Turns out it's only about a 15-minute mosey from the new place. There was only one person going that I knew, and she messaged me about 20 minutes before it started, to say she was already there, with a drink. Which meant it was time for me to get a move on. She also let me know where she was sitting - at the cafe, just to the right of the entrance.
More photos here. I missed her at first, but found her on a second walkthrough, and we set off on a voyage of discovery. Now, this was all about things wild, and wildness in all its forms was on offer tonight. Not fancying the odd items available as examples of foraged food, we headed to the first of the talks - Radical Innocence: The wild child in history, in literature and on film. The speaker dealt primarily with the subject of the Truffaut film, L' Enfant Sauvage - unfortunately, he seemed a little out of his depth, particularly during the Q+A afterwards, which was just full of questions to which he didn't have an answer. Methinks his specialisation was in something slightly off the subject.
Anyway, afterwards we wandered vaguely for a bit, and it was just by chance that we came across the area, through the back of the bookshop, where the unticketed storytelling was happening! Now, the location of that really wasn't advertised at all, which is a real shame, because it was one of the highlights. Nell Phoenix and Tuup were among the performers, including a choir, that rotated stage duties for the whole evening, so that you were never left un-entertained! Only problem was, there wasn't any seating - otherwise, I could happily have spent all my time there.
With a message from the organiser about meeting us upstairs at 8:45, we made for there, and found the place - a confessional, where you could describe your wild moments and have them artistically represented and posted on the wall. There was a table where you could indulge your artistic wild side, and there was a bar, where we decided to brave the queue for a drink, reasoning that we could see her if she arrived. Which she never did. Never mind, we got our drinks, my companion going for a cocktail. And we sat at the art table for a while, until I realised it was nearly time for the second of the talks we had tickets for! So down we went again.
Homo Timidus was a much more entertaining talk, given by a researcher into horror, whose subject was why we like it so much. He was a good speaker, there was much hilarity, and I namechecked many of my favourite films. Pity, when it came to showing the trailer for Paranormal Activity, it turned out he wasn't au fait with YouTube, and couldn't get it working..! But we had great fun with - as his research showed - one of society's favourite topics.
Afterwards, my companion called it a night - she has an early start. But I hung around for a while - watched a short animated film, checked out the otherwordly dancers, prowling the halls!
A terrific night, with plenty to entertain - I'm just sorry it didn't occur to me to head back to where the all-evening storytelling was happening. Never mind, it was good to get home early.
Tomorrow, I'm finally going to the much-advertised British Museum Tour - Ideas That Made our World. A Funzing event, as advertised by two of their Meetup groups - London Speaks Sessions and LDN Talks @ Night. So I booked with both.. and I can walk there again.
I'm quite excited about Sunday. I was considering going to a film.. which meant redoing the film list.. and just got it finished today. Imagine my glee to see a horror film on top! I do believe that's the very first time that horror has come top of an unrestricted list of London showings. Twenty Twenty-Four is only showing on Sunday - and in the Vaults, yet! What a great location. Unfortunately, having decided to go see it - which took about one second after the list was done - it then took me 20 minutes to book it! I swear, I could not find a link - which was worrying, as the above site said tickets had to be booked in advance. But their booking link doesn't work, their advertised phone number links to the wrong company, the other phone number I found for them isn't monitored, they say to book via Time Out, but Time Out provides no links at all for them.. I was despairing by the time I found the link for the Vault Festival, which is the one you need. Honestly, do they really not need to advertise better? Anyway, there's a shorts programme too, and since there was a discount if you booked both, I did.
On Monday, I'm back for one of the Crick Crack Club's more usual sessions - Love in the Shadows is in Soho Theatre, and, as usual for these events, already sold out.
On Tuesday, the Man is wearing his Hat again - Let's Do London - for less! is off to see Phantom of the Opera. Only 11 tickets, snapped up at once, of course - and hard to believe he's never seen it! Wonder whether anyone else who's going from the group has, apart from me..!
On Wednesday, I'm actually flying back to Ireland, because I'm going with my mother on Thursday to a Colm Wilkinson concert at UCH Limerick. Staying for the weekend, as it would be my weekend in Ireland anyway.
And on the following Monday, I got a cheap ticket to a comedy show - Alasdair King is performing at the Pleasance Theatre.
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