Programme
The full programme for 2011 Festival is detailed below.
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1.45pm: The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant
The 2007 version of the H.G. Wells' story, with Lee Evans and Anne-Marie Duff. In the early 1900's Alfred Polly, still hankering after his dream girl Christabel, marries Miriam Larkins but as the years go by, the marriage becomes stale and Alfred feels trapped. He decides to stage his own death by burning down the shop but becomes an accidental hero when ... be prepared to laugh and cry.
Tickets: FREE on application to The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant - Tel. 02392 472700 / www.thespring.co.uk
7.30pm: The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant
It's 3am and the party inside is just coming to an end. However, this is where Tony and Ruth have their first encounter and the magic
follows from there. Meanwhile, upstairs, Don and Edie are having a party of their own! This fantastic romantic-comedy was written by
one of the lead writers of Life on Mars, Torchwood and Dr. Who, Chris Chibnall. The story follows these two couples through the early
morning 'til sunrise, showing us the true meaning of love.
CONTAINS ADULT LANGUAGE
Tickets: £8.00, [£6.00 concessions] from The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant - Tel. 02392 472700 / www.thespring.co.uk
This Bench production opens on Tuesday September 20 at 7.30pm
6pm: The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant
The Festival kicks off with a Grand Opening Ceremony at The Spring. Winners of the 2011 Poetry Competition will receive their prizes from VIP guests including Competition judge, David Swann [pictured], Festival Patron and writer in residence, Stella Duffy and the Mayor of Havant, Councillor Ken Smith. All are welcome.
FREE
7.30pm: United Reformed Church Hall, Elm Lane, Havant, PO9 1PP
How can history be used to illuminate the present? Why did Shakespeare ruin the reputation of Richard III? These and many other questions will be discussed by Stella Duffy, 'Theodora; Empress, Actress, Whore', Emma Darwin, 'A Secret Alchemy', and Michael Arnold, 'Traitor's Blood'. Books will be on sale for signing by the authors at this event.
Tickets: £5.00 from The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant - Tel. 02392 472700 / www.thespring.co.uk
7.30pm: The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant
Robert Walker talks about the author of Tarka The Otter.
Tickets: FOHM members Free, £2 non members from The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant - Tel. 02392 472700 / www.thespring.co.uk
7.30pm: The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant
See Wednesday September 21 for details.
Tickets: £8.00, [£6.00 concessions] from The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant - Tel. 02392 472700 / www.thespring.co.uk
All Day: Greywell Square, Greywell Shopping Centre, Leigh Park
Look out for poet John Davies, aka SHEDMAN, who will conduct impromptu workshops, invite passers by to tour his shed and maybe even accept on the spot commissions to write you a poem. You can't miss him - he's the poet in the shed!
FREE
7.30pm: The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant
Denise introduces her new anthology of poetry, discussing the inspiration for the poems, including that intriguing title and delighting you with readings of this beautiful and poignant verse.
Tickets: £3.00 from The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant - Tel. 02392 472700 / www.thespring.co.uk
7.30pm: St. Faith's Church, Havant
Concert trio In Voice and Verse tell the story of Genesis to Revelation using the words of the King James Bible interspersed with music including excerpts from Haydn's 'Creation', Handel's 'Messiah', Mendelssohn's 'Oh for the Wings of a Dove' and several modern compositions. Actor Lance Pierson is an experienced Bible performer and singer Belinda Yates is a member of the Monteverdi Choir. Accomplished pianist Heather Chamberlain completes the trio.
Tickets: £6.00 from The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant - Tel. 02392 472700 / www.thespring.co.uk
7.30pm: Havant College Studio Theatre, Barncroft Way, Havant, PO9 1QL
Mark Cocker is one of Britain's foremost writers on nature and contributes regularly to The Guardian and other publications. For the last five years he has been working on a major new book with photographer, David Tipling. Birds and People is a worldwide survey of the cultural importance of birds and is due out in 2013. Mark will be in conversation with local naturalist Ralph Hollins.
Tickets: £5.00 from The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant - Tel. 02392 472700 / www.thespring.co.uk
7.30pm: The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant
See Wednesday September 21 for details.
Tickets: £8.00, [£6.00 concessions] from The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant - Tel. 02392 472700 / www.thespring.co.uk
All Day: Greywell Square, Greywell Shopping Centre, Leigh Park
See Friday September 23 for details
FREE
10.30am - 3pm: Making Space, Bishopstoke Road, Leigh Park, Havant, PO9 5BN
Graphic & Textile Designers Sue Kenneally and Sue Fox have created this inspiring workshop which is as much about the content as the cover. Create some beautiful contemporary handmade books to take home, using hand-printing and recycled elements, taking traditional techniques and giving them a modern twist. Suitable for complete beginners & intermediates. See Making Space website.
Tickets: £50 [inclusive of materials] from Making Space 02392 472491
Or email: admin@makingspace.org
10.00am - 11.15am: Havant Library
Stella Duffy returns to the 2011 Festival as our Writer in Residence.
