Scary Little Girls

Labia Lessons with This is a Vulva
2022-07-23 13:00 - 15:30 (Europe/London) | The Poly, 24 Church St, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 3EG, United Kingdom
Get the sex education you never got at school and learn everything you need to know about the vulva in this shame-free and fun workshop brought to you by This Is A Vulva.
We’ll cover things like why language is so important, what everything actually does, why capitalism could be damaging your vagina and how to look after your genitals properly. Not to mention a period pub quiz and the chance to make your own vulva. There’ll be laughs, a few rude words and plenty of honesty.
Open to all. No need to have a vulva to join in and all ages welcome.
Book your tickets here.
This event is a part of our Mayven Festival.

Salon de la Vie presents Viva Your Vulva by Elaine Miller
2022-07-23 19:30 - 21:30 | The Poly, 24 Church St, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 3EG, United Kingdom
Viva Your Vulva is a comedic take on things which are hard to discuss, but that women need and want to know.
Which is a vagina and which is a vulva? How can I stop my fanny from falling out? What is an orgasm and why is it sometimes easy and sometimes not? How do I stop wetting myself? Is this normal? 50% of UK women do not know which is their vagina and which is their vulva and frank, funny, factual women’s health physiotherapist Elaine Miller does not think that is ok.
This show is about what is in women’s pants, why they evolved like that, what you can reasonably expect from your genitals in the course of your lifetime, how to seek help if you need it, and who’s fault it is that you were never taught this stuff in the first place. Come and learn how to laugh not leak and how to tell your clitoris from your elbow.
This show is evidence based and counts as CPD for healthcare professionals and is guaranteed to improve your orgasms!! The show will be followed by entertainment, storytelling and songs from SLG’s artistic director, Rebecca Mordan.
Grab your tickets here.
This event is a part of our Mayven Festival.

The Secret Storytelling Garden
2022-07-24 14:00 - 15:00 | Princess Pavilion, 41 Melvill Road, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 4AR, United Kingdom
Join storytellers from Scary Little Girls for a magical afternoon of storytelling in the stunning surrounds of the Princess Pavilions quarry gardens.
Alongside favourite local voices like Pauline Sheppard or Cornish classics like the Brontes, we’ll be bringing you stories specially commissioned for our Mayven Festival from writers like Bec Applebee, Lorna Partington and Anna Mansell. These tales have been woven from the rich mythologies of Cornwall and are new takes on ancient folk-law like Mother Ivey, Cherry and the fairies and Selkies.
As always with our storytelling events, we’ll be combining wonderful performers and stunning environments with music, pathos, wit and song.
Please book ahead as spaces for this event will be limited and we are very much looking forward to seeing you!
Book your tickets here.
This event is a part of our Mayven Festival.

Game On! Cabaret Pub Quiz
2022-07-24 20:00 - 21:30 | Hall for Cornwall
A pub quiz like no other inspired by all your favourite TV quiz shows!
Be ready for action when you join landlady Pat Pinch for a brand new game show inspired pub quiz and theatre performance. Expect karaoke classics, trivia and a twist on some family favourites. Come on down!
Originally commissioned by Creative Scene, West Yorkshire, this show brings you the best of modern cabaret comedy, vintage TV game shows and a traditional pub quiz. Join Quiz Mistress and Pub Landlady PAT PINCH as she takes over your local with live music, prizes, audience participation and, of course, a few drinks!
Test your team with rounds such as:
– Super Smashing Great, general knowledge with a moving target!
– Pat in Your Eyes, music round with karaoke hits!
– Balls Up a Gladiator, get your coloured ball into the gladiator’s bucket and earn your team mega points!
Whether you’re a liver-bashing regular or a strict abstainer, a quiz master-mind or an absolute beginner, PAT is waiting to treat you to six of the best pub quiz rounds EVER!
Scary Little Girls specialise in presenting intelligent entertainment in a totally accessible format – expect our unique take on your favourite games shows of yesterday year to come to life in a way never before seen off the screen!
Grab your tickets here.
This event is a part of our Mayven Festival.

