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.
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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
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Thursday 11th October Wednesday 17th - Saturday 20th October Starting Local History: Thursday In Other Words Introduction to the 8th November Lindsey Scribes Local Studies Collection My Family Came Spout Yard Gallery with Ruth Neller From Louth! 10am-4p., Free Conoco Room, Louth Library An exhibition of work by members of this 2pm-4pm. Free With Ruth Neller group of calligraphy enthusiasts who show their work across the county. If you are new to local history research, Conoco Room, Louth Library large library collections can seem 2pm-4pm. Free overwhelming. This workshop is an In its local studies collection, Louth Library introduction to the range of information holds a wealth of material about the available in Louth Library, in terms of both people who have lived in Louth in the past. types of material and geographic area This workshop will introduce you to these covered. By the end, you will feel more resources and show confident in using this locally available you how to make resource for your research. the most of them to fill out your Places are limited, please book in advance family’s history. at the library. Places are limited, Experienced former librarian & local please book in history researcher Ruth Neller is leading 3 advance at the workshops for aspiring local historians this library. 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
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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. Hand-made Paper Workshop older children This beautiful venue is a purpose-designed for adults Sun 21 Stop-Motion Animation meeting place and community centre on How Films Work with Louth October all-day workshop for young the site of Holy Trinity Church on Eastfield Film Club’s Paul Hill people Road, and used as a base for much of the community work carried out by the Team Thu 18 Escape from Tibet, award Thur 8 My Family Came From Parish of Louth and the Louthesk Deanery. October winning film with Nick Gray November Louth! (Please note, this Although Wolds Words has held events at Knitter in Residence! event is at Louth Library) the Centre for a number of years, Awards for All funding for 2012 has enabled a dedicated Home Start exploring Under programme of events to take place at this the Sea, for children venue. Starting Local History: If you haven’t been into the Trinity Centre Using Directories & Census before, you are very welcome to come and Returns attend our varied programme of Wolds Words events, most of which are free! To book, see page 25 or visit www.woldswords.org.uk 7 Library Programme
Special events especially for children and young people within Libraries. FREE* unless otherwise stated. Booking is essential. Please call 01522 782010 and ask for your Library Event during open hours.
1st to 20th October Wednesday 17th October Thursday 18th October First and Last Lines Quiz* Victorian Afternoon Tea DIY Book Surgery (All Ages), Spilsby Library (All Ages), Sutton-on-Sea Library, 2pm-4pm (All Ages), Alford Library Collect a Quotations Quiz sheet from Spilsby An afternoon of all things Victorian to celebrate Session 1 – 10am-12 noon Library and test your literary knowledge. Charles Dickens’ two hundred year anniversary. Session 2 – 1pm-3pm A light-hearted session looking at inventions, Name the novel and author for each quotation Library staff share their expertise, enthusiasm food and famous characters of the age. and say whether it is a first or last line. and websites to show you how to solve your Authentic refreshments available with donations book reading dilemmas. Quiz sheets 50p, available from 1st October. to a local charity. Deadline 1pm on Saturday 20th October. Two Who writes like, what else have they written and what can you read next? book prizes are available for winner and runner up. Thursday 18th October Call in to collect a quiz sheet. The library is open Grab a drink from one of the nearby cafes and Mondays 10am-4pm, Wednesdays 10am-2pm, “Oliver’s Wood” drop in to see us. Fridays 10am-6pm and Saturdays 10am-1pm. by Sue Hendra Friday 19th October Monday 15th to Friday 19th October (Under 5’s), Wragby Library, 11am-12 noon Children’s Activities “When night falls and the moon and the twinkly Readers Drop In Surgery stars come out, Oliver wakes up ………..” join for Autumn (All Ages), Wragby Library Oliver and his friends to discover what our (4-8 yrs), Wainfleet Library, 4pm-5pm What happens in the next book? Is there a next animal friends do when we are sound asleep. Join us in the impressive Wainfleet library book? I love the author what else did they write? Join in with interactive story telling using real life building to enjoy autumn themed activities for I want to read about novels based in Lincolnshire? objects and crafts made during the session. See children with a story time, poetry and activity Help is on hand so come in, sit down and find yoooooou there….! out answers to your questions…details about 8 local book clubs also available. Library Programme
