SPUN Stories

Lisa Day moved to Darwin from Melbourne in the 70s to be a teacher, seeking a fresh start after a lifetime of carrying an extraordinary family secret that was starting to seep through the cracks, out the front door and into the garden: what you see in public isn’t always what you get in private... 

Storyteller - Lisa Day
Story Producer - Jess Ong
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SPUN Stories is a live storytelling night based in Darwin, Nor...

Dr Bo Remenyi is a paediatric cardiologist fighting heart disease in remote Australia. Bo arrived in Australia, from communist Hungary, as a teenager with no English language skills but big dreams and a steely determination to achieve her goals...

Storyteller - Dr Bo Remenyi
Story Producer - Lori Uden
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SPUN Stories is a live storytelling night based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. We're all about shining a lig...

Dave Pears is a mariner who found himself on a remote Kimberley island relying on the care of strangers after placing his hand on something potentially life threatening...

Storyteller - Dave Pears
Story Producer - Lori Uden
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SPUN Stories is a live storytelling night based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. We're all about shining a light on the extraordinary personal stories of everyday Territorians - let us take...

T’ara is a sovereign tribal woman on a journey of self-exploration. Throughout her pilgrimage she explores the nature of life and the light and dark it encompasses. T’ara is passionate about speaking truth and holding space for others to do the same. She shares a story about a recent moment of truth. 

Storyteller - T'ara Cole
Story Producer - Alex Edmonson
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Phill Carson arrived in Darwin in 1981 to take up a job at the Royal Darwin Hospital. He was 27 years old and no one, including Phil, suspected that this softly spoken newcomer would go on to become one of Darwin’s longest serving surgeons. By day, surgical life, while demanding, was routine, but a call after dark signalled something altogether different... 

Storyteller - Phill Carson
Story Producer - Johanna Bell
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When the Ryan family moved to Darwin in 1970, life was filled with lemon cordial, coconut tree-climbing and Nightcliff neighbourhood play dates. Four years later, Cyclone Tracy struck. Kathy was seven at the time, but her memories of the night don’t fit with commonly told terror and trauma tales... 

Storyteller - Kathy Ryan
Story Producer - Jennifer Pinkerton
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Varunika Ruwanpura had an unusual childhood. Her father worked in hotel management and as a result, he, Varunika and her mother lived in hotels all over the world. It was an exciting life for the family of three, but twice Varunika found herself in the midst of war. On both occasions, war arrived under a cloak of darkness in the middle of the night, bringing terror and havoc right to her doorstep...

Storyteller - Varunika Ruwanpura...

Simon Quilty is a doctor and has learnt a lot about dealing with patients and breaking bad news. He's also realised no one is immune to making a mistake, not even a doctor who finds himself treating a patient who happened to be a former hitman...

Storyteller – Simon Quilty
Story Producer - Tamara Howie
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SPUN Stories is a live storytelling night based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. We're all abou...

On Alex’s 34th birthday she felt like her life was spiralling out of control. Her career as a filmmaker was hanging by a thread, she was living with her parents and she was questioning her sexuality. Then she received the news that she was facing premature infertility...

Storyteller – Alex Edmonson
Story Producer - Johanna Bell
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SPUN Stories is a live storytelling night based in Darwin, Northern Terri...

The parents of iconic sports broadcaster, Charlie King, should never have been together: not when his mother was a proud Gurindji woman who was part of the Stolen Generation and his father from Melbourne. Charlie learnt his rebellious ways from his parents and has since passed this on to his daughter, Emma...

Storyteller – Charlie and Emma King
Story Producer - Kylie Stevenson
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*CW: domestic violence*
Leah Potter runs a kitchen in Darwin to feed the city's most vulnerable. But in a life before this, Leah explored a different sort of vulnerability as a dominatrix...

Storyteller – Leah Potter
Story Producer - Tamara Howie
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SPUN Stories is a live storytelling night based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. We're all about shining a light on the extraordinary personal stories...

Ange Wu grew up in a household where fire drills were a regular occurrence and the kitchen was off limits but she never really understood why...

Storyteller – Ange Wu
Story Producer - Johanna Bell
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*CW: suicide*
As a journalist, Bridget Judd lives in a world of language: surveying world events and giving them shape through words. When she lost her beloved father, Bridget suddenly found herself in silence...

Storyteller – Bridget Judd
Story Producer - Sam Carmody
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SPUN Stories is a live storytelling night based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. We're all about shining a light on the extraord...

Chris Keeping was born and bred in Darwin. A few years ago, Chris encountered one of nature's most aggressive animals while kite-surfing off the Darwin coast line...

Storyteller – Chris Keeping
Story Producer - Tamara Howie

Told at our second-ever SPUN event in 2015, where the theme was 'Going Troppo'
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SPUN Stories is a live storytelling night based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. We're all about ...

A very personal story shared by Jacinta Mooney about falling in love, and the heartache and lines you have to draw when it comes to dealing with addiction...

Storyteller – Jacinta Mooney
Story Producer - Johanna Bell

Told at a SPUN event in Katherine, NT in 2016
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SPUN Stories is a live storytelling night based in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. We're all about shining a light on the extraordinary pe...

The 90s was a decade overflowing with good music, and Lari Gadza spent her teenage years soaking it all up. Lari grew up in Darwin among the mango trees, surrounded by tales of her dad’s croc catching days… And occasionally, stories from the old country, Bosnia, made their way in…

Storyteller – Lari Gadza
Story Producer - Rosa Ellen

Told at a SPUN event in 2017, where the theme was 'Rewind'
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Jose Da Costa was born during the violent occupation of East Timor and spent his first years in the jungle, hiding from the Indonesian army with his family. It wasn’t until he found himself the target of the military, that Jose was forced to take the biggest risk of his life...

Storyteller – Jose Da Costa
Story Producer - Rosa Ellen

Told at Darwin Festival in 2017, where the theme was 'Home'
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Kelly Hosking has spent most of her adult live working overseas in public health and disaster management. She's used to mishaps and strange revelations but on a mission in Fiji, she came across a superstitious surprise...

Storyteller – Kelly Hosking
Story Producer - Johanna Bell

Told at Brown's Mart Theatre in 2016 where the theme was 'Chemistry'
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Gus Fitzgerald has spent life a life in the ocean; a surfer and swimmer and commercial diver who was introduced to the water by his late father. Lots of life lessons were learnt in the deep, but how do you stay afloat when you lose the people you love the most?

Storyteller – Gus Fitzgerald
Story Producer - Sam Carmody

Told at Darwin Entertainment Centre in 2018 at Garrmalang Festival
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