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We are delighted to welcome you to the second of the Brontës, we also invite you to join our Bradford Literature Festival hosted this year day-long heritage tour to walk in the footsteps in association with our title partner, Provident of Charlotte Brontë and remember 200 years of Financial Group. her birth. We’re marking 400 years since the death of Shakespeare with a range of intriguing The festival will bring together 350 special guests events about his work – from sex and death including authors, poets, artists and filmmakers in his famous plays, to manga Shakespeare. from around the world in 200 events in the heart Delving deeper into our literary history, we’ll be of Bradford. It’s a ten day celebration of the celebrating 500 years of Sir Thomas Moore’s wonderful world of words, not just in book form Utopia, by exploring how the concept has not Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest but also on the stage and screen, in performance only taken on a life of its own but the way it has poetry, on the pages of comics and in cultural become subverted into dystopia. debates. Over the course of the ten days, the city’s spaces - historic and contemporary - will This treat of a festival would not have been come together to host a myriad of irresistible possible without the generous support of our literary and cultural encounters. funders and sponsors. We would like to extend a special thank you to Provident Financial Group Our programme has something for everyone, who have become the festival title partner and whether you’re interested in exploring Jane Eyre as a provided vital advice, guidance and financial feminist manifesto, deepening your understanding of backing. We would like to thank Arts Council the crisis in Syria, learning the art of Russian paper England and Bradford Council for funding the cutting, enjoying an evening of stand-up comedy, or festival; our key partner, the University of Bradford introducing your children to the magic of Peter Pan. for their invaluable marketing and financial @bradfordlitfest Our invited guests are just as diverse and include support. We are also grateful to the festival hotel the judges for this year’s Man Booker International partner, the Midland, and the festival book partner, Prize, Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, socialist Waterstones, who have provided the infrastructure Harry Leslie Smith, historian Tom Holland, Japanese essential in creating the festival. novelist Minae Mizumura, Egyptian feminist Mona Eltahawy, Chinese master calligrapher Haji Noor Bradford has long been a hub for literature, Deen and freshly minted GBBO national treasure diversity and culture. The richness of our Nadiya Hussain. communities, drawn from so many different countries, is the inspiration behind this festival. Of course, Bradford itself is also the star of our It is a joy, and a privilege, to curate events that festival. We’ll be hosting inspiring children’s bring guests from around the world to Bradford events and unmissable activities in City Park and showcase the heritage and landscape of – and they’re all free. We have heritage tours Bradford to the world. showcasing some of our city’s architectural, cultural and historic gems and a mini festival of We all have particular words that resonate with film featuring everything from music to manga us. A single word – book, music, film, poetry, and from poets to politics. love, death – can evoke a certain excitement or pathos. Come and experience the wonderful 2016 is a year of literary anniversaries. Starting world of words. at home, this year sees the start of the Brontë bicentenary celebrations. Not only do we have Syima Aslam & Irna Qureshi an entire weekend devoted to the life and works Festival Directors

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whether PFG had become too big for Bradford, Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest we decided to renew our pledge and stay. In part this was a decision of the heart - Bradford has remained our home since the business placed to lead the way in dealing with these began, through the years we’ve stood together issues, and we are proud to support the festival and we take pride in our heritage. However, as it engages with them head on. remaining in Bradford also makes business sense. The vast majority of our expanding workforce Landmark cultural events like the Bradford Literature lives in Bradford and, for a company that needs Festival provide a vital forum for discussion and a pool of talented young people, this city is the debate, and further our understanding of each perfect place. This, coupled with air and rail links other and our common humanity. Such events providing easy access to London’s financial hub, are vital in bringing us all closer together, and of makes ours a fantastic location. course they also provide an essential opportunity @bradfordlitfest Prejudices, it is well for joy, celebration and learning. We belong to an international city, home to known, are most difficult communities from around the world, and it is this I am fortunate that my office overlooks Centenary diversity that gives Bradford a unique vibrancy Square and I’m constantly amazed at the range to eradicate from the and verve that sets it apart. We are proud of this and energy of the events held there, and how city with its array of languages and cultures, so much Bradfordians use and enjoy the space. This heart whose soil has when the Bradford Literature Festival came along, diversity and vitality will be further enhanced by the with the same passion, verve and enthusiasm for range of unmissable events in this year’s festival, never been loosened or the city and its people, we wanted to celebrate specifically aimed at children, and families, that fertilized by education. this true meeting of minds with a partnership. are taking place in Centenary Square. Our business is based on understanding the It is exactly this energy, epitomised by the needs of our clients and serving our community. Bradford Literature Festival, that will help us Charlotte Bronte This is, in essence, similar to the essential role move confidently forward as a business, as fulfilled by writers and artists whose work furthers a community, and as a city. It gives me great our understanding of ourselves, delineating our pleasure to welcome you to Bradford, our points of commonality, our crucial and essential home city, the literature hub of the north, for differences and our shared future. what promises to be an intriguing, illuminating, Provident Financial Group: Principal sponsor invigorating and hugely entertaining festival. of the Bradford Literature Festival. The current climate - political, social and environmental - presents us with global challenges Peter Crook that have a national and local impact. Bradford Chief Executive with its diversity, and history of migration, is well Provident Financial plc

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• Please Note: All sessions start at 8.30pm • Readings from visiting poets – 2nd Monday • Read-arounds –1st & 3rd Monday • Bradford Poetry workshop – 4th Monday. BEEHIVE • For critical and constructive comment on your poetry; please bring 6 copies and a pair of ears! For more information about the workshop contact Bruce Barnes; [email protected] Telephone: 01274 223665 For more information about readings & read arounds contact POETS John Sugden; [email protected] See also the Beehive website www.beehivepoets.org.uk Bradford West Area Committee Community Chest for details of the latest readings and to go on the e-mailing list.

• Please Note: All sessions start at 8.30pm Key Partners • Readings from visiting poets – 2nd Monday • Read-arounds –1st & 3rd Monday • Bradford Poetry workshop – 4th Monday. BEEHIVE • For critical and constructive comment on your poetry; please bring 6 copies and a pair of ears! For more information about the workshop contact Bruce Barnes; [email protected] Telephone: 01274 223665 For more information about readings & read arounds contact POETS John Sugden; [email protected] See also the Beehive website www.beehivepoets.org.uk Bradford West Area Committee Community Chest for details of the latest readings and to go on the e-mailing list. Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest

• Please Note: All sessions start at 8.30pm • Readings from visiting poets – 2nd Monday • Read-arounds –1st & 3rd Monday • Bradford Poetry workshop – 4th Monday. BEEHIVE • For critical and constructive comment on your poetry; please bring 6 copies and a pair of ears! Book Partner Hotel Partner For more information about the workshop contact Bruce Barnes; [email protected] Telephone: 01274 223665 For more information about readings & read arounds contact POETS John Sugden; [email protected] See also the Beehive website www.beehivepoets.org.uk Bradford West Area Committee Community Chest for details of the latest readings and to go on the e-mailing list.

For more information about readings & read arounds contact POETS John Sugden; [email protected]

See also the Beehive website www.beehivepoets.org.uk Bradford West Area Committee Community Chest for details of the latest readings and to go on the e-mailing list.

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4 5 F E STI V Bradford Literature Festival 2016 Contents Festival Team AL T E AM & CON EN TS

Directors Schools Programme 08 Syima Aslam Irna Qureshi

Advisory Board Events Calendar Lord Kamlesh Patel, OBE Peter Crook Friday 20 May 12 Kersten England Saturday 21 May 16 Bishop Nick Baines Nick Boakes Sunday 22 May 40 Mark Garratt Lisa Milton Monday 23 May 64 Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest Marie Melnyk Tuesday 24 May 65 Producer Wednesday 25 May 67 Fozia Bano Thursday 26 May 69 Office Manager Friday 27 May 72 Rebecca Hill Saturday 28 May 75 Consultants Pam Bone Sunday 29 May 95 Farkhandah Faraz Paul Gravett Bill Lawrence Film Programme 112

Michael Stewart @bradfordlitfest Zeal For Unity 120 Assistants Alice Duggan Amy England-Lees Festival Diary 124 Becky Harrison

Publicity List of Venues Brunswick Group Festival Venues 133 Brochure Design Studio Belly Timber Location Map 134 Sponsorship Enquiries Copywriter Syima Aslam Festival Information 136 Russ Thorne [email protected] 01274 238374 Printer McLays Festival Office Website Design Norcroft Centre Vercossa Tumbling Hill Street Bradford BD7 1DP We would also like to thank all of our festival guests and volunteers for their time and generous 01274 238374 support throughout the festival. [email protected]

6 7 Schools programme Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest @bradfordlitfest 9 do for you? can we do for What kind of event A great example of the Adam Murphy’s we can put together is day from last year’s ‘Corpse Talk’ joined schools programme. Adam throughout groups of year five students talking about his the school day, but also getting wildly successful series learnedstudents involved: they to draw questions and their own comics, asked guests for suggested future undead Adam to interview. The result was that his books were read ravenously by all the students, showing them that literature comes in many forms and that there are whole worlds to explore beyond their curriculum: comics, much graphic novels and novels, poetry, it! loved more. Adam, naturally, We live in one of the most live in one of Different cultures. We programme in the UK and our festival diverse cities We can bring Roma storytelling and reflects this. Manga Shakespeare,woodcraft, Islamic sci-fi, more into yourRussian papercraft and much that a great way of showing students classroom. It’s read and write, and thatanyone can and should their voice is as important else’s. as anyone The hard questions. They can be on anything what does hydro-politics from what is a feminist, discussed being If it’s mean to the nature of death. students to be able to in the festival, we want discuss it too. We’ve just a taste of what we can offer. That’s created the Bradford Literature Festival to serve our entire community and we want to make it as easy as possible for all our local schools to benefit from we can share ideas and knowledge, it. Together, challenge preconceptions and open minds. Give see how we can bring the joy of us a call and let’s the festival to you. he Bradford Literature Festival schools programme offers programme schools Festival Literature The Bradford students exciting, some of the most access to and their teachers, of all ages, entertaining working right now. writers This year the festival has openThis year the festival has

Here are just a few areas we can explore a few areas we can explore Here are just with you: have punk shatter a few myths. We Let’s Poetry. poets and romantic poets, political poets, protest can offer We poets, all available to you. workshops on words, performancethe power or led by local, national and playfulness of poetry, and international poetic voices. . Workshops fairytaleworkshops on paper cutting, mashups even a real thing, we promise), writing and (it’s can arrange to hold one with your vlogging. We class, or multiple classes, throughout the day. Different subjects. What would you like to explore? Superheroes or Science? Feminism and the Brontës? Philosophy combined with artists have writers, and Shakespeare? We performers who can tackle whatever topic interests you in fun, interactive ways.

Our programme is packed with eye-opening Our programme is packed have manga artists, YA possibilities. We writers and more, novelists, vloggers, comics all happy to share their skills and show students no one ‘accepted’ route to literature; that there’s all about reading what you love and it’s find exciting. They’ll work with you to create something memorable, free, and requiring know how minimal effort on your part. We packed the school day is, so simply give us a call to discuss ideas, and then we’ll make it happen at a time that suits you. Our schools events lie at the veryOur schools heart of tryingwhat we’re with the festival; to achieve events designed to interactive, collaborative are passionate We share our delight in books. a life long love for about fostering literacy and believe the route to reading and writing. We amazing events that achieving this is to create reading, nurture for, a love of, and enthusiasm writing and storytellingstay with that will lives. students throughout their Schools Events:Schools Bringing the Festival to You Festival the Bringing 8 FESTIVAL INFORMATION Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest @bradfordlitfest 11

Lou Sumray lousumray.com @lousumray Slung Low slunglow.org @SlungLow “Sometimes I change halfway through if theI change halfway through “Sometimes feel right to me material I’ve chosen doesn’t when I am trying to capture the moment.” be able to see her work on our website You’ll keep checking back throughout the festival, so have inspired Lou, to find out how the days like through an and what the festival looks eyes. artist’s At the end of the week, Slung Low will create a reading from the material collected, celebrating the collective knowledge of the The only question left is: what community. knowledge will you share? Suitable for all ages FREE

daily ide This year the Bradford Literature Festival is Bradford Literature Festival This year the welcoming a very Visual artist special guest. first documenter-in- Lou Sumray will be our atmosphere of the residence, capturing the palette by blending festival with her polymath’s charcoal work, pen and ink drawings, of the sights she painting and digital sketches sees as she roams the city. like? That depends What will the results be you, us, and the on the events, but also on a “I like to use moments we create together. but I quite often variety of drawing mediums, know which I am going to use when don’t I startdrawing because it depends on the atmosphere of the setting, the theme of what the is being talked about, the time of day, lighting,” says Lou. The Knowledge Emporium Documenter-in-Residence City W Lou Sumray 5pm - Slung Low City Park, 10am We all know at least one thing that no-one We else knows. This spring is your chance to share it as Slung Low invites you into The Knowledge Emporium to celebrate the knowledge that makes you unique. The Knowledge Emporium is an old-fashioned sweetshop in a converted 1960s airstream caravan. The Emporium trades in sweets - the sort remember from your childhood - but you take money. with one big difference: it doesn’t It trades only in knowledge, exchanging your stories, recipes, anecdotes or facts for sweets. Whatever age you are, throughout the week you’re invited to The Emporium to share your knowledge by entering it in The Big Book In return for your Know. of Everything We you can help yourself to some sweets. generosity,

Festival Hub Festival We can’t wait to welcome you! wait to welcome can’t We The Hub is the one stop box office for all your tickets for festival events around the city. Call in at the The Hub is the one stop box office for all your tickets for festival events around the city. that everyone pop-up bookshop where you can find some of the brilliant books will be Waterstones and get your book signed; and a much neededtalking about; a chance to bump into festival guests caffeine the best coffee re-fuelling stop between events with some of in Bradford. The Hub takes over City Park for 10 days, from Friday 20 May, in time for our Superhero themed Friday 20 May, The Hub takes over City Park for 10 days, from opening weekend alongside some waterborne fun with our pirate ship floating on the Mirror Pool, have a wide and culminating with Harry the closing weekend. We Potter inspired events during With special which are free and for all the family. range of unmissable events and drop-in activities want to be anywhere else. guests and a jamboree of surprises, you really wouldn’t For 2016, we have created something very special for all our guests and visitors. We are delighted to are For 2016, we have created something very guests and visitors. We special for all our point for everythinglaunch the Bradford Literature Festival Hub, the go-to you need to know about the authors and poets, catch up with friends, see moviesfestival; a great place to bump into your favourite on the Bradford Big Screen and be part of the magic going on in the heart of the city. Festival InformationFestival 10 FRIDAY F R IDAY 20 M ay Box Office: 01274 238 374 20 May www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk

Barbara Nice, Isma Almas, Julie Jepson & Maureen Younger Lennie Goodings, Sunny Hundal, Mona Eltahawy, Ralph Dartford Theatre in The Mill University of Bradford, Great Hall 7.30pm (150mins) £10 7.30pm (75mins) £6 Comedy Night How to be a Feminist

Our ever-popular comedy night is back with a fresh, all-female roster of witty stars. Join What is a feminist, and how do you become one, or act once you do? Is the self-identifying t-shirt returning host Maureen Younger and spend some time in the company of some of the UK’s compulsory? Or, if you already consider yourself a feminist, how might you be a better one? Our leading ladies of comedy: the variously vicious, warm and charming Isma Almas; TV comedy diverse panel discusses one of the key gender politics issues of our time. actress Janice Connolly as housewife extraordinaire Barbara Nice; and the persuasive, if cheeky, Julie Jepson. All you need to do is sit back, relax and let them entertain you. We’ve assembled a group of forthright speakers – chair Ralph Dartford, poet and founder of A Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest Firm of Poets; Lennie Goodings, publisher at Virago, the leading international publisher of books by women; journalist and feminist firebrand Mona Eltahawy; and blogger, academic and editor of the Liberal Conspiracy blog Sunny Hundal - to look at the mechanics of feminism and to consider how to be a feminist in 2016, when debate and dialogue seem so energised at one moment and in danger of being no-platformed into extinction the next.

Barbara Nice is the Isma Almas dispels Julie Jepson is a very Stand-up comedian and @bradfordlitfest comedy creation of Janice myths about Muslim popular and sought after compere Maureen Connolly, actress, director women, while creating compere and stand up Younger is one of the few and writer. Janice is a TV twice as many. Drawing on comic, regularly hosting, (if only) comedians in the comedy actress probably her council estate roots in booking and compering UK who works regularly on best known as Holy Mary Bradford, Isma’s comedy is comedy nights in her home the mainstream, urban and in Peter Kay’s ‘Phoenix intelligent, warm, acidic, town of Brighton and gay comedy circuits. Lennie Goodings is Sunny Hundal is a Mona Eltahawy is an Ralph Dartford hails Publisher of Virago, journalist, writer and a award-winning columnist from Basildon, Essex and is Nights’. She had a challenging, accessible, beyond. A professionally maureenyounger.com founded in 1973 and the lecturer on digital and international public the founder member of successful Radio Two pilot happy, vicious, frank, trained actress, Julie has @MaureenYounger broadcast recently, charming and honest. Every worked in theatre, foremost international journalism at Kingston speaker on Arab and highly acclaimed spoken bringing to sitcom life the type of audience from television, radio and champion of books by University. He writes mostly Muslim issues and global word collective A Firm of comings and goings of her sociology professors to lads voiceovers. women. Editor of some of on current affairs, including feminism. She is the author Poets. Ralph has been today’s top novelists UK politics, race relations, of ‘Headscarves and published in The Guardian, life with husband Ken. on a stag night warm to her juliejepson.co.uk including Sarah Waters, religion and free speech. Hymens: Why the Middle Stirring Magazine (US), mrsbarbaranice.co.uk instantly and are expertly @theJulieJepson Marilynne Robinson, Sarah He is also author of India East Needs a Sexual Pulp Faction, Exterminating @BarbaraNice taken on a comedy white knuckle ride. Dunant, Linda Grant and Dishonoured. Revolution,’ and a Angel Press (US) and Margaret Atwood, her non- contributor to the New London Territories. His first @IsmaAlmas sunnyhundal.org fiction writers include @Sunny_Hundal York Times opinion pages. collection, ‘Cigarettes, Beer Rachel Cooke, Katie Her commentaries have and Love’ was published Roiphe, Maya Angelou, appeared in several other by Ossett Observer Natasha Walter, Waris publications and she is a Presents in July 2013. Dirie and Naomi Wolf. regular guest analyst on @Dartford virago.co.uk various television and @ViragoBooks radio shows. monaeltahawy.com @MonaEltahawy

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Supriya Nagarajan Sarah Pickthall, Hassan Mahamdallie, Bradford College, Peter Clark Advanced Technology Centre Midland Hotel, Conference Room 7.30pm (90mins) £10 7.30pm (75mins) £6 Bollywood Jazz Connect with Marmaduke Pickthall: the transformative A Journey of Discovery power of poetry Marmaduke Pickthall was an Islamic scholar, esteemed novelist, journalist and religious leader The Poetry Society is the leading poetry organisation in the UK. For over a hundred years whose translation of the Qur’an in 1930 remains a milestone in bringing Islam’s holy text to we’ve been a lively and passionate source of energy and ideas, opening up and promoting an English audience. His admirers included poetry to an ever-growing community of people. DH Lawrence, HG Wells and EM Forster. Join today and feel the power of words with The Poetry Review and Poetry News delivered Yet his great, great niece Sarah Pickthall knew quarterly to your door. We’ll keep you informed with monthly e-bulletins, events, nothing of this until she discovered his books a network of local poetry groups, and a whole host of special offers, discounts and in her father’s library in the weeks following competitions exclusive to members. his death. So began a journey of research and A joyous collision of styles as virtuoso jazz creative enquiry back through her bloodlines to find out more about the man and his work; We’re on a mission to connect people to the transformative power of poetry. Now you musicianship meets the technicolour drama can join us by becoming a member. of Bollywood for a journey through a journey that gradually expanded to explore cinematic sound. far-reaching ideas of British Muslim identity • Keep up to date with the very best of contemporary poetry in The Poetry Review and what it means to be a person out of step in print and online Our route winds from Madan Mohan to AR with the times. Rahman on a rushing raft of rhythm and • Read quarterly issues of Poetry News for features, practical tips and news melody, the cool jazz vibe under the masterly Sarah was accompanied on this journey by – plus the chance to submit your own poetry control of Supriya Nagarajan and musicians Peter Clark, biographer of Marmaduke and • Stay in touch with regular e-bulletins from the Fruit Tree Project. An immersive self-confessed ‘Pickthall nerd’ and writer, artist • Even more poetry advice, offers and discounts: including access to our nationwide experience that will indulge in nostalgia for and theatre practitioner Hassan Mahamdallie. network of Stanza poetry groups tunes and times gone by, but with an They join her for this event to discuss Marmaduke, his legacy and the unique artistic energetic kick of modernity to keep things i carry your heart with me swinging along at a fresh, rejuvenating pace. expedition he inspired them to mount through their own lives. Free (i carry it in my heart) Supriya Nagarajan Get a FREE ee cummings Carnatic vocalist and Director of Manasamitra, Gift tote bag if you join today!* Supriya Nagarajan works Quote BLF16 nationally and internationally with artists from a range of genres, Visit poetrysociety.org.uk/membership and enter your code at checkout, creating new musical or call us on 020 7420 9881. vocabularies including *Valid with Full Membership only. Offer ends 31/5/16 Ben Castle, Shri Sriram and Duncan Chapman. manasamitra.com Sarah Pickthall Hassan Peter Clark @manasamitra @loyal_enemy Mahamdallie @HMahamdallie

14 SATURDAY 21 May Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest @bradfordlitfest 17 01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box 10.45am, 2.30pm & 4pm - Drop in FREE Credible after the Justin in immediately Drop and learn to be a superhero. show how Gliders Workshop Drop in between 11am – 4pm - FREE a superhero it’s Is it a plane? No, Is it a bird? an amazing flying glider and glider! Create soar to the rescue! Masks Workshop Drop in between 11am – 4pm - FREE masked are All the best superheroes own your mysteries! Design and create can fight crimeso you mask superhero Credible! alongside Justin Kung Fu Masterclass Workshop www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk capers ahoy! and energetic event. Capes and and energetic event. all the fun of this bright, exciting all the fun of this bright, your favourite superhero and join in favourite superhero your competitions along with music and competitions along with music Theatre superhosts Q20 Your dance. as to come dressed encourage you audience and get you taking part inaudience and get you our heroes will involve members of the will involve our heroes This isn’t just something you watch, as watch, just something you This isn’t Bjorn T’Cheat! Superheroes Show 10.15am - 10.45am 2pm - 2.30pm 3.30pm - 4pm is plunged Festival Literature The Bradford into the middle of a death-defying struggle Credible as the Justin good and evil between A hugely entertaining hits town! Supershow performancethe family, for all interactive witness the daring of you’ll superheroics and Honour Mission as they Credible Justin dastardly against the devious, pit themselves

Film screening The Incredibles 2004 | PG | 115 mins 11am FREE of a equivalent into the superhero Forced Mr Programme, Protection Witness and wife Elastigirl tryIncredible to raise their family old habits die in peace – but on witty animated take Brad Bird’s hard. classic riffs from superheroes on everything including to movies ‘Watchmen’ comics like A ‘Goodfellas’. Bond and James start to finish, from joy turn as especially Bird’s scene-stealing crime- costumier fighters’ capes! No Edna.

vengers: assemble! Day R SATU Start your day the super way as the Justin Credible Supershow hits town at 10.15am for a day of interactive performances followed by a free screening of animated adventure ‘The Incredibles’ in City Park at 11am. Throughout the day, you’ll be able to drop in to various superhero workshops and get creative with mask making, glider building and even a spot of kung fu. Why not come dressed as your favourite hero to get into the super-spirit of the day? A 21 May 21 16 Saturday S atu r day 21 M ay Box Office: 01274 238 374 21 May www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk

Emma Vieceli Morwenna Catt Jenny Eells Poppy Jaman University of Bradford, re:centre Bradford College, Dye House Gallery Midland Hotel, Pullman Room Midland Hotel, Conference Room 10am (60mins) £6 10am (90mins) FREE Booking required 10am & 2pm (180mins) FREE 10am (90mins) Pay What You Want. Booking required. Open to All Ages Booking Required. Alex Rider Character Superhero Costume Masterclass in Mental Health First Design Workshop Workshop (Age 3+) Digital Storytelling Aid Workshop (Age 10+) YOUR city, YOUR stories: #MyBradford Join Poppy Jaman, an internationally is a digital project run by BBC Radio Leeds, respected mental health advocate and CEO

Join Emma Vieceli, the aim of which is to help you get your of Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest the talented films, blogs and pictures onto the BBC. England, in a workshop that could one day illustrator behind the save your life. latest Alex Rider We’ll teach you how to film-make on your graphic novel, to mobile phone and if you have a story you Poppy’s workshop will begin by talking find out how she want the BBC to cover, then we’ll help you about the reality of mental health, something works her magic No self-respecting superhero can be seen share it with West Yorkshire and the world. that has only recently been considered out and about saving the world without appropriate and necessary to combat the on the page and to have a We work alongside Bradford City of Film so appropriate attire. In this workshop you’ll be stigmatism that surrounds it. go for yourself! you may even find your face on Bradford's able to create helmets, masks, or perhaps a Big Screen! The workshop will give you the tools to Emma will take you through the series useful accessory belt or wristband to suit help spot early signs of mental illness and to and show you how she drew up her latest your super alter ego. No sewing required – Join the #MyBradford producer Jenny Eells seek help, not only for yourself but for adaptation to give you some ideas and just imagination and enthusiasm. to learn the basics of digital storytelling –

others around you. Mental health affects us @bradfordlitfest inspiration, before you hit the pen and paper from capturing some shots to crafting a mini Morwenna Catt is an internationally exhibiting all at one point in our lifetime, so this to start drawing your favourite character. video, all on your mobile phone. You’ll all work together to make up your artist and designer specialising in textiles, as workshop is open to everyone, whatever own story for Alex and have a four-panel well as working with theatres to produce Email: MyBradford@bbc.co.uk your experience or background, to help raise comics jam where you work as a team to structures, props and extravagant costumes. So Call: 07793 219 695 awareness and gain valuable information. draw that scene happening. A must for any who better to help you create the elaborate, Visit: MyBradford.org budding illustrator who wants to get some death-defying costume for the superhero inside @BBCLeeds insight and some next-level skills. you, the one just waiting to get out? Places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment!

