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Jeremy Vine Alan Johnson Louise Minchin Harriet Walter Simon Mayo Simon Scarrow Jon McGregor Jane Garvey AC Grayling Harriet Harman Dan Cruikshank Don Paterson Greg Wise Alastair Sawday Axel Scheffler Ruth Jones Tim Marshall Harry Hill Rose Tremain Libby Purves and much more...

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A.C. Grayling Harriet Walter Alastair Sawday Jon McGregor We can ensure her other Democracy and Its Crisis Brutus and Other Heroines Travelling Light Reservoir 13 Stratford ArtsHouse Stratford ArtsHouse Stratford ArtsHouse Stratford ArtsHouse legacies last even longer 4pm | £10 4:30pm | £14 5:15pm | £10 5:45pm | £12 Churchill described democracy as ‘A part we have played is like a person Teacher, environmentalist and We welcome one of the UK’s most Independently ranked as a top tier Private Client team, ‘the least bad of all systems’. So we once met, grew to know, became campaigner, Alastair Sawday has exciting writers and winner of the at Lodders we offer clear, practical and cost effective it is, when it works. The Master of intimately enmeshed with and finally spent his life travelling. He will Costa Novel Award 2017. The award- the New College of the Humanities moved away from. Some of these share his gradual awakening to the winning author of If Nobody Speaks advice on all aspects of wills, trusts, inheritance tax and Professor of Philosophy and characters remain friends, others fragility of everything we love through of Remarkable Things, Jon McGregor planning and care and capacity matters. Supernumerary Fellow of St Anne’s are like ex-lovers with whom we no contemplative, consciously slow will be discussing Reservoir 13, the College Oxford, explores how longer have anything in common. journeying. Every visit uncovers story of many lives haunted by one Our tailored and highly personal service will support democracy has been made to fail, All of them bring something out in difference - from France profaned family’s loss. He is the author of four your family and protect your wealth, ensuring you and how to put it right. A.C. Grayling us that will never go back in the box.’ to the darker side of Sicily, and to novels and a story collection, winner is the author of over thirty books of Harriet Walter has played almost all the flora, fauna, and silence of rural of the IMPAC Dublin Literature Prize, leave much more than shared passions and precious philosophy, biography, history of of Shakespeare’s heroines, But where, Britain. He’ll give voice to those of us Betty Trask Prize, and Somerset memories to those you care about most. ideas, and essays, and is a leading she asks, does an actress go after who have climbed no mountains or Maugham Award, and has twice been newspaper columnist and broadcaster. playing Cleopatra’s magnificent death? discovered no rivers, but who yearn long listed for the Man Booker Prize. He has twice been a judge on the Why didn’t Shakespeare write more - to understand the world and make He is Professor of Creative Writing at Booker Prize, and is a Fellow of and more powerful - roles for mature sense of its infinite variety. The founder the University of Nottingham, where the Royal Society of Arts and women? She’ll also discuss other of Sawday’s Travel Guides, he will he edits The Letters Page, a literary Stratford upon Avon office 01789 293259 Birmingham office 0121 200 0890 roles which have made her one be celebrating regional character, journal in letters. the Royal Society of Literature. Sponsored by Cheltenham office 01242 228370 Henley in Arden office 01564 792261 of our most admired actresses. and absorbing the landscape. www.lodders.co.uk @LoddersLawyers solicitors Box Office:01789 207100 or online at stratfordartshouse.co.uk | stratlitfest.co.uk Sunday 22 April Monday 23 April 9

Five Chances Mark Cocker Aaron Gillies Amanda Craig and WWI in Words and Music Our Place How to Survive the End of Diana Evans with Libby Purves with Dame Harriet Walter Stratford ArtsHouse the World (when it’s in your own head) Write Now Stratford ArtsHouse 3pm | £10 Stratford ArtsHouse Stratford ArtsHouse 7-8:30pm | £14 Environmental thought and politics 4pm | £10 5:30pm | £12 have become part of mainstream The First World War elicited some of cultural life in Britain. From the What happens when it feels like the Two highly acclaimed novelists the finest and most moving writing in flatlands of Norfolk to the tundra-like world is ending every single time you join Libby Purves to consider the history. To mark the 100th anniversary expanse of northern Scotland, the wake up? That’s what having anxiety contemporary novel in which a study of the end of the war and the death award-winning nature writer, Mark is like – and Aaron Gillies is here of how we live now and the often of Wilfred Owen, arguably its most Cocker, sets out on a personal quest to help. From giving guidelines for destructive mores of relationships memorable casualty, we bring you an through the British countryside to find identifying the enemy to safeguarding are the central theme. Writer and evening of music and readings from out who has shaped the environment the vulnerable areas of your life, he journalist, Amanda Craig’s latest novel, not just the most notable British poets, we live in today and who’s behind the examines the impact of anxiety and Lie of the Land, was a Guardian Book but also German poets soldiers’ diaries bastions such as the National Trust or suggests some tools to fight back. of the Year and her novel, Hearts And from the trenches, and poetry and RSPB. He explores why our landscape Gillies, aka @TechnicallyRon on Minds, was long-listed for the Bailey’s writing from the women left behind looks as it does and asks why the Twitter, is a comedian and writer. He Prize. Diana Evans’ bestselling novel, at home. Readings by Dame Harriet British seem to love their countryside has been featured in and written for 26a, won the Orange Award for New Walter, narrative by historian Jon more than almost any other nation, The Poke, Buzzfeed, The Telegraph, Writers and the British Book Awards Cooksey, and also featuring music yet we have come to live amid one The Guardian, The Huffington Post, deciBel Writer of the Year prize. Libby and readings from students at of the most denatured landscapes and has produced viral content from Purves has had an exceptional writing Warwick School, The Kingsley on Earth. ‘Reasons my wife is crying’ to ‘A short and broadcasting career from Radio School and King Edward VI’s School. guide to washing machine symbols’. 4’s Today Programme to Midweek. (With interval.) Box Office:01789 207100 or online at stratfordartshouse.co.uk | stratlitfest.co.uk

