Beverley Literature Festival 10 – 13 October 2013 Booking Line: (01482) 392699 www.bevlit.org Jane Gardam, Adele Parks, Matthew Parris, Edward Stourton, Salley Vickers, Val Wood and much, much more‌ beverleyliteraturefestival
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Wednesday 9 October 6.30pm - 8.30pm
CK Stead and Michael Hulse
Thursday 10 October 10 - 6pm 1 - 2pm 3 - 4pm 6.30 - 7.30pm 8.30 - 10pm Page 1
BLF Film Salon Daisy Hildyard Jane Ridley Jon Canter Film: Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy (2005)
Friday 11 October 10am - 5pm 10am - 1pm 12noon - 2pm 1 - 2pm 3 - 4pm 5 - 6pm 7 - 8pm
BLF Film Salon Workshop: Stephen May Literary Lunch: Susanna Jones Matthew D’Ancona Justin Cartwright Adele Parks Edward Stourton
Sat 12 Oct 10am - 5pm 10 - 10.20am 10am - 4pm 11am - 12noon 12.30 - 1.30pm 1 - 2pm 2 - 2.20pm 2.30 - 3.30pm 3 - 4pm 3.30 - 5pm 4 - 4.20pm 4 - 5pm 4.30 - 5.30pm 5 - 6pm 6 - 7pm 6.30 - 7.30pm 7.30 - 9pm 9.30 - 10.45pm
BLF Film Salon Performance: Stephen Joseph Theatre Outreach Workshop: Andrew McMillan Jules Howard: Fantastic Fossils! Etherington Brothers Romantic Novelists Association with Val Wood Performance: Stephen Joseph Theatre Outreach Susie Boyt Showcase with Andrew McMillan and students Workshop: Daniel Webb Performance: Stephen Joseph Theatre Outreach Andrew Martin/Kate Griffin Jules Howard: Sex on Earth Puppets, Plays and Story Days: Bedtime Stories Jane Gardam Guy Grieve Salley Vickers Late night performance: Xanthe Gresham
Sun 13 Oct 10am - 4pm 10am - 12 noon 10.30am - 1pm 11am - 12noon 12noon - 1pm 12.30 - 1.30pm 1 - 2pm 2 - 3pm 2 - 4pm 2 - 3.30pm 3.30 - 4.30pm
BLF Film Salon Workshop: Daljit Nagra Drop-in workshop: Art Heroes Storytelling: Xanthe Gresham Val Wood Prize Presentation Spill the Beans Jonathan Coe Alysoun Owen: How to get published Art Heroes: Quick Comics Performance: Daljit Nagra / Xanthe Gresham Matthew Parris and Andrew Bryson Page 2
Welcome You can always expect the very best in contemporary writing from Beverley Literature Festival and this year is no exception. This year’s programme has over 40 events taking place over four days and includes some exciting new additions. Our Ridings Writers gives you the chance to hear authors who were born or live in Yorkshire and to find out how God’s own country has influenced their writing. The BLF Film Salon brings short films by artists and filmmakers to the Festival and Beverley Film Society joins us to host our Thursday evening film. Our wonderful Festival venues now include Beverley Minster and Tickton Grange Hotel, which will be hosting a Literary Lunch with Ridings Writer, Susanna Jones as well as our first Creative Writing School, led by two renowned writers and tutors, Toby Litt and Helen Cross. Beverley Minster will provide the stunning location for Saturday evening’s main event with acclaimed author, Salley Vickers. Fiction, politics, history, comedy, storytelling, comics, zoology, ethical shellfishing…diverse and inspiring, illuminating and challenging, funny and exuberant. Welcome to Beverley Literature Festival 2013! Dorcas Taylor Festival Director
BLF Film Salon Treasure House Meeting Room Thursday 10am-6pm / Friday 10am – 5pm / Saturday 10am – 5pm / Sunday 10am – 4pm FREE Welcome to the first BLF Film Salon - a series of short films running over the Festival weekend by contemporary filmmakers and artists who work with film. This diverse programme features films that use the East Riding and Humber regions or the written/spoken word as central themes.