Jenny Eells is an award- Poppy Jaman is an winning multi media journalist Emma Vieceli Morwenna Catt internationally respected for the BBC, working on a mental health advocate, From self-publishing to some of morwennacatt.co.uk wide range of programming national policy advisor and the biggest publishers in the @channelfur world, Emma loves telling stories for national and local the CEO of successful social with pictures. Work includes the networks, including enterprise, Mental Health First New York Times-bestselling Broadcasting House and You Aid (MHFA) England. She led ‘Vampire Academy’, ‘Doctor and Yours for BBC Radio 4. the 2013 review of the Who’, ‘Alex Rider’, ‘Jem & the @JennyYorksNews Mental Health Pledge of the Holograms’ and ’BREAKS’. www.MyBradford.org Department of Health’s Responsibility Deal. emmavieceli.com @EmmaVieceli @PoppyJaman

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Sayeeda Warsi, Naz Shah, Yasmin Rashid Michael Stewart Bradford College, Dye House Gallery University of Bradford, Great Hall Midland Hotel, Irving 10.30am – 3.30pm 10am (60mins) £6 10.30am (75mins) £6 Free Drop In Muslim Women and Political Life How to Write a Cosplay Workshop Short Story The short story predates the literary tradition, growing instead out of an oral one. Its

antecedents are the fable, the anecdote and Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest the folk tale. The contemporary literary short story, on the other hand, is a much younger form with its own unique challenges. This workshop will help you tackle those challenges, looking at structure, viewpoint Cosplay is all about character-driven dressing and character and how they are connected, up, whether it's creating an identity for a as well as turning to the marketplace to see Muslim women attract a very particular kind of press coverage. One of the key criticisms fancy dress party or recreating a well-known where the opportunities now lie for short cultural icon for a comic convention. There's levelled at them is that they don’t speak for themselves and are represented instead by men from story writers. their community. The argument follows that there aren’t enough women, particularly Muslim no one way to Cosplay, it's just about taking women, in public life – and certainly not in the political sphere. Award-winning writer Michael Stewart on a new persona for a few hours and started his literary life as a scriptwriter but has having fun. If you'd like to give it a go but This event is a chance to hear from three Muslim women who are actively engaging in this been composing short stories for over ten don't know where to start, this is the @bradfordlitfest debate and challenging perceptions: Bradford MP Naz Shah who entered Parliament at the years, recently completing ‘Mr Jolly’, a new workshop for you! 2015 General Election, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, best known for being Britain’s first Muslim collection of short fiction. Join him to learn This drop in workshop will be led by cabinet minister; and Dr Yasmin Rashid, a prominent Pakistani politician, serving as Punjab about the art, craft and business of the form. Secretary General of Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. Cosplay specialists who will share their tricks, tips and techniques with you. You'll All three have achieved great things, and in this event they’ll discuss their motivations for getting get the chance to develop and dress up as into politics, how they’ve got to where they are, and the barriers they’ve faced along the way. characters, get professional advice and access to all the equipment you'll need – in return, Michael Stewart has won you just need to bring your imagination and several awards for his an idea of the character you'd like to scriptwriting, including the transform into. Ready to get dressed up? BBC Alfred Bradley Bursary Award. His debut novel ‘King This workshop will also take place on Crow’ was the winner of The Sunday 22 May 10.30am - 3.30pm Guardian’s Not The Booker Award. His new book of short fiction is called ’Mr Jolly’. michael-stewart.org.uk @headspam

Sayeeda Warsi Naz Shah MP Yasmin Rashid sayeedawarsi.com @NazShahBfd @YasminRashidpti @SayeedaWarsi

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Mona Eltahawy Asia Alfasi, Kripa Joshi, Corinne Pearlman, Mary Talbot University of Bradford, Great Hall University of Bradford, Small Hall 11am (75mins) £6 11am (75mins) £6 Headscarves and Hymens: Comix Creatrix – Women on Why the Middle East the Cutting Edge of Comics Needs a Sexual Revolution Inspired and informed by the recent House of Illustration show ‘Comix Creatrix: 100 Women Making Comics’, we’ve put together a panel to celebrate and discuss the sometimes-overlooked ‘The most subversive thing a woman can do role of women in comics since their inception. Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest is talk about her life as if it really matters’ - Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle Contributors include Manga-influenced writer and artist Asia Alfasi and Nepalese comic artist East Needs a Sexual Revolution Kripa Joshi, along with graphic novelist Mary Talbot and comics commissioning editor Corinne Pearlman. Joined by moderator Paul Gravett, they’ll talk about the importance of shows like Be prepared: the Egyptian-American ‘Comix Creatrix’ in promoting a wider awareness of women’s comic book art. They’ll also journalist and author Mona Eltahawy has discuss their current work and look ahead both in terms of their future projects and their hopes some uncompromising views on faith, for the increased recognition of the female artists who have shaped, and continue to shape, the religion and women. As she told the Guardian vast and growing comics industry. last year: “all religions are about controlling women’s sexuality. They’re obsessed with my vagina”. She has written for publications including the Guardian and the New York Times and at times her work and profile has @bradfordlitfest had appalling personal consequences – such as being arrested and physically and sexually assaulted by police, while covering protests in Tahrir Square, Cairo in 2011. Unapologetic and no stranger to controversy, she’s here to talk about her book ‘Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle Asia Alfasi is an award Kripa Joshi is a Nepali Corinne Pearlman is Mary Talbot is an East Needs a Sexual Revolution’, based on a winning British Libyan artist and the creator of the creative director at academic who now writes previous incendiary article confronting graphic novelist. Born in Miss Moti comics. She Brighton-based Myriad, an graphic novels. Her first, misogyny in the Arab world; about being a Libya in 1984, she spent studied at the School of independent publisher of ‘Dotter of her Father’s Eyes’ loud, proud, radical Muslim feminist; and her formative years in Visual Arts with a Fulbright original graphic novels and (with Bryan Talbot), won Tripoli, and then in scholarship. Miss Moti is a literary fiction. As the 2012 Costa Biography Mona Eltahawy how the battle for women's bodies can only Glasgow. Her work plump woman who commissioning editor of the Award. Her second, ‘Sally be won by a revolution of the mind. monaeltahawy.com features her Arab heritage frequently blurs the line graphics list, Corinne Heathcote, Suffragette’ @MonaEltahawy in a Manga style, with the between fantasy and oversees the biennial (with Kate Charlesworth ultimate aim of harnessing reality. She was recently Myriad First Graphic Novel and Bryan Talbot), came the medium as a tool for featured in the Comix Competition, discovering out in 2014. Her academic cross-cultural dialogue. Creatrix exhibition at the and nurturing talented books deal with language, asiaalfasiart.com House of Illustration. creators who often go on gender, media and power. @AsiaAlfasi missmoti.com to be published and win mary-talbot.co.uk @MissMoti awards. @eyedotter myriadeditions.com @comicopera

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Hassan Mahamdallie, Aliki Chapple Daniel Goodbery, Leah Moore Emma Vieceli, Chie Kutsuwada Javed Majeed, Daniel Medin, Minae Mizumura The Broadway University of Bradford, re:centre University of Bradford, Small Hall Bradford College, Dye House Gallery英語の---時 11am (30mins) FREE Booking required 11am (90mins) £6 12.30pm (75mins) £6 代の La なかで 11am (75mins) £6 chute de la 亡びゆく THE langue FALL à OF言葉 l’époqueLANGUAGE IN THE ИСЧЕЗАНИЕ A G E

OF Making Digital Manga Shakespeare d’anglais ЯЗЫКОВ ENGLISH Tales of Animals В 영어의 O ЭПОХУ QUEDA The Fall of DA 나이에있 АНГЛИЙСКОГО LÍNMINAEGUA MIZUMURA 는언어의 NA Comics Workshop A troubled, sword-toting hero, ERA 水村 가을 DO Language in INGLÊS 美苗 tormented by the ghost of his father. A warrior brooding on the Age of English honour and ambition. An ageing wizard sensing the Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest Since the Colonial period a handful of advance of time and the languages have risen to prominence dwindling of his powers. throughout the world, but none more so Young lovers defying their than English. It has been the accepted families and their rival gangs language of global business for decades and Leah Moore and Daniel Merlin Goodbrey to be together. Swordfights, is increasingly, inexorably, becoming the are two of the leading minds in digital comic battles, madness. It’s as if common tongue on social media. What does publishing. Join them for this exclusive Shakespeare had Manga on this mean for language in general, and more Electricomics Demo Session to find out his mind from the start. specifically for the regional dialects fading more about experimental digital comics, the Self Made Hero’s acclaimed Manga Shakespeare out beneath its lengthening shadow? Children will be thrilled to meet storyteller opportunities they offer and how you can Aliki Chapple as she spins her yarns with get involved. series takes the Bard’s greatest works, including Our panel includes Minae Mizumura, author plenty of opportunities to get involved. Hamlet, Macbeth, The Tempest and Romeo of ‘The Fall of Language in the Age of Telling stories from titles including 'Animal Bring along your own comic – on any and Juliet and renders them in classic Manga @bradfordlitfest English’ and ‘A True Novel’, who is fluent in Tales', this will be a captivating half hour theme - and see how it can be converted to fashion. The strange futurism, angles and English but writes in Japanese. She's joined by they'll talk about for the rest of the day! digital online forms. The revolution starts sharpness are there, but so is all the glorious light Javed Majeed, author of ‘Muhammad Iqbal: here.... and shade of the plays themselves, the characters Islam, Aesthetics and Postcolonialism’ and There will also be chances to meet the brought into sharp focus (and dressed as storyteller as she does a character walkabout Professor of English and Comparative Daniel Merlin Goodbrey hyperkinetic neo-samurai, of course) for new in costume. What tales will she tell you? Literature at King's College London. Up for e-merl.com readers and existing fans to discover. discussion is the influence of English and its @merlism Emma Vieceli (‘Manga Hamlet’ and ‘Much effect on worldwide languages, both over Ado About Nothing’), and Chie Kutsawada time and in the ever-evolving digital realm. (‘Manga As You Like It’) are two of the artists Ralph Dartford chairs. behind some of these extraordinary comics. Leah Moore Aliki Chapple is an actor, Come and hear them talk about how they did storyteller, and festival electricomics.net it, and if in the far reaches of deadline night, performer based in the North @electricomics they were ever heard to mutter ‘O cursed spite, of England. She is a lifelong bookworm, and likes nothing that ever I was born to set it right’. better than sharing her Hassan Mahamdallie Javed Majeed enthusiasm for stories with @HMahamdallie audiences of all ages. sturgeonsotherlaw.com @amaenad

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Andrew Brown, Sunny Hundal, Lisa Milton, Nelle Andrew, Morwenna Catt Alex Bowler, Paul Gravett, Samia Rahman, Ziauddin Sardar Kevin Duffy, Nikesh Shukla Leah Moore, Corinne Pearlman Bradford College, Dye House Gallery University of Bradford, Great Hall Bradford College, Dye House Gallery University of Bradford, Small Hall 1pm (90mins) FREE Booking required 12.30pm (75mins) £6 1pm (75mins) £6 2pm (75mins) £6 Critical Muslim: How to Get Published Make Your Own Breaking into Comics Extreme It’s the big question for many writers: how do Superhero T-Shirts I take my manuscript from my computer to Extreme ways take many the shelves and devices of readers? To help and Wristbands different forms, answer it, writers, publishers and agents share

be it religious their experiences of the industry and offer (Age 10+) Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest fundamentalism, corruption, advice on how to get your work picked up, extreme geology or the and explain what publishers are looking for We all love a superhero story and they’re more Just as a bookshop, magazine stand or even an extreme lengths people will and how they make their decisions. popular now than ever before. Alas, we can't Amazon page can seem baffling and inaccessible go to in order to escape a situation. The dress like one all the time but we can do the at first to would-be authors, so too can the current issue of the 'Critical Muslim' journal Our panel of experts can certainly offer some next best thing with some carefully chosen shelves of the comic book store to aspiring investigates the 'Extreme' theme and covers insider insight. Kevin Duffy is head of super-themed clothing and accessories; and writers and artists. If you’ve got a story wriggling these very topics, and many more. international publishers Bluemoose Books; Lisa what could be better than sporting something in your mind, waiting to be brought to life in Milton is executive publisher for the Harlequin unique that no-one else has? graphic detail, how do you make it happen? Join 'Critical Muslim' editor and chair for the Division of HarperCollins, whose imprints afternoon Ziauddin Sardar and some of this include Mira, Ink and Mills & Boon; Nelle Artist, textile sculptor and fantastical costumier This event will help you get started. We’ve issue's contributors – including journalists Andrew is a literary agent whose role at PFD Morwenna Catt not only has a superheroic assembled some experienced comics Andrew Brown and Sunny Hundal, along includes representing Ayisha Malik, Bryony name, she can also help you create your own professionals to share their expertise: writer and with ‘Critical Muslim’, deputy editor Samia Gordon, Sarah Winman and Catherine superhero t-shirts and wristbands. Create a digital publisher Leah Moore, creative director @bradfordlitfest Rahman - for a discussion of the various kinds Chanter; and Nikesh Shukla is author of the superhero identity using your cartooning skills, and publisher Corinne Pearlman, Alex Bowler, of extremism apparent in the world today. crowdfunded ‘Coconut Unlimited’. Moderated develop a striking logo and transfer it onto a editorial director of Cape Graphic Novels, and Together they'll touch on Sikh, Muslim and by award-winning writer Michael Stewart, this plain t-shirt using fabric appliqué, stencils and comics authority Paul Gravett will discuss what Atheist extremism and consider the nature of is an essential session for anyone wanting to get fabric paints. There will also be an opportunity it takes to get your ideas out there. Ready for 'extreme' activity more broadly, be it their words in front of a wider audience. to create hero wristbands/wristlets using maximum effort? Start here! philosophical, theological and even geological. simple fabric appliqué techniques.

criticalmuslim.com/issues/17-extreme Participants will need to bring along a plain @CriticalMuslim t-shirt. Places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment!

Morwenna Catt is a visual artist, designer and lover of all Alex Bowler Paul Gravett @Alex_is_Editing paulgravett.com Lisa Milton Nelle Andrew things textile. She often works @Paul_Gravett @LMrhjb petersfraserdunlop.com with literary themes, creating Andrew Brown Sunny Hundal @PFDAgents three-dimensional creatures @seatrout @sunny_hundal embroidered with lines of poetry and symbol. She lives and works between Norway and the UK. morwennacatt.co.uk @channelfur Leah Moore Corinne Pearlman @electricomics myriadeditions.com Samia Rahman Ziauddin Sardar Kevin Duffy Nikesh Shukla electricomics.net @comicopera ziauddinsardar.com Bluemoosebooks.com @NikeshShukla @ofmooseandmen 26 27 Saturday S atu r day 21 M ay Box Office: 01274 238 374 www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk 21 May

Dominic Sheeran, Joe Sheeran, Tom Holland, Nick Baines, Haji Noor Deen Shelagh Mary Ward Abdul-Rehman Malik University of Bradford, Norcroft Auditorium Midland Hotel, Princes Ballroom University of Bradford, Great Hall 2pm (60mins) £6 2pm (60mins) £3 COMÓRADH ‘16 2pm (75mins) £6

Above: Irish Government Logo for public use. Talking Irish History:Below: Comoradh ‘16 Testing the Tension: The Art of Calligraphy: Purpose and Practice From the Proclamation Faith Narratives vs We’re thrilled to welcome Haji Noor Deen Mi Guang Jiang, internationally acclaimed master of Arabic to the Bradford Irish Historical Narratives calligraphy, to the Bradford Literature Festival. The major artist initiated and taught the first regular and

Author, Christian and historian Tom systemic Arabic calligraphy course at the Zhengzhou Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest Holland explores the tensions that arise from Islamic College in China. presenting different versions of the same person through faith and historical His calligraphy is writing new chapters in history: the narratives. If one account depicts Christ the piece ‘The Ninety Nine Names of God’ was acquired son of God, the divine figure, how can this by The British Museum in 2005 for permanent dispaly be reconciled with a separate account of in the gallery of Islamic Art. Jesus of Nazareth, the man? Haji Noor Deen brings vast knowledge of Islamic art Join Tom as he considers various faith-based and traditional thought to a modern audience, and and historical narratives, looking at the with it, a kind of magic. Join him in conversation as he accounts of different faith figures, who they talks about his astonishing technique, his work, and its Join our panel for what promises to be a were and what they did, and what happens to essential role as an expression of his faith and his relationship with God. Unmissable. stimulating, challenging conversation about those accounts when held up against historical @bradfordlitfest two key themes: the Proclamation of the documents and archaeological records. How Irish Republic in 1916; and the History of does the presentation differ, and how can the the Irish in Bradford. You’re cordially conflict inherent in these comparisons be Haji Noor Deen was included in Georgetown University’s invited to join the discussion with Joe resolved? Does it even need to be? ‘Top 500 Most Influential Muslims of 2009 to 2015 in the world’ list. His work has been displayed, often as the first Sheeran, host of ‘Echoes of Ireland’, BCB Chinese/Arabic artist, at The British Museum, San Francisco Radio’s weekly traditional Irish music Get closer with Tom as he talks about this complex, nuanced idea with Bishop of Leeds Asian Museum, National Museum of Scotland, Harvard programme; director of the Bradford Irish University Art Museum and more. He has spoken at institutions Club, Dominic Sheeran; and social historian Nick Baines, and author and educator including the universities of Harvard and Cambridge, and Shelagh Mary Ward, who has conducted Abdul-Rehman Malik. Qatar Islamic Cultural Centre (FANAR). extensive research into the history of hajinoordeen.com Bradford’s Irish community. Our speakers explore the ‘What? Where? Who? When? How? and Why?’ of these two topics. A must for anyone with an interest in Irish history and heritage, both local and national. Tom Holland Nick Baines Abdul- tom-holland.org nickbaines. Rehman Malik @Holland_Tom wordpress.com @ArMalik @NickBaines

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Sunny Hundal, Amardeep Singh, Malcolm Dickson, Marlene Smith Maryam Golubeva Jo Bell Pippa Virdee, Virinder Kalra Impressions Gallery Bradford College, Dye House Gallery Midland Hotel, Irving Midland Hotel, Conference Room 2pm (90mins) FREE Booking required 2pm (240mins) £6 2pm (180mins) £6 2pm (120mins) £6 Lost Heritage: Maud Sulter: Passion From Russia With Love: 52 Ways to The Sikh Legacy in Pakistan Paper Cutting and Write a Poem Acclaimed photographer Engraving Workshop ‘Are you sitting comfortably? Never mind. Amardeep Singh’s beautifully Join curator Malcolm Dickson and artist Let's begin anyway.’ illustrated travelogue is a true Marlene Smith for a discussion of the work Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest labour of love. The author of Maud Sulter (1960-2008), an award- Jo Bell's 52 Project began as a blog-based visited 36 cities in Pakistan to winning poet and photographic artist of poetry workshop offering, in her words, ‘a explore the region’s impact and Scottish-Ghanaian descent. weekly kick in the arse for your Muse.’ influence on Sikh culture (and Writers were given a new prompt every vice versa) - the resulting book’s photography In her short but influential career, Sulter week throughout 2014; the whole thing is and commentary offers a unique insight. reinvented the visual imagery of black Maryam Golubeva’s stunning paper-cutting now collected into a new book along with women and highlighted the long standing fresh prompts from Helen Mort, Philip Join Amardeep for an enlightening event of and engraving works are an extraordinary connections between Africa and Europe. fusion of the everyday and the eternal. The Gross and others, as well as inspirational two halves, as he presents his photographs and poems from writers including John Donne View the exhibition ‘Passion’, the first major key tools required, she says, are nail scissors shares his experiences in Pakistan, before and Sharon Olds. being joined by a panel of special guests. They survey of Sulter’s work outside Scotland, and and divine love. include chair Virinder Kalra, social science enjoy refreshments afterwards. Maryam uses traditional Russian In this workshop, the former director of

lecturer at the University of Manchester and National Poetry Day reveals some of the @bradfordlitfest @ImpGalleryPhoto paper-cutting and engraving techniques to editor of ‘Pakistani Diasporas: Culture, deliver a cross cultural narrative that aims techniques that made the project such a 01274 737843 Conflict and Change’; and panellists, blogger to re-establish the deep seated historic success, exploring the notion of a mental and journalist Sunny Hundal and Pippa bonds between the East and West. In this discourse between poets living and dead, as Virdee, senior lecturer in South Asian history workshop she’ll share some of the methods well as opening up her workbook and at De Montfort University. she uses to create her beautiful work and sharing some tips. If your Muse needs a kick in the nether regions, this is the place to be. Together they’ll discuss the significance of help you tap into the wellspring of Islamic the Sikh legacy in Pakistan and why so little art and divine subtext that informs her sacred geometry. is known about it among the Sikh and Jo Bell is a poet and builder Pakistani diaspora. of online projects including 52, Born and raised in Russia and which led to the bestselling now based in Lancaster, book ‘52: Write a Poem a Maryam Golubeva’s art was Week’. Former director of recently showcased at the National Poetry Day, she is a MOCAfest at the World Islamic Charles Causley Prize winner Economic Forum in Dubai and and has a Saboteur Award for Amardeep Singh Sunny Hundal Malaysia. In 2015 and 2016, the 52 project. Her latest lostheritagebook.com sunnyhundal.org she was shortlisted for the Muslim collection is ‘Kith’ and her radio @Sunny_Hundal News Alhambra Award for poem about life on the canals Excellence in Arts. will air on Radio 4 in late May. maryamgolubeva.com jobell.org.uk @MaryamGolubeva @Jo_Bell

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Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi, Chie Kutsuwada, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, Naz Shah, Toby Howarth Tariq Mehmood, Leone Ross, Inko Ai Takita-Lucas Jacob Ross City Hall University of Bradford, re:centre Bradford College, Dye House Gallery 3pm (75mins) FREE Booking required 3pm (120mins) FREE Booking required 2.30pm (75mins) £6 Closure: Manga Workshop What Should a Contemporary Contemporary Black (Ages 7+) Place of Worship Look Like? British Short Stories Bradford Literature Festival is delighted to be hosting the Baroness Warsi Foundation’s inaugural debate in a series of events examining the relationship between architecture and places of

We have always valued the short Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest worship in the twenty-first century. story as a way to make sense of the world, and our place in it. New short story From Stonehenge to Shinto shrines to the Sagrada Familia, our sacred structures have historically anthology ‘Closure’ is essentially about human reflected not only our evolving religious practices, but also our advances in art and architecture. Now striving, offering contemporary conversations the BWF want to open a conversation with practitioners of all faiths throughout the UK to consider around different experiences of being British - what a modern place of worship could look like. Do contemporary mosques need minarets? What is a lived reality that is like air or breath or blood. Have you ever wanted to develop (or perhaps the essence of a church? How should our new sacred structures fit into our built environment? The breadth of this experience is expressed improve) your Manga drawing and storytelling Beginning the conversation in Bradford are some key figures from the worlds of heritage, architecture through a variety of form, tone and voice; skills, or wondered what the secrets to Manga and faith. Baroness Warsi herself will set out the Foundation’s goals of moving the faith debate on, and of stylistic ranges and the richness of its style are, beyond insane hair and giant, dewy will be joined by Naz Shah MP and Bishop of Bradford Toby Howarth for a wide-ranging discussion diverse themes. Even the title invites a eyes? This is your chance to find out, with two of the architecture of faith, and its place in the modern world. subversive response and the anthology is workshops for younger and older artists

filled with stories which, like lives, rarely looking in depth at how to create Manga @bradfordlitfest end in the way we might imagine. comics or illustrations. ‘Closure’ editor Jacob Ross is joined by Your leaders through the Manga maze are Tariq Mehmood, Jennifer Nansubuga experienced professionals, so join Manga Makumbi and Leone Ross – all writers Shakespeare alumnus Chie Kutsuwada and featured in the collection - to discuss the Inko (AKA Ai Takita-Lucas), contributor to anthology, its genesis, and the tales it tells. the Manga Cupcakes anthology and Art on the Underground, as they introduce you to @Peepaltreepress the techniques, tricks and tips you need to Naz Shah MP entered Parliament at Baroness Sayeeda Warsi is a Bishop Toby Howarth was born in www.peepaltreepress.com/books/closure create your own magic Manga. the 2015 General Election. A women’s British-Pakistani lawyer and politician Kenya and has studied and worked in rights campaigner, she is a former who co-chaired the Conservative Party. London, the United States, Pakistan, chair of mental health charity Sharing She was the first female Muslim to Oxford, Uganda, Egypt, Birmingham Voices Bradford. Since being elected attend Cabinet, wearing a traditional and India. He holds a PhD on Islamic in May 2015, Naz has become a South Asian shalwar kameez to her preaching. After serving as Inter Member of the Home Affairs select first meeting in Downing Street. She Religious Affairs Secretary to the committee, and has recently become served as the Minister without portfolio Archbishop of Canterbury, he was Jennifer Nansubuga Tariq Mehmood the Parliamentary Private Secretary to between 2010 till 2012, then as the consecrated Bishop of Bradford in Makumbi @TariqMehmood000 the Shadow Chancellor the Rt Hon Senior Minister of State for Foreign 2014. Toby is married to Henriette and John McDonnell. and Commonwealth Office and as the they have three daughters. @INSCRIBEwriters @NazShahBfd Minister of State for Faith and @Toby_Howarth Communities.

