Programme of Events and The Campden Fringe
See below for the complete Programme of Events and also the Campden Fringe.
7.00-8.00pm Ordinary Thunderstorms CC School Hall £8 |
[400 places] |
William Boyd reads from his latest novel ORDINARY THUNDERSTORMS and gives the inaugural festival talk. | |
10am – 12noon Restored to Life Court Barn £15 |
[40 places] |
Dominic Riley talks about the creation and restoration of beautiful books.
You are invited to bring valuable or treasured books for advice about their care or restoration. Event sponsored by The Court Barn Museum | |
12.00 noon for 12.30pm Gentleman’s Relish Cotswold House Hotel £25 |
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Price per person for two course lunch with wine
followed by Patrick Gale reading from his latest work, a collection of short stories: GENTLEMAN’S RELISH, talking about his writing, and answering questions. Reservations@cotswoldhouse.com or 01386 840330. | |
6.30 – 8.00pm Write to Life CC School Hall £6 |
[400 places] |
Michael Arditti reads from his latest novel, Enemy of the Good;
Sheila Hayman’s Write to Life: Torture Survivors read their own memoirs, poems and stories, giving us a moving, but also entertaining, view of lives most of us never see. Profit, including proceeds from the sale of LIFE MATTERS to go to The Medical Foundation for the Care of Victims of Torture. | |
8.30 -10.00pm The Big Book Group CC School Hall £5 |
[400 places] |
Mary Gray and Samantha Harvey invite book groups and individuals to come together to discuss Samantha Harvey’s debut novel THE WILDERNESS. | |
0.00am–1.00pm In the Dock Court Room, Old Police Station £18 |
[20 places] |
Sheila Hayman’s all-comers Creative Writing
Workshop Coffee & biscuits. | |
2.00-4.30pm Released Court Room, Old Police Station £18 |
[20 places] |
Poetry workshop with Christopher James & Bob Mee
Tea & biscuits. | |
2.30 – 4.30pm Poetry Please Mill House. |
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Mill House residents and by invitation.
Campden School pupils read the audience’s favourite poems Tea & cakes. Event sponsored by Caring Homes | |
3.00 – 4.30pm Slightly Foxed Comes to Tea Upper Rm, Town Hall £6 |
[80 places] |
'Slightly Foxed’ contributor Sue Gee talks about her latest novel READING IN BED and discusses the creation of “The Real Reader’s Quarterly” with its founding co-editors Gail Pirkis and Hazel Wood.
Tea and cake kindly organised by Chipping Campden’s WI | |
7.00- 9.00 pm The Ragged Raven Upper Rm, Town Hall £6 |
[80 places] |
A fresh, challenging - and changing – poetry evening with Bob Mee, Christopher James, Joanna Ezekiel, John Robinson, Angela France & Chris Kinsey | |
9.00 –10.00 pm Watch Me Disappear Upper Rm, Town Hall £4 |
[80 places] |
Lucy Cohen’s Channel Four debut documentary WATCH ME DISAPPEAR Questions from the floor.
Sponsored by Chipping Campden Film Society | |
10.00 – 11 am A Birmingham Lad Library Free Event Adults |
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Bring your memories and ration books. Michael Richardson reads from his latest novel.
CARELESS TALK | |
2.00 – 3pm Leaving the Margins Court Room, Old Police Station £4 |
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Bob Mee on how to get articles, stories & poems printed in magazines. | |
3.30 – 4.30pm The Art and Graft of Self-publishing Court Room £4 |
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Lindsay Stanberry-Flynn describes the journey of the self-published novel from manuscript to paperback. | |
7.00 – 8.00 pm Hearts and Minds CC School Hall £8 |
[400 places] |
Amanda Craig reads from her latest novel HEARTS AND MINDS (about Immigration: exploitation, integration and murder) in conversation with Cicely Havely and why we should be writing about Here and Now in fiction, not the past.
Questions from the floor. | |
8.30 – 10.00 pm John Clare CC School Hall £10 |
[400 places] |
Adam Foulds reads from THE QUICKENING MAZE; Graham Fawcett reads from THE SHEPHERD”S CALENDAR; together they talk about Clare's life and work | |
10.15 –11am Found Objects Library Free Event 3-6 year olds. |
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A sharing of a love of natural objects with Janet Murch and Lizzie Mee
using the storybook HERMAN OF HERM ISLAND: HERMAN’S STONE | |
10.00am – 12 noon Writing Showcase CC School Hall £5 Free to CCS students |
[400 places] |
Readings by CCS students of their poems + a prize giving, coffee break.
