Leeds Big Bookend Festival with the first everNorthern Short Story Festival Crossing City Limits

festival programme May - June 2016

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This year’s Leeds Big Bookend Festival invites you to journey to the edges of the city, to reassess and re-think Leeds’ limits!

So are you feeling brave enough to cross some boundaries with us this year? Let’s face our fears, step out of our comfort zone, and embrace the diversity of this great, multi-faceted city. FESTIVAL PROGRAMME

Book Launch & Talk Bilingual Creative Writing Workshop Three Leeds-based Sagas from Belong/ 归属感 , Gui Shu Gan. Part of Frances Brody the From Shore to Shore project. Sat 4 Jun @ 12:30 – 13:30 | £FREE Sun 5 Jun @ 11:30 -13:00 | £FREE Central , Calverley Street, LS1 3AB Central Library, Calverley Street, LS1 3AB

Talk Open Rehearsal Notes from a Beijing Coffeeshop Leeds Lads from Red Ladder with Jonathan Geldert Theatre Sat 4 Jun @ 12:30 – 13:30 | £FREE Sun 5 Jun @ 13:30 – 14:30 | £FREE Central Library, Calverley Street, LS1 3AB Central Library, Calverley Street, LS1 3AB

Tickets Performance & Workshops - Children Spoken Word MA For all event information and to book your (U10s) Leeds Trinity Creative Writing tickets visit bigbookend.co.uk/events. Fantasy Fun with the Rainbow Showcase Y - JUNE 2016 FOR TICKETS VISIT Factory Sun 5 Jun @ 15:30 – 18:00 | £FREE Sat 4 Jun @ 13:30 – 15:00 | £FREE Outlaws Yacht Club, 38 New York Street, Book Launch Children’s Library, Central Library, LS2 7DY The Firebird Chronicles: The Calverley Street, LS1 3AB Nemesis Charm by Daniel Ingram- Book Launches & Performance Brown Workshop - Children (5+) Inside African Forests. An Evening Fri 27 May @ 19:00 – 21:00 | £FREE Bookends! A ‘Make-Your-Own’ of Story-telling, Poetry, Food and , Albion St, LS1 5JS Bookends Workshop with Artist Drumming Claire Evans Mon 6 Jun @ 19:00- 21:30 | £FREE Spoken Word Sat 4 Jun @ 14:00 – 16:00 | £FREE LCI, 20 New Market Street, LS1 6DG Nymphs & Thugs with Clare Sita The Stanley & Audrey Burton Gallery, Fisher, Rowan McCabe and Vicky Parkinson Building, Woodhouse Lane, LS2 Play Foster 9JT Conscientious by Pillbox Theatre Thu 2 Jun @ 19:30 – 22:30 | £PWYF Wed 8 & Thu 9 Jun @ 19:30 – 21:00 | £5 The Hyde Park Book Club, 27-29 Poetry Treasures of the Brotherton, Parkinson Headingley Lane, Hyde Park, LS6 1BL Tea and Poetry with Luke Kennard Building, Woodhouse Lane, LS2 9JT Sat 4 Jun @ 14:00 – 15:30 | £3 Interactive Installation Central Library, Calverley Street, LS1 3AB Debate Through the Weather Glass by Lucy The Index on Censorship Big Burnett Play Preview Debate. Does Fiction have a Sat 4 June, 10:00 – 17:00 £free The Empress on the Corner by Chris Stronger Impact than Journalism? Trinity Shopping Centre, Albion Street, Nickson Tue 14 Jun @ 18:30 – 20:00 | £FREE LS1 5AT Sat 4 Jun @ 14:30 – 16:00 | £5 Carriageworks Theatre, The Electric Central Library, Calverley Street, LS1 3AB Press, 3 Millennium Square, LS2 3AD Discussion & Punking It Up with Armley Press Book Launch & Performance Authors The Alphabet Club Anthology by Sat 4 Jun @ 12:00 -13:30 | £FREE Jamie Fletcher Central Library, Calverley Street, LS1 3AB Sat 4 Jun @ 15:45 – 16:45 | £FREE Central Library, Calverley Street, LS1 3AB

Q & A & Discussion Independent Press Panel The Dark Side of the North 12:30 – 13:30 | £4 16:30 – 17:30 | £4 With Jim Hinks (Comma Press) Jamie Short story writers Barney Walsh & David McGarry (Valley Press) & Ray Russell Martin. (Tartarus Press). Workshop Festival Headliner Flashbulb Flash Fiction Carys Bray - Reading & Q&A 16:30 – 17:30 | £5 14:00 – 15:00 | £8/£6 (conc.) Interactive workshop in flash (or very Carys Bray is a short story writer and short) fiction with Clare Sita Fisher. novelist. Her second The Museum of BIGBOOKEND.CO.UK/EVENTS Northern Short Story Festival part of Big You will be published in June 2016 Open Mic Bookend Festival on Saturday 4 June 17:45 – 18:45 | £FREE Carriageworks Theatre, The Electric Reading Listen to short stories created at the NSSF Press, 3 Millennium Square, LS2 3AD Bluemoose Event workshops or bring your own to read. 15:15 – 16:15 | £4 Tickets With Michael Stewart (winner of the Not Readings & Book Launch Individual tickets from Carriageworks: the Booker prize) & Anna Chilvers. Stories from the Forests of Leeds carriageworkstheatre.org.uk or ring: 0113 17:45 – 18:45 | £4 376 0318. Day Tickets available at £20 Workshop With Daniel Ingram-Brown & local writers. Success in Short Story Competitions Workshop 15:15 – 16:15 | £5 Afterparty The Art of Murder With Avril Joy (winner of the Costa Prize) Benjamin Judge & The Three Amigos 11:30 – 13:30 | £5 for beginners & experienced writers alike. 20:00 - 23:00 | £3 door Interactive & practical Crime Writing at The Hyde Park Book Club workshop with Alison Taft & Anna Chilvers