The Baroness Warsi Foundation is an independent global grant-making Foundation. Their goal is to encourage debate and identify innovative solutions that help create inclusive communities. The Foundation collaborates with partners from across the world in Chie Kutsuwada Inko Ai Takita-Lucas three program areas: improving social mobility, promoting freedom of religion or belief and increasing gender equality. Leone Ross Jacob Ross @chitanchitan @yokkoishoichi baronesswarsifoundation.org @LeoneRoss @RossWriterj @WarsiFdn 32 33

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Tom Cleary, Anthony Costello, Ian Duhig, Ziauddin Sardar, John Sweeney David Barnett, Zoe Marriott, John McAuliffe, Kim Moore, Natalie Rees, Peter Riley Nikesh Shukla, Emma Vieceli University of Bradford, Great Hall Midland Hotel, Princes Ballroom University of Bradford, Small Hall 3.30pm (75mins) £6 3pm (120mins) £6 COMÓRADH ‘16 3.30pm (75mins) £6

Poetry: Ireland and Irishness Above: Irish Government Logo for public use. Postnormal Futures We Love Comics! Below: Comoradh ‘16 2016 marks the centenary of the Easter Rising and Proclamation of the Irish Republic. Comics can start working their magic from Join us for a celebration of Ireland and Irishness through verse, music, song and dance in an early age. Many of us can surely recall association with Comóradh ’16, a community organisation created to commemorate this reading them as children, often by historic year. clandestine torchlight under the covers Tom Cleary, described by the Poetry Book Society as ‘a refreshingly off-kilter voice’, long after our official bedtimes. Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest is your host for an event featuring performances and readings from Irish poets or those of Irish For writers, poets, artists, illustrators and heritage. Following this event there will be a ceilidh – enjoy the poetry, then join The Wild many other creatives, comics are a lifelong Geese to dance the night away! (See page 38 for details.) The ‘postnormal’ or ‘postnormal times’ source of inspiration whether it began in concept attempts to describe our present childhood or not. They can move us and time, with all its turbulence, complexity and spark ideas in so many ways, whether it's change. Author and cultural critic Ziauddin through characters, themes, the artwork and Sardar, who developed the concept, layout, even the lettering. Of such things are describes it as ‘an in-between period where entire careers made. You don't even need to old orthodoxies are dying, new ones have be working in comics to have them yet to be born, and very few things seem to influence your own creations. Tom Cleary is an Irish poet Writer and poetry event Ian Duhig is a John McAuliffe is an Irish make sense’.

Discussing how comics have inspired them @bradfordlitfest living in Hebden Bridge. In organiser Anthony Cholmondelely Award poet. His fourth book, ‘The 2011 he won the Writers Costello resides in the recipient and Fellow of the Way In’, was published in Join Ziauddin Sardar, consulting editor of are author and Spider-Man fan Nikesh Forum and HappenStance Calder Valley, West Yorkshire. Royal Society of Literature, 2015. He was shortlisted for ‘Futures’, and John Sweeney, deputy director Shukla; novelist and mega Manga and poetry competition; leading His degree and masters were Duhig is a joint winner of a a Forward prize. He co- of the Centre of Postnormal Policy & Marvel fan Zoe Marriot, journalist and to publication of his literature and philosophy Shirley Jackson Award for directs the Centre for New Futures Studies, for a walk through the comic collector David Barnett; and Emma pamphlet, ’The Third Miss based and completed while short stories, the only twice Writing at the University of Vieceli who’s work includes the ‘Vampire Keane’. In 2015, he won a living in London, eventually outright winner of the National Manchester and co-edits ‘The postnormal world, where everything we Northern Writers’ Award as obtaining a PGCE in English Poetry Competition and has Manchester Review’. He also have ever taken for granted and held to be Academy’ and ‘Alex Rider’ series. one of six New North Poets. and History. three times been shortlisted for writes a monthly poetry ‘normal’ is now a thing of the past, be it our the TS Eliot Prize. column for the ‘Irish Times’. economic or political systems, the infrastructure of our cities or our perception of our own bodies. What does it mean for us all, and where do we go from here?

Kim Moore’s first full-length Natalie Rees Peter Riley recently retired David Barnett Zoe Marriott collection The Art of Falling Raised in Clonmel, Ireland, to Hebden Bridge. He is the @DavidmBarnett @ZMarriott was published by Seren in Natalie won the Young author of fifteen books of 2015. A poem from the Cuisle national poetry poetry and prose. His most book was shortlisted for the competition, going on to recent books are ‘The Forward Prize. She won a study an MA in creative Glacial Stairway’ and a Northern Promise Award in writing at University of book-length poem, ‘Due 2014 and plays trumpet in a Manchester. She currently North’, which was shortlisted Ziauddin Sardar John Sweeney ten-piece soul band called lives in Bradford working as for the Forward Best ZiauddinSardar.com @aloha_futures The Soul Survivors. a communications officer. Collection Prize in 2015. Nikesh Shukla Emma Vieceli @NikeshShukla @EmmaVieceli 34 35 Saturday S atu r day 21 M ay Box Office: 01274 238 374 21 May www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk

Simon Palfrey Leila Al–Shami, Amir Darwish, Naomi Foyle, Rehan Khan, Razwan Ul-Haq, Yasmin Khan Bashar Farhat, Mohammad Abu Waterstones Hajr, Robin Yassin-Kassab University of Bradford, Small Hall 4pm (60mins) £6 Bradford College, Dye House Gallery 5pm (75mins) £6 4pm (75mins) £6 Sex and Death Syria: An Islamicate Science Fiction in Shakespeare Artistic Response The conflict in Syria continues to provoke reaction across the world on a daily basis,

including in the works of writers and artists Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest from all backgrounds. There is much to react to, be it the roots of the conflict itself, the humanitarian catastrophe that has followed, or the actions of the nations and governments looking on. In an afternoon of discussion, reflection and powerful poetry, Syrian writers will present Our panel will talk about their own work and Arabic sci-fi more broadly, touching on lesser- their reactions to the events in their country; known work from past authors as they explore the themes, worlds and wonders this exciting genre and bring a complex global disaster into an contains and examine its place within Islamicate fiction more generally. intimate, personal setting where it can be Yasmin Khan of website Sindbad Sci-Fi, which is dedicated to promoting Arab science-fiction, What is it about sex, death and Shakespeare? confronted and illuminated.

The ‘star-cross’d’ love of Romeo and Juliet moderates the discussion. She’s joined by writer, artist and calligrapher Razwan Ul Haq, whose @bradfordlitfest is always headed for the tomb. Cleopatra’s You are invited to join novelist and flowing pieces are coloured with otherworldly influences and cosmological themes; fantasy culminating act is when she puts the asp to commentator Robin Yassin-Kassab and author Rehan Khan, whose latest book ‘Last of the Tasburai’ centres around a sword-wielding her breast, and dies with ‘joy of the worm’. activist Leila Al-Shami, both co-authors of heroine’s struggle against massing evil and the ghosts of her past; and Naomi Foyle, author of Othello smothers Desdemona on the ‘Burning Country: Syrians in Revolutions ‘The Gaia Chronicles’, a science-fantasy quartet set in a post-fossil fuel Mesopotamia. unstained sheets of their marital bed, and War’; poet Bashar Farhat and Amir smelling and kissing her sleeping form as Darwish, as well as rapper and founder of though the whole gruesome thing were a Mazzaj, Syria’s first rap band. cleansing act of love. Professor Simon Palfrey is co-author of ‘Shakespeare’s Dead’ which explores the stages of death in Shakespeare’s playworlds. Join him Naomi Foyle is the Rehan Khan was born in Razwan Ul-Haq is a Yasmin Khan is the for a talk that will explore Shakespeare’s take author of ‘The Gaia Wimbledon, close to the British Muslim artist with a producer of Sindbad Sci-Fi, Leila Al–Shami Amir Darwish Bashar Farhat on the deepest love affair of all. Chronicles’, a planned quintessential All England wide range of artistic styles. which seeks to engage leilashami. @darwish_amir @farhat_bashar quartet currently Lawn Tennis and Croquet His work can be described audiences in discovering the wordpress.com comprising ‘Astra’, ‘Rook Club. As a child he loved as experiential Islamic art, a interconnections of science Simon Palfrey is Professor @LeilaShami of English literature at Song’ and ‘The Blood of listening to swashbuckling post-modern reflection that fiction across the Middle Brasenose College, University the Hoopoe’. Also an tales of heroism and valor. draws from the well that fed East, North Africa and South of Oxford. His new novel is award-winning poet and a His debut novel is ‘Last of the the traditional calligraphic Asia and exploring ‘Macbeth, Macbeth’ (written non-Muslim Fellow of the Tasburai’. He is also a foundations of Islamic art. relationships between culture with Ewan Fernie) and Muslim Institute, Naomi co- professor of management Razwan uses a number of and innovation. ’Shakespeare’s Dead’ (with founded British Writers In and leadership. science fiction motifs in his SindbadSciFi.com Emma Smith), a book to Mohammad Robin Yassin- Support of Palestine. rehankhan.com work. @SindbadSciFi accompany the major 2016 Abu Hajar Kassab naomifoyle.com @tasburai ulhaq.com Bodleian Library exhibition. mazzajrap.com qunfuz.com @NaomiFoyle @islamic_artist @Qunfuz1 36 37 Saturday SATU R DAY 21 M ay Box Office: 01274 238 374 21 May www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk

Peter Spafford, The Wild Geese (Ceili band) Carol Ann Duffy, Imtiaz Dharker, Sudeep Sen, Jo Bell, Selina Nwulu Richard Ormrod, Jacqui Wicks Avaes Mohammad, Rehana Roohi, Ralph Dartford Midland Hotel, Princes Ballroom Theatre in the Mill Bradford College, Advanced Technology Centre 7pm – late! £6

7.30pm (90min with interval) £9 full/£7 7.30pm (150mins) £10 concessions/Limited student offer: £4 Lyrical Mehfil

Threshold An Irish Céilí COMÓRADH ‘16 Poet Laureate Dame Carol Ann Duffy headlines this special evening of spoken word and performance poetry, featuring a diverse lineup of artists with an eclectic range of styles and voices Above: Irish Government Logo for public use. Below: Comoradh ‘16 that cross many cultures.

The evening is inspired by traditional mehfils – gatherings of courtly entertainment in South Asia Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest performed for small audiences in the homes and palaces of Muslim nobility – but also tapas dining. It’s a chance to try bite-sized portions of work from different voices and to experience new and unfamiliar poetic flavours in a cosy, intimate setting. Joining Carol Ann Duffy in the stellar line-up are poet, artist and film maker Imtiaz Dharker, who was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry in 2014; translator, artist and editor Sudeep Sen, recognised as one of India’s finest younger poets; former Canal Laureate Jo Bell who’s recent online project led to the best selling book ‘52: Write a Poem a Week’; writer, A new piece created by Schwa for Put on your dancing shoes, grab a partner performer and the third young Poet Laureate of London, Selina Nwulu; writer and performer Spring 2016. (or several) and get ready for a night of Avaes Mohammad, who’s influences range from the Sufi saints of South Asia to Dub Poets of glorious Irish music and dancing to the Jamaica. Rehana Roohi is one of Pakistan’s foremost contemporary poets; she uses the ghazal Join musicians Peter Spafford, Richard rhythms of the wonderful Wild Geese. poetic form and recites her poetry in the traditional, melodious tarannum style. Our host for this Ormrod and guest vocalist Jacqui Wicks for unmissable evening is the founding member of highly acclaimed spoken word collective A Firm @bradfordlitfest For 30 years, these Bradford musicians have an evening of song exploring the of Poets, Ralph Dartford. possibilities of hospitality, from Homer to delighted local and international audiences Budget Hotels. Original songs, reworkings with their ceilis, concerts and sessions, of classic texts and beautiful storytelling supporting diverse charities along the way. combine to make an evening of warmth and The ceilis is a rare local opportunity to share contemplation of the meaning of welcome. in their unique craic with a great night of Come on in and stay a while. Take off your dancing, music and fun. coat and warm yourself by the fire. There are stories to tell, songs to sing. A warm bed, a cup of tea and the comfort of strangers. Step over the threshold. Carol Ann Duffy Imtiaz Dharker Sudeep Sen Jo Bell carolannduffy.co.uk @IDharker sudeepsen.net @Jo_Bell ‘sublime playing and tales to melt away the blues’ imtiazdharker.com @SudeepSenNet jobell.org.uk - The Lux ‘An unforgettable evening that makes you respond to strangers in a new way’ - A Firm of Poets

Selina Nwulu Avaes Mohammad Rehana Roohi Ralph Dartford selinanwulu.wordpress.com avaesmohammad.com @Dartford @SelinaNwulu @AvaesMohammad

38 39 SUNDAY 22 May Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest @bradfordlitfest 41 ale 01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box Swords and Fairy Workshop Wands and delicate for dashing heroes Swords magic for little fairies! wands Character Fairy Tale Bookmarks Workshop favourite based on your a bookmark Make time can use it every book characters – you another enchanting tale! read you Drop into our Free FairyDrop into our Free T 11am – 4pm workshops between Crowns Workshop and a a king there’s fairyIn every tale, the magical land. queen who rule over Gold crown. own and decorate your Create rule! and jewels www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk

Peter Pan 1953 | U | 77mins 11am to away whisked are The Darling children Peter join the ageless they where Neverland, in an ongoing of Lost Boys and his gang Pan battle against the pirate Captain Hook. charms film constantly successive Disney’s generations of fans with its visual wit and of friendship plus a moral core and warmth, family tales – as with all the classic Disney and – a hint of darkness at the edges of the world. Film screening Peter Pan Show 10.15am - 10.45am 1.30pm - 2pm 3.30pm - 4pm he sets sail up as grew who never the boy Join alongside the fairy adventure on a brand new course and of the fearsomeTinkerbell Captain become theThe audience themselves Hook. adventure in this thrillingLost Boys interactive Tink face the most famous of pirate and as Peter Hook. Captain all, outwit Hook? Or will the CaptainCan they songs, Featuring comedy, finally defeat Pan? will this fast paced show dance and swordfights fairies and pirates alike. little lost boys, captivate a can also expect an appearance from You certain tick-tocking crocodile... nyone else hear a clock ticking? We begin at a clock ticking? We Anyone else hear with a free screening of11am in City Park just how to get ‘Peter Pan’ to remind us Disney’s the boy who never grew upto Neverland, before new adventure in Q20’s embarks on a whole Peter Pan performance participation – audience is requested and required! also have free workshops throughout the We’ll swords,day where you can create crowns, wands and fairy tale character bookmarks; plus back on... tips on how to sew your shadow

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01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box @MarkGarratt100 Mark Garratt bradford.ac.uk Dispelling some of the negative myths around myths Dispelling some of the negative living our panel are life in adoption and care, success that childrenexamples of the kind of on to achieve. raised in the system can go Sharing their personal stories on view and Lemn broadcaster are adoption and care author Kit De Naz Shah MP, MBE, Sissay of Bradford’s the University and Waal, Mark Garratt,. of externaldirector affairs, first experience hand All our panellists have of the system and can offer a different, complexinformed on an undeniably take their as explaining how as well process, experiencesformative helped them become today. are the successful adults they ark Naz Shah, M Lemn Sissay, Kit De Waal Garratt, City Hall £6 10.30am (75mins) Lemn Sissay @LemnSissay Adoption and Care: Adoption and of My The Secret Success www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk Sam Thomas @MGEDT

Jenny Langley boyanorexia.co.uk Manorexia and Boylimia: Eating Disorders It's a little-discussed fact can suffer that men The the same eating disorders as women. from of such the impact but fewer be numbers may as those of their as well on their lives, disorders is huge nonetheless. friends and families, first experience hand of Our panelists have caring with male for and living treating, writer include carer, They eating disorders. author of Langley, and campaigner Jenny Alyas Imam and Too’; Anorexia Get ‘Boys Karmani is whose counselling work mental health focused on Muslim centred Along with Sam and emotional wellbeing. and founder bulimic recovering Thomas, of the charityand director Men Get Eating attempt to cast some they'll Too, Disorders light on a subject often left in the dark, looking at some of the causes and cases as the help as well encountered they’ve and journalist Ralph Poet available. Dartford chairs. Among Men y, JLangley, Karmani, enny Alyas Sam Thomas House GalleryBradford College, Dye £6 10am (75mins) Alyas Karmani

Booking required Morwenna Catt is a visual artist, designer and lover of all things textile. She often works with literary themes, creating three-dimensional creatures embroidered with lines of poetry and symbol. She lives and works between Norway and the UK. morwennacatt.co.uk @channelfur nna Catt wenna Catt Mor House GalleryBradford College, Dye FREE 10am (90mins) Make Upcycling 3DMake Upcycling Manga Characters (Age 7+) Artist, sculptor and costumier Morwenna sculptor and costumier Morwenna Artist, to bring you a little Manga style Catt invites life with this fun hands-on into your need is some imagination All you workshop. box! the recycling and a rummage through materialsUsing recycled and junk you'll 3D Manga own your design and build transforming old drinkscharacters, cans and villains and plastic bottles into heroes, glue fabric, using paints, colourful creatures then bring new your You'll pens. and marker lines and characters to life using the expressive cartoon the trademark of that are techniques and anime films. graphic novels limited so book early to avoid Places are disappointment!

Booking required Richard O’Neill is an award- winning storyteller and His combination of woodcarver. woodcarvingand stories original makes for a fun and imagination filled journey through the history of craftsmanship and storytelling that will enthral the whole family. richardthestoryteller.weebly.com @theronneill

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N DAY SU 22 May 22 with Woodcraft with Woodcraft Roma Storytelling (All ages) FREE 10am (60mins) O’Neill Richard W From the ancient Egyptians to Pinocchio the ancient From made by toys wooden and peg dolls, a storytellerscraftsmen and used by have long and magical history. A fifth generation master storyteller who learned and Romany at the feet of traditional Richard woodcarver Country masters, West O’Neill brings this magic the Bradford to See him craft a brand new Festival. Literature and tell his amazing about the process talk toy, Find out about a stories while he does it. thewhole range of amazing characters like and Branch Buddies©. Truglies© 42 To Book: www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk SUNDAY 22 May Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest @bradfordlitfest 45

Booking required 01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box aterstones The award-winning Czech illustrator The award-winning of a variety Horácek is the author of Petr charming books for children, picture Silly Blue Penguin, including Puffin Peter, Who The Mouse Elephant and Suzy Goose, him for storytelling Join Reached the Sky. him bringand watch his characters to life session. drawing with a live Petr Horácek began his career working at a state advertising and design agency in communist Czechoslovakia, despite the fact that in communist Czechoslovakia there was nothing much to advertise or design. After studying Fine Art, he moved to England where becoming a father inspired him to write his first book. His books have gone on to win several awards internationally. petrhoracek.co.uk @PHoracek cek Petr Hora W FREE 11am (60mins) Petr Horácek: Storytelling with Pictures www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk

Booking required Catherine Barr studied Ecology at Leeds University and trained as a journalist. She worked at Greenpeace International seven years for and has a long-running interest in environmental issues. Her previous book for Frances Lincoln is ‘The Story of Life’ @Catherine_Barr Elliot’s Arctic Surprise Elliot’s (Ages 2-5) campaigner Journalist and environmental family toCatherine and your Barr you invites North, join her on a journey into the frozen a picture Surprise’, Arctic ‘Elliot’s from reading in story book with an eco message developed UK. with Greenpeace conversation a message from discovers When one little boy hisFather Christmas asking for help to save he hitches a lift the oil drillers, home from with and together a kind old sailor from set sail to they the world, around from children Elliot desperately wants the oil men. confront and stop ChristmasArctic being the to save will the oil drillers but back down cancelled, big surprise…?and what is the old sailor’s erine Barr Cath The Broadway FREE 11am (60mins)

aroon Rashid is an Haroon Aaron producer, award winning director, social-activist, and singer/composer. As a music star in Pakistan he has a fan following in the millions. Haroon is creator and director of the Emmy- nominated and multi-award-winning Pakistani Animated TV Series ‘Burka Avenger’. haroon.com @TheRealHaroon debut novel ‘The Zoe Marriott’s Swan Kingdom’ was shortlisted for and the the Branford Boase Award Book People’s Lincolnshire Young and become a USBBY Award, Outstanding International Book, among other honours. Her subsequent books have won or been nominated for many other awards, SasakawaBritain Great the including Prize and a second place in the Awards. Lancashire Book of the Year @ZMarriott zoemarriott.com

Kripa Joshi is a Nepali artist and the creator of the Miss Moti comics. She studied at the School of Visual Arts with a Fulbright scholarship. Miss Moti frequently blurs the line between fantasy and reality and was recently featured in the Comix Creatrix exhibition at the House of Illustration. missmoti.com @missmoti N DAY SU 75 years ago this year, the iconic Wonder Woman made her star-spangled debut in American in debut made her star-spangled Woman Wonder the iconic ago this year, 75 years in pantheon of superheroines Amazon is one of a growing the amazing Today, comic books. incarnation latest big screen with the appearing in DC's and popular culture, manga comics, of Justice’. Dawn ‘Batman vs Superman: latest blockbuster century their twenty-first sisters discuss what makes Woman’s Wonder of some of creators Now, them to speak enable and messages that and the roles female characters and distinctive, different artist ‘Miss Moti’ Avenger’, ‘Burka of creator Rashid, Haroon Aaron Join readers. to present-day women. generation of wonder the new to explore McKenny Mike and moderator Kripa Joshi’ Lassos of truth not required. 21st Century Wonder Women Women 21st CenturyWonder Rashid Aaron Haroon Zoe Marriott, Joshi, Kripa Bradford, Small Hall University of £6 11am (75mins) 22 May 22 44 To Book: www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk SUNDAY 22 May Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest @bradfordlitfest 47 Claire Chambers @clarachambara Caroline HerbertCaroline b, assin-Kassa assin-Kassab 01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box bers, hmed, Claire Cham Rehana A Robin Y Herbert Caroline House GalleryBradford College, Dye 11.30am (75mins) £6 LiteraryBritish Muslim Representations Muslims in Britain in been depicted have How historically both and in contemporary literature, such as the Rushdie affair or events texts? Have a onto stereotype 7/7 imposed a reductive minority? heterogeneous diverse, Muslims a look at how Our panel will take whether as Britishappear throughout literature, of texts or as characterscreators them, within have and representations those roles and how time. arisen and changed over whose book Chambers, Guests include Claire examines Muslim Eyes’ Through ‘Britain (among other things) fictional representations Rehana and of Britain Muslim writers; by ‘Writing British Muslims’, of author Ahmed, inform of literature works how which explores the debate about the place of Muslims in author and joined by They’re Britain. whose Yassin-Kassab, commentator Robin ‘The Road From books include the novel Caroline University’s Leeds Beckett Damascus’. Herbert chairs. Rehana Ahmed Robin Y @Qunfuz1 www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk

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yisha Malik Remona Aly @RemonaAly The Hijab: Politics vs Fashion garmentThe hijab is a contentious for its use or non-use intimately Muslim women, of faith, bound up in complex questions self-identity and religious (or even secular) self-identity and religious (or even furious headlines and It provokes politics. it co-exists yet world, the all over controversy of fashion does as it just as much in the world for every of religious geopolitics: in the world is a hip hijab there on the hijab, view hardline worn as both religious and fashion statement. all have Our panel of Muslim women with the hijab and relationships different wearing choices around made different have in the varying will take Their discussion it. of the hijab in society and perceptions amongst Muslim women. Our panellists include journalist and winning award Aly; commentator Remona and‘Headscarves columnist and author of the Middle East Needs a Why Hymens: Mariah Mona Eltahawy; Sexual Revolution’ in Hijab in featured who recently Idrissi, Ayisha the Loop campaign and Close H&M’s ‘Sofia Khan is Not novel debut who’s Malik, is out now. Obliged’ ly, Mona Eltaha Aly, Remona Bradford, Great Hall University of £6 11.30am (75mins) drissi, A Mariah I Mariah Idrissi @MariahIdrissi

Haji Noor Deen hajinoordeen.com Deen Haji Noor Bradford, Norcroft Lounge University of £6 11am (120mins) Calligraphy with Workshop Deen Haji Noor We’re honoured to welcome the welcome to honoured We’re internationally calligrapher celebrated Haji specialNoor Deen Mi Guang Jiang for a very He’ll demonstrate his peerless workshop. a near-miraculous calligraphic technique, writing by Arabic art, fusion of Chinese and expand on He’ll also the Qu’ran. from verses the form and function of his calligraphy. Haji Noor Deen’s As a Chinese Muslim, calligraphy is nothing less than article of with with a paintbrush, akin to prayer faith, of God. the sole aim of beautifying the word the As Islamic art has no animals or figures, making art floral or text based, is either practice. a sacred much calligraphy very opportunityThis is a precious to spend time of a master craftsman and in the company won see first-hand the techniques that have as joining as well renown, him worldwide and celebrate the faith him to acknowledge that illuminates his extraordinary work.

