Carl Gough - Storyteller

27/07/2026

Ymunwch â phartneriaid Morwellt Achub Cefnfor: Gogledd Cymru ar yr 2il o Awst ar gyfer Dathliad Morwellt!

🗓 2 Awst
🕐 1pm-5:30pm
📍Porthdinllaen, Morfa Nefyn LL53 6DA

Fel rhan o'r digwyddiad bydd cyfleoedd i gymryd rhan yn y gweithgareddau canlynol:

1-4pm Gweithgaredd celf gyda .y.tirfor

1pm Taith dywys gyda Llŷn NT/YG

2.30pm Adrodd straeon gyda Carl Gough - Storyteller a

4.30pm Cerddoriaeth gan Eve Goodman

Gellir prynu bwyd yn @ ty_coch_inn tan 4pm a fan pitsa Flour&Flame Wood Fired Pizza rhwng 5-7pm.

Mae'r digwyddiad hwn am ddim i fynychu – chwiliwch am faner Morwellt Achub Cefnfor a dewch i ymuno!

Rheolir prosiect Morwellt Achub Cefnfor: Gogledd Cymru gan WWF, mewn partneriaeth gyda Project Seagrass Ymddiriedolaeth Bywyd Gwyllt Gogledd Cymru, Ardal Cadwraeth Arbennig Pen Llŷn a’r Sarnau a Phrifysgol Abertawe. Gwnaed y prosiect hwn yn bosib gyda chefnogaeth Cronfa Treftadaeth y Loteri Gen / National Lottery Heritage Fund - Cymru, Garfield Weston Foundation a’r Moondance Foundation.

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Join the Seagrass Ocean Rescue: North Wales partners on the 2nd August for a Seagrass Celebration!

🗓 2nd August
🕐 1pm-5:30pm
📍Porthdinllaen, Morfa Nefyn LL53 6DA

As part of the event there will be opportunities to participate in the following activities:

1-4pm Art activity with .y.tirfor

1pm Guided walk with Llŷn NT/YG

2.30pm Storytelling with Carl Gough - Storyteller and

4.30pm Music from Eve Goodman

Food can be purchased from the @ ty_coch_inn until 4pm and the Flour&Flame Wood Fired Pizza van between 5-7pm.

This event is free to attend – look out for the Seagrass Ocean Rescue flag and come and join in!

The Seagrass Ocean Rescue: North Wales programme is managed by WWF, in partnership with Project Seagrass Seagrass, the North Wales Wildlife Trust, Pen Llŷn a’r Sarnau Special Area of Conservation and Swansea University. The project is made possible with support from funders that include the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Garfield Weston Foundation, and the Moondance Foundation.

30/05/2026

I've been putting this moment off, but every story deserves a proper ending. Therefore, (with a certain melancholy) I'm letting it be known that I'm stepping back from my work as a professional storyteller.

I never dreamed that sharing a few ghost stories at a community event back in 2005 would eventually open a doorway into a world I never knew existed. I have been privileged to share space and time with some truly extraordinary people over more than a decade of tale telling and the memories of the last 14 years linger long.

But as the late great Terry Pratchett once said - "People think that stories are shaped by people. In fact, it's the other way around." And so it is with me.

Storytelling found me... I wasn't looking for it but it picked me up, carried me, nurtured me and in a very tangible sense, led me to the role I now hold delivering the National Seagrass Action Plan here in Wales.

Whilst stories and storytelling will ever remain a part of me and what I do, the art and craft of telling stories as a professional storyteller requires an energy and focus that my current role doesn't make room for. After much soul searching and procrastination, I am finally ready to accept I can't have my cake and eat it.

The seagrass around our shores is too precious and the work ahead too important for me to even attempt to hold a split focus. I will of course continue to work with story and allow story to work through me, just with a different framing and focus.

My heartfelt thanks to all who have helped, supported and believed in me over the years and to the many who booked my services or listened. Special thanks and appreciation to Paul Andrew who has patiently endured many a half-worked wobbly story over the years as I tried to get things performance ready.

The time may yet come when a new story makes me it's puppet once more, but until that time, you'll find me juggling spreadsheets, facilitating stakeholder meetings and whenever opportunity allows, face down with a snorkel in a seagrass meadow!!

27/05/2025

A special date for your diaries. What a great line up for a great cause!

Gig news! It's been a while, but I'm delighted to be again on 8th Jun at Stories to Bring Light in the Darkness: https://fb.me/e/6oQn2YN5R Gathered by Buck Storyteller, myself and Carl Gough - Storyteller, Edwards Storyteller and Author, Dave Tonge and Rosalind Buck, creator and performer will be spinning tales to raise money for Médecins Sans Frontières / MSF . A HORDE of and a good cause! Join us there!

24/02/2025

03/02/2025

First outing for Nexus in 2025

SOLD OUT
Our next storytelling show 22 February as part of storyteller Carl Gough - Storyteller presents an ecology themed story of hope in 💚💚💚 Tickets £7 Ages 16+ https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/forging-fantastical/nexus-storytelling-show-in-swindon/e-xjlgmo

26/01/2025

😮 AI generated podcast!
Gave NotebookLM the supporting materials from the day workshop I'm delivering this week for the RSPB in North Wales. This is what the Deep Dive function had to say about it and I have to admit, I'm a little bit in shock.

I mean it isn't perfect - for example, listen out for the times when the host spells 'is' instead of saying the word 😂 ... but overall, I have to admit it's a pretty good reflection of the workshop.
[Runtime 11 min]