www.facebook.com/lincolninspired #Lincol nInspired Box Office: 01522 873894 1 An Inspirational Story... Back on March 21, 2012, the first seeds of what was to become Lincoln Inspired were sown. A group of people enthusiastic about Lincoln’s arts scene, who had worked together for many years, gathered in a pub beside the Brayford to talk about making the dream of a new festival for the city come true.

At the end of a long evening Lincoln Inspired had been born. We wanted a wide-ranging event, showcasing the best in books, comedy, conversation, music and performance. We wanted to support artists, encourage and develop new talent and offer opportunities for everyone from babies upwards to take part, hear, write and enjoy, laugh and learn along with us.

Since then, we have all been on a journey, personally and professionally. We wanted Lincoln Inspired to belong to the city, so we went looking for partners, from individuals who could pledge a few pounds to companies and venues that could offer more. We had to be inspired so we could inspire others.

Now here we are, so pleased and excited to be welcoming you to the first Lincoln Inspired festival. Every day we are still amazed and overwhelmed by the positive responses from venues, partners, artists, patrons and our funders – you.

We had a big dream and part of it was making sure we could not only be here this year but in years to come. With the help we’ve had we think we’ve achieved that. The arts can change lives.

Join our journey and let’s inspire and celebrate our creativity together. Alone we won’t get far – but together we can achieve a lot.

Chair,Sara Lincoln Bullimore Inspired

2 ‘Be a part of it… be inspired’ Our Inspirational Patrons Lincoln Inspired’s patrons are a reflection of the many areas of the arts we’ve tried to cover at the festival. We thank them for their support. Many will be appearing in Lincoln during the festival. Look out for their events.

David Almond Simon Scarrow Margaret Dickinson Karen Maitland Children’s Patron Fiction Patron Patron History Patron

Elly Griffiths Paul Money Joel Stickley Elliott Morris Crime Patron Science Patron Spoken Word Patron Music Patron

Liz Lenten Peter Kerr Georgia Twynham Performance Patron Travel Patron Schools’ Patron

Find out more about our patrons at www.lincolninspired.co.uk/patrons

Box Office: 01522 873894 3 Moon Fall: Titania Festival at a glance 8pm / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.11 Tuesday May 7 The War of the Worlds Thursday May 9 11am and 3pm / LPAC / Pg.9 Margaret Dickinson in Conversation with Valerie Wood The Mighty Boosh: 10.30am / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.12 The Complete Radio Series 1pm / LPAC / Pg.9 A Yorkshire Policeman’s Lot – Mike Pannett 11.45am / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.12 LICMF: Eleanor Turner 1.05pm-2pm / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.9 Crime in the Countryside – Elly Griffiths, David Mark and Alison Littlewood Bookstart Storytime 2pm / Lincoln Central Library / Pg.12 2.30pm / Library / Pg.9 Simon Scarrow in Youngcut presents Marmalade Open Mic Conversation with Karen Maitland 4.30pm / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.9 3.45pm / Lincoln Central Library / Pg.12

The Old Woman, the Buffalo Bookstart Storytime and the Lion of Manding 10.30am / Library 8pm / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.9 Pg.13

Hancock: The Lost Radio Episodes Wednesday May 8 11am and 3pm / LPAC / Pg.13 Storytime with Bookstart Bear 10.30am / Central Library / Pg.10 Storytime 11.15am / The Collection / Pg.13 Talking Heads 11am and 3pm / LPAC / Pg.10 Artists of Note Noon-1pm / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.13 Artists of Note Noon / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.10 The Mighty Boosh: The Complete Radio Series The Mighty Boosh: 1pm / LPAC / Pg.13 The Complete Radio Series 1pm / LPAC / Pg.10 Sam Enthoven and William Hussey 1.30pm / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.13 Storytime with Bookstart Bear 1.30pm / Bracebridge Library / Pg.10 Melvyn Bragg – Grace and Mary 7pm / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.13 Our Lincolnshire Literary Life 1pm / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.10 Friday May 10 Visually Impaired Reading Group Tweet Up - with Karen Maitland What Inspires You About Lincoln? 1pm / Lincoln Central Library / Pg.10 8.15am / The Book & Latte / Pg.14

Mad Hatter’s Tea Party Lil Pacs – The Way Back Home 4.30pm / Rock + Paper + Scissors / Pg.10 10am / LPAC / Pg.14 4 ‘Be a part of it… be inspired’ Bookstart Storytime Inspiration Through Artefacts 10am / Ermine Library / Pg.14 Noon / Museum of Lincolnshire Life / Pg.16

University of Lincoln: An Insiders View Artists of Note 11am / University of Lincoln / Pg.14 11am / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.16

Poetry Workshop with Alison Dunne Are You Going on a Bear Hunt? 11am / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.14 1pm / Lincoln Central Library / Pg.17