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N DAY SU 22 May 22 Safe Passage You’. Loved ‘Other Lips Have of ‘Ward Loving’. ‘Dangerous All titles of romantic Lucifer’. written Ida Cook by novels (writing as Mary Burchell), that a sensational and all proof title can sometimes fail to thehopelessly to match up sensational life of its author. Ida and her sister Louise the outside, From quiet living women unremarkable were beneath the Yet in London. lives suburban for rescuing responsible surface were they facing persecution anddozens of Jews death in 1930s Germany, smuggling them smuggling death in 1930s Germany, at great personal risk into (and cost) began royalties when Ida’s Even England. ploughed the funds were to mount up, into their courageous efforts. ‘Safe as republished recently memoir, Ida’s account of their exploits. is a vivid Passage’, who Anne Sebba, noted historianJoin to the new the introduction wrote to hear about the expanded edition, memoir and the life of a truly remarkable Anne Sebba will be talking to woman. writer Colin Philpott. Anne Sebba annesebba.com @AnneSebba a, Colin Philpott Anne Sebb Bradford Synagogue £6 11am (60mins) 46 To Book: www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk SUNDAY 22 May Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest @bradfordlitfest 49

rop In Drop is an actor, Aliki Chapple is an actor, and festivalstoryteller, performerorth based in the N of England. She is a lifelong bookworm, likes nothing and better than sharing her enthusiasm for stories with audiences of all ages. sturgeonsotherlaw.com @amaenad 01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box e Aliki Chappl The Broadway FREE 12pm (30mins) of Animals Tales Children will be thrilled to meet Aliki will be thrilledChildren to meet storyteller as she spins her yarns in Chapple’s with plenty of opportunities to get character, stories including titles from Telling involved. half be a captivating this will Tales’, ‘Animal of the day! talk about for the rest hour they'll will also be chances to meet the There storyteller as she does a character walkabout What tales will she tell you? in costume. www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk Booking required is a photographer, Tim Smith is a photographer, based He’s film-maker and writer. the region and where in Yorkshire its diverse communities have provided the inspiration and the impetus for his many national and international projects. timsmithphotos.com India’s Gateway India’s British Gujarat in 1608, ships first reached transforming the destinies of the region’s people and also the fabric of British society of British half Indians over in the process: photographer, Join originate Gujarat. from Tim Smith as he talks about his latest ‘India's Gateway’, exhibition and book, the extraordinary stories of which reveals of Gujarat and Mumbai as age-old centres trade and migration and focuses on their and Britain. links with Bradford the inspiration for are communities Yorkshire of which many projects, Tim’s of many Britain between and relationships explore issues of migration, surveying people overseas, This illustrated talk and identity. culture stories Britishfeatures from Gujaratis, celebrating Gujarati heritage and showing Yorkshire in here communities our own how place. faraway tied to this intriguing, are Tim Smith Cartwright Hall Art Gallery FREE 12pm (60mins)

akita-Lucas Inko Ai T @yokkoishoichi Booking required ada, Lucas akita- Chie Kutsuwada @ChitanChitan Have you ever wanted to develop (or to develop wanted ever you Have and Manga drawing your perhaps improve) what the or wondered storytelling skills, insane beyond to Manga style are, secrets This is your eyes? dewy hair and giant, for workshops with two chance to find out, and older artists in depth at looking younger Manga comics or illustrations. to create how the Manga maze are leaders through Your so join Manga experienced professionals, and Chie Kutsuwada alumnus Shakespeare contributor to Takita-Lucas), Ai (AKA Inko Art on and anthology the Manga Cupcakes to you introduce as they the Underground, tricks need to and tips you the techniques, magic Manga. own your create w Chie Kutsu Manga Workshop (Age 12+) Inko Ai T University of Bradford, re:centre University of FREE 12pm (60mins)

hildren’s Children’s aterstone’s Rob Biddulph is an illustrator and author, His first picture designer. won book, ‘Blown Away’, the W Book Prize in 2015. Rob is the art director of the ‘Observer’ magazine. robbiddulph.com @RobBiddulph Booking required (Ages 2-5)

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Grrrrr! 22 May 22 ‘Each year, for as long as the forest has stood, ‘Each year, A contest is held for the bears of the wood… just that good.’ He’s And Fred is the champion. – and he’s is the best bear in the wood Fred Being the best it. got the medals to prove and time on your work, a lot of hard takes Until a new mind. doesn’t Fred but own, champion and Fred’s to town, bear moves will he GRRRRR goes missing… How win now? ever Biddulph for this author Rob Join our hairy follow we as storytelling event Fred Will on a journey of self-discovery. hero importantlearn more that some things are than winning? 48 To Book: www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk SUNDAY 22 May Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest @bradfordlitfest 51

Aliki Chapple sturgeonsotherlaw.com. @amaenad Booking required

01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box aterstones Stephen White artbystref.blogspot.co.uk @stref70 e e, Aliki Chappl Stephen Whit W FREE 1pm (60mins) Peter Pan: The – Live! Graphic Novel In his graphic novel of of JM Barrie’s version Stephen Pan’, ‘Peter White goes back to the heartvery of Barrie’s a story recreating tale, magical and that is dark, The stunningauthentic. on illustrations draw original from features Barrie locations that inspired real including Moat Brae House and the garden andThis is a new as a boy. he played where vision of a new Pan, of Peter exciting version generationthe tale destined to enchant a new of readers. join story special this very event, For Chapple to Aliki Stephen and storyteller eyes. your come to life before Pan see Peter as Stephen illustrates the Aliki will read bringingright world Barrie’s story live, never-to-be- a unique, for into the room be thinking You'll experience. repeated morning... about it ’til www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk

Daniel Hahn danielhahn.co.uk @DanielHahn02 Lemn Sissay lemnsissay.com @LemnSissay issay, Anam, Lemn Sissay, ahmima ahmima Anam T @Tahmima Superman Was Superman Was a Foundling Hilary Robinson hilaryroninson.co.uk @H_A_Robinson T Daniel Hahn Robinson, Hilary City Hall £6 12.30pm (75mins) ‘Look how far Dorothy had to travel before before had to travel far Dorothy ‘Look how she truly that understood and appreciated - Lemn home.’ is no place like really there 2016 January The Guardian, Sissay, tales are of our most beloved Many central characters who have populated by placed in children's adopted, been fostered, Lemn Sissay's homes or cruelly orphaned. Museum commission, 2014 Foundling lists some of A Foundling’, Was ‘Superman Frodo Batman, Skywalker, Luke them: Eyre, Jane Spider-Man, Cinderella, Baggins, call goes on. the roll Copperfield… David status of people like rootless the What makes Bellacqua so fascinatingHarry or Lyra Potter to readers and writers? Anam, Tahmima Our literary panellists include Hilary Sissay. Robinson and Lemn Daniel Hahn, albot albot Bryan T bryan-talbot.com

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Ziauddin Sardar is a broadcaster and cultural critic. He has authored over 50 books, is consulting editor of ‘Futures’, chair of the Muslim Institute and Editor of ‘Critical Muslim’, a quarterly magazine of new thinking on Islam. ziauddinsardar.com anted To Ask anted To 01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box Sardar Ziauddin House GalleryBradford College, Dye £6 1pm (60mins) Islam‘Is There an MadBeyond the Max Jihadis?’ You’ve & Other Questions Always W Writer, broadcaster and cultural and broadcaster Writer, critic is chair of Ziauddin Sardar the Muslim Institute and is as frightened the rise by of Islamic else. Jihadi groups as everyone Beyond ‘Islam book His new tackles the Mad Max Jihadis’ the big question for those who do about it? what can we feel the same way: for new a passionate case makes Sardar the from interpretation of Islam far removed contemporary of fundamentalism. narrative he poses the questions him to explore Join of us might in his book - questions many violent Is Islam inherently admit to having. men and young do Why and misogynistic? go to join the Jihadi Caliphate? women Does Islam need a reformation? Should we be frightened of Sharia? together all work must we believes Sardar Open, the sanity of our world. to preserve such as this one at events fearless dialogue be a good place to start. could well www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk omen’s Hour on Radio 4. omen’s Anita Anand is the presenter of Any Questions on BBC Radio 4. A radio and television journalist for nearly 20 years, she has also presented the Sunday Politics and Newsnight on TV and W @tweeter_anita This is the enthralling story an extraordinary of In 1876 Sophia woman. bornDuleep Singh was However, into royalty. she transcended her heritage to devote herself to battling inequality injustice, fight the all, above and, for female suffrage. Respected journalist Anita Anand presents Suffragette, Princess, ‘Sophia: book her new a meticulously researched , Revolutionary’ and passionately written account of the rise and the fall that of empire of women and her part individual a unique introduces Britishin the defining moments of recent and Indian history. Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary nita Anand Anita Bradford, Great Hall University of £6 1pm (60mins) eritage LotteryHeritage onproject Fund Paula Grizzard was the initiator of the Making their Mark - A she Jewish Community, Bradford’s ran a major government programme that focused on the inner city of Bradford. Walking around, it’s sometimes hard to see sometimes hard it’s around, Walking and communities of the people, evidence a place the helped make actions that have This illuminating walking it is today. way you of history and show tour will lift the veil population (all be it Jewish Bradford’s how came to live almost non-existant these days) in and transform the city. in the Arriving the 1820s onwards from growing a of Bradford, Manningham area had a huge of German community Jews life impact on the cultural and commercial contributing to Bradford’s of the city, to transformation small regional town from major industrial capital. historian Grizzard will lead you Paula Jewish as the Jewish once known what was around sharing stories of the originalQuarter, merchant princes who helped put the city on the map: and artist for example; Wolfe, poet Humbert war who painted portraits Rothenstein, William Sir Albert Einstein. and Wilde of Oscar of the likes and the everyday It's a chance to look beyond of the city. into the past lives The tour will start Synagogue inside Bradford of up to 2 miles and will include a walk Synagogue. finsihing back at Bradford rizzard G PAULA Bradford Synagogue Meeting point, £3 1pm (60mins) Jewish Heritage Tour Tour Jewish Heritage

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Cold spots in rooms and halls. Flying and halls. Cold spots in rooms glimpsed on the Phantom figures objects. 2014 and 2015, Throughout edge of vision. the City Hall used by of Bradford areas The police experiencedof them. all there but totally inexplicable, sightings were ‘Chains Charlie’, one primewas suspect: ghost. City Hall's resident So who do the police call when they’re Vasey, being haunted? Enter author Les himself a former senior police officer and 22 May 22 Les V Museum Bradford Police £4 1pm (180mins) 54 To Book: www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk SUNDAY 22 May Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest @bradfordlitfest 57

Zareena Bano zareenaart.wix.com/zareenaart 01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box Zareena Bano House GalleryBradford College, Dye £6 2pm (180mins) Glass Painting Workshop This interactive art workshop will make use will make art workshop This interactive which of the exciting glass painting medium, beautiful embellishments can be enhanced by or even glass beads, including gold leaf, inspiration from your take can You mirrors. your existing designs and use them to create Arabic a variety of or choose from own, illuminated manuscript designs to apply to A ceramics or tiles. items such as vases, opportunity individual to create wonderful – away take to and unique pieces of artwork so just bring need is provided, you everything imagination and enjoy! your who uses visual artist Bano, With Zareena by which is inspired media for her work mixed Arabic calligraphy. Asian and traditional South www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk

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Fan Fiction and NewFan Fiction of Writing Ways e, Nik Perring Leah Moor Bradford, Small Hall University of £6 2pm (75mins) Dix, T Benjamin Leah Moore electricomics.net @electricomics Writing will always be writing, but the act but be writing, Writing will always the consuming and enjoying of finding, Along with rapidly. is evolving written word to ways writers new finding innovative are it, an audience, of in front get their words path, new sometimes taking a totally with techniques new sometimes combining models. publishing established more of writingExploring are ways the new comic writer and panellists Leah Moore, flash of Electricomics; manager project author and fiction writer Nik Perring; and Matharu; Taran online writing veteran founder of comics publisher Benjamin Dix. PositiveNegatives, Benjamin Dix positivenegatives.org @PosNegOrg Photo: Tim Smith Tim Photo: Booking required Following directly from the previous event, event, the previous from directly Following join us for a poetic symposium that celebrates with poetryGujarati culture and discussion. to come is proud Festival Literature Bradford Gujarati with poetrytogether collective Writers Forum for a celebration of Gujarati literary heritage the some of that will feature the the across best Gujarati poets from a It’s all performing original work. country, opportunity this poetry to hear wonderful which is such in its mother tongue, recited an important part of preserving the language generations. for future Gateway: ‘India’s us first to celebrate Join a major new Mumbai & Britain’, Gujarat, Tim photographer renowned exhibition by Smith exploring the history of the trade and places. these different migration between then be serving traditional food before We’ll begins.the mushaira Writers Forum has published The Gujarati ago, founded 25 years 19 books since it was language their people aiming to preserve by in Britain. themselves and express ers Forum Writ Gujarati Cartwright Hall Art Gallery FREE 1.30pm (120mins) Gujarati Mushaira

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N DAY SU Alan Dix @mrshipley @509arts This will be followed by a conversation with a conversation by This will be followed andfurther guests including broadcaster special Last author of Harry’s author Ziauddin Sardar, old HarryStand and 93 year Leslie Smith. experiences their own of will share They These and looking forward. ageing confronting for use in the will be recorded conversations on itself built piece, of the theatre final version testimony. oral men’s at 509arts.co.uk. Find out more Sing & Louder Sing is 509 Arts’ new music- new Arts’ Sing & Louder Sing is 509 Autumn 2016 planned for production theatre using ageing and mortality, about older men, Men’s backgrounds. different many from voices emotional and experiences – physical, of change their seventh, through move attitudinal – as they eighth and ninth decades will be at the heart of particularly in the face of Sing & Louder Sing, question oflonger lifespans and the pressing years. what to do with those extra twenty Alan including director team, the creative Join scriptwriterDix and award-winning Mike in progress of work in a presentation Kenny, word. and spoken projection using music,

Sardar, Ziauddin Alan Dix Leslie Smith, Harry Mill Theatre in the £6 1pm (150mins) 22 May 22 Mortality Men, Ageing andMen, Ageing Sing & Louder Sing:Sing & Louder 56 To Book: www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk SUNDAY 22 May Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest @bradfordlitfest 59 orld’

(Age 7+) onderful thing in the W ivian French is a prolific Booking required V writer and master storyteller who creates wonderful events based around fairy tales. She is the author of ‘The Most W and latest novel ‘The Adventures‘The novel latest and of Alfie Onion’. vivianfrench.co.uk @FiveKingdoms 01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box aterstones ench Vivian Fr W FREE 2pm (60mins) What happens beyond What happens beyond ‘Once upon a time?’ get a can you How story If you going? to writewant fairy no need tales there’s for a magic mirror: right are the answers here... is the French Vivian Wonderful ‘The Most author of of Adventures ‘The and World’ Thing in the to talk here she’s today but Alfie Onion’, about the magic of fairy tale storytelling, as she wordcraft some wonderful weaving the audience. help from with goes, a to build about how She talks to children including the fairytale up, the ground from to make mechanics of structure and how middles and ends that work. beginnings, She’ll also talk about the importance of character and character names as she leads story a new in creating 7-11 year-olds Sitting comfortably? together. How Fairy Tales How Fairy Tales are Made www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk

Shuruq Naguib @ShuruqNaguib Abdul-Rehman Malik @ARMalik Shah, Abdul-Rehman Shanon Malik Bradford, Great Hall University of 2pm (75mins) £6 No Sex Please, Muslim! We’re with lurid media awash the With this sexual politics, of Islam’s representations hopes to offer a moretimely panel discussion better assessment to promote level-headed withinunderstanding of sex and relationships tough questions to ask are There the religion. contemporary attitudes towards about Islam’s the between the relationship sexual practices, masturbation, marriage, sex before sexes, homosexuality and more. these complexOur panel will explore look frankly at sex and Islam, questions as they inclusion and exclusion. touching on inequality, Featuring sociologist Shanon Shah whose area Lancaster is LGBT Muslims; of research Shuruq Naguib who has written University’s Alyas Imam and Islamic thought; on gender; focuses on Muslim Karamni whose work and sex therapy mental health, centred Journalist and educator being. emotional well Abdul-Rahman chairs. about to know wanted ever you everything It’s too afraid to ask). were sex and Islam (but Naguib, Karmani, Shuruq Alyas Alyas Karmani Shanon Shah @ShanonShah yddiard yddiard, yddiard,

Alan L @AlanLydd Kully Thiarai @KThiarai Jenny Sealey @GraeaeJennyS ully Thiara ully K aley, Jenny Se House GalleryBradford College, Dye £6 2pm (75mins) Whose Narrative? arlison, Alan L Neil Darlison, Whose Story? Arts Debate: There’s a pressing issue facing theatre, and it’s and it’s issue facing a pressing theatre, There’s or inclusivity not necessarilydiversity, about of The makeup about invisibility. it’s equality: when many yet British society is evolving, with disabilities, groups – perhaps those ethnic minorities, transgender people, - look into the mirror older citizens refugees, back. see nothing reflected they of the arts, from voices leading together brought We’ve the UK’s to discuss why world the theatre theatrical our landscape seems untouched by by Co-curated and chaired changing society. inTheatre Artistic of Director Iain Bloomfield, boundary- this will be a far-reaching, the Mill, pushing debate looking at the issues around focusing and touring showing theatre, making, stories questions such as whose do we on key Iain tell them. do we how and and where tell, Neil Darlison (National Director is joined by Kully Arts Council England), at Theatre for Alan Thiarai Lyddiard Wales), (National Theatre Sealey and Jenny Ensemble) (The Performance to be a sure MBE (Graeae) for what’s event. informative challenging, Neil Darlison @NeilDarlison

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the fates and questions the minds of those still standing after the king falls, and in doing so shines a new, sidelong light on the original play. 42 ‘With great wit and psychological insight, Macbeth, Macbeth Shakespeare, I suspect, would have been delighted to see his work provoke such a deliriously imaginative response.’ DON PATERSON, POET AND AUTHOR OF READING SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS

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ada, Chie Kutsuwada @ChitanChitan Zarina Liew @cobaltcafe Booking required 01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box Lorenzo Fruzza Katja Hammond @jackoburra w Fruzza,Chi e Kutsu Lorenzo Zarina Liew ja Hammond, Kat Bradford, Small Hall University of FREE 3.30pm (75mins) Manga Jiman Launch Competition the Embassy of Each year, runs a comic- Japanese writing competition to freshest unearth the best, talent in comic short stories thrilled to help and we’re Jiman contest withlaunch the 2016 Manga special panel event. this very the competition has in its tenth year, Now a comic Manga, Yonkoma categories: two for entrants strip of four panels on one page, Manga Jiman, and 10 and 13; aged between a short six to eight pages for story told across aged 14 or over. anyone tremendous Winners and runners up receive in 2015 the top prize included air prizes: and inclusion in a special to Japan tickets find out more To exhibition at the Embassy. theme this year's about the competition, join our panel of artists to enter, and how all and former you winners give as they need to get the info and inspiration you and some first-hand insight into started; what participating in and winning the competition meant for them. www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk Hilary Robinson is a network radio producer and author of over 50 books for children. She is best known for Mixed Up Fairytales, illustrated by Nick Sharratt, which has sold over 100 thousand copies. hilaryrobinson.co.uk @H_A_Robinson Booking required aterstones Mixed Up FairytalesMixed Up (Age 5+) happen if What would climbed a Cinderella beanstalk or Snow White married baby of bowl bear’s porridge? From Pigs and a Three Man to Gingerbread Hansel and Gretel and the Ugly join best-selling Duckling, author Hilary Robinson to hear children’s her hilarious from fairytalemore jumbles, based on her ingenious spiral bound book fairy their favourite that lets readers remix the ultimate literary mash-up! It’s tales. be accompanied at all times must Children an appropriate adult. by ilary Robinson Hilary W FREE 3pm (60mins)

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Boyd Tonkin Ballroom Midland Hotel, French £6 2.30pm (75mins) 22 May 22 to award a £50,000 top prize to a single work to award of fiction in translation that will be split between author and translator (and with twelve each). £1,000 shortlisted receiving candidates for the prize awarded was years, In previous it This year body of work. entire a writer’s all with the intention focuses on one piece, in of flying the flag for quality works translation and to encourage both publishers This fully. more and readers to embrace them is a great opportunity to find out more as about the sensational 2016 winner as well the other great fiction on the longlist. chair of the judging panel, Tonkin, Boyd Join celebrating the talents at our flagship event, as of the longlisted authors and translators, as the winning author and their work. well 60 To Book: www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk SUNDAY 22 May Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest @bradfordlitfest 63

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01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box AKA ‘Brick’, Clark John Asia Alfasi, Dix, Morsal Mohammad Benjamin Bradford, Small Hall University of £6 5pm (75mins), Conflicts Comics and For more than a century, from the trenches the trenches from than a century, more For Afghanistan, to War World of the First comics have Eritrea elsewhere, and Syria, propaganda, to conflicts through responded Captain memoir and fiction. reportage, America himself began life as a propaganda on the socking Hitler on the jaw poster boy, edition. of his debut cover includes This panel of creatives comics writers photographer Benjamin Dix, As well Clark, Morsal Mohammad and John their Through Alfasi. Asia as graphic novelist of the demonstrate the power they work, medium to bring untold stories and hidden graphichistories novels, to light in revelatory photographic portraits and digital comics. chairs. Gravett Paul Asia Alfasi AsiaAlfasiArt.com @AsiaAlfasi Benjamin Dix positivenegatives.org @PosNegOrg www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk

ed Kessler was a staff T writer and editor at ‘NME’ throughout the 1990s and has where2004, since ‘Q’ at been he is currently the magazine’s He has also features editor. written for the Observer, Guardian, New Statesman and many other publications. myoldman.org @MyOlMan1 My Old Man: of Our Fathers Tales We all have our own own our all have We unique relationship may It with our father. be long or brief, challenging or whatever but chummy, we way the its nature, feel about our fathers shapes us as children and adults. deeply In this charming, has Kessler Ted editor personal collection, a range of contributors. compiled tales from life themselves, in public known well Some are others the sons and daughterssuperstars are of hosts this event Ted and sport. screen of stage, the podium with some of hisand shares writers share as with unflinching honesty they their stories – or maybe knew of the men they – offering know us the opportunity to didn’t with our relationships think about our own dads along the way. er & Guests Ted Kessl Mill Theatre in the £6 4.30pm (75mins)

ycka Marina Lew Ballroom Midland Hotel, French £6 4pm (60mins) Marina Lewycka: Legacy The Lubetkin multi Marina Lewycka’s winning first novel, award ‘A Short History of has in Ukrainian’, Tractors than a million sold more copies in the UK. her she presents Now ‘The Lubetkin novel, new a North London: set in present-day Legacy’, adopt an old a son will swiftly place where hospital to home from her lady and take impersonate his dear departed mother, where rather than lose the council flat, and husbands go absent without leave councillors sacrifice cherry at the orchards builds. altar of new is filled with golden job London Lewycka’s including the chance to dress opportunities, intern as an work at an up as a coffee bean, or put up with champagne andundertaker boss hits on dinnersposh French while your into a rich of It's all mixed stew you. Russian, Ukrainian, Romanian, language: and managementese. Swahili MarinaJoin for an exciting exploration of about and to find out more work her new and vision inspirations her writing process, of contemporary Britain. Marina Lewycka marinalewycka.com

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N DAY SU 22 May 22 Please note that due to visa requirements, there is a may possibility that Shaykh Muhammad Al-Yaqoubi not be able to attend in person, in which case discussion via live will join the Shaykh Al-Yaqoubi video link-up or a pre-recorded message. The Islamic State in Iraq and SyriaThe Islamic State in Iraq (ISIS) constitutes the most serious Islam has threat its horrific justify crimesand To faced. ever ISIS has the world, appeal to Muslims around on a superficial and literalist based its ideology of Islam - the texts to the sacred approach Tradition. Holy Qur'an and the Prophetic angryISIS manipulates religion to brainwash of little knowledge who have Muslims, young and jurisprudence. Islamic theology with respond to Muslim scholars obliged are that elucidates the reality a counter-narrative In of Islam and its commitment to tolerance. of its ReligiousA Rebuttal ‘Refuting ISIS: author Shaykh and Ideological Foundations’, scholar a renowned Al-Yaqoubi, Muhammad and one of the 500 most influential Muslims a thorough presents today, in the world and crimes. beliefs of ISIS’ refutation Refuting ISIS: Shattering the Religious Reputation of Islamic State uhammad Al-Y Muhammad Shaykh eem Was SafiA, Shaykh Shaykah Bradford, Great Hall University of £6 3.30pm (75mins) Shaykh Muhammad Al-Y @Shaykhabulhuda 62 MonDay tuesday TUe s DAY 24 M ay Box Office: 01274 238 374 23 May 24 May www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk

Harry Leslie Smith Iain Bloomfield Chris Bond, Peter Hart, Andrew MacdonalD, David Raw Midland Hotel, Princes Ballroom Theatre in The Mill City Hall 7pm (90mins) £6 7.30pm (60mins) £6 7pm (75mins) £6 Harry’s Ties The Battle of the Somme and Bradford Pals Last Stand In the words of its creators: The Battle of the Somme was and remains a national tragedy, claiming the lives of over 19,000 British troops ‘Ties: 93-year-old Harry Leslie on the first day alone - a ghastly toll that included many Smith’s article – ‘This Old school men from Bradford. year, I will wear a poppy Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest the ones that really bind..... Like so many of their compatriots from Northern for the last time’ – was towns, those young men had enlisted in their shared thousands of times and Ties is about power and power that feels thousands at the start of the First World War and started a huge debate about the state of invulnerable. formed some of the so-called Pals Battalions, in this society. Now he brings his unique perspective case as part of the West Yorkshire Regiment. to bear on NHS cutbacks, political About the vulnerable. corruption, poverty, and the cost of education. About children and celebrity and politicians. During the battle of the Somme the Bradford Pals sustained devastating losses, with a knock-on effect for their community back home. This event is moderated by journalist Chris Bond and From the deprivation of 1930s Barnsley to About silence that lasts beyond the grave.’ features input from military historian Peter Hart; author of ‘First Day of the Somme’ Andrew the creation of our welfare state, Harry has Macdonald; and writer David Raw, who researched his book on the Bradford Pals for over a ‘Ties’ will be shown in development and is experienced how a great civilisation can rise decade. Together they’ll explore the Battle of the Somme from a national perspective but also tell the first production by Two Tonne, a new from the rubble. His book, ‘Harry’s Last the stories of the young Bradford men who faced those 141 days of horror, beginning on July 1, performance and performance research/ Stand’, tells the story not just of his own life 1916, and whose courage and sacrifice is a significant part of Bradford’s heritage. but the life of our nation, and he discusses it development company led by Iain Bloomfield. @bradfordlitfest in conversation with Colin Philpott. @twotonne

Iain Bloomfield is currently Head of Arts at the University of Bradford and Artistic Director at Theatre in the Mill. He will be leaving both posts at the end of 2016 and Two Tonne will be the performance arm of his future work. A theatre director and writer, he has long been a champion of Chris Bond Peter Hart Andrew Macdonald David Raw diversity in story and form and @BondChris73 @Anzacme sees performance-making as a place in which we can explore the world around us. Two Harry Leslie Smith is a survivor of the Great Tonne will honour those beliefs. Depression, a second world war RAF veteran and, at 93, an activist for the poor and for the preservation of @adatmill social democracy. He has authored numerous books about Britain during the Great Depression, the second world war and postwar austerity. He lives outside Proceeds from ticket sales for this event will be donated to Toronto, Canada and in Yorkshire. the Honour the Pals Appeal, to fund a memorial in Bus-les- Artois, Somme, France. www.telegraphandargus.co.uk/pals

