12-15 SEPTEMBER 2019
WELCOME TO HAWARDEN AND THE GOOD LIFE EXPERIENCE.
Thank you so much for putting your faith in us and joining us this weekend.
This is our sixth edition. We hope it’s the best yet; more fascinating, more fun, more friendly, more beautiful and more intimate than those that came before it.
This is a labour of love that requires constant work and attention to detail. We think we’re getting better with each year and that The Good Life Experience is becoming what we dreamt it might, Britain’s best and most intimate festival of fun and discovery.
We hope that The Good Life Experience doesn’t just last for the weekend. We want it to be something you carry with you for the rest of the year; that what you experience and learn and feel this weekend will travel with you when you leave us. And that maybe you’ll share your new skills and discoveries with your family and friends.
We hope that you have a magical few days.
Love Caroline, Cerys, Steve, Charlie and The Good Life Experience Team x
1 PARK MAKERS’ ROW 12 TERRACE MAKERS’ ROW 2 THE WHITTLING GREEN 13 BLACKSMITH ALEX POLE 3 CAMPFIRE WORKSHOPS 14 THE IDLER 4 SPEAKERS’ CORNER 15 TAI CHI 5 PEN BAR LAG & WELSH AREA 16 FLYING TRAPEZE 6 GENERAL MARKET PLACE 17 WELLNESS AREA 7 ADVENTURE MARKET PLACE 18 GLADSTONE’S LIBRARY 8 WILD SWIMMING, CANOEING 19 BELL TENT RECEPTION 9 AXE AND PADDLE BUSHCRAFT 20 FOOD VENDORS 10 GLEN DYE CABINS AND COTTAGES 21 INDEPENDENT TRADERS 11 THE SIMPLE THINGS MAGAZINE 22 ABSEILING BAR CASH POINT CAMPFIRES LOOS WATER POINT INFO TENT FIRST AID POINT STAGES & AREAS OF TGLE
MAIN STAGE HAWARDEN CASTLE Curated by festival co-founder Cerys This former residence of four-times Prime Matthews. Head to the main stage for a Minister William Ewart Gladstone will see brilliant line-up of musicians, poets, choirs talks and small workshops take place in and DJs performing all weekend long. the Drawing Room for the first time. Meet authors, entrepreneurs, activists, creatives, vets, stationers, actors, journalists, cooks, CAUGHT BY THE RIVER musicians, teachers, broadcasters, farmers Curated by Jeff Barrett and team at Caught and poets, each with a powerful story to tell. by the River, this tent has a full line-up of performances and talks. Caught by the River THE LAKE “form a collective whole that represents an One weekend a year -exclusively for TGLE outlook on a world full of endless discovery, guests- the gates to The Lake are thrown innovation, poetry… but mainly just doing open for a few wonderful days of fun, things for the sheer joy-giving hell of it.” discovery, and relaxation. Take a dip into wild swimming with resident expert Vivienne Rickman-Poole, test your nerve at the fire CAMPFIRE COOKING STAGE walk (ticketed), paddle a canoe, or enter Head to the campfire in the shadow of your hound in Britain’s first ever Dog Diving Hawarden Castle to find world-class chefs competition. cooking up a storm. From wild baking to sustainable cooking, you can expect to learn HAWARDEN ESTATE and eat a lot here all weekend long! FARM SHOP Sister business to TGLE and flyer of The Good Life flag all year round. Over the course THE FAIRGROUND FIELD of the weekend the Farm Shop will remain The vintage fairground returns to TGLE! open for extended hours, offering slap-up Expect popcorn, ice cream and -of course- breakfasts, picnic food, and good stuff to endless free rides all weekend long. take away.
THE PAVILION HAWARDEN OLD CASTLE AND CRICKET PITCH With Chester just a few miles away across the This former home to Hawarden CC was voted English border, this 13th Century fortification ‘Wales’ most beautiful cricket pitch’ thanks was constructed to defend the North Wales to its uninterrupted views of both Castles. coast to the West. Head here for morning Head here during TGLE to find the Dog Show, choirs with James Sills (ticketed), stargazing flying trapeze, Axe & Paddle Bushcraft and a with Lia Leendertz, or test your nerve number of our wonderful Feasts. abseiling from the over 700-year-old walls. STAGES & AREAS OF TGLE
PEN BAR LAG FOOD VENDORS Llywelyn b.1258 (Wales’ last sovereign prince) When we launched the festival in 2014, fought over the Old Castle where we hold we wanted to throw a party celebrating TGLE each year. On this auspicious site we everything that goes in to making life good. welcome the rich and diverse literature, Food is -of course- a huge part of this. This dance and music makers of Wales. It all year we’ve pulled out all the stops to make happens in a tent called Pen Bar Lag (the TGLE 2019 our best yet for foodies. Find them Welsh for our home, Hawarden, is Pen ar Lag, beside the fairground. Now then, what to perhaps translating as ‘head of the lake’). have first? It’s hosted by punk legend and John Peel favourite Anrhefn’s Rhys Mwyn, and Brecon’s MAKERS’ ROW wonkiest and most wonderful book shop and Making is at the heart of The Good Life cafe, The Hours. Experience. It’s good for the head, the body and the soul. We have scoured the nation for SPEAKERS’ CORNER the best makers and craftspeople and this One of our two major hubs for inspirational year our line-up is stronger than ever. Learn talks, Speakers’ Corner will this year feature from experts and then do it yourself. Curated takeovers from the likes of Do Book Co, by Jwrnal’s Sarah Hellen, expert on all things Caterpillar Magazine and host a morning of craft and all things Welsh, and Charlie food sustainability panels, with chefs Tom Gladstone, TGLE co-founder. Hunt and Sandor Katz. THE MARKET PLACES THE FOOD WORKSHOPS Two tents dedicated to the best retailers This year we’ve raised the bar for our food we know. Both will be full of small workshops. Old friends and new faces will manufacturers, designers and artisans. All lend their expert knowledge for two hours selected by us and worthy of your support. of tuition with class sizes no larger than 30. Expect to learn how to bake, smoke, cure, taste, prepare and roast great food beside Hawarden Castle, and in the shadow of Hawarden Old Castle.
WELLNESS AREA At TGLE we’re in the business of spreading happiness, and helping our guests live The Good Life, not just for one magical weekend in Wales, but for the whole year too! Head towards the lake for Yoga, or wander up to Hawarden Old Castle for Tai Chi. ■ FOOD ■ MUSIC ■ WORDS ■ CRAFT THURSDAY TICKETED EVENT EVENT DURATION
------3 PM ------7:30 PM ------ Food Workshop Tent £22.50 2h The Whittling Green COFFEE ROASTING MASTERCLASS WITH ‘MINE OAK’ CAMPFIRE SCREENING CHARLIE COOK ------8 PM ------3:30 PM ------ The Pavilion £39.50 Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 1h MIKE KEEN’S FEAST TOM HODGKINSON: HOW ANCIENT Campfire Cooking £39.50 PHILOSOPHY TEACHES US TO LIVE WELL DAMIAN CLISBY’S FEAST Pen Bar Lag 45m ------4 PM ------GLOVE Campfire Cooking Stage 1h GEORGE SQUAIR ------9 PM ------ Pen Bar Lag 45m ------4:30 PM ------ALYS WILLIAMS & OSH CANDELAS FROM Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 1h BLODAU PAPUR KATIE ELLIOTT: ADVENTURES IN BEHAVIOUR CHANGE ------10 PM ------5:30 PM ------ Pen Bar Lag 1h SESIWN GAN PENTENNYN / NICK BLANDFORD Campfire Cooking Stage 1h SAM LOMAS Hawarden Castle - Temple Of Peace 1h Main Stage 8pm-11pm PETER FRANCIS: WARDEN OF GLADSTONE’S LIBRARY HAVANA NIGHTS! WITH THE RENE ALVAREZ QUARTET ------6 PM ------+ DJ JAVIER The Whittling Green £20 45min Join us for a truly sensational, authentic Latin WHITTLE A CAMPFIRE TOOL WITH THE music experience, featuring young Cuban WHITTLINGS musicians passionate about maintaining their heritage and promise to bring musical ------6:30 PM ------ammunition to tackle even the most reluctant dancer... Good cigars, good rum and good Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 1h music guaranteed. CHOIR WITH JAMES SILLS FRIDAY / FRIDAY / FRIDAY / FRIDAY / ------10 AM ------2 PM ------ Food Workshop Tent £22.50 2h Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 1h MASTERING VEGAN MERINGUE WITH BRIONY MARK SHAYLER PRESENTS… MAY KIM SHAYLOR & NATALIE LEE Hawarden Castle - Small Drawing Room 3h Speakers’ Corner 1h HILARY GALLO: FEAR HACK WORKSHOP THE DO BOOKS TAKEOVER Campfire Cooking Stage 1h DO SEA SALT: THE MAGIC OF SEASONING WITH GRACE REGAN DAVID LEA-WILSON Pen Bar Lag 45m ------11 AM ------MANON PRYSOR Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 1h MARK SHAYLER PRESENTS… WILLIAM ROLPHE ------2:30 PM ------& STEVE CHAPMAN Campfire Cooking Stage 1h THE ETHICUREAN ------11:30 AM ------3 PM ------ Campfire Cooking Stage 1h MIKKEL KARSTAD Food Workshop Tent £22.50 2h THE IMPORTANCE OF FRESH INGREDIENTS ------12 PM ------WITH HESTER GRAY & JESS ZAMBELETTI Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 1h The Pavilion £39.50 2h MARK SHAYLER PRESENTS… SOPHIE POWER & HONEY & CO’S FEAST MARY DANIELS Pen Bar Lag 45m ------12:30 PM ------DEWI PRYSOR + WORKSHOP Speakers’ Corner 1h Food Workshop Tent £22.50 2h KAREN SCOFIELD SEAL AND DR CHARLIE CRASH COURSE ON CURING WITH MIKE KEEN BAVINGTON: KELP THE WORLD - THE ENVIRONMENTAL, SOCIETAL AND ECONOMIC ------1 PM ------BENEFITS OF SEAWEED Campfire Cooking Stage 1h SIGNE JOHANSEN ------3:30 PM ------ Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 1h Campfire Cooking Stage 30m MARK SHAYLER PRESENTS… PAUL BARNHILL & VALENTINE WARNER READS FROM HIS NEW SARAH BARNHILL BOOK: THE CONSOLATION OF FOOD Pen Bar Lag 1h ANELU: AIM HIGHER FRIDAY / FRIDAY / FRIDAY / FRIDAY / FRIDAY / ------4 PM ------6 PM ------ Campfire Cooking Stage 1h Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 1h ANJA DUNK MARK SHAYLER PRESENTS… JOAN IYIOLA & Speakers’ Corner 1h ANNA JONES JAMES WRIGHT: ABER FALLS DISTILLERY Hawarden Castle - Temple Of Peace 1h Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 1h PETER FRANCIS: WARDEN OF GLADSTONE’S MARK SHAYLER PRESENTS… LIBRARY BRIAN BEATON & JASMIN O’HARA Pen Bar Lag 45m Pen Bar Lag 45m LLEUWEN RUFUS MUFASA + WORKSHOP ------6:30 PM ------ Main Stage 1h15m Caught By The River 45m DJ78 SEATBELTS ------5 PM ------7 PM ------ Speakers’ Corner 1h Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 1h KAREN O’DONOGHUE: HAPPY TUMMY CO VALENTINE WARNER & CHARLIE GLADSTONE Pen Bar Lag 45m Pen Bar Lag 45m GWILYM BOWEN RHYS SIAN JAMES / PENTENNYN Caught By The River 45m Speakers’ Corner 1h30m KATY J PEARSON ONE TRACK MINDS Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 5-6pm ------8 PM ------ The Pavilion £39.50 2h PATRICK GRANT ROSIE NEVE & LONNIE ROUNTREE’S FEAST HOW GREEN ARE YOUR TROUSERS? The Greenhouse £39.50 2h XANTHE GLADSTONE’S FEAST ------5:30 PM ------ Terrace Makers’ Row 2h Campfire Cooking Stage 1h ART CANTEEN WITH TORTOISE MARK DIACONO ------5:45 PM ------8:30 PM ------ Main Stage 1h Speakers’ Corner 1h WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR LIA LEENDERTZ: FULL MOON WALK
