Welcome to the Wolds Words Festival!
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Events taking place in and around Louth, Alford, Skegness, Wainfleet, Horncastle, Wragby, Spilsby, Woodhall Spa and Sutton on Sea Welcome to the Wolds Words Festival! For the 11th year, you are welcome to join us for an action packed programme, in the beautiful rolling landscape Wednesday 3rd October and rural tranquillity of the Lincolnshire Wolds. Acting the Part Combining literature heavy-weights with local Of course, children and young people will for National talent, our diverse line-up of events, many of also have lots to do. From giving a modern Older People’s Day which are free of charge, ensures that there is Manga twist to Shakespeare, to creating something for everyone. Our festival of reading, animated digital ‘shorts’; from bringing Rhubarb Theatre with Lacey Gardens writing and performance is a literary celebration storylines to life in pop-up books, to Junior School and the Trinity Centre on a human scale, offering unquenchable working with Lincolnshire’s Poet Laureate Trinity Centre enthusiasm to inspire East Lindsey. to transform creative writing, graffiti style. 1pm-3pm Storybook Days and Squashbox Theatre will In a year that our nation was dominated by Free also add to this festival of fun. Olympic fever, we are thrilled to welcome In celebration of National Older People’s former swimmer and BBC Olympic presenter Who doesn’t fancy a good laugh? We have Day, pupils from Lacey Gardens will share Mark Foster to the region. 5x Olympian, 6x a great comedy line-up for you, including and exchange skills with older people from World Champion, 10x World Recorder holder hilarious act ‘The Boy With Tape On His the area. Aided and abetted by the very (and the list goes on!), Mark will be hosting a Face’ which breaks the barriers of language creative Rhubarb Theatre! question and answer session and we are sure to hysterically charm you, inevitably leaving you have plenty to quiz the man who led Team you like the boy – lost for words! GB out at the 2008 Beijing Olympic games! The list of fantastic events goes on! This Aspiring writers can submerge themselves in diverse, comical, occasionally cheeky and always two day-long workshops designed to inspire excellent festival is set to transform Louth and and hone skills. Then we offer the chance to pick its surrounding market towns into literature up tips and advice as a literary agent visits the hotspots. We can’t wait to see you at Wolds festival helping you along the way to getting Words 2012! your work published. 2 On behalf of East Lindsey We are delighted to welcome you to the 11th annual Wolds Words festival – one of our region’s Saturday most important celebrations. 6th October Joseph and His Round A fantastic festival of reading, writing and up and coming authors, hands-on workshop performance, Wolds Words aims to create a sessions and much, much more. the World Dream Boat podium for local talent alongside world class The Red Lion Theatre (Horncastle) This unique festival offers East Lindsey acts within the charm and beauty of Louth and A matinee at 3pm and an evening residents a chance to get involved with its surrounding villages. performance at 7.30pm. a successful, exciting and fruitful festival. Tickets - adults £5 & £4 (concessions) East Lindsey District Council is highly focused on Volunteers, schools, young people, local working hard to produce festivals which unite businesses and community groups all play a “Joseph & His Round the World Dream local people, helping support the local economy. vital part in making this celebration special. Boat” by Alan Meadows is a play for We are also proud to produce SO Festival children to have fun performing, a play for East Lindsey is proud of what we offer our (www.sofestival.org) in Skegness and the people to have fun watching. This will be residents, in particular Wolds Words and the surrounding area. We are determined to the world premier of this delightful play. significance it plays in our broader cultural ensure that East Lindsey maintains its growing It traces the life of a local Lincolnshire lad, tourism proposals. reputation as one of the leading Districts in the Joseph Banks through his epic voyages region for festivals and events. We hope to see you at one of the fantastic with Captain Cook onto international events at Wolds Words festival 2012. renown. Box Office: 01507 526566 For over a decade, Wolds Words has showcased incredible talent; entertaining crowds and Doreen Stephenson attracting writers and performers of the highest calibre. This year is no different. Leader of East Lindsey District Council Once again, this year’s programme is a thrilling fusion of familiar names, Adam Grist Portfolio Holder for Culture, Leisure & Tourism 3 Fringe Events Wednesday 17th - Saturday 20th October Thursday 11th October In Other Words Starting Local History: Thursday 8th November Lindsey Scribes Introduction to the My Family Came Spout Yard Gallery Local Studies Collection 10am-4p., Free From Louth! An exhibition of work by members of this with Ruth Neller group of calligraphy enthusiasts who show Conoco Room, Louth Library With Ruth Neller their work across the county. 