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ribe Arts is an impassioned collective of Monday Monday Monday Monday nd nd nd nd Monday. Monday. Monday. Monday. Day s edne W 25 May 25 Tribe arts Mind the Gap £6 7.30pm (135mins) #tribeshakespeare400 To mark Shakespeare’s 400th death 400th mark Shakespeare’s To tribute will pay to his Tribe anniversary reimagining by formidable body of work, of six of his most- the essential narratives to create them together weaving plays, loved original new work. an epic, The piece will ultimately encompass a majestically opulent visual dimension and be staged in a unique Gothic-Mughal style - Tim Burton with an Indian twist! but think first-look at the can catch an exclusive You and become in-the-making, production during process, of the development critiques’ which feedback sharing, live this intimate, this new selected scenes from will feature in progress. work A philosophically inspired, radical-political theatre T company, emerging entrepreneurial artists who seek to break barriers and boundaries within a society that shackles development, revolution and enlightenment. tribearts.co.uk @Tribe__Arts th th th th 4 4 4 4 Monday Monday Monday Monday rd rd rd rd & 3 & 3 & 3 & 3 st st st st For critical and constructive comment on your poetry; on your comment constructive and critical For of ears! a pair and 6 copies bring please poetry; on your comment constructive and critical For of ears! a pair and 6 copies bring please poetry; on your comment constructive and critical For of ears! a pair and 6 copies bring please poetry; on your comment constructive and critical For of ears! a pair and 6 copies bring please

Please Note: All sessions start at 8.30pm start at All sessions Note: Please visiting – 2 from poets Readings 8.30pm start at All sessions Note: Please visiting – 2 from poets Readings 8.30pm start at All sessions Note: Please visiting – 2 from poets Readings 8.30pm start at All sessions Note: Please visiting – 2 from poets Readings Read-arounds –1 Read-arounds –1 Read-arounds –1 Read-arounds –1 Read-arounds Bradford Poetry workshop – workshop Poetry Bradford – workshop Poetry Bradford – workshop Poetry Bradford – workshop Poetry Bradford • • • • • • • • For more information about the workshop contact Bruce Barnes; the workshop about contact information more For 01274 223665 Telephone: [email protected] contact arounds & read readings about information more For [email protected] Sugden; John www.beehivepoets.org.uk website also the Beehive See list. on the e-mailing go to and readings for details of the latest Bruce Barnes; the workshop about contact information more For 01274 223665 Telephone: [email protected] contact arounds & read readings about information more For [email protected] Sugden; John www.beehivepoets.org.uk website also the Beehive See list. on the e-mailing go to and readings for details of the latest Bruce Barnes; the workshop about contact information more For 01274 223665 Telephone: [email protected] contact arounds & read readings about information more For [email protected] Sugden; John www.beehivepoets.org.uk website also the Beehive See list. on the e-mailing go to and readings for details of the latest Bruce Barnes; the workshop about contact information more For 01274 223665 Telephone: [email protected] contact arounds & read readings about information more For [email protected] Sugden; John www.beehivepoets.org.uk website also the Beehive See list. on the e-mailing go to and readings for details of the latest • • • • • • • • • • • • estgate, VE VE VE VE I I I I ETS ETS ETS ETS O O O O EEH EEH EEH EEH aterstones B B B B P P P P oets Beehive P W £3 8pm (60mins) Beehive Poets Beehive Poets is an open group that has met on a Monday night at the New Beehive Inn, W Bradford since 1999. The group offers a programme of readings, read-arounds and critical but constructive as well as publishing workshops of members’ poetry, pamphlets and anthologies of their work. beehivepoets.org.uk Join Bradford’s Beehive Poets for an intimate, for an intimate, Poets Beehive Bradford’s Join written work of new reading one-off live Festival. Literature especially for the Bradford produce Poets the Beehive year Every compelling original writing based on a unifying theme and 2016 is no exception: and dying, our theme of death taken they’ve a positive, it from approached have but celebratory this an angle that will make of existence. about life and the joy evening Bradford West Area Committee CommunityChest Committee Area West Bradford CommunityChest Committee Area West Bradford CommunityChest Committee Area West Bradford CommunityChest Committee Area West Bradford

came to King’s Ben Quash came to King’s College London as its first Professor of Christianity and the Arts in 2007. He runs an MA in Christianity and the Arts in association with the London. He is National Gallery, Canon Theologian of both Coventry and Bradford Cathedrals. @BenQuash As the Roman Catholic Church opens a As the Roman Catholic Church Biennale and many Venice at the pavilion cast aside their traditions Protestant traditional distrust of images and storm back a of contemporaryinto the arena visual art, of the relationship re-evaluation positive art and religion might seem timely. between of art can also be focal works However, and points for religious conflict and violence, can be tools for a secular society to question, inherited challenge and provoke In often causing deep offence. orthodoxies, stock of the fast- Ben Quash takes this talk, changing and multi-faceted contemporary interaction of art and religion. Ben Quash Ballroom Midland Hotel, French £6 7.30pm (60mins) Art as a Reflection of The Divine

gentleartofblessing.org Pierre Pradervand vivreautrement.ch

The Gentle Art of The Gentle Blessing is Pierre it but book, Pradervand’s is also his wide-ranging his on being, philosophy account of his own personal journey and nothing short of a In this design for life. he will special event offer guidance on how the power to transform through yourself of uninhibited blessing. learn acclaimed book and about his You’ll in his life that hear an account of the events led to its genesis. means to wish, Pierre, says bless, To the deepest unconditionally and from unrestricted good for heart, chamber of your sharing the world that He travels others. join him to discover message: transformative life for the can change your blessing how can apply the practice you better and how to those who drive even world, in the real to on the way wits, out of your you on love. centred an awareness developing The Gentle Art of Blessing ervand Pierre Prad Conference Room Midland Hotel, £6 7pm (60mins) esday tu 24 May 24 66 WednesDay ThursDay Th u r s DAY 26 M ay 25 May 26 May

Registered Office: The Lodge, 127 Undercliffe Lane, Jay Bernard, Asma Elbadawi, John Hegley, Selina Nwulu, Atif Tauqeer, Mark Davis MichaBradford.e BD3l 0DWS tewart Telephone: 01274 642276 Nick Toczek, Ralph Dartford Email: [email protected] Undercliffe Cemetery WWeb:aterstones www.undercliffecemetery.co.uk Registered Charity No. 519751 Stein Bierkeller STAND UP AND SPIT Registered in England, Company No. 1973400 8pm (90mins) £6 UNDERCLIFFE CEMETERY CHARITY 6.30pm (45mins) £10 7pm (180mins) £6

Mr Jolly - Book Launch Poetry with a Punch: Stand up and Spit We’re delighted to host the launch event A poetry revue with a finely honed political edge. Our lineup is multi-talented, featuring musician, for Bradford-based songwriter and comedian John Hegley, author and magician Nick Toczek, artist and spoken word author Michael

performer Asma Elbadawi, writer and artist Jay Bernard, young poet laureate for London Selina Stewart’s first Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest Nwulu, journalist Atif Tauqeer and host (and co-founder of A Firm of Poets) Ralph Dartford. All collection of short master poets, all with their own distinctive voices and preoccupations, but with one thing in stories, ‘Mr Jolly’. common: a keen awareness of what’s going on out in the world and a fierce desire to call it out. The award-winning It’s poetry with a punch, not a caress, so expect to be confronted with punk spirit, passionate novelist has verse and lyrical dexterity across a night of diverse performances as these unique poets take on Undercliffe produced his most the big political issues and themes that will challenge, entertain and jolt you upright in your seat. extraordinary To B oo k : www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk Victorian Cemetery: writing to date in speaking-volumes.org.uk A GRADE 11* LISTED SITE REGISTERED BY ENGLISH HERITAGE PARKS AND GARDENS OF SPECIALthese HISTORIC tales,INTEREST each one offering a @Speak_Volumes Twilight Tour unique, utterly compelling insight into the human condition, framed by a mind- Even Death needs a designer, and in Victorian bendingly original concept that no other Bradford the fashionable departed wouldn’t writer working today could – or indeed @bradfordlitfest be seen dead in anything but Undercliffe would – have concocted. Cemetery. Your guide to the pinnacle of Victorian funerary design is historian and Come along to find out more and to get photographer Mark Davis, taking you your hands on a copy – your ticket price through the cemetery gates at dusk and into includes a signed copy of the book, a drink a netherworld where the rules of status were and a cake! rigidly applied to rich and poor souls alike, with the top spots going to the big spenders. Leave your fear of the dark at home... Jay Bernard Asma Elbadawi John Hegley Selina Nwulu jaybernard.co.uk @AsmaElbadawi @JohnHegley @SelinaNwulu

Mark Davis is an author, Michael Stewart is from historian and award-winning Salford but is now based in photographer with a Bradford. He has won several fascination for the lost world awards for his scriptwriting, of Victorian Britain. His highly including the BBC Alfred regarded books mostly focus Bradley Bursary Award. His on crime, deprivation and debut novel ‘King Crow’ was poverty. His latest book, the winner of The Guardian’s ‘Necropolis: City of the Dead’ Not The Booker Award. His is out now. new book of short fiction is called ‘Mr Jolly’. mark-davis-photography.com Atif Tauqeer Nick Toczek Ralph Dartford michael-stewart.org.uk @Atifthepoet @Dartford @headspam

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01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box ‘Uncle Abdul Azeez said that Allah talks what know don’t But we about a path. road a cross shape it is? Or whether there’s Who said in it? Or a ditch at the end of it? straight.’ it was is told Girl’ ‘The Diary of a Hounslow British of a 16-year-old the eyes through London. West up in Muslim girl growing to fights weddings Pakistani traditional From bold, this is a funny, on the night bus, highlighting the challenges play provocative in a woman up as a young of being brought alongside the traditional Muslim family, temptations and influences that come with the capital. up in and around growing @BlackTLive and #BlackTheatreLive #HounslowGirl e Live eatr Black Th Mill Theatre in The £6 7.30pm (60mins) The Diary of Girl a Hounslow www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk Nadiya Hussain where family is originally from Bangladesh, Nadiya’s a feature of mealtimes at all - butdesserts aren’t she encouraged by a school home economics teacher, has honed her skills as a baker and produces fabulous She is is a columnist forbakes and desserts every day. and ‘Essentials’ and is a regular reporter forthe ‘Times’ The One Show on BBC1. Born in Luton, she lives with her husband, Abdal, and is mum to three gorgeous children. @BegumNadiya In Conversation: Nadiya Hussain make does it feel to charmHow the nation, the mighty Mary Berry cry and turn the act of baking into a life-affirminghumble triumph who ever and rallying cry to anyone knows: One woman doubted themselves? ‘Great the winner of 2015’s Hussain, Nadiya British Off’ national treasure. and instant Bake conversation, the course of an evening’s Over during and life before, will talk about Nadiya audiences have hear how We’ll Off. after Bake plus Muslim mum, to her as a young reacted that she got into baking and the flavours how and the her time on the show her, inspire since, been on ever amazing journey she’s ‘Nadiya’s book titles which includes new me a ‘Bake book and children’s Kitchen’ this year. to be released Story’ adiya Hussain Nadiya Ballroom Midland Hotel, Princes £6 7pm (90mins) ictoria Gatehouse V

Jo Brandon jobrandon.com @JoBrandonpoet Emma Wright theemmapress.com @ theEmmapress

Sophia Blackwell sophiablackwell.com @SophiaBlackwell Sudeep Sen sudeepsen.net @SudeepSenNet

aterstones Steve Nash starlighttocasualmoths. blogspot.co.uk/ @SteveNashyork @theemmapress Mildly Erotic PoetryMildly Erotic poetry, Mildly erotic of anticipated intimacy. A poetry performance dedicated to the sensual power potent romantic, can be more passions sly allusions and downplayed with its understated longing, concerned more with the emotional side of verse, full-blooded and downright sexier than more affairs of the heart than the brute of sex itself. mechanics as performing writers well as classics from work, and discuss their own from Our poets will read the joy, to explore poet of them all, perhaps the greatest love Roman Catullus, such as lovelorn hilarity of sex and sexuality. and innate humanity doubt, of Mildly Anthology ‘The Emma Press editor of Wright, Emma by will be introduced The event Victoria Gatehouse and Brandon, Jo poets Sophia Blackwell, from with readings Verse’, Erotic not bringWhy a date? Arshi and Sudeep Sen. them will be Mona Joining Nash. Steve theemmapress.com n, Emma Wright Sudeep Sen, Emma e, Steve Nash, ehous Gat Victoria W £6 7.30pm (90mins) well, Jo Brandon,Sophia Black Mona Arshi, Day urs Th Mona Arshi monaarshi.com @Arshi_Mona 26 May 26 70 FriDAY 27 May Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest @bradfordlitfest 73 arjack is an arjack Paula V artist working in theatre, spoken word and video. She has performed at numerous arts festivals and cultural spaces Modern, including Tate Glastonbury Festival, Berlin International Literature Festival, The Victoria & Albert Museum and the Southbank Centre. She recently developed a ‘Show new solo show, Me The Money’, exploring the economic reality of being an artist in the UK based on interviews with artists and aspiring artists. @PaulaV VG Lee is the critically-acclaimed author of four novels and a collection of short stories. In 2012, she was nominated for for a Stonewall Award writing and she recently won the Ultimate Planet Award for Best Established Author 2014. She also performs stand-up comedy and is a regular contributor of humour to ‘The Lady’ Magazine. Her fifth novel, ‘Mr Oliver’s Object of Desire’, will be published this year. @VGLee_Lee 01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box e Keep’. www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk Jonathan

arjack Award-winning Award-winning playwright, screenwriter and novelist many Harvey’s writing credits include the landmark gay play ‘Beautiful Thing’, the TV sitcom ‘Gimme Gimme Gimme’, and favouriteeveryone’s soap ‘Coronation Street’. He has also published four bestselling novels. His latest is called ‘The Secrets W @JojeHarvey

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Christopher Green is an Olivier award- His winning performer. solo work includes comic creations US country music singer C and pensioner Tina both rap star Ida Barr, of whom appear regularly on BBC Radio 4. His theatre shows include ‘Office Party’ and ‘The Frozen Scream’, written with novelist Sarah W in both Trained hypnosis and his hypnotherapy, book ‘Overpowered!’ is the first popular, illustrated history of hypnosis. @kit_green aul Burston, aul Burston, er Green,Christoph Polari: The LGBT LiteraryPolari: The Salon an award- has gone on to become Polari a Soho pub in 2007, beginnings humble above From as a as well Southbank Centre at London’s residency with a regular winning literary movement the UK. throughout touring and festivals brings schedule that it to venues playwright including and panel, Burstonhand-picked and his host and organiser Paul Join ‘Comedienne’ critically acclaimed Harvey; Jonathan Appeared’ Who Just ‘The Girl author of and writer-performer Christopher Varjac; performance artist / video Paula Lee; VG author bring they’ll Together Ida Barr. and rapping OAP Tina C. of faux creator country singer Green, explore educate as they please and of ideas and bonhomie guaranteed to entertain, us an evening at large. to the world it all relates its themes and how their work, P y, VG Lee, P ey, Harv Jonathan Stein Bierkeller £6 7.30pm (150mins) Journalist Paul books Burston’s include the critically- acclaimed novels ‘Shameless’ (shortlisted for the State of Britain award), ‘Star People’, ‘Lovers & Losers’ (shortlisted for the and Stonewall Award) ‘The Gay Divorcee’. He is the host of award-winning LGBT literary salon Polari at the Southbank Centre, and founder of The Polari First Book Prize. His new novel ‘The Black Path’ will be published by Accent Press in July 2016. paulburston.com @PaulBurston

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Andy Abbott 27 May 27 The University of Bradford’s Gallery II space is of Bradford’s The University section of photographer the textiles displaying celebrating show, Gateway’ ‘India’s Tim Smith’s the textile industry in Gujarat and the region’s in particular. and Bradford Yorkshire, links with textiles and in art, themes take The exhibition’s and the politics of independent production, a through interwoven storiesexplore of lives historyshared of textiles common to Bradford, these themes, explore To Gujarat and Mumbai. a panel that includes HelenTim is joined by Textile College Curator of Bradford Farrar, Studies in Peace Lecturer Ute Kelly, Archive; Andy and of Bradford; at the University Arts at Visual of Music and Producer Abbott, of Bradford. the University Limited capacity, Admission. Free booking advised. Independence: Art, Textiles and Art, Textiles Tim Smith Ute Kelly, Gallery II, University of Bradford FREE 1pm (60mins) a discussion ott, Helen F ott, Andy Abb 72 FriDay Saturday SATU R DAY 28 M ay Box Office: 01274 238 374 27 May 28 May www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk

Ambareen Hasib Amar, Mehjabeen Ghazal Ansari, Tahir Faraz, Aisha Gray Henry Chickpea Press Ishtiaq Mir, Rehana Roohi, Sudeep Sen, Atif Tauqeer Waterstones Waterstones Kala Sangam 10am (60mins) FREE Booking required 11.30am (60mins) FREE Booking required 7.30pm (120mins) £6 Diwan-e-Ghalib Polishing the Heart: The 99 Names Al-Ghazali for Children of Allah:

The tenth century Storytelling Session theologian, writer and mystic Al-Ghazali is Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest considered to be one of the most important and influential Islamic scholars of all time. Asadullah Khan Ghalib, the last great poet of the Mughal era, is to this day one of the most important and influential poets of the Urdu language worldwide. As part of the UK launch of the Ghazali Children’s Project, which has Ghalib wrote ghazals in both Persian and Urdu which were, either lavishly praised by his been created to impart the beauty of this contemporaries or, attacked for being too cerebral. However the appreciation of his genius work to children, we are delighted to bring continues to grow and his poetry, with its recurring themes of love, mysticism, life as pain and you an exclusive storytelling session with death as release, resonates to this day. Aisha Grey, head of publishing house Fons Viate and creator of the project. The session

This event, introduced and hosted by Leeds based poet Ishtiaq Mir, will briefly introduce Ghalib’s @bradfordlitfest will teach children how to preserve the colourful life and consider his importance as a poet, illustrated with readings of his poetry. Then Join us to explore the 99 Names of Allah in purity of their heart through storytelling and our modern day poets will offer responses to his work with recitations of their own poetry, linking an inspiring and creative way using stories, guided reflection. their contemporary voices with the sub-continent’s poetic heritage. song and art that illuminate the compassion, peace and unity at the heart of Islam. This In keeping with Ghalib’s life and era, there is also an optional dress code: celebrate the man and his workshop offers children a wonderful way to work by donning your most regal, Mughal-themed garb. explore their spirituality and the spiritual nature of the world around them. Aisha Gray Henry is an international lecturer and Chickpea Press publisher of world religions. Chickpea Press aims to publish engaging, contemporary In 1997 she founded Fons and imaginative books and digital apps for younger Vitae, an educational charity, readers, drawing inspiration from the great spiritual focused on the spiritual traditions of the world. heritage of Islam, which was chickpeapress.co.uk honoured at a 2015 Congress Ambareen Hasib Mehjabeen Ghazal Tahir Faraz Ishtiaq Mir in Morocco. Amar Ansari

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If the kids are rabbiting on this morning, we recommend popping down to see a brand new piece of theatre from Q20, featuring Mr Todd, Mrs Tiggywinkle and a certain bunny named Peter. Join them and a host of classic characters for a spectacle of song, dance and audience involvement that’s sure to entertain the whole family. Afterwards we’re offering some fun drop-in workshops where you can make finger puppets, masks and even a mini garden. Don’t forget carrots for Peter (or for you) for our Beatrix Potter picnic (bring your own lunch). Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest Beatrix Potter Show Drop into our Beatrix Potter workshops between 11am – 4pm 11am - 11:30am 1pm - 1.30pm 3.30pm - 4pm Finger Puppets

Join Miss Potter herself as she remembers her Workshop friends from Hill Top Farm and embarks on a Recreate your favourite Beatrix Potter brand new adventure with them. Mr Todd is a characters so you can take the classic tales dapper foxy gentleman who thinks nothing with you wherever you go, in the palm of of helping himself to a brand new ‘kerchief your hand! from Mrs Tiggywinkle’s washing line. When @bradfordlitfest his stealing gets too much Mrs Tiggywinkle calls for help from the most famous bunny of all, Peter Rabbit. Together they trick Mr Todd Mr McGregor’s and show him the error of his ways. Garden Workshop This interactive show featuring music, dance Peter Rabbit loves nothing more than to and audience participation will spark the nibble on all the carrots and radishes in Mr imagination of all who see it and also features McGregor’s garden – that’s what gets him in the chance to meet Jemima Puddleduck, Tom so much trouble! You can create your own Kitten and Mr McGregor in person. tiny garden, decorate it and even plant a seed to grow Peter a tasty treat!

Masks Workshop Be inspired by Beatrix Potter’s beautiful artwork by designing your own masks based on the classic characters.

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Christa Ackroyd Medina Tenour Whiteman David Barnett, Roger Christofides, Eric Broug Tajinder Singh Hayer Midland Hotel, French Ballroom Bradford College, University of Bradford, re:centre Advanced Technology Centre Bradford College, Dye House Gallery 10am (30mins) £3 10am (180mins) £6 10am (30mins) £3 10am (60mins) £3 Rough Introduction Short Introduction Dystopian Futures - Workshop: An to The Brontës to Mysticism The Post Apocalyptic Introduction to Broadcaster and Nature of YA Novels journalist Christa Islamic Geometric In the landscapes of young adult fiction, the Ackroyd introduces one (Age 12+) Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest of Britain’s foremost world is often a dark, troubled place. Series Design literary families with an such as ‘The Hunger Games’, ‘Divergent’ and Experience the sensation of travelling the overview of the life ‘The Maze Runner’ show us alternate visions world without moving thanks to the and works of Emily, of our societies where war, climate change transporting power of sacred geometry. In this Anne and Charlotte and civil unrest have given way to scorched Romantic, spiritual, transcendental... workshop you’ll learn how to make and Brontë. Their writing mysticism has played a part in the history of vistas, meta-humans and the ultimate

understand geometric patterns from the To B oo k : www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk has moved readers all expression of cruel, gladiatorial reality TV. all major world religions and the cultural Alhambra, Fez & Marrrakech, Al-Aqsa, over the world for works they inspire, from the poetry of the But are they always flights of fancy, or warped Afghanistan, Thatta and beyond. generations and their themes of love, death and Sufis to the ecstatic visions of Blake and and enhanced reflections of the lives some class hold as much relevance and power today Yeats. But what is it? This short session will young adults are already living? We don't have Eric Broug, master of geometric design, will as they did over 150 years ago. provide an educational and enlightening to look far to see societies torn down by show you how to make patterns using the overview of mysticism across the different same methods craftsmen have been using

This is an event for anyone, even those who conflict or shattered by climate change, with @bradfordlitfest across the Islamic world for centuries. You’ll have never read a single word of any of the faiths, touching on some of the great mystics, people eking out lives amongst the devastation. learn how patterns are constructed and be novels; new readers will benefit from the their philosophies and their works. 500 years after Thomas More's ‘Utopia’ set the amazed by what you have created at the end introduction, while lifelong fans can revisit template for the idea of a perfect world, our You’ll encounter pieces by mystic writers that of the day. the works and writers they love. offer some context, in modern translations, that panel will look at that idea's antithesis as it lives get to the heart of the spiritual experience. in YA literature. Those volunteering as tribute Your journey starts with a visual and Some of these texts may be ancient, but they include fantasy novelist David Barnett; Tajinder historical tour of Islamic art and architecture, Singh Hayer, completing a PhD on post- Christa Ackroyd have an arresting, timeless appeal: you’ll soon using many different masterpieces as From the age of nine, see why a mystic such as Rumi remains the apocalyptic themes; and Roger Christofides, examples. After that, you’ll learn how to Christa has always had a best-selling poet in the US, for example. A author of ‘Shakespeare and the Apocalypse’. recognise the differences and similarities passion for the Brontës. So Short Introduction to Mysticism will aim to between patterns, before being turned loose much so that if ever she to create your own extraordinary designs was asked her favourite answer some key questions and set you off on place to visit, it would your own journey of understanding, into the with only a pencil and a ruler. No prior always be Haworth, the realm of the mystics. skills necessary, just bring your enthusiasm! Parsonage and the moors so loved by Yorkshire’s Medina Tenour Whiteman most famous literary family. was born in Spain to Eric Broug is an author, @ChristaAckroyd American-English Sufi Muslim educator, artist, specialising in converts and raised in the UK. Islamic geometric design. He has Her stories, poems and essays written several popular books on have been published widely the subject and has a new book and her first collection of coming out in October. He is the poems, ‘Love is a Traveller and David Barnett Roger Tajinder Singh founder of the School of Islamic We Are Its Path’ was published Christofides Hayer Geometric Design. in February 2016. broug.com cavemum.com @Medina_Whiteman 78 79 To Book: www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk SATURDAY 28 May Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest @bradfordlitfest 81