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Thursday 10th - Sunday 13th October New for 2013, in partnership with Writers’ & Artists’ Yearbook, we are delighted to announce our intensive creative writing programme, led by renowned writers Helen Cross and Toby Litt. Enjoy an unparalleled long weekend of writing and live literature on this special residential course which takes places at Tickton Grange Hotel – a beautifully restored grade II listed Georgian country house hotel effortlessly close to Beverley in East Yorkshire.
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Beverley Literature Festival Creative Writing School
Helen Cross
Participants will enjoy three morning classes together at Tickton Grange, with time in the afternoons to write in this idyllic country retreat or attend Festival events using their Festival pass on planned excursions over the weekend. Enjoy one-to-one sessions on Friday and Saturday with the tutors and benefit from exclusive sessions with the Editor of Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook, Alysoun Owen, with bespoke tips on getting published. £449 (Early Bird discount if booked by Friday 20 September) £479 (Full Price)
Toby Litt
Includes B&B accommodation, light lunch, exclusive minibus transport into Beverley and a free Weekend Pass to Beverley Literature Festival. A small number of bursaries are available. For more information on how to apply, please email lama.admin@eastriding.gov.uk or call (01482) 392699. The Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook and the Children’s Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook have been inspiring writers with their expert advice on the book publishing world and the media industries for over 100 years. Considered the indispensable guides to all aspects of how to get published, they are updated every year and have expanded to offer guidance online via www.writersandartists.co.uk and through writer events across the country.
‘indispensable’ William Boyd ‘essential reading’ Kate Mosse ‘full of useful stuff ’ J.K. Rowling ‘practical, no-nonsense, supportive’ Julie Myerson
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Performances Wednesday 9 October
C.K. Stead
C.K.Stead and Michael Hulse The Very Best of World Poetry Art Gallery, Middleton Hall, University of Hull 6.30-8.30pm FREE
Michael Hulse
The Festival launches with two of the most acclaimed poets writing today - New Zealand’s world-leading writer, C.K. Stead and Michael Hulse, winner of the UK National Poetry Competition and twice winner of the Bridport Poetry prize. Stead received his country’s highest honour, the Order of New Zealand, in 2007 for a life-time of writing. His latest poetry collection, Yellow Buoy, journeys across the world and through history, whilst Hulse’s Half-Life takes us to Mexico, Greece, New York and closer to home. In partnership with the University of Hull and The Philip Larkin Centre. For information call (01482) 465620.
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Thursday 10 October
Daisy Hildyard
Jane Ridley
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Ridings Writers / Daisy Hildyard Hunters in the Snow Treasure House Education Room 1-2pm £6
The first of our Ridings Writers is a fresh, young voice on the literary scene. Daisy Hildyard is ‘a gifted, original young writer’ (Helen Dunmore). From York, Daisy’s first novel is a beguiling journey through history that begins in Yorkshire, exploring truth and falsehood, the ordinary and the very, very strange. Delve into Daisy’s imagination to explore the influence of her upbringing in Yorkshire on this “impressive debut” (The Guardian).
Jane Ridley Bertie: A Life of Edward VII Toll Gavel United Church 3 -4pm £6
Sunday Times bestselling author, Jane Ridley’s Bertie has been described as ‘a landmark royal biography’ (The Telegraph). Edward VII, known as Bertie, gave his name to the Edwardian Age and was king for the last nine years of his life. The eldest son of Victoria and Albert, Bertie was bullied by both his parents. Victoria blamed his scandalous womanising for Albert’s early demise. This richly entertaining biography paints a vivid portrait of the age in all its excess and eccentricity. Hosted by James Nash.
Thursday 10 October
Jon Canter
Beverley Film
Jon Canter A Short Canter through Liff Toll Gavel United Church 6.30-7.30pm £6
Liff (lif ) n. A common object or experience for which no word yet exists.
