Short story by Kilmeny MacMichael for Solstice Shorts Festival 2019, Time and Tide, translated and performed in BSL by Marcel Hirshman.
We are crowdfunding for this year’s festival, Tymes goe by Turnes, crowdfund closes 15th October 7pm (That’s TODAY!!)
I nearly Drownded, Daddy, a poem by Vivien Jones for Solstice Shorts Festival 2019, Time and Tide, translated and performed in BSL by Marcel Hirshman.
We are crowdfunding for this year’s festival, Tymes goe by Turnes, crowdfund closes 15th October 7pm we could use your dosh! We have printers and performers and writers we’d like to pay.
Herr Dressler: A gentle ghost story set in Harwich from Eoghan Hughes for Solstice Shorts Festival 2019, Time and Tide, translated and performed in BSL by Marcel Hirshman.
We are crowdfunding for this year’s festival, Tymes goe by Turnes, crowdfund closes 15th October 7pm
Short Story A Madras Crossing by Elizabeth Hopkinson from Solstice Shorts Festival 2019, Time and Tide Translated into BSL by Marcel Hirshman
We are crowdfunding for this year’s festival Tymes goe by Turnes – only 34 hours left to get a stunning handmade shawl, or one of our festival books/tickets/T-shirts, or special rewards aimed at writers…
For No Spider Harmed in the Making of this Book, regular contributor to Arachne anthologies, Helen Morris, takes the Spiderman origin myth and gives it a spin. BSL translation by Marcel Hirshman.
Helen was one of the first winners of the Solstice Shorts Competition. We are currently crowdfunding for this year’s festival and anthology, Tymes goe by Turnes. We have some lovely unusual rewards, and some nice standard T shirt/ Book/ Badge type things, If you felt like supporting us you can do so over on Pay it Forward.
Listen, Noah’s Wife by Roppotucha Greenberg was part of last year’s Solstice Shorts Festival, Time and Tide.
Because our venues were mostly very remote we had a lot of trouble finding British Sign Language interpreters, so instead we got translations to be uploaded later. This one is translated and performed in BSL by Marcel Hirshman
We are crowdfunding for this year’s festival, until 15th October. Help us make it brilliant!
We had quite a few of the stories and poems from No Spider Harmed... translated into BSL, but not all of them were ready for the launch. This one is Margaret Compton‘s magnificent inversion of the Arachne myth, Spidergirl. Translated by Marcel Hirshman.
We are currently crowdfunding for this year’s Solstice Shorts Festival, Tymes Goe By Turnes, and if we raise enough it means we can do this with at least some of the stories and poems chosen for performance and inclusion in the anthology. If you’d like to back the crowdfund, Margaret has a story in that one too! At the minute we are at only 11% of out target, and 11 days to go… so we could use your help.
I meant to post this last night, when the video was released on YouTube and Facebook, but I went to sleep for an hour and dreamt I had done it… the best laid plans and all that!
the brilliant (and very busy) Marcel Hirshman has translated some more stories for us. they will be appearing as I have time to edit and upload them.
Here, Carolyn Robertson retells the Arachne myth as office rivalry…
from our anniversary anthology, No Spider Harmed in the Making of this Book
Continuing our eighth anniversary celebrations, with the most recent Solstice Shorts Festival and book, Time and Tide.
Stories and poems set on and beside the sea with a strong female voice, BSL translations by Marcel Hirshman of:
Remittance, by Kilmeny MacMichael;
Arrival by Valerie Bence (with voice over by Holly Blades);
I Nearly Drownded Daddy by Vivien Jones and
Napoleon by Nick Westerman.
Plus news of the future of Solstice Shorts.
You can buy the book, in two different editions (the special is illustrated) from our Webshop
throughout August there is a discount if you apply code ARACHNEVERSARY at the checkout.
Uploading the videos from Solstice Shorts 2019, Time & Tide continues.
Here is The Sinking of Mrs Margaret Brown by Michelle Penn read at Greenwich by Carrie Cohen, with BSL interpretation by Paul Michaels.
Many of the stories and poems were read at more than one of the venues, so there will be further opportunities to compare and contrast!
Limited edition illustrated book of the material available now only from our webshop or from our events .
We are videoing BSL translations of some of the material, and this will also be on the website in late March, to coincide with the launch of the bookshop version of the book on 21st March at The Old Royal Naval College Visitor Centre in Greenwich. more details soon!