Juliet Barker is an internationally recognised A expert on the Brontë family. former librarian of curator and the Brontë Parsonage Museum, her books include the bestselling biography ‘The Brontës’ and ‘The Brontës: A Life in Letters’. JulietBarker.co.uk 01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box er Juliet Bark Ballroom Midland Hotel, French £6 11am (60mins) Fact or Fiction? Her LifeMrs Gaskell and of Charlotte Brontë biography Barker’s Juliet fresh gave of the Brontës of insight into the lives sistersthe three and also the men in rehabilitated – father, their lives – in brother husband, of the reading the eyes Critic Jane public. noted in even Gardam long “the author’s The Spectator that had let her with Charlotte communion absorb exactly the same spirit”. examines Elizabeth Gaskell’s Juliet In this talk, the first biography ‘Life of Charlotte Brontë’, find the thread and attempts to of the author, of truth a fragmented, running through She also narrative. redacted, sometimes even on the life of perspective offers her own her and reassesses creator Eyre’s Jane of contribution in the year to literature of her birth. the 200th anniversary www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk

est eather Glass’, with a new Lucy Burnett is a writer-artist- performer based in W has two books, She Yorkshire. poetrya ‘Leaf called collection Graffiti’ and a hybrid, genre- cutting novel ‘Through the W poetry collection forthcoming. throughtheweatherglass.com @LucyBurnett14 eather Glass Lucy Burnett theIcarus Through W ett Lucy Burn The Broadway FREE 11am - 4pm Based on her picaresque, autobiographical Based on her picaresque, novel freewheeling say, we dare and, in which a Glass’, Weather the ‘Through modern Icarus bicycle and a talking day climate beset by a world journey through Lucy Burnett's art installation will change, participation. your require an artist's to flick through be able You'll weave photos, climate-collage view book, wings and pedal a feathers into Icarus’ fresh the route showing a display bicycle to power Burnett to Salford took on her journey from views Ikaria with her own as she wrestled The installation asks us to on climate change. on a take optimistic playful, a more develop than the currentchanging doom- world could laden norm we and consider how Alice-style, climate change, through travel instead of simply staring in at our reflections glass. the weather BA MA FRSAPeter Worley is co-founder and CEO of The Philosophy Foundation, President of SOPHIA, and an award-winning author and editor of eight books on philosophy in schools. philosophy-foundation.org @the_if_man Peter Worley, of the Philosophy Foundation, Foundation, of the Philosophy Worley, Peter children to take this year comes to the festival philosophical adventure. on an interactive be shrunk philosophers or may young Your to perform learn how made to disappear, or perform and telekinesis telepathy silent to return them the promises Worley music. although their minds correct size and visible, a bit. been stretched might have ey Peter Worl Bradford, Norcroft Lounge University of £6 11am (60mins) What if? Adventures in Philosophy spent some years as Haji Abdur Rasjid Skinner Mount a consultant at Lynfield Hospital and now works with Ihsaan, a Bradford based project that offers Islamically- based psychological therapies. He lectures at at the and Sheffield University, Cambridge Muslim College. thecim.org.uk/ psychologycourse

day r Satu to Psychology is a clinicalAbdur Rasjid Skinner Haji psychologistJungian psychotherapist, and the philosophy and in this talk he introduces an from of psychology and methodology Islamic perspective. has been exploring, Since the 1980s Skinner the underlying alongside his colleagues, with concepts of Islamic psychology, work. Al-Ghazali’s to particular reference a faith- can develop we He'll explain how understanding of mentalbased theoretical this understanding might be health and how individuals. applied to mentally distressed Islamic Approaches r Rasjid Skinne Haji Abdur Conference Centre Midland Hotel, £6 10.30am (150mins) 28 May 28 80 To Book: www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk SATURDAY 28 May Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest @bradfordlitfest 83 oczek is a writer and Nick T performer from Bradford. Throughout the 1970s and 80s he toured with bands. Since the mid-90s Nick has been a bestselling children’s He is also a writer. professional close-up magician, a skilled a prolific print puppeteer, journalistexperiencedan and broadcaster. 01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box zek Nick Toc City Library FREE Booking required 11am (60mins) Back! Dragons are In a special family for all ages from show nought to ninety, own Bradford’s globe-trotting bestselling children’s poet and popular Nick performer, will be Toczek, a new presenting on one-man show the theme of dragons to launch his Back!’. ‘Dragons are book, new a selection of his will feature The event dragon poems alongside dragon magic tricks, Be dragon stories and more. dragon puppetry, or his dragons will get you! there… www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk ard,

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Satish Modi inlovewithdeath. com/ @inlovewdeath Allan Kellehear Death Rituals AreDeath Rituals For the Living w llehear, Jules Ho Allan Ke atish Modi Satish House GalleryBradford College, Dye £6 11am (75mins) Throughout history, human societies have human societies have history, Throughout rituals death. practised their own around but vary, may The forms take they a common theme underlying them is often mechanism for those a coping of providing Our rituals honour of the dead left behind. the living also help they yet the departed, an to bear their grief on going; and to keep hence their society, essential thing for any the world. around prevalence Our panel includes zoologist and author of joined by He’s Howard. Jules ‘Death on Earth’ ‘A Social whose books include Allan Kellehear, whose and Satish Modi, History of Dying’; the case for makes Death’ With Love ‘In book accept our own all come to must we why into rituals delve the of they'll Together passing. dead and discuss the beliefs that underpin might we well consider how also They’ll them. our mortality now be equipped to confront as of our ancient rituals: losing many that we’re secular society and become a more we abandon the comforts religion offers in the ourselves denying we are face of death, fundamentally need? something that we

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ar on Terror rs aul Roge Gohar Almass Khan Colonel Azam Qadri The narrative strand of post 9/11 events in events strand of post 9/11 The narrative sometimes appearthe popular media can and glossing lacking substance threadbare, simply exposed to the details – we’re over the from of events accepted version same, same points of view. into insights, new looks to provide This event Colonel (retired) an infinitely complex story. Army Azam Qadri with the Pakistani served author and becoming a published before He offers a global context historian. respected angle. a Pakistani from on the ongoing events leader and activist him is community Joining about who will talk Almass Khan MEE, Gohar home story of Beeston, the often-overlooked the community and how of the 7/7 bombers, found solidarity after the and pulled together Hussain Imran Meanwhile, attacks in London. Minister of State for Shadow MP, Azam Qadri, Imran Colonel han, Gohar Almass K Hussain, P Bradford, Small Hall University of 11am (75mins) £6 TheIlluminating Darkness: on TheNew Perspectives W will provide International Development, global political perspective. Kirpal Singh Panesar has won wide acclaim for his performancesskilled theusing and the Dilruba, Tar-Shehnai traditional Indian string instruments as favoured by the Sikh Gurus. Pritpal Singh is the Sikh Faith Advisor to the University of Bradford. Having been raised within the Sikh scholarly ‘nirmala’ tradition Pritpal carries out priestly duties across - Gurdwaras - in Sikh Temples Bradford and Leeds. @Captain_Bhangra anesar,

Granth Sahib Farid in The GuruFarid in The The Poetry Baba of Singh P Kirpal Singh PRitpal Bradford College, Centre Advanced Technology 11am (75mins) £6 Baba Farid (1173–1266) was a Sufi mystic andBaba Farid a Sufi mystic was (1173–1266) the Multan region of Punjab, poet hailing from the use of He pioneered part of Pakistan. now literarythe Punjabi language for purposes by as Sufiana known writing poetry, his mystical as was Punjabi rather than Persian in Kalam, Muslims, by Revered the norm of the day. his ethos was Hindus and Sikhs alike, so integral ofconsidered to Sikhism that many ‘Guru Granth Sahib’, in the feature his verses scripture. most sacred the faith’s that discusses his event us in a special Join the meaning and context of the explores life, ‘Guru Granth Sahib’, poetry in the featured and considers the spiritual essence of Baba contribution to the Sikh literaryFarid’s a by discussion will be followed The canon. traditional kirtan poetry recitation. day r Satu 28 May 28 82 To Book: www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk SATURDAY 28 May Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest @bradfordlitfest 85

ard88 lives in Jonathon Ward Great Horton and has been writing for as long as he can He grew up in remember. Buttershaw and was crowned the 1998 ‘Beacon Bard’. is Apple Tree’ ‘Mutant Tummy his first published book. @JonathonW 01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box aterstones Jonathon Ward Jonathon W FREE Booking required 1pm (60mins) Mutant Tummy Apple Tree of busting Tired open the piggy bank and pooling those together wallet-weighing- bits of down shrapnel every time the urges of tooth sweet your need is a tree. What you kick in? or pinecones conkers Not one that produces custard you one that gives but or pears, Frazzles and Bulls-Eyes. candy floss, creams, Tummy need is a Mutant what you In fact, Apple Tree! his debut from reads Ward Jonathon Tummy ‘Mutant book, picture children’s the a mind that is, from fresh Tree’, Apple full to the brim with the author confesses, Asterix comics and good old- Beano, fashioned family-friendly comedy. www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk

Andrew McMillan andrewmcmillanpoet.co.uk @AndrewPoetry Melinda Salisbury @AHintofMystery Darryl Cunningham darryl-cunningham. blogspot.co.uk @acmedarryl Jerry Pinto @mahimkajerry rry Pinto, illan, Jerry Andrew McM alisbury Melinda S House GalleryBradford College, Dye 12.30pm (75mins) £6 arryl Cunningham, Darryl Writing and Adversity Writing can ‘tortured artist’ of the Behind the stereotype that truth: difficult troubling, more lie a much writersmany have their readers) (and indeed for a host of dark periodsendured in their lives, use their writing Many – or their reasons. through – to sustain them choice of reading a liferaft. like clinging to the words these periods, experiencesOur panel talk about their own of writing abeing sustained by to get through Harry for Melinda Salisbury, dark period: for the storm; from shelter provided Potter Thom literary McMillan it was hero Andrew whose join DarrylThey Cunningham, Gunn. experiences assistant on a as a health care ‘Psychiatric informpsychiatric his book ward and‘Em whose novel and Jerry Pinto, Tales’; is based on his mother’s the Big Hoom’ both discuss how they’ll Together depression. writing and consuming producing can help us The discussion is adversity. triumph over Huddleston. Yvette journalist by chaired Donna Lee Rebecca Fraser er, ch, Rebecca Fras Dinah Bir Donna Lee Ballroom Midland Hotel, French £6 12pm (75mins) Jane Eyre: A Feminist Manifesto Dinah Birch @DlBirch1 Join our panel of Brontë enthusiasts as they enthusiasts as they our panel of Brontë Join visionary feminist discuss Charlotte Brontë’s the novel What makes Eyre. Jane statement, such potent feminist and its titular heroine feminist the different What are forces? and what were of the novel readings a novel intentions as she created Charlotte’s so at odds with the attitudes of its time? ‘The Brontës: Rebecca Fraser is author of and brings her Family’ and Charlotte Brontë She is of experiencea wealth to the topic. and broadcaster academic, joined by Victorian Dinah Birch literature specialist in Dean of the School of and Donna Lee, of Bradford. Social Sciences at the University discuss the feminist legacy they’ll Together of one of our greatest female protagonists. chairs. Matthews Jodie required (Age 6+) Booking Marcia Williams A self-confessed ‘obsessive illustrator’, Marcia has written and illustrated numerous books. Many of these have been retellings of classic stories and she has retold several of plays. Shakespeare’s EE (60mins) FR

2016 marks the 400th anniversary of William William of 2016 marks the 400th anniversary In this special death. Shakespeare's cartoonist and themed event, Shakespeare will bringWilliam author Marcia children’s Come up on to life. vividly work The Bard’s re-enact and help Marcia dare stage if you and plenty props using masks, Tempest, The of drama! Storytelling Shakespeare Marcia Williams City Library 11.30am day r Satu 28 May 28 84 To Book: www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk SATURDAY 28 May Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest @bradfordlitfest 87 Juliet Winters Carpenter Dennis Washburn 01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box Richard Bowring wring, Richard Bo burn, Dennis Wash ers Carpenter Juliet Wint House GalleryBradford College, Dye 2pm (75mins) £6 the of Genji was Tale The novel, first s ever world’ be remarkable which would so much there’s but enough, that distinguishes this more not extraordinary work; least of which is the fact a by penned that it was an elusive It’s woman. to resilient that has proved work its long life and the categorisation over century is rich plot eleventh with emotional courtly intrigue and aristocraticdrama, as potent and relevant custom that remains as it did then. today at Dartmouth Professor Washburn, Dennis College (USA) has completed a new take translation of the text that offersfresh a He joins for our age. of Genji’ Tale ‘The on of Cambridge'sthe University emeritus Richard studies, of Japanese professor who Winters Carpenter, and Juliet Bowring, place in on the novel’s will offer a view and present. both past culture Japanese the language and will explore they Together and far-reaching Genji in Japan legacy of the wider world. The Tale of Genji The Tale www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk

Elif Shafak elifshafak.com @Elif_Safak of Rumi The Philosophy Elif Shafak Bradford College, Centre Advanced Technology £6 2pm (60mins) In her book ‘The Forty Rules of Love: A ‘The Forty Rules of Love: In her book and essayist author, Turkish of Rumi’, Novel her distinctive academic Elif Shafak brought the modern of to bearblend and the mystical a contemporary between on a parallel tale of love and the spiritual link Sufi and a housewife, Tabrizi. Rumi and Shams between of philosophy she talks about Rumi’s Here experience as her own of as well and life, love As she Sufism and its impact on her work. interview, in a recent told the Guardian know, erase what you you ‘Sufism makes startAnd then of. so sure are what you mind this time, Not with your thinking again. heart.’ with your but and novelist Elif Shafak is an award-winning female writerthe most widely read in ‘one of the named her as Critics have Turkey. in contemporary voices most distinctive Her work literature’. and world Turkish and literary cultures on diverse draws in history, as deep interest as well traditions, and cultural oral culture, Sufism, philosophy, writing down breaks Shafak’s politics. She and cultural ghettoes. clichés, categories, humour. for black eye also has a keen

Inspired by Helen Meller @hbaf Mick Jackson @mickwriter Helen Meller yisha Malik, yisha Malik Mick Jackson,Judith Adams, A Ballroom Midland Hotel, French £6 1.30pm (75mins) - The Brontës Centuries after their deaths, the work of the work the Centuries after their deaths, people in sisters to inspire continues Brontë from away Some come ways. a range of different unflinching their up by fired the novels loss, love, themes; examination of universal and the casual brutality redemption of life. death, that the characters themselves, othersFor it’s societies navigate as they intrigues and provokes it could at once alien and all-too-familiar to us; that could inspire, women equally be the Brontë transcendental terror of their or the rugged, moorland landscapes. super-fan Brontë by Our panel is chaired Hebden organiser of the Helen Meller, joined by She’s Arts Festival. Bridge Mick Adams; playwright and dramatist Judith Chan in Brontë ‘Yuki author of Jackson, the tale of an offbeat Brontë Country’, another massive Malik, Ayisha and pilgrimage; ‘Sofia Khan is Not fan whose novel Brontë of a contemplates the travails Obliged’ attempting to negotiate Muslim woman scenes. London's dating and publishing have the Brontës talk about how They’ll in as the ways affected them personally as well inspired which the literary sisters have minds. generations of creative successive Judith Adams judithadams.co.uk A @Ayisha_Malik

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(remembrance of God), alongside recitation of Rumi’s Poetry. of Rumi’s alongside recitation of God), (remembrance John Siddique johnsiddique.co.uk Modern Day Mystics - Rumi and I intend to end up there.’ I’m sure of that, ‘My soul is from elsewhere, of Sufism concernsThe still point at the centre itself with nothing less than the purest the greatest Sufi poets have to this point and back again, Led life and God. experience of love, beautiful and experienced a depth of feeling that has informed some of the most haunting, written. ever verse profound contemporary to inspire artistsAttar and Hafez continues and writers in all Rumi, by Poetry special this very of inspiration, force Nodding to this powerful borders. languages and across Wadud Abdul and Paul Siddique John Tenour, modern features Medina poetry from evening writing mystical within the tradition of the Sufi poets. chimes whose own Sutherland, original presenting Mohammed, Avaes will also be a performance poet and playwrightThere from set Amir Khusro, as Bulleh Shah and poets such by English-language poetry to works in response The afternoon culminates with a Mistry. sound artist Jaydev accompaniment from musical to live a whose motions are which includes whirling dervishes, Circle performance Rumi’s by devotional form of dhikr @JohnSiddique e, P John Siddiqu Rumi’s Circle nour Whiteman, Medina Te Centre Technology Bradford College, Advanced £6 3pm (90mins)

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A must for all Diary of a Wimpy Kid fans Wimpy for all DiaryA must of a and great family entertainment! brings the books to life Watson Alastair Host Kid Wimpy The including with fun activities Draw-Along quiz. and Wars!’ ‘The Wimp clips of also includes exclusive The event about the books, talking Kinney author Jeff the films and showing in his involvement the characters. he draws how can get and you a book on the day Purchase Kid Wimpy it decorated with an exclusive stamp! Show The Wimpy Kid Show The Wimpy (Age 8+) lastair Watson Watson Alastair Bradford, Norcroft Auditorium University of FREE Booking required 2pm (60mins) day r Satu 28 May 28 88 Saturday SATU R DAY 28 M ay Box Office: 01274 238 374 28 May www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk

Ann Dinsdale, Nick Holland Morwenna Catt Virinder Kalra, Shams Rehman Allan Kellehear Midland Hotel, French Ballroom Bradford College, Dye House Gallery University of Bradford, Norcroft Lounge Bradford College, Dye House Gallery 3pm (60mins) £6 3pm (60mins) FREE Booking required 3pm (75mins) £6 3.30pm (60mins) £6 In Search of Beatrix Potter Saif-Ul-Malook: The Mystical Anne Brontë Terracotta Pots Journey of Love Experience of Death

Anne Brontë, the Workshop The ‘Saif-ul-Malook’ (sometimes known as As they approach the moment of death and youngest and most ‘Journey of Love’), is a vast Punjabi epic the brain fires its mysterious synapses into enigmatic of the (Age 3+) fantasy composed by Sufi saint Mian the gathering dark, many people report Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest Brontë sisters, remains Muhammad Bakhsh. unusual perceptions and experiences. We a bestselling author A fun, simple often refer to them as near-death nearly two centuries workshop for ages 3+ The poem is a form of Sufiana Kalam – Sufi experiences and death bed visions, but they after her death. The (with parental poetry written in Punjabi, the language of have also been described, at one time or brilliance of her guidance) led by everyday people, rather than Persian, the another, as hallucinations. novels and poetry textiles artist language of scholars, and thus accessible to Other people have described these moments belies the quiet yet Morwenna Catt. everyone. Sufiana Kalam cuts across traditional as mystical experiences – altered states of courageous girl Getting into the homegrown, green-fingered orthodoxies to talk about the experience of consciousness that offer spiritual who often lived in side of the Beatrix Potter tales, here’s a the divine in a personal, immediate way that understanding and provide an elation and joy the shadows of her more celebrated chance to make some Potter-inspired herb exalts both God and the self. that can be difficult, even impossible, to sisters. But what do we really know about planters. You’ll create something nice to take Poems rarely exist in isolation, as will be the woman herself? describe. For some, these experiences – lights, home and get the family engaged in @bradfordlitfest explained by scholar and author Virinder sound, warmth, however they may play out – gardening and growing food along the way. Bestselling author Nick Holland is a member Kalra as he discusses the rich lineage of Sufi are conclusive proof that God awaits us in the of the Brontë society and writer of ‘In Search Participants will be able to decorate a saints and shrines of which the poem is born. beyond. What are we to believe? of Anne Brontë’, the first biography of Anne terracotta pot inspired by a favourite Beatrix Join us for this very special dual event in In this talk Alan Kellehear, who has written in over 50 years. He joins Ann Dinsdale, Potter character: Pigling Bland, Peter Rabbit which you will learn about the context of extensively on death and our social constructs writer and presenter of new DVD ‘Anne or Jemima Puddleduck. Paint the pot with Saif-ul-Malook’s composition and find out around dying, will provide an outline of the Brontë: The Final Journey’ and collections bright acrylics then add ears, button eyes, more about the poet himself, before hearing main features of these experiences, discuss manager at the Brontë Parsonage Museum, ribbons and accessories before planting a a traditional Punjabi recitation of some of their worldwide prevalence, and offer a to discuss Anne’s private life and to bring this herb in it to take home. Then just add water the poem. critical evaluation of the explanations we most retiring of novelists out into the light. and sunlight, and enjoy! receive about them from medicine, neuroscience, psychology, and New Age writers. Join him for a fascinating journey into the undiscovered country. Morwenna Catt is a visual artist, designer and lover of all Professor Allan Kellehear is a things textile. She often works medical and public health sociologist with literary themes, creating with interests in death, dying and three-dimensional creatures end of life care who has conducted embroidered with lines of major sociological and social poetry and symbol. She lives psychological research on the human and works between Norway experience of dying. Ann Dinsdale Nick Holland and the UK. Brontë.org.uk anneBrontë.org @BrontëParsonage @Nick_Holland_ morwennacatt.co.uk Virinder Kalra Shams Rehman @channelfur

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Christa Ackroyd From the age of nine, Christa has always had a passion for the Brontës. So much so that if ever she was asked her favourite place to visit, it would always be Haworth, the Parsonage and the moors most so loved by Yorkshire’s famous literary family. @ChristaAckroyd 01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box Christa Ackroyd Christa Ballroom Midland Hotel, French £6 5pm (60mins) -Patrick Brontë Educator: the Girls The Man Behind his it is unlikely Patrick Without Brontë both the breadth had have daughters would and the confidence to pen of knowledge still celebrated today. of literature such works it was campaigner and abolitionist, Pioneer, that to waste Patrick who taught his children a was that the world a sin, was talents one’s and that education cruel for the poor, place should be for all - including women. as a too often portrayed Patrick was Sadly, proves Ackroyd Christa father. distant cold, the truth this is far as she introduces from The Patrick man behind the myth, the real humble from a man who rose Educator: via Yorkshire Irish to beginnings to travel the father and who became Cambridge, of genius. www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk

ariq Mehmood Dr Parveen Akhtar @DrParveenAkhtar T @TariqMehmood000 erine E Kath n Akhtar, ee arv ariq Mehmood lyas Karmani, Alyas Brown, T Bradford, Small Hall University of 4.30pm (75mins) £6 Jihadi Janes: ReligionRadicalised by or Romance? P What drives women towards extremism, in extremism, towards women What drives both thought and deed? Reports of Colleen the self-appointed by who went LaRose, as point to motives ‘Jihadi Jane’, pseudonym to spiritual love. love as romantic diverse coming in disturbing reports keep Meanwhile, of British to Syria girls to be the travelling brides of ISIS fighters – girls our own from rightin Bradford. here community, for such to blame Is faithfalling or in love Karmani, Alyas cases? Our panel of Imam Bradford academic Dr Katherine E Brown, Mehmood and moderator Dr Tariq author women Akhtar will discuss the reasons Parveen giving for joining terroristare groups and the complex factors that underpin their actions. Alyas Karmani Dr Katherine E Brown @K_E_Brown27

Bryony is an Pritchard interdisciplinary artist with a background in visual arts and movement. Her work brings together participatory events, play, interactivity, performance, installation, sculpture, film and dance. Artist Bryony Pritchard presents a new PritchardArtist a new presents Bryony workshops from piece developed movement with local Gujarat-connected dancers and Women Sound Yorkshire members of Tim Smith’s using material Network from exhibition. Gateway India’s will consist of a series of sharingsThe event of short from films the performance in progress, and musician exhibition, Gateway the India’s soundtrack to a live Alison Cooper providing Archive. Film Yorkshire footage from PRITCHARD, ER, BRYONY ALISON COOP TIM SMITH Delius ArtsCulture Centre & £5/3 4pm (120mins) fromMovement the Mills

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A special evening show taking place in the show A special evening a Q20 present Cathedral grounds, Bradford performance promenade of extracts from featuring most magical play, Shakespeare's guide, Your sprinklings and dance. of music will transport you Puck, the mischievous the follow as you into a mysterious world Titania. & Oberon story of the Faeries, local with young worked Q20 have who will performers as part of this piece, transform beings on the into otherworldly joining the Faery Host and night itself, performing dance as part a specially created of Come along and be transported the evening. most the magicby of the Bard’s of one witty and whimsical works. beloved, ight’s Dream Night’s Shakespeare: A Midsummer Q20 Bradford Cathedral Grounds Booking required 6pm FREE day r Satu 28 May 28 94 Sunday SU N DAY 29 M ay Box Office: 01274 238 374 29 May www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk Harry Potter Show Drop into our Harry Potter workshops between 11am – 4pm 10.15am - 10.45am 2.30pm - 3pm 4pm - 4.30pm Potion Making &

The magic of Hogwarts is brought to life in Spell Writing this thrilling show from Q20 Events, featuring Professor Snape is the Hogwarts Potions some of your favourite heroes (and villains)! Master. Make sure you are on your best behaviour as he shows you the mysterious All is not what it seems in the castle as an art of Potion Making. agent of He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named, a Death Eater, has been seen stalking the castle grounds. Fearing that Voldemort is trying to Broomstick Making Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest steal a powerful magical artefact Professor Professor McGonagall will take all aspiring Dumbledore summons Harry Potter, the Quiddich players through the basics of flying boy who lived, to his side. on a broomstick. Our final magical day kicks Film screening off with a free screening of Together they must outwit, out-duel and outsmart the devious Lucius Malfoy before Wand Making ‘Harry Potter and the Harry Potter and the it’s too late. Professor Sprout will take wand classes Philosopher’s Stone’ in City Philospher’s Stone Featuring comedy, excitement and illusions throughout the day where participants can make Park at 11am (bring your own 2001 | 152 Mins | PG this show is sure to bring a little magic to their very own Wizards wand. Remember, it is Butterbeer), before all kinds of 11am any Harry Potter fan’s day. the wand that chooses the wizard! @bradfordlitfest magical mayhem break loose The first film in the megaseries introduces us in Q20’s Battle of the Wizards to J.K. Rowling’s titular young wizard and as Harry and Dumbledore the strange world he wakes up one day to find himself a part of. New viewers will be face off against a Death Eater. (ahem) spellbound by the tale of wizardry, Once you’ve got your breath Hogwarts, Harry and He Who Must Not Be Named; the rest of us can relax and marvel at back and the sparks have the detail of Rowling’s imagined world and subsided, join some of the giddy glee with which it hits the screen. Hogwarts’ finest teachers for workshops in potion making, wand crafting and broomstick control. Anyone for Quidditch?

