Poetry Reading

POETRY READING BLUEBELL BOOKSHOP ANGEL SQUARE, PENRITH, CUMBRIA 7.30pm THURSDAY 29TH OCTOBER GUEST POETS: KEITH ARMSTRONG, CAROLE BALDOCK, NICK PEMBERTON AND ANN WILSON WILL BE JOINED BY YOU!! AND AN OPEN MIC SESSION AFTER THE GUESTS HAVE READ COME ALONG, JOIN GERALDINE GREEN AND FRIENDS AND TASTE DEREK’S GLORIOUS HOME MADE FOOD !! Admission: free [...]

Show Of Hands

Lancaster University, 25 October 2009 Reviewed by Colin Bertram This was the final date on the first leg of a 37 date County Towns tour that Show of Hands are currently on. Steve Knightley did say that he had received an email telling him that Preston is in fact the county town of Lancashire but [...]

Spymonkey’s Moby Dick at The Dukes

Spy Monkey’s Moby Dick – An Unreliable Version One of the funniest pieces of theatre you may ever see is coming The Dukes this November.  Spymonkey’s Moby Dick is a 21st Century mix of Monty Python, Marx Brothers and Mel Brooks, overflowing with brilliant characters, visual humour, slapstick comedy and outrageous naughtiness. Four actors find [...]

Sarah Hall & Andrew Miller at Lit Fest.

Reviewed by Kev McVeigh It’s interesting to note how different writers approach a reading like this. Sarah hall, after a brief hello, launched straight into reading from her novel How To Paint A Dead Man. Being familiar with the book I was aware that she actually began from the beginning of the book, but it [...]

Ellis Sharp & Steven Hall at Lit Fest

Reviewed by Helen Bland Two of the country’s more extraordinary imaginations appeared onstage together at LitFest on Saturday evening.  Steven Hall read from his Arthur C Clarke Award shortlisted debut novel The Raw Shark Texts in which, amongst other things, a man loses all memory, meets himself and is pursued by a conceptual shark.  Straightforward [...]

Pennine Lancashire Stanza Poetry Group

Tuesday 20th October, 6 pm, Storey Auditorium  Reviewed by Carla Scarano D’Antonio Five poets of the Pennine Lancashire Stanza Poetry Group met on Tuesday 20th October at 6 pm at the Storey Auditorium for the Litfest.   The poems they read in the soft relaxed atmosphere of the auditorium were centred on the theme ‘family’. [...]

Writer’s Sketchbook and Litfest Portraits

 17.10.09 The Alexandria Gallery, University of Cumbria and the Storey Institute, Lancaster Reviewed by Carla Scarano D’Antonio A great opportunity for new and more experienced writers to meet at the Alexandria Gallery, University of Cumbria on Saturday 17th October. The workshop was organized by the Litfest and the University of Cumbria and was led by [...]

Simon Bird

The Grand Theatre – 19th October 2009 Reviewed by Silent Matk I have never been as apprehensive to see someone perform as I was of Simon Bird tonight. Firstly, let me say, as a stand up comedian, Simon Bird is fantastic. Go to YouTube and look for his stand up. He is witty, intelligent and [...]

Homemade Lemonade LIVE! and In-Profile

October 13th 2009. Reviewed By Harry Naybors. Naybors here with review of a recent Homemade Lemonade performance at The Dukes Bar and Grill, which all things considered proved to be pretty spot on. Before we begin, let me fill you in: Homemade Lemonade began performing live music to Lancaster audiences during October 2008. Debuting as [...]

A2: The Future of Death pt 5

London based A2 Company, the collaboration between artists Anton Mirto and Alit Kreiz, began research for this sensitive piece working with the terminally ill in palliative care, seeking to discover the changes of heart made on the verge of death and how this knowledge might be put into practice. Out of this research came an [...]