Hawarden Old Castle LIGHTING THE BEACON 9pm FRIDAY / FRIDAY / FRIDAY / FRIDAY / FRIDAY /
FRIDAY NIGHT MUSIC MAIN STAGE 7:15-8:15pm SUB ATOMIC SOULS 8:45-9:45pm TANKUS THE HENGE 10:30pm-1am DAVE HASLAM 1am-2am ALEX PINK
CAUGHT BY THE RIVER 8-8:45pm WORKING MEN’S CLUB 9:30-10:30pm SNAPPED ANKLES 10:30pm-2am DYNAMITE SOUNDS FROM THE HEAVENLY JUKEBOX
PEN BAR LAG 8-8:45pm MORUS ELFRYN 9-9:45pm DENISE JOHNSON 10-10:45pm ALFFA 11-11:45pm NICK BLANDFORD SATURDAY / SATURDAY / SATURDAY / SATURDAY / SATURDAY / SATURDAY / SATURDAY / ------7 AM ------11 AM ------ Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 1h The Lake £22.50 HOW TO STOP WORKING WITH JOSH COHEN MORNING CHOIR WITH JAMES SILLS Caught By The River 45m DAN RICHARDS - OUTPOST: A JOURNEY ------9:30 AM ------TO THE WILD ENDS OF THE EARTH. IN Terrace Makers’ Row 9:30am - 12pm CONVERSATION WITH JOHN ANDREWS MEET/MAKE/MEND WITH BRISTOL TEXTILE Pen Bar Lag 2h QUARTER MENTER LAITH FFLINT - CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES IN WELSH + MAGI ANN’S PARTY ------10 AM ------11:30 AM ------ Campfire Cooking Stage 1h Campfire Cooking Stage 1h ROMY GILL CLAIRE THOMSON Main Stage 2h DJ78 Speakers’ Corner 11:30am-12:45pm Food Workshop Tent £22.50 2h BAKE FOR GOOD GUT HEALTH WITH HAPPY FOOD SUSTAINABILITY TUMMY CO EAT MOSTLY PLANTS Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 1h A PANEL DISCUSSION WITH TOM HUNT, HOW TO GET WHAT YOU WANT OUT OF LIFE SANDOR KATZ, MARK DIACONO, ANNA JONES WITH NINA GRUNFELD AND THOMASINA MIERS
Speakers’ Corner 10-11:15am ------12 PM ------ The Pavilion 2h OUR TWO ACRES’ FEAST WITH ANJA DUNK & FOOD SUSTAINABILITY BIODIVERSITY: HEALTHY SOIL, JEN GOSS HEALTHY GUT Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 1h A PANEL DISCUSSION WITH TOM HUNT, HILLARY GALLO: WHAT WE LEARN WHEN WE SANDOR KATZ, ANNA GREENLAND, JULIUS MAKE FEAR OUR FRIEND ROBERTS AND MIKKEL KARSTAD
Main Stage 12pm-12:50pm ------10:30 AM ------ Caught By The River 20m A TRIBUTE TO HER’S ANNA WOOD: SHORT STORIES SATURDAY / SATURDAY / SATURDAY / SATURDAY / SATURDAY / SATURDAY / SATURDAY / ------12:30 PM ------2 PM ------ Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 1h Food Workshop Tent £22.50 2h DAME STELLA RIMINGTON: FORMER DIRECTOR HEALTHIEST LOAF IN THE WORLD WITH TOM GENERAL MI5 HERBERT Speakers’ Corner 1h Caught By The River 45m THE DO BOOKS TAKEOVER CHARLOTTE RUNCIE: SALT ON YOUR TONGUE. DO PAUSE: YOU ARE NOT A TO DO LIST WITH IN CONVERSATION WITH ANNA WOOD ROBERT POYNTON Campfire Cooking Stage 30m Dog Show VALENTINE WARNER READS FROM HIS NEW £5 donation to Shelter Cymru 1h BOOK: THE CONSOLATION OF FOOD DOG SHOW Pen Bar Lag 45m ------1 PM ------MANON PRYSOR + WORKSHOP Campfire Cooking Stage 1h OLIA HERCULES The Lake £10 2-3:15pm
Main Stage 1pm-2pm FIREWALKING CERYS MATTHEWS’ Caught By The River 1h JON SAVAGE - THIS SEARING LIGHT, THE SUN BOOK LAUNCH AND EVERYTHING ELSE: JOY DIVISION: THE ORAL HISTORY. IN CONVERSATION WITH EMMA ‘WHERE THE WILD COOKS GO’ WARREN RECIPES, MUSIC, POEMS AND COCKTAILS WITH YOUR TGLE CO-FOUNDER. ------2:15 PM ------ Main Stage 1h Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 1h HELEN SHARMAN: FIRST BRITON IN SPACE TEDDY KEEN: THE LOST BOOK OF ADVENTURE Pen Bar Lag 45m ------2:30 PM ------ANELU: AIM HIGHER Campfire Cooking Stage 1h Speaker’s Corner 1h HONEY & CO LAUNCH OF ‘THE SURVIVALIST FERMENTATION MOVEMENT’ WITH SANDOR KATZ, MIKE ------3 PM ------KEEN, AVIAJA HAUPTMANN AND BJORN Pen Bar Lag 45m ADALBJORNSSON DEWI PRYSOR + WORKSHOPS SATURDAY / SATURDAY / SATURDAY / SATURDAY / SATURDAY / SATURDAY / SATURDAY / ------3 PM ------4 PM ------ Speakers’ Corner 1h Food Workshop Tent £22.50 2h THE DO BOOKS TAKEOVER MODERN RUSSIAN RECIPES TO ENTERTAIN DO PRESERVE: MAKE YOUR OWN JAMS, WITH ALISSA TIMOSHKINA CHUTNEYS, PICKELS AND CORDIALS Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 1h WITH JEN GOSS CHARLIE GLADSTONE: HOW TO GET THE BEST Pen Bar Lag 45m FROM EVERYONE (INCLUDING YOURSELF) RUFUS MUFASA + CHIRS MEREDITH Speakers’ Corner 1h THE DO BOOKS TAKEOVER DO DEATH: FOR A LIFE BETTER LIVED WITH ------5 PM ------AMANDA BLAINLEY Speakers’ Corner 1h Pen Bar Lag 45m THE DO BOOKS TAKEOVER DEWI PRYSOR + WORKSHOPS DO SING: RECLAIM YOUR VOICE. FIND YOUR SINGING TRIBE WITH JAMES SILLS Hawarden Castle £22.50 1h GET GOING: WHAT KEEPS YOU ON TRACK? Pen Bar Lag 45m WITH NINA GRUNFELD JEB LOY NICHOLS Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 1h ------3:30 PM ------HOW TO KEEP FIGHTING WITH ANDREW EVANS Campfire Cooking Stage 30m TOM HUNT: MEDITATION ON CHOCOLATE ------5:15 PM ------ Main Stage 1h RENE ALVAREZ QUARTET ------3:45 PM ------ Caught By The River 45m Main Stage 1h SALENA GODDEN ESE & THE VOODUU PEOPLE Caught By The River 45m RICHARD KING: THE LARK ASCENDING. IN ------5:30 PM ------CONVERSATION WITH EMMA WARREN Campfire Cooking Stage 1h VALENTINE WARNER ------4 PM ------ Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 1h GEMMA GERMAINS: I’M NOT REALLY MAD, HOW TO TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR MENTAL We do our very best to make sure all HEALTH scheduling runs on time and as smoothly as possible. Occasionally things change at Campfire Cooking Stage 1h the last minute so please check the boards JULIUS ROBERTS outside each tent. SATURDAY / SATURDAY / SATURDAY / SATURDAY / SATURDAY / SATURDAY / SATURDAY / ------6 PM ------ Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 45m LAURA MUCHA: LOVE FACTUALLY Pen Bar Lag 45m MEI GWYNEDD (EX BIG LEAVES) Speakers’ Corner 1h THE MAVERICKS PODCAST WITH CHARLIE SATURDAY NIGHT MUSIC GLADSTONE, DAN KIERAN AND JAMES OTTER MAIN STAGE ------6:45 PM ------ 6:45-7:45pm Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 1h JNR. WILLIAMS DR AHMED 8:15-9:15pm THE TURBANS ------7 PM ------ 9:45-10:45pm Old Castle £15 ERROL LINTON EVENING CHOIR WITH JAMES SILLS 11pm-1:30am NORMAN JAY Speakers’ Corner 7pm-8pm CAUGHT BY THE RIVER PECHAKUCHA 7:30-8:15pm SEVEN SPEAKERS. 20 IMAGES EACH. MODERN NATURE 20 SECONDS PER IMAGE. 9-10pm INTERNATIONAL TEACHERS OF POP Pen Bar Lag 45m 10pm-2am PATRICK JONES + JOHN ROBB DYNAMITE SOUNDS FROM THE HEAVENLY JUKEBOX ------8 PM ------
The Pavilion £39.50 2h PEN BAR LAG THOMASINA MIERS’ FEAST 8-8:45pm STUART MOXHAM (EX YOUNG Campfire Cooking Stage £39.50 2h MARBLE GIANTS) CHRIS ROBERTS’ FEAST 9-9:45pm Terrace Makers’ Row 2h PON BRO ART CANTEEN WITH TORTOISE 10-10:45pm Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 1h PAPUR WAL GUY CHAMBERS 11-11:45pm LOS BLANCOS SUNDAY / SUNDAY / SUNDAY / SUNDAY / SUNDAY / SUNDAY / SUNDAY / SUNDAY / SUN-
Terrace Makers’ Row 9:30am-12pm ------11 AM ------ Campfire Cooking Stage 30m MEET / MAKE / MEND TOM HUNT: MEDITATION ON CHOCOLATE WITH BRISTOL TEXTILE Pen Bar Lag 2h QUARTER MENTER LAITH FFLINT - CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES IN WELSH + MAGI ANN’S PARTY ------10 AM ------ Caught By The River 45m ------11:30 AM ------JEFF TOWNS TALKS ABOUT WELSH POET IDRIS Campfire Cooking Stage 1h DAVIES SANDOR KATZ Food Workshop Tent £22.50 2h Caught By The River 45m WILD ATLANTIC SALMON: SMOKING AND HELEN MORT DISCUSSES HER DEBUT NOVEL CONSERVATION WITH MAX JONES BLACK CAR BURNING WITH LIZ BERRY Hawarden Castle 1h Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 1h LIFE COACHING WITH NINA GRUNFELD OF MY STORY… JANE LINDSEY: HOW I MADE LIFECLUBS CHANGE HAPPEN & CATRINA DAVIES: Campfire Cooking Stage 1h HOMESICK; WHY I LIVE IN A SHED STUART OVENDEN ------12 PM ------10:30 AM ------ The Pavilion 2h Campfire Cooking Stage 2h THE VEGETARIAN SOCIETY’S FEAST MEET ROGER PHILLIPS FOR A WILD Pen Bar Lag 45m MUSHROOM FORAGE NICK BLANDFORD Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 1h Speakers’ Corner 1h MY STORY… MICHAEL NICHOLSON: BOTANN CATERPILLAR MAGAZINE TAKEOVER: JULIE - REBOOTING THE WELLY & PENNY LEE: DOUGLAS CHANGING THE WAY WE DO BUSINESS, MEET AND COLLABORATE Main Stage 12pm-1pm Main Stage 1h SILLS & STICH WORKSHOP GUY CHAMBERS THE MIND AND SOUL BEHIND ------11 AM ------MEGA HITS AND MELODIES Speakers’ Corner 1h CATERPILLAR MAGAZINE TAKEOVER: LAURA MUCHA SUNDAY / SUNDAY / SUNDAY / SUNDAY / SUNDAY / SUNDAY / SUNDAY / SUNDAY / SUN------12:30 PM ------2 PM ------ Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 1h Speakers’ Corner 1h TOM GREGORY: HOW AN 11-YEAR-OLD BOY MOTH MAGAZINE TAKEOVER: NICOLE FLATTERY SWAM THE CHANNEL Pen Bar Lag 45m Campfire Cooking Stage 30m PENTENNYN TRINE HAHNEMANN IN CONVERSATION WITH OLIA HERCULES AND ANJA DUNK Dog Show £5 to Shelter Cymru 2-3pm Food Workshop Tent £22.50 2h PLANT POWER FOR THE CHANGING SEASON DOG SHOW WITH HARRIET COLEMAN ------1 PM ------2:30 PM ------ Campfire Cooking Stage 1h Campfire Cooking Stage 1h TRINE HAHNEMANN COOKS AND TALKS TO ROGER PHILLIPS DAMIAN CLISBY ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY Speakers’ Corner 1h Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 30m SID MADGE: MEEE IN A MINUTE. HOW THE MY STORY… HELENE MARK: HOW I MADE WORD ‘WEIRDO’ CHANGED THE LIVES OF CHANGE HAPPEN THOUSANDS Pen Bar Lag 45m Main Stage 2:30pm-3:30pm ANELU: AIM HIGHER MIKE GARRY ------1:15 PM ------TGLE POET LAUREATE Caught By The River 45m EMMA WARREN: MAKES SOME SPACE, THE ------2:45 PM ------HISTORIES SURROUNDING THE LONDON Caught By The River 1h VENUE TOTAL REFRESHMENT CENTRE TOBY HAY & JIM GHENDI Main Stage 1h 100 POEMS THAT MATTER WITH CERYS MATTHEWS, LIZ BERRY, RAYMOND ANTROBUS ------3 PM ------AND HENRY NORMAL Speakers’ Corner 1h MOTH MAGAZINE TAKEOVER: ROB DOYLE ------1:30 PM ------ Hawarden Castle - Drawing Room 1h ------4:15 PM ------MY STORY… FRED BAVEYSTOCK: Caught By The River 45m REDISCOVERING MY PURPOSE AND LOUISE TREVOR MOSS & HANNAH-LOU EDWARDS: HOW I MADE CHANGE HAPPEN
HAPPY HOUNDS WANTED! JOIN OUR DOG SHOW AND SUPPORT SHELTER CYMRU. COMPERED BY JAMES GREENWOOD, VET, POTTER AND TV PRESENTER.