John Boyne: This House is Haunted One to One sessions with Rod Duncan 2pm / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.14 1pm / Lincoln Central Library / Pg.17

Tennyson Research Centre Fifty Years of : Terrance Dicks, 2pm / Lincoln Central Library / Pg.14 Graeme Harper, Richard Franklin – and a ! Gavin Extence – 1.30pm / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.17 The Universe Versus Alex Woods 4pm / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.14 Urban Herb Walk 2pm / Lincoln Cathedral / Pg.18 Commuter Jazz with Jazz Heritage Quintet 5pm / LPAC / Pg.15 The Hot Key to Being Published 2pm / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.18 Geoff Adams – Wine Tasting 6pm / The Lincoln Hotel / Pg.15 Artists of Note 4pm / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.18 Jazz Week 2013 presents Claire Martin with The Montpellier Cello Quartet Mitch Benn 8pm / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.15 8pm / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.18

An Evening with Elliott Morris 8.30pm / Café Portico / Pg.15 Sunday May 12 Storytelling – Say Hello to the Jungle Animals Saturday May 11 11am / Waterstones / Pg.19 Children’s Writing Surgery – The Craft and the Graft and the Road to Being Published The Lyric Lounge 9.30am / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.16 11am-11pm / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.19

Writer’s Surgeries with John Jarrold Scrawlcrawl 9.30am / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.16 11.30am / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.19

Novel Writing Taster with Rod Duncan Exploring the Universe from Lincolnshire 10am / Lincoln Central Library / Pg.16 with Paul Money 2pm / The Collection / Pg.19 Storybook Days; Where the Wild Things Are Peter Kerr: A Taste of Spain 10am / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.16 7pm / The Bowl Full Tapas Bar / Pg.19

(Indoor) Teddy Bears’ Picnic 11.30am / Lincoln Drill Hall / Pg.16

Box Office: 01522 873894 5 Inspiring Young People Lincoln Inspired is working with artists, organisations, venues and schools to build an education and outreach programme which will grow and develop each year.

For 2013 artists and authors Andy Briggs, Daniel Blythe, Georgia Twynham, Sam Enthoven, William Hussey, Liz Lenten, Steve Cawte and Elliott Morris will be visiting Lincolnshire schools to inspire children and young people. The festival is working in partnership with Bookstart, to provide a programme of rhyme and storytime sessions across the city for pre-schoolers, inspiring a love of books in every child.

Bookseller Our bookselling partner is Waterstones. Books will be available to buy at the venue after most events. Many events will offer the opportunity to meet the author and get your book signed afterwards. Waterstones has branches in the High Street and the Cornhill in Lincoln. Tweet them @WaterstonesLinc

The Inspired Approach Lincoln Inspired is run by a not-for-profit company. We have raised the money to stage the festival through donations and sponsorship from individuals and companies. If you would like to join the List of Lovelies who support us by making a donation or pledge contact [email protected] to find out more.

Keep your eyes open During the festival you’ll also be able to see street theatre and exhibitions showing Lincolnshire artists’ work across the University of Lincoln campus and in the Lincolnshire Echo reception. See if you can spot and find all the Yellowbelly Imps and keep an eye on our social media for news of a Dalek coming to town on Tuesday May 7.

6 ‘Be a part of it… be inspired’ Book Launch Exhibition Philosopherontap Shutter Chimps Photographic Exhibition Book One A Sense of Lincolnshire Life and The Abandoned Sandy Shoe Places and Other Chinks in the A collection of photographic Curtains of Life images documenting the county The first in the series of books by Lincolnshire’s largest online being released this year by photography group. Museum of Lincoln’s own philosopherontap. Lincolnshire Life, Burton Road, com. Readings from the book by Lincoln, LN1 3LY. Daily 10am-4pm (last admission 3.30pm) from April author @tref together with music 5 to May 31. Entry to museum and from the jazz piano of Colin exhibition free. Dudman. This is a free event starting at 8pm on Wednesday May 8 at the Morning Star in Greetwell Gate, Lincoln.

Box Office: 01522 873894 7 From Saturday March 30 Words Go Wild will launch at the Zing On the Fringe... café bar at LPAC. Have a coffee, pick up a free book and share the journey by passing it on to others. The main Lincoln Inspired programme runs from May 7 to 12 – but there were so many Thursday April 4 other lovely things we wanted to fit in that Reading group with Inspired history patron we’re cheating a bit and having some fringe Karen Maitland at Lincoln WI. events too! Closed event for members