Friday 19th October Friday 19th October Thursday 25th October Children’s After School ‘Harvest Festival’ Words Campfire Tales with Poetry Special (0-5 yrs), Alford Library, 10.30am -11.30am William Hussey Celebrate harvest and autumn with stories, (6-11 yrs), Skegness Library (10+ yrs), Skegness Library, 7.30pm-8.30pm rhymes, songs and craft activities for the under 3.45pm-4.45pm (Drop In) 5s. Enjoy a healthy snack of local fruit and veg Author William Hussey will be at Skegness Children are invited to join our After School club sticks. Library to narrate ghost stories and tales of for the day to write and illustrate poetry. The ghosts and horror. poems will then be displayed in the library and Saturday 20th October Not for the faint hearted! read aloud to the group. ‘Living in the Wednesday 31st October Friday 19th October Lincolnshire Wolds’ Spooky Filming Delve Into Your History (All ages), Alford Library Film Crew (8-13 yrs) (All Ages), Horncastle Library 10am-1pm (Drop In) ‘Trick or Treat’ Groups (All Welcome) 2.30pm-4.30pm (Drop In) Appreciate our heritage and sample local Alford Library, 5pm-7pm Help is on hand at the library to explore your produce as you delve into the local history Book a place as a member of the film crew for family tree, the history of your house and where resources at the library and try your hand at the whole session or drop in dressed in your you live. We have local books, old newspapers, completing a quiz. Halloween or ‘Trick or Treat’ costumes to be Ancestry online and much more. Saturday 20th October filmed in the library reading spooky poems. Children’s Activities Film Crew places limited – booking essential. (4-8 yrs), Woodhall Spa Library, 11am-12 noon Come along and enjoy activities with storytime and autumnal crafts in Woodhall Spa Library.
To book, see page 25 or visit www.woldswords.org.uk 9 Educational & Outreach Programme Special events especially for children and young people in local schools. Wednesday 17th October – Primary cloud at www.walkingoncinders.com. Join Ben as he walks you through the road to publication, School Invitation ONLY how he set up his own label, fought with agents Monday 15th October Dumbs Up! - Ian Billings and publishing houses to ‘break the circle,’ and ultimately got his work in the hands of readers LOUTH FILM CLUB presents... Riverhead Theatre. £3 and critics in the UK and overseas. Dumbs Up! – A stand up THE HEDGEHOG comedy show for kids (and Playhouse Cinema, Louth their keepers). 7.30pm, Louth Film Club members £3.50 Non-members £5.90 (concessions £4.70) Brilliantly interweaving Mona Acheche’s handsomely filmed a kooky gallery of Monday 15th - Saturday 20th October 2011 adaptation of the popular French voices with an absurd Flooding Exhibition novel The Elegance Of The Hedgehog, imagination. International by Muriel Barbary. Renée, a put-upon kids comic, Ian Billings Mablethorpe Library, FREE concierge in a Paris apartment block, is takes the audience on a giggle-filled, chuckle- This interesting and interactive exhibition befriended by a rebellious 14-year-old girl stuffed romp through his mad mind. will take you through the risks of coastal flooding, what you can do to be prepared and a charming Japanese widower who Thursday, 16th October in case of a flood, and the actions currently both see through her pretended lack of being taken by local authorities and their culture. A thoroughly engaging film with Think Differently, partners to reduce this risk. Learn ways outstanding performances by Joliane of reducing the Balasko, Garance Think BIG - Ben Atkinson effects of climate Le Guillermic and Cordeaux School Only change, read Togo Igawa. Ben Atkinson is a student at the University of quotes from the In French with Lincoln. He has written two published novels survivors of the English subtitles, and is currently working on a travelogue. One great flood of 1953 Certificate 12A of the first authors to embrace the possibilities and play on the of social media and Twitter, Ben also develops interactive touch graphic web content, with his own information screen games. 10 Fringe Events & QuARTerly