96 97 To Book: www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk SUNDAY 29 May Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest @bradfordlitfest 99 Abdul-Rehman Malik @ArMalik The Secret History 01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box Coffee. Many of us can’t begin the day of us can’t Many Coffee. espresso push it through We without it. until wait even it in cafetières, press filters, a wide-eyed passed through the beans have grindingAsian mammal before Southeast the second most traded It’s them. is and only water commodity in the world But how consumed in greater quantities. about it? know really do we much journalist and coffee Abdul-Rehman Malik, a mission to shed light on the is on fiend, we explaining how coffee, of Islamic roots Islam a debt of gratitude for cultivating owe His and bringingmasses. coffee to the to Mecca and Yemen from journey moves as part Istanbul entertaining, of an even coffee bean. paean to the humble interactive hman Malik Abdul-Re Ballroom Midland Hotel, French £6 10am (60mins) The Muhammadan Bean: of Islam and Coffee www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk Sudeep Sen sudeepsen.net @SudeepSenNet Remembering Kabir Remembering a 15th century Indian The life of Kabir, Muslims, by revered saint, poet and mystic seem far may Hindus and Sikhs alike, his poetry but world today’s from removed faithscape. impact on India’s had a profound critical he was independent thinker A strong, of religious rites and rituals which he The social and practical deemed meaningless. a synthesis manifestations of his philosophy, of Hindu and Muslim concepts - Kabir Allah and called himself at once the child of the ages and through resonated Ram - have impact on both had a profound have Hinduism and Sikhism. foremost one of India’s Sudeep Sen, Join to discuss Kabir’s and guests, modern poets, of which still the impact enduring legacy, Sikhism and Hinduism, through reverberates and of Bollywood into the 21st century world rock. folk to progressive from popular music, n Sudeep Se Bradford College, Centre Advanced Technology £6 10am (60mins) Christa Ackroyd From the age of nine, Christa has always had a passion for the Brontës. So much so that if ever she was asked her favourite place to visit, it would always be Haworth, the Parsonage and the moors most so loved by Yorkshire’s famous literary family. @ChristaAckroyd

insight into the life and work of the insight into the life and work a social visionary sisters' father, Brontë to help the poor during the who worked Luddite uprisings home to Patrick Thornton village, a visit to and birthplace sisters of all three Brontë the magnificent moors made famousviewing as a stop at top as well Heights, Wuthering by drinking Nelson Inn spot the Lord with Parsonage, a personal tour of Haworth visit to the museum private an exclusive library and its extraordinary collection • • • fresh have we’ll By the end of the day some who created insight into the woman and will most enduring classics, of literature’s refreshed, hopefully return to her words with a deeper understanding of her themes and preoccupations. characters, Brontë Heritage Tour Brontë Heritage of the sees the 200th anniversary This year were works whose birth of Charlotte Brontë, about class perception to change the world’s To ago. and gender all those decades celebrate her birth Literary the Bradford in following a full day has organised Festival sharing joyfully Charlotte's footsteps and her of literature. life and works Christa fan, a passionate Brontë Led by coach tour (with this full day Ackroyd, whose passion for lunch) examines a woman she met women and obscure the humble as an inspiration today as much remains first penned. when her characters were The journey includes: • Christa Ackroyd Christa Museum National Media Sets off from £35 10am - 5pm N DAY SU 29 May 29 98 SUNDAY 29 May Facebook.com/bradfordlitfestTo Book: www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk @bradfordlitfest 101 01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box otel, Pullman Room Mildand Hotel, Pullman £6 11am (120mins) Vlogging Workshop (Age 12+) If you’re interested in learning how to create, in learning to create, interested how If you’re launch and maintain a successful video blog, get started. will help you this workshop need and how look at the tools you You’ll ideas into videos that will to translate your attract viewers. the top video Some of the statistics around eye-watering, are ‘vloggers’) (or bloggers with subscribers ticking into the tens views a big industry and is only It’s of millions. to find out this worksop Join getting bigger. whether you’re can get involved, you how hoping to speak to ten people or ten million. Cameras at the ready… www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk

Susan Duxbury-Neumann susan-duxbury.com Bradford’s Germans Bradford’s Little Germany: A History of Germany and the centuries, Over close been Britain Great have When Bradford trading partners. for its rapidly became renowned expanding textile trade, German wool prosperous the country entered merchants These of them settled in Bradford. and many with but in number few comparatively men, influenced Bradford’s great determination, of commerce knowledge with their markets were They culture. and philanthropic men who built who left their mark; merchants Germany. in Little the palatial warehouses ‘Little author of Susan Duxbury-Neumann, A History Germans’ of Bradford's Germany: bornwas in Baildon and all members of her or connected in one way family were In this wool-trade. another with Bradford's back to the nineteenth us talk she takes capital the wool was Bradford when century, of a very to offer a glimpse of the world, of the people city and the lives different Germany to shape it. from who came here Susan Duxbury- the talk, Following of West Dave Neumann will be joined by tour Action for a walking Little Germany hour. lasting up to an of Little Germany, Neumann bury- Susan Dux Design Exchange £6 11am (60mins) est Yorkshire. He has over est Yorkshire. Dan Micklethwaite is a prize-winning writer from W thirty short fiction publications to his name, covering a wide range of themes and genres, from realist tales of isolation to retold fairy stories to hard science-fiction and fantasy. His debut novel, The Less than Perfect Legend of Donna Creosote, is due for release through Bluemoose Books in July 2016. @Dan_M_writer . After living in Jenny Holmes was born Yorkshire. in up brought and She has been writing fiction for children and adults since her early twenties and has had a series of children’s books adapted for both the BBC and ITV the Midlands and travelling widely in America, she and returned to Yorkshire brought up her two daughters with a spectacular view of the moors and a sense of belonging to the special, still undiscovered corners of Dales. the Yorkshire aite

A.A. Dhand was raised in Bradford and spent his youth observing the city from behind the counter of a small convenience store. After qualifying as a pharmacist, he worked in London and travelled extensively before returning to start to Bradford his own business and begin diversity writing. The history, and darkness of the city have inspired his Harry Virdee novels. aadhand.com @AADhand

is a writer, Stevan Alcock is a writer, editor and translator. he Originally from Yorkshire, lived in Berlin for many years before relocating to London to study for a BA in German at Goldsmiths College. In 2013 he completed an MA (Dist.) in contemporary prose fiction at Kingston University. He is currently writing his next novel. @StevanAlcock Writing Yorkshire Writing fit into the minds and Yorkshire does so where that place can influence a writer, all know We a conjure do you how contemporary authors? Equally, of the county’s DNA of some creative experienced it? writing the spiritsense of that place in your and capture of the region as you’ve folk to tell all. a panel of assembled Yorkshire We’ve – and occasional darkness of Bradford diversity brings the history, for instance, AA Dhand, Virdee. Harry the cases of Detective chronicling novel raised - into his debut he was where Don Quixote in imagines who she’s woman of a young eyes the Huddersfield seen through is Legend of Donna Creosote’. Than Perfect ‘The Less Dan Micklethwaite’s Mirfield resident lie at the heart of 1930s Bradford of streets and the cobbled community courage, Meanwhile, Ripper casts a long shadow Yorkshire the and Albion Lane’ ‘The Mill Girls of Holmes’ Jenny it all is arts Overseeing ‘Blood Relatives’. gritty coming of age tale Alcock’s Stevan across lass. Yorkshire herself a Huddleston, Yvette journalist ollege, Dye House GalleryBradford College, Dye £6 10am (75mins) lcock, A.A Dhand, Steven A ethw es, Dan Mickl Jenny Holm N DAY SU 29 May 29 100 SUNDAY 29 May Facebook.com/bradfordlitfestTo Book: www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk @bradfordlitfest 103 e perform in schools,

01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Kala Sangam 2pm (75mins) FREE 11.30am & Booking required Are you a spinner of stories you of or a teller Are one thousand nights Queen tales? For Scheherazade has told her stories of magic she’s But now to the King. and adventure run ideas and needs help to finish her out of final story. Tell’ to Tale ‘A exotic Blah Blah Blah’s Arabic celebrates the rich of world Arabic and English, blending storytelling, to tell familiar stories play exciting shadow this is a But such as Sinbad the Sailor. you inviting performance with a difference, to step inside to become a part of the story tale. and to help with the telling of a new Blah Blah Blah Theatre Company Blah Blah Blah is a well respected Theatre in Education company with 30 years’ experience of creating high quality participatory theatre with and for children and young people. W theatres and community settings, exploring stories, not just telling them. blahs.co.uk @TheatreBlahs A Tale to Tell A Tale www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk

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Paul Rogers is Oxford global Research Group’s security consultant and professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford. He has worked in the field of arms international security, control and political violence for over 30 years. He is a regular lecturer at the Royal College of Defence Studies in London and writes a weekly analysis on international security for opendemocracy.net. @ProfPRogers rs aul Roge P Bradford, Small Hall University of £6 11am (75mins)

men and women rally to its cause. Now, Now, rally to its cause. men and women internationally global security respected argues that it should Rogers specialist Paul right in its own be seen not just as a threat dangerous more of a much as a marker but environmentally – divided, world constrained and riddled with irregular war. to who seem of ISIS, Faced with the march military within weeks, states defeat powerful In future? for a secure what hope is there this sharpof affairs analysis of the state new Rogers in the Middle East and beyond case for a persuasive a troubling, makes RevoltsISIS Elites and from the Margins Rogers is one of those dangerous people who ‘Paul Richard Admiral – Rear can change mind’ your FRAeS CB, Cobbold, in the Middle East and root ISIS has taken Africa impact and has increasing North as thousands of young the world across of the true of ISIS. nature re-evaluation Irregular Warfare:

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Works of Blake Works poet. printer, illuminator, - mystic, Blake William to the edge of the universe A genius who saw of atomic structure. and the microcosm to that different very was view world Blake’s Without or since. him, of those around to an engraver apprenticed schooling he was and learnt fuse an skills that would painting and extraordinary talent for poetry, printing intricate to create books of become These would transcendent beauty. an inspiration to generations of poets, readers. students and lay simple poetry deceptively His exceptional, Jesus, traditions of Plato, the mystical follows is a it there Within Rumi and St Francis. the of the universe, view profound intricacies of the human species and foibles God. to relationship and it’s bring we together In this panel discussion, Siddique, the poets Ian Duhig and John and artist MichaelWhittaker academic Jason of elements the mystic Phillips to divine Ralph Dartford. by Chaired Poetry. Blake’s Mysticism in theMysticism in Michael Phillips,Ian Duhig, er e, Jason Whittak John Siddiqu Bradford College, Centre Advanced Technology 11am (75mins) £6 N DAY SU John Siddique @JohnSiddique Ian Duhig @IanDuhig 29 May 29 102 SUNDAY 29 May Facebook.com/bradfordlitfestTo Book: www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk @bradfordlitfest 105

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John Curtis OBE The Iran Heritage Foundation iranheritage.org Whether it’ s through the steady encroachment the steady encroachment s through Whether it’ of the modern or the wilful destruction world and beauty the buildings of groups such as ISIS, at sites including Meccaof ancient civilisations the steadily being wiped from are and Palmyra surface the Earth. of Curtis is CEO of the Iran HeritageDr John and specialises in the archaeology Foundation and history 1000 BC to of Iran and Iraq from and excavated He has travelled 330 BC. in both countries will talk and extensively about the loss of our cultural and architectural heritage and what it means for society as a whole. The Destruction ofThe Destruction MemoryMonuments and Eas in the Middle John Curtis OBE, John Curtis e Foundation Heritag The Iran Bradford, Small Hall University of £6 12.30pm (60mins) N DAY SU 29 May 29 104 SUNDAY 29 May Facebook.com/bradfordlitfestTo Book: www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk @bradfordlitfest 107 Al Musafirun 01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box Qasidat al-Burda or The Poem of The Cloak of The Poem or Qasidat al-Burda the Prophet in praise of is an ode written, al-Busiri Imam by in the 11th Muhammad, is one of the most The Burda century. and famous in this genre, of literature pieces written the poet after being afflicted was by Imam al-Busiri that recounted with paralysis. after he had written the the poem he saw who in his dream Muhammad Prophet he Upon waking in his cloak. him covered completely cured. found that he was with Shaykh event us for a special Join Sufi and the renowned Watts Muhammad Idris Idris an Shaykh will give Al-Musafirun. singers to a new and introduction, overview, The ‘The Mainstay’. commentary on the Burda, a performance by book launch will be followed differentAl-Musafirun three who will recite by styles different in three sections of the Burda Ustadha Noshin Gul. by each introduced to beguile and delight is sure The event familiar those who already with the Burda al-Busiri’s untouched by as yet, and those, magical ode. Shaykh Muhammad Idris Watts dris Watts, Idris Watts, Muhammad Shaykh Al Musafirun Bradford College, Centre Advanced Technology 2pm (75mins) £6 The Burda of al- The Burda Poem ofBusiri: The The Cloak www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk rs aul Roge Akram Khan @ProfAkramKhan Paul Rogers @ProfPRogers Dark Worlds: ISIS, Dark Worlds: Nazi Germany and Utopia the Quest for More’s Thomas since Sir years hundred Five in and found himself narrator lost his way the our panel will consider ‘Utopia’, of ideal societiessometimes sinister notion tried to that have and the movements history. impose them throughout as world new brave own Beginning with More’s vision for a both Hitler’s consider they’ll a basis, ISIS toNazi utopia and the current attempts by an ideal of version their a Caliphate; create Akram Khan Professor by chaired Islamic state, lands include into these dark Our travellers author and expert in Nazi Germany, historian, Lecturer Emmett, Rebecca Moorhouse; Roger in Early Modern British History at the Rogers, Paul and Professor York of University Elites and ISIS Warfare: ‘Irregular author of tryThey’ll to draw the Margins’. from Revolts visions of a perfect the three links between society and see what each can teach us about in. currently live we world flawed the real, Rebecca Emmett @RebeccaJEmmett tt, Akram Khan, ett, Rebecca Emm oorhous e, P Roger M Ballroom Midland Hotel, French £6 2pm (75mins) Roger Moorhouse @Roger_Moorhouse

Afshin Shahi is a founding member and director of the Centre for the Study of Political Islam and also lectures in International Relations and Middle East Politics. In addition to research and teaching, he is a political consultant and a regular contributor to the international media. @afshinshahi ars - ater W Here The Future is that the thinking was ago, years Ten – would – the politics of water hydropolitics perhaps become an issue at some point in the theory went, would, We the far future. oil on to over shift our squabbling eventually got the timescales Only we instead. water that time is now. wrong: expert in international Afshin Shahi, Dr Join as he and Middle East politics, relations explains that looking deeper into the current at the heart of water conflicts will reveal The stuff of life has become everything. will fight to the death over. something we hahi Afshin S Bradford, Small Hall University of £6 1.30pm (60mins) Hydropolitics: W

bradfordpolicemuseum.com @bd1policemuseum Museum: Hangmen and what does it hangmen, the Who were This dual to be an instrument of death? take is a uniquebook launch and tour immerse as you opportunity to find out, First, gruesome past. in the city’s yourself the launch of his to mark Allan Cox join Associated with Bradford ‘Hangmen book and Other Matters Related to Capital most a history of Bradford’s Punishment’, He’ll talk notorious executioners. public Berry James from in the about executioners one of the Albert Pierpoint, 19th century to last official hangmen. country’s curator Martin join museum Afterwards, into the originalBaines as he leads you Victorian cells and court (located in the they Built in 1873, historic City Hall). formed part of the original police station for a century operational between that was the dock from sent down 1874 and 1974; looming brickwork and and hemmed in by occupants some of these cells’ pitiless bars, This to. had only the noose to look forward chance to glimpse the place they is your safe in the knowledge spent their final days, time. at any to leave free that you're opportunity also an to consider the It’s themes of crime as and punishment as well understanding of the gaining a broader criminal justice and law history of policing, in the city. enforcement Bradford Police es Martin Bain Museum Bradford Police £4 1pm (180mins) N DAY SU 29 May 29 106 SUNDAY 29 May Facebook.com/bradfordlitfestTo Book: www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk @bradfordlitfest 109 01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box The Bradford Literature Festival is delighted Festival Literature The Bradford Yorkshire to host the 5th International of an evening Adabee Forum Mushaira, poetry and culture. a symposium was a mushaira Traditionally In their work. to share poets gathered where contemporary and North India, Pakistan an integral remain partthey of creative acting as forums self- for free culture, also offer in the UK they Here expression. traditional an opportunity to preserve language and heritage. cultural practices, Featuring performers the globe across from Lahore the US, Karachi, including those from evening this will be a memorable and beyond, and entrancing music. of beautiful verse e Adabee Forum Yorkshir Hotel The Bradford £20 4pm - 10pm Yorkshire Adabee Yorkshire Forum Mushaira www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk umi’s Circle presents Rumi’s music and whirling poetry, events that highlight the wisdom of Mevlana Rumi, the 13th century Sufi Mystic. Circle is part of The Rumi’s Threshold Society and the based on the Mevlevi Order, teachings of Shaikh Kabir and Shaikha Camille Helminski. www.rumiscircle.com Whirling Workshop 'Stop acting so small. You are the universe in are the universe You 'Stop acting so small. ecstatic motion.' - Rumi Sufi whirling (or spinning) is a form of moving meditation in which spiritual symbolism runs cloaksblack their As the dancers remove deep. are they white costumes beneath, to reveal reborn to the truth under the gaze of God, losing all ego as the motion of their bodies echoes the motion of the planets. first encounter with if this is your Even with love, invited, you’re Sufism or whirling, to explore to join Sufi whirler Daniel Dyer whirling and gain an insight into the rhythms practicalThis and what it means. of the dance, offering a chance to all, is accessible workshop and hopefully to try some of the movements spiritualexperience side some of the powerful motions. effects of the mystic yer Daniel D Bradford College, Centre Advanced Technology £6 4pm (90mins) obin

Des T @SkinBradfordUni ashidpti R asmin Rashid asmin Rashid, Y @Yasmin Jim Boyne e, Y Jim Boyn the Future:Unlocking of DNAThe Power to determining up is key Our genetic make has progress and tremendous are who we the mapping of from been made in this area the identification ofthe human genome to certain for traits. genes responsible individual can science help us understand our How the are genetic identity and what implications of this understanding? What do mean for each of us – these developments we and the world our identity, our health, and in the future? in – now live in a lecturer Boyne, be joined by Jim We’ll at the Molecular and Cellular Biology who will discuss of Bradford, University driving are in technology how advances genetics and view we the way forward of Rashid, Professor disease; Yasmin Obstetrics at Central Park & Gynaecology a pioneer of Lahore, is Medical College, whose team MaternalFeto Medicine, gene; and Des the microcephaly discovered of the biology who has researched Tobin, decades, the skin and hair follicle for two of new discovery will talk about his team’s and other hair genes associated with grey of Cell Biology is Professor Tobin Des traits. for Skin Sciences of the Centre and Director of Bradford. at the University Des Tobin House GalleryBradford College, Dye £6 3pm (75mins)

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Jay Bernard jaybernard.co.uk to Faith Relations is marking Festival Literature The Bradford Race Relations of the the 40th anniversary of the dynamicsAct with a timely discussion races and religions, different between has the How in our society. communities questions of race from debate shifted away questions of faith past in the and towards especially against the current four decades, and what has of Islamophobia, backdrop has this how In turn, that shift? prompted liberties?shift impacted upon civil all our panelists, are Leading the conversation engaged with this most directly of whom have of the director Nadia Latif, issue. pressing production Theatre Youth planned National when participated publicly very ‘Homegrown’, fears that cancelled around was the production Dr Nasar Meer it pursued agenda; an extremist specialises on the history and policy of race Bernard addresses and Jay equality in the UK; identities and restrictions liberties on civil her writing.through – along with Guardian well-placed All are who moderates – to Mirza, Yasir journalist tensions from travelled have far we assess how those towards surrounding race relations might we and where to faith relations, linked here. go from From Race RelationsFrom Race atif, Latif, Bernard, Nadia Jay r Nasar Mee Bradford, Small Hall University of 3pm (75mins) £6

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01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box Khan ch, Shabnam Daut viva Bradford Cathedral Choir bradfordcathedral.org Shabnam Khan www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk viva Dautch Keertan Rehal A @AvivaDautch Sacred Wing Choir @GayAbandonChoir Jerry Lepine Sacred Poetry of celebratory and music verse Cathedral is the glorious for this evening Bradford backdrop the concert performances a host of talented artists, With from the religious spectrum. across from choirs naats and bhajans to kirtans, from styles, musical kinds of devotional different will feature poetry. word spoken alongside sacred and chants, including the Bradford faiths, of multiple offerings representatives hear musical from We’ll artistic director Gurbani Kirtan performer Rahal, Keertan choir, Wing the Sacred Cathedral Choir, Aviva London Museum, at the Jewish poet and resisdent Geetha Upadhyaya, and choreographer memorable to be a singer Shabnam Khan as partDautch and genre-hopping of what promises Jerry Revd Lepine. Very the by over presided and music, of uplifting words evening dral Choir, edral Choir, Cath Rehal, Bradford Lepine, Keertan Jerry A Sacred Wing Choir, padhyaya, Geetha U Bradford Cathedral £10 6.30pm (120mins) aylor aylor is a Kirsty T Bradford based poet who has recently joined A Firm of Poets, presenting workshops. @TaylaMade_

Ralph Dartford is the founder member of highly acclaimed spoken word collective, A Firm of Poets. Ralph has been published in The Guardian, Stirring Magazine (US), Pulp Faction, Exterminating Angel Press (US) and His first London Territories. collection, ‘Cigarettes, Beer and Love’, was published in July 2013. @Dartford artford, Kirsty T Ralph Dartford, Mill Theatre in The £6 7.30pm (60mins) Come Sunday and of sighed reflection A day Sunday. shopping malls and addiction? Of hangovers, decisions made while putting thehard hate and redemption. Of love, away. lawnmower for a performanceA Firm of of Poets Join poems spanning midnight to twenty-four From day. midnight on the seventh Melbourne Orleans, Manningham to New everything Park, Sculpture Yorkshire to the changes come Sunday. Featuring writing and performances from A Firm of Poets and Taylor Kirsty Bradford’s by Directed Ralph Dartford. co-founder, Matt Abbott. afirmofpoets.com @AFirmOfPoets

Michael Phillips is an Honorary Fellow at Interdisciplinary Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies at the University of York and an acknowledged authority on Blake. williamblakeprints.co.uk

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Inspired by the by Inspired combinations of word and image he found in illuminated medieval Blake manuscripts, a method he invented called ‘Illuminated that made it Printing’ to printpossible text same copper the from and image together The press. rolling plate in his engraver’s in the invention will explain Blake’s lecture illustrated book context of conventional the its metaphorical significance, production, the of the illuminated books like creation the further Songs of Innocence and how of colour-printinghis images development of the Large Colour led to the production Blake’s Prints or monotypes of 1795, as a graphic artist. achievement supreme 29 May 29

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Friday 20 May Saturday 21 May Saturday 21 May A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness The Kingdom of Ghibli Classics: Double bill with Song of Lahore Dreams and Madness My Neighbour Totoro National Media Museum, Cubby Broccoli National Media Museum, Cubby Broccoli National Media Museum, Cubby Broccoli 12.30pm £6 8.30pm £6 10am £6 Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest

A Girl in the River: Song of Lahore The Price of Forgiveness 2015 | 12A | 82mins Song of Lahore examines the lives and the 2015 | 12A 40mins | cultural heritage of Pakistan’s classical musicians Every year, more than 1000 girls and women – where do they fit into a society troubled by are the victims of religiously motivated so much social and religious upheaval? @bradfordlitfest honour killings in Pakistan, especially in rural areas. Eighteen-year-old Saba, who fell in love After playing and recording in obscurity for and eloped, was targeted by her father and years, an innovative album leads Sachal uncle but survived to tell her story. In 2016, Studios and the Sachal Jazz Ensemble to 2013 | PG | 118mins 1988 | U | 86mins Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s powerful international acclaim, and a triumphant A documentary that peers inside Studio This anime classic from Hayao Miyazaki documentary short won her a second concert with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Ghibli, the award-winning Japanese features trademark Studio Ghibli themes Academy Award. Lincoln Center Orchestra. Academy Award animation film studio, and particularly the (love, family, belonging) wrapped in their winning filmmaker Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy life and work of the studios founding celebrated dreamlike, gentle fantasia. Two and Andy Schocken’s feature length director Hayao Miyazaki in the run up to his young girls move to a rural area of postwar documentary follows the musicians’ journey, ‘retirement’. Including behind the scenes Japan with their father, to await their pondering the distance and the dialogue footage of features like ‘The Wind Rises’ and mother’s recovery from a long illness. As they between Eastern and Western musicians along ‘The Tale of the Princess Kaguya’, it offers wait, relax and open up to the world around the way, and asking if the Sachal Jazz insights into the great animator’s creative them, they discover a host of benign Ensemble will ever find an audience at home. processes and the human tensions between woodland spirits, including the titular Totoro, the Ghibli greats, as well as fleeting glimpses who leads them further into the spirit world. of the man himself and his opinions on everything from Fukushima to his father.