SATURDAY 2-3PM SUNDAY 2-3PM Fabulous Fella Best Junior Handler Loveliest Lady Waggiest Tail Best Paw Shaker Best Trick Best Rescue Dog Best Veteran (7 years+) SUGGESTED DONATION OF £5 Lake Diving Lake Diving PER DOG PER CLASS. £7.50 SIGN UP ON THE DAY ALLPRESS COFFEE / TRADITIONAL BUTCHERY / FRESH FRUIT + VEG /
Campfire Cooking Stage LOCAL PRODUCE / Friday & Saturday evening WELSH WINE / LOCAL BEER + CIDER / FRESH BREAD / TALK, CHILDREN’S PLAY AREA / LOCAL CHEESE / TASTING + DELI + CAFE SERVING SIT-IN OR TAKEAWAY HOT BREAKFAST, S’MORES BRUNCH AND LIGHT BITES MAKING OPENING TIMES: Limited to x30 people. Thur-Sat 8am-1am / Sun 8am-5pm Child supervision required. @hawardenestatefarmshop Collect your own stick from the woods! hawardenestate.co.uk 01244533442 £10 PER HEAD your local Lucie Sheridan is an illustrator and print maker. As enterprising as ever, Lucie has channeled her creative and social skills into her latest concept ‘Rubbish Portraits’: very quick, while-you-sit, brilliant brush and ink portraits - they’re not rubbish but actually very good! It’s her version of the familiar photo booth, but far more exciting and unique. Just remember… no smiling please.
PICK-UP YOUR BUTCHER’S BBQ AND BREAKFAST PACKS, FRESH OFF THE BLOCK. ADVENTURE AT TGLE
AXE THROWING FLYING TRAPEZE Free Throughout the day The Cricket Pitch Walk up to book We’ve been lobbing axes at TGLE since the We’re thrilled to welcome flying trapeze to this very beginning. And long before that too! year’s line-up. Test your circus skills in small The humble axe and the historic Hawarden groups (8-10). Estate go back a long way, with former resident, and four-time Prime Minister CANOEING William Ewart Gladstone using axes to relax. Free Throughout the day Head down to our beautiful lake, and Victorian ARCHERY Boat House, to find out the schedule and sign- Free Throughout the day up for sessions throughout the day. Roll up and take your best shot. You’ll draw back your bow as Hawarden Old Castle STARGAZING + MOONGAZING stands guard on the horizon. Free Friday 8:30pm Join Lia Leendertz as she returns to TGLE for a WILD SWIMMING talk and -skies being clear- an awe-inspiring Free Throughout the day stargazing session. Stand on the hill beside The Wild Swimming expert Vivienne Rickman- Old Castle and gaze into a great big sky with Poole returns to The Lake to lead swims, incredible views of the stars within it. encourage creativity and keep the lakeside campfire stoked all weekend long. Go on, WILD COOKING dive in! Our team of world famous chefs will once again take to the campfire to cook up a storm ABSEILING in front of hundreds of hungry spectators. Hawarden Old Castle Walk up to book Elsewhere, Chris Roberts and Damian Clisby We think we might just be the only festival will be laying on feasts featuring ingredients in Britain that will offer abseiling from a cooked over open flame. And for limited 13th Century castle. Yes really. Enjoy the numbers there’ll be s’mores sessions hosted by very best view of TGLE as you dangle from the brilliant Pump Street Chocolate. Remember the 750 year-old-walls of this castle of to source a good stick from the woods! national importance. WALKING FORAGING TGLE is unique in its openness and friendliness. Free Sunday 10:30am There are fences and security, of course. But The Hawarden Estate boasts woodlands there are few other festivals that encourage teeming with wild garlic, berries and guests to genuinely explore the site: the hills, hundreds of incredibly varied mushrooms. the woods, the village, The Old Castle, the Join the Roger Phillips mushroom hunt to farmland. Take the dog! learn what’s good and what’s not! MUSICMUSIC Co-founder Cerys Matthews curates a knock-out music line-up of jazz, blues, classical, world, folk and funk. Elsewhere our friends at Caught by the River return to host their very own stage in a new, beautiful location with another triumphant line- up.
NORMAN JAY MBE The ‘Emperor of the Decks’ returns to bring his Good Times setlist to the Good Life! Expect the unexpected: Oasis mixed with Gilberto Gil, Motown, Stax, disco, Marley, Sly and the Family Stone and so much more… and all of it wrapped in the effortless cool of this legendary DJ. As far as we’re concerned nobody does it better.
JNR. WILLIAMS Jaws dropped at BBC Radio 1 and 6 Music alike when JNR. Williams first broke through. Cerys is stoked to welcome him to TGLE 2019 as one of his earliest forays in his career. You’ll be able to say you were there from the beginning. Think Nina Simone and James Blake and you’ll be getting close.
DAVE HASLAM Ever wondered what it would feel like to be at the Hacienda at its peak? Or with The Stone Roses playing Spike Island? DJ and writer Dave Haslam will afford us a good peak at The Good Life in 2019. Dave plays “the best records ever made one after the other”. Don’t miss this.
GUY CHAMBERS Go Gentle, Angels, Millennium, I Don’t Want to Hurt You, Rock DJ, Kids. Just some of the songs written by Guy with his writing partner Robbie Williams. Other chart smashing collaborations had Guy working with Kylie, Beverly Knight, Mel C, Katie Melua and Rufus Wainwright. Across two performances, Guy will allow us insight into the brains and soul behind these mega hits and melodies.
TANKUS THE HENGE Cerys loves their funk-fuelled repertoire, their channeling of New Orleans, Tudor England, ratty Soho alleyway, Shakespeare, 20th Century American Literature, Oliver Twist and Tom Waits. A psychedelic, rock ’n’ roll octopus (with four more legs).
ERROL LINTON Simply one of the best live acts in the world and nominated this year for best blues act by Jazz FM. There’s a buzz growing around this blues band that you don’t want to miss. Think Little Walter and Sonny Boy Williamson, bring them into the twenty first century by combining ‘50s Chicago blues with Jamaican reggae rhythms. Let the rafters shake.
THE TURBANS International musical adventurers The Turbans bind together music from ‘manywhere’, igniting their audiences with the bacchanalian spirit of the Eastern Mediterranean. Drawing on the rich cultural heritage of both the Levantine and Balkan regions, they create original music for the 21st century, inspired by ancient melodies.
HAVANA NIGHTS WITH THE RENE ALVAREZ QUARTET Their compadres Los Revolutionaries blew the roof off the Main Stage in 2016, and we’re smoking hand-rolled cigars with relish at the return of the new set up. The Rene Alvarez Quartet promise to bring musical ammunition to tackle even the most reluctant dancer... Havana and Hawarden collide on Thursday night!
A TRIBUTE TO HER’S Hear songs from ‘Invitation to Her’s’ and ‘Songs of Her’s’ as TGLE pays tribute to a great band that were due to perform on the Main Stage in 2019. Duo Stephen Fitzpatrick and Audun Laading met at the University of Liverpool and lived in the city before being killed in a car accident en route to a gig in California in March 2019. They were -and still are- great.
WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR The Doors, Pearl Jam and The Lemonheads are just some of the diverse influences for this indie-rock three piece recently praised for their grit and authenticity by The Guardian, NPR’s Ann Powers and on Cerys’ BBC Radio 2 music show.
ESE AND THE VOODOO PEOPLE Born and raised in South London, Ese is no stage school product but the real, streetwise thing and another talent to catch early at TGLE 2019. The band were nominated by the Guardian as ‘one of the acts to look out for in 2019’.
SUB ATOMIC SOULS A chance to get out of our minds on the groove with old school rhythm & blues and funk. All soul powered, originals and classics: Albert King, James Brown, Pee Wee Ellis and all in between. Bring your Blues Brothers Ray Bans.
SNAPPED ANKLES They came from the Trees. Fight or flight. Primal motorik rhythms, the rush of white noise and post-punk angles; an aural onslaught played out on homemade log synths, electrified guitars and sticks beating hell on taut animal skin. The woodwose have discovered electricity and they’re not afraid to use it.
INTERNATIONAL TEACHERS OF POP Lead singer Leonore Wheatley describes the group as “Grace Slick on the raz with Donna Summer and the Pet Shop Boys, legging it over to Kraftwerk’s gaff for a quick synth-sesh before getting a cab round to All Saints gaff to sing at the telly til the sun comes up!” WORKING MEN’S CLUB Todmorden-by-way-of-Europe trio Syd, Jake and Giulia are about to fling open the doors of their own millennial social hub, fusing the ‘70s post-punk start-stop sound of Talking Heads, Gang of Four and Television with the stomp of Parquet Courts’ positivity. Half-spoken words jab through Strokes guitar lines with Mark E. Smith drawl…
SEATBELTS Seatbelts are comprised of James Madden, Ryan Murphy, Abigail Woods and Alex Quinn. James and Ryan - known for their work in Hooton Tennis Club - wanted an alternate name for The Beatles, and while jumbling the letters around over a drunken phone call Seatbelts poured forth. Singles include ‘Content Crush’ and upbeat, ‘Spanish Songs’.
DJ78 He’s back! We love him. You love him. DJ78 provides a unique audio experience using a pair of 1930s HMV wind-up Gramophones and a staggering collection of vintage 78rpm shellac records. Looking dapper in his antique suits, DJ78 delights in unearthing vintage tunes and dropping (really) old-skool beats from his extensive archive of rare discs.
MODERN NATURE Modern Nature is the new project of Jack Cooper, ex of Ultimate Painting / Mazes and Will Young of Beak, featuring Aaron Neveu of Woods and Sunwatchers’ Jeff Tobias on saxophone.
