The Art of Storytelling 

Would you like to hear a story?

While listening to a story, did you ever wish it just wouldn't end?

Has a scary story sent a shiver down your spine or a moving tale warmed your heart?

Did stories ever feel so real to you, you thought they had to be true?

Everyone enjoys a good story if it is told well.

Storytellers can can offer wisdom, shamelessly pull your leg or send a shiver down your spine with their tales.

The tellers of Story Gate, Simone Schuemmelfeder and Michael Phelan, are Dublin based storytellers who believe that the old oral tradition is very much alive today. They would love to share it with you.

Storytelling is an art that involves and captivates the listener. Together the listener and the storyteller can bring the tales to life. 

Michael and Simone aim to bridge the gap between an old traditon and the modern world. In their story sessions they combine traditional folktales with modern short stories, urban legends, crime mysteries and tales of romance and adventure.

Apart from telling on stage for an adult audience they also go to schools and libraries , telling stories to children and teenagers and organise workshops that help anybody to find their own storyteller within themselves.

Using her knowledge as a foreign language teacher, Simone also goes into schools offering storytelling as a powerful tool in foreign language learning. Here she tells stories both in her mother tongue (German) and in English and encourages the students to tell their own stories in the foreign language.