Game on! Pub Quiz
2022-09-23 19:30 - 21:00 | Lelant Village Hall, Fore St, Saint Ives, Cornwall, TR26 3JR, United Kingdom
Be ready for a brand new game show inspired pub quiz and theatre performance.
Expect karaoke classics, trivia and a twist on some family favourites. This show brings you the best of modern cabaret comedy, vintage TV game shows and a traditional pub quiz.
Quiz Mistress and Pub Landlady Pat Pinch takes over your local with live music, prizes, audience participation and, of course, a few drinks! Test your team with rounds such as: Super Smashing Great, general knowledge with a moving target! – Pat in Your Eyes, music round with karaoke hits! Whether you’re a liver-bashing regular or a strict abstainer, a quiz master-mind or an absolute beginner, Pat is waiting to treat you to six of the best pub quiz rounds EVER!
Scary Little Girls specialise in presenting intelligent entertainment in a totally accessible format – expect our unique take on your favourite games shows of yesterday year to come to life in a way never before seen off the screen!
Grab your tickets here!

Sea Cry Saga
2022-10-07 17:30 - 18:30, 2022-10-08 17:30 - 18:30 | Trebah Gardens, Mawnan Smith, nr Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 5JZ
The crash of the wild sea; a roaring fire; the warmth of the cup in your hands. At the edge of the country where the land meets the waves, old stories and old powers come to life.
Tickets now available!
Scary Little Girls, Creation Theatre and Sue Hill present interlinking myths from Cornwall’s Viking history exploring the relationship between the wild environment, Goddesses and elements.
Don’t miss this unique storytelling experience, full of music and mythology, all on the sands the beach at Trebah Gardens: Friday 7 October and Saturday 8 October at 5.30pm (lasting about 1 hour).
Expect music by Claire Ingleheart, stories by Mercedes Kemp, T.J. Holmes and L.H. Trevail – tickets strictly limited so please buy quickly as we live to entertain rather than disappoint you! Tickets include full access to Trebah Gardens from up to 2 hours before the event.
Book here

Sea Cry Saga
2022-10-19 19:30 - 20:30, 2022-10-20 19:30 - 20:30 | The Slip Inn Bar, Mermaid Inn, St Mary's, TR21 0HY, United Kingdom
The crash of the wild sea; a roaring fire; the warmth of the cup in your hands. At the edge of the country where the land meets the waves, old stories and old powers come to life.
Scary Little Girls, Creation Theatre and Sue Hill present interlinking myths from Cornwall’s Viking history exploring the relationship between the wild environment, Goddesses and elements.
A spell-binding evening of story-telling. Enjoy a magical feeling of being whisked away into hundreds, maybe even thousands of years of stories from here and elsewhere.
To book, visit the Tourist Information Centre, Porthcressa, St Mary’s, call 01720 620600 or available on the door at the Slip Inn under the Mermaid.

Picture This
2022-11-14 17:00 - 20:00, 2022-11-15 17:00 - 20:00 | Cornwall
Picture This is a free arts and crafts drop-in workshop aimed at mothers and daughters, but open to all parents and carers. Part of our celebratory week at St Agnes Library, attendees will decorate a beautiful picture frame together and then get a professional photo of themselves to put inside.
In this friendly, welcoming space, artists from Scary Little Girls will support and guide you as you get creative and decorate your own picture frame together. Then, have your portrait taken by our professional photographer to finish it off! Create some quality time together away from day to day pressures and come away with a memory in your mind and your frame that will last forever.
Come along any time from 5pm to 8pm on Monday 14th and Tuesday 15th November.
All ages welcome but all children need to bring at least one adult.
This session is part of the Scary Little Girls 20th Birthday celebrations 2022 and is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.