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Marcel Theroux Sir John Tusa with Libby Purves Paula Byrne, Lyndall Gordon Jonathan Bate and and Hector Macdonald Making Noise and Fiona Sampson Paula Byrne Truth and Lies Stratford ArtsHouse Women Writers and the Look to Your Wife Stratford ArtsHouse 7:30pm | £14 Invention of the Novel Stratford ArtshHouse 6pm | £12 John Tusa has been at the forefront of 5:30pm | £12 broadcasting and the arts throughout Stratford ArtsHouse Stories have an immense power to a very distinguished career. A British 4pm | £12 The award winning and prolific shape reality – so what happens if biographer, whose books include arts administrator, and radio and To mark the bi-centenary of the those stories are untrue or if history television journalist, he is co-chairman The Genius of Jane Austen, talks forgets or represses some of them? publication of Mary Shelley’s about her debut novel Look to of the European Union Youth Frankenstein, three prize-winning Two influential writers discuss truth in Orchestra, was a main presenter of Your Wife, a modern take on Othello. a post-truth world. Hector Macdonald, writers talk about the early novelists She’ll be chatting with her husband, BBC 2’s Newsnight programme and who changed the world and created a strategic communications managing director of the BBC World the leading Shakespearean scholar consultant, is the author of Truth – the novel as a story form. Lyndall Sir Jonathan Bate, about reworking Service. Until recently he was also Gordon, author of Outsiders: Five A User’s Guide, in which he explores managing director of the Barbican the master storyteller, about the how truth is used and abused in Women Writers Who Changed the tyranny that social media can be, Centre. He’ll be talking about the World, is a leading biographer; Fiona politics, business, the media and challenges facing broadcasting and and about the pleasures, pains and everyday life. Marcel Theroux’s books Sampson, author of In Search of Mary obsessions of contemporary life the arts in the brave new digital world. Shelley, is a poet and writer, and Paula include The Paperchase, winner of Libby Purves has had an exceptional covered in her first foray into fiction. the 2002 Somerset Maugham Award. Byrne, author of The Genius of Jane broadcasting career from Radio 4’s Austen, is an author and biographer His latest, The Secret Books, is an Today Programme to Midweek as well epic story which eerily foreshadows and founder of ReLit, the charity as being The Times’ Theatre Critic for for literature and mental health. our own era of post-truth politics. many years. Box Office:01789 207100 or online at stratfordartshouse.co.uk | stratlitfest.co.uk Tuesday 24 April 13

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Don Paterson Aida Edemariam Sam Leith Dr Rangan Chatterjee Late Night Readings and Tara Westover Write to the Point The Four Pillars The White Swan Hotel Memoir and Memory Stratford ArtsHouse Stratford ArtsHouse 8:30pm | £12 Stratford ArtsHouse 5pm | £10 5:15pm | £12 Spend the evening with one of the 4pm | £10 Writing can make people anxious, and Join a pioneer in the emerging field with good reason. The first sentence of progressive medicine that will most acclaimed and admired poets Two emerging and exciting writers of his generation. Don Paterson is of a job application letter can consign change the way that we look at illness. look at the challenges of creating it to the bin. A speech intended to Chatterjee is known for finding the root the author of Nil Nil, winner of the a memoir - either telling one’s own Forward Prize for Best First Collection; rouse can put a room to sleep. A cause of people’s problems by taking story or the detective work involved mistimed tweet can cost you your job. a 360 degree approach to health, AT FREDWINTER.COM God’s Gift to Women, winner of both in writing someone else’s. In The the TS Eliot Prize and the Geoffrey In this guide to persuasive writing, the which was highlighted in his ground- AT FREDWINTER.COM Wife’s Tale, Aida Edemariam retells her journalist and editor of the Spectator breaking BBC One TV show, Doctor in Faber Memorial Prize; and Landing grandmother’s stories of an Ethiopian Light, which won both the TS Eliot shows you how to express yourself the House. He is the resident doctor childhood surrounded by proud fully across any medium, and how on BBC One’s Breakfast, a regular Prize and the Whitbread Prize for priests and soldiers, of her husband’s Poetry. Rain won the Forward Prize to maximise your chances of getting commentator on BBC Radio and gave imprisonment, of her fight for justice, your way in every situation. From an inspirational TEDx talk on making for Best Collection in 2009, the all of it played out against an ancient same year that he was awarded the work reports to Valentine cards, and diseases disappear. He writes for The cycle of festivals and the rhythms from emails of condolence to tweets Huffington Post, Mind Body Green and Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. He of the seasons. Tara Westover’s has also published two collections of of complaint, Leith lays bare the has a monthly column Sponsored by compelling Educated takes us on a secrets to successful communication, on lifestyle medicine in OR VISIT aphorisms. Paterson is Professor of journey from her paranoid, uneducated OR VISIT eloquence and off- and online Top Sante. This session FRED WINTER Poetry at the University of St Andrews upbringing in Idaho to a doctorate and Poetry Editor at etiquette. could change your life. FREDHENLEY STREET | GUILD WINTER STREET | STRATFORD-UPON-AVON at Cambridge. TEL: 01789 268011 HENLEY STREET | GUILD STREET | STRATFORD-UPON-AVON Picador Macmillan. TEL: 01789 268011 Box Office:01789 207100 or online at stratfordartshouse.co.uk | stratlitfest.co.uk 18 Thursday 26 April Friday 27 April 19

