Members get 10% off tickets at Storyhouse. Moonlight Flicks and Grosvenor Park Open Air Theatre. £4 month, no commitment, priority booking, no fees, instant access, two tickets per member.
Gigantic poems will fill the floors, the walls and some hidden spaces for you to discover! A PoeTree offers visitors the chance to hang up a poem postcard, which will be posted by Hollie.
Poems will be echoing through the toilet cubicles, and free paper poetry roses (made by Hollie) will be available to give to your loved ones. An emergency poet in a real-life ambulance will be outside, and there will also be an hour long reading from Nobody Told Me, her Ted Hughes prized book, filmed especially for Storyhouse from McNish’s armchair, projected on to the big screen.
Here’s a message from Hollie:
My name’s Hollie McNish and I’m this year’s Artist in Residence for Chester Literature Festival. I’m 34 years old, and have one lovely daughter. I live near Cambridge, my family are from Glasgow, and I really love this place (Storyhouse!), which is nicely in the middle of my home and my family! I also really like writing poetry and have done it since I was really little. I don’t know why. I just find it a good way to get ideas out and thoughts off my chest. I also like playing football and dancing and eating pizza.
Storyhouse asked me to fill their lovely building with my poems, so that’s what I’ve tried to do. I know not everyone like poetry, but I hope you like some of what you see, hear, read and watch this weekend! Have a lovely time whatever you’re here for and pick up one of my wee guides to a few of the bits I’ve dotted about the place!
Enjoy!
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1 hr 32 | Following ‘Blue’, ‘White’ is the second instalment of Kieslowski’s Three Colours Trilogy of the French revolutionary ideals of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity.
1 hr 39 | Kieslowski completes his Three Colours Trilogy with a tale of parallel lives and interwoven destinies, and draws connecting threads with the two previous films.
1 hr 38 | Julie loses her composer husband and their child in a car crash and, though devastated, she tries to make a new start, away from her country house and a would-be lover
1 hr 58 | AD | In a luxury resort, a writer and his wealthy wife are persuaded by a mysterious young woman to explore the Island beyond the secure boundaries of the hotel
1 hr 43 | AD | Set in the end days of the Spanish Flu, Pearl is trapped on an isolated farm, tending to her ailing father whilst lusting for the glamorous life she’s seen in movies
Get yourselves down to The Kitchen for a fun-filled, sequin-stuffed, point-packed watch-along party as we cheer and celebrate the Grand Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2023.
Want to make a difference to a child’s life? Join us in the meeting room to find out more about fostering for your local council.
This informal and friendly group meets twice a month to listen to an extract, short story or poem which is read aloud.
Do you like playing games, like Jenga, Connect 4, Uno or other Boardgames? Come and join in our evening session!
1 hr 53 | Lea Seydoux shines in this drama as a young single mother trying to raise her daughter whilst also caring for her beloved father who is struggling with a neurodegenerative disease