Programme 2–4 June 2017
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Programme 2–4 June 2017 “The coolest literary festival of the summer” INTRODUCTION Hello ! When we started the festival, Gordon Brown was Prime Minister, Dizzee Rascal was no 1 in the charts, The Good Egg was a Ladbrokes and the late Tony Benn did a sell-out event with us and had his cheese sandwich snaffled by a dog in Abney Park cemetery. With the world seemingly gone mad, our communities are more important than ever to help us restore a sense of balance and perspective. We’re working with a lot of people through our outreach programme who are doing life-changing work in the face of budget cuts and reduced funding. Your support – buying tickets, drinking at our bars, helping us spread the word about the festival – means that we can continue to work with schools, libraries, community groups, refugee centres and charities to support literacy and create community- WE WOULD LIKE TO SEND focused projects. Thanks too to our brilliant sponsors, partners, volunteers, venues The 8th and suppliers who help bring the whole shebang to life. A BIG THANK YOU Stoke Newington Hope you have a brilliant weekend! TO ALL OUR AUTHORS Literary Festival Liz Vater AND VOLUNTEERS Festival Director TAKING PART THIS YEAR Twitter: @stokeylitfest | Facebook: Stokeylitfest | stokenewingtonliteraryfestival.com Tickets now on sale via eventcube.io. Also available from Stoke Newington Bookshop and from our box office in Stoke Newington Library from 30th May. Stoke Newington Literary Festival is a non-profit venture that aims to raise money for literacy initiatives within the Borough of Hackney. Brand development and Design Direction by Malcolm Garrett, Images&Co / @imagesco Cover and map illustrations © Tash Willcocks / @tashwillcocks PAN MACMILLAN Brochure layout by Rob Wood SATURDAY 3 JUNE From 10.30 am KID’S EVENTS KID’S EVENTS From 12 pm SATURDAY 3 JUNE Where’s Wally? Why not pop over to Stoke Newington Common to find Wally Dave the cow has landed on Earth The Cow Who Fell FREE and his friends. Pick up a Wally-watching checklist from the and been named by the sheep – but to Earth Stoke Newington Common Stoke Newington book shop, Clapton Library, Londis or Shabir that’s the least of her worries! How £3 News on Fountayne Road to find all of Wally’s friends. When will she get back home? Dave’s William Patten School, all weekend you find a friend you’ll see a letter next to them. Collect all the creator, Nadia Shireen, will be ground floor hall letters and it will spell out where you can claim your prize! telling us more about just how Dave got here and how you can create 12.00 pm Suitable for families. your own imaginative characters. Suitable for 4+ Hackney Pirates The Hackney Pirates have helped hundreds of young people to FREE become proud, published authors. Let Captain Splurge and The William Patten School, Refined Admiral take you on an adventurous voyage of writing Join illustrator, author and Fantastically Great first floor hall and exploration. Work will be on display from their recent suffragette descendant Kate Women Who Changed ‘Snapping Stories’ project, based on street photography and Pankhurst and get to know all day the World! storytelling workshops, capturing everyday Hackney. some fantastically great £4 women who changed the Suitable for families. world. March with suffragette William Patten School, leader Emmeline Pankhurst. ground floor hall Test your spying abilities with 1.30 pm Letters to New Friends Local author Sas Mackie’s book Refuge helps children understand World War Two secret agent, FREE how it feels to be displaced from your home, and gives a child- Agent Fifi and meet many William Patten School, friendly introduction to the current refugee crisis. Sas talks about more amazing women who achieved remarkable things. There ground floor hall her work with children in European refugee camps through the will be drawing, there will be dressing up and, most importantly, charity Help Refugees. Children and families can write letters to there will be lots of inspiration to change the world! 10.30 am refugee children, to be delivered to the camps by the charity. Suitable for 6+ Suitable for families. Badger Bill needs rescuing. He’s been Uncle Shawn has a The Cat in the Hat Meet the Cat in the Hat and kidnapped by two nasty sisters who are Rescuing Plan FREE hear other Seuss tales in our about to make him fight a boxing match £4 storytelling session held in against three even nastier dogs. But never Children’s section, William Patten School, Stoke Newington Library the library. fear – Uncle Shawn is here! He loves rescuing things. He has a rescuing plan, ground floor hall 11.00 am which involves dancing… and a mole… 3.00 pm and an electric fence. What could possibly Hackney Pirates, ahoy! The team from Hackney go wrong? Come along and join award- FREE Pirates will be talking about winning author – and proud former clown William Patten School, their work and