Stephen Bayley Jeremy Vine Robert Minhinnick and Samantha Harvey, Katherine Tim Marshall Simon Scarrow Greg Wise and Kathryn Mannix Alan Johnson Taste What I Learnt Eamon Bourke Clements and Rory Clements Divided Day of the Caesars The End in Mind The Long and Winding Road Stratford ArtsHouse Stratford ArtsHouse Diary of the Last Man Write Then - The Historical Novel Stratford ArtsHouse Stratford ArtsHouse Stratford ArtsHouse Stratford ArtsHouse 6:30pm | £12 7:45pm | £15 Stratford ArtsHouse Stratford ArtsHouse 3:30pm | £12 5:30pm | £10 6pm | £12 7:30pm | £15 How do we define ‘taste’? The only Jeremy Vine has been presenting 8:30pm | £13 3:30pm | £10 The best-selling author of Prisoners of AD 54. The Emperor Claudius is The well-known actor, whose credits We welcome back to Stratford one of certainty is that it shifts and changes his BBC Radio 2 show since 2003 Geography brings us Divided, which dead. Nero rules. His half-brother include Willoughby in Sense & the most admired politicians of the last Three of the country’s most admired – sometimes abruptly - and to talk and attracts more than seven million Inc a glass of wine explains that one consequence of the Britannicus has also laid claim to the Sensibility and Louis Mountbatten 50 years. From the condemned slums historical fiction writers talk about the about taste has become almost taboo, listeners a day. In that time, he Eamon Bourke’s film, Diary of The Last rise in nationalism and identity politics throne. A bloody power struggle is in The Crown, talks to Dr Kathryn of Southam Street in West London to techniques and research they use to since judgments made about dress, calculates he has taken more than Man, delves deep into the themes of is that walls are going up. Over 6,000 underway. The Sunday Times No.1 Mannix a, the palliative care and end the corridors of power in Westminster, take the reader into a time and a place manners, food and art can often be 25,000 calls on topical subjects - big Robert Minhinnick’s poetry in search miles of fences and barriers have been bestselling author brings us the latest of life specialist, about how we deal Johnson’s multi-award-winning they have never lived, recreating the painfully revealing. Stephen Bayley, issues and small ones: on life, love, of the man himself. Combining poetry, erected in the past ten years, and they in his gripping Roman Series. Scarrow with death – whether our own or autobiography charts an extraordinary smells, sounds and atmosphere of author, critic, columnist, consultant, lollipop ladies and poisonous plants. performance, interview and layered are redefining our political landscape. is also the author of a quartet of someone else’s. Greg Wise will share journey, almost unimaginable in days gone by. Katherine Clements’ broadcaster, curator, updates his But what have the callers told him and imagery, the film explores the many Tim Marshall is a leading authority novels about the lives of the Duke of his experience of his sister’s death, today’s Britain. With a lack of the latest novel, The Coffin Path, is set 1991 classic on taste. Bayley was are they the voice of the nation? With identities of the poet, real and on foreign affairs, was diplomatic Wellington and Napoleon Bonaparte, told in his book Not That Kind of Love, cut-throat ambition so often the trade on the dark wilds of 17th century a founding director of the influential vivid anecdotes and humour, Vine will imagined. Following an introduction editor at Sky News, and has worked a novel about the 1565 Siege of Malta, and Mannix, whose career is based mark of politicians, he’ll be discussing Yorkshire moors. Rory Clements Design Museum in London. Over describe what it’s like to hear the views from its director and a screening, for the BBC and LBC/IRN radio. and a contemporary thriller written with on wide experience in working with the third volume which tells of his early (no relation!) is the Sunday Times the past thirty years, his writing has of the UK in its lunchtime, an audience Minhinnick will perform his poetry. He has reported from 40 countries Lee Francis. ‘A new book in Simon the dying and the carers of the dying, political skirmishes as a trade union bestselling author of the John changed the way the world thinks that knew Brexit was coming, and His new collection confirms his status covering conflicts and is founder Scarrow’s series about the Roman will explore why awareness of what leader, to the elevated position of Shakespeare series of Tudor spy about design. He is whose opinions are potentially more as one of the most important poets of and editor of the current affairs site army is always a joy’ The Times happens as we die would reduce fear Home Secretary in 2009. thrillers. Samantha Harvey, whose Sponsored by the author of Death Sponsored by important and influential than the these turbulent times. ‘Bleakly elegiac, TheWhatandtheWhy.com. His clarity and help people plan. A brave and latest novel is The Western Wind, Drive, about the experts paid environmentally political, vital and and insight have made him a favourite comforting discussion. Sponsored by was on the longlists for the Bailey’s often fatal allure to comment. visionary, his poems cast an of readers around the world. His latest Prize and the Man Booker. of the car. extraordinary light over our darkening book will start conversations. landscapes’ Carol Ann Duffy. 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Rose Tremain with Jane Garvey Jackie Morris and Alex Preston Chris Fowler and Oliver Tearle Harriet Harman and Rosie - Scenes from Talking Nature and Lost Words Finding Lost Authors Jess Phillips with Jane Garvey A Vanished Life Stratford ArtsHouse Stratford ArtsHouse 100 Years of Suffrage Stratford ArtsHouse 2pm | £10 3pm | £10 Stratford ArtsHouse 1:45pm | £12 A powerful discussion about how ‘Absence doesn’t make the heart grow 3:45pm | £15 words from the natural world fonder. It makes people think you’re We welcome one of our best-loved are disappearing from children’s dead.’ So begins Chris Fowler’s Book We mark 100 years since women won Just imagine and best-selling authors whose first vocabulary, and how we can stop the of Forgotten Authors, a foray into the the right to vote and the first female work of non-fiction takes a compelling rot. The acclaimed illustrator of The back catalogues and backstories of MP took a seat in Parliament in a chat glimpse into an idyllic country Lost Words (amongst many others), 99 authors who, once hugely popular, with one of the longest serving female retiring with a childhood which was shattered Jackie Morris, talks with nature writer have all but disappeared from our MPs and Mother of the House, and at the age of ten, and how a new Alex Preston about nature writing shelves. Oliver Tearle will join him one of the newest. The Woman’s Hour You can tell when a home is meant for you. And each normal gave birth to one of our most and her collaboration with the writer to take us on a literary tour around presenter Jane Garvey will explore with Inspired property is made for later life. Filled with endless acclaimed novelists. Rose Tremain’s Robert Macfarlane in the book, Britain, outlined delightfully in Britain these two influential women how far good book. novels and short stories have been women have come in politics, ask how tiny details that only reveal their importance as we grow which is a Sunday Times bestseller. by The Book. Author of the acclaimed published in thirty countries and have The bestselling and award-winning The Secret Library, he’ll take us on a hard the job is in these days of social older… when what might have seemed obsessive or won several awards, including the novelist, Alex Preston, is the author of fascinating travelogue with a literary media abuse, and look at whether indulgent suddenly feels utterly Inspired. Orange Prize (The Road Home), the As Kingfishers Catch Fire, a title taken theme, taking in unusual writers’ democracy is where it should be when Dylan Thomas Award (The Colonel’s it comes to the unequal from the poem by Gerard Manley haunts and the surprising places Sponsored by Daughter and Other Stories), the Hopkins and, most recently, of the that inspired some of our favourite balance of men to women Whitbread Novel of the Year (Music critically acclaimed In Love and War. fictional locations. in public life. Village locations: & Silence) and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Sacred Country). Her Austin Heath Warwick, CV34 6AF | Call 01926 680 024 | austinheath.co.uk most recent novel, The Gustav Sonata, Maudslay Park Near Henley-in-Arden, B49 6HS | Call 01789 867 579 | maudslaypark.co.uk was a Sunday Times Bestseller. Box Office:01789 207100 or online at stratfordartshouse.co.uk | stratlitfest.co.uk , 24 Saturday 28 April 25

