Atticus - Blog

Opening soon...?

3/5/2021

Soon coming to the end of the third lockdown. We hope! Atticus has managed to survive on a few Amazon and Ebay sales and the fact that we do not have the high overheads of other small shops.
We have started on the music festival for 2021 and, among other things, we're working on another film. This time based on the silent Expressionist movie From Morn til Midnight, and we hope to convert the shop into an Expressionist space, like the one below, to show the film in the autumn.
Most activity goes on at the Facebook page now but Alex George's reviews have been a great addition to the website, and FB.
So little to add but hope to see you all back in Atticus very soon.

Still from From Morn til Midnight

Second Lockdown

11/11/2020

Now in the second week of the second corona virus lockdown. We have survived the year comparatively well as we have much lower overheads than many other shops.
We have also managed to have our our own mini festival in place of this year's cancelled Lancaster Music Festival. Atticus Future Fest 2020 was a surprising success in many ways. Our one live event, A Wonder in the Woods, went amazingly well, we were lucky with both our timing and the weather. It was horrible complex to organise with so much attention being paid to virus safety strategies. The Middlewood Trust allowed us to use the ground in front of their study centre giving us plenty of space to distance the audience. It was a very enjoyable afternoon, though just a little stressful for the organisers.
The most interesting Future Fest events were those in VR where we be experimented with formats and reached new audiences from around the world. There were lots of problems and mistakes but what did work was so good that we are eager to try out new ideas and build on what we have learned.

Corona Virus Lockdown.

5/12/2020

Atticus closed its door in March to comply with lockdown law but has continued to sell online and from the shop window.
We hope to reopen as soon as the crisis is over and send our thanks and best wishes to all our customers and wish you a safe transit through these troubled times.

So much catching up to do.

5/12/2020

The shop Facebook page has so taken over from the website that it is only now that I realise that this blog page has fallen far behind.
Music Festival continues to be the big event of the year for Atticus, especially now that the One Minute Monologue Competition has been handed over to The Lancaster One Minute Monologue Group.
The shop continues to survive thanks to the generous support of our customers and we are able to donate Tasikoki Animal Rescue Centre and other causes whenever we can. Although we sometimes have events in the shop outside Music Festival we are now concentrating on the second week in October as we can then guarantee good audiences and one off events during the rest of the year take a lot of time and energy and we cannot guarantee a good turn out.

Music Festival

8/12/2017

Our listings have been sent in to the Music Festival for inclusion in the programme and this year promises to be our biggest and best Music Festival so far. Several old favourites are returning with new and original material and we have lots of new names too.
we will be posting details over the next two months.

Minologue competition.

8/12/2017

The one minute monologue competition closed at the end of July and we were delighted with the number and the quality of the entries. The minologues have all been sent to the judges to chose the best written monologue and we are in the process of picking a date in the autumn for the readings, where the audience picks the winner of the best in performance category.

What it is really like to work in a bookshop!

3/10/2017

Music Festival 2016

11/30/2016

It has taken a long time to get around to adding details of the 2016 Music Festival to the website. But it has also taken a long time to recover!
Have a look at some of the pictures on the Music Festival page.
Music Festival 2016

And the winner of the One Minute Monologue competition is...

9/26/2016

... Norbert Hirschhorn with June 8, 2038.

The readaround to choose the winning monologue went brilliantly. We were delighted by the quality and variety of the monologues, as well as the quality of the reading and performance.
June 8, 2038. was a very moving meditation on a future death, but with a wry humour and humanity that made one smile despite the sadness of the subject matter. It was also beautifully read by the writer, and while other monologues flashed and sparkled with touches of brilliance I think this was one that quietly touched the hearts of everyone in the audience and made it our winner.
It was fascinating to see the written monologues we knew so well on the page come to life before an audience and to see how these were interpreted by our Readers.
This is not the place to say thanks to all the individuals who put in so much work to make this competition a success - we'll do that elsewhere - so I'll just say a general thanks.
Thank you writers, readers and judges and everyone else who supported our first One Minute Monologue competition!
You made it all well worthwhile.

Jacob

5/18/2016

We are always please to promote the work of local writers, and are especially pleased to say that this week our window is given over to a display of poet Carole Coates new new book Jacob.

Price £10.00