Lincoln A to Z is an Sunday April 7 art project and radio Reading Group: show - Paul Tyler and Casino Royale by Ian Fleming Jonny Haw are travelling 7pm / Terry O’Toole Theatre to randomly-selected / 01522 883311 grids on the Lincoln A Join TOTT’s monthly reading group as they to Z map to see what’s join us to celebrate 60 years of James Bond there, taking an object, a photograph and books. recording some audio too. You can follow Free their progress on Monday evenings at 9pm on Siren 107.3 FM. Saturday April 27 Inspiration on The Collection Films / May 2 - June 6 the Streets The Collection will regularly show free 10am - 4pm films at its Film Club on Thursdays at 7pm, Lincoln High Street joining us to celebrate 2013 anniversaries Keep an eye out on such as James Bond and Where the Wild the High Street for the Things Are. For further information call Lincoln Inspired team, with cakes provided 01522 782040 or call in to collect a leaflet. by the Lincoln branch of the Clandestine Cake Club to celebrate the launch of Lincoln Live their new book, which is available at Lincoln Inspired is Waterstones. We also have Bookstart Bear, taking to the city’s a talent show by street performers Frenetic streets as part of Engineering and some noisy and inspiring a new two year programme, managed and shenanigans as we take to the streets to funded by Lincoln Business Improvement inspire you. Group and Arts Council . Lincoln Live will bring together five arts festivals Sunday May 5 across the city, providing education, music, Reading Group: comedy, dance, family fun and more. Skellig by David Almond 7pm / Terry O’Toole Theatre Wednesday March 27 North Hykeham / 01522 883311 Fancy some culture with your croissants Join TOTT’s monthly reading group as and coffee? Join the Forward Ladies for they discuss our children’s patron David their monthly networking breakfast at Almond’s classic tale. Lincoln Drill Hall and be entertained by Free performance poet Steve Cawte – book online at www.forwardladies.com

8 ‘Be a part of it… be inspired’ Youngcut presents The Marmalade Sessions 4.30pm / Lincoln Drill Hall The Festival Free

The Old Woman, the Tuesday May 7 Buffalo and the Lion of Manding The War of the Worlds 8pm / Lincoln Drill Hall 11am & 3pm Adverse Camber Lincoln Performing showcase the best Arts Centre contemporary storytelling Join us in the Zing café in the UK. The story is an African epic bar for the first of the about the founding king and greatest Radiorama events Lincoln warrior of Mali, Sundiata Keita, created Performing Arts Centre has devised for and performed by Jan Blake, winner Lincoln Inspired. Hear the original radio of one of Europe’s highest storytelling play by Orson Welles that made America accolades the Thüringer Märchen Preis. It think the Martians really had landed! combines spoken word storytelling, song Free and music and blends traditional influences with newly-composed material. Featuring The Mighty Boosh: musicians Kouame Sereba and Raymond The Complete Radio Sereba. Suitable for ages 14+. Series £10 (£7 concessions and students) 1pm / Lincoln Book for this and Titania (Wednesday) Performing Arts Centre and pay just £15 (£10 concsessions) Come with us on a journey through time and space… Lincoln Performing Arts Centre Louth & Surrounding Areas presents two episodes of the Boosh’s seminal radio series. Free

LICMF: Eleanor Turner 1.05pm-2pm Lincoln Drill Hall Eleanor Turner started learning the harp at an early age and won First Prize at the European Harp Competition 2007 and the Peutz Audience Award at the 16th - 20th October 2013 Netherlands International Harp Competition This diverse, comical, occasionally cheeky and always excellent festival 2010. This concert is organised by the is set to transform Louth and its surrounding market towns into hotspots for crafts, literature, comedy, local history, music and theatre. Lincolnshire International Chamber Music Festival. £6 advance (£7 on the day) Your chance to win a festival ticket! Simply ‘like’ our Wolds Words Festival Facebook Page and let us Bookstart storytime know you’re an Inspired friend to be entered into a prize draw. 2.30pm / Boultham Library We’ll announce the winner during the Inspired Festival on Friday, 10th May Join Bookstart Bear for stories For latest news, visit page www.woldswords.org.uk and fun for the under-5s. Free or follow us @woldswords

