On Dec 21 2019 we had a pop-up tenx9 in Belfast City Centre, here are two stories from the event: Helen McClements finds love after tragedy while Pádraig Ó Tuama finds the Irish relationship with the fabled immersion to be “complicated”. Paul is your host.

Tenx9 is a monthly storytelling event where nine people have up to ten minutes to tell a true story from their own life on a particular theme. It began in Belfast in 2011, started by Pádraig Ó Tuama & Paul Doran, and as well as filling the main venue in the Black Box, it has spread to Scotland, England, USA, Canada, Netherlands & Australia.

While it draws on the tradition of oral storytelling, we also encourage the shy, the nervous & the reticent.