KATY J PEARSON Combining a unique voice with a knack for melodies that lodge themselves in your brain, Katy writes songs coming from her time growing up in the rolling hills of the West Country. Her songs convey a glorious nostalgia, refreshingly at odds with the rush and fury of modern life.
TOBY JAY & JIM GHEDI Jim and Toby’s duets for the 6 and 12 string guitar are a collaboration exploring connection to landscape and place through composition, improvisation and folk song. Expect songs from 2018s ‘The Hawksworth Grove Sessions’ as well as new material.
TREVOR MOSS & HANNAH-LOU Trevor & Hannah-Lou met as teenagers in 2003 at Goldsmiths College. They would go on to become influential figures in the Brit-Folk revival. Their fifth album Fair Lady London, recorded on their 4-track cassette recorder in a quiet corner of a castle in the rolling valleys of East Sussex, was released in 2018 on the Maiden Voyage Recording Co. Label.
VINTAGE MOBILE DISCO AKA Donna Somerset. This diminutive, artisan soundsystem, was lovingly assembled within a rickety old laundry truck by friends Russ and Rich. Its ethos is very much back to basics, and in reserving the old ways it has two rules; 7” vinyl only, and recorded at least 30 years ago. OUR STEPS TO SUSTAINABILITY From ecological to economical, the longterm sustainability for our festival site -and the festival itself- is critical. This site is quite literally home to many of our team, so believe us when we say we take this seriously.
LET’S TALK RUBBISH 1ST HAWARDEN SCOUT GROUP We work closely with our local waste We’re lucky to have the support of our local disposal company, ASH Waste. ASH have Scout group who just happen to be the a comprehensive sorting system to ensure best litter pickers - ever! We’ve had many every piece of rubbish collected is disposed comments about how clean our site is and of in the most environmentally friendly way. it’s mostly down to them. Thank you. We’ve been working with them since 2014. MAKING IS GOOD REFILL All of our workshops are designed for you Single-use plastic bottles are so last year. to learn a new skill, find a new hobby Not using them can save a huge amount of and to make something you can cherish plastic pollution, but you know that. We’re forever. Find a great range of workshops in working with Refill, a campaign designed for both Makers’ Rows to help towards a more you to save money, stay hydrated and help sustainable you. prevent plastic pollution at source. Look out for the blue symbol to find your nearest top- LET’S TALK ABOUT SUSTAINABILITY + FOOD up point, or search the Refill app. Awareness of where our food comes from, goes to, and the impact it has along the way SHOP LOCAL is at the forefront of all we do here. New Hawarden Estate Farm Shop has everything to our line-up this year are three engaging you will need to fuel your weekend. and important discussions on Saturday in Recently, the team have been making some Speakers’ Corner led by industry experts. We considerable changes to reduce their carbon want you to join in. footprint including refillable oils, fillable wash products, loose fruit and veg and a OUR SOURCING POLICY variety of compostable camping essentials. There is an overriding emphasis on Take your own containers to the deli and sustainability surrounding food at TGLE and butchery and they’ll knock 10% off the our line-up has been chosen to support this. price! Food can have a positive impact on the environment if we make the correct choices. FOOD VENDORS Ingredients for our campfire cooking, feasts, Our food vendors are a carefully selected and workshops are sourced as locally as bunch. They’re here because we love what possible. By supporting local businesses we they do. We trust each of our vendors to become part of a more sustainable food do their bit for the environment, from the system. Food waste will go into our compost, ingredients they source right down to the rather than landfill, and guests will eat from napkins they use. biodegradable containers using wooden cutlery. VisitVisit GlenGlen DyeDye
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NOWADAYS THESE THREE WORDS ONLY REALLY REFER TO THE FESTIVAL FOR ME. AND THAT MEANS MASSES OF WORK BUT (AND IT’S A BIG BUT) THAT WORK IS RICHLY REWARDING. NEW FRIENDS, OLD FRIENDS, DUSTY BOOTS, A SORE BACK, HUGS, KISSES, LOADS OF DOGS AND MY WHOLE FAMILY PULLING IN THE SAME WHAT DOES THE DIRECTION. WHAT DOES THE - CHARLIE GLADSTONE GOODGOOD LIFELIFE MEANMEAN TOTO YOU?YOU? FEELING CONNECTED - TO THE OUTDOORS, TO EACH OTHER, TO CRAFT AND TO OUR SOULS! A CHANCE TO SLOW DOWN, PAUSE AND SAVOUR THE GOOD STUFF. IDEALLY AROUND A CAMP FIRE UNDER THE STARS WITH GOOD FOOD AND DRINK (AND MAYBE A GUITAR!)
- JAMES SILLS SO MANY THINGS THAT I CAN’T PUT INTO A COHERENT SENTENCE. THERE’S A SENSE OF TRANQUILLITY & HAPPINESS, THERE’S CREATIVE ENERGY, THERE’S GOOD FOOD & WINE, AND FAMILY; AND AN ABILITY TO BE STILL AND ENJOY SPENDING TIME ON YOUR OWN.
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WELL, APART FROM THE BRILLIANT ‘70s SITCOM IT MEANS A WEEKEND OF WHATWHAT DOESDOES THETHE FRIENDSHIP AND WARMTH, A WEEKEND OF INSPIRATION AND ENTERTAINMENT, AND IMMERSION INTO THE GOOD LIFE. GOODGOOD LIFELIFE - MARK SHAYLER MEANMEAN TOTO YOU?YOU? KINDNESS, GENEROSITY, FUN, HILARITY, DANCING, CURIOSITY, CARE, SURPRISINGLY NEVER A HANGOVER.
- VALENTINE WARNER CAMPFIRE COOKING DEMOS As ever we’ll be challenging our wonderful chefs to cook over our huge campfire. No conventional ovens, hobs or microwaves in sight. This year the campfire cooking sessions will be held on the lawn of Hawarden Castle. Food with a view.
ROMY GILL MBE STUART OVENDEN SANDOR KATZ Romy is a British-Indian Stuart is a London-based Sandor is a fermentation chef, presenter, food writer, photographer and author. revivalist. His books Wild and owner and head chef of He’s passionate about simple, Fermentation and The Art of Romy’s Kitchen. She’s has seasonal and foraged food. Fermentation, have helped appeared on James Martin’s THE FOOD: to catalyse a revival of the Saturday Morning, Celebrity Chicken thighs with pear salsa fermentation arts. MasterChef and The Hairy and flatbreads. THE FOOD: Bikers’ Comfort Food series. ‘The famous sauerkraut’. THE FOOD: SIGNE JOHANSEN ‘Spice up the veg’. Signe is a Norwegian cook MIKKEL KARSTAD and author of How to Mikkel began his career in VALENTINE WARNER Hygge, Scandilicious, and Denmark, and soon moved on Valentine is a cook, food most recently Solo: The Joy to work at some of London’s writer, broadcaster and co- of Cooking for One. She top restaurants. Today he’s founder of Hepple Gin, today has appeared on Kirstie’s a freelance chef involved best known for his BBC ‘What Handmade Christmas, and in many projects, from To Eat Now’ TV & Book Series, Sunday Brunch. cookbooks to magazines. with a strong focus on robust, THE FOOD: THE FOOD: flavoursome food. Grilled courgette, prawn + Grilled leeks, broccoli, slow THE FOOD: lemon skewers, Nordic dill salsa, cooked beet with seaweed, Maiale tonnato (pork chops grilled citrus + bitters spritz. celeriac cooked in the fire. with mackerel mayo), tomato and tarragon toast, pigeon SAM LOMAS: CLAIRE THOMSON with corn and plums. Sam is head chef at Halen Claire’s been a chef for well Môn’s new outdoor cafe on over a decade. She loves the GRACE REGAN Anglesey: Tide. His early fast pace of cooking during a Grace is the founder of cooking days were spent busy night. However, she now SpiceBox, the fantastic at River Cottage HQ. His has three brilliant kids and vegan street food brand that food is simple, seasonal and the motivation to fill these operates under the banner of ingredients led. little tummies with nutritional ‘Plant-Powered Indian Food’. THE FOOD: delicious food is her primary THE FOOD: Hot smoked mackerel, BBQ concern. Tandoori cauliflower steak, runner beans, courgette THE FOOD: pearl barley + corn pillau babaganoush. Black bean burgers in a bun. JULIUS ROBERTS OLIA HERCULES TRINE HAHNEMANN Julius is a cook, farmer and A Leith’s-trained chef, recipe A chef and food writer, Trine is vegetable gardener who writer and food stylist, Olia an enthusiastic advocate for celebrates nature with a honed her cooking skills in the sustainable solutions, organic deep respect for ingredients, fiery kitchens of Ottolenghi sourcing and food cooked with seasonality and animal and worked as a freelance love. With her great knowledge welfare. Sustainability is at the recipe tester and developer of Danish food culture, she heart of everything he does. for food magazines. She also writes compellingly about her THE FOOD: appeared in the cookery show extensive expertise and life Chicken liver pâté and Red, Hot and Yummy. experiences in food. homemade bread THE FOOD: THE FOOD: Vegetable ‘caviar’ with ‘Green cooking from my THE ETHICUREAN Armenian flatbreads Scandic kitchen’. For brothers Iain and Matthew taking produce from farm ROGER PHILLIPS GEORGE SQUAIR to fork is a serious business. Mushroom maestro and George is a passionate chef Tucked away in a Victorian one of the most respected inspired by seasonal organic walled garden, The Ethicurean foragers in Britain. In 1975 ingredients. He has been was The Observer’s Best he began his life’s major working with Damian Clisby Ethical Restaurant in 2011. work, photographing an at Petersham Nurseries for They will be joined their Head encyclopaedic collection of over two years and loves the Chef Mark McCabe to rattle world plants, with his first amazing seasonal produce through an ambitious cookery book Wild Flowers of Britain grown at Haye Farm in Devon. demo. selling 400,000 copies in the THE FOOD: THE FOOD: first year! Roast chilli pineapple, wild Foraged flavours, charcoal THE FOOD: mushrooms, BBQ pork belly. cookery, lacto-fermentation, Foraged mushrooms, herbs, curing techniques and one cream, white wine and lardons wicked open fire pudding. MARK DIACONO HONEY & CO Mark is lucky enough to spend Sarit Packer and Itamar most of his time eating, Srulovich are the award- growing, writing and talking winning chefs and authors about food. He was involved behind the Honey & Co. empire with River Cottage, writing which includes a Middle four books, appearing in the Eastern diner in London, a deli, TV series, and running courses a Grill House, a cookbook, and and events. a weekly column for the FT THE FOOD: weekend magazine. BBQ chaat, sourdough lebneh THE FOOD: and sambal, ginger rosemary Silky green aubergine dip, Tom Collins, tepache or lamb chops, ashtanur griddle raspberry and star anice bread. kombucha CRAFTCRAFT WORKSHOPSWORKSHOPS Making is at the heart of TGLE. It’s good for the head, the body and the soul. We have scoured the nation for the best makers and craftspeople and this year our line-up is stronger than ever. We’ve covered all bases; there’s something for everyone.
Learn from some of the best craftspeople in Britain. Tweak, shape, cut, hack, sharpen, twist, glue, turn, polish, strip, nail, sew, sand. Do it all. Do it with joy.
