dlr Yarnspinners is delighted to welcome Simone Schümmelfeder for this months Storytelling Circle, Wednesday 17 April at 6.30pm in the Lab, Level 3, dlr LexIcon.

Simone is a storyteller and writer from Germany. Born close to the “Fairy Tale Road” in Germany which connects the locations of many tales the Brothers Grimm collected, Simone grew up surrounded by stories. Abandoning the life of a teacher in Germany, Simone moved to Ireland and founded the storytelling theatre StoryGate together with Irish teller and puppeteer Michael Phelan. She has performed extensively across Ireland and abroad in schools and libraries, at festivals and for various institutions, including the German Embassy in Dublin, the Goethe Institut Dublin, Kilkenny Arts Festival, the Mountains To Sea dlr Book Festival, Ghosts in the Glens Storytelling Festival and the Cape Clear International Storytelling Festival.

Her shows are a refreshing blend of the old and the new, with folktales and modern stories, bridging generations and cultures to touch the listener’s heart with the oldest of all arts.Simone trains both adults and children in storytelling and creative writing and runs Ireland’s only Writing group specifically for children’s book authors at the Irish Writers Centre in Dublin.

She is Secretary of Storytellers of Ireland/Aos Scéal Éireann and was Reader in Residence for Laois Libraries and Artist in Primary Schools for Tipperary Arts Office. In February 2024, Simone was appointed the first Storyteller-In-Residence for Children for Dublin City Libraries. She is a certified audiobook narrator and always on the look-out for a new story to learn.

Website: www.storygate.net