Take afr Copy e e East Lindsey Arts East Lindsey Arts Forum Funding by Coastal Action Zone (RDPE) Issue 23 – September to November 2012 Louth Choral Society – page 11 Forum QuARTerly Tuesday 16th October Magazine Story Telling Time Your guide to all things arts and cultural & Crafts happening in East Tuesday 16th October Sophie Snell Lindsey. This is available Trinity Centre, FREE to download from The Wallis Lecture: 3pm–4pm (2-5 yrs) www.arts-el.com 4pm–5pm (5+ yrs) ScaN me! By Fowler of Louth The East Lindsey Arts Join our warm, Forum is a voluntary organisation that works David Robinson OBE engaging and lively performer Sophie for towards bringing the art community together to Conoco Room, Louth Library, some story telling & crafts who will tell promote their art and arts events in East Lindsey 7.30pm-9.30pm. the tales of traditional folk tales plucked at the same time providing a platform for artist £3 Free to Ants & Nats from the stones and bones of the British Isles and Northern Europe. to network and support each other. An illustrated talk Come on a journey of tales that twist and The Arts Forum publishes an art magazine on the life and turn, finding the unexpected, the comical called the QuARTerly which list an assortment work of prolific and the intriguing. of various art and cultural events in our coastal architect James area. The QuARTerly is the only art magazine Fowler (1828- Author of popular “The Pirate’s Sister” published in East Lindsey that promotes and 1892). His output and “Dragon’s Tales”, she also writes for represents artist, art groups, art and cultural was prodigious, children and adults. activities in East Lindsey. designing or “Bringing a story alive with voice, restoring over 250 movement and humour, watching children Our QuARTerly’s are packed with information buildings. giggling and entranced, or adults hooked about the latest art activities and venues in and by the story, is a magical life and I relish around the East Lindsey district. every moment of it!” Sophie Snell To book, see page 25 or visit www.woldswords.org.uk 11 Wednesday 17th October
Handmade Paper How Films Knitter in Residence Workshop Work Carol Parker with Kate Rogers with Paul Hill Day one Trinity Centre, 10am-4pm. Trinity Centre, 10.30am-12 noon Trinity Centre Free (materials supplied) Alford Manor House, 2pm – 3.30pm 2pm-4pm Come and join one of Lincolnshire’s most Free Free creative knitters during this 3-day residency During the papermaking session participants will An informal, illustrated, in the Trinity Centre foyer. A chance to play have the opportunity to create pieces of paper interactive talk about what makes films tick. with a variety of techniques and contribute using two different techniques. We will use a Film is a technical art medium but is also very to Carol’s ‘fishing net’. Threads of yarn trailing pouring technique to create patterns, which tell popular. How, then, do directors use camera, from the net will beg a story in the paper. We will also use a more lighting, colour, editing, sound or silence and to be worked, either traditional technique where participants will other devices to achieve emotional impact? by knit or crochet. stand on the sheets of paper to squeeze out What is visual imagination? Examples will be Knitting together is the water. These sheets of paper are beautifully taken from the list of top ten films in the recent always about nattering simple and are wonderful for writing on. survey conducted by the British Film Institute. together, and words & phrases from people’s stories, which emerge as needles clack, will be collected and captured in the net.
© Kate Rogers
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Golden An evening of Home Start Fables ‘hentertayunment’ Alford Manor House 10am-12noon 2012 Film with Far Welter’d Free Cultural Far Welter’d (The East Lincolnshire Dialect A fun session for under 5s exploring Under Society), King’s Head Hotel, 7.30pm the Sea with stories, craft, rhymes and songs. Everyone welcome. Solutions £5 (includes Lincolnshire buffet) Riverhead Theatre, Far Welter’d has been Home-Start East Lindsey is a local charity 7.30pm. £4 part of the Wolds offering support friendship and practical help Join us to watch Words Festival-or to families with young children. To book please this multimedia poetic drama commissioned Wolds Wods, as we contact Homestart on 01507 610665 by cultural solutions UK for the Cultural would say!-from Olympiad. Golden Fables 2012 fuses words from the very start. Who, Archbishop Desmond Tutu with specially-written or what, are we? Writing in Roundhand- Fables by poets Ian McMillan, Gillian Clarke, Well, we’re a happy Liz Lochhead and Joel Stickley set to music by Welter’d © Far band of people who Calligraphy Demonstration Gabriel Prokofiev, Luke Carver Goss and Tim celebrate the rich diversity of our local tongue Dalling. in verse, narrative and song-and have a good Lindsey Scribes time while we’re at it! So please join us at the The production is brought to life by Choir Spout Yard Gallery King’s Head for a bit of good old Lincolnshire Invisible – The Desmond and Leah Tutu Peace 10am-4pm, Free hentertayunment-you’ll be hevver so welcome! Choir and Choir Vibe, alongside actors, images by A chance to see a graphic novelist Kate Brown and live music from calligrapher at work, the Berkeley Ensemble. using traditional Filmed live at the Embassy Theatre, Skegness as letterforms. part of the SO Festival.