Storytime
2022-11-16 14:00 - 15:00 | Cornwall
Join us for a special edition Storytime as part of our celebratory week at St Agnes Library!
Storytime is a special edition of the library’s free storytelling session for children – with extra added mayhem including the pig puppet from our pantomime Duffy Beats The Devil!
All ages welcome – children must be accompanied by an adult, thank you.
This session is part of the Scary Little Girls 20th Birthday celebrations 2022 and is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.

Singing Workshop
2022-11-17 19:00 - 21:00 | Cornwall
Join local legend Claire Ingleheart for a special FREE mums and daughters singing workshop as part of our celebratory week at St Agnes Library!
We’ll use song to find our voices, explore and celebrate women in music, and enjoy each other’s company away from the pressures of the outside world for an evening.
We’ll be hosting in our usual way to please expect a warm, friendly and supportive session with songs to amuse, move and inspire!
This is suitable for those aged 12 and up – all children must be accompanied by an adult, please and thank you.
This session is part of the Scary Little Girls 20th Birthday celebrations 2022 and is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund.

Salon de la Vie - Mothers & Daughters
2022-11-19 19:30 - 21:00 | Cornwall
Join us for a special one-offf Salon de la Vie live and in person, as part of our celebratory week at St Agnes Library
In this Salon focusing on Mothers and Daughters, we will look at that unique, often complicated, relationship. Old friends Rebecca Mordan and Shazz Andrew – who also used to run Scary Little Girls together – will ruminate on the humour, complexity, tragedy and contradictions of motherhood.
Expect a warm welcome and a drink (of course!) for this evening of songs, stories and chat in an intimate Salon that will be equal parts funny, tender and bewitching.
Tickets are £5 and are available from St Agnes Library in advance or at the door, on the night.
All ages welcome – all children must be accompanied by an adult.
This event is part of the Scary Little Girls 20th Birthday celebrations 2022 and is funded by the National Lottery Community Fund

Aldermaston: Embrace the Base Anniversary
2022-12-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Greenham Common Control Tower, Burys Bank Road, Newbury, Berkshire, RG19 8BZ
Come to Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp: Time to celebrate
The spiders and crows are gathering on the 40th anniversary of Embrace the Base when 30,000 women joined hands in solidarity, protesting against the siting of American nuclear weapons on Greenham Common.

Join the Anarchic Women Embracing Aldermaston at any point during the monthly Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp from Friday 9th to Sunday 11th December 2022 in resistance against UK nuclear weapons at AWE Aldermaston.

Women will be weaving webs, celebrating the spiders and crows and resisting nuclear weapons through co-learning, connection and creativity.

Friday afternoon

Embrace the Tower! The Control Tower, Greenham Common
Combining photos and soundscapes, talks by women who lead or attended the Embrace, performances from Scary Little Girls, mulled wine and a singalong from the Greenham Song book!
Herstorians chatting to people and recording memories.
2pm, Meet, Greet and Memory share – grab your glass of mulled wine and add your photos, fliers or other memories to our Embrace table, and have a chat to the Herstorians hosting it.
2.30pm-3pm, Guest Speakers, readings and songs inspired by Embrace the Base by Scary Little Girls and female artists who were part of the action.
3pm, Embrace the Tower! Head outside where we’ll use hands and wool to embrace the tower and raise a cheer for peace and solidarity!
3.15pm-4pm, Head back inside to warm up with more mulled wine, and enjoy more readings and songs, finishing with time for a Q&A for all your burning Embrace the Base Questions.
Saturday
Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp
Workshop 1 – Making crows, spiders and jar lanterns (for evening Lantern parade) to encircle the base with webs, spiders & crows and expose the web of connections that enable nuclear weapons and AWE Aldermaston to exist (uranium mining, militarism, financial interests, etc.).
Workshop 2 – The Web of Resistance. Weaving the web of resistance to nuclear weapons and nuclear colonialism. What we need to resist, both in terms of personal energy, commitment and resilience, and possible/feasible actions.
Workshop 3 – Visions of a good society. What a world without nuclear weapons would look like.
After dark – Lantern parade
Site-specific performance by local Movement Artists (this will last approx. 20 mins and will also happen at 10am and 1pm)
Crows & Spiders shadow puppet show
Wintry spider & crow party (bring your own crow/spider costume or make one at Camp)
Sunday morning
Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp
10.30am-12pm Workshop – Movement Building: Militarism. Links to the Climate and Nature Crisis

