Stations and London Lies and Lovers’ Lies contributors tell us about the writers they admire
Andrew Blackman, Bartle Sawbridge, Rosalind Stopps, Adrian Gantlope, Joan Taylor-Rowan:
Paula Read, Caroline Hardman, Anna Fodorova, Cherry Potts
© Arachne Press 2013
A well attended event, about a dozen enthusiastic folk, only one of whom we already knew! thank you to Alan and Paolo for their excellent marketing.
Appropriately for a Forest Hill gig, we started the evening with Peter Morgan’s Mr Forest Hill Station, about an eccentric and seemingly eternally youthful man only ever seen in the station’s environs.
Moving one stop north we encountered Rosalind Stopps’ story of aging romantic angst in How to Grow Old in Brockley.
Over (or should it be under) the river we stopped off at Shoreditch for Katy Darby’s drug-and-ego fuelled tale of Bafta wannabe’s The Horror, the Horror.
And our furthest point north, Hoxton brought us Caroline Hardman’s story of a vampire completely out of his depth.
Part 2 of our LSE Space for Thought Branch Out festival work.
We collaborated with Summer All Year Long, our singing friends to match songs and stories to the themes being explored by the festival.
Here we respond to Nature with SAYL singing the traditional folk song, One May Morning Early (arranged by Mel Harrold) and Gloria Sanders reading Birdland by Joan Taylor-Rowan. from Stations.
followed by our interpretation of Food Fashion: Jo Widdowson reading Monsieur Fromage by Rosalind Stopps, from Lovers’ Lies
As part of CityRead Arachne Press authors will be reading from Stations at
Forest Hill Library
Dartmouth Road SE23 3HZ
on Thursday 18th April 2013 7-8.30pm
Rosalind Stopps (Brockley), Caroline Hardman (Hoxton), Jacqueline Downs (Crystal Palace) and Peter Morgan (Forest Hill) for stories of love among the coffee cups, vampires in pubs, ghosts in the machine and eccentrics at a station.
Rosalind Stopps not only read from Lovers’ Lies at The Book Stops Here on Monday, she also remembered to take pictures of fellow Arachne Author, Darren Lee. Thanks Rosalind!
Darren Lee Reading at The Book Stops Here copyright Rosalind Stopps
Darren Lee at The Book Stops Here copyright Rosalind Stopps
Two events to choose from tonight: LGBT History Month event at Deptford Lounge (Cherry & Paula plus Actors) or The Book Stops Here (Rosalind & Darren) It’s a tough call – but at least it should have stopped snowing by then.
A little delayed, but here is the video of our Stations event at Whitechapel Idea store
Rosalind, Wendy and Caroline:
Cherry & Bartle
Yay! Friern Barnet Community Library got it’s licence and books will continue to be lent from this lovely purpose-built home for books. A victory for sanity and community action.
Arachne Press lent our support with a little reading from each of our books last Tuesday, when things were still a bit in doubt, so delighted with the result.
Here’s the video of our reading – apologies for the sound quality with hindsight the windowsill wasn’t the best place for the camera.
Caroline Hardman & Wendy Gill read from Stations and Michelle Shine reads from Lovers’ Lies
Cherry Potts reads from London Lies and Bobbie Darbyshire and Rosalind Stopps read from Lovers’ Lies.
It’s official publication day for Lovers’ Lies! A chance to buy your beloved something more original than a box of chocolates for Valentine’s day
We had a full house on Sunday at Keats House for the launch, (great venue by the way) we ran out of books and I had to do the publishing equivalent of ‘family hold back’ and ask the authors to wait for their free copies (they’re coming, promise). Lots of authors read and a fun time was had by all -
here’s some of the evidence.
Darren Lee reading from By The Horns
Rosalind Stopps reading from Monsieur Fromage
Nathan Good reading from The Games I’ve Played and the People I’ve Played Them With
Bobbie Darbyshire reading from Something Missing
Bartle Sawbridge reading from For Your Ears Only
Katy Darby reading from Takeaway by Alison Willis
Peter Higgins reading from Mrs Murdoch and Mr Smith
Michelle Shine reading from Skin Deep
LSE Space for Thought Festival 2013: Branching Out runs from Tuesday 26th until Saturday 2nd March, and everything is FREE (Including a workshop from Katy Darby on Saturday morning)!
On Saturday 2nd March Arachne Press will be providing entertainment in the foyer between the main events in the auditorium. We are going for a Liars’ League style with readings by actors, and have chosen stories from all three books to fit the themes of the other events. Each section will be introduced by a very brief burst of (equally appropriate) song from our friends Summer All Year Long to draw attention!
12.30-1 (oral tradition/ human rights) Frog (Emily Cleaver – London Lies) read by Will Everett and Speaking in Tongues (Rebecca Gould – Lovers’ Lies) read by Sophie Morris-Sheppard
2.30-3 (Conflict/poetry/art/politics) Mirror (Cherry Potts – Lovers’ Lies) read by Will Everett and Rich & Strange –extract (Bartle Sawbridge – Stations) read by Greg Page.
4.30-5 (food fashions/landscape/nature) Monsieur Fromage (Rosalind Stopps – Lovers’ Lies), read by Jo Widdowson Birdland (Joan Taylor-Rowan – Stations) read by Gloria Sanders
6.30-7 (art curating/ comedy) Girl with Palmettes (Martin Pengelly – London Lies) read by Lisa Rose Lenny Bolton Changes Trains (Rob Walton – Stations) read by Ray Newe
thoughts about books and writers and the tales they tell
Acerbic, pithy and/or witless bookstuff
NLP Coaching and Training
9th-16th September 2011