Featuring a documentary on the making of the production. To book, see page 25 or visit www.woldswords.org.uk 13
Thursday 18th October
Plots, Twist and Emotion: Home Start Louth Build a novel that is Trinity Centre History Walk 10am-12 noon. Free Visiting locations impossible to put down A fun session for under around Louth fives exploring Under the Nick Louth Sea with stories, craft, 1.30pm-3.30pm. Free Elizabeth Court, 9.30am-5pm. £4 rhymes and songs. Everyone welcome. Come and join well How is that book idea coming on? You’ve the known local historian Home-Start East Lindsey is a local charity Stuart Sizer and ELDC’s ideas, but how do you weave them into an offering support friendship and practical help exciting plot that will leave readers turning page Programme Walks Officer Tracey Richardson on to families with young children. To book please a captivating walk around the historic market after page? How to build characters that inspire contact Homestart on 01507 610665. trust or terror, and do the research that makes town of Louth. Learn more about what has the book ‘convincing’? made Louth the place we see today. The walk will start and finish at St James’s Church where In this practical workshop local journalist and refreshments will be available. novelist Nick Louth explains the tools and tricks that turn a good story into a great one. Knitter in Residence Booking is essential as places are limited. Limited places, please book in advance. Carol Parker Day two Trinity Centre, 10am-4pm. Free (materials supplied) Come and join one of Lincolnshire’s most creative knitters during this 3-day residency in the Trinity Centre foyer. For more details please see page 12 14 Thursday 18th October
Starting Local History: The Boy With Tape on his Escape from Directories and Census Face: More Tape Tibet Returns Ruth Neller Riverhead Theatre Nick Gray 7.30pm. £12 Strictly Over 16’s only Trinity Centre, 7pm. Free Trinity Centre “Utterly spectacular! County directories and national census returns Endlessly inventive, 7.30pm. Free are two of the easiest local history resources to hysterically funny. Lincoln-based producer, access, yet they contain a wealth of information Sublime physical director and author Nick about communities in the past. In this workshop lunacy – fight for Gray, will be introducing you will learn how to make the most of them. a ticket.” Time Out his award-winning documentary film and book Places are limited, please book in advance. London. ‘Escape from Tibet’. Described as ‘astonishing and emotionally gripping’ this film has won A brand new show many international prizes and been screened at from The Boy: mime the Foreign Office, at The White House and in 40 with noise, stand-up © Mat Ricardo countries worldwide. with no talking, drama with no acting. This It follows 11-year-old Tenzin’s attempts to boy has to be seen to be believed. flee Chinese repression of his homeland by taking the most dangerous escape route in the What does he do? The less you know the more world, over the Himalayas, led by his fearless you will enjoy! brother Pasang. This emotional story traces the Don’t miss out! Plus support from Phil Buckley. desperate challenges, hardships and setbacks of their remarkable journey. As seen on ‘The Royal Variety Performance 2011’.