‘MINE OAK’ CAMPFIRE SCREENING MAKE A LEATHER LIFE JAR WITH RURAL KIND Thursday 7.30pm Free. Drop-in. Returning to Makers’ Row for another year The Whittling Green are Mike & Nia, AKA Rural Kind; designers Join us around a campfire as we screen and makers of simple, functional, and a very special short film ‘Mine Oak’, a durable carry goods. collaborative project between SOUP Creative Friday 11am, 1:30pm, 3:30pm, 5:30pm and Jwrnal featuring David White, aka The Saturday 10:15am, 12pm, 2pm, 3:45pm, 5:30pm Whittlings. Oh, and with a Blue Slate gin and Sunday 10:30am, 12:30am, 2:30pm, 4:30pm tonic in hand. 75m, £20. Park Makers’ Row
DECORATE AND GLAZE A RAKU POT WITH MAKE AN ECO-FRIENDLY FLOWER CROWN TWO PLUS TWO WITH FIERCE BLOOMS Two plus Two are four experienced potters Kathryn is an artisan florist and flower who will use their combined knowledge to grower with a design studio and cutting enable you to enjoy the Raku process. garden nestled beside a historic canal in Workshops every 45 mins from 10am rural Cheshire. 30-40m, £20 Park Makers’ Row Time slots: 11am / 2pm / 4pm 1h, £25 Park Makers’ Row PAPER STENCIL PRINTING WITH TOM FROST Tom is an artist and printmaker and 2018 DON’T MISS! festival goers will no doubt remember his exclusive festival poster. This year Tom will be STITCH-SCHOOL SUPPER CLOTH back with more print workshops for all ages Free. Drop-in and stitch part of a to get stuck in. communal tapestry with Stitch-School Time slots: 11am / 1pm / 3pm / 5pm especially designed for TGLE by Tom Frost. All 1h, £20 for two people Park Makers’ Row ages and abilities. Time slots: Thursday 4-6pm CLAY PLAY WITH TIM LAKE Friday + Saturday + Sunday 10am-6pm Tim makes pots. Pots to be used and to be admired, using good old fashion human Stitch-School was co-founded by Aimee strength to power his stone kick wheel. and Melanie in South London to provide Time slots: 11.30am / 3.30pm professional and inspirational guidance to 30m, £10 Park Makers’ Row reconnect to the benefits of embroidery. KNITTING + WEAVING WITH NELLIE AND EVE MEET/MAKE/MEND WITH BRISTOL TEXTILE Helen is an expert with all things wool. With QUARTER her material source visible from her kitchen Drop-in and bring your old clothes for window in the Carmarthenshire Hills she’s mending, stitching and darning. a true example of the homegrown and With coffee and cake provided by MugRun. homemade craft movement. Saturday + Sunday 9.30am - 12pm 1h, £20 Park Makers’ Row 11am Terrace Makers’ Row KNIT A SUPER CHUNK INFINITY SCARF Bristol Textile Quarter’s MeetMakeMend is 2h, £25 Park Makers’ Row 1pm at the core of the Slow Fashion movement WEAVE A WOOL SITTING MAT with monthly meetings focussed on making friends in the city and mending old clothes. WEAVING WITH MANDY COATES + ROSIE FAREY Mother and daughter duo specialise in willow WHITTLE A TOOL WITH THE WHITTLINGS basket and fine rush weaving. David eats, sleeps and breathes wood. He 2.5h, £15 Park Makers’ Row makes beautiful, practical tools, tableware Time slots: 10am / 3.30pm each day and vessels with just traditional whittling WEAVE A RUSH PLACEMAT WITH ROSIE tools. And some imagination of course. 4 workshops per day from 10am 1h, £10 Park Makers’ Row 45 mins, £15 The Whittling Green 11am each day WEAVE A DECORATIVE WILLOW BULLRUSH A WALLING MASTERCLASS: BUILDING A WITH MANDY MOON GATE WITH CARREG ELWY Traditional dry stone wallers and true 2h, £20 Park Makers’ Row artisans in their craft, you may remember 4pm each day them from last year when they were busy WEAVE A WILLOW CATALONIAN TENSION building Hawarden’s third Castle over on the TRAY WITH MANDY mound with the help from festival goers. From 10am each day SCREEN PRINTING WITH GAIL BRYSON 1-2h, £10 Terrace Makers’ Row A true friend of TGLE, Gail’s returning again bringing along her colourful screen prints for BIG WEAVE WITH LLIO JAMES you to create exclusive garments + tote bags. Llio draws up traditional weaving techniques Drop-in £5-£30 Park Makers’ Row and an extensive knowledge of Welsh Throughout the day tradition to create modern designs. SCREEN PRINT T-SHIRTS AND TEXTILES Free Terrace Makers’ Row Throughout the day Drop-in £30 Park Makers’ Row Friday + Saturday 7pm MAKE AN INDIGO SHIBORI NECKERCHIEF SCREENPRINT YOUR TGLE APRON WITH JEANETTE ORRELL Artist and maker living in Wales, much of her TALKS AND DEMOS WITH CLASSIC SAILBOATS work explores “ideas”, such as domesticity, Jon and Adrian make traditional sailboats by femininity, or gender roles. hand in Caernarfon. 1h, £15 Terrace Makers’ Row 11am / 3pm The Whittling Green Time slot: every hour each day SEWING WITH THRIFTY STITCHER BIG WEAVE WITH LLIO JAMES Learn a range of invaluable sewing skills with Llio will be using a huge frame to weave Claire-Louise, master of all things textiles our very own Good Life fabric. She’ll also and mastermind behind the scenes of the have smaller weaving looms ready for you to Great British Sewing Bee, and her friend weave. Russell from Offcut Studio. Free Terrace Makers’ Row 1h, £10 Adventure Marketplace Throughout the day Friday & Sunday 10am / Saturday 3pm SEW YOUR OWN ‘BENTO’ STYLE BAG BASICS OF SIGN WRITING WITH SIGNS BY UMBERTO 1h, Free Adventure Marketplace Robert Walker, aka Umberto, is a sign-writer Friday & Sunday 11:30am / Saturday as well as an educator. He specialises in 1:45pm hand crafted sign making known as Verre LEARN TO SEW A GADGET COVER Églomisé, as well as hand painted sign writing and large scale typographic murals. 1h, £15 Adventure Marketplace Time slots: 10am / 3pm (each day) Friday & Sunday 1:45pm / Saturday 2h, £15 Terrace Makers’ Row 11:30am SEW A WATERPROOF TOILETRY BAG PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOPS WITH LITTLE VINTAGE PHOTOGRAPHY 1h, charity donation to Mind. Go back to the old-school ways of creating Adventure Marketplace Friday 3pm / photographs - no iPhones needed. Saturday 10am / Sunday 4:30pm 1h £15 Terrace Makers’ Row REPAIR CAFÉ 3.45pm each day ANALOGUE ADVENTURER (Children 7+ 1 hour. £15 Adventure Marketplace accompanied by an adult) Friday & Saturday 4:30pm / Sunday 3pm SEW A REUSABLE CUTLERY WRAP 1h £15 Terrace Makers’ Row 10am each day THE ORIGINAL SHANDAL CO. VINTAGE PHOTOWALK (Age 11+, under 18 Ruth and Alan created Shandals; not a accompanied by an adult) shoe nor a sandal but a hybrid designed to support you sole and your soul. They will be 1h £15 Terrace Makers’ Row demonstrating the art of stamping brogue 12.45pm each day patterns to leather. VICTORIAN SUNPRINTS (Age 18+) Drop-in Terrace Makers’ Row Throughout the day TY PAWB FLORAL WATER DISTILLATION WITH SIELICH Ty Pawb is an arts and community hub in BOTANICALS Wrexham. The team will be demonstrating Seilich make products from handcrafted the steam bending technique and aromatic waters distilled from botanicals manufacture of the bespoke Hippodrome grown in their wildflower meadow in Lampshades. Scotland. Drop-in Terrace Makers’ Row 1h30m, £20 Terrace Makers’ Row Throughout the day 11am / 2pm each day PAPER WORKSHOPS WITH FFOWNDRI LEARN AND MAKE WITH KEFIR CYMRU Collectors of old machinery and all things Kefir Cymru is Helen’s side-project for the to do with traditional printing methods, Lisa love of our guts; kefir is a fermented milk and Andrew run the not-for-profit studio drink full of good bacteria. Ffowndri just a few miles from the Estate. £5 Terrace Makers’ Row Drop-in, £10 Terrace Makers’ Row Friday 10am Ongoing throughout the weekend. LEARN AND MAKE KEFIR PRINT YOUR OWN TGLE LETTERPRESS POSTER £5 Terrace Makers’ Row 1h30m Terrace Makers’ Row Saturday 10am / 11am 10.30am / 1pm / 3.30pm each day MAKE YOUR OWN KEFIR SMOOTHIE OR PAPER MARBLING OVERNIGHT OATS (Please arrive 15m prior to the start) BOWL TURNING WITH DWRGI NEEDLE FELT A QUIRKY BIRD WITH RUTH James lives and works in an old cottage near PACKHAM Machynlleth. All of his bowls, spoons and tools Ruth is an artist and textiles maker living and are made by hand with wood from the land. working in Borth, on the West Wales coast, £15-£30 The Whittling Green heavily inspired by the nature around her. Throughout the day 2h £15 Terrace Makers’ Row Time slots: 10am / 1pm / 4pm LINO CUT WITH CALLIE JONES Callie is a Cornish illustrator, printmaker and TEXTILE PRINTING WITH PERIS & CORR digital artist working from her studio on a Printing duo Dyfrig and Jen are well-known farm in North Wales. for their contemporary interpretations of 1h30m £20 Terrace Makers’ Row traditional Welsh patterns and handprinted Time slots: 10am / 1pm / 4pm textiles. £15 Terrace Makers’ Row ART CANTEEN WITH TORTOISE Drop in between 10.30am-12.30pm or Live art by 6 independent artists from 1.30-4.30pm each day Chester accompanied by Vintage Mobile SCREEN PRINT A TEA TOWEL Disco. Bring dancing shoes and a sharpie. Terrace Makers’ Row 40m £30 Terrace Makers’ Row Friday + Saturday 8-10pm 10am (each day) REPEAT FABRIC PRINTING LIFE DRAWING + CREATIVE WRITING WITH BITS AND PIECES MAKE A SIMPLE CAMPING STOOL Bits and Pieces combine creative writing with WITH STANDARD PRACTICE life drawing in a comfy and fun atmosphere. A dynamic studio team of designers and There will be nudity so we ask for children to makers from Manchester that takes a DIY be accompanied by an adult, and giggles to approach to the built environment. be kept to a minimum. 1h, £20 Terrace Makers’ Row 1h30m, Free. Park Makers’ Row Time slot: every hour each day Saturday 3:30pm / 6pm + Sunday 11:30am / 2:30pm
ACTIVITIESACTIVITIES Sing? Bake? Walk on fire? Choose one. Choose them all. There’s plenty to enjoy all weekend long at The Good Life Experience.
CHOIR WITH JAMES SILLS. LIFE COACHING WITH NINA SAT 7am The Lake GRUNFELD OF LIFECLUBS. SAT 7pm Hawarden Old Castle SAT 3pm Hawarden Castle
James Sills is a folk musician and singer Get Going: What Keeps You On Track? The and has dedicated much of his recent Rules Of Motivation. Ever failed to complete life to inspiring people to sing, whatever your New Year’s resolution? Given up half- they believe that their ability in this area way through that project you wanted to is. He is the author of Do Sing, which will complete? We are born motivated – we teach be launched at TGLE, and host of podcast ourselves to walk, talk, naturally learn and Sing, Sing, Sing. want to advance forward. It’s only as time Your ticket to this choir will include a drink goes on that fear, doubt, laziness creep in and a copy of Do Sing. and they can be hard to get rid of. Motivation is extremely complex and, although we each have unique tools that keep us motivated, FIRE WALKING. many of us are unaware of what they are. SAT 2pm (12yrs+) The Lake LIFE COACHING WITH NINA As part of our programme of new/ GRUNFELD OF LIFECLUBS. interesting/dangerous pastimes/sports we SUN 10am Hawarden Castle are excited to announce the return of Fire Walking for this year. Guests will be able to What do you want for the future? Are you learn and practice this amazing ancient, stuck on what you want next in your life? Can mind-boggling activity. you imagine two years ahead? Nina Grunfeld, founder of ‘LifeClubs’, will host a one hour life coaching session for a group of 12 people. Life BREAD BAKING AND APPLE Circles is about tapping into your unconscious PRESSING. and using your intuition to plan your ideal FRI-SUN 9am Info Tent Small donation future. By drawing circles to map out the elements of your life that are most important Bake your morning bread with Bread to you, you will be able to see clearly how Together, a bread-making cooperative from each of these elements is interconnected and Chester, and pick and press your apple how each affects you in different ways. This juice for breakfast using Estate apples deceptively simple workshop will give you the hosted by Transition Chester. clarity you require to create your ideal future. FOODFOOD WORKSHOPSWORKSHOPS This year we’ve raised the bar for our food workshops. Old friends and new faces will lend their expert knowledge for two hours of tuition with class sizes no larger than 30. Expect to learn how to bake, smoke, cure, prepare and roast great food beside Hawarden Castle, and in the shadow of Hawarden Old Castle.
