
Some of my clients have been:
British Film Institute, National Trust; York Museums Trust and various councils, museums and local schools.