To book, see page 25 or visit www.woldswords.org.uk 15 Friday 19th October
Writing in Italic - Animal Power How to get published
- a short course in finding, and Calligraphy Demonstration Blackbird Flies Lindsey Scribes with Rhubarb delivering, the book inside you Conoco Room, Louth Library Spout Yard Gallery Theatre 10.30am-12.30pm. £4 10am-4pm. Free Riverhead Theatre Writing a book A chance to see a 1.30pm. Free is a longstanding calligrapher at work, using ambition for many Ever seen a tiger on a jet ski? Ever seen a traditional letterforms. – but how do you rapping lumberjack? Come and find out more get started, keep in this workshop performance which tells an going, and know By The Winter Sea imaginative story of conservation on a tropical when you have island. Production by Red Dog Film finished? This two Blackbird Flies is an hour workshop is Community Interest Company integrated theatre delivered by Dr Trinity Centre. 10.30am. Free group where people Alison Baverstock, former publisher and now By the Winter Sea is the story of Ada who with learning disabilities Course Leader for MA Publishing at Kingston became a land girl in coastal Lincolnshire work alongside University. She has a wealth of practical during WWII. The film was made on behalf of professional artists & experience and her advice will help you decide Lincolnshire Coastal Country Park, and looks back community groups. whether you want to work towards publication, to a time when much of the land on the coast Animal Power was help someone else achieve the same thing, or was grazing marsh, with dairy and cattle farms. devised by the group invest more energy for a later delivery. and has been developed and produced with support from Lincolnshire theatre company Rhubarb Theatre.
16 Friday 19th October Building a New Fagin’s Last Ashley Hutchings and Blair Bleak House Hour Dunlop plus support from Lynn Shepherd Presented by Rosie and Lucy Coggle Riverhead Theatre Brother Wolf Off the Beaten Tracks 7pm. £7 productions Royal British Legion. 8pm. Tickets £10 door £8 adv from Off The Beaten Lynn Shepherd is the Riverhead Theatre author of the captivating ‘Tom-All-Alone’s’, a 8.20pm. £7 Tracks, Aswell Street, Louth re-imagining of Dickens masterpiece and first Based on the novel ‘Oliver Twist’ by Charles Folk-rock guv’nor Ashley Hutchings, founder English detective story- Bleak House. Dickens. Adapted and performed by James member of legendary Fairport Convention and Hyland and directed by Phil Lowe. the Albion Band, will be doing a special two Lynn will be talking man show with his son Blair Dunlop, an up and about her novels Charles Dickens classic tale of crime and coming star on the folk circuit. Support comes and the process of punishment is stunningly re-imagined in this from the talented folk fiddle / cello duo Lucy and remaking classics, in powerful new stage adaptation, told from the Rosie Coggle. particular ‘building point of view of Fagin the Miser, one hour before a new Bleak House’. his execution. Lynn is also the author of Murder at Special Offer Mansfield Park Purchase a combined ticket for Building a New Bleak House House and Fagin’s Last Hour for just £12!
To book, see page 25 or visit www.woldswords.org.uk 17 Friday 19th October
Creative Approaches to Memoirs Monkey Poet Nicola Streeten, Sue Eckstein & Nye Wright Matt Panesh Trinity Centre, 2pm-3.30pm. £4 King’s Head Hotel Sue Eckstein’s novel Interpreters explores the impact of a war that 7.30pm. £7 resonates across generations of a family. Fellow authors Nye Wright Monkey Poet does (Things to Do in a Retirement Home Trailer Park) and Nicola Streeten POETRY (Shock!), PLAYS (Billy, Me & You) tell their personal and sometimes harrowing stories (Boom!), and Stand-Up through the medium of the graphic novel. All three discuss the creative (KER-CHING!) ways with which they approach and come to terms with reality. He’s won 7 Fringe Awards for poetry including Best Poet at the San Francisco Fringe two years running. This is a show of two very different halves. First half, you will be treated to a one-man play! Monkeys Poet’s Murder Mystery opening act takes us on a journey through poetry, suspense and Nye Wright Sue Eckstein Nicola Streeten comedy. The second half is an altogether different beast, as Panesh morphs himself Knitter in Residence - Carol Parker from storyteller into political, stand-up poet! Day three. Trinity Centre, 10am-4pm. Monkey Poet’s Potty Mouth tackles the birth, use and misuse of Free (materials supplied) language and is stand up comic poetry at its funniest and finest. Come and join one of Lincolnshire’s most creative knitters during this 3-day residency in the Trinity Centre foyer. For more details please see page 12