Beverley Film Society presents… Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (2005) Toll Gavel United Church 8.30 - 10pm £4
Celebrating the origins of liff with this homage to Douglas Adams. Join us for a screening of the only film version of Adams’ classic novel. Earthman Arthur Dent (Martin Freeman) is having a very bad day. His house is about to be bulldozed, he discovers that his best friend is an alien and to top things off, Planet Earth is about to be demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass. Arthur’s only chance of survival is to hitch a ride on a passing spacecraft. For the novice space traveller, he discovers that everything he needs to know can be found in one book: ‘The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy’.
Jon Canter is a novelist and scriptwriter who has written for some of British comedy’s Finest, including Lenny Henry, Rowan Atkinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie and Dawn French. His new book, Afterliff, co-written with John Lloyd, is an all-new volume of the dictionary of hilarious definitions of ‘things there should be words for but aren’t’. Join Jon as he canters through his life, with many liff enhancements along the way. Afterliff follows on from the bestselling successes of Douglas Adams’ and John Lloyds’ The Meaning of Liff and The Deeper Meaning of Liff. Hosted by John Munro.
Since 2006, The Beverley Film Society has been showing the best of world cinema. For more information, visit www.beverleyfilmsociety.org.uk
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Friday 11 October
Susanna Jones
Ridings Writers / Literary Lunch with Susanna Jones Tickton Grange Hotel Tickton 12noon £35
Join us for an exclusive literary lunch at the award-winning Tickton Grange Restaurant. Born in Hornsea and brought up in the East Riding. Susanna Jones is an award-winning author who has published four novels. Her first haunting novel, The Earthquake Bird, set in Japan, was described as an ‘astonishingly accomplished debut’ (Sunday Telegraph), whilst her latest book, When Nights Were Cold - a gripping, intense story of women explorers in the early 1900s was selected for Fiction Uncovered Best British Novels of 2012. Susanna will be joined by the Director of Beverley Literature Festival, Dorcas Taylor.
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Tickets for this event include a three-course lunch with tea/coffee to follow. Please be seated by 11.45am. The event will last approximately 2 ½ hours.
Matthew D’Ancona
Matthew D’Ancona In It Together: The Inside Story of the Coalition Government Toll Gavel United Church 1-2pm £6
Mix business and pleasure in the company of renowned political journalist, Matthew d’Ancona, whose new book, In It Together cuts right to the heart of the Lib Dem/Tory struggle. With exclusive, unprecedented access to all the major senior figures, from David Cameron, George Osborne, Boris Johnson and Nick Clegg, he will tell you the truth behind key relationships, the U-turns, the shifts in policies, the dramatic fights and arguments and the warring within the party, revealing the truth behind the corridors of Whitehall and Number 10. Matthew d’Ancona is an award-winning political columnist for The Sunday Telegraph, and the Evening Standard. He was Deputy Editor of The Sunday Telegraph before becoming, in 2006, editor of The Spectator for several years.
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Friday 11 October
Justin Cartwright
Justin Cartwright in conversation with Stephen May Toll Gavel United Church 3-4pm £6
‘One of the finest novelists currently at work’ (Guardian), Justin Cartwright has received many accolades for his books, but, more importantly for his readers, he has an ‘uncanny habit of catching the zeitgeist’ (Independent) which makes his books richly relevant to those who read him. Stephen May talks to Cartwright about his latest book, Lion Heart, his most inventive and powerful work to date. A quest to the Holy Land in search of Christianity’s most sacred relic, Lion Heart is a thrilling, romantic and original work. Hosted by Costa-shortlisted novelist, Stephen May.
Adele Parks Toll Gavel United Church 5-6pm £6
We are delighted to welcome Adele Parks, one of the UK’s most-loved and biggestselling women’s fiction writers, has sold over 2 million books in the UK alone. All her books have been Sunday Times bestsellers. Examining those undeniable, lasting issues that interest us all, she scrutinizes our theories of love, motherhood and infidelity with honesty and humour. Here she talks to James Nash about her latest book, The State We’re In – a compelling read that is ‘sweet, sharp and simply unforgettable’ (Lisa Jewell).