Readings by University of Gloucester Creative Writing MA students and Nigel Mcloughlin, who will also talk about how Creative Writing works as an academic subject. Prizes kindly paid for by Chipping Campden Rotary Club | |
2.00 – 4.00pm The Mystery In the Margins Burnt Norton £15 |
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Graham Fawcett invites you to explore the poem T S Eliot wrote as he remembered the September afternoon he had spent with Emily Hale in the enchanting garden at Burnt Norton, a name the poem would soon make famous the world over.
Use of Gardens kindly permitted by the Earl of Harrowby and Family Photography strictly for private purposes (non-publication) only | |
2.30 – 3.30pm A Child’s World of Story CC School Hall £10 |
[400 places] |
(Group ticket admits up to five people one of whom must be a parent and at least three under 18)
Chloë of the Midnight Storytellers enchants children age 8+ and adults. Stories include ancient and deliciously scary British tales, Irish romps, African stories of Ananse the original SpiderMan, and other First People stories from America and Australia. With a cast of crafty cats, dozy dogs, devious donkeys, greedy crocs, and a mosquito with a cunning plan for world domination! | |
8.00 – 9.30pm The Marshelsea On. CC School Hall £10 |
[400 places] |
David Gaffney reads from his novel NEVER NEVER, Horatio Clare reads from TRUANT: NOTES FROM A SLIPPERY SLOPE Lindsay Mackie chairs a Panel Discussion on the storyteller’s treatment of debt and poverty from Dickens to the present day. | |
From 8.00 pm CADHAS Exhibition of Ephemera 8.30pm Who Put the B in the BBC? Upper Room, Town Hall £5 |
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Campden Drama Group and locals reading Vanessa Rigg’s radio play.
A fictionalised account of a live outside broadcast that went hilariously wrong when Owen Reed, came to Campden in 1934 to record a programme for his radio series, “The Microphone At Large”. Music from Tim Sexton and Andy Doran. Proceeds to the Recreation Ground. ...................Tickets from TIC | |
From 10.00am –Paddington Bear with his LITTLE ISSUE outside the library. |
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Donations to Action Research. | |
10.00am – 12 noon Saturday Morning Cinema St Catharine’s School £3 |
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Price to include a juice and sweets
Entertainment to include full-length feature film: THE SECRET OF MOONACRE (2009) Certificate U. Based on The Little White Horse by Elizabeth Goudge (Carnegie Medal in 1946. Organised by St Catharine's School Council. Proceeds to the Recreation Ground Fund. ..........Tickets from Bennetts Wines | |
2.30- 3.30 pm Shakespeare Through Artist's Eyes. Upper Room Town Hall £5 |
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An illustrated talk by Nadfas lecturer Vivien Heffernan
Organised by Amnesty-Stratford-upon-Avon. Proceeds to Amnesty. For tickets and more information telephone 01789 268700 or 01608 682205 | |
6.30 –7.30pm The Dying Light Upper Room,The Town Hall £8 |
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Concessions: Under 21 free, Unwaged half price
Henry Porter on his latest thriller THE DYING LIGHT, highlighting the threat of surveillance to civil liberties. Organised by The Quaker Meeting House Broad Campden. Proceeds to Asylum Welcome Oxford For tickets and more information telephone 01386 849 199 | |
Throughout the Festival you are invited to:
Take a self guided Literary Stroll - Guide Map and Text from Tourist Information at The Old Police Station
Visit Campden Gallery to see a room of James Fisher’s paintings of scenes in the woods that John Clare roamed, and to a view an exhibition paintings by Kristin Vestgard. Guy Cohen says that there is ‘narrative quality’ to Kristin’s paintings, ‘a tradition of Nordic storytelling.’
Special Ticket Deals – savings of over 20%
Buy tickets for all six evening events in CCS Hall (value £47) and save £10, paying only £37. Tickets are transferable. CCS pupils and one teacher accompanying ten or more pupils are eligible for free tickets to these events. Please note free tickets must be applied for in advance of the event.
Book for both Sheila Hayman’s All-comers Creative Writing Workshop and Chris James & Bob Mee’s Poetry workshop (value £36) and save £8, paying only £28. Reservations receipted. No tickets issued.
Buy tickets for both Bob Mee’s tips on how to get articles, stories & poems printed in magazines and Lindsay Stanberry-Flynn’s journey of the self-published novel from manuscript to paperback (value £8) and save £2, paying only £6. Tickets are transferable.