it’s only been 5 months….YARN’s going to Branchage!
it’s only been 5 months…it’s only been 5 months….if we say it often enough it makes it feel ok! But really it isn’t and we know that! Apologies to one and all…but believe me, we are back and ready to make some noise. You may have heard some rumblings, some of which may not be [...]
a little bit of inspiration
The first of the YARN interesting ponderings is upon us. It is an interesting maze of emotion once you’ve popped out the other side of something that has been in your head for ages. I went and accidentally got drunk with some old school friends (a random nightclub in Manchester, c. 2am is the source [...]
It’s a Wrap!
That’s right, it’s taken me three weeks since YARNfest wrapped to finally sit and write the wrap up blog and despite it being top of the list of things to do since the 24th of Feb the only reason it’s happening today is that I’m stuck under a quilt recovering from a cold – damn, [...]
Literary Death Match
London Episode 4 (SOLD OUT) Marrying the literary and performative aspects of Def Poetry Jam, rapier-witted quips of X Factor judging, and the ridiculousness and hilarity of the Generation Game! Join us for the fourth instalment of Literary Death Match London, where four writers will perform their most eclectic work (for eight minutes or less) [...]
Four Stories High
(SOLD OUT) We’ve taken Homer’s Odyssey and divided it into twelve equal measures, split across the four pillars of modern storytelling – film, theatre, literature and music. Novelists, thespians, auteurs and musicians across the city have been developing their own unique ‘odyssey twelfth’, but what will happen when we try and put it all back [...]
Movies in Minutes
in association with Little White Lies (SOLD OUT) Do you have movies you wish you’d seen but are now too embarrassed to admit? Do you wonder what the story actually is in Fellini’s 8 1/2, or if there even is one in 2012? Join us for a hilarious evening where comedians, cinema buffs and storyteller [...]
Bedtime Stories
in association with London Short Film Festival (SOLD OUT) Bedtime is both an innocent daily experience, but also promises excitement. Adults can see bedtime as full of erotic fantasies, where as children’s bedtime is seen as an innocent cotton-wool dreamlike experience, although bedtime fairy stories do hint at the nightmare world of dark, evil and even [...]
Paper Cinema presents The Lost World
(SOLD OUT) The cereal-box maestros return with another piece of magical ‘live animation’. Using a basic camcorder and a pile of cut-out illustrations they whisk the viewer across the world – in this case to Venezuela – for a retelling of Arthur Conan Doyle’s tale of intrepid explorers and blood-thirsty dinosaurs. With Live music by [...]