The programme will be updated here on the Facebook event page and is subject to change. All accessibility and travel info is also available on that Facebook page. We are supporting and attending this event along with our sister company Greenham Women Everywhere, but we are not running it so we advise you to check the Facebook Page for the most up to date information.

Aldermaston: Embrace the Base Anniversary
2022-12-10, 2022-12-11 10:30 - 12:00 | Aldermaston Women’s Peace Camp, Paices Hill, Aldermaston, RG7 4WP

Salon du Cinema: Veronica Lake
2022-12-12 19:30 - 21:00 | Old Bakery Studios, Blewett's Wharf, Malpas Road, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 1QH, United Kingdom
Presented with C Fylm, the festival kicks off with an evening of film, cabaret, comedy, music and storytelling exploring depictions of witches and celebrating Veronica Lake’s iconic performance in this quirky 1942 screwball comedy.
Hosted by Scary Little Girls Artistic Director Rebecca Mordan, this evening begins with live performances by the Mayven festival’s very own Radical Rep and culminates in a showing of I Married a Witch!
Tickets – £10, £6 cons (we consider anyone who needs to be to be a concession, so please pay at this price if this allows you to come along)
Grab your tickets here!

SLG 20th Anniversary Exhibition
2022-12-13 - 2022-12-15 | Stones Krowji Café, West Park, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 3AJ, United Kingdom
Come along to the wonderful Stones Krowji Cafe where not only can you enjoy delicious coffee and food, but also celebrate our 20th anniversary with us!
There’ll be photos from our archive, props large and small, birthday surprises and lots of ways to delve into our history, hear and see extracts from our shows and find out what it takes to make theatre performances and to keep a theatre company thriving for 20 years.
We’ve also invited some of our favourite Cornish artists to present work with us and are thrilled to be joined by Caroline Wilkins, Jenny Rose, Make-A-Mends and more.
The exhibition will be open from the 13th-20th December at 8:30am-4:30pm. It will be closed on Saturday and Sunday.

Printmaking for Radical Christmas Cards
2022-12-13 14:00 - 16:00 | Art Room Krowji, West Park, Redruth, TR15 3AJ
Make your own Christmas cards!
Join us and printmaker Anne Brierley in the Art Room, Krowji from 2.00pm to 4.00pm on Tuesday 1th December to make radical Christmas cards inspired by our exhibition. You’ll be using our mini presses to create images and slogans – all you need to bring is your imagination!
Cost: £5, £3 concession, book here

Blue Moon at The Minack Theatre & Online Livestream
2022-12-13 16:00 - 17:00 | The Minack Theatre, The Minack Theatre, Porthcurno, Penzance, Cornwall, TR19 6JU, United Kingdom
BLUE MOON is a story about what happens when the sea meets the land, responding to climate change, the politics of living on an island and female inter-generational relationships.
The play is set at the island end of Porthmeor beach and has been inspired by Paula Rego’s painting THE DANCE.
After a Research and Development day on the play at our Summer Mayven Festival in July, we are delighted to be developing it further and sharing the performance outcome with the public!
Grab your tickets here!

