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Felixstowe Book Festival
The 2018
Flyer
BBC Radio Suffolk presenter Rachel
Sloane.
Another must for all Radio 4 listeners
would be Timothy and Anna Bentinck
– Being David Archer: And Other
Unusual Ways of Earning a Living also
on Saturday 30th at the Orwell Hotel
from 6pm to 7pm. Tickets are £10.
For the younger book lover author Nick
Arnold returns. His bestselling kids’
science series ‘Horrible Science’ has
turned his life story into a rib-tickling,
roof-raising, rip roaring family funny
show complete with scary stories, evil
experiments, foul factoids and putrid
poems. Thanks to Nick, Science has
never been so squishy! Join Nick at
Felixstowe Library in the Children’s
section, from 3.30pm on Saturday 30th
June. Tickets are just £4 for both adults
and children.
If you’re a budding writer you could
sign up for one of their writing
workshops. However it’s not just
writing. The festival workshops this
year cover a multitude of interesting
topics for all ages including;
Kev F’s Comic Art Masterclass -
30/06/2018 - 9:30 am - 12:00 pm
Art an d Craft with Arty Mouse -
30/06/2018 - 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Peter Bunzl Animation Workshop -
30/06/2018 - 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Writing for Wellbeing workshop with
Francesca Baker - 30/06/2018 - 11:00
am - 12:30 pm
Just to give you a fl avour.
There’s also a fi lm screening planned
– Life on the Deben by John McCarthy
and Tim Curtis and even an evening of
Brazilian music!
Tickets for this year’s festival can
be purchased online at www.
felixstowebookfestival.co.uk or from
the New Wolsey Theatre either in
person or via their website www.
wolseytheatre.co.uk or you can call
the theatre on 01473 295900. You
can also pop into Felixstowe Library
to purchase your tickets. Most adult
events cost £9.00 per person (£7.00
per person for concessions). Felixstowe
Library will be hosting a cash-only
ticket desk every Tuesday leading up to
the event.
This year they have a fantastic offer
to tempt you to try something a little
different and new: book at least 5
different events and get £1 off each
ticket. Book 10 or more different
events and you will even get £2 off
each ticket.
The festival offers something for every
time of reader, young or old, fi ction,
non-fi ction and also includes poetry.
Leading up to this year’s festival they
have been running a competition
for would-be writers, looking for the
best short story written by an adult.
Meg says “We have been looking for
short stories of up to 1000 words, and
the winning entry will be published
in Suffolk Magazine. 2018 is a very
auspicious year. It is the centenary of
the First World War (2014 to 2018)
and we wanted to commemorate this
event with a focus on remembrance
and the legacy of this confl ict. At the
end of the war, the Representation of
the People Act 1918 gave women over
30 who were householders (about 8.4
million women) the vote for the fi rst
time. So, with 100 years of refl ection,
we are looking for stories that loosely
encompass the theme of `Centenary`. be based on historical fact or entirely
fi ctional.” Entry to the competition
has now closed but the judges were
delighted with both the volume
and quality of entries this year. The
winner and the two runners up will be
announced at the `Short Story Event`
at the Felixstowe Book Festival on
Saturday, 30 June at 4.30pm.
“These two events defi ned the world
that was to follow, and they are not
unrelated. When we think of World
War 1 we think of a lost generation of
young men, of trenches and No Man’s
Land, the horror of relentless fi ghting.
With so many men away, women
took up their roles in the workplace
and found their voice, adding fuel to
the fi re of the Suffragette movement
which achieved its fi rst major success
in 1918.” says judge Ruth Dugdall, “A
story could take inspiration from either
of these momentous events, it could Laura Horne General Manager for
the Orwell Hotel says of this year’s
event “We have been supporting the
festival since it fi rst began so have
been delighted to witness it expand
and become ever more popular. We are
very much looking forward to this its
6th year as the programme is the most
exciting yet!”
The full Felixstowe Book Festival
programme is available to download
as a PDF via their website www.
felixstowebookfestival.co.uk
The Orwell Hotel in Hamilton Road
hosts the lion’s share of the Felixstowe
Book Festival events and has been a
staunch supporter of the event since it
began. The hotel will also be running
a festival café and book shop over the
fi ve days.
So perhaps you too will pop this fl agship
event into your diary and delve into at
least one or two of the Felixstowe Book
Festival events happening around the
town this month.
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