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WEDDING INVITES Jacqueline Saphra, Dan Cruickshank Simon Mayo Louise Minchin Jess Phillips, Jane Merrick The History of Architecture Mad Blood Stirring Dare to Tri BUSINESS CARDS and Jane Garvey in 100 Buildings Stratford ArtsHouse Stratford ArtsHouse #MeToo Stratford ArtsHouse 7pm | £14 8.30pm | £14 5:30pm | £15 On the eve of the year 1815, the What started out as a fun BBC CERTIFICATES Stratford ArtsHouse American sailors of the Eagle finally Breakfast stunt in 2012 culminated 5:15pm | £10 The renowned television historian arrive at Dartmoor prison; bedraggled, in one of the best known presenters journeys through time and place, The #MeToo campaign on social media exhausted but burning with hope. on British TV wearing the colours of as he explores the most impressive Inspired by a true story, Mad Blood, Great Britain at the World Tristhlon GREETING CARDS emerged after high profile women came and characterful creations in world forward and revealed they had been Stirring Mayo’s first novel for adults, Championships in 2015. The architecture. His selection includes tells of a few frantic months in the broadcaster, who also guest presents Try 3 issues for only £5 victims of sexual harassment, from the many of the world’s best-known corridors of Westminster to the studios suffocating atmosphere of a prison Radio 4’s You and Yours, shares her + a free Literary Review tote bag TICKETS buildings and some more surprising awaiting liberation. Simon Mayo is adventure, how she fits it around of Hollywood. Woman’s Hour’s Jane structures that have shaped world Garvey talks to the journalist and one of Britain’s best-loved and well- those early mornings and how a Sixty-four pages of witty, informative and authoritative history. Dan Cruickshank has made whistle-blower Jane Merrick, and the known radio presenters best known newly discovered sport became reviews each month by leading contemporary writers numerous history and culture for Drivetime on BBC Radio 2, which an obsession. MP Jess Phillips who foreworded a new programmes including Around the and thinkers plus free access to our app, website and features the regular ‘Book Club’ collection of poetry that rose up directly World in Eighty Treasures, out of the collective rage. The poems are show. He has been awarded Radio online archive dating back to 1979. Visit us online at Adventures in Sponsored by by many of our finest poets, including Broadcaster of the Year at the annual www.literaryreview.co.uk/3for5 for more. Architecture, and Sponsored by Jacqueline Saphra who will read her Broadcasting Press Guild Awards and Under Fire: Culture the Speech Broadcaster of the Year at Your free tote bag will ship when you automatically continue on to a direct work. All profits from the book sales and Conflict in debit subscription for the special rate of £35 per year. UK/direct debit only. will go to Women’s Aid UK. the Sony Radio Academy Awards. 20 Greenhill Street Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6LF [email protected] Afghanistan and Iraq. 01789 204272 www.stratforduponavon.prontaprint.com Box Office:01789 207100 or online at stratfordartshouse.co.uk | stratlitfest.co.uk 26 Festival Workshops 27

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Are you looking for ways to keep mentally active? Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop Perhaps you’d like to learn something new? Providing all the accountancy support and Papercutting Papercutting Writer’s Bootcamp Hand Lettering Encorum is a website with free membership that helps make lifelong advice you need. Choose from our wide Christine Green Christine Green Writing Dialogue Athena Cauley-Yu learning accessible to all. We research, review and regularly update range of services including personal tax, a selection of the best courses, talks and events available, to make Sunday 22 April Monday 23 April Monday 23 April Tuesday 24 April it quick and easy for you to find what you want. From courses that accounts preparation, corporation tax, you can study online from the comfort of your home, to talks and Stratford ArtsHouse Stratford ArtsHouse 2-4pm | £30 Stratford ArtsHouse tours you can attend with friends, we offer a range of options to audit, payroll, VAT and book-keeping 3-5pm | £30 10am-12pm | £30 In response to a hugely successful 10am-12:30pm and 2-4:30pm | £48 suit everyone - from entry level learners to experts and aficionados. Inc materials Inc materials series of workshops last year, we are Inc materials Initially we are focussing on seven subject categories but fully repeating the opportunity for writers Cooper Adams Ltd, 12 Payton Street, A terrific opportunity to learn a new A terrific opportunity to learn a new This accessible creative workshop with expect that to expand over time. to refine their work ready to pitch it Stratford upon Avon CV37 6UA skill with an experienced teacher. skill with an experienced teacher. to Susanna Wadeson, A publishing the creator of Bath’s Meticulous Ink Forget complicated instructions Forget complicated instructions Stationers will introduce you to the Browse encorum.co.uk now and discover why 900 others have Tel 01789 205916 Fax 01789 295615 director at Transworld Publishing, already started on a stimulating journey of discovery. and expensive materials as the craft and expensive materials as the craft on Saturday 28th. The best-selling wonderful world of hand lettering, www.cooperadams.co.uk expert, Christine Green, teaches expert, Christine Green, teaches author and creative writing tutor, teaching you how to use a dip pen with you how to produce contemporary you how to produce contemporary Meg Sanders, will guide you through a flexible nib, make basic strokes, and Literature Online Portal Arts & Crafts personalised cards, invitations and personalised cards, invitations and writing dialogue to build and round form letters in a distinctive copperplate Delighted decorations to treasure in this popular decorations to treasure in this popular characters and create pace and drive style. By the end of the workshop, to support and attractive style, and guides you and attractive style, and guides you your story. Suitable for writers at all you’ll have the skills to begin writing the Festival through the techniques it takes to through the techniques it takes to stages of the writing process. confidently in beautiful script lettering create something special and unique. create something special and unique. in your own enviable style. Price All materials included. All materials included. includes a hand lettering guide sheet, Places strictly limited. Places strictly limited. Letterpress practice sheets, a flexible copperplate nib, holder and a pot of As a small start-up we are incredibly proud to sponsor the workshop black Meticulous Ink. series at the Stratford Literary Festival for a second year running. 28 Festival Workshops 29

