Keeping The Flame Alive: Song & Story In Hackney

Contact: www.wordsarebeautiful.co.uk/the-story-salon/salon-9/story-salon-9-invite.html

Let us seduce you with storytelling and song from award-winning performers and writers in the stunning Elizabethan chamber of the National Trust’s hidden Hackney gem, Sutton House.

In an evening celebrating stories that inspire and challenge, we’ll be listening to wonderful, authentic work in a house that oozes ghost and memory. Relax, enjoy a glass of wine, join in the conversation or simply let your mind wander.

Please RSVP to register your interest. Places are limited – see below for more details.

RSVP at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGJyQmxVNDRrb213M3pqd0lRSDVUclE6MA

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Katy Evans-Bush: Hackney resident Katy is an accomplished poet, critic, teacher and superlative blogger. Don’t miss her award-winning web site Baroque In Hackney. She will be reading from her superb Rack Press pamphlet, Henry & Oscar, in which a delicious and moving encounter between Henry James and Oscar Wilde is imagined.

Sam Lee: Mercury Prize nominated folk singer and song collector Sam’s debut album, Ground Of Its Own, comprised of songs learned from the Gypsy Traveller community, haunting tales from history and the heart. His band, Sam Lee & Friends, perform unconventional and contemporary interpretations that challenge our preconceptions of what folk music should sound like.

Vanessa Gebbie is a Welsh writer living in England. Her debut novel The Coward's Tale, an exploration of the importance of story in a troubled community, was a Financial Times Novel of the Year, and a Guardian Readers' Book of the Year. She is author of two short fiction collections, Words from a Glass Bubble and Storm Warning, and her first poetry publication, The Half-life of Fathers, is published later this year.

Tom Lee's stories have been published in the Sunday Times Magazine, Prospect and Esquire, broadcast on Radio 4, and two are being adapted for film. His debut collection, Greenfly, was published in 2009 and he’s currently working on his second collection and writing a memoir about being in intensive care in King’s College Hospital, South London. As far as we can tell, he is not related to Sam.

Entry: £10 on the door

Time: 7:00pm