Event
Solstice Shorts Festival: Time And Tide
21 Dec 2019
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 16:00
Cost of entry
Pay-as-you-feel: there is a suggested donation of £3, but you can support someone needing a free ticket by offering more!
Address
- 10 Stockwell Street
- Greenwich
- London
England - SE10 9BD
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 129: North Greenwich – Greenwich 177: Thamesmead – Peckham 180: Belvedere – Lewisham 188: North Greenwich – Russell Square 199: Canada Water – Catford 286: Sidcup – Greenwich 386: Blackheath – Woolwich Arsenal
- Cutty Sark DLR station (two minutes)
- The closest train station to Stockwell Street is Greenwich Station (a four-minute walk). There is also a regular boat service offered by Thames Clippers which stops next to the Old Royal Naval College (the older university campus), near to the Heritage Gallery. It runs from Westminster and stops at other locations along the route, taking around 35 minutes in total.
Hosted at the Stephen Lawrence Gallery from Nautical Twilight to High Tide on the 21st December, Time and Tide is the Greenwich segment of Solstice Shorts: a festival of live stories, poems and songs about living and making new lives over and beside the water.
About
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. 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 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
Stories: Cindy George, Diana Powell, Kilmeny MacMichael, Linda McMullen, Sheila Lockhart,
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
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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:
— Full Event
— Afternoon: Nautical Twilight (including Open Mic) 4:30pm - 6:30pm
— Evening: High Tide (including Sea Shanties) 7pm - 9:30pm
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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.