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Stratford-upon-Avon Poetry Festival

17 - 24 JUNE 2018 Workshop Workshop Workshop Workshop

This year’s festival is inspired by peace and reconciliation and celebrates the best in local Writer’s Bootcamp How to Draw Anything Poetry Writing Writing to Communicate and international talent. From open mics and Pitching Your Manuscript Scriberia Don Paterson Sam Leith hands-on workshops to performances from Wednesday 25 April Wednesday 25 April Thursday 26 April Thursday 26 April world renowned artists, there’s a way for Stratford ArtsHouse Stratford ArtsHouse Stratford ArtsHouse Stratford ArtsHouse everyone to enjoy poetry, experiment 10am-12pm | £30 5pm | £12 10am-3pm | £90 5-6pm | £10 and start new conversations. Too many manuscripts submitted to You might have read a Inc refreshments Writing can make people anxious, potential publishers and agents fall book or written an email or and with good reason. The first • Poetry for reconciliation A unique opportunity to craft or perfect at the first hurdle because of poor shopping list, but when was the last sentence of a job application letter your poetry with Don Paterson, one • Open mic night presentation. In response to a hugely time you drew anything? Sign up to can consign it to the bin. A speech the most accomplished poets writing successful series of workshops last a session with Dan Porter and Chris intended to rouse can put a room to in English today and one of the most • Poetry Mass year, we are repeating the opportunity Wilson, creative directors of Scriberia sleep. A mistimed tweet can cost you acclaimed and admired poets of his for writers to refine their work ready - the London agency that specialises your job. In this guide to persuasive • Polish poetry with Sasha Dugdale generation. He is the author of Nil Nil, to pitch it to Susanna Wadeson, in visual communication - and authors writing, the journalist and editor of the Open Evening winner of the Forward Prize for Best and Krystyna Dubrowska Friday, 6 July 2018 7.00 - 9.00pm A publishing director at Transworld of How To Draw Anything. They’ll show Spectator shows you how to express First Collection; God’s Gift to Women, Publishing, on Saturday 28th. The you just how easy it is to master the yourself fully across any medium, • Ruth Sillers performs extracts winner of both the TS Eliot Prize and Junior and Senior Schools best-selling author and creative writing art of drawing, transforming you from and how to maximise your chances the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize; from War Girls ∣ tutor, Meg Sanders, will guide you nervous novice to confident artist in no of getting your way in every situation. and Landing Light, which won both the through refining your manuscript and time! Fun-packed and stress-free, this From work reports to Valentine cards, • Children’s poetry and more. TS Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Prize. Independent boys’ school (7-18 years) approach letter so it is ready to send is a fantastic opportunity to discover and from emails of condolence to Rain won the Forward Prize for Best Scholarships and bursaries available to a publisher or agent, giving it the a heap of helpful tips, and get to grips tweets of complaint, Leith lays bare the Collection in the same year that he with Scriberia’s unique perspective secrets to successful communication, Full listing and booking: best chance of being noticed. was awarded the Queen’s Gold 01926 776414 [email protected] on the power of pictures to change eloquence and off- and online ∣ Medal for Poetry. SHAKESPEARE.ORG.UK www.warwickschool.org the world. etiquette. 2830 Festival Workshops Children’s Events - Sunday 22 April - Saturday 28th April 31

Experience the warm welcome of the White Swan Hotel, a Grade II listed building with an air of history and steeped in atmosphere. Workshop Workshop

Effective Storytelling in Fiction Bookmaking It is perfect for a few luxurious days away or a candlelit Playbox Theatre Pre-Schooler Activities Pre-Schooler Activities Pre-Schooler Activities Katherine Clements Lina Avramidou dinner with a that special someone. Or simply stop by and enjoy a relaxing drink after a long day in our bar. Mustardseed’s Magical Mayhem Over the Rainbow Creating Creatures with Story Dance with Sian Sutor Friday 27 April Friday 27 April Sunday 22 April Monday 23 April Evgenia Golubeva Wednesday 25 April Stratford ArtsHouse Stratford ArtsHouse The hotel has 41 refurbished en-suite guest rooms, each 10am-3pm | £90 2-4:30pm | £35 of a four-star standard. Our individually designed rooms Stratford ArtsHouse Stratford ArtsHouse Tuesday 24 April Stratford ArtsHouse 2pm and 4pm 9-11:30am | Free 9-11:30am | Free Inc refreshments Inc materials marry the old world charm with modern ammenities. Stratford ArtsHouse Children £8 | Adults £4 | 4-8yrs | The skill of planning and structuring a In this hands-on workshop, you will Visit us for that unforgettable experience in When two friends decide to go on 9-11:30am Free Join us in Storyland for a morning of a journey, they take a magical story dance and movement as professional story well is one that can be learned. learn how to make a single section Following sell-out performances in the The award-winning illustrator will The critically acclaimed novelist will hand-bound book with hard cover, Shakespeare’s Stratford-upon-Avon. UK and USA, Playbox Theatre present box with them on their fantastical trip. dancer Sian takes us on a magical Join Storytree’s Kate Coleman for a guide you through her magical world journey using story, sound, rhythm help you build a story arc and help you and find out about basic bookbinding a unique, lively and interactive event to create your own creatures for guide your plot as you build in pace, techniques, including folding, making introducing under 8s to the magic storytelling in a box, followed by a and music. craft session making story boxes Storyland, using her special Character tension and suspense – whatever endpapers, sewing, covering and of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Creation Formula. She’ll also be to take home. the genre of your novel and whatever casing in. Under excellent tuition from Children work with actors and directors reading from her own books, stage you are at in the writing. WeMakeBooks, you’ll go through all to explore the unusual goings-on in including I Am Not a Mouse. Katherine is an admired writer, self- the different tools and materials you Fairyland, as they work together to confessed costume drama addict and will be using as well as the importance restore harmony between Oberon current Royal Literary Fund Fellow at of grain direction. You will leave with and Titania. Join Fairy Mustardseed, the University of Manchester. She is your own finished book and a handout The White Swan Hotel mischievous Puck and friends for editor of Historia, the online magazine with instructions to enable you to acting, singing, dancing, storytelling Rother Street, Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6NH of the Historical Writers’ Association. work on your own projects at home. and making. An enchanting experience Lunch not included. All materials will be provided and no 01789 297022 | [email protected] for children and adults alike. previous bookmaking experience www.white-swan-stratford.co.uk is necessary. Box Office:01789 207100 or online at stratfordartshouse.co.uk | stratlitfest.co.uk 32 Children’s Events - Sunday 22 April - Saturday 28th April 33