Mother and Daughter Singing Workshop
2022-12-13 19:30 - 21:00 | Penzance Bowling Club, Redinnick Place, Penzance, TR18 4HP
Love singing? Join us for an evening of song at our Mother and Daughter singing workshop on Tuesday December 13th at Penzance Bowling Club
Claire Ingleheart will be leading a whole bunch of easy to learn songs, with and without lyrics, in all different styles.
The workshop is particularly aimed at mums and daughters (although it could be grandmothers/step mothers/god mothers/aunties etc!). Come and hang out, have a drink & snacks and meet other local/like-minded mums and daughters.
We’ve aimed the workshop at 12 years and over but if you know your child loves singing and is younger, please do come along.
Cost: £5, £3 concession – book here

Menopausal Mayhem and Monologues
2022-12-14 19:30 - 21:00 | The Poly, 24 Church St, Falmouth, Cornwall, TR11 3EG, United Kingdom
Fresh from a sold out run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Menopausal Mayhem is the perfect antidote to the doom and gloom surrounding the menopause.
It is a one-woman show focusing on the funny side of the menopause and also the uplifting freedom and positivity it can bring. Come along and laugh until the tears run down your legs – and feel reassured that it isn’t just you!
Jennifer Kennedy is the award-winning author of Martha Gets the Menopause and Galloping Catastrophe: Musings of a Menopausal Woman, as well as the hugely successful blog Is It Just Me?
Menopausal Monologues is a collection of personal monologues honouring the topic of the menopause and midlife. Continuing the trend of breaking the silence around the menopause, they give voice to a variety of women’s (and some of their significant others’) real experiences.
Compered by Rebecca Mordan with chat and songs.
Grab your tickets here!

Greenham Memory Share
2022-12-15 10:00 - 13:00 | Art Room Krowji, West Park, Redruth, TR15 3AJ
Share your memories of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp!
Drop in to the Art Room at Krowji at any time between 10am and 1pm on Thursday December 15th to hear and share memories of Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp and the Embrace the Base action – which happened 40 years ago – when 30,000 women joined hands around the 9-mile fence in solidarity and peaceful protest against nuclear weapons in December 1982.
Listen to some Greenham songs and ask our Herstorians any of your burning Greenham questions!
Cost: FREE, no booking required

The Mother’s Ruin Cabaret
2022-12-15 19:30 - 21:00 | Pocketful of Stones, 13 Causewayhead, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 2SN, United Kingdom
Yes, it’s Scary Little Girls’ 20th birthday! No, we can’t believe it either!
But by the goddess we are going celebrate the heck out of it!
Join compére Rebecca Mordan – or Bunny Morethan to those who know her from the Glastonbury Festival Big Top – for an evening of music, stories, comedy, special guests and surprises from the finest fems from the Cornish arts scene.
Expect gin cocktails, festive games and the anarchic joie de vivre that SLG have been known and loved for these past 20 years…
Tickets – £10, £6 cons (we consider anyone who needs to be to be a concession, so please pay at this price if this allows you to come along)
Grab your tickets here!

SLG 20th Anniversary Exhibition
2022-12-16 | Stones Krowji Café, West Park, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 3AJ, United Kingdom
Come along to the wonderful Stones Krowji Cafe where not only can you enjoy delicious coffee and food, but also celebrate our 20th anniversary with us!
There’ll be photos from our archive, props large and small, birthday surprises and lots of ways to delve into our history, hear and see extracts from our shows and find out what it takes to make theatre performances and to keep a theatre company thriving for 20 years.
We’ve also invited some of our favourite Cornish artists to present work with us and are thrilled to be joined by Caroline Wilkins, Jenny Rose, Make-A-Mends and more.
The exhibition will be open from the 13th-20th December from 8:30am-4:30pm except for Saturday 17th and Sunday 18th when the venue is closed.

Salon du Chocolat
2022-12-16 19:30 - 20:30 | The Drapery, United Kingdom
Allow performers from Scary Little Girls to stimulate your senses!
This intimate storytelling salon celebrates the relationship between cocoa nibs and forbidden literature…
When chocolate was first brought to England in the 1600s, it was considered a taboo substance, enjoyed only by the risque and elite in private salons. Some of our finest literature was also once considered too provocative for public consumption and was heard in similar salon environments by only the boldest of ears.
We recreate these intimate environs, combining mouth-watering chocolate treats with tales of the secret, banned and scandalous from authors such as Lord Byron, John Donn, Angela Carter and Joanne Harris.
Performed, read and sung to you by our highly acclaimed storytellers, the Salon du Chocolat invites you to succumb to a literary seduction!
Grab your tickets here!