Box Office: 01522 873894 9 Our Lincolnshire Literary Life Wednesday May 8 1pm-4pm / The Room Storytime with Bookstart Bear Upstairs 10.30am / Central Library Lincoln Drill Hall Come along and enjoy storytime This showcase for fun with the Bookstart team. This emerging local talent event is part of a regular weekly features authors living, working and storytime session at the library that inspired by Lincolnshire. Join Nicky Wells, welcomes children and their grown ups to David Zelder, Claire Kinton, Joff Gainey, come along Helen Hancocks and others for an informal Free afternoon of readings, discussions and time for the greatest creative fuel, tea. Talking Heads Nicky specialises in glamorous romance 11am and 3pm and David has written a fast-paced thriller. Lincoln Performing Claire and Joff both write for older children Arts Centre and young adults, while Helen has written A selection of children’s picture book Penguins in Peril. monologues from Alan £1 Bennett, of the anecdote, including Julie Walters’ and Visually Impaired Reading Thora Hird’s classic performances. Part of Group with Karen Maitland the Radiorama season. 1pm-3.15pm / Lincoln Central Library Free Community Room Our history patron Karen Maitland joins Artists of Note the VIP reading group, which is facilitated Noon-2pm / Lincoln Drill Hall Café Bar by the Lincoln and Lindsey Blind Society The Lincoln Inspired festival presents some and meets once a month on Wednesdays of Lincoln’s finest musical talents to help at Lincoln Central Library. Members include your lunchtime to go with a swing. visually impaired and sighted people and Free everyone listens to the book in audio format. New members welcome – call The Mighty Boosh: 01507 605604 for details. The Complete Radio Free Series 1pm / Lincoln Mad Hatter’s Tea Party Performing Arts Centre 4.30pm-6pm / Rock + Come with us on a Paper + Scissors journey through time and Come and join us for a space… LPAC presents two more episodes Jabberwocky tea. Grab of the Boosh’s seminal radio series. Part of your hats and costumes, the Radiorama season. listen to some whacky Free poetry and join in with crafts as we spend a delightful interlude taking our inspiration Storytime with Bookstart Bear from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. 1.30pm / Bracebridge Library £6.50 including a hot drink and cake. Come along and enjoy storytime Tickets from the shop on 01522 fun with the Bookstart team. 244363 Free

10 ‘Be a part of it… be inspired’ Moon Fall: Titania 8pm / Lincoln Drill Hall This extraordinary show re-imagines Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream as a modern-day musical cabaret. Performed and created by renowned international theatre practitioner Anna-Helena McLean, this intoxicating performance promises an engaging, funny, sensual experience in which the well-loved Queen of the Night plays out events from her past. In an attempt to woo audiences off the path and back into the woods, she combines vocal acrobatics with looping and live cello to animate the power of true love. Suitable for ages 14+. £10 (£7 concs) Book for this and The Old Woman (Tuesday) and pay just £15 (£10 concs). Sponsored by Dale & Co.

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He eventually for individual events. became a wildlife officer, which led to a Day ticket for all four events £14 TV role in the BBC’s Countryside Cops. (£6 concessions) His books include Now Then Lad and Up Beat and Down Dale. The Lincoln Inspired festival pays tribute to rural life and its influence on our 2pm-3.30pm / nation’s creativity with a day of events Lincoln Central focusing on festival patrons and authors Library Community who use the countryside as a backdrop Room for much of their work. Why not sample Crime in the the special Lincoln Inspired festival menu Countryside at the Drill Hall café bar at lunchtime? Elly Griffiths, David Mark and Alison Littlewood 10.30am-11.30am Lincoln Inspired patron Elly Griffiths, Lincoln Drill Hall creator of forensic archaeologist Ruth The Room Upstairs Galloway in novels like Dying Fall and Margaret Dickinson The Crossing Places, and fellow crime in Conversation with writers David Mark from Hull (Original Valerie Wood Skin) and Alison Littlewood (A Cold Two of Britain’s leading Season) get together for a panel writers of historical romance compare discussion on the challenges of writing notes about their lives and work. Best- one of fiction’s most popular genres. selling county-based author and Lincoln Sponsored by Quercus Books Inspired patron Margaret Dickinson relies on Lincolnshire’s countryside, history and 3.45pm-4.45pm traditions to provide inspiration for many Lincoln Central of her books. Valerie (Val) Wood, who Library Community hails from just over the Room in East Yorkshire and is a winner of the Simon Scarrow in Catherine Cookson prize for fiction, uses Conversation with her native Yorkshire as the setting for Karen Maitland many of her books including her new Two Lincoln Inspired festival patrons take novel The Innkeeper’s Daughter. us on a journey through their specialist

fields of historical fiction. Ancient Rome, 11.45am-1pm Malta in the 1500s and the French Lincoln Drill Hall Revolution have all played their part in The Room Upstairs Simon’s numerous bestsellers, while A Yorkshire Lincoln-based Karen has focused on the Policeman’s Lot Medieval period for her novels. Mike Pannett