2pm-4pm. Free Conoco Room, Louth Library If you are new to local history research, 2pm-4pm. Free large library collections can seem In its local studies collection, Louth Library overwhelming. This workshop is an holds a wealth of material about the introduction to the range of information people who have lived in Louth in the past. available in Louth Library, in terms of both This workshop will introduce you to these types of material and geographic area resources and show covered. By the end, you will feel more you how to make confident in using this locally available the most of them resource for your research. to fill out your family’s history. Places are limited, please book in advance at the library. Places are limited, please book in Experienced former librarian & local advance at the history researcher Ruth Neller is leading 3 library. workshops for aspiring local historians this autumn. 4 Festival at a glance Children & Young People Page What the Papers Say 19 Celebrating Charles Dickens Page Acting the Part 2 Love Stories: One Day Writer’s Retreat 21 Building a New Bleak House 17 for National Older People’s Day Rural Reflections & Local History Page Fagin’s Last Hour 17 Joseph and His Round the 3 Starting Local History: Introduction to 4 Sporting Heroes Page World Dream Boat the Local Studies Collection The Other Olympics 19 Library Programme 8/9 My Family Came from Louth 4 An Evening with Mark Foster 22 Dumbs Up! School Invitation Only 10 The Wallis Lecture: Fowler of Louth 11 Isa Guha 23 Think Differently Think BIG, 10 Golden Fables 2012 Film 12 Cordeaux School Only Exhibitions, Music & Film Page An evening of ‘hentertayunment’ with 13 Storytelling Time & Crafts 11 Far Welter’d Exhibition: In Other Words – Work by 4 the Lindsey Scribes Home Start Craft & Story Time 13/14 Louth History Walk 14 Film: The Hedgehog 10 Charlie and Lola with Storybook Days 19 Starting Local History: Directories and 15 Pop-up Books Workshop 19 Census Returns Exhibition: Flooding 10 Illustration Workshop 20 By the Winter Sea 16 Film: How Films Work 12 Poetic Graffiti 20 History of Louth 20 Film: Escape from Tibet 15 Manga Shakespeare: 20 100 Years of Lincolnshire Farming 21 Music: Ashley Hutchings and Blair 17 Dunlop Manga Drawing Workshop Hands-on Craft Page Animation Nation 23 Comedy Page Handmade Paper Making Workshop 12 The Sea Show 23 The Boy with Tape on His Face 15 Knitter in Residence 12/14 All About Writing Page /18 Animal Power: Blackbird Flies with 16 Rhubarb Theatre Plots, Twist and Emotion: Build a novel 14 Writing In Roundhand & Italic – 13/16 that is impossible to put down Calligraphy Demonstrations Monkey Poet 18 How to get published 16 Japanese Bookbinding 19 The Very Grimm Brothers Open Mic 21 Cabaret Creative Approaches to Memoirs 18 To book, see page 25 or visit www.woldswords.org.uk 5 Louth Playgoers Riverhead Theatre Wolds Words Festival events at the Louth Playgoers Riverhead Theatre Wed 17 Dumb’s Up (Schools only event) October Golden Fables 2012 Film & talk Wolds Words Festival has worked in close Thu 18 The Boy with Tape on his Face: More partnership with the Riverhead Theatre October Tape since the festival began in 2001. This coincided with their move to the purpose- Friday 19 Animal Power: Blackbird Flies with designed Riverhead Theatre in 2002 so October Rhubarb Theatre both venue and theatre have worked in Building a New Bleak House with tandem since the very beginning. Lynn Shepherd For anyone who has never stepped inside Fagin’s Last Hour this purpose-designed and beautiful theatre, we urge you to do so. Louth Saturday Charlie & Lola with Storybook Days 20 October Playgoers Society delivers a highly varied The Other Olympics programme of both home-generated performances as well as providing a Manga Shakespeare workshop perfect showcase for regional and national An Evening with Mark Foster professional theatre. Run largely by volunteers, the Riverhead Theatre also Sunday 21 The Sea Show hosts Blackbox Theatre Company for October Theatre © Riverhead 7-14 year olds and Wharfingers Theatre Louth Playgoers Riverhead Theatre is a member of Company for 13 - 20 year olds. Local LOV – Lincolnshire One Venues. integrated theatre group Blackbird Flies also meet here very week. To find out more about the theatre or to get involved go to www.louthplaygoers.com 6 Trinity Centre Tninty Centre Events Fri 19 Knitter in Residence! October Wed 3 Acting it Out part of By the Winter Sea, film October National Older People’s Day showing as part of Fish on Thur 11 Starting Local History: Friday October Introduction to the Local Creative Approaches to Studies Collection Memoirs (Please note, this event is at Sat 20 Love Stories: One Day Louth Library) October Writers’ Retreat Tue 16 Storytelling Time & Crafts October with Sophie Snell Pop-up Book workshop for © Trinity Centre Trinity © children Wed 17 Knitter in Residence! We are delighted to have a special partnership October Illustration workshop for with the Trinity Centre in Louth for 2012.