All sorts of free events and shows await visitors at the weekend, on Settle Stories Festival. The festival highlights ‘technology’ as a theme this time, which will start tomorrow (Friday) and end on Sunday. Various kinds of technology, including a giant 50-foot whale, will be used to tell stories.
Charles Tyrer, the communications and events manager, said the festival will boost the market place and the high quality of artists this year stand out. They expect more people than before and there’s something for the whole family, he added. Highlights he pointed out, include a 50-foot whale with a live mermaid and pirate inside, that young ones can meet, a renovated caravan Karvan to travel the world from inside, craft gazebos and lantern-making. The festival starts at 5pm with the launch of an ‘adopted’ telephone box- the Listening Gallery, on Duke St., he added.
‘A Machine They Are Secretly Building’, a political show of Proto-type Theatre, is the first theatre performance to be staged at Settle Victoria Hall, on Friday at 7.50pm,. On Saturday, ‘The Queen And The Jester’ will be played by Keith Donnelly and Ursula Holden Gill. The ‘Wi-Fi Wars’ will be also held here, on Saturday at 7.30pm. Following it, is Keith as the storyteller to narrate ‘Tales and a Tipple’, in the Royal Oak pub, at 8.30pm. ‘Even in Wartime Children Play’, a unique play, ‘Fridas’ and ‘On The Wings Of Butterflies’, by Ana Maria Lines, the Brazilian storyteller, will also be featured.
Sunday highlights include ‘And the Birds Fell from the Sky’ through video goggles, the retelling of ‘A Midsummer Nights Dream’ by Ursula Holden Gill, ‘Last Resort’ by 2 Magpies Theatre and storyteller and hip hop artist Alim Kamara. Settle Market Place will host all kinds of free events. The festival’s last performance will be ‘The Unforgettable Tongue’, on Sunday, at 5pm.
