Sarah Grundy sings Gaps Between at The Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery, Rossendale for DUSK, the Solstice Shorts Festival 2017
Sarah Grundy sings Gaps Between at The Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery, Rossendale for DUSK, the Solstice Shorts Festival 2017
Sarah Grundy sings Magpie at The Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery, Rossendale for DUSK, the Solstice Shorts Festival 2017
Sarah Grundy sings Golden Shadow at The Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery, Rossendale for DUSK, the Solstice Shorts Festival 2017
Neil Bell reads (part of!) Crow Haibun by Alison Lock at The Whittaker Museum & Art Gallery, Rossendale
Camera cut out briefly so we missed the beginning.
The unpublished poems and stories from these events are in the forthcoming anthology Dusk.
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Tony Curry reads A Calligraphy of Starlings by Aziz Dixon at The Whittaker Museum & Art Gallery, Rossendale
The unpublished poems and stories from these events are in the forthcoming anthology Dusk.
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Neil Bell reads Breadcrumbs by Lucy Grace at The Whittaker Museum & Art Gallery, Rossendale
The unpublished poems and stories from these events are in the forthcoming anthology Dusk.
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NEIL BELL by Michael Pollard
Neil Bell studied drama at Oldham College and has played character roles in such TV series as Buried, Shameless, Murphy’s Law, Ideal, City Lights, The Bill Coronation Street, and Casualty, and the films 24 Hour Party People (2002) and Dead Man’s Shoes (2004). He had a regular role in Downton Abbey, and more recently in Peaky Blinders.
Neil is reading stories for Dusk in Rossendale.
Carl Bell is a Cultural Entrepreneur and Director at the award-winning Whitaker Museum + Art Gallery, History, Art, Music, Poetry, Food + Drink, Arthouse Cinema + Theatre Events all under one roof.
Over the last 5 years The Whitaker team have turned a much-loved but dusty Museum into a thriving cultural hub.
Carl has specialised in the last 15 years in new ‘models’ of delivery for Social and Cultural Services in the North West of England.
Tony Curry has had two poetry collections published. ‘The Noble Savage’ 2007 Flapjack Press and ‘Tall Tales for Tall Men Who Fall Well Short’ 2012 Flapjack Press.
He has been performing his poetry and music since 1997, at various venues in and around Manchester and beyond, including The Big Chill Festival in 2007. He performs spoken word, utilising his guitar at times and also collaborates with the musician Charlie Pink.
His work covers the personal, the observational and the political with a touch of humour at times.
He has been hosting the poetry and music night’s Word Jam and Word Central, in Manchester since 2014.
He has written for the stage, print media and for radio.
He utilises his writing and interpersonal skills within the community. www.manchestermenshealth.com
Tony is reading poems and stories at Rossendale
Lucy Grace began writing fiction in August 2017, after resigning from her full-time job as a headteacher. Already shortlisted and the winner of a national and international writing
competitions for her short stories, Lucy is currently working on her debut novel. She
gathers material and ideas everywhere, and writes in any time she can find around her
part time job as a teacher and full-time job as a mum of two young children.
Lucy’s story for Dusk, Breadcrumbs, will be read at Inverness, Nottingham and Rossendale.