A bonus podcast that will make you smile & weep: let Cathy Carson break your heart with this excellent story featuring her mother, the Kinks & a 17-year-old. Recorded in the Black Box, February 2020 when the theme was “From the Heart.”

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.