Chorlton Arts Festival and Flash Tag call for submissions

Article published: Tuesday, March 27th 2012

The organisers of Chorlton Arts Festival are preparing for its twelfth year in 2012. Ian Pennington looks forward to a few of the early announcements.

Chorlton Arts Festival returns in 2012.

The festival returns in 2012 between the dates of 17 and 27 May and tickets are available for the larger events via the Chorlton Arts Festival website. Standouts so far include The Handsome Family, Chew Lips and a solo show by Cinematic Orchestra’s Stuart McCallum, while Swimming will perform the first ‘binaural’ headphone event to appear in Chorlton, at Wilbraham St. Ninian’s United Reformed Church. For that, a live performance by Nottingham band Swimming will be broadcast to a separate room from which binaural artist Dallas Simpson will remix the sounds before they reach the headphones of audience members.

On the literary side of the festival a group of Manchester based writers, editors and bloggers named FlashTag will judge a short story competition, which will culminate in a literary event as part of the festival on 23 May. The deadline for submissions is 27 April and guidelines for entry can be found on the FlashTag website.

The FlashTag group are also involved with the organisation of National Flash Fiction Day, which will take place on 16 May and will accept entries until 10 April.

Ian Pennington

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