Unfortunately part of the video for the Hastings leg of the Solstice Shorts Festival went a bit wonky. We’ve managed to salvage the audio for this section.
Here are two of the stories read at Hastings Fishermen’s Museum on the Winter Solstice:
The Answer my Friend… by Paul Foy, read by Patrick Keeley
The Professor’s Daughter by Barbara Renel, read by Rebekah Wilkinson
image/video clip © Cherry Potts
Meant to upload these ages ago, but preparing for Solstice Shorts got in the way!
Here is the second half of the launch of Departures, with readings from
Gloria Sanders reads poems that link beautifully to the theme
Helen Morris teases withthe first page of her extraordinary take on departures – The Change
Liam Hogan a ‘chance’ meeting in the departures lounge, set by fate…
and Barbara Renel with her flash piece inspired by a painting.
Thanks once again to Brockley Brewery for hosting, much appreciated!
Carlisle
NOON – Carlisle The Old Firestation
Poems
After Hours, Stuart McKenzie
An Autumn Noon, Ian Grosz
Arthur Streeton Advises his Students, Mandy Macdonald
By the Obelisk Sundial Drummond Castle, Jane Aldous
Farewell My Father, Anne Elizabeth Bevan
Fire at Midday, Susan Cartwright-Smith
I am not Beautiful at Noon, Elinor Brooks
Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Laila Sumpton
Moon Jellyfish, Ness Owen
Noon Son, Alison Lock
Noon Talk, Graham Burchell
Still No Name, Marika Josef
Sun Beats over New Orleans, Natalie Gasper
Unleashed, Paul Foy
Stories
#Noon, Su Yin Yap
Mother And Child, Barbara Renel
Noon Child Unknown, Diana Powell
On Kings And Falling, Roppotucha Greenberg
Up On The Roof, Lily Peters
Performers
Barbara Renel and Susan Cartwright-Smith will read their own work and Alex Morrison, Becca Roberts, Esther Ridgway and Owain Lewis will read the work of writers who can’t get there.
Carlisle Patchwork Opera is a fluid group of writers (prose, poetry, script, song), musicians, photographers, film-makers, visual artists. For the past two years, as part of their activities they have put together a themed programme to celebrate the winter solstice and performed at Foxes Café Lounge, Carlisle. Ideally placed to run a Solstice Shorts programme.
Our contact there is Barbara Renel who read at our Childhood themed Story Session for Brockley Max festival last year, and got inveigled into helping Carrie Cohen with the singing for Helen Morris’ story. So, brave as well as talented!
Having had so much background noise the videos were useless from this session for Brockley Max back in June, I thought we wouldn’t be able to share, but it turns out that the sound recordings whilst still a bit buzzy, are bearable to listen to.
So here they are! Whet your appetite for our next Session, on 18th January – Winter Tales
(WRITERS deadline for submission is TOMORROW 4/1/17 at 23.59 GMT)
Barbara Renel reads Blowhole
Liam Hogan reads Bulletproof Papoose
Kate Foley reads several poems from The Don’t Touch Garden
Carrie Cohen reads Helen Morris‘ Simon le Bon will Save Us.
Chukwude Onwere reads an extract from Courttia Newland‘s Sound Boys, published in Saboteur award-winning Being Dad (Tangent Books)
And… we have a show!
Planning a live event, especially if it’s free and you therefore have no budget, is a bit too exciting sometimes. Someone offers you a great story, then the author can’t make it after all, so you try to find an actor who will work for their fare and a book and a drink, at the same time as trying to decide whether it’s fair to promote the amazing story which you might not be able to read…
but everything falls into place eventually.
So we ARE reading Courttia Newland’s Sound Boys from the Saboteur2016 Best Anthology Award Winning Being Dad anthology on Wednesday 1st June at the Childhood The Story Sessions for Brockley Max, at the Brockley Deli.
Big thank you to Chukwudi Onwere for stepping in and to Carrie Cohen for making the introduction.
Also reading: Carrie Cohen – Helen Morris‘ Simon le Bon Will Save Us – with special singalong audience opportunities for those of you who remember the 80’s (If you want to practice, get your larynx around Duran Duran’s Rio in particular, and maybe Human League Don’t You Want Me, Baby?)
And reading their own work, Barbara Renel Blow Hole, Liam Hogan (also fresh from an award – The Roswell Award – for SciFi Short Story) Bullet-proof Papoose and Kate Foley The Don’t Touch Garden
and of course …. YOU… you can join in with 100 words on the theme of Childhood – fiction or poetry, bring it with you or write it in the interval, we’ll bring paper and pens.
Get there early and get some fab food and drink, and to be sure of a seat – we are kicking off at 7.30.