Moon Hag R&D
2022-12-17 | Penlee Park Theatre, Morrab Road, Penzance, Cornwall, TR18 4HE
Sunday, 20 July 1969 – the night man will land on the moon.
The far west of Cornwall –granite and serpentine – standing stones and a Satellite Station, under the light of the moon on which man will walk. An ancient landscape at the cutting edge of the modern technology that will broadcast this historic moment into the homes of the UK.
Three women artists, each as old as the century – a sculptor, a painter and a theatre-maker – are tuning in to witness this moment. Post-husband, post-children, or any wish or expectation of them–they all landed here from up-country and have lived within a few square miles, without knowing each other, since the 1940s.
Each has found her perfect self in solitude, with the means to claim a space of her own. Each has shaped, through her vision and her hands, and her love of the moon, a version of Cornwall which is beamed down the years.
But there is a shadow-woman behind them: she has been here all along, with the moon, and the sea and the stone circles she helped to build. There is a line from her Bronze Age moon worship, through the art and moon landings of the 1960s, to 2025 when Goonhilly technology is preparing to put a woman on the moon.
This is about women in Cornwall, under and on the moon: how each shapes and is shaped by the other down the years.
Please note that this is a private R&D event so no tickets are available

Menstrual Creativity Workshop with Amy Draper
2022-12-17 10:00 - 11:00 | Cornwall
Are you working in arts venues and looking to support wellness within production companies?

Are you part of a permanent arts building team and looking to support wellness within rehearsal rooms?

Are you a freelance arts facilitator or arts leader looking to grow your confidence around supporting wellness within performance teams and companies?

Join this 2 hour online workshop with Amy Draper that explores how to run a menstrual cycle aware process to benefit both your participants and the work.

It will demystify, provide language to use and give confidence to talk about this, incorporating:
+ Fears and taboos of bringing menstrual cycle awareness into the workplace
+ The Inner Seasons – an outline of the different monthly energies
+ How to harness these as an individual creative
+ How to run a team or a room with this and menstrual wellbeing in mind
+ Further resource list
Why?
Menstrual cycle awareness is all about people who menstruate understanding and working with, not against, the natural and consistent energies of each cycle. It’s brilliant, eye-opening and game-changing. Amy says, ‘The more I’ve engaged with this, both as a menstruator and someone who leads creative processes, the more it hasn’t made sense to exclude it from other wellbeing practices.”
Grab your tickets here!

Riot Showgrrrls Club
2022-12-17 19:30 - 20:30 | Stones Krowji Café, West Park, Redruth, Cornwall, TR15 3AJ, United Kingdom
In 2008, when lad mags were in their hay day, cabaret meant tit tassels and female stripping and porn was being main-streamed right into our cultural veins, Scary Little Girls bravely took a pro sex anti porn show to Edinburgh.
We claimed that ‘it’s an empirical fact that feminists have the best sex’ and used throbbing, electro-pop and gleeful, musical romps to lay out why – and how porn ruins this.
Now in 2022, still putting the “camp” squarely into “campaigning”, our heroines Rebecca Mordan and Christina Li are going to use games, comedy, songs and hand-stamps to look at how we are faring since in these days of hyper-social media and Pornhub.
Expect make-your-own-membership cards, vulva cupcakes and Patriarchy Bingo in this fast paced, fact facing, feel good feminist fling – and there will be dancing in our revolution!
Tickets – £10, £6 cons (we consider anyone who needs to be to be a concession, so please pay at this price if this allows you to come along)
Grab your tickets here!