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Saturday 21 May Saturday 21 May Sunday 22 May Sunday 22 May Ted Hughes: Syria’s Rebellious Ghibli Preview: When Among the Believers Stronger Than Death Women Marnie was There UK Premiere Kala Sangam Arts Centre Screening + Director’s Q&A National Media Museum, Cubby Broccoli Kala Sangam Arts Centre 2pm £6 2.30pm £6 4.30pm £6 National Media Museum, Cubby Broccoli 2.15pm £6 Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest @bradfordlitfest

2015 | 12A | 89mins 2014 | PG | 103mins 2015 | 12A | 84mins Ted Hughes needs little introduction: one of Studio Ghibli’s final film was produced With unprecedented access to firebrand our finest poets, he attracted praise, scandal 2015 | 12A | 25mins without talismanic directors Miyazaki or cleric Abdul Aziz inside his infamous Red and intrigue in equal measure. His life and the These short documentaries from award- Takahata, but Hiromasa Yonebayashi crafts a Mosque (Lal Masjid) in Islamabad, ‘Among breadth and influence of his poetry are the winning journalist Zaina Erhaim highlight suitably wraithlike, wistful swansong in this the Believers’ offers us a troubling front row focus of this major BBC documentary, along the challenges facing women living and mystical tale of awakening. Anna is taken to seat as ISIS supporter and Taliban ally Aziz with his tumultuous marriage to Sylvia Plath. working in rebel-held parts of Syria. Made the sea for her health, where she encounters wages jihad against the Pakistani over a period of 18 months, the films tell the the not-altogether-real Marnie, almost her government. Director Mohammed Ali The film features the first television interview individual stories of a diverse group of opposite yet somehow also her echo. Their Naqvi’s intimate, shocking documentary with Frieda Hughes - poet, artist and strong, resilient women. As well as facing the friendship and the film’s lingering follows his quest and charts the lives of the daughter of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Path - constant threat of the Assad government’s air atmosphere of sweet departure is delicately, young students who become pawns in the alongside input from family members, friends, force, they must battle the conservative irresistibly moving. ideological battle shaping the future of fellow poets and writers. It illuminates the traditions of a male-dominated society, Pakistan and the Muslim world. man, and shows how the events of his life aggravated by a militarised environment that shaped the poet. In ‘Crow’, Hughes intoned so many civilians have fled. ‘But who is stronger than death? Me, evidently’, - this film looks at Hughes’ mortal This screening will be introduced by and creative endurance, and how his life and Robin Yassin-Kassab. Following the powers culminated in the staggering, scorched screening Robin will be in conversation earth testimony of ‘Birthday Letters’ - his final with Zaina Erhaim, work and only account of his life with Plath. 114 115 Box Office: 01274 238 374 FILM S CREEN I N GS Film Screenings www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk

Wednesday 25 May Friday 27 May Saturday 28 May Saturday 28 May Paulo Coelho’s Learning to Drive Why Can’t I Be Open Bethlehem Best Story: The Pilgrim National Media Museum, Cubby Broccoli A Sushi Screening + Director’s Q&A 8.30pm £6 UK Premiere Kala Sangam Arts Centre Kala Sangam Arts Centre 1pm £6 2.30pm £6 National Media Museum, Cubby Broccoli 8.30pm £6 Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest

2014 | 12A | 90 mins Open Bethlehem follows Palestinian director Leila Sansour’s extraordinary journey to the legendary city of Bethlehem, the place

where she grew up. Armed with a camera @bradfordlitfest and a family car that keeps breaking down, she sets out to create an intimate chronicle 2014 | adv15 | 90mins of a historical town in peril. Ten years on, A coming of (middle) age comedy about 2015 | 12A | 36 mins with 700 hours of footage, the result is negotiating life’s roadblocks, ‘Learning to nothing like she had expected. Drive’ sees Wendy, a fiery Manhattan author, This documentary follows the journey of 2014 | 12A | 112mins learn to drive under the tutelage of softly- two young sisters, Niamh (10) and Sofia (8), This film is an emotional journey of one A global phenomenon, The Alchemist has spoken taxi driver Darwan. Both are facing who are curious about the ongoing sectarian woman in a struggle to save her hometown. sold over 65 million copies creating cult their own dilemmas – her unraveling conflicts amongst Muslims. Why must they It takes viewers deep into the world of status for its author Paulo Coelho. His works marriage, his arranged one – but gradually be Sunni or Shia, they wonder? Why not be Bethlehem and paints a portrait of the city as have been translated into 80 languages and learn the joys of starting again as their a Sushi Muslim? it has never been seen before. published in more than 150 countries. The friendship develops. The film attempts to reframe the debate The film will be introduced by Baroness Pilgrim is the journey that took Coelho Featuring Academy Award nominee around sectarian division within Islam Sayeeda Warsi. from life at a Jesuit school and his teenage through their more innocent eyes, asking years dreaming of being a writer to a Patricia Clarkson and Academy Award winner Ben Kingsley whether it might not be better to simply be The Baroness Warsi Foundation is an independent global journey of discovery. Flirting with death and Muslim. A thought-provoking piece about grant-making Foundation. Their goal is to encourage debate madness, experimenting with drugs, he unity, suitable for all the family. and identify innovative solutions that help create inclusive eventually set on a pilgrimage in Spain, a communities. The Foundation collaborates with partners 500-mile walk, the Road of Santiago de from across the world in three program areas: improving social mobility, promoting freedom of religion or belief and Compostela, that was to change his life. increasing gender equality. baronesswarsifoundation.org @WarsiFdn

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ay urator’s Q&A Screening + Curator’s Theatre Bradford College, Michelle Sutton 1pm £6 2016 | 12A | 90mins nothing makes yet inevitable, Nothing is more about than talking uncomfortable, us more coming to terms spend our lives We death. the ask ourselves We end. with our inevitable on reflect We difficult existential questions. Film is had. have our lives what value gothic from dying: and death with preoccupied in - and everything horror to zombie invasion on which us a rich – it gives canvass between this most human of obsessions. to explore Spain Iran, the UK, from on films Drawing the Insight Film and the Czech Republic, a selection of award- presents Festival that the world around winning shorts from - in turns a myriad of reflections provide - on death. and mystical funny serious, Butler, chat with David a lively by Followed Studies at in Screen and lecturer film buff of Manchester. the University The Last Departure:The Last Cinematic Meditations Dying on Death and 28 M Sunday

ay Akbar S Ahmed journeyintoeurope.com @AskAkbar Journey Europe into Q&A Screening + Director’s Cubby Broccoli National Media Museum, 6pm £6 2015 | 12A | 118mins the importance of this ‘It is hard to exaggerate the former Williams, Rowan - Dr work.’ Archbishop of Canterbury scholar and Islamic Anthropologist, Ambassador Akbar S Ahmed filmmaker, the place of and Islam in Europe explores history in Islam in European and civilization the Shot across study. this unprecedented continent in countries including Germany, the film and Bosnia, Spain, France, UK, of life: all walks people from us to introduces archbishops, and primepresidents ministers, heads of right- grand muftis, chief rabbis, a from Europeans and everyday wing parties, variety of backgrounds. the Ibn Akbar S Khan, Ambassador Join Khaldun chair of Islamic Studies at for DC, Washington, American in University a Q&A after the film. ay 28 M rday Satu

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Screening + Director’s Q&A Screening + Director’s Kala Sangam Arts Centre 5pm £6 Zinda BhaagZinda ay 28 M rday Satu Life) (Run For Your Set in a nondescript neighbourhood of friends three follows ‘Zinda Bhaag’ Lahore, desperate to get on to the fastwho are track all in and Chitta, Taambi Khaldi, to success. that the only way believe their early twenties, us aTheir journey gives West. out is to the young of many lives glimpse of the everyday of - a sense in Pakistan men and women entitlement that cannot be fulfilled, and an ennui themselves desperation to prove is no escape. feel there which they from multi-award- of this us for a screening Join first entry Pakistan’s which was winning film, and gained ainto the Oscars in 50 years theatrical countries. in three release a chance to put your there’s Afterwards, Meena Gaur. questions to co-director 2013 | 12A | 115mins Film Screenings Screenings Film 118 Zeal for Unity Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest @bradfordlitfest 121 01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box www.bradfordliteraturefestival.co.uk

ay Mehreen Jabbar LALA BEGUM JABBAR A FILM BY MEHREEN Kala Sangam Arts Centre 7.30pm (57mins) £6 of 20 odd years What happens when after a to have sisters forced are two estrangement, the tragicWith face-to-face confrontation? no option Seher has demise of her husband, with and live to returnbut to her hometown made it But Meher has Meher. her older sister, in their home. clear that Seher is not welcome she had been tending to the house in After all, And absence for all these years. her sister’s she cannot find it in her heart to furthermore, running Seher for off with the manforgive But the with her. in love was she believed is revealed of what actually transpired reality the storythrough as both sisters try to find the right can come together they moment where and starta conversation. FILMMAKER’S PROFILE Mehreen Jabbar has had a prolific career as a hard-hitting films for director and producer of gritty, She has made a number of short films Pakistani Television. that have aired in festivals across the world. Her first feature film, Ramchand Pakistani, was widely received by both critics and audiences. CAST Marina Khan, Humayun Saeed, Sonia Rehman Qureshi DIRECTOR GENRE Drama 23 M Monday

Bradford Literature Festival will be showcasing three of the films from this vital initiative. of the films from three will be showcasing Festival Literature Bradford This ethos resonates with Zee Entertainment’s philosophy of ‘Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam’ - ‘The - Kutumbakam’ ‘Vasudhaiva of philosophy with Zee Entertainment’s This ethos resonates moments of joy where of entertainment, and seamless world – a borderless is My Family’ World and languages. ethnicities geographic boundaries, and happiness overcome ZEAL FOR UNITY brings together creative thought leaders from nations in conflict. As part nations in conflict. leaders thought from ZEAL FOR UNITY brings creative together first for the very coming together are India and Pakistan from 12 filmmakers of this initiative, on a single platform their work and facilitate an apolitical exchange to showcase time, peace and humanity. for to strive environment Zee Entertainment is harnessing this undeniably powerful force to create a cultural revolution, a cultural revolution, to create force Zee Entertainment is harnessing powerful this undeniably for peace. a global movement to change the social landscape and create 7.30pm their With and enlighten. to inspire the power have The mediums of film and television to challenge perceptions to influence our culture, the power have they mass reach, demarcated and change mindsets. Ballroom Midland Hotel, French to host the UK is proud TV, in association with Zee Festival, Literature Bradford ZEAL FOR UNITY. initiative, groundbreaking launch of Zee Entertainment’s M 25 Wednesday UK Launch Unity Zeal for ity Un for al Ze 120 Zeal for Unity Facebook.com/bradfordlitfest @bradfordlitfest 123 01274 238 374 238 Office: 01274 Box

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Waterstones Bradford College - Dye House Gallery Impressions Gallery - Conference Room The Midland Hotel - Pullman The Midland Hotel - Irving The Midland Hotel Gallery Bradford College - Dye House Bradford College - Dye House Gallery National Media Museum - Cubby Broccoli National Media Museum - Cubby Gallery Bradford College - Dye House City Park City Hall City Hall Bradford College - Dye House Gallery The Broadway Waterstones Bradford Synagogue University of Bradford - Small Hall City Park - Big Screen University of Bradford - Norcroft Lounge City Park Bradford College - Dye House Gallery University of Bradford - Great Hall The Broadway Waterstones University of Bradford - re:centre The Midland Hotel - Princes Ballroom City Park Hall University of Bradford - Great Hall University of Bradford - Small Waterstones Bradford College - Dye House Gallery University of Bradford - Small Hall The Midland Hotel - Princes Ballroom Theatre in the Mill Bradford College – ATC Roma Storytelling with Woodcraft Manorexia and Boylimia: Maud Sulter: Passion Lost Heritage: Sikh Legacy Digital Storytelling Masterclass in rite A Poem 52 Ways To W From Russia With Love: Eating Disorders Among Men Make Upcycling 3D Managa Workshop Paper Cutting and Engraving Syria’s Rebellious Women Screening and Q+A Closure: Contemporary Black British Characters Workshop Q20: Peter Pan Show Adoption and Being In Care: Short Stories What Should A Contemporary Place The Secret of My Success Cosplay Workshop Elliot’s Arctic Surprise Petr Horacek Safe Passage 21st Century Wonder Women Peter Pan Film Screening Haji Noor Deen: Calligraphy Workshop Q20:Fairy Tales Workshops British Muslim Literary Representations The Hijab: Politics vs Fashion Tales of Animals Grrrrr! of Worship Look Like? Manga Workshop 7+ Poetry: Ireland and Irishness Q20: Superhero Show Postnormal Futures We Love Comics! Sex and Death in Shakespeare Syria: An Artistic Response Islamicate Science Fiction An Irish Ceilih Threshold Lyrical Mehfil SUNDAY 22 May 21 May Saturday 10:00 - 11:00 10:00 - 11:15 14:00 - 15:30 14:00 - 16:00 14:00 - 17:00 14:00 - 17:00 14:00 - 18:00 10:00 -11:30 14:15 - 15:30 14:30 - 15:45 10:15 - 10:45 10:30 - 11:45 15:00 - 16:15 10:30 - 15:30 11:00 - 12:00 11:00 - 12:00 11:00 - 12:00 11:00 - 12:15 11:00 - 12:20 11:00 - 13:00 11:00 - 16:00 11:30 - 12:45 11:30 - 12:45 12:00 - 12:30 12:00 - 13:00 15:00 - 17:00 15:00 - 17:00 15:30 - 16:00 15:30 - 16:45 15:30 - 16:45 16:00 - 17:00 16:00 - 17:15 17:00 - 18:15 19:00 - 00:00 19:30 - 21:00 19:30 - 22:00

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University of Bradford - re:centre The Midland Hotel - Conference Room Bradford College - Dye House Gallery National Media Museum - Cubby Broccoli The Midland Hotel - Pullman City Park The Midland Hotel - Irving Bradford College - Dye House Gallery The Broadway University of Bradford - Small Hall Bradford College - Dye House Gallery University of Bradford - Great Hall University of Bradford - re:centre City Park - Big Screen City Park University of Bradford - Small Hall University of Bradford - Great Hall National Media Museum - Cubby Broccoli Bradford College - Dye House Gallery Bradford College - Dye House Gallery City Park The Midland Hotel - Princes Ballroom University of Bradford - Norcroft Auditorium University of Bradford - Great Hall University of Bradford - Small Hall Kala Sangam University of Bradford - Great Hall City Park - Mirror Pool City Park - Mirror City Wide City Park Hall University of Bradford - Great Room The Midland Hotel - Conference Bradford College - ATC Theatre in the Mill Broccoli National Media Museum - Cubby 20 May – 22 May 2016 22 May May – 20 (double bill with Song of Lahore) Alex Rider Character design Workshop 10+ Mental Health First Aid Workshop Superhero Costume Workshop 3+ The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness - Film Screening Masterclass in Digital Storytelling Q20: Superhero Show How To Write A Short Story Cosplay Workshop Tales of Animals Comix Creatrix The Fall of Language In The Age of English Headscarves and Hymens Making Digital Comics Workshop The Incredibles Film Screening Q20: Superhero Workshops Manga Shakespeare Critical Muslim: Extreme Ghibli Classics: My Neighbour Totoro - Film Screening How To Get Published Superhero T-Shirt & Wristband Workshop 10+ Q20: Superhero Show Talking Irish History Art and Calligraphy: Purpose & Practice Testing the Tension: Faith Narratives vs Historical Narratives Breaking Into Comics Ted Hughes: Stronger than Death Muslim Women in Political Life Knowledge Emporium of Discovery Marmaduke Pickthall: Journey Bollywood Jazz Comedy Night A Girl in the River: The Price of Forgiveness Pirate Ship with Johnny Depp lookalike Pirate Ship with How To Be A Feminist Documenter In Residence Documenter In

Saturday 21 May Friday 20 May ay ay – Sunday 29 M Friday 20 M 10:00 - 11:00 10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 11:30 10:00 - 12:00 10:00 - 13:00 10:15 - 10:45 10:30 - 11:45 10:30 - 15:30 11:00 - 11:30 11:00 - 12:15 11:00 - 12:15 11:00 - 12:15 11:00 - 12:30 11:00 - 13:30 11:00 - 16:00 12:30 - 13:45 12:30 - 13:45 12:30 - 14:00 13:00 - 14:15 13:00 - 14:30 14:00 - 14:30 14:00 - 15:00 14:00 - 15:00 14:00 - 15:15 14:00 - 15:15 14:00 - 15:30 10:00 - 11:00 10:00 - 17:00 19:30 - 20:45 19:30 - 21:00 19:30 - 22:00 20:30 - 22:45 19:30 - 20:45 throughout festival throughout festival

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Waterstones The Midland Hotel - Princes Ballroom Theatre in the Mill Kala Sangam Waterstones Stein Bierkeller The Midland Hotel - French Ballroom Mind the Gap Studios Undercliffe Cemetery Broccoli National Media Museum - Cubby Gallery II, University of Bradford University of Bradford - Great Hall Kala Sangam Stein Bierkeller National Media Museum - Cubby Broccoli The Midland Hotel - French Ballroom Bradford College - ATC Bradford College - Dye House Gallery Waterstones University of Bradford - re:centre The Midland Hotel - Conference Room Waterstones The Midland Hotel - Conference Room The Midland Hotel City Hall Kala Sangam Theatre in the Mill The Midland Hotel - French Ballroom Waterstones Mr Jolly In Conversation Nadiya Hussain Diary of a Hounslow Girl Toba Tek Singh Mildly Erotic Poetry Poetry with a Punch: Stand Up and Spit Poetry with a Punch: Stand Up ZEAL for Unity: UK Launch #tribeshakespeare400 Undercliffe Victorian Cemetery:Twilight Tour Paulo Coelho:The Pilgrim - Film Screening Art, Textiles and Independence: A Discussion The Critical importance of Al-Ghazali in our age Diwan -e- Ghalib Polari - The LGBT Literary Salon Learning to Drive - Film Screening Rough Introduction to The Brontes Short Introduction to Mysticism Dystopian Futures – Post Apocalyptic Nature of YA Novels Polishing The Heart: Al-Ghazali For Children Workshop: An Introduction to Islamic Geometric Design (Age 12+) Islamic Approaches to Psychology 99 Names of Allah The Gentle Art of Blessing The Gentle Art Somme and Bradford Pals The Battle of the howmein Baarish Aur C Ties Art as a Reflection of the Divine Beehive Poets: Special Reading on Death and Dying Thursday 26 May Saturday 28 May WEDNESDAY 25 May FRIDAY 27 May TUESDAY 24 May TUESDAY 24 18:30 - 19:15 19:00 - 20:30 19:30 - 20:30 19:30 - 20:45 19:30 - 21:00 10:00 - 10:30 19:00 - 22:00 19:30 - 21:00 19:30 - 21:45 20:00 - 21:30 20:30 - 22:30 13:00 - 14:00 19:30 - 21:00 19:30 - 21:30 19:30 - 22:00 20:30 - 22:00 10:00 - 10:30 10:00 - 11:00 10:00 - 11:00 10:00 - 13:00

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Theatre in the Mill The Midland Hotel - Princes Ballroom Kala Sangam University of Bradford - re:centre University of Bradford The Broadway - Small Hall University of Bradford City Hall Gallery Bradford College - Dye House Waterstones Hall University of Bradford - Great Bradford Synagogue The Midland Hotel - French Ballroom Gallery Bradford College - Dye House Theatre in the Mill Bradford Police Museum City Park Cartwright Hall Art Gallery Waterstones City Hall University of Bradford - Great Hall University of Bradford - Small Hall Bradford College - Dye House Gallery Bradford College - Dye House Gallery The Midland Hotel - French Ballroom National Media Museum - Cubby Broccoli Waterstones City Hall City Park University of Bradford - Great Hall University of Bradford - Small Hall The Midland Hotel - French Ballroom Theatre in the Mill Kala Sangam University of Bradford - Small Hall Cartwright Hall Art Gallery Cartwright Hall 22 May – 28 May 2016 28 May May – 22 Ties Lala Begum Harry’s Last Stand Manga Workshop 12+ The Crow’s Tale Vision of Utopia The Red Virgin and The Superman Was a Foundling Is There an Islam Beyond the Mad Max Jihadis?’ Peter Pan: The Graphic Novel Revolutionary Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Jewish Heritage Tour: Little Germany and Manningham The Past How The Future Looked From Manga Paper Crafts Workshop 10+ Sing and Louder Sing: Men, Ageing and Mortality City Hall Chains Charlie: The Ghost of Q20: Peter Pan Show Gujarati Mushaira How Fairy Tales are Made (age 7-11) Macbeth, Macbeth No Sex Please, We’re Muslim! Fan Fiction and New Ways of Writing Arts Debate: Whose Story? Whose Narrative? Glass Painting with Zareena Bano Man Booker International Prize Ghibli Film Preview: When Marnie was There Mixed Up Fairytales The World in 2045 Q20: Peter Pan Show Refuting ISIS - Shattering the Religious Reputation of ISIS Manga Jiman Panel “The Lubetkin Legacy“ My Old Man: Tales of Our Fathers Among the Believers Comics and Conflict India’s Gateway

Monday 23 May SUNDAY 22 May SUNDAY 22 19:30 - 20:30 19:30 - 20:30 19:00 - 20:30 12:00 - 14:00 12:30 - 13:30 12:30 - 13:45 12:30 - 13:45 13:00 - 14:00 13:00 - 14:00 13:00 - 14:00 13:00 - 14:00 13:00 - 14:15 13:00 - 14:30 13:00 - 15:30 13:00 - 16:00 13:30 - 14:00 13:30 - 15:30 14:00 - 15:00 14:00 - 15:00 14:00 - 15:15 14:00 - 15:15 14:00 - 15:15 14:00 - 17:00 14:30 - 15:45 14:30 -16:30 15:00 - 16:00 15:00 - 16:15 15:30 - 16:00 15:30 - 16:45 15:30 - 16:45 16:00 - 17:00 16:30 - 17:45 16:30 - 18:00 17:00 - 18:15 12:00 - 13:00

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The Midland Hotel - French Ballroom The Midland Hotel Bradford College - ATC Bradford College - Dye House Gallery Bradford College City Park Room The Midland Hotel - Conference Museum Sets off from National Media Bradford Design Exchange University of Bradford - Small Hall University of Bradford - Small Bradford College - ATC The Midland Hotel - Pullman City Park City Park Gallery Bradford College - Dye House Kala Sangam University of Bradford - Small Hall Bradford College - ATC Waterstones Bradford College - Dye House Gallery Bradford College - Michelle Sutton Lecture Theatre Bradford Police Museum University of Bradford - Small Hall Kala Sangam The Midland Hotel - French Ballroom Bradford College - ATC City Park University of Bradford - Small Hall Bradford College - Dye House Gallery City Park Bradford College - ATC Kala Sangam The Bradford Hotel University of Bradford - Small Hall Bradford Cathedral Theatre in the Mill The Muhammadan Bean: The Muhammadan istory of Islam and Coffee The Secret History of Islam Remembering Kabir Writing Yorkshire Q20: Harry Potter Show Citizen Reporting Workshop Bronte Heritage Tour Little Germany: A History of Bradford’s Germans Revolts s Irregular Warfare: ISIS Elites and from the Margin Mysticism in the Works of Blake Vlogging Workshop Harry Potter Film Screening Q20: Harry Potter Workshops Writing on Radicalisation A Tale to Tell The Destruction of Monuments and Memory in the Middle East The Mathnavi as the Mirror of the Quran Pennine Dragon: King Arthur Uncovered National Poetry Competiton Launch The Last Departure: Cinematic Meditations on Death and Dying Bradford Police Museum: Hangmen Hydropolitics: Water Wars, The Future is Here A Tale to Tell Dark Worlds: ISIS, Nazi Germany and the Quest for Utopia The Burda of al-Busiri:The Poem of The Cloak Q20: Harry Potter Show From Race Relations to Faith Relations The Power of DNA Q20: Harry Potter Show Whirling Workshop Nar Narman & Director’s Q&A (double bill with Pride) YAF Mushaira William Blake’s Method of Illuminated Printing Sacred Poetry Come Sunday SUNDAY 29 May SUNDAY 29 10:00 - 11:00

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City Park - French Ballroom The Midland Hotel Lounge University of Bradford - Norcroft City Library Hall University of Bradford - Small Bradford College - ATC Gallery Bradford College - Dye House City Park The Broadway The Midland Hotel - French Ballroom Gallery Bradford College - Dye House Waterstones Kala Sangam University of Bradford - Small Hall The Midland Hotel - French Ballroom City Park Bradford College - ATC University of Bradford - Norcroft Auditorium Bradford College - Dye House Gallery University of Bradford - Small Hall Kala Sangam The Midland Hotel - French Ballroom Bradford College - Dye House Gallery University of Bradford - Norcroft Auditorium University of Bradford - Norcroft Lounge Bradford College - ATC Bradford College - Dye House Gallery City Park The Midland Hotel - French Ballroom Delius Arts & Culture Centre University of Bradford - Small Hall The Midland Hotel - French Ballroom Kala Sangam Bradford Cathedral Grounds National Media Museum - Cubby Broccoli Theatre in the Mill Bradford College - ATC City Library 28 May – 29 May 2016 29 May May – 28 Q20: Beatrix Potter Show Q20: Beatrix Potter Mrs Gaskell and Her Fact or Fiction? Life of Charlotte Brontë What if? Adventures in Philosophy Dragons Are Back! Illuminating The Darkness: ar on Terror New Perspectives on The W The Poetry of Baba Farid in The Guru Granth Sahib Death Rituals Are For The Living Q20: Beatrix Potter Workshops Icarus Through the Weather Glass Jane Eyre - A Feminist Manifesto Writings and Adversity Mutant Tummy Apple Tree Why Can’t I Be a Sushi Mirpur 50 Year Anniversary: The Mangla Dam, Now and Then The Brontes - Inspired by Q20: Beatrix Potter Show The Philosophy of Rumi Diary of a Wimpy Kid (show) The Tale of Genji The Mainstreaming of Hate Speech Open Bethlehem In Search of Anne Bronte Beatrix Potter Terracotta Pots Workshop What if? Adventures in Philosophy Saif-Ul-Malook: Journey of Love Modern Day Mystics The Mystical Experience of Death Q20: Beatrix Potter Show A True Novel Movement from the Mills Jihadi Janes: Radicalised by Religion or Romance? Patrick Bronte - Educator: The Man Behind the Girls Zinda Bhaag + Director’s Q&A Q20: Midsummer Night’s Dream Journey to Europe - Screening and Q&A Transition: Embracing New Identities + Language Sufiana Kalam Shakespeare Storytelling 6+ Shakespeare Storytelling

28 May Saturday 11.00 - 11.30 11.00 - 12:00 11.00 - 12.00 11.00 - 12.00 11.00 - 12.15 11.00 - 12.15 11.00 - 12.15 11.00 - 16:00 11.00 - 16:00 12.00 - 13:15 12.30 - 13:45 13:00 - 14:00 13:00 - 14:00 13:00 - 14:15 13:30 - 14:45 13.00 - 13.30 14:00 - 15:00 14:00 - 15:00 14:00 - 15:15 14:30 - 15:45 14:30 - 16:30 15:00 - 16:00 15:00 - 16:00 15:00 - 16:00 15:00 - 16:15 15:00 - 16:30 15:30 - 16:30 15.00 - 15.30 16:00 - 17:00 16:00 - 18:00 16:30 - 17:45 17:00 - 18:00 17:00 - 19:30 18:00 18:00 - 20:30 19:00 - 21:00 19:30 - 22:00 11:30 - 12:30

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A647 MORLEY STREET SHARPE STREET Useful Information

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Book py phone: Call the box office on 01274 238374 (Monday–Friday 9am-5pm) using your credit or debit card. looking forward to Book in person: Tickets can only be purchased online or by phone in the run up to the festival. During the festival, tickets can also be bought from the Festival Box Office, which will be situated in the Waterstones Festival Hub in City Park. a bright future All ticket prices include VAT. We cannot offer any ticket refunds unless an event is cancelled.

Accessibility Childrens Policy All venues cater towards disabled access. If Children under 12 must be accompanied by you have any enquiries about access or if you an adult at all events. will need assistance on arrival at any of our events, please do not hesitate to contact us Children under 2, who do not require a seat, on [email protected] do not require a ticket.

Parking While Bradford Literature Festival maintains a child protection policy we cannot act Parking is available in NCP car parks in loco parentis, or take responsibility, for and clearly signed on street marked bays unsupervised children. CELEBRATING throughout the city centre. A lost child point will be located in the Filming and Photography Waterstones Festival Hub between Please be advised that visitors to Bradford 10am – 5pm each day. Literature Festival may be filmed and/or years photographed for future promotions of the Disclaimer 50 festival, including through our social media Information in this publication is accurate at 1966 – 2016 channels and on our website. the time of going to press, but events and event performers may be subject to change For more information please contact without notice. [email protected]

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