COFFEE ROASTING CRASH COURSE ON CURING MASTERCLASS WITH WITH MIKE KEEN. CHARLIE COOK. FRI 12.30-2.30pm Food Workshop Tent THUR 3-5pm Food Workshop Tent Spend an afternoon getting a crash course It’s been 30 years since Michael Allpress on curing and smoking with Mike. Born opened his first coffee cart in New Zealand. in Colchester but brought up in Nigeria “This year we want to peel back the curtain and Saudi Arabia, he got a taste for exotic and give you a hands on experience of what flavours and adventurous cooking at an early we’ve learnt over the years - what makes age. He will explain hot and cold smoking, a great coffee.” You’ll take a batch of raw how to dry & wet cure products + how to rig green coffee, from sorting, to blending to up a makeshift smoker to muck around with roasting - all the way through to brewing at home. your own cup of coffee. THE IMPORTANCE OF FRESH MASTERING VEGAN INGREDIENTS WITH HESTER MERINGUE WITH BRIONY & JESS. MAY. FRI 3-5pm Food Workshop Tent FRI 10am-12pm Food Workshop Tent The importance of good, seasonal, After years of baking at home and cultivating ingredients. The workshop is based around her creativity and skill, Briony first came two vegetables: tomatoes and courgettes, to the public’s attention as she launched showing that you can make a delicious lunch onto our screens during 9 stressful weeks using very few ingredients. On the menu will in the tent on the 2018 series of The Great be: bruschetta with tomato and summer British Bake Off. Progressing through the herbs, bruschetta with ricotta, chilli and competition to the semi-finals, Briony’s summer herbs, taglierini with courgettes and humour and warmth, coupled with her lemon zest. resilience and ingenuity saw her become a firm favourite with the audience.
ALL THE FOOD WORKSHOPS ARE £22.50 PER PERSON AND OFFER TWO HOURS OF HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE. HEAD TO THE INFO TENT TO BOOK YOUR SPOT. BAKE FOR GOOD GUT MODERN RUSSIAN RECIPES HEALTH WITH KAREN TO ENTERTAIN WITH ALISSA O’DONOGHUE HAPPY TIMOSHKINA. TUMMY CO. SAT 3-5pm Food Workshop Tent SAT 10am-12pm Food Workshop Tent Do Russians really eat caviar and drink vodka Karen’s attitude to food comes from a deep for breakfast or do they get by on stale respect for the land. This workshop will see bread and cabbage? Join Alissa Timoshkina, you ferment and bake breads for optimum author of Salt and Time, for an afternoon good gut health. of authentic Russian food. Alissa’s recipes are rooted in traditional Russian dishes but HEALTHIEST LOAF IN are interpreted for contemporary Western THE WORLD WITH TOM kitchens. Drawing on her experience as a HERBERT. supper club hostess, Alissa will also share SAT 12.30-2.30pm Food Workshop Tent recipes ideal for entreating as well as tips on food presentation. Tom Herbert is a fifth generation baker and one half of The Fabulous Baker Brothers. He PLANT POWER FOR THE won Young Baker of the Year as soon as he CHANGING SEASON WITH left baking college and has since harboured HARRIET COLEMAN. the ambition to ‘do for bread what Rick Stein SUN 12.30-2.30pm Food Workshop Tent has done for fish’. He’s started a baking school, published books and ‘has lots of Harriet is a former international model now floury tricks up his sleeve’. living sustainably, seasonally + hosting talks and workshops with Harriet the Herbalist.
WILD ATLANTIC SALMON: SMOKING AND CONSERVATION WITH MAX JONES. SUN 10am-12pm Food Workshop Tent
Join a remarkable tasting with itinerant artisan/food conservationist Max Jones as he brings a side of extremely precious fish from the last remaining artisan of exclusively wild Atlantic Salmon left in the world, Sally Barnes. With nobody to continue the tradition of smoking Wild Atlantic Salmon from Irish waters after her, Max moved from London to West Cork in Ireland, in an effort to glean as much knowledge of the dying craft as possible. Expect a tale of sustainability, integrity, nature, wild food, millennia - old fishing methods, the revelation of ancient smoke - curing craft techniques and the story of Sally, bastion of real food, swimming against the current of farmed fish and bureaucracy with as much fight as the wild fish itself. Tasting will include a side of remarkable fish from potentially the last Wild Atlantic Salmon season we will see for many years, served on traditional soda bread, unpasteurised mountain butter and cured wild salmon bottarga (roe), all paired with loose leaf tea. Revel in the knowledge that attendees will be the only ones on the planet eating that particular food! FEASTS Good food and living The Good Life go hand-in-hand.
Between Hawarden Estate Farm Shop, our team of wonderful food vendors, and nine top chefs we’ve got you covered for a full weekend of good food. All of it served by experts and enjoyed in the company of like-minded foodies. You truly could eat something completely different for every meal this weekend.
Campfire Cooking Stage THUR 8-10pm DAMIAN CLISBY Damian Clisby’s passion for cooking was ignited by his grandfather, a butcher at Smithfields who taught him how to smoke freshly caught salmon on his farm in Co Cork. Damian went on to work in some of the best kitchens in London including a recent stint as head chef at Petersham Nurseries. Damian is a keen forager and we are thrilled to welcome him for a pit- cooked feast at The Good Life.
The Pavilion THUR 8-10pm MIKE KEEN Mike Keen lives in the beautiful Suffolk countryside and is the owner and executive chef of Ipswich food pub The Brewery Tap and Cult Cafe on the town’s waterside. Born in Colchester but brought up in Nigeria and Saudi Arabia, Mike got a taste for exotic flavours and adventurous cooking at an early age.
The Pavilion FRI 12-2pm HONEY & CO Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich opened Honey & Co in 2012, launching their restaurant Honey & Smoke and deli Honey & Spice close behind. Honey & Co The Cookbook was named Cookbook of the Year by The Sunday Times and won several awards.
The Greenhouse (Walled Garden) FRI 8-10pm XANTHE GLADSTONE * Earlier this year, Xanthe left her job in Marketing in London and has taken on a project growing fruit and vegetables in the Walled Garden at Hawarden. This summer she headed to the renowned Ballymaloe Cookery School, attending their first Sustainable Food Course. Armed with the knowledge she gained, Xanthe will produce a three course dinner using seasonal and sustainable ingredients and will serve her Feast in the Victorian greenhouse in the Walled Garden. ALL FEASTS ARE £39.50 PER HEAD NUMBERS ARE STRICTLY LIMITED VISIT THE INFO TENT TO BOOK YOUR PLACE AT THE TABLE FEASTS MARKED (*) ARE SOLD OUT AT TIME OF PRINTING The Pavilion FRI 8-10pm ROSIE NEVE + LONNIE ROUNTREE After meeting as chefs at Petersham Nurseries, Lonnie and Rosie have been friends for the past year. In that year they have eaten, drank and talked about food, wine and cooking every day, pushing themselves to create and experiment. They have learnt from each other and from all the places they have visited together. The menu is a feast of their friendship and Rosie & Lonnie are so excited to share their love for simple cooking and big flavours.
The Pavilion SAT 12-2pm ANJA DUNK + JEN GOSS Anja Dunk grew up in the Welsh countryside where homegrown produce and wild foraging were part of daily life. Here began her love for preserving; a subject she has gone on to write a number of books about. Jen Goss lives on a smallholding in West Wales where the produce from her land and surrounding hedgerows provides ample supplies for Our Two Acres – the catering company she set up after a career in the hospitality industry in London.
Campfire Cooking Stage SAT 8-10pm CHRIS ROBERTS * ‘Lambassador’ Chris Roberts is famed for barbecuing his way around the North Wales Coast with his Asado grill. Fuelled by organic Welsh meat, and copious amounts of his signature Sexy Rub seasoning, Chris and his dog Roxy have become social media sensations.
The Pavilion SAT 8-10pm THOMASINA MIERS Thomasina Miers is a cook, food writer and television presenter, an entrepreneur and the co- founder and Executive Chef of Wahaca Restaurants which are inspired by the food markets of Mexico. She is a passionate advocate of good food, responsibly-sourced and wonderfully- cooked. She supports fairtrade producers and local markets. You may also know her as 2005’s Masterchef winner.
The Pavilion SUN 12-2pm THE VEGETARIAN SOCIETY The Vegetarian Society’s mission is to inspire, inform and enable people to be vegetarian. Their cookery school offers a whole host of veggie and vegan cookery experiences from vegan cheese making to mushroom foraging. They’ll be popping up in Hawarden Castle Pavilion for the ultimate vegan Sunday Lunch. YOUR WEEKEND OF WELLNESS
TAI CHI Try your hand at one of the oldest, and most authentic forms of Tai Chi, the Chen style, as well as the simplified Yang form. Tai Chi has been a part of TGLE since 2014, and promises to aid you enjoy self expression, fellowship and find ways to enhance our common wellbeing and make new friends.
YOGA THERAPY & MASSAGE We’ve been working with The Zest Heilsa Therapies will be offering a range Life since the very first TGLE. Their of treatments over the weekend from inspirational teachers will host hourly reflexology and children’s reflexology, sessions all day on Saturday and Sunday, hot stone, sports, deep tissue, seated, covering all styles of yoga for any age or aromatherapy, cancer care massage to ability. Mats will be provided, so you can Japanese facial massage, Hopi candling just turn up and join in! and so much more.
WILD SWIMMING INSPIRING TALKS & Wild Swimming expert, and friend of WORKSHOPS TGLE, Vivienne Rickman-Poole will return Reasons to be Cheerful with Mark to The Lake to lead swims, encourage Shayler / Hilary Gallo: Fear Hack / Life creativity and keep the lakeside Coaching with Nina Grunfeld / How to campfire stoked all weekend long. Head Stop Working with Josh Cohen / How to down to The Lake and dive in! Get the Best from People with Charlie Gladstone / How Ancient Philosophy Teaches Us To Live Well with Tom Hodgkinson
GOOD FOOD Bake the Healthiest Loaf in the World with Tom Herbert / Plant Power for Changing Seasons with Harriet Colman / Bake for Good Gut Health with Happy Tummy Co / The Ultimate Vegan Sunday Lunch with The Vegetarian Society PENPEN BARBAR LAGLAG Llywelyn b.1258 (Wales’ last sovereign prince) fought over the Old Castle where we hold The Good Life Experience each year. And on this auspicious site we offer some of the rich and diverse literature, dance and music makers of Wales. It’s hosted by punk legend and John Peel favourite Anrhefn’s Rhys Mwyn, and Brecon’s wonkiest and most wonderful book shop and cafe, The Hours.
