Queer Tales at the Story Sessions – the videos

So here’s some snippets of video from our lovely readers last night.

Clare Summerskill reads us Jeffrey, talking about the 1930’s from her oral history of Lesbian and Gay lives, Gateway to Heaven

Rebecca Idris reads from her novel The Sitar

Cherry Potts name checks folk songs while reading from The Ballad of Polly & Ann (Mosaic of Air)

Anny Knight observes the perils of the Lesbian Disco, and suggests a way of getting rid of overstaying guests

And Catherine Blackfeather rescues a selkie…

(Cherry’s mini tour of London for LGBT History Month continues on Friday at Crofton Park Library where she will be reading two-handers from Mosaic of Air with Alix Adams, and at The Cafe of Good Hope in Hither Green next Wednesday, where she is joined by Rebecca and Catherine again, plus V A Fearon. more info here.

Unconnected to LGBT History Month, Cherry is running a poetry workshop 1-3 This friday 21st Feb at the Donald Hope Library, Colliers Wood.

The next Story Sessions is on 12th March, and is Feminist Fables and Folk Tales, for international women’s day.

If you have an idea for a theme and would like to read for The Story Sessions, get in touch

The Story Sessions, Queer Tales, Photos

We had great fun at The Story Sessions last night. here are a few photos to whet your appetite for the videos to come…

Anny Knight reading poetry

Anny Knight QT Anny KnightCatherine Blackfeather reading a tale of Selkies

Cath Blackfeather QTClare Summerskill reading Oral History from Gateway to Heaven

Clare Sumerskill Clare Summerskill QTRebecca Idris reading from The Sitar

Rebecca IdrisAs usual, no pictures of Cherry Potts, who was behind the camera when not on stage, all photos © Cherry Potts 2014.