Here’s an exciting new festival: YARN celebrates story and storytelling through film, theatre, music and literature. It runs 20 – 24 Feb 2010 at The Book Club and The Queen of Hoxton in East London.

Our friends of the London Short Film Festival are involved in Bedtime Stories on Sunday 21 February at The Book Club, described as ‘a beautiful programme of short films, each with story at their heart’.

And we particularly like the sound of these events:

Paper Cinema presents The Lost World (Sunday 21st Feb @ The Book Club)
The cereal-box maestros return with another piece of magical ‘live animation’. Using a basic camcorder and a pile of cut-out illustrations they whisk the viewer across the world – in this case to Venezuela – for a retelling of Arthur Conan Doyle’s tale of intrepid explorers and blood-thirsty dinosaurs. With Live music by Kieron Maguire.

Four Stories High (Tuesday 23rd Feb @ The Queen of Hoxton)
YARN have taken Homer’s Odyssey and divided it into twelve equal measures, split across the four pillars of modern storytelling – film, theatre, literature and music. Novelists, thespians, auteurs and musicians across the city have been developing their own unique ‘odyssey twelfth’, but what will happen when they try and put it all back together again in story order? Fractional Homers include Harriet Fleuriot, The Android Angel, The Room, Alex Preston and The Strumpettes.

Should be an interesting evening…