12 ‘Be a part of it… be inspired’ Bookstart Storytime Sam Enthoven and 10.30am William Hussey Bracebridge Heath Library 1.30pm-3.15pm Join the Bookstart crew for stories Lincoln Drill Hall and fun. Children aged 10 to 13 Free from local schools get the chance to meet two Hancock: The Lost modern masters of thrilling fiction. Sam’s Radio Episodes speciality is fantastical action thrillers, while 11am and 3pm Lincolnshire-based William claims to be Lincoln Performing the master of dark fiction. Just make sure Arts Centre you keep quiet if you don’t want to end up A chance to hear two rare on stage at the centre of a witch trial! For recordings by the comedy further information and to book contact legend. Sid James’s Dad comes to visit [email protected] and Hancock goes on a diet. Part of the Closed event for schools Radiorama season. Supported by The Showroom Free Melvyn Bragg Storytime Grace and Mary 11.15am / The Collection 7pm Join us for a storytime session Lincoln Drill Hall of Where the Wild Things Are. Chaired by BBC Followed by a free screening of a family Radio Lincolnshire’s film at 1pm. Call The Collection on 01522 Nicola Gilroy, 782040 to find out more. Lincoln Inspired is proud to welcome Free Lord Melvyn Bragg here on the day his long-awaited new novel Grace and Mary is published, our audience Artists of Note will be among the first to get the Noon-1pm / Lincoln chance to buy the book. Melvyn Drill Hall Café Bar Bragg, who became a life peer in Lunchtime music 1998, is widely known for his TV and featuring Auburn radio work which includes The South Accoustic, led by Lincoln Bank Show. He is a prolific writer Inspired performance who has won wide critical acclaim patron Liz Lenten. for his work. Grace and Mary is his Free first novel since 2008. Reaching from the late 19th century to the present The Mighty Boosh: and set in his beloved Cumbria, it is The Complete Radio a deeply moving, reflective elegy on Series three generations linked by a chain 1pm / Lincoln of love, loss and courage. Join us for Performing Arts Centre this special evening to find out more Come with us on a about someone who has done so journey through time and much to break down barriers and help space… LPAC presents two more episodes to make the arts accessible to all. of the Boosh’s seminal radio series. Part of £10 / (£8 concessions) the Radiorama season. In partnership with Hodder and Free Stoughton.

Box Office: 01522 873894 13 University of Lincoln: An Insiders View Friday May 10 11am / Meet by the Rotunda, outside the main admin building Tweet Up – What by the Brayford Inspires You About Do you want to find out more about the Lincoln? university and see some of its hidden 8.15am-10.15am spaces? Limited spaces for 15, book by The Book & Latte emailing [email protected] Business School Free University of Lincoln Join our panel of experts Emma Tatlow Tennyson Research (Visit Lincoln), Karen Maitland (Inspired Centre patron), Sam Curtis (editor of The Journal 2pm / Tennyson Lincoln) and a representative from the Research Centre, University of Lincoln as we discuss all the Lincoln Central Library best things about Lincoln and how our Take a look inside the beautiful city has inspired generations world-class collection of of artists and businesses. Follow us on Lord Alfred Tennyson’s books and personal #LincolnInspired belongings which is housed here in Lincoln £4.50 including hot drink and a pastry and has proved inspirational to visitors for many years. Lil Pacs – The Way Back Home £2 10am-11.30am / LPAC Creative play and fun for the John Boyne under 5s. One day a boy finds an This House is Haunted aeroplane in his cupboard. Up, up, 2pm-3pm up and away he flies, high into the sky, Lincoln Drill Hall whizzing past clouds, stars and planets The Room Upstairs until suddenly, he runs out of petrol! Find Irish writer John Boyne, out what happens next as Kirsty tells this author of the acclaimed intergalactic tale by Oliver Jeffers, author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, will today Lost & Found. discuss his latest novel for adults, which Free was published last month. This House is Haunted is a chilling tale of obsession, Bookstart Storytime maternal love and dark secrets set in a 10am / Ermine Library remote house in rural Norfolk in the 19th Join Bookstart Bear and the team century. for stories and fun. Free £4 / (£2 concessions)

Poetry Workshop with Alison Dunne Gavin Extence 11am-1pm / Lincoln Drill Hall The Universe Versus Writing is pleased to be Alex Woods bringing its Writing School courses to 4pm-5pm / Lincoln Lincoln for the first time. A pacey, two-hour Drill Hall, The Room workshop of exercises to get you writing. Upstairs The workshop is suitable for all levels Gavin Extence’s of experience and you’ll get a chance for critically-acclaimed debut novel – picked some feedback on your work. as one of The Waterstones Eleven most £6 (£4 concessions) promising fiction debuts of 2013 – is Sponsored by Writing East Midlands the heartwarming tale of an unexpected friendship, an unlikely hero 14 ‘Be a part of it… be inspired’ and an improbable journey. Teenager great artists on the jazz scene as well as Alex knows lots of things but then he with more popular stars such as Sir Paul gets hit on the head by a meteorite and McCartney and Noel Gallagher. She co- meets Mr Peterson, an unlikely friend, starred with the late Sir Richard Rodney and so his journey begins. Gavin, who Bennett on a number of projects and has grew up in Swineshead, will read from the had the honour of opening for the great novel, answer questions and lead a lively Tony Bennett. Claire has presented BBC discussion which will be great for reading Radio 3’s Jazz Line Up since 2000. groups. She brings her wealth of experience as £3 including glass of wine a jazz vocalist into a new arena with the Sponsored by Waterstones Montpellier Cello Quartet, combining her love of the Great American Songbook Commuter Jazz and popular classics with brand new with Jazz Heritage Quintet arrangements by Sir Richard Rodney 5pm-7pm / LPAC Bennett, Mark Anthony Turnage and Django Jazz Heritage Quintet recreate the cool Bates. and hip sounds of Art Blakey and the Jazz £14 (£12 concessions, students £7) Messengers, offering the ideal way to groove into your weekend and get you in An Evening with the mood for an inspiring weekend. Elliott Morris Free 8.30pm / Café Portico, The Terrace Geoff Adams Café Portico at The Wine Tasting Terrace joins Lincoln 6pm Inspired to host another The Lincoln Hotel of its popular music Fridays featuring Join Lincoln’s award- musical entertainment by singer, songwriter winning wine writer and Lincoln Inspired patron Elliott Morris, Geoff Adams to sample a plus a support act. Doors open at 7pm. selection from the extensive range of wines Food available from 7.30pm with a variety on offer at The Lincoln Hotel. Early booking of tasty plates from around £10 each. advised as Geoff’s talks usually sell out – Come and dine or just come and listen. and make sure you book a taxi home! £6 available from Café Portico £5 / (£3 concessions) Sponsored by The Lincoln Hotel

