Kirsty Hartsiotis: storyteller, writer, speaker

Storyteller

Kirsty has been telling stories to adults and children of all ages professionally since 2000. She came to storytelling with a lifelong love of stories and history, and a background in drama, heritage and education. She has performed in theatres, bookshops, festivals, woods, castles, museums, schools, art centres, outdoor events, gatherings, sacred spaces, parties, libraries and cafes all around the country.

Writer

Kirsty is the author of the following collections of stories: Wiltshire Folk Tales ( 2011), Suffolk Folk Tales (2013), Gloucestershire Ghost Tales with Anthony Nanson (2015), and Suffolk Ghost Tales with Cherry Wilkinson (2017), Gloucestershire Folk Tales for Children with Anthony Nanson (2020), and is a contributor to Ballad Tales ed. Kevan Manwaring (2017) and The Anthology of English Folk Tales (2017). She also writes for Cotswold Life and for academic and museum journals. 

Kirsty is an Accredited Arts Society lecturer, giving talks on both art history and folklore, her two passions. She also gives talks for local history societies, WIs, museums, Probus and more. She's also a museum curator, currently at Swindon Museums, and previously the curator of a Designated Arts and Crafts Movement collection at The Wilson, Cheltenham, and draws on her knowledge of the movement and 19th and 20th century art for her talks. She also has a series of bookable zoom talks about folklore. 

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“I've been to a lot of storytelling up and down the country and this is as good as it gets.”
Dr Ronald Hutton
'Another truly wonderful talk – loved the way you seemed to actually take us inside all these very special churches' 
Abigail Large, Museum in the Park, Stroud

Follow Kirsty on social media:

Kirsty is very active on Twitter as @StroudStory, posting mostly about church architecture and decoration - but also folklore and more!


She is also on instagram as stroud_story a rather more relaxed feed of nature, cats, museums and of course church art!


You can also find her page on Facebook:

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