Edward Stourton Cruel Crossing: Escaping Hitler Across the Pyrenees Toll Gavel United Church 7-8pm £6
Edward Stourton is one of Radio 4’s leading presenters of news and documentaries. A founder member of Channel 4 News. He joined the BBC in 1999 and presented the Today programme for 10 years. He has also presented on The World at One and The World This Weekend and is the voice of Sunday, Radio 4’s main religious news and current affairs programme.
Adele Parks
Edward Stourton
Edward will be talking about his latest book, Cruel Crossing, which tells the moving stories of those who braved the treacherous crossing of the Pyrenees to escape occupied Europe and of those who risked everything to help them. Page 8
Saturday 12 October
Rhoda Baxter
Romantic Novelists Association Presents… Written from the Heart: The World of Romantic Fiction, hosted by Val Wood Toll Gavel United Church 1-2pm £6
Jane Lovering
Sarah Mallory
Susie Boyt
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A unique opportunity to hear some leading voices from the world of romantic fiction from across Yorkshire, in conversation with best-selling writer, Val Wood. Since winning the Catherine Cookson award for her first novel and one of our Ridings Writers. The Hungry Tide, Val has become one of the UK’s top authors of romantic and historical fiction. Val has released 18 novels and her latest, The Innkeeper’s Daughter, became a Times best-seller earlier this year. Val will be talking to romantic comedy writer, Rhoda Baxter, Jane Lovering, whose book, Please Don’t Stop the Music won Romantic Novel of the Year in 2012, and award-winning writer, Sarah Mallory, who writes historical adventures for Harlequin Mills & Boon and has had over 20 historical novels published as both Sarah Mallory and Melinda Hammond.
Val Wood
The Virago 40th Anniversary Event with Susie Boyt Toll Gavel United Church Hall 2.30-3.30pm £6
For forty years, Virago has been the outstanding international publisher of books by women, publishing breath-taking new fiction and championing women’s talent. One such talent is Susie Boyt. Susie is the author of four acclaimed novels and writes a weekly column about art and life for the Financial Times. The daughter of Lucian Freud and great-granddaughter of Sigmund Freud, her memoir, My Judy Garland Life, was serialised on Radio 4. Susie will be talking about her life and introducing us to her latest novel The Small Hours, “an exquisitely written black comedy about innocence, evil and financial ruin” (New Statesman).
Saturday 12 October
Andrew Martin
Andrew Martin and Kate Griffin Murder will out! Toll Gavel United Church 4-5pm £6
Explore the sometimes murky and murderous worlds of Edwardian and Victorian England, with two of our most inventive and entertaining crime writers. Hosted by James Nash.
Jules Howard Sex on Earth Toll Gavel United Church Hall 4.30 - 5.30pm £6
Why are pandas so bad at sex? How much is a gallon of racehorse sperm worth? Why do some frogs mate with goldfish? Do chimps have periods? What really is love? In an entertaining romp through the animal kingdom, naturalist and broadcaster, Jules Howard celebrates the weird and wonderful, and discovers that even the most mundane creatures on Earth have sex lives worthy of turning our heads…or our stomachs.
Kate Griffin
Jules Howard
Brought up in Yorkshire. Andrew Martin is a journalist and novelist and one of our Ridings Writers. His popular series of detective novels set in Edwardian England and featuring Jim Stringer and the London and South Western Railway police, began with The Necropolis Railway in 2002. The Somme Stations won the 2011 CWA Ellis Peters Historical Crime Award. Kate Griffin was born within the sound of the Bow Bells, making her a true-born cockney. Her first novel, Kitty Peck and the Music Hall Murders, which won the Stylist/Faber crime writing competition, is set in the opium-laced streets of Victorian Limehouse, where dancing girls are going missing…
Jules Howard is a freelance zoologist and natural history broadcaster, having contributed to the BBC’s The One Show, World on the Move and Nature. He writes regularly for BBC Wildlife Magazine. His forthcoming book, Sex on Earth, is published by Bloomsbury next year.