Jazz Week 2013 presents Claire Martin with The Montpellier Cello Quartet 8pm Lincoln Drill Hall Two Lincoln arts festivals join forces for the opening event of this year’s Jazz Week, which will see lots of great live jazz music being played around the city over the next nine days. Claire Martin OBE has received awards and plaudits from around the world, especially in America. She has collaborated with many

Box Office: 01522 873894 15 Storybook Days; Saturday May 11 Where the Wild Things Are Children’s Writing 10am-11am Surgery – The Craft Lincoln Drill Hall and the Graft and The Room Upstairs the Road to Being It’s 50 years since Published Maurice Sendak’s children’s classic was 9.30am-11.30am / first published and Storybook Days are Lincoln Drill Hall celebrating. Follow Max’s magical journey Addy Farmer, children’s author, Society for from his bedroom to a world inhabited by Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators jungle creatures. Storytelling, devising a organiser and writing workshop leader, special version of the Rumpus Dance and will be on hand to answer all the questions cup cake and mask making will all help you were afraid to ask about writing for recreate Max’s adventures. children. 30 minute one-to-one slots Suitable for children aged three to five. available. £5 per child. Parents free but need to £2 booking essential book a space.

Writer’s Surgeries with (Indoor) Teddy Bears’ Picnic John Jarrold 11.30am-12.30pm / Lincoln 9.30am-11.30am / Drill Hall, The Room Upstairs Lincoln Drill Hall Bring your Teddies along to meet Bookstart Literary agent and Lincoln Bear. The Drill Hall café bar will be offering Inspired supporter John special children’s lunch boxes for sale or Jarrold, who specialises bring a packed lunch. The fun of a picnic in science fiction, offers one-to-one advice with no worries about the weather. Free for for aspiring authors. A sample of your work Where the Wild Things Are/Are You Going must be submitted before the event. on a Bear Hunt? ticketholders – limited £2 booking essential spaces.

Novel Writing Taster Inspiration Through Artefacts with Rod Duncan Noon-1pm 10am-noon / Lincoln Meet in the Learning Zone Central Library Museum of Lincolnshire Life Community Room Find inspiration for your writing at Have you thought about this event hosted by The Museum of writing a novel? Or Lincolnshire Life. Curator and Society of perhaps you have written one already and Children’s Book Writers and Illlustrators are looking for new input? This session is member Debbie Holt will lead a session focused on three fundamental aspects of exploring museum artefacts helping you to the novel: place, character and plot. You find your own stories. will engage in short writing tasks leading to £3 a group activity, in which you will develop an outline plan of a crime novel. Artists of Note Tickets £6 (£4 concessions) 11am-1pm / Lincoln Sponsored by Writing East Midlands Drill Hall Café Bar Lincoln Inspired performance patron Liz Lenten together with youth singing groups 16 ‘Be a part of it… be inspired’ Choir Vibe and Sing South Holland will be providing a musical interlude while you Fifty Years of enjoy a break in the Café Bar. Sam from Doctor Who: The Sanctuary Room in Lincoln will also be Terrance Dicks, on hand to provide free taster massages – Graeme Harper, a perfect treat! Richard Franklin Free - and a Dalek! 1.30pm-3.30pm Are You Going inc. signings / Lincoln Drill Hall on a Bear Hunt? Lincoln Inspired joins forces with 1pm-2pm The Doctor to mark his golden Lincoln Central jubilee. Writer Terrance Dicks was Library script editor from 1968 to 1974. We’re going on a bear He wrote many key episodes plus hunt, we’re going to the 20th anniversary episode The catch a big one, what a beautiful day, we’re Five Doctors in 1983. He also not afraid.... no way! Join Rhubarb Theatre wrote many of the novelisations of on this exciting sensory journey, using Doctor Who stories in the 70s and song, movement and story telling. This 80s. He was as big a name to fans workshop also includes making our own then as current supremo Stephen bear masks. Moffat is today. Director Graeme Suitable for ages two to seven. Harper’s relationship with the Doctor £4 per child. Parents free but need to goes back to 1966 and Patrick book a space Troughton’s first story The Power of the . His first as director One to One sessions was the last story to feature Peter with Rod Duncan Davison, broadcast in 1984, which 1pm / Lincoln Central fans regard as one of the best ever. Library He went on to work with Colin Baker Novelist Rod Duncan and, 20 years later, returned in is offering one-to-one 2005 when David Tennant was The feedback sessions to Doctor. So far he’s the only director aspiring writers. Up to 2000 words of who’s worked on the ‘old’ and the writing can be submitted, for example the ‘new’ shows. Actor Richard Franklin opening chapter of a novel, a synopsis or played Captain , sidekick a short chapter and short synopsis. The of Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart at synopsis should be between 300 and 600 UNIT, from 1971 to 1974, fighting words. All writing should be double spaced mutated maggots and The Master. and in Times New Roman 12 point. Any The panel will be talking to Siren kind of material may be submitted for FM’s Alex Lewczuk – and look out for consideration but we reserve the right to a Dalek (courtesy of Waterstones) refuse work in exceptional circumstances, too! Merchandise from Doctor Who for example if it is considered to be grossly specialist cult TV and comic shop racist or sexist. Galaxy Four will be on sale. £2 on the day. Places are limited and Autograph rule: A maximum of one item must be booked in advance. Call Aimee purchased from Galaxy Four and one on 0115 959 7929 or email aimee@ personal item can be signed by each writingeastmidlands.co.uk panellist. Sponsored by Writing East Midlands £10 (£8 concessions)

