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DUSK Solstice Shorts Festival 2017


DUSK: Solstice Shorts 2017

Originating in Greenwich, on the Prime Meridian, and now in its 4th year, Solstice Shorts is  going nationwide.
The theme this year is Dusk, that time between day and night when everything changes.
On 21st December Dusk starts in the UK in the far NE (Shetland) at 16:53 and finishes in the far SW (Cornwall) at 18:21, taking between 40 and 50 minutes depending where you are.
We have twelve sites across the UK all reading/singing different material (chosen by us, read by actors/ sung by musicians) starting In Ellon, Aberdeenshire and ending In Redruth, Cornwall, taking in key spots in between.
All events BSL Interpreted
Tickets: Generally by donation, suggested £3, but there are exceptions where this is part of a bigger event.
The performances will match the timing of (Astronomical) Dusk exactly, with a live stream on Facebook.  Redruth won’t start reading until Aberdeen had almost finished and all the other performances will overlap, so that somewhere in the ether we are all reading/singing together, like a murmuration of starlings.
We’ve had much discussion about what we mean by Dusk -We are going with astronomical dusk (as in to do with stars, not enormous!) which is the last ‘official’ segment, when the sun is down, but there’s still a lingering light in the sky, through to out and out night. Useful website here for those of you who are interested:
This is mainly a practical thing – if we started earlier the chances of an audience on a Thursday afternoon become vanishingly slim.
The stories and poems have been chosen, and the music is either traditional or original.
Ellon (Aberdeenshire, Intuitive Music Aberdeen, at Better Read Books), Inverness(Inverness Playwrights at Eden Court), Carlisle (Carlisle Patchwork Opera at Foxes Cafe), Lancaster (North West Literary Salon at the Print Room at the Storey), Holyhead (Anglesey/Ynys Mon Cybi Poets at Ucheldre Centre),  Rossendale (The Whitaker), Birmingham (Unbroken Cocoon at The Goose Selly Oak), Nottingham (Nottingham Writers’ Studio), Greenwich (That would be us at West Greenwich Library), Bristol (Bare Bones Collective at Kelston Roundhill), Warkleigh (near Barnstaple) (Courage Copse Creatives) Redruth (Kernow Education Arts Partnership)
Thank you to our FUNDERS: ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND, plus FEAST and CORNWALL COUNCIL FOR REDRUTH, NOTTINGHAM CITY COUNCIL for NOTTINGHAM, and KELSTON RECORDS for BRISTOL.
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We would also like to acknowledge in-kind support from Better Libraries, Royal Borough of Greenwich, The Whittaker, and all of our organisers in particular Phil & Sherry in Inverness.
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