explaining – AL Kennedy as she answers this very first floor hall how they’ve helped hundreds serious question, and many more besides! of Hackney pupils become 11.45 am & 2.40 pm published authors. Suitable for 8+ SUNDAY 4 JUNE From 10.30 am KID’S EVENTS KID’S EVENTS From 12 pm SUNDAY 4 JUNE What’s the Scoop? Calling all budding authors, poets, illustrators and comic Join Michael Rosen and find out all about his recent children’s Jelly Boots and FREE creators! Have you ever wanted to make your own story books Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots and Uncle Gobb and the Green Uncle Gobb William Patten School, magazine? Join the team from Hackney-based Scoop as they Heads. Jelly Boots… is a riotous poetic celebration of words – silly £5 show you the various jobs involved. You can drop in all day to try words, funny words, and words you only use in your own family. first floor hall William Patten School, out free activities. Uncle Gobb and the Green Heads sees Malcolm and Uncle Gobb all day ground floor hall go to America, each with a cunning plan… An unmissable event Suitable for families. from the extraordinarily talented Michael Rosen. 12.00 pm Suitable for 7+ Come and meet author Ben Faulks, aka Watch Out For Muddy Mr Bloom from CBeebies. But watch Puddles! I Am Bear Meet Bear. You may notice, out! Muddy puddles are everywhere! Join £4 he is bare. He’s not wearing Ben to find out what might lurk beneath £3 William Patten School, anything! See this hilarious the surface of a com-mon-or-garden William Patten School, ground floor hall ground floor hall picture book brought to life puddle. Prepare for a really fun event all by the creators, Ben Bailey about the joy of imaginative outdoor play. 1.30 pm 10.30 am Smith (actor, comedian and rapper aka Doc Brown) and Suitable for 4+ illustrator Sav Akyüz. Learn facts about bears from all over the world, sing along to the very special I Am Bear song, and learn how to draw Bear from Sav himself. Where would our storybooks be without pictures? Illustrations Illustration workshop bring stories to life, so join lo-cal author and illustrator Karin with Karin Littlewood Suitable for 4+ Littlewood to get tips on quick and easy ways to illustrate a story, FREE and meet some of her well-loved characters. The Learning Pavilion, Clissold Park Story (and pompom) Take time off from finding Wally to join our story time. After Suitable for families. Time we’ve finished, you can either get on with searching for Wally 2.00 pm FREE and his pals (where is he?) or join in making red-and-white pom-poms to hang from the trees Stoke Newington Common Boy. Wizard. Hero. tree seat Celebrate 20 years of Harry Potter magic Suitable for families. with this fun and interactive event. Explore Celebrating 20 Years of 11.00 am the four houses at Hogwarts with Fleurble Harry Potter Magic Laffalot. Discover fun facts about the £5 first Harry Potter books and re-enact the Telling Tales Anansi Come and meet naughty Anansi the spider and all his animal best bits of life at Hogwarts – the sorting William Patten School, Workshop friends at our marvellous mask-making workshop. A loveable ceremony, Quidditch, Po-tions class and ground floor hall FREE rogue from the folk tales of West Africa and the Caribbean, much more. This family-friendly event is for 3.00 pm Anansi is always playing tricks on his friends, but will they play anyone who has ever wanted to explore the The Learning Pavilion, tricks on him too? magical world of the Harry Potter books. Clissold Park 12.00 pm Suitable for families. Suitable for 8+ FRIDAY 2 JUNE AGLANCE 2017 SCHEDULEAT 11.00 12.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 Town Hall Friday Night Live Library Gallery Pursuit of Beauty in Unexpected Landscapes St Paul’s Church Hall Hackney Shorts Mascara Bar THe Filth & the Fury SATURDAY 3 JUNE Due to the sheer size we’ve had to leave some venues off, please go to our website for the full downloadable and printable schedule. 11.00 12.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 Town Hall Owen Jones Mark Thomas Library Gallery Keenan Daniel John Berger Rising Stars & Litt Rachel Nerd Nite The Old Church Akwaaba AL Kennedy Arnott Selfie Polari Salon & Ellis The Prince Art of Pubs: Cask Stuttering Eurovision! to Carpet Buffy Pub Quiz Ryan’s Bar Goldfarb Videostroll on Trump St Paul’s Church Hall African Food Food as Edible Revolution Memoir Bounty It’s the Drink Talking Abney Hall Music & Author Glam Rock Alex Bellos Masculinity Confidential Unitarian Chapel Sex Lives of Women Angela Saini Lynne Segal Life in Flux The London Klezmer Quartet 11.00 12.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 6.00 7.00 8.00 9.00 10.00 Mortuary Chapel Barbican Refugee Burying Young Poets Tales the Truth Mascara Bar Broken Atoms Launch Tubthumping St Matthias Church Chorus of Dissent SUNDAY 4 JUNE Due to the sheer size we’ve had to leave some venues off, please go to our website for the full downloadable and printable schedule.