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The du Maurier Festival Society presents FOWEY FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND LITERATURE 8-16 MAY 2020 foweyfestival.com Principal sponsor FOLLOW US fowey_festival FoweyFestival A casual, all day dining affair with views over postcard perfect Fowey Harbour from the dining room and terrace. Food is light, seasonal and locally-sourced; drinks include eclectic wines, cocktails, local craft beers and gins. All day dining served with views Harbour Hour | £5 drinks | 5pm - 7pm daily Afternoon Tea | 12pm - 5pm daily : 01726 832551 : [email protected] : www.harbourhotels.co.uk/fowey 00645_HARBOUR_FOWEY_Sponsorship Artwork_A5.indd 1 20/02/2020 17:27 A casual, all day dining affair with views over postcard perfect Fowey Harbour from the dining room and terrace. Food is light, seasonal and locally-sourced; TO THE 2020 FOWEY FESTIVAL drinks include eclectic wines, cocktails, local craft beers and gins. Hello &OF ARTS AND LITERATUREWelcome Well, it’s that time of In addition there is a wide range of guided year again and what a walks, and bigger than ever Art Trail and oÃinteresting and eclectic the ever-popular Secret Gardens for you to Festival we have in all enjoy. store for you. The 2020 The Festival Cafe located in the wonderful programme offers Royal Fowey Yacht Club, will be open for something for everyone, from the opening coffee, cakes, light lunches and drinks on and closing concerts to a wide range of the terrace. As usual, the Waterstones talks, workshops, panel debates, music Festival bookshop will be located there recitals and the ever popular celebration of All day dining served with views too, and this year event tickets can be children’s writing and artwork. purchased directly from them throughout Both new and familiar faces are joining the duration of the Festival. us this year. Amongst them are: Michael Our Children’s Programme grows from Portillo, Sophie Hannah, Penny Smith; strength to strength. It might not be visible Dr Helen Taylor; Julie Summers; Roger to most visitors, but it will be well known McGough and Raynor Winn, to name a few. to local parents, whose children have been Dr Laura Varnam, has curated and will lead participating in competitions and visits to another varied and interesting programme schools by young children’s authors. of du Maurier events, including the ever Harbour Hour | £5 drinks | 5pm - 7pm daily popular reading groups. Our thanks go to all our supporters, but in particular to the Fowey Harbour Hotel, Look out for the varied range of workshops, who we welcome this year as the Festival including bookbinding, creative writing, art principal sponsor. As always, our thanks and music. This year, for the first time, we go to all our volunteers and wonderful are running a wonderful Chinese brush- audiences. Without you, we couldn’t do it. painting workshop. I look forward to seeing you in May! We are delighted to be working in partnership with the Fowey River Lions Afternoon Tea | 12pm - 5pm daily again this year, to bring you a wonderful opening concert with acclaimed band Mad Dog Mcrea. Brenda Daly, Festival Director : 01726 832551 : [email protected] : www.harbourhotels.co.uk/fowey FOLLOW US fowey_festival FoweyFestival foweyfestival.com | [email protected] 3 00645_HARBOUR_FOWEY_Sponsorship Artwork_A5.indd 1 20/02/2020 17:27 FRIDAY 8 MAY 8 FRIDAY 8pm-10pm, Fowey Parish Church, £20 In constant demand, Mad Dog Mcrea are, in every sense of the word a live band. We are delighted to welcome to this year’s Matched with the unshakable dedication festival the highly acclaimed band Mad Dog of their massive and “loyal-to-the-hilt” fan Mcrea. They blend a unique mixture of folk base, Mad Dog Mcrea are more than just rock, pop, gypsy jazz, bluegrass and ‘shake a very popular act, with five albums under your ass’ music. From self-penned songs their belts, they are serious and acclaimed of adventure, drinking, love and life, to recording artists too. December 2019 saw traditional songs of gypsies, fairies, legless Mad Dog Mcrea release a 5-track EP titled pirates and black flies – Mad Dog never It’s a Sign. fail to capture their audience with their infectious songs. Wine, beer and soft drinks will be available before the start of the concert and during the interval. In partnership with Fowey River Lions foweyfestival.com | [email protected] 5 SATURDAY 9 MAY 9 SATURDAY _ _ Gill Hornby DRINKS RECEPTION AND LUNCHEON Ã12.30pm-2pm, Fowey Harbour Hotel, £30 ÃJoin us for a wonderful luncheon in the stunning setting of the Fowey Harbour Hotel, commencing with a drinks reception followed by a two- course lunch and coffee. We are delighted to welcome our guest speaker, writer and journalist, Gill Hornby. Her widely acclaimed novel The Hive, was the bestselling literary hardback debut of 2013. Since then, Gill has published _ several critically acclaimed novels and she will be in conversation later this week to discuss her latest, Miss Austen. At today’s luncheon, she will touch upon the influences on her writing and will discuss how, after raising four children and with a change of career in her 50’s, she has proved that the person you put on the sidelines, may well turn out to be more important than you realise. Gill is the younger sister of bestselling novelist, Nick Hornby and she lives in Berkshire with her husband, acclaimed author, Robert Harris. Please contact the Fowey Harbour Hotel on 01726 832 551 with any dietary requirements. Supported by Century 6 foweyfestival.com | [email protected] FOLLOW US fowey_festival FoweyFestival SATURDAY 9 MAY 9 SATURDAY David Parker LAURIE LEE - DOWN IN THE VALLEY – THE LOST RECORDINGS 6pm-7pm, Fowey Town Hall, £10 Reflections on love, landscape, writing, poetry, childhood, music and much more, from the voice of one of the great English writers of the last century, Laurie Lee. In 1994, the year of his 80th birthday, Laurie Lee shared his memories of an ‘eventful’ early life, in a series of interviews with the film maker and television director, David Parker. It was quite a coup, as Laurie did not ‘do’ television! In the recordings, he talks with sublime eloquence about his life in the Slad Valley, and the influence of the Julie Summers landscapes and memories of his childhood DRESSED FOR WAR on his subsequent writing. 4pm-5pm, Fowey Town Hall, £10 In this illustrated talk, David will introduce the recordings, and using extracts from Dressed for War tells them, reveal what they tell us about one of the story of Audrey England’s finest chroniclers of our times. Withers, editor of British Laurie Lee - The Lost Recordings DVD and Vogue from 1940-1960. audio recordings are out now. Now almost completely unknown, Withers was Wine and soft drinks available. described in 1943 by Supported by Penguin Books the President of the Board of Trade as "the most powerful woman in London". A towering intellect with a genius for editing, an eagle eye for good design and the courage to take on some of the biggest personalities in mid-20th century fashion, Audrey Withers was also kind and generous. We are delighted to invite back to the Festival, author and historian, Julie Summers, who through her latest book, shines a spotlight on this forgotten feminist heroine. Supported by Simon and Schuster foweyfestival.com | [email protected] 7 The du Maurier Festival Society presents OF ARTS AND LITERATURE FOWEY ART TRAIL *% 9-16 MAY 2020 Thirty-two artists and craftspeople invite you to their studios and exhibitions in Fowey Facebook “f” Logo CMYK / .ai Facebook “f” Logo CMYK / .ai Fowey Festival Art Trail www.foweyfestival.com 8 foweyfestival.com | [email protected] SATURDAY 9 MAY 9 SATURDAY *% *% William Ivory THROUGH THE EYES OF A SCRIPTWRITER 8pm-9pm, Fowey Town Hall, £10 One of Britain’s leading television and theatre writers, William Ivory, was born in Southwell, Nottinghamshire. He attended the Minster School and London University. However, he left university after a year and became a council dustman. He has written award- winning dramas for film, television and theatre, including: Journey to Knock, Common as Muck, The Sins, Burton and Taylor, Bomber’s Moon, Diary of a Football Nobody and was a BAFTA nominated writer for the film Made in Dagenham. He is currently Visiting Professor in the School of Arts and Humanities at Nottingham Trent University. This evening, William talks candidly about his career, the film industry and much more. Wine and soft drinks available. Other Events SATURDAY 9 MAY Fowey Art Trail. Various studios and galleries. See Page 8 Ethy House Garden opening. See page 59 foweyfestival.com | [email protected] 9 © Nina Hollington SUNDAY 10 MAY Ã ÃAndrew Lownie6PM FOWEY TOWN HALL ÃLearn the Skills of Bookbinding MANDY FLOCKTON OWNER OF LEARN BOOKBINDING 10.30am-5pm, Fowey Harbour Hotel, £55 Spend a day with professional bookbinder, Mandy Flockton, from Learn Bookbinding. In this full day workshop you will learn traditional multi-signature binding, suitable for beginners and those who enjoy bookbinding. You will come away with a beautiful hard-backed half-cloth A5 book that you have made yourself from start to finish. Mandy has taken traditional bookbinding methods out of the bindery and on to the _ kitchen table. You’ll be able to continue making stunning hardback books at home without the need for any special tools or materials. Learn Bookbinding’s popular, Complete Bookbinding Starter Kit, will also be available on the day at a discounted price to Festival visitors. Numbers limited to 20. _ 10 foweyfestival.com | [email protected] FOLLOW US fowey_festival FoweyFestival SUNDAY 10 MAY Meet The Festival Team 12.30pm-1.30pm, Fowey Town Hall Friends Event – Free Entry Calling all Festival Friends.