Pre-Schooler Events Sarah and Duck Pre-Schooler Events Galdo’s Gift Workshop Harry Hill Aardman Model Workshops Jackie Morris and James Mayhew Building Book Houses Big Top Birthday Story Jars with Kate Coleman Create Your Own Story Matt Millz Shaun the Sheep 12pm/ James Mayhew The Knight Who Took All Day with Julie de Bastion Thursday 26 April Friday 27 April Saturday 28 April Saturday 28 April Early Man 2pm/Gromit 4pm Mrs Noah’s Pockets Saturday 28 April Thursday 26 April Stratford ArtsHouse Stratford ArtsHouse Stratford ArtsHouse Stratford ArtsHouse Saturday 28 April Saturday 28 April Stratford ArtsHouse | | | | | | | | Stratford ArtsHouse 1:30 and 4:30pm £12 9-11:30am Free 10-10.45am £8 4-7yrs 11am £7 9+yrs Stratford Primary School Stratford ArtsHouse 3:30pm £6 4-7yrs 9-11:30am | Free The enchanting world of Sarah and Inspired by the story of The Heart and Mad-capped masked mayhem brings Matt Millz loves stand up comedy. 12, 2 and 4pm | £10 | 6+yrs 12:15pm | £6 | 5-8yrs In a faraway land lives a foolish knight Duck is brought to life in a brand-new the Bottle, Storytree’s Kate Coleman’s this innovative children’s ebook to He’s studied the best. He spends who longs to impress a golden-haired Artist and founder of the charity stage show, featuring the wonderful session will involve creating stories life! Join the journey to Galdovia as hours writing new gags and thinking Test your animation skills with the ‘At last all were gathered inside the princess with his marvellous talents. Own Books runs an inspiring session characters from the BAFTA award- using a variety of craft materials, then the creators bring their animated up sketches. So when the school run a help of the experts! In a fun, hands-on ark. It heaved with animals, large and But when a fire-breathing dragon creating houses using old books, winning CBeebies show. Join Sarah bottling them up ready to take home. illustrations and models to life with talent contest, of course he’s going to session, kids (and grown-up kids) can small.’ When Mr Noah builds the ark, threatens to destroy the kingdom, craft materials and lots of imagination. and Duck and a host of your favourite a riot of colourful masks, acting fun enter. What he doesn’t count on is last get creative with clay, discover how he makes two lists - one for all the will the knight be ready in time? friends including The Ribbon Sisters, and the chance to create your own minute total meltdown; his best mate to make a classic Aardman character, animals who will come on board and It’s going to take a lot more than brave The Shallots, Flamingo & John and superhero! Also get the chance pulling out zero seconds before going and get inspired to become part of the one for those troublesome creatures talk to get the job done. Find out from Umbrella, as they plan a birthday party to ‘Be a Hero’ at our pop-up on, and headmaster, Meredith Pavey, next generation of great animators! he will leave behind. Meanwhile, Mrs this master storyteller what happens They are facilitated by a team of Noah gets out her sewing machine for Scarf Lady in their garden. Told photoshoot! who very definitely has it in for him. next in this hilarious story. Come through a fantastic blend of puppetry, The award-winning comedian and TV model makers (who have worked and makes a coat with very deep dressed as a knight or princess storytelling and music, the Birthday star introduces his latest character in on titles including Wallace & Gromit pockets. A delightful interactive event will take you on a magical his hilarious new book. Expect friendly and Chicken Run) with loads of great with two great author/illustrators: adventure. family fun, lots of laughs, audience anecdotes about how those classic James Mayhew, whose books include participation and the chance to tell films were made. Pick a session that Ella Bella Ballerina, and Jackie Morris, Harry your own jokes. suits you and you can even make creator of The Snow leopard and a character from their latest film, many others. Early Man. 6 to 106 years. Box Office:01789 207100 or online at stratfordartshouse.co.uk | stratlitfest.co.uk 34 All events take place at Stratford ArtsHouse 35

