Solstice Shorts Festival 2021 Words from the Brink

Open Mic Event

Contact: cherry@arachnepress.com

Website: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/solstice-shorts-festival-2021-words-from-the-brink-tickets-214701697557

This year’s Solstice Shorts theme is Words from the Brink – stories and poems and music in response to the climate crisis.
We decided (reluctantly) that an in-person event would take us too close to ‘the brink’ this year, so we are online again, but with an interactive celebration of everything the planet has to offer, and everything we threaten her with.
Almost everything will be performed live – we have a musician in the wrong time zone – with real live actors reading to you, including Solstice Shorts stalwarts, Sophie Aldred and Grace Cookey-Gam.
You can join in – there will be a post-interval open mic session, ON THE THEME of climate change…possibly two, we are still fine tuning.

Tickets available on Eventbrite: follow the 'website' link.
In a break from tradition we are having to charge for the event, but you only need one ticket per device, not per person, so if you want to throw a watch party on your sofa, that’s incredible value.
WE ARE ALSO running a pay-it-forward scheme so people can buy a ticket for a stranger – we will release these free/ half price tickets weekly, as they are donated, so if £8 would be a stretch for you, keep checking on Eventbrite…
Poems and Stories from Angela Graham, Ben Macnair, Cath Holland, Cath Humphris, Cathy Lennon, Claire Booker, Corinna Schulenburg, Diana Powell, Elaina Weakliem, Emily Ford, AG Parker, Jane Aldous, Jane McLaughlin, Jared Pearce, Jessica Conley, Jill Michelle, Julian Bishop, Karen Ankers, Kate Foley, Katherine Gallagher, Kelly Davis, Lesley Curwen, Lisa Clarkson, Lucy Grace, Lucy Ryan, Lyndsey Weiner, Mandy Macdonald, Michelle Penn, Natascha Graham, Rachael Li Ming Chong, Rob Walton, Robert René Galván, Samn Stockwell, Savannah McDaniel, Simon Brod, Stevie Krayer, Tara Willoughby, Tim Dillon, Ness Owen, Xia Leon Sloane
Music form Suzanne Harper and Laura Lucas
Solstice is a time for feeding up against the long cold winter, lighting fires, telling tall tales, and promising the sun that we want it back, and the planet that we will try much, much harder.
The book and festival deal with serious issues but with hope at the core, and we intend to have fun, so this is a Feast of a Festival – you can get the original recipe for our stunning Solstice Cake and bake your own to eat along with us, but we’d also like you to share your favourite solstice or climate change themed recipes – or fake recipe books – and pictures of them! We had a quick session this morning to figure out what we mean by this – so preserves and pickles for the long haul is one suggestion, or low impact treats for the planet. if these can be presented as poems, all to the good.
We plan to share serving suggestions for every section of the event when we publish the full programme, so if you want to, you can make this a real-life celebration too.

Price: £8.00

Time: 6:30pm (prompt start but join when you can, estimated end time 21:30- 22:00)