Flax003 writer David Gaffney, is taking his unique new show “Destroy Powerpoint” to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival from August 19th to August 31st.
Beyond Powerpoint
See Claire declare her love through the medium of PowerPoint. Watch a homeworker deliver a PowerPoint presentation to himself alone. And imagine a PowerPoint presentation aimed at preventing thought. About PowerPoint, made in PowerPoint, presented in PowerPoint.
David Gaffney’s new show demonstrates how PowerPoint dominates, destroys, and pollutes workplace communication through his unique, funny and profound tales of a complex corporate world where the spirit thrives despite everything.
If you’re heading to Edinburgh, file this under Not To Be Missed!
Last Thursday night around 40 people joined the litfest team and writer David Gaffney as he lead us through the soon-to-be-reopened Storey building, reading his specially commissioned, and Storey-inspired short fictions along the way. 
I’m pleased to say we’ve already had some lovely feedback on the event (see some of the comments on this blog and on our twitter page). If you’d like to leave your own comments you can do so at the bottom of this post.
A download of the commissioned stories, entitled “Buildings crying out” is available now from the event page.
We had the first public event in the new Storey Creative Industries Centre (to give it its full title) last night – David Gaffney reading commissioned stories that reflect the history of the building. It was a mini tour too. And despite having had a tour a few months back, this time triggered a real sense of possibility.
The Tourist Info have already moved in. The floors are down. Signs and emergency lights up. Glass doors open onto angled corridors. Metal stairs lead up to floors that are not yet ‘refurbished’ but still offered for let as cheap studios (I think). It’s scrubbed up well. I don’t know how much of the building is already let, but even with it still half unwrapped it has the feel of a ‘centre’, a place of connections and activity. For the first time I’m feeling excited at our moving in there and what we might achieve in connecting literature with readers, writers with other writers, readers with ideas and feeding a collective imagination.
And given the reduction in our physical and economic resources right now (and probably for some time yet) and the fact that our imaginations are free and limitless, we could do a lot worse than investing in them.
Please find ZigZag! A unique storytelling project has been launched in Lancaster involving a series of mysterious lost cat posters appearing around the city centre.
Posters are being placed in shop windows and around The Storey asking “Have You Seen this Cat?”. They form the first section of a three part story related to the Storey Institute, which tell a story of unrequited love between a pair of Lancaster people who have been separated and united by the Storey Institute at various points in their lives.
There are two different styles of poster, with some of the posters having been produced by a calligrapher, reflecting the two different characters who tell the story. At the bottom of each poster there is a freephone number to ring to hear the characters in the story speak.
You can keep up to date online by visiting both characters’ blogs – Fern and Charlie.
There will be a performance of six additional short stories by the writer David Gaffney at The Storey on Thursday 19th March where David will lead a small group of people round the newly refurbished building telling specially written tales relating to the building along the way.
Litfest
