Paul Foy‘s short story of a grandmother and her story about soldiers confounded by a magical wind written for Solstice Shorts 2019, Time and Tide; translated and performed in BSL by Marcel Hirshman
background image by Cherry Potts
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This year’s Solstice Shorts Festival Tymes goe by Turnes will be held online on 21st Dec 2020 8pm GMT
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
Aberdeen
Moon Jellyfish
Poem by Ness Owen read by Marka Rifat
On the First Calculation of the Circumference of the Earth
Poem by Alison Gerhard read by Haworth Hodgkinson
Pocket Watch
Poem written and read by Catriona Yule
High Noon
Story written and read by Marka Rifat
Noon Talk
Poem by Graham Burchell read by Haworth Hodgkinson
Sun Beats over New Orleans
Poem by Natalie Gasper read by Catriona Yule
Arthur Streeton Advises his Students
Poem by Mandy Macdonald read by Marka Rifat
Mother Hand
Story by Karen Ankers read by Catriona Yule
Unleashed
Poem by Paul Foy read by Marka Rifat
An Autumn Noon
Poem by Ian Grosz read by Haworth Hodgkinson
I am not Beautiful at Noon
Poem by Elinor Brooks read by Catriona Yule
The poems and stories will be interspersed with intuitive music in response to the Solstice Mode from Dundee Ambient, Part 1: Winter Solstice by Haworth Hodgkinson, played by the ensemble Intuitive Music Aberdeen.
Marka Rifat
Catriona Yule
Haworth Hodgkinson
Mandy Macdonald (melodica)
Colin Edwards (bowed psaltery)
Haworth Hodgkinson (melodica, recorder, percussion and fixed media)
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.
