It’s a Wrap!

YARN presents Four Stories High

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, blogging clearly just isn’t going to come naturally!

YARNfest kicked off back on the 20th of Feb with our TairyFales, and built up to a knock-out Literary Death Match on the 24th – selling out to it’s biggest crowd yet and even had someone wearing a tower of flats as a prop, thank you Richard Milward for that!

In betweenie we saw Tom Wrigglesworth regale us with his oh so familiar tale of an evil ticket inspector on a Virgin train, the Paper Cinema create some seriously magical worlds accompanied by the fantastic Kieron Maguire, the London Short Film Festival lay on an eccentric mix of stories and experimental cinematic works, a glorious presentation of why Toy Story is a Marxist Manifesto at Movies in Minutes and some exceptional interpretations of the Odyssey at Four Stories High.

In it’s debut, YARNfest excelled beyond anything I’d envisaged in my head during the many months of build up and that can only be down to the wonderful, amazing and stupendous performers and co-organisers who poured everything into our events to make them really come alive.

Big thank you to Shooting People, Little White Lies, Faber & Faber and Opium Magazine and a massive shout out once again to our sponsors Bookhugger.co.uk who really went beyond in supporting us bring the first YARNfest to audiences. Also mega thank you to the teams at The Book Club and the Queen of Hoxton for making everything run as smooth as a smooth thing…and to everyone who gave us a shout out!

So…what next? Well, here at YARN towers we’re always looking for new ways to bring story and storytelling to audiences and we’re working up some new collaborations both with practioners and other exhibitors so definitely watch this space. Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you’re up to anything you think we might be interested in.

Through this blog we’re aiming to bring you tales of new happens and also some interesting ponderings…and slowly but surely I’ll become a regular blogger – promise!