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Saturday 12 October
Jane Gardam
Jane Gardam Last Friends Toll Gavel United Church 6-7pm £6
Jane Gardam is, without doubt, one of our finest writers and in Last Friends, described as ‘A masterpiece’ (The Guardian), we return to dearly beloved characters, Old Filth and Vaneering - Filth’s greatest rival in work and love - in their final show-down. Join Jane for an entertaining and enjoyably wicked look at the vagaries of love as she re-opens old wounds with host, James Nash. Jane Gardam is an acclaimed novelist who has won numerous literary awards and is the only writer to have twice won the Whitbread Prize for best novel. Her first adult-fiction novel, God on the Rocks, was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and filmed for TV. Jane was awarded the OBE in 2009 for services to literature.
Guy Grieve
Wild about… Guy Grieve Toll Gavel United Church Hall 6.30-7.30pm £6
Guy Grieve is an adventurer and entrepreneur whose fight for sustainability has led him to start up a much-acclaimed ethical fishing company on the Isle of Mull (he dives for the scallops himself ). The year that he spent living alone in a cabin in Alaska became the book Call of the Wild, and his foraging expeditions with chef Thomasina Miers became the Channel 4 TV series Wild Gourmets; he went on to co-present Living with Monkeys for BBC1. Guy will be sharing stories about his amazing life and discussing his latest book, Sea Legs – an inspirational story that took a family of four on a voyage around the Caribbean and across the Atlantic in a second-hand sailing boat.
Saturday 12 October
Salley Vickers
Xanthe Gresham
Salley Vickers The Cleaner of Chartres in conversation with The Rev. Jeremy Fletcher Beverley Minster 7.30-9pm £10
An opportunity to listen to one the UK’s best-selling and critically-acclaimed authors, Salley Vickers, whose book, Miss Garnet’s Angel, became a word-of-mouth bestseller. Here she discusses The Cleaner of Chartres, her captivating book that revolves around the mysterious woman, Agnes Morel, against the backdrop of the ancient cathedral of Chartres. Salley talks to The Rev. Jeremy Fletcher, vicar of one of the country’s finest gothic churches - Beverley Minster. Ticket price includes a complimentary glass of wine.
Night-time tales for Grown-Ups Xanthe Gresham Baba Yaga and the Virgin Toll Gavel United Church 9.30-10.45pm £6
She “speaks like a woman spitting jewels” (Arts Council). Let acclaimed performance storyteller, Xanthe Gresham, influence your dreams in this late-night Festival treat. Has your pilot light puttered? Never fear, help is here to re-ignite the spark. On a road trip through Mexico (via haunted hotel rooms, Day of the Dead celebrations, visions and peculiar folklore) two deities dangle like dice from the rear view mirror. One is Baba Yaga - once a goddess of fire and fertility, now a witch in Russian folkology with iron teeth and cannibalistic tendencies. The other is The Virgin of Guadalupe - who launches Mexican waves of tea towels, plastic bracelets and prayer cards across Latin America. Xanthe Gresham is one of the UK’s leading storytellers. Her style is very distinctive, physical and delighting in the absurd and preposterous. She has worked extensively around the world, for organisations such as the British Museum, The Smithsonian and Iran Heritage.
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Sunday 13 October
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Val Wood
Jonathan Coe
Val Wood Prize for Creative Writing 2013 Presentation with Val Wood Toll Gavel United Church Hall 12noon-1pm FREE
Celebrating 20 years of writing, best-selling author, Val Wood, has launched a prize open to writers from the East Riding. Prizewinners will be announced and will have the opportunity to read out their stories, introduced by judge, Val Wood.
Jonathan Coe Expo 58 Toll Gavel United Church 1-2pm £6
Good-looking girls and sinister spies: a naïve Englishman at loose in Europe in Jonathan Coe’s brilliant new comic novel.
