Archive for January, 2012
Tell Me On A Sunday
1 month ago
We know you have a story in you. Unleash it. Conjure a memory, recent or ancient, good or bad.
Tell it to yourself, re-tell it, hone it, cut it, embellish it. Pitch it to us. Get on stage and tell it.
Ikon, in collaboration with the Birmingham Book Festival presents a new series of free literary events. Hosted in Café Ikon, Tell Me On A Sunday is storytelling from life. Participants tell stories based around a specially selected theme, all with truth (and a good performance!) at their heart.
Each month, five storytellers will be chosen to perform a seven minute story live.
The events feature special guests and are curated by Cat Weatherill, one of Europe’s leading performance storytellers, who will also tell her own story. Originally championed by the Hay Festival, Cat has been creating and telling tales to adults and children for twelve years. She is also a best selling author, with books translated into nine languages.
The dates of these events are:
Sunday 19 February
Theme: Off the beaten track
Sunday 25 March
Theme: Hope and glory
Sunday 22 April
Theme: Feathers and bones
All events running from 4pm – 6.30pm and are FREE
Events begin at 4pm with Story Supper, a chance to meet fellow audience members and story tellers over a special Café Ikon menu (contact Ikon for prices). Performances commence at 5pm, finishing at 6.30pm.
Please note these events are intended for adult audiences. Places are free but should be reserved by calling Ikon on 0121 248 0708.
How to pitch your story:
Please visit the event page to see full details of how to pitch your own story and guidelines.
Join us for the launch of Clare Morrall’s new novel
1 month ago
Tuesday 21st February
The Roundabout Man by Clare Morrall
7pm – 8.30pm/ Free Event
Ikon Gallery
1 Oozells Square
Birmingham, B1 2HS
Sceptre and Writing West Midlands are delighted to invite you to celebrate the publication of the new novel from Clare Morrall, The Roundabout Man.
Who is The Roundabout Man? He doesn’t look like a tramp, yet he lives on a roundabout in a caravan and survives on the leftovers from a nearby motorway service station. He calls himself Quinn, the name of a boy in a world-famous series of children’s books, but he’s nearer retirement than childhood.
What he hopes no one will discover is that he’s the real Quinn, immortalised as a child by his mother in her entrancing tales about a little boy’s adventures with his triplet sisters. It is this inheritance he has successfully run away from- until now. When Quinn’s reclusive existence is invaded, he is forced to face his past, and the uncomfortable truths and secrets it contains about himself, his sisters and, most of all, his mother.
This event includes a reading and book signing.