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Taking tea with a Princess, many decorative Charlie and Lola shopping with the Palestinian possibilities. This Storybook Days Football team, dancing the traditional binding conga with uniformed police technique is one of the Riverhead Theatre, 10.30am-12.30pm officers and hijacked in Qatar, earliest book forms, For children aged 4 - 7 years local author Matt Roebuck created in Japan to £3 - Limited spaces, please book has travelled the world to find resolve the problem of Join us in an extremely ever so wonderful the stories. You may never having to roll and re-roll workshop of rockets, pink milk, a monster party compete at the Olympics but long paper scrolls. the Other Olympics prove that you can still be and all things Charlie and Lola . Matt trained as a conservation bookbinder and an Olympian. Storybook Days will combine storytelling, craft in fine art. While restoring books of antiquity he drama and games to bring the book ‘This is also creates a variety of unique artists’ bindings. Actually My Party’ to life. What the Papers say Alan Stennett Pop-Up Book Workshop Perkins Pantry, 10.30am-12.30pm. £4 Mandy Keating Join BBC Lincolnshire presenter and author Alan Trinity Centre, 10am-1pm. Free 8+ yrs Stennett for an informal morning discussing the Create your own unique story, seascape, day’s news. The Other Olympics landscape, fantasy or abstract images inside Enjoy tea, coffee and a selection of pastries as a hardback pop-up accordion book. You will Matt Roebuck part of your ticket price. scrunch, paint, sew, tear, draw and cut out Riverhead Theatre, 2pm-4pm. £4 beautiful shapes onto pieces of card, that will be glued onto the accordion pages The Olympic Games were founded with the Japanese Bookbinding dream of bringing the world together. That Matthew Edwards tradition continues at The Other Olympics, games like the World Transplant Games, for Spout Yard Gallery, 1pm-2.30pm. £4 organ donor recipients or the World Police An opportunity to learn how to make beautiful
and Fire Games held in New York on the 10th notebooks, with sewing techniques which have © Mandy Keating anniversary of 9/11. To book, see page 25 or visit www.woldswords.org.uk 19 Saturday 20th October
along to either the morning or afternoon session Illustration Workshop to create a piece of poetry that is personal to you, History of Steve Weatherill then transform it into graffiti art! Louth Trinity Centre, 2pm-3.30pm Dr Tom Green Free, 7-11 yrs Conoco Room, A great family-friendly Louth Library workshop for children © Alex Williamson 2011 and their parents/ 3.30pm-4.30pm. £4 T Green © carers. Fabulous Manga Shakespeare: An illustrated talk, delving into the history, children’s illustrator archaeology and development of some of Steve Weatherill Macbeth Manga drawing Louth’s main streets. Taking the audience on will demonstrate his a virtual walk through the town, this talk will drawing techniques and workshop Robert Deas consider how the streets changed and developed tell you more about Weatherill © Steve Riverhead Theatre over time, from the earliest period through some of the books he has produced. Focusing on 12.30pm-3pm. £3 to today. As we pass along each street, we’ll look at not only the archaeology, buildings and his popular History Activity Books find out more Local comic artist Robert businesses of the streets, but also about drawing like an Ancient Egyptian, how to Deas will be demoing the people, from brewers and draw faces and dinosaurs and more. Followed by his all-digital illustration fish fryers through to jewellers a chance to have a go yourself! processes and giving and prostitutes. There will be a you a behind-the-scenes question and answer session at Poetic Graffiti look at the production of the end of the session. his Manga Shakespeare: James Mayle and Joel Stickley Macbeth graphic novel Alford Youth Centre and a selection of other Deas © Robert © Selfmadehero 10am-12 noon & 2pm-4pm. £3 works. The workshop will include a mixture of live demos, presentations and hands on Get creative with Lincolnshire’s Poet Laureate activities. There will also be a chance for a Joel Stickley, and well-known graffiti artist James hands-on with Robert’s touchscreen drawing Mayle, founder of graffiti studio iMAGESKOOL, tablet and the software that he uses to create to create a unique artwork to take away. Come 20 his graphic novels. Saturday 20th October
