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Excellent news for fans of things that are good: ‘No Reading Alone’ is returning!

June 10th – exactly a month from now – is the date.

As the poster says it’s £4 a ticket from wegottickets.com for which you get a veritable orgy of quality comedy, spoken word, music and more in a quirky canal-side Oxford pub.

Myself and Chef Gaetan had a whale of a time when we attended the last event even if we did get lost on the way to the venue and end up bogged down in pitch-black fields surrounded by weirs and paranoia. Fortunately, the quantities of ale and entertainment on our arrival were enough to make our journey appear nothing more than a distant Tolkien-esque dream.

The event is held at the Isis Farmhouse pub, along a picturesque canal towpath in Oxford. Don’t bother asking Google Maps – it will lie to you. Just set out with confidence and supplies.

We’re utterly delighted that event organiser Ewan and his sizeable crowd have a fondness for our media baking, having previously screened Chair and Small Picture.Big Frame to a very warm reception. And the eagle-eyed among you will no doubt have spotted that The Bakery have a slot in the June event…

While we don’t want to jinx ourselves by saying that the film will be ready in a mere month’s time, we also can’t ignore the fact that production on our ambitious new film The Last Bookshop is racing ahead and, well . . . it just might be ready in a mere month’s time.

We have some hard weeks of production work ahead of us, so we plan to give you more concrete information very soon. But in the mean time, rest assured that The Bakery will be putting its ‘No Reading Alone’ slot to good use next month. There will definitely be footage shown, perhaps a trailer, some teasers and a brief intro from me . . . or, if the Gods smile upon us (please Gods) there might just be a finished film.

Either way, be excited. No Reading Alone 3 is coming.

It’s that time again for No Reading Alone: the event that sees comedy, books, poetry, music, films and wet, tasty beverages combined in one great swirling mass of excellence and then packed into all the minutes that happen between 7:30pm and closing time at Isis Farmhouse, Oxford.

Among the many great acts lined up, which include Medlar Lucan, author of The Decadent Cookbook and music from the likes of Juju of Little Fish, The Bakery will be once again taking the chance to show-off one of its baked wonders, this time with Chef Alaric’s beautiful short ‘The Chair‘.

So if you are in the Oxford area and you aren’t up to much, why not go along? In fact, even if you’re not in the Oxford area, and not free because you’re actually sky diving in the Hebrides or attending a funeral in Antwerp, come along anyway. Otherwise I’ll hate you.

Or more importantly, you’ll hate yourself.

Check out the No Reading Alone website Oxwords for more information.

For the last couple of months, the Bakery kitchen has been a flurry of activity as we prepared for a new project. We’ve wiped down all the work surfaces, mopped the floor, and done the big shop. Now it’s time to roll up our sleeves and crack out the rolling pin. But what, I hear you cry, are we cooking?

Well, we can’t keep the cat in the bag anymore (yes, there’s a cat in a bag in this kitchen, who are you – environmental health?) we’re embarking on a new film called The Last Bookshop.

For this project we also thought we’d try something a little different. Namely, we’ve set up a little side-blog, entirely dedicated to the production of the film. Fanfare please for…

www.thelastbookshop.co.uk

This film will be a special one, roping in tons of people, and bags of lovely second-hand bookshops. It will premiere at one of Oxford’s wonderful forthcoming No Reading Alone events.

We hope – in these days of library closures, barren high streets and panicking publishers – to distill the magic of books into a little dream of a film.

Any event which chooses to advertise itself with an image of a doddery old man is surely off to a good start. So we’re very happy to see the poster below advertising tonight’s ‘No Reading Alone’ event at the Isis Farmhouse pub in Oxford.

There promises to be comedians, authors, poets, music . . . it’s a delightfully eclectic miscellany of worthy creative pursuits, and exactly the kind of thing of which the Bakery whole-heartedly approves.

So we’re somewhat delighted to confirm that a small slice of the evening will be Bakery-flavoured, in that Chef Adam’s charming wee animation ‘Small Picture. Big Frame.’ will be given an airing. If you’re reading this blog in the future, and you even attended the event yourself, perhaps you might wish to see it again. In which case, please be our guest . . .

Small Picture. Big Frame. from The Bakery on Vimeo.

Our big thanks to ‘No Reading Alone’ for including The Bakery on the bill. If they’re happy to have us back, then it would be an honour to stoke up our oven and collaborate on a future event.

P.S. If you’re in Oxford: go!

At long last Sty TV have unveiled our second challenge video, sponsored by Wicked Pig pork snacks. Richard and Dan have a week to become fully-fledged celebrities…

P.S. Apologies for the title card grafted onto the beginning which is almost as long as the feature itself. Sometimes our baking gets re-iced after it leaves our kitchen…

Here at last, is the first of our Challenge Films for Sty TV!

And a trailer…