Come and meet this best selling author, actor and theatre director who will talk about her novels and her eclectic career.
Stella has written eleven novels, over thirty short stories and eight plays. Her latest best seller, an historical
novel - Theodora: Empress, Actress, Whore, is a ripping yarn.
FREE but places must be booked at Havant Library 02392 484945 as numbers are limited
10.30am: The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant
Hear about a magical world of silly stories and tall tales.
FREE
10.30am: The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant
Come and meet other keen writers and give your imagination a work-out in this one-off creative writing session for 11-14yr olds.
FREE
Write-On! meets on the 3rd Tuesday of the month, from September - July, 6pm - 7.30pm at The Spring.
Contact: Lucy Meredith at www.clubwriteon@gmail.com
10.30am - 4pm: The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant
Petersfield bookbinder Peter Wiltshire will be in the Gallery with examples of his craft on display. Bring along any questions or bookbinding problems for Peter to look at.
FREE
All Day: The Meridian Shopping Centre, Havant
Environmental Artists, Jules and Tim Simmons are constructing a replica Time Machine especially for the Literary Festival, to celebrate our H.G. Wells strand featuring David Lodge with his bio-novel of H.G. Wells A Man of Parts and Michael Sherborne's H.G. Wells, Another Kind of Life.
Children and adults are invited to sit in the machine and tell us where they would like to go in time and why. Write them down and we will even put them up on display. The Time Machine is entirely made of recycled materials which will in turn be recycled after the event; proving that art can have a zero carbon footprint too!
FREE
10.30: The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant
Fred Pearce, author of The Climate Files about the leaked 'Climategate' e-mails from the University of East Anglia, has reported on the environment, popular science and development issues from sixty-four countries over the past twenty years.
Tickets: £5.00 from The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant - Tel. 02392 472700 / www.thespring.co.uk
This is a Spring event in conjunction with the Havant Transition Network
10.30am: United Reform Church Hall, Elm Lane, Havant, PO9 1PP
Alison Baverstock, Course Leader for MA Publishing at Kingston University, will discuss how to find an agent/publisher. A former publisher herself, she has written extensively about the industry and about how to get published.
Tickets: £4.00 from The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant - Tel. 02392 472700 / www.thespring.co.uk
10.30: The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant
Kay Sexton has had several hundred short stories published and been broadcast on Radio 4. A finalist for the Bridport Prize in 2009, she is quite obsessive about global problems. Her first non-fiction book is Minding My Peas and Cucumbers: Quirky Tales of Allotment Life. Gardeners and non-gardeners alike will enjoy hearing this vibrant author.
Tickets: £4.00 from The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant - Tel. 02392 472700 / www.thespring.co.uk
1.00pm: The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant
Lynne Truss is one of Britain's most popular authors, columnists and broadcasters, renowned for her perceptive insights and wit. She has written over a dozen books, most famously Eats, Shoots and Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation. Lynne will talk about this delicious, pin-pricking defence of correctly orchestrated written English - and talk about the wide ranging nature of her work in general.
Tickets: £6.00 from The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant - Tel. 02392 472700 / www.thespring.co.uk
Uppark House, South Harting, Petersfield, West Sussex GU31 5QR
See below for times
Michael Sherborne, Wells' most recent biographer, will give a talk and lead a Wells-based tour of the house together with an Uppark steward. Wells, whose mother was a housekeeper at the house, spent time there when apprenticed in Portsmouth. Tours of the house: 1.30pm or 2.30pm [20 maximum on each], with Michael's talk at 3.45pm. Michael will sign copies of his book after the talk. The house is not open to the public on Saturday and refreshments will be for sale between 2pm & 3.30pm.
Tickets for the tour and the talk are £20, available by sending a cheque to: PO Box 231, Havant Literary Festival, Havant PO9 9DU
This event is presented in collaboration with The National Trust
2.30pm: The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant
The stage designer Dick Bird, who has designed for the National Theatre, Complicite, English National Opera, and the West End, as well as plays and operas all over the world, will give an illustrated talk on the progression from script to theatre design. He will take us through the process with models of sets he has made for previous productions.
Tickets: £4.00 from The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant - Tel. 02392 472700 / www.thespring.co.uk
STUDENTS FREE: but book places with The Spring
3.00pm: The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant
Precious Williams' first book, Precious, A True Story, is an amazing memoir about growing up in trans racial, private foster care in West Sussex. Her story has been featured on radio and television and in the broadsheets. Born in the UK of Sierra Leonean and Nigerian descent, Precious is a freelance journalist who has lived in London and New York and studied English at Oxford. She is currently working on her second book, a novel.