In association with Quickline Communications and East Riding Libraries.
London, 1958: unassuming civil servant, Thomas Foley, is plucked from his desk job and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Britannia, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo 58 - the biggest World’s Fair of the century. Award-winning author, Jonathan Coe, has written nine novels. Returning to the acidic humour of What a Carve Up! and The Rotters’ Club, Coe’s new novel mixes elements of Ealing comedy, Hitchcockian thriller and political farce into an incisive, affecting portrait of post-war Britain. Join Jonathan as we begin our first forage of the day into the somewhat unreal world of the British abroad.
Alysoun Owen
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Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook presents… How to get published with Alysoun Owen Toll Gavel United Church Hall 2-3pm £6
Get some top tips of the trade with one of the best in the writing business. Alysoun Owen is a publisher with over 20 year’s experience as a commissioning editor and running her own publishing consultancy business. She has been the Editor of the Writers’ and Artists’ Yearbook for two years and has extensive knowledge of the book trade.
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Sunday 13 October
Daljit Nagra
Daljit Nagra with special guest, Xanthe Gresham The Ramanyana Beverley Library 2-3.30pm £3
Xanthe Gresham
A vivid, enthralling new version of one of the world’s great epics from award-winning poet Daljit Nagra. Daljit will be reading from The Ramanyana in a performance devised especially for Beverley Literature Festival and featuring one of the UK’s leading storytellers, Xanthe Gresham. The Ramayana is one of the great epics of the ancient world, with origins dating back thousands of years. Generations of children the world over have grown up with its story of Rama’s quest to recover his wife Sita from her abduction by Raavana, the Lord of the Underworld. Accessible and engaging, and bursting with energy, Nagra’s Ramayana brings the story alive for people of all ages, whether familiar with or entirely new to this remarkable tale. Daljt Nagra’s first collection Look We Have Coming to Dover! won the 2007 Forward Prize for Best First Collection and was shortlisted for the Costa Poetry Award. Tippoo Sultan’s Incredible White-Man-Eating Tiger Toy-Machine!!! was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize 2011.
Matthew Parris
Andrew Bryson
Matthew Parris and Andrew Bryson The Spanish Ambassador’s Suitcase: Stories from the Diplomatic Bag Toll Gavel United Church 3.30-4.30pm £8
Our Festival finale event with awardwinning columnist and broadcaster, Matthew Parris, and Andrew Bryson. Join them as they reveal the curious and often hilarious observations of British Ambassadors abroad, shining a light on how we British have seen the world… and how the world has too often seen us. “These despatches catch a moment just before Whitehall spin doctors took control of communications” (Evening Standard). Former Conservative MP, Matthew Parris joined The Times in 1988. He writes two weekly columns for The Times and one for the Spectator, and in 2011 won the Best Columnist Award at the British Press awards. He is a frequent broadcaster. Andrew Bryson is a BBC radio journalist and producer on Radio 4’s Today programme and Radio 5 Live. Page 14
Creative Writing Workshops © Jonathan Ring
Friday 11 October
Stephen May
Stephen May Writing a Novel Treasure House Education Room 10am-1pm £15
Writing is hard work but it shouldn’t be a slog. In this stimulating and fun workshop, award-winning writer Stephen May returns to the Festival to help you develop the tools to get started and to keep going in your writing project. Suitable for both shy beginners and the more experienced, this workshop will cover plot, character, structure, dialogue and editing.
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Sunday 13 October
Daljit Nagra
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Daljit Nagra The Distant Muse Toll Gavel United Church / Welcome Room (access via Old Walkergate) 10am–12noon £15
Poets in this country are often inspired by traditional and contemporary British poems. To seek fresh ideas for our own work we may need instead to consider work from other European sources and from further afield. Daljit will invite participants to interact with some poems from other traditions before setting some fun writing exercises. Participants will come away from the workshop having written at least two new poems and with a deepened appreciation of the writing process.