DEWI PRYSOR DENISE JOHNSON ALFFA Don’t miss meeting a living According to Primal Scream: The first ever band to hit 1 legend. Native of Trawsfynydd, ”Denise has that kind of million streams on Spotify Dewi is a throwback to those voice that sounds like a band with a song entirely in the wild poets who inhabited on its own. It’s to do with a Welsh language. This blues these islands centuries before presence, so having Denise rock duo from Llanrug, North us, but whose feet are firmly in on stage with that voice, it’s Wales are previous winners of the 21st Century. His memoirs fantastic to play to”. You’ll BBC Radio Cymru Battle Of about EURO 2016 -where he know her soaring, soulful The Bands. Alffa will get our followed the Welsh national voice from the Mercury Prize groove on with tracks from football team through France- winning ‘Screamadelica’, she’s their brand new album out are a hoot, and this adds to also sung with Ian Brown and September 2019. his cannon of five other novels New Order. Hear songs from and four history series for S4C. her debut acoustic album ROBERT MINHINNICK including some of her native How to write the songs of the MANON PRYSOR Manchester’s most iconic heart? Writer and poet Robert Unmissable for those with tunes. has the key to this secret. even a passing interest in Several time recipient of Wales languages, history, script JEB LOY NICHOLS Book of the Year (1995, 2006 writing, performing arts and A true Pied Piper of music, his and 2018), shortlisted for the theatre. Acclaimed Welsh collection and compilations of TS Eliot Prize in 2018, and two- actress Manon Prysor will lead soul and country are second time winner of ‘Forward Prize you through the playing fields to none, and many follow in for Best Poem’, Robert lives in of Cymraeg as she his wake. Indeed, Cerys loves Porthcawl and is joint founder specialises in learning through playing songs he’s nudged of the charities Friends of the theatre. Her film, theatre her way on 6 Music. Think JJ Earth Cymru and Sustainable and TV credits include ‘Hedd Cale on a summer’s day and Wales / Cymru Gynaliadwy. Wyn’, ‘Pobol y Cwm’, ‘Rownd you’ll be swimming in the & Rownd’, Craith 2/Hidden 2 right waters. Born in Wyoming, DAN LLYWELYN HALL and Cimera Circus Company. raised in Missouri, blossomed Spend time with the youngest Bring your curiosity. All ages in New York then later London, artist to have officially welcome. his songs portray a life well painted a portrait of the lived... wise, warm and deep. Queen. Hear him talk about his work, influences, dreams adopting synthesisers and PON BRO and future projects. An old rhythm generators. Today Into cajun music? Head school creative, watching Stuart has gone solo, and to Pen Bar Lag for a Mardi Dan at work across different found his own voice and Gras party with Pon Bro: an disciplines feels like an art lyricisms beyond the YMG acoustic trio who pump out form in itself. A little wild, a formula. traditional cajun, two steps, little poetic and a lot of heart. waltzes and cajun blues. Recipient of the Sunday Times LLEUWEN You’ll be left wondering how Young Artist of the Year in An extraordinary and trilingual Louisiana swamp music sits so 2003, Dan went on to feature artist, but singing mainly in naturally with Gwynedd roots, in the BP Portrait Award at the Breton and Welsh, Lleuwen is in Flintshire fields... hoe down National Portrait Gallery. He an internationally renowned anyone? painted the Queen in 2014. and acclaimed jazz vocalist and songwriter. Her current RUFUS MUFASA GLOVE project is inspired by and From mentoring Finnish beat “Their eyes are painted blue rooted in the blues of old poets to educating through with thick make up. They Welsh country hymns. Expect hip hop, Rufus is a pioneering are tribal and wild. They are the unexpected... and some artist, lyricist, rapper, dancing on the bones of rock spiritual voyaging? performance poet and trained ‘n’ roll. Wild poets. Shamanic scriptwriter. Expect talks dancers with a new beat that GWILYN BOWEN RHYS touching on working in prison, you can dance to as well and BBC Radio 2 British Folk Singer trilingual experiments and they somehow turn the room of the Year nominee 2019. inter generational projects. of random punters into an It’s so exciting when doors ecstatic party with a brand are thrown wide open and CHRISTOPHER new sound. Glove are going to talent rushes through to wider MEREDITH make a lot of noise. Get into acclaim. We are delighted that Award-winning novelist, poet them now before everyone else Gwilyn Bowen Rhys is going and translator. His ground- does!” - John Robb, Louder to be singing at the Good breaking first novel, Shifts, Than War. Currently exploding Life in the tiny but perfectly is regarded as a modern onto the Manchester music formed Pen Bar Lag tent/ classic. Born and raised up scene, expect pounding drums bar. Catch him before he goes in Tredegar, he has been a and guitar that sounds both stratospheric. steelworker, a schoolteacher primal and post-apocalyptic. and a university professor and BLODAU PAPUR now writes full time. STUART MOXHAM Fans of soul and blues might This man changed your want to mosey on down to Pen PENTANNYN host’s -Rhys Mwyn- life. Bar Lag to catch this young A Ceilidh folk quartet, mainly Alongside brother Phil and band Blodau Papur (paper singing and playing songs Alison Stratton, Stuart formed flowers), grab a pint and sit and melodies from the Young Marble Giants in and wonder, and think at Welsh tradition. Expect lively 1978. They were a ‘70s band times of Amy Winehouse and arrangements of familiar and looking to the future, ditching other soul singers that just new dance tunes. bothersome drumkits and move you. MEI GWYNEDD PATRICK JONES PAPUR WAL One of the great wave of + JOHN ROBB A bilingual slacker/art rock musicians forming the Patrick is the poet whose band, influenced by the maelstrom of artists in Cardiff words skewer these dark 90s American alternative in the ‘90s, some of whom’s political and social times indie scene. Following in the members went on to plough in with a powerful humanity footsteps of their heroes, force over the Severn Bridge to and emotional soul power. Super Furry Animals and surge into UK consciousness. The older brother of Manic Gorky’s Zygotic Monkey, First heard as part of Beganifs, Street Preacher’s Nicky Wire, their sound is harmony laden then Big Leaves, with brother Jones was a key influence on with weirdly tuned guitars, Osian in mega band Sybrydion, the band in the early days. wandering melodic basslines Mei then became a player in Today he has teamed up and innovative drum beats. legendary Rhys Ifans’ band ‘Y with legendary music writer Peth. Expect the best melody- and Membranes frontman CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES driven guitar anthems. John Robb to create a new PROFESSOR LLUSERN album. Robb scored swooping, aka professor Lantern will ANELU: AIM HIGHER epic and melancholic pieces return to Pen Bar Lag bringing Mountaineering leader to match the mood of the his magic and very different Stephen Jones is based in poetic polemic in a diverse Punch and Judy Show. Plenty the heart of Snowdonia. His and powerful state of the of fun and laughter whatever experiences have led him to nation address that captures your age. the Swiss and French Alps, the Broken Britain nervously Norway, Central America and stumbling towards Brexit. MAGI ANN PARTY beyond. Hear him talk about A story and song session using his life and work as former LOS BLANCOS the world famous, Lottery Royal Marine and Military Take a hint of the drunken award-winning Magi Ann Ski Instructor and initiatives passion and abandonment apps! Learn and sing a few offering adventurous activities of The Replacements and Welsh songs with Magi Ann for under 18’s and families. The Lemonheads mix with herself. Led by Menter Iaith Carmarthenshire wit and Fflint a Wrecsam, there’s a MORUS ELFRYM spirit and the guiding hands warm welcome to polyglots, Award-winning recording of Kris Jenkins, and you’ll see monoglots and all ages. artist for Sain records, Morus how Los Blancos triumphed at Elfryn is an integral and the Live BBC Radio broadcast DISGO DISTAW important player in Welsh from Focus Wales Festival, the Great Welsh language music music history. He is one part Green Man Festival and Huw from the ‘60s, ‘70s and beyond of the ‘Dyniadon Hirfelyn’ Stephens’s monthly sessions at in this rather special Silent and this is a very rare live The Social in London. In short, Disco session. appearance, following a BBC a band whose mystery needs visit to Rhys Mwyn’s radio to be fully explored. show, which reignited mass love and interest. HIRE HAWARDEN CASTLE PAVILION FOR YOUR WEDDING, PARTY OR EVENT. 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RAYMOND ANTROBUS quarter of what she did, is an among women, shared widely Raymond is a prize-winning outdoor swimming fanatic and online and in print. Her advice British-Jamaican poet, actually likes yoga. to poets is ‘be tough on your performer, editor and poems but kind to yourself... educator who has been hailed DR FREDDIE BAVEYSTOCK Listen to poems being spoken, as the UK’s most exciting new Freddie’s professional career let their electricity light you’. literary talent in any genre. started at Oxford University His debut poetry collection, where he taught American AMANDA BLAINEY The Perseverance, won the Literature. He then spent Amanda is a public speaker, Rathbones Folio prize and the many years working in writer, social activist in the Ted Hughes Award. branding for some of Europe’s growing death movement top agencies before making and author of Do Death: For A PAUL BARNHILL a radical shift in career and Life Better Lived. She founded An actor, writer and director. training as a state school Doing Death a multimedia Paul has worked for over 26 teacher. platform and podcast that years in TV, Theatre, Film and allows us to explore the Radio. He has co-written and BRIAN BEATON subject of death and dying. acted in various comedy series Brian is part of the team that She also runs a regular Death for BBC Radio 4 and is Artistic runs the employment team Café. Director of Goofus, producing at House of St Barnabas. The fantastical, comedic and House is a members’ club STEVE CHAPMAN moving stories with puppetry, that aims to break the cycle Steve Chapman has never storytelling and music. Recent of homelessness. Through his fitted in. He is an artist screen credits include The BFG Humour of Sense workshop he who gives away his work. and Ready Player One both uses comedy to support people He specialises in working in directed by Steven Spielberg. in difficult situations. creative and counter-intuitive ways to help people to free SARAH BARNHILL LIZ BERRY themselves ‘from the stuck Sarah used to be an executive Liz re-tuned the ears of loops of common sense’. trapped in a corporate poetry-lovers across the UK nightmare. She thought when Black Country, a loving JOSH COHEN everyone who spent time homage to the dialect of her Josh Cohen is Professor on themselves was to be West Midlands upbringing, of Modern Literary Theory pitied. Then she found herself won the Forward Prize for at Goldsmiths and a trapped in a space the size of Best First Collection in 2014. psychoanalyst in private a lift with Steven Spielberg, The Republic of Motherhood, practice. He is an author of for 4 months. Now she earns a won the status of an anthem several books and a journalist who writes on modern LOUISE EDWARDS bidding war- Show Them A literature, cultural theory and Louise is passionate about Good Time was described by psychoanalysis. making the world a better The Guardian as ‘an addictive place and so -in her spare mix of deadpan drollery and MARY DANIELS time- she founded RAVEN candour’. Mary has spent most of (Refugee And Volunteer her adult life working Empowerment Network). PETER FRANCIS with vulnerable people in Her vision is ‘a world where Peter is the Warden of the community, including refugees are treated with Gladstone’s Library, Britain’s mentoring and working with dignity’. only Prime Ministerial and young offenders in and out residential library. The Library of prison, within schools, KATIE ELLIOTT is dedicated to theology and coaching women’s groups Katie is a writer, public liberalism. He is an expert and working with inner city speaker and the founder on the life of the Library’s charities and community of Little Challenges which founder, four times Prime projects. She has a knack of offers ‘ideas, inspiration and Minister William Gladstone. turning challenging situations practical tools to help make into triumphs. the messy business of being HILARY GALLO human just a little bit easier’. Hilary is a lawyer, coach, CATRINA DAVIES She also hosts the Adventures negotiation expert, sometime Catrina is the author of in Behaviour Change podcast. jewellery designer and the Homesick; Why I Live in a author of Fear Hack and The Shed. The book is a memoir of ANDREW EVANS Power of Soft. He says: “my a personal housing crisis and Born with severe haemophilia, focus is on enabling people. the radical solution she found. Andy was injecting himself What binds my work together with the ‘miracle’ blood- is a belief in our power from JULIE ANNA DOUGLAS clotting product ‘Factorate’, within”. Writer, children’s poet and the not knowing that this NHS author of A Treasure Chest treatment was contaminated. MIKE GARRY of Story Telling Inspiration, At 8 he contracted HIV. By Mike was a librarian for 15 Julie aims to help children 16 he had developed full years before becoming a unlock their imagination and blown AIDS. It was 1993... In poet. His gritty poetry has create amazing stories and 2006, he founded ‘Tainted won admiration far and wide. adventures. Blood’ – a support group Mike’s Ode To St. Anthony, a for the thousands of other poem dedicated to the Factory ROB DOYLE haemophiliacs who, like Records boss Tony Wilson and Rob’s first novel Here Are The him, had unknowingly put to classical music by the Young Men was selected as a been infected with HIV and composer Joe Duddell, went to Book of the Year by The Sunday Hepatitis C. For over 30 years, #1 in three UK charts in 2015. Times. It was also selected as he has sought recognition and one of Hot Press’s ’20 Greatest compensation for the infected GEMMA GERMAINS Irish Novels Since 1916’. He is haemophiliac community. Gemma is a cyclist, designer, also an essayist and actor who writer, speaker, Sagittarius, appeared in the 2017 feature NICOLE FLATTERY GSOH looking for discrete film Hit the North. Nicole’s collection of short fun. Ever wondered what it’s stories -published by like to do a conference call Bloomsbury after a fierce with drug-induced psychosis? Now’s your chance to find is a “social enterprise with SUSANNAH HERBERT out. From accessing help a simple mission – to make Susannah is a reformed when you can’t stop cleaning excellent quality affordable national newspaper journalist, to really weird vocal tics; I’m clothes for men and women, who runs Forward Arts Not Normally Like This is a to create great jobs for skilled Foundation, the charity behind celebration of mental health workers and by doing this National Poetry Day. In 2018, in all it’s wild, terrifying glory. help to restore real pride in inspired by Cerys Matthews’ Britain’s textile communities”. relish for words, she invited BLANCHE GIROUARD He is also a judge on The Great Cerys to curate Tell Me The Blanche Girouard is a teacher, British Sewing Bee. Truth About Life, an anthology writer and broadcaster with of 100 “poems that matter” a long association with TGLE. JAMES GREENWOOD for National Poetry Day’s 25th This year she is curating a James is a vet, potter and anniversary. series of talks on the theme of television presenter. He has How To… practiced as a vet since TOM HODGKINSON 2007 while also appearing Tom is a writer, commentator, CHARLIE GLADSTONE on BBC 2’s The Great Pottery retailer and holder of strong Charlie Gladstone is an Throwdown and the hit CBBC opinions, mainly expressed via entrepreneur, author, land series ‘The Pets Factor’. The Idler, where he is editor. owner and founder or co- His books include Business for founder of TGLE, Pedlars, Glen TOM GREGORY Bohemians and How to be Idle. Dye Cabins & Cottages, The Author of A Boy in the Water, Glynne Arms and Hawarden Tom wrote his poignant, TOM HUNT Estate Farm Shop. He hosts life-affirming story of a An award-winning chef, food The Mavericks Podcast and co- determined boy, a visionary writer, climate change activist wrote The Family Guide to the coach and a record-breaking and author of The Natural Great Outdoors with his wife swim on the daily commute Cook: Eating the Seasons from Caroline. between Farncombe and Root to Fruit. His work focuses Waterloo. In 1988, Tom on food sustainability without SALENA GODDEN succeeded in becoming the compromising on creativity or Salena is one of Britain’s youngest person to swim the taste. foremost poets, whose Channel, aged just 11. electrifying live performances JOAN IYIOLA have earned her a devoted NINA GRUNFELD Joan is a British/Nigerian following. Her self-produced Nina is a writer, journalist, actress best known for playing live poetry album LIVEwire public speaker and the title role in The Duchess was shortlisted for the Ted entrepreneur. She is the of Malfi at The RSC to huge Hughes Award. Pessimism is founder of Life Clubs, a acclaim. She is co-founder of for Lightweights is her latest workshop-based system for Mono Box which provides cost collection. self-development. Her best- effective, nourishing training known book The Big Book of for actors and theatre makers. PATRICK GRANT Me lead to her Daily Telegraph Patrick is a fashion designer column ‘Get A Life’. ANNA JONES and director of Norton & Sons Anna is a food writer, stylist, of Savile Row, E. Tautz and author and pioneer. Her career Community Clothing which started at Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen apprentice programme and she has gone on to NATALIE LEE moved to north Wales to start become hugely influential and Natalie Lee is best known as his own branding agency. respected. Her book A Modern @stylemesunday on Instagram During a school enterprise Way to Cook was a hit and where she has just shy of 70k workshop, Sid was shocked by along her Guardian Weekend loyal followers. She also hosts the levels of low confidence column has redefined the The Everything Project podcast and low self-esteem. Young way that many think about and worked with Dove to people and adults were vegetarian cooking. create their world-renowned looking to the future with fear Warrior Woman Project. and uncertainty. Shocking TEDDY KEEN statistics around anxiety, Teddy is an author and PENNY LEE depression and suicide rates illustrator who discovered Penny is the founder of were rising. He had to act. the famous lost notebooks Walking Whisky Wellness, and treasures of an unknown ‘a business conference HELENE MARK adventurer whilst deep in the in disguise’. She will be Having worked as a HR Amazon jungle - before having discussing the change in the Manager and a COO for them shipped home, restored way we do business, meet and the past decade Helene has and edited to create The Lost collaborate. witnessed the skills necessary Book of Adventure. Part talk, to succeed in modern part interactive adventure LIA LEENDERTZ workplaces. With Outdoor show, part exhibition, Teddy Lia is a writer and journalist Owls -a new type of Scandi- will be bringing the book to whose work regularly appears inspired outdoor nursery she life, and unveiling some of in The Guardian, Telegraph plans to open in London in the secrets of The Unknown and Gardens Illustrated. Her January- she wants to connect Adventurer. books include My Tiny Veg Plot, city children with nature and The Twilight Garden and The the world around them. RICHARD KING Half Hour Allotment. Her new Richard is the author of series A Seasonal Guide… aims CERYS MATTHEWS Sunday Times Music Book of reinvent the rural almanac. Cerys is a broadcaster, author the Year 2012, How Soon is and musician. She hosts a Now?, and Original Rockers, JANE LINDSEY much-loved radio show on BBC which was shortlisted for the From her home and workshops Radio 6 where she champions Gordon Burn Prize. Richard in Scotland Jane runs a endless interesting music and will discuss his latest book The thriving online business that a weekly blues show on Radio Lark Ascending with writer and -like all interesting small 2. Her books include Where the broadcaster Emma Warren. businesses- twists and turns Wild Cooks Go and Hook, Line as her life does. Jane suffers and Singer. She co-founded DAVID LEA-WILSON from Addisons Disease which The Good Life Experience and David is co-founder of the has informed her lifestyle and has been made an MBE. globally renowned Welsh her business. salt producer Halen Mon HELEN MORT and author of Do Sea Salt: SID MADGE Five times winner of The Foyle The Magic of Seasoning. He Sid is a brand strategist Young Poets Award, Helen knows a lot about salt and is a and founder of The Meee received an Eric Gregory champion of sustainable food Programme. After 20 years Award in 2007 and won the production. working at some of Europe’s Manchester Young Writer Prize leading creative agencies, he in 2008. Her first collection, Division Street, was shortlisted KAREN O’DONOGHUE as an Associate Fellow of for the T.S. Eliot Prize and Karen is the founder of the Saïd Business School at Costa Poetry Award, and Happy Tummy Co. Her the University of Oxford. His won the Fenton Aldeburgh attitude to food comes work there is practical not First Collection Prize. In 2014, from a deep respect for the academic - he designs and she was named as a ‘Next land as the daughter of two runs executive education Generation Poet’. horticulturists. To keep your programmes, helping senior tummy in optimum gut health, leaders understand and work LAURA MUCHA Karen believes in keeping with complex change, via a Laura is the author of Love the time between picking playful approach developed Factually: The Science of Who, and eating food as small as from improvisational theatre. How & Why We Love which possible. Richard Curtis says is better DAN RICHARDS than his film of (roughly) the JASMIN O’HARA Dan is the co-author of same name. She is a children’s Jasmin is a British human Holloway (with Robert writer, mainly of poetry and rights defender who works in Macfarlane and Stanley has studied psychology, international refugee support. Donwood) and the author philosophy, the flying trapeze She is the co-founder of of The Beechwood Airship as well as training as a lawyer the Worldwide Tribe charity Interviews and Climbing Days. before being hit by a car at where she uses story-telling His latest book, Outpost: A the age of 29 and deciding on techniques often associated Journey to the Wild Ends of a change of career. with fashion and brands to the Earth uncovers landscapes connect people to her work. which have inspired writers, MICHAEL NICHOLSON artists and musicians, and When Hunter moved SOPHIE POWER asks: why are we drawn to production for its famed Sophie (aka @ultra_sophie) is wilderness? wellingtons from Scotland, a mother of two, entrepreneur Michael decided to launch a and extreme ultrarunner. VIVIENNE RICKMAN- mission to get wellies made in Last year an image of POOLE Scotland again. He hasn’t yet her breastfeeding whilst Viv is a wild swimmer, artist, succeeded in all of his mission; competing in the 106 mile educator, author and film but he is making wellies. Ultra Trail du Mont Blanc race maker. If that seems like a went viral and launched a long list (it is) it’s because HENRY NORMAL global debate on motherhood. she has many strings to her Henry is a comedian, poet and Sophie is passionate about bow all of which connect former television producer: empowering women and to her deep love of outdoor he co-wrote The Royle Family building companies that make swimming and art. and The Parole Officer. In the world a better place. 2016, he threw over success in DAME STELLA RIMINGTON television and film for his first ROBERT POYNTON Stella is known to billions of love: poems. As a young poet, Robert is the author of Do people worldwide as the role he had accompanied Pulp Pause: You Are Not A To Do model for the character “M” on tour: as a poetry lover he List and Do Improvise. He played by Dame Judi Dench later founded poetry festivals lives in an off-grid house in the James Bond films. in both Manchester and in rural Spain. By way of Appointed Director General of Nottingham. contrast, he also spends a MI5 in 1992, Stella was the first significant amount of time woman to take the post. She is also a prolific novelist with a KAREN SCOFIELD SEAL KIM SHAYLOR string of best-selling thrillers Karen is CEO and co founder of Kim Shaylor is one half of featuring MI5’s Liz Carlyle. Oceanium, a biotech company Gone Rogue which curates dedicated to developing and exhibits art focused on WILLIAM ROLPHE seaweed based products the relationship between art, Will is a sustainable designer including compostable fashion and mental well- and co-founder of Two Fields bio-packaging. She will be being. Zakros with his brother Harry. speaking with Dr Charlie They believe that living and Bravington, a bio-chemist JAMES SILLS farming in harmony with based at The European Marine James Sills is a folk musician nature is the only sustainable Science Park. and singer and has dedicated way. They produce small much of his recent life to batches of extra virgin olive HELEN SHARMAN inspiring people to sing. He is oil using microbial farming Helen is a pioneer, a role the author of Do Sing which methods. model and a truly inspirational will be launched at TGLE 2019. speaker. She became the first JEFF TOWNS CHARLOTTE RUNCIE British Astronaut when, in Jeff is an antiquarian book Charlotte is the Daily May 1991, she launched on a dealer, and a foremost expert Telegraph’s radio columnist Russian Soyuz spacecraft and on Dylan Thomas. His bus- and arts writer. She has a spent eight days orbiting the shaped mobile bookshop secret past as a poet, having Earth, living and working on can be found pitched up at been a Foyle Young Poet of the MIR Space Station. Expect the TGLE every year. He will the Year. Salt On Your Tongue: to be completely entranced. present a talk on Idris Davies Women and the Sea -a lyrical - a Left-Wing Welsh poet born exploration of the sea in art MARK SHAYLER in Rhymney, South Wales. and in life- is her first book. Mark a visionary, public Davies began his working life speaker, author, writer and aged 14 as a coal miner, but JON SAVAGE enthusiast who runs an went on to become a poet Jon is the author of England’s innovation and environmental published by T.S. Eliot. Dreaming: Sex Pistols and consultancy called Ape. He Punk Rock, Teenage: The is the author of Do Disrupt: ANNA WOOD Creation of Youth, 1875-1945 Change the Status Quo. Or Anna is a journalist and short- and 1966: The Year the Decade Become It. He is curating story writer. In addition to Exploded. In his latest book a series of talks dubbed: hosting conversations with This Searing Light, the Sun and Reasons to be Cheerful. Helen Mort and Charlotte Everything Else: Joy Division, Runcie, she’ll be reading a The Oral History, Jon has selection of her published and assembled three decades’ unpublished stories. worth of interviews with the principle players in the Joy Division story. 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