100 Years of Love Stories: One Day The Very Grimm Brothers Lincolnshire Farming Writers’ Retreat OPEN MIC CABARET Alan Stennett with Paul Sutherland Adrian Mealing & Elizabeth Court, 2pm-3.30pm. £4 Trinity Centre, 10am- John Denton (guitar) An illustrated talk with 8.30pm. £25, includes lunch King’s Head Hotel, 7.30pm. £5 BBC Radio Lincolnshire & dinner Words & music from the hilarious Grimm Brothers presenter of A full day of exploring love - the only thing that cheers them up is you! Lincolnshire Farming, stories in all their variety, Adrian is a Malvern Poetry Slam Champ and John Alan Stennett. He will with morning and afternoon
© Afifa Sutherland Afifa © isn’t. Come and experience the poetry of raised take you through the creative writing workshops beds, offspring and tango. The Grimms have changes seen over providing a perfect escape from everyday supported John Cooper Clarke, Roger McGough, the past 100 years concerns. Prize-winning author Paul Sutherland and played Stratford upon Avon Litfest, Bang Said in the agriculture of will tutor the sessions using examples from The Gun, Worcs Literary Festival, Ludlow and now... Lincolnshire, followed by a chance to discuss novels, short fiction and poetry to illustrate how those changes have affected the local the ways that ‘love’ is narrated from different ‘Gilbert & George, almost Morecambe & Wise’ landscape and what the implications are for the cultures and eras. Time will be allotted to create Smoke & Mirrors Cabaret. future. your own narratives in ‘Middle-class rap’ William prose or poetry with the Coleman. day culminating in an ‘Fantastic. Come back to (optional) evening reading London soon’ Bang Said by participants of their The Gun. own work, written on the Are you a poet? The
retreat or previously. Or Brothers invite you to the Thompson © Scott simply sit and listen. A day open mic spot to perform of creativity, soul-searching your work. For more and sharing love stories. Press Valley © information, contact 01507 613449 Places are strictly limited, please book in advance. by Wednesday, 17th October. To book, see page 25 or visit www.woldswords.org.uk 21 Saturday 20th October
An Evening with Mark Foster Riverhead Theatre 7.30pm £10 Adults £5 Juniors (Under 14s) Swimming ace Mark Foster, former world record holder and flag-bearer for the GB team at the Beijing Olympics, is our very special guest in honour of the 2012 Olympics. Mark, who you will have seen most recently commentating on the Olympic Swimming events for the BBC, has a dazzling swimming CV which includes 47 international medals, 5 Olympic Games appearances, 2 Commonwealth championships, 11 European championships and 8 world records. He has also starred on Strictly Come Dancing and Masterchef. Interviewed by ITV4 Sport Presenter and former England Cricketer Isa Guha, Mark will provide insights to his career, life and be available for questions and answers from the audience.
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Isa Guha Stop-motion Animation The Sea The Pavilion, London Road, Louth Animation Nation Show 10.30am-12 noon. £12 Riverhead Theatre A unique chance to meet former England pace 11am and 2.30pm bowler Isa Guha, who retired from international cricket earlier this year, although she still plays £6 Adults, county cricket for Berkshire. Now co-presenter of £4 Juniors ITV4 Sport, Isa will talk about her high-achieving (Under 14s) cricket career (winning player of the match in Meet crazy characters like Morweena the 2009 as England retained the Ashes) and her Trinity Centre. All day (10am-4pm) ‘beautiful’ mermaid, Ruan the reformed seagull new life in the media. Free and salty seadog Captain Pemburthy, as well as a cast of mischievous sea-quirts,anemones, Make your own stop-motion animation! limpets and crabs. Working in groups, participants will devise an Come and celebrate the sea with tall tales, silly idea for their film, choose a background/s, make slapstick, fantastic facts, live music and songs. models/characters and props using modelling clay and then using Apple macbooks and digital Unmissable fun for children and adults of all cameras, produce animated films complete with ages! titles, credits, music and sound effects. Bring a packed lunch, drinks supplied.
