Filmed on location for Hallowe’en at Barnsley Museums. The story is set in 1945. Last year I had delivered the story in a promenade performance to booked in family groups. The Mill is, of course, closed at present, but it was wonderful to revisit and perhaps engage virtual visitors on youtube………
Henry Pease
In lockdown during the Coronavirus crisis Kirkleatham Museum (Redcar and Cleveland) approached me to reprise the role of Henry Pease MP, founder of Saltburn by the Sea. I have delivered a one hour storytelling workshop many times over the last seven years as ‘Mr. Pease’ for Key Stage 1 students visiting the museum. Here is the 5 minute 30 second home video, filmed for ‘youtube’. Hopefully, Kirkleatham and all museums and galleries in the country will be able to open their doors again on July 4 2020 or soon after………
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens – 2020
It is looking likely that all performances will be cancelled this year, 2020, due to the Coronovirus pandemic restrictions.
Chris is available as Ebenezer Scrooge in his one man adaptation of ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens for schools, museums, heritage sites, stately homes and community groups at any venue across Yorkshire and beyond next year. Bookings are now being taken for 2021.
Book ‘A Christmas Carol’ by Charles Dickens by e-mail: chris@chriscade.co.uk or chriscade@btinternet.com or by telephone: 01757 248534
The Station Master’s Story
Filmed and edited by Philip J Taylor http://www.greenunderwing.co.uk
Shot on location at Naburn Station on the Solar System Greenway between York and Selby, formerly part of the route of the ‘Flying Scotsman’ on the East Coast mainline from London King’s Cross to Edinburgh Waverley (1870 – 1983). http://www.railwaytogreenway.org
This path now belongs to Sustrans and was the first 10 Kilometres of their National Cycle Network. The track is a wonderful nature reserve with many different species of trees along the way, and an abundance of wildlife to see and hear. http://www.yorkgreenways.org
Chris Cade as The Station Master, Sunday 10 June 2018
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens – 2019
Yorkshire Tour and York Castle Museum Residency:
Friday 15 November (evening): Stamford Bridge Village Hall
Sunday 17 November: York Castle Museum*
Monday 18 November (evening): Holme Upon Spalding Moor Village Hall
Wednesday 20 November (afternoon): St. Mary’s Church Hall, Nunthorpe
Wednesday 20 November (evening): Yorkshire Hotel, Harrogate
Thursday 21 November (afternoon): Almscliffe Village Hall
Thursday 21 November (evening): Middleton on the Wolds Reading Rooms
Saturday 23, Sunday 24 November: Cannon Hall Museum, Barnsley*
Tuesday 26 November (afternoon): Sandy Lane Baptist Church, Bradford
Thursday 28 November (afternoon): Parkmoor Hotel, Eaglescliffe
Friday 29 November: (morning and afternoon school groups) York Castle Museum
Saturday 30 November, Sunday 1 December: Preston Park Museum, Stockton on Tees*
Monday 2 December (morning): Central Methodist Church, Morley
Monday 2 December (afternoon): Kirklands Community Centre, Menston
Tuesday 3 December (afternoon): Cleethorpes Masonic Hall
Tuesday 3 December (evening): Elvington Village Hall
Wednesday 4 December (afternoon): Park Manor Hotel, Scarborough
Thursday 5 December (afternoon): Mercure Hotel, Bingley
Thursday 5 December (evening): Parish Centre, Burley in Wharfedale
Saturday 7, Sunday 8 December: York Castle Museum*
Tuesday 10 December (afternoon): Bingley Arms, Bardsey
Tuesday 10 December (evening): Coronation Hall, Boroughbridge
Wednesday 11 December (afternoon): Howden Masonic Hall
Wednesday 11 December (evening): Airmyn Primary School
Thursday 12 December (evening): Sowerby Methodist Schoolroom
Saturday 14, Sunday 15 December: York Castle Museum*
Monday 16 December (afternoon): Connaught Court, Fulford
Monday 16 December: ‘An Evening with Ebenezer Scrooge,’ York Castle Museum
Tuesday 17 December (morning and afternoon community groups): Cannon Hall, Barnsley
Tuesday 17 December (evening): Ripon City Golf Club
Friday 20 December: ‘An Evening with Ebenezer Scrooge,’ York Castle Museum
Saturday 21, Sunday 22, Monday 23, Tuesday 24 December: York Castle Museum*
* throughout the day, open to the general public, admission charges apply
Chris first delivered his one-man adaptation of ‘A Christmas Carol’ at Temple Newsam, Leeds, in 2008. He has been performing it in York Castle Museum’s Kirkgate every year since and at an increasing number of other venues for community groups and the general public across Yorkshire and beyond
Wow! said the Owl
Tuesday 4 June 2019 – Storytelling and puppetry as part of the Wow! said the Owl Toddler Sensory Day at Clifton Park Museum in Rotherham. Chris will be armed with juggling scarves and rainbow streamers as well as an owl puppet and ‘a tree’ in order to tell Tim Hopgood’s enchanting tale regularly throughout the day:
Stories Galore in Barnsley
From Barnsley Seam Coal and the Oaks Colliery Disaster of 1866 through to Barnsley FC’s F A Cup winning goal in April 1912 and beyond, the stories behind objects in the collection were shared in ‘Experience Barnsley’ in the February 2019 Half Term holidays with three generations of family visitors.