The Owl Who Little Fish Luna and the Moon Rabbit Mr Penguin The Lost & Nibbles the Book Monster The Big Draw Was Afraid Storytelling Camille Whitcher and Claude Found – Love Emma Yarlett 3pm | £6 | 5+yrs of the Dark Liz Fost 11:30am | £5 | 5-7yrs Alex T Smith From Lexie 1:30-2:15pm | £6 | 3-6yrs Following last year’s hilarious Riverside Theatre 10-10:45am | £6 | 2-4yrs Winner of the 2017 Stratford Literary 1:30pm-2:15pm Cathy Cassidy Nibbles event, we Festival/Salariya £6| 6-9yrs the book gather together 10am | £7 | 4-7yrs Join storyteller Liz Fost as we go Children’s Picture Book 1:30pm | £6 | 9+yrs monster is the illustrious with Little Fish, created by Prize. Be transported Join the bestselling author-illustrator of back! He’s We welcome back this wonderful Life has been pretty chaotic ever since illustrators with Maisy author Lucy Cousins, by this beautiful story Claude, as he introduces Mr Penguin – finished children’s theatre company as they Lexie’s mum vanished - new homes, us today for a Draw-off and challenge on an underwater journey, inspired by the Far an adventurer-detective who’s a cross with fairy bring to life the much-loved story by new places, new people, always them to draw, in less than two minutes, and learn to play hide and Eastern legend of the between Indiana Jones and Hercule tales and has Jill Tomlinson of the owl who was changing. But Lexie never gives up ideas suggested by the audience. seek and count colourful rabbit in the moon, Poirot – and Mr Penguin’s best friend found his way frightened of everything, in a charming hope that her mum will come back The madder the better. fishes of all shapes and sizes then make the stars Colin, an intrepid spider! Alex will give into a book performance about the little barn owl one day and continues writing her that Luna shares with top secret illustrator tips, and tell you of Dinosaurs! Plop who learns that letters that return unanswered. While The ‘Tiger Who Came Julius Zebra her new found friend. about Claude’s next adventure – Soon he’s chomping through the the dark can be she’s waiting for her mum to rescue appearing on Disney Triceratops chapter and causing chaos to Tea’ Tea Party quite useful. Gary Northfield her, Lexie decides to do a bit of saving Junior this year! among the Velociraptors. Uh oh – has Pip and Posy herself and she’s about to realise that Liz Fost Nibbles bitten off more than he can So You Think 11:30am | £6 | 7+yrs sometimes you have to get lost to find Axel Scheffler chew? This hilarious interactive event 3pm | £7 | 3+yrs yourself again... The first in a gorgeous You Know About Full of Roman and Egyptian facts with award-winning Emma Yarlett | | new series from the and drawing tips for budding young 11:30am-12:15pm £7 3+yrs (Nibbles: The Book Monster, Bear’s Join storyteller bestselling author Dinosaurs? cartoonists, this event will have you Big Bottom) is perfect for all children extraordinaire Join Axel Scheffler, best-selling of The Chocolate Liz Fost for Children’s Ben Garrod laughing out loud as master cartoonist illustrator of The Gruffalo, for with a hunger for books! Box Girls. a re-telling of Gary Northfield (The Beano, The fun as he introduces the latest 10am | £6 | 7+yrs Dandy) introduces the hilarious world Judith Kerr’s adventures of his characters Pip timeless tale of Julius Zebra. Julius is no ordinary and Posy. Good friends – most Day Join the TV presenter and Zebra – he’s a Roman Gladiator! This of a surprising of the time – this charming pair, evolutionary biologist as time, Julius has landed in Egypt and and hungry Sunday 29th April he gives the low-down Pip (a rabbit), and Posy (a mouse) visitor. The classic picture book will be has been mistaken for a Horse God. experience the everyday trials on T Rex, Diplodocus What luck – Julius brought to life with a visit from a very Tickets: and Triceratops using and tribulations of toddlers’ lives. life-like tiger, with lots of activities and all events individually priced and his friends Celebrate friendship and the modern science and are pampered a tiger tea party. lots of laughs to importance of caring for others, or like gods, until a and then meet the wonderful reveal some stolen jewel and Day Ticket: per person characters from the books. £15 amazing an ancient curse Box Office:01789 207100 discoveries. Children’s Day begins to unravel or online at stratfordartshouse.co.uk everything. Sponsored by stratlitfest.co.uk 36 Community 37

Schools Festival b with friendsks Stratford Literary Festival 19th March to 23rd March 2018 We run an extensive programme of engaging and creative events and workshops for schools and young people throughout the region.

My Author Project Nigeria Project Visiting Authors for 2018 include: Books with Friends Prison Workshops Writing in the Workplace We take children’s authors into prisons across the We’re working with Writing Project, an initiative This year we’re taking the writer, In 2018, we celebrate our fourth Steve Anthony Emma Carroll Lucy Coats The Festival runs a monthly book group aimed at anyone aged 55 and over, and we especially country and work with residents to help them write that puts professional published writers – novelists, Tracey Corderoy, into schools to year linking hands across the Joseph Coelho Tracey Corderoy Tony De Saulles welcome people who find themselves lonely and a bedtime story for their children. Using the initiative non-fiction writers, playwrights and poets – into inspire the children with the theme world. Year 6 in four schools in Sophy Henn Bruce Ingman Catherine Johnson socially isolated. Storybook Dads and Mums, they then record the workplace to help change the way people Something Wicked, which they will Stratford will be exchanging letters Lauren St John Jeremy Strong explore through creative writing, with children in schools across themselves reading the stories and the recording write at work. Writing Project works on the principle It works like any other book group – members read drama and art with Playbox Nigeria telling each other about a book in advance and then talk about what they is given to their children. Keeping in contact with that writing is a skill that everyone can learn and Theatre and Escape Arts. their lives, their families, school thought of it over a cup of coffee and a biscuit or children is crucially important to maintaining improve on, from junior staff to senior managers and hobbies. The Project helps two. We meet on the last Thursday of every month a family bond and discouraging re-offending. and CEOs. Bedtime Story Project children from both countries at Elizabeth House, in the centre of Stratford, With thanks to the William A Cadbury Trust. find out about life in a writingproject.co.uk In 2018 we are celebrating stories with three hour-and-a-quarter-long sessions different culture. written together by parents and in the day so there’s a time that suits you. children from reception to year The sessions are mediated, and we read a wide three at six local schools with a range of books so there’ll be something to love variety of authors, and listening and something new to discover. We can arrange Young Poets Competition 2018 to stories in our pyjamas! audiobooks for anyone who finds reading difficult. If you would like to join the group please email WIN up to £300 us at [email protected]

Books with Friends is kindly supported by: Deadline: 26th February 2018

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The best of both worlds Festival Café Waterstones