Box Office: 01522 873894 17 Urban Herb Walk misses from his extensive back catalogue 2pm-4pm / Meet by of songs. An intimate evening of comedy the Tennyson Statue and song from a contracting man in a outside Lincoln contracting world. Cathedral £10 Join medical herbalist Hannah Sylvester for an enlightening, interactive and fun afternoon of discovering the medicinal plants that grow freely in the beautiful Cathedral Quarter of Lincoln, their folklore and how you can use them at home as medicine, for first aid and in your cooking.£5

The Hot Key to Being Published 2pm-3.30pm / Lincoln Drill Hall, The Room Upstairs Emily Thomas of dynamic new children’s publisher Hot Key Books will talk about the children’s book industry and how she finds and nurtures talent. An essential event for children’s writers and illustrators keen to know more about being published and a fascinating insight for all into the world of children’s books. £4 / £2 concs

Artists of Note 4pm-5pm / Lincoln Drill Hall café bar The Lincoln Inspired festival presents some of Lincoln’s finest musical talents, including eclectic Lincoln indie-folk band The Business Cards Enclosed Garden, to help you wind down after a busy afternoon. Letterheads Brochures Free Compliment Slips Folders Flyers Leaflets Posters Banners Mitch Benn - Reduced Newsletters Circumstances 8pm / Lincoln Drill Hall Message Pads Calendars Booklets Described by The Times Stickers Desk Pads Inserts as ‘the country’s leading musical satirist’ and a Unit 2A(4) • Bilsthorpe Business Park • Eakring Road favourite for more than Bilsthorpe • Notts • NG22 8ST a decade on BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show, E-mail: [email protected] this is Mitch’s first solo tour. In the first half www.ultimate-print.co.uk he will perform his critically-acclaimed 2012 Edinburgh show Reduced Circumstances, and in the second a selection of the nearest 01623 411315 18 ‘Be a part of it… be inspired’ Exploring the Universe Sunday May 12 from Lincolnshire with Paul Money Storytelling – Say Hello to the 2pm / The Collection Jungle Animals Take a journey through 11am / Waterstones, High Street the universe with award- Come and join the team for Waterstones winning Lincolnshire weekly storytime session. This week’s book astronomer and Inspired science patron is Say Hello to the Jungle Animals by Ian Paul Money. From giant storms on Jupiter Whybrow. to stellar nurseries in Orion and out to giant Free spiral galaxies millions of light years away there is something for everyone on this The Lyric Lounge intergalactic journey. No passport required! Presented by Writing £3 (£2 concessions). Family (two East Midlands adults two children or one adult three 11am-6pm and children) £8 7pm-10pm Lincoln Drill Hall Peter Kerr: A Taste of Unleash your inner poet Spain and performer as the Lyric Lounge returns 7pm / The Bowl Full to the Drill Hall for the third successive Tapas Bar year. Come and take part in a song-writing Many of Inspired travel masterclass with singer-songwriter Liz patron Peter Kerr’s books Lenten, watch Joel Stickley’s performance are about Mallorca so the of How to Write Badly Well, take to the Bowl Full, a family-run, licensed, authentic stage at various open mic sessions or catch Spanish tapas bar, is the perfect backdrop the screening of We Are Poets, a feature for this discussion which will take in life as documentary presenting a moving and a travel writer, living abroad and being radical story of youth, art and freedom of a farmer in Scotland. Peter’s first historical expression. Come along for an hour or stay novel Song of the Eight Winds, which is set all day – many of the events are free, some in Mallorca, was published in 2012. are ticketed, check www.lyriclounge.co.uk £12 including tapas from The Bowl Full for full details. on 01522 545577. Drinks not included. Daytime events free (Apart from film) Evening performance £5/ (£3 concs.) Supported by The Showroom Post Festival Scrawlcrawl 11.30am Monday May 13 Meet outside Lincoln Women in Rural Enterprise Lincoln Drill Hall Peter Kerr Join Katherine Lynas 10am-noon / Epic Centre of the Society of Lincolnshire Showground Children’s Book Writers Inspired travel patron Peter Kerr joins and Illustrators for a Scrawlcrawl around Lincoln WiRE, the dynamic club for women Lincoln. This is a great opportunity to in rural business, at their monthly meeting. share work, socialise, draw and write with Members £5 / Non-members welcome other creative people. All experience levels (women only) £10 – book via welcome. Katherine’s first illustrated ebook www.wirelincoln.co.uk Florence and the Meanies is out now. Booking essential £3