Children’s Programme Saturday 12 October Stephen Joseph Theatre Outreach Presents... The Quest! Beverley library 10am / 2pm / 4pm FREE (all ages) Join performers from Stephen Joseph Theatre OutReach team as they turn a visit to the library into a magical adventure! You thought you’d gone to the library to borrow some books... but now you find yourself going on a quest in search of something you never imagined! You will never see Beverley Library in the same light again! (Each performance lasts 20 SJT Outreach minutes.)
Jules Howard Fantastic Fossils! Beverley Children’s Library 11am-12noon £3 (5+yrs) How do we really know what life was like on Planet Earth millions of years ago? How do we know what dinosaurs really looked like? We find the answers by studying the evidence hidden within the fossils they left behind... Join Jules to uncover the mysteries of ancient life on Earth and discover what life is really like as a scientist. AND find out what it feels like to hold a T-Rex’s tooth! You may never get the chance again….
Andrew McMillan Wordquake Wordsmith. More than words on a page: Writing and Performing Poetry (One-Day Course) Treasure House Education Room and Beverley Library 10am-4pm £12 (12 – 17yrs) A fresh, young voice from poetry world, Andrew McMillan also teaches creative writing at Liverpool John Moores University. Join him as our first Wordquake Wordsmith, for an intensive day of creative writing and performing. Andrew will help you not only develop your writing skills, but also teach you how to present your poetry to an audience. The day ends with a free short performance in Beverley Library (3pm) Andrew McMillian to which all are welcome.
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Saturday 12 October The Etherington Brothers The Big Adventure Show Beverley Children’s Library 12.30-1.30pm £3.50 (7-11yrs) Hooray! The Etherington Brothers are coming to Beverley! With their wild and wacky romps through the world of their brilliant comic stories, Monkey Nuts and Baggage, Robin and Lorenzo will have you EXPLODING with creativity! Join them for their brand new workshop The Big Adventure Show. You don’t need pens, just ENERGY! It’s packed to the rafters with story-starting tips and tricks for anyone aged 7 to 70. The Etherington Brothers are the creative team behind the UK’s critically acclaimed comic books Monkey Nuts and Baggage. They have worked on The Dandy, Transformers, Star Wars, Kung Fu Panda, Wallace & Gromit, Dreamworks’ Monsters vs Aliens and Madagascar comics. Ticket price includes an exclusive Etherington Workbook!
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Andrew McMillan Wordquake Wordsmith Poetry Showcase Beverley Children’s Library 3-4pm FREE (5+yrs) Find out what the youngsters have been preparing throughout the day with our Wordquake Wordsmith and enjoy a performance of poems by Andrew written especially for Beverley Literature Festival and hear the new generation of young poets perform their work hot off the press! Poetr y Showcase
Daniel Webb Writing Remarkable Reviews Treasure House Education Room 3.30-5pm £3 (7-11yrs) Daniel Webb has worked in bookselling, publishing and copywriting, including a happy period as editor of Red House and Puffin Post. In this practical and fun workshop, Daniel will bring book reviewing to life and give useful pointers on how to write reviews that are attentiongrabbing, informative and individual. (PS The Daniel Webb workshop may also include chocolate!)
Puppets, Plays and Story Days Presents…. Bed-time favourites… The Gruffalo Beverley Children’s Library 5-6pm £2 (3+yrs) Join us for a glass of milk and a cookie and snuggle down for a bedtime story. Come in your pyjamas and make sure you bring your own Gruffalo (or teddy!). A wonderful opportunity to see your favourite story come alive with the creator of Puppets, Plays and Story Days. If you like drawing, why not draw a Days Puppets, Plays and Story Gruffalo and bring it along to show us?
Sunday 13 October Art Heroes. Comic-tastic Drop-in workshop (just come along!) Treasure House Education Room 10.30am-1pm FREE (Just come along) (5+yrs) Join Art Heroes for a day of fun creating comics and cartoons! Create your own characters and learn how to tell stories through pictures. Perfect for children with an interest in drawing and creating stories, and anyone with a passion for comics, manga and cartoons. And don’t forget to bring along your pocket money to get hold of a signed issue of Halcyon and Tenderfoot!
