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Dec. 28th, 2005
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Phantoms at the Phil
Dec. 28th, 2005 09:47 pmOn Monday and Wednesday of last week, we went to Phantoms at the Phil events at the Lit & Phil - Newcastle's Literary and Philosophical Society. Until Chaz launched this project, I had not regarded ghost stories as a particularly seasonal event, but for two years running we have gone along to the Lit & Phil, drunk mulled wine, eaten mince pies and listened to stories, and I'm beginning to be persuaded.
Phantoms at the Phil is Chaz'z baby: he says the idea sprang from a conversation with Sean O' Brien, who was keen to write and to read some ghost stories for Christmas, and that the original plan may have been no more ambitious than to entertain a few friends at home. But in the course of an afternoon at the pub, they grew more ambitious, and now it involves Arts Council funding, small press publication and the altogether appropriate setting of the Lit & Phil, a private library in the heart of Newcastle (tucked in beside the Central Station, on the line of the Roman Wall). There is a long table along the far wall of the upstairs library, which is perfect as a focal point for an audience, and above it there runs a high gallery where musicians can lurk unseen, so that music descends mysteriously into the proceedings.
( The stories )
Phantoms at the Phil is Chaz'z baby: he says the idea sprang from a conversation with Sean O' Brien, who was keen to write and to read some ghost stories for Christmas, and that the original plan may have been no more ambitious than to entertain a few friends at home. But in the course of an afternoon at the pub, they grew more ambitious, and now it involves Arts Council funding, small press publication and the altogether appropriate setting of the Lit & Phil, a private library in the heart of Newcastle (tucked in beside the Central Station, on the line of the Roman Wall). There is a long table along the far wall of the upstairs library, which is perfect as a focal point for an audience, and above it there runs a high gallery where musicians can lurk unseen, so that music descends mysteriously into the proceedings.
( The stories )