We've spent the last happy hour wallowing around the excellent programme for YARNfest 2011 coming up in mid-February and it looks like it's going to top last year's brilliant debut festival. So much good stuff. If we ever diarised anything, we would undoubtedly diarise this...
YARN celebrates storytelling - through film, theatre, music, illustration and literature. That means you get a company of actors improvising randomly-selected films, you get live illustration to spoken word, you get a crash course in making your own zine. YARN somehow manages to feel totally grounded and unpretentious and just filled up with really interesting, unusual, creative and fun events.
Here's the top three events that have really piqued our interest (but all the rest looks ace too, honest!)
Lights! Camera! Improvise! The Improvised Movie Live On Stage
Sunday 20th Feb 5pm-6pm // The Book Club // £3
The audience suggest a genre, location, theme and title. The company improvise the whole movie; complete with action sequences, captivating plot and a thrilling live film score. There's even DVD extras. www.thescatpack.co.uk
Illustrationarium – LIVE!
Sunday 20th Feb 6.30pm-8.30pm // The Book Club // £3
Hear the words and see the story illustrated live. Authors, storytellers and illustrators, include Chris Cleave, Helen Smith, Rachel Rose Reid, Neil McFarland, Carlos Garde-Martin, and, Luke Waller.
And this one, oh my, this is a sure sell out right?
Cover Wars – The Buddha of Suburbia
Monday 21st Feb 7.30pm-10pm // The Queen of Hoxton // £5
Four illustrators representing illustration networks across London will pit their pens, pencils, brushes and glue against each other in a battle to create the best book cover for Hanif Kureishi’s ‘Buddha of Suburbia’ live on the night. Hanif Kureishi will read excerpts on the night as well join Jon Gray of Gray318 on the judging panel.
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