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Xanthe Gresham Folk Tales from Around the World Beverley Children’s Library 11am-12noon £3 (6ys+) Take a lickety-split world tour with storyteller Xanthe Gresham. On this journey to here, there, and anywhere else, you can encounter strange creatures, mighty warriors, brave princesses and still be back in time for tea… You won’t need your passport, but be sure to pack your sense of adventure! This package tour of stories is for big and little people alike – in fact anyone aged 6 to 106…
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Sunday 13 October Spill the Beans. What do we do? We Spill the Beans! Beverley Children’s Library 12.30-1.30pm £3 (5ys+) Spill The Beans is an action packed explosion of poetry, jokes and laughter with fun and audience participation guaranteed. It rocks, it rolls and it roars. A family cabaret for everyone to enjoy! Paul and David have been performing as Spill The Beans since 1992. Individually they are fantastic. Together they are AMAZING! They have countless books published and their poems appear in libraries and bookshops all over the country.
Daljit Nagra with special guest, Xanthe Gresham. The Ramanyana Beverley Library 2-3.30pm £3 (5yrs+) This vivid new version of one of the world’s great epics from award-winning poet Daljit Nagra comes alive with a performance devised especially for Beverley Literature Festival featuring one of the UK’s leading storytellers, Xanthe Gresham. (See page 16 for more information.)
Xanthe Gresham
Daljit Nagra
Spill the Beans
Art Heroes Quick Comics Treasure House Education Room 2-4pm £3 (Ages 7+) An exclusive workshop that gets under the skin of comics. A chance to explore the wide variety of characters and stories featured in comics and what you need to do to make truly fantastic comic books. Take your comic creations to school on Monday and WOW your friends!
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Parking: car parking is available at the back of Treasure House at weekends
Wordquake Wordquake is East Riding Library Service’s unique project to promote reading and live literature in the East Riding. We run inspirational projects across the East Riding to encourage as many people as possible to develop a life-long love of literature. Many of you will know about us through the two major literary events we organise every year - Bridlington Poetry Festival and Beverley Literature Festival. We work closely with our libraries to supports readers’ groups, run workshops and are always looking for new ways to involve our younger readers.
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TREASURE HOUSE COFFEE
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The Treasure House Coffee Lounge on the first floor offers a delicious range of hot and cold drinks, sandwiches, paninis, cakes, scones, muffins and pastries. So why not come along and sit back and enjoy the surroundings. You’re sure of a warm welcome from our friendly and efficient staff.
We look forward to seeing you!
# 10% DISCOUNT inthe the Treasure Coffee Lounge in Treasure HouseHouse Coffee Lounge on production ofon thisproduction voucher or a ticket to a Festival event of this voucher First floor,Treasure House, Champney Situated on the first floorRoad, Beverley. Monday toOpen Fridayfor from 4pm, Saturdays from 9.30am to 3pm the 9.30am Festival to Weekend (including Sunday)
Projects Our lively projects and outreach programme runs throughout the year, working with communities across the East Riding. We work with lots of creative people - writers, poets, artists and performers, to forge new ways of engaging people in literature.
Poetry on Prescription project with Ian McMillan
The Humber Writers Place names offer more information than simply as locating points. Place names give an identity to a location which can shift over time and also resonate with the people who live/have lived there, helping them to create their own identities. The Humber Writers are a group of writers and poets associated with Hull University and together with local residents, they are investigating what place means to the people of Beverley. Their project will include a short film that is part of the BLF Film Salon.
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Booking Information Tickets available online: www.bevlit.org
By phone: 01482 392699 Monday - Thursday 9.00am - 4.45pm Friday 9.00am - 4.00pm
In Person: Tickets can be bought over the counter (except for adult workshops) at: Beverley Library, Champney Road, Beverley HU17 8HE
Wordquake is East Riding Libraries’ unique literature development project. A Wordquake and East Riding Libraries production.
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