Summer Festivals, Recent Events a Birthday Party!
June 2nd, 2018 | Published in Frontpage
COMING UP…
- Submissions are open now for Penzance LitFest, a firm feature of Telltales’ annual repertoire. We’ll be performing at the Admiral Benbow, a lively pub on Chapel Street Penzance, at 7:30 on Thursday, 5 July. Our theme – the festival theme — is Taking Flight. Please send submissions on the right side of this page – just be sure to let us know which event you’re submitting for! The deadline for submissions is 28 June.
- Things are looking good for Telltales at the Port Eliot Festival, 26-29 July. It seems likely that our hour will be on Sunday, the 29th, but in any case, the theme is Games, and the deadline for submissions is Friday, 20 July. We still can’t promise readers free festival admission, but it looks likely. Watch the website!
- The next Telltales event is on Tuesday, 31 July, at Dolly’s. The theme is Happy Birthday – Telltales turns 10 this year! We’d be delighted to get submissions on the theme, but we’re very happy with other things too. If you have something you’d like to read and you can read it in 10 minutes or less, send it in! (about 1200 words, or three shortish poems). The deadline for submissions is Friday, 20 July.
AND JUST PAST
- The Great Estate : There’s a sheltered clearing called “The Whispering Woods,” just a few steps apart from the main thoroughfare at The Great Estate festival, Scorrier (near Redruth). In the early evening of 1 June, festivalgoers were taken to places near and far, now, then, and into the completely fantastic in the poems and prose from four Telltales readers, Penny MacBeth, Ben Beattie, Nancy Roth and Henry Purbrick.
- Telltales in May… Manet, Mermaids and Mars: Telltales on Tuesday 22 May was just what we’d hoped for. Even from a glance at the programme for the night, it was obvious we were in for something a little different: Manet, mermaids, Mars – and everything in between. The clock chimed, the dog growled, the sounds of Falmouth town drifted up through the window. Des Hannigan started the evening off in fine form with his own subtly shifting version of the shipping forecast. Ben Beattie– reading at Telltales for the first time – stunned us with his tongue-twisting performance poetry inspired by genetically-modified mice and other obscure creatures. The theme for the night, INSIDE OUT, presented itself in unexpected places – in Rebecca Hooper‘s poem Little Human Lives, evoking life at twenty-three weeks; in Carole Inman‘s story The Smile, followed a young woman finding her way from a life based on other people’s values to a new one in keeping with her own, and in Chris Bruce’s monologue, we got inside the mind of Edouard Manet as he reflected with great visual sensitivity on his friend and fellow painter Claude Monet. As we approached the end of the evening, Clare Owen held the room spellbound with her short story Supper Time – skillfully laying bare the forces and fulcrums on which relationships operate. The evening ended with readings by Johanna Egar, quietly philosophical poems and an exceptional piece of flash fiction entitled Daddy and the Mermaid.