Xmas '23 photo by Max Bell

About the Gab

About

The Gab is a Cork-based storytelling community. The Gab stories are traditional or contemporary, personal, humorous, serious or sometimes all of the above.

What is the Mixtape?

The Gab Mixtape is a monthly entertaining evening of storytelling where storytellers practice and hone their storytelling craft in an ideal setting, usually a pub. Stories are interspersed with a little song and a little poetry, but the spotlight is very much on the art of the oral tradition and contemporary craft of telling stories. The Mixtape has a pre-planned set list, it is not open mic.

What is the Sketchbook?

The Gab Sketchbook is a monthly workshop, a place for tellers and potential tellers to play with stories. A place to tell, listen and learn.

Our mission

The mission of the Gab is to practise and preserve the oral tradition of storytelling, and to develop storytelling as a contemporary art form.

Join us

Join our mailing list to find out what’s happening. Come to a Mixtape, take part in a Sketchbook.