Tickets: £4.00 from The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant - Tel. 02392 472700 / www.thespring.co.uk
4.30pm: The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant
Amazon now sells twice as many books in electronic format as paper books. Writer Richard Milton has published seven books, both fiction and non-fiction, through mainstream publishers in conventional paper format. But he has finally cracked and published a novel on Amazon's Kindle. In this talk he discusses the impact of e publishing on both writers and readers, asking whether conventional books are a thing of the past.
Tickets: £3.00 from The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant - Tel. 02392 472700 / www.thespring.co.uk
7.30pm: Havant College Studio Theatre, Barncroft Way, Havant, PO9 1QL
David Lodge, award winning author, playwright and screen writer will talk about his prolific body of work. Following the 2008 success of Deaf Sentence, his latest book is A Man of Parts, a bio-novel based on the life of HG Wells. Wells was bohemian, Byronic, a relentless seducer of women and - according to this biographical novel, at least - a thoroughly decent chap.
Two of David Lodge's novels have been shortlisted for the Booker Prize and in 1989 Lodge was himself chairman of the Booker Prize judges. Several of his novels, including Small World and Nice Work, have been adapted as television series, the latter by Lodge himself. In 1994 Lodge adapted Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit for the BBC.
Tickets: £6.00 from The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant - Tel. 02392 472700 / www.thespring.co.uk
7.30pm: The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant
See Wednesday September 21 for details.
Tickets: £8.00, [£6.00 concessions] from The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant - Tel. 02392 472700 / www.thespring.co.uk
10.30am - 12 noon: The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant
With Sandra Horn, author of Tattybogle and many other children's books and Jayne Woodhouse, author of The Stephensons' Rocket and its sequel.
FREE
10.30am until approx 12 noon
Meet at and return to The Spring
Havant historian extraordinaire, Steve Jones will lead you on a scintillating walk around the historical hot spots of the town. Not to be missed!
Tickets: £4.00, (maximum 20) from The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant - Tel. 02392 472700 / www.thespring.co.uk
10.30 - 1pm: The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant
Writing is a physical activity so Stella uses practical exercises and improvisation/theatre techniques to help kick-start writing - whether the kick is to overcome a block or to make a new leap or just get on with it!
Tickets: £12.00 from The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant - Tel. 02392 472700 / www.thespring.co.uk
12 noon: The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant
Jayne Woodhouse had been writing children's non-fiction texts for a wide range of publishers, including the BBC, for many years before she set out to write her first novel for children, the acclaimed The Stephensons' Rocket, followed by its sequel And Rocky Too. She will talk about this transition and introduce her latest venture.
Tickets: £3.00 from The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant - Tel. 02392 472700 / www.thespring.co.uk
1pm: The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant
Jane is the author of twenty books including Red Sky at Night, Britain from the Air and Literary Britain and Ireland. Her latest book Beside the Seaside is bursting with facts, fables, history and mystery about Britain's seaside and coast. Jane will discuss her books and her writing answering such questions as what to look for in rock pools, which are the best knots and how to avoid being cursed by a mermaid!
Tickets: £4.00 from The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant - Tel. 02392 472700 / www.thespring.co.uk
3pm: The Spring Arts and Heritage Centre, Havant
Mark Blaney, producer of Africa United, will introduce and talk about the making of the film and take questions after the screening.
An extraordinary story of three Rwandan kids who walk 3000 miles to the Soccer World Cup in South Africa; using a load of ingenuity and a World Cup wall chart for a map, our pint-sized protagonists set off through the endless horizons of Africa in pursuit of an unlikely dream.
Tickets: £4.00 from The Spring Arts & Heritage Centre, Havant - Tel. 02392 472700 / www.thespring.co.uk
Most events will have books for sale and for many author events, your ticket will give a discount against books bought at the event for signing by the author.
Sponsored by Havant Rotary
Andy Briggs will visit two junior schools in the borough as part of his tour to talk about Tarzan - The Greystoke Legacy which is the world wide re-launch of the Tarzan books with a 21st century theme for a new generation.
Neil Griffiths will visit two primary schools in the borough to talk about his books including Sneezy Bear and Ringo The Flamingo.
Miriam Halahmy will visit two senior schools in the borough to talk aboutHidden her latest book which is set on Hayling Island and the surrounding area.
A DVD of the SOOP production of the play commissioned by the Havant Literary Festival in partnership with the Havant Transition Network and performed at the Langstone Technology Park in April will be available at Festival venues
For additional information and times about these and other Wordsouth events can be found on www.wordsouth.org.uk
The exhibition runs from 19 September until 2 October.
DP Kilfeather, who studied at West Dean as well as the Universities of Brighton and Portsmouth, and who went on from his exhibition at Wordsouth last September to win a prize in the prestigious National Open Art Competition, returns to Wordsouth for this year's literary festival. Des Kilfeather's new works again draw on his own Irish Catholic culture and continue his philosophical exploration of Joyce.
2.00pm: Sunday 25 September.
Des Kilfeather will talk about the exhibition and his inspiration for it.
7.00pm: Friday 23 September
Saturday 24 September
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