The handling objects included a CEAG Safety Lamp, Subbuteo players in an Oxo tin, a cricket ball, a Slazenger tennis ball, a rag doll, a ladies’ purse, a bobbin, a lacey hankie, a medicine bottle, a scent bottle and a Sunday school prize book. They all have a Barnsley connection and inspire a tale to be told and in many cases a song to be sung.
I’m back at ‘Experience Barnsley’ in the Town Hall telling those self same ‘Stories Galore’ at 11.30 am on Saturday 13 July, 2019 and at ‘The Lightbox’ in the afternoon at 1.45 and 2.30 as part of the programme for the official launch of Barnsley’s new library.
Whilst libraries are closing here and there nationwide, how refreshing it is to see one opening!
A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens – 2018
To mark the 175th anniversary of the first publication of the Dickens’ classic by Chapman and Hall, 186 Strand, December MDCCCXLIII
Wednesday 21 November (afternoon): Imperial Crown Hotel, Halifax
Saturday 24, Sunday 25 November: Cannon Hall Museum, Barnsley*
Wednesday 28 November (afternoon): Saltburn Golf Club
Wednesday 28 November (evening): Bishop Burton College
Tuesday 4 December (afternoon): Heath Cottage Hotel, Ossett
Thursday 6 December (afternoon): Wainstones Hotel, Great Broughton, Middlesbrough
Thursday 6 December (evening): Ilkley Manor House – All Ticket Event, see: https://www.ilkleymanorhouse.org/event/a-christmas-carol-with-chris-cade/
Saturday 8, Sunday 9 December: York Castle Museum* https://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/whats-on/events/a-christmas-carol-15/
Monday 10 December (evening): West Thorpe Methodist Church, York
Wednesday 12 December (afternoon): The Bridge Inn, Walshford, Wetherby
Thursday 13 December (morning): St. Aelred’s Community Centre, York
Thursday 13 December (afternoon): Dubrovnik Hotel, Bradford
Friday 14 December (evening): York Castle Museum: ‘An Evening with Ebenezer Scrooge’ – All Ticket Event, see: https://www.yorkmuseumstrust.org.uk/whats-on/events/an-evening-with-ebenezer-scrooge/
Saturday 15, Sunday 16, Monday 17, Tuesday 18, Wednesday 19, Thursday 20, Friday 21, Saturday 22, Sunday 23, Monday 24 December: York Castle Museum*
*open to the general public throughout the day, admission charges apply
York World War One Commemorations
To mark the centenary of the end of the First World War, I will be delivering the storytelling workshop: ‘Arthur Walker’s Great War,’ based on in depth research, two letters, a photograph and an interview with Arthur’s widow and daughter. It is the tale of a farm hand recruited underage by the Wolds Wagoners Special Reserve in July 1914, transferred to the 15th Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment (The Leeds Pals) who fought in the trenches at the Somme. He was taken prisoner in March 1918 before returning home after Armistice Day and eventually resuming work at Elm Tree Farm, Barton Le Willows.
Saturday 4 August (evening): The Masonic Lodge, St. Saviourgate, York
Thursday 23 August (evening): Riccall Women’s Institute, Village Institute
Monday 10 September (day): West Heslerton C.E. Primary School
Thursday 20 September (afternoon): Riccall Historical Society, Methodist Chapel
Sunday 21 October (afternoon): York Explore (Central Library)
Sunday 28 October (afternoon): York Army Museum
Saturday 3 November (afternoon): St. Helen’s Church, Stillingfleet
Monday 5 November (day): St. Paul’s CE Primary School, York
Tuesday 6 November (day): Foston CE and Terrington CE Primary Schools
Thursday 8 November (day): Archbishop of York’s CE Junior School, Bishopthorpe
Saturday 10 November (evening): St. Michael’s Church, Cherry Burton
Sunday 11 November (7.00pm): Kelfield Beacon, as part of the nationwide remembrance on the Armistice centenary.
Selby Cemetery
As Charles Moore, Railway Goods’ Guard (1855-1884) telling his tragic tale at the unveiling of a new noticeboard by the Town Mayor of Selby, witnessed by Selby local and family historians, students and staff from Selby High School and members of the public.
Photographs courtesy of Selby Town Council