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The Louth Town Partnership invites you to step back in time at the AYRE VICTORIAN FAMILY F
Cultural is a volunteering initiative that aims to support organisations, clubs and events across the cultural Force sector on all aspects of volunteer management.
Are you interested in volunteering to help support sport and cultural activities within East Lindsey? Would you like to gain relevant experience to boost your CV? Does your event need help in recruiting and managing volunteers?
Cultural Force is part of a coordinated approach to recruit, train and deploy more volunteers across the cultural sector in Lincolnshire, as part of the build up and legacy of London 2012 To get involved or find out more, please contact us. Over 90 stalls full of Best Victorian Tel: 01507 613445 local food and crafts Costume Competition Email: [email protected] All day live family Demonstrations by www.e-lindsey.gov.uk entertainment the Lincolnshire Punch and Judy Victorians
Facebook.com/lovelouth www.louthpartnership.org 24 Booking Information
Festival Box Office Local Booksellers Louth Museum Tickets for festival events are available from Wrights of Louth Ltd, 37 Eastgate, Louth 4 Broadbank, Louth LN11 0EQ Louth Library and the Riverhead Theatre unless Tel: 01507 602946 Tel: 01507 601211 otherwise specified next to an event. Please Open Monday to Saturday / 7am-5pm / Sunday ensure that you check all your tickets, venue and King’s Head Hotel 7am-12noon time information as refunds are not available, Mercer Road, Louth LN11 9JQ except in the case of a cancelled event. Wrights of Louth Ltds a bookshop, newsagent, Tel: 01507 602965 art supplier and stioner and stocks a number of Riverhead Theatre specialist products such as traditional games, Alford Manor House Victoria Street, Louth LN11 0BX Schleich toy models, and a good range of quality West Street, Alford LN13 9HT Tel: 01507 600350 jigsaws. Tel: 01507 463073 www.alfordmanorhouse.co.uk Open Monday to Saturday 10am-1pm Other Venues On days with performances the box office opens Playhouse Cinema one hour prior to curtain up Trinity Centre Cannon Street, Louth LN11 9NL Eastgate, Louth LN11 8DJ Tel: 01507 603333 Louth Library Tel: 01507 605803 Northgate, Louth LN11 0LY Royal British Legion Tel: 01522 782010 Conoco Rooms Northgate, Louth LN11 0LY Louth Library, Northgate, Louth LN11 0LY Tel: 01507 602076 Open Monday to Wednesday 9am-6pm / Tel: 01522 782010 Thursday 9am-1pm / Friday 9am-7pm / Cultural Team Saturday 9am-4pm Spout Yard East Lindsey District Council For information on events at other libraries, Ludgate, Louth LN11 0NW contact 01522 782010 or visit Tel: 01507 607977 Tel: 01507 613449, www.lincolnshire.gov.uk [email protected] Elizabeth Court Church Street, Louth, Lincolnshire LN11 9BP This programme is correct at the time of going Tel: 01507 355000 to press. However, Wolds Words reserves the right to alter the programme or to substitute events if circumstances make it necessary. 25 B
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Louth by train Louth by Car The nearest railway station to Louth are listed From Lincoln take the A158 onto A157 and below. Train service to these stations may vary, follow the signs you can use www.nationalrail.co.uk to confirm From the north take M18 onto the M180 onto your travel arrangements. M181 and then follow the A18 Grimsby / Distance from station 15 miles From the south take the A16 all the way Approx. time by car 30 minutes Lincoln / Distance from station 26 miles Further information Approx. time by car 40 minutes For more information about Lincolnshire Skegness / Distance from station 23 miles including places to stay, where to eat Approx. time by car 60 minutes and other activities during your stay, please visit www.visitlincolnshire.com Louth by bus Tourist Information Stagecoach / www.stagecoachbus.com Louth Customer Access Point Tel: 0845 605 0605 Cannon Street Louth CallConnect / www.lincsinterconnect.com LN11 9NW Tel: 0845 234 3344 Lincolnshire Tel: 01507 601111 Lincolnshire If you are planning to travel to Lincolnshire Email: [email protected] from further afield by bus please Find us on Facebook visit www.nationalexpress.com Tweet us @woldswords
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