Solstice Shorts 2019 is a festival of live stories, poems and songs about living on & beside the water, and making new lives over the water. How do tides affect our lives? How has that changed throughout history?
Hosted at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery from Nautical Twilight (16.33) until High Tide (21:18), Time and Tide is the Greenwich segment of a larger set of events. The Solstice Shorts Festival is bringing performances in seven port towns on coasts and tidal rivers in four countries: England, Scotland, Wales and Portugal.
Programme
16:30 – 18:00 Part 1 — Nautical Twilight
Poems: Emma Lee, JN Nucifera, John Richardson, Laura Potts, Lizzie Parker, Mandy Macdonald, Melissa Davies, Michelle Penn, Nick Westerman, Sarah Tait, Savanna Evans
Readings: Carrie Cohen, Chukwudi Onwere and Saul Reichlin
Music: Kevan Taplin
Poem-film: Philp Hewitson and Susan Cartwright-Smith
18:00 – 18:30 Poetry and Flash Fiction Open Mic
Contact us in advance if you’d like to take part at cherry@arachnepress.com. (Max 100 words of poetry or flash fiction inspired by the sea)
18:30 – 19:00 Interval
19:00 – 21:30 Part 2 — High Tide
Poems: Claire Booker, Emma Lee, Holly Blades, Jenny Mitchell, Melissa Davies, Olivia Dawson, Reshma Ruia, Thomas Tyrrell, Valerie Bence, Vanessa Owen, Vivien Jones
Stories: Diana Powell, Elizabeth Hopkinson, Juliet Humphreys, Maria Kyle, Neil Lawrence, Pauline Walker, Roppotucha Greenberg
Music: London Sea Shanty Collective
Poem-film: Julie Laing
Pay-as-you-feel — there is a suggested donation of £3, but you can support someone needing a free ticket by offering more!
We realise you might not be able to stay for the entire event, so you can book for just the afternoon, the evening, or the whole thing following the Eventbrite links below:
BSL Interpreted. This event is supported with public funds by Arts Council England. Organised and backed by private funding from 50 crowdfunders, and Arachne Press.
This colloquium hosted by the School of Design of the University of Greenwich explores the relationship between sounds and images, and the images which sounds can construct by themselves.
Through a series of complementary strands – talks, screenings and loudspeaker orchestra concerts – we bring together artists and experts to investigate sound and sound-image phenomena.
The Sound/Image Colloquium runs 9 – 10 November. Colloquium Programme can be viewed here.
The Project Space exhibition is Tue – Sat, 9 – 18 November.
Special Guests:
Annette Vande Gorne, composer and artistic director of the international festival L’espace du son, brings her extensive oeuvre to London to present a concert of multichannel acousmatic.
Terry Flaxtonhas worked for decades with sound composition, photography and film. His work today focuses on durational forms of the digital including sound, video, print and installation.
Conference Dinner:
There will be a 3-course conference dinner, price £45 per person on Saturday 9 November, at 8.30 pm which can be booked when selecting tickets.
Chaired by Keep the Door of My Lips curators Professor Andrew King and Connie Gallagher this open discussion will follow the many topics that this exhibition covers; including, but not confined to, work, working conditions, the effects of work, escape from work, being without work, gender and work, ethnicity and work, and class and work.
Keep the Door of My Lips is an exhibition curated by Professor Andrew King and Connie Gallagher that explores the continuing influence of Victorian ideas about ‘work’. Displaying images from Victorian periodicals and trade magazines alongside research by Professor Andrew King and featured artworks, this exhibition – by turns beautiful, heroic, shocking, comforting, unsettling – wants to get us to think about what work really means for us.
A lecture by Helen Robertson on architecture and the photographic work of Mary Maclean.
In Mary Maclean’s photographic work, it is as if viewfinder and architectural frame conjoin in a choreographic process that undoes the stability of body and built environment. This potential to think architecture as relational rather than determinate will be discussed with reference to Maclean’s photographic practice, works of 20th and 21st century architecture, cinema and art.
Helen Robertson is a London based artist and Lecturer in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins and Camberwell College of Arts.
To be held in the Lecture Theatre 11_0004 at the University of Greenwich, Stockwell Street Building. The talk coincides with the Mary Maclean exhibition in the adjacent Stephen Lawrence Gallery.
This event is free and open to the public.
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