Box Office: 01522 873894 19 Venues

FestivalOur festival hub is LincolnHub Drill Hall, which is also a venue for many of our events and home to our main box office. Pop in to see the festival team throughout the six days, buy tickets or spend a while soaking up the atmosphere and enjoying one of the special café bar offers available during the festival.

Lincoln Drill Hall / Freeschool Lane / Lincoln / LN2 1EY Box Office: 01522 873894 / www.lincolndrillhall.com

LPAC Café Portico Brayford Pool The Terrace Lincoln LN6 7TS Street 01522 837600 Lincoln LN2 1BD 01522 845976

The Collection The Bowl Full 1 Danes Tapas Bar Terrace 185 West Lincoln Parade LN2 1LP Lincoln 01522 550990 LN1 1QS 01522 545577

rock + paper Lincoln Central + scissors Library 18 Guildhall Freeschool Lane Street Lincoln Lincoln LN2 1EY LN1 1TR 01522 782010 01522 244363

20 ‘Be a part of it… be inspired’ AdvancedHow booking to isbook recommended for all events. Unless specified under the event listing, contact the festival box office at Lincoln Drill Hall on (01522) 873894. Booking can also be made online at www.lincolndrillhall.com or by calling into the venue. The box office is open Monday to Saturday 10am to 5pm.

Concessions are available for students, registered unwaged, children under 16 and those in receipt of income support, invalidity benefit or severe disablement allowance. A with a disabled person may have a ticket at the discounted rate.

Please check your tickets as soon as you receive them. Lincoln Inspired cannot refund money or exchange tickets, except in the case of a cancelled event.

Parking Lincoln Drill Hall has no parking but the Broadgate multi-storey car park lies within 250 metres of the back of the building, just three minutes walk away. It is open 24 hours a day and is patrolled until midnight, with access from Rumbold Street. An NCP car park with 70 spaces is next to the building in Freeschool Lane. Venue contact details are available on our website.

Accessibility The box office, café bar and auditorium at the Drill Hall are on the ground floor and are easily accessible. There is lift access to The Room Upstairs and the Abbey Room. There are spaces in the auditorium for wheelchairs – please let the box office know when you book if you would like one and an adjoining seat for a companion. For patrons with hearing difficulties infra-red transmission sets are available. Please book one at the box office as there are only a limited number. Please contact other festival venues directly for accessibility information.

Visiting the city For further information on where to stay, eat and visit during your stay in Lincoln, visit www.visitlincoln.com

Box Office: 01522 873894 21 Mailing List To join the Lincoln Inspired mailing list email [email protected]

The Inspired Team Sara Bullimore / Steve Cawte / Gill Hart / Sue North / Andy Farenden Janet Marshall / Chris Turk / Karen Parsons Malpass / Tom Haughton Deborah Carlin / Julie Ellerby / Chris Schubert / Stephanie Cumbley Tarina Jones / Joanne Borrill / Dawn Hinsley / Emily Chalder / John Jarrold

We would like to thank all our volunteers and team members, who have worked so hard over the past months to not only make this event happen but to making it truly inspirational.

The programme is correct at the time of going to press. However, Lincoln Inspired reserves the right to alter the programme or to substitute participants at events if circumstances make it necessary.

22 ‘Be a part of it… be inspired’ Sponsored by

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Lincoln Central Library

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Sponsors of Lincoln Live

Box Office: 01522 873894 23 See you next year!

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