Discover Stratford-Upon-Avon. Transport yourself to the days of William Shakespeare and travel back in time to follow in the Bard’s and Bar Bookshop footsteps. Enjoy a visit to his birthplace, and a leisurely stroll to Anne Hathaway’s Garden and Cottage. Our hotels are also a short distance from the historic medieval castles at Warwick and Kenilworth. You can explore and learn about the legends and history from the middle ages. Alternatively experience a relaxing boat ride along the stunning river Avon or an afternoon of Open from 9am until end of play each Waterstones Pop-Up Shop will be open well-deserved shopping and dining at Bards Walk or Bicester Village. day throughout the Festival at Stratford throughout the Festival at the ArtsHouse, You can also take a seat at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and enjoy wonderful performances such as Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, and The Merry Wives of Windsor. There are lots of things ArtsHouse selling copies and signed copies of books to do for the family at the theatre including a rooftop restaurant with the best views of the city. Teas and coffees Soft drinks by all the authors and illustrators appearing Stratford Manor Bar Sandwiches and cakes in the Festival programme. The four star Stratford Manor hotel is situated just off the M40 in 21 acres of stunning Warwickshire countryside. Refreshments The hotel is just 5 minutes from the centre of Stratford- upon-Avon and all the sights and history that can be found there. The hotel offers fantastic facilities including a health Unless otherwise stated all club and spa. events take place at: Stratford Artshouse The Stratford 14 Rother Sreet This contemporary four star hotel is just a short stroll to Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 6LU the sights of Stratford-upon-Avon, offering 102 beautiful We endeavour to make your experience as pleasant bedrooms and two fantastic dining experiences as possible but please let the Box Office know on booking if you are in a wheelchair or have mobility difficulties, and please let a Steward know on arrival at an event if you have sight or hearing difficulties so we can sit you in an appropriate seat. For Bookings and info please go to: www.qhotels.co.uk 40 The Important Bits The Festival and You 41

All events, except where stated, We would like to thank the following for Support The Festival take place at: their help and support: As well as putting together a programme of events in Stratford ArtsHouse All the wonderful authors, illustrators and workshop leaders who come to the Festival; spring and autumn, the Festival undertakes lots of projects in the community to encourage literacy and bring people 14 Rother Street, the publishers who have worked with us; Michelle McLeod and Baillie Gifford; Mike Flowers and James Smith at Set Square Solutions; Mike Nicholas at Shock the Senses; all at The together through words and books. We are a charity Stratford upon Avon CV37 6LU Week; all the Staff at Waterstones Stratford; the very creative Judy Reaves and David and your support helps us deliver this work in schools » Disabled access: please check with the Box Office for each event. Hamblett; the general managers of all our partner hotels; all at Lodders, Inspired Living, – including our link with Nigeria and our Bedtime Story David Hunt Lighting, Sheldon Bosley and Cooper Adams; Rupert Barnes and Rachel Jones parties – as well as in the community with our » All seats are unreserved. Photography; all who steward and volunteer at the Festival; Trustees of Stratford Town book group and workshops with prisoners. » Children under 14 years must be accompanied by a responsible adult Trust and Orbit; all the staff at Stratford Arthouse; the Stratford Herald; Alex Graham and You will be helping us to build on this work. (over 18 years of age). We cannot accept responsibility for unaccompanied the team at Prontaprint; Joy Coates at Unique Senior Care; NFU Mutual and Specsavers; children. Children over 14 may attend alone but must be delivered and all the schools involved in the Festival; Emily Quash and Playbox Theatre; Compton Verney collected by a responsible adult, and are not the responsibility of the Festival. For adults attending the Children’s Book Day on 29th April there will be Art Gallery; Simon Hogg at Warwick School; Ben Carr, Richard Pearson and Perry Mills at As a Patron... refreshments available all day. KES; Guy Winter and the team at Fred Winter for stage furniture; Karen Williams and Escape You will receive 50% off your Tickets* Community Art; Erica Barnes; Hellen Watts; Hollie Hughes and Smriti Prasadam-Halls who We reserve the right to alter the programme or substitute performers if £100 » have run our prison workshops; Meg Sanders, Deirdre Shields, John Jefferies, Fiona Lindsay Single Patron: per year circumstances dictate. Go to www.stratlitfest or www.stratfordartshouse.co.uk Couple: £180 per year for the most up-to-date information, or follow us on Twitter @Stratlitfest. and Tim Hubbard our chairpersons; Writing Project; And of course our audiences, sponsors and advertisers who make the Festival possible. (*This discount does not apply to workshops and masterclasses) » Tickets are non-refundable and cannot be exchanged. All tickets include VAT. This year’s Festival is dedicated to the memory of Mark Ashworth 1961-2018. » All events are an hour long unless otherwise stated. Books are available to buy from Waterstones Pop Up Shop and authors will sign copies of their Photo Credits: 2017 photographs courtesy of Rupert Barnes and Rachel Jones As a Friend... books after each event. We request that you do not bring copies of books not purchased on site for signature. Festival Team: Annie Ashworth (Programme Director), Jo James (Operations), Friend Subscription: £25 per year Your donation may be eligible for Gift Aid » All details and prices are correct at time of going to press. Jane Churchill (Schools and Children’s Day Programmer), Nancy Cooper (Stewards Coordinator), Liz Wise (Books With Friends and Special Projects Coordinator), which will add 25% to your donation. Please check our website at www.stratlitfest.co.uk before you travel. » Jennie Dobson (Books with Friends), Tamsin Williams (Wigwam PR), Julia Bryant » Unless an event is sold out, tickets will be available on the day from the (Sponsor Host) Box Office or off-site events, we can only accept cash for these tickets. Please email [email protected] » There will be a collection for other charities we support at some of our events. Stratford Literary Festival is a registered charity No. 1164662 Charity Trustees: Archie Kane, Martin Kinoulty, Suzanne James, for more information. David Fletcher and Annie Ashworth

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Thursday 12 April 7:00 - 9:45pm Lit Fest Quiz Saturday 28 April 3:45pm Harriet Harman and Jess Philips with Jane Garvey BEST Sunday 22 April 2pm and 4pm Playbox Theatre Saturday 28 April 5:15pm Jacqueline Saphra, Jess Philips, Jane Merrick and Jane Garvey WESTERN Sunday 22 April 2:30pm Diana Henry Saturday 28 April 5:30pm Dan Cruikshank THE GROSVENOR Sunday 22 April 3pm Richard Spender Saturday 28 April 7pm Simon Mayo STRATFORD Sunday 22 April 4pm AC Grayling Saturday 28 April 8:30pm Simon Mayo HOTEL Sunday 22 April 4:30pm Harriet Walter Workshops Sunday 22 April 5:15pm Alastair Sawday Sunday 22 April 5:45pm Jon McGregor Sunday 22 April 3-5pm Papercutting GETTING TO US Sunday 22 April 7-8:30pm Five Chances Monday 23 April 10-12pm Papercutting Monday 23 April 3pm Mark Cocker Monday 23 April 2-4pm Writer’s Bootcamp Monday 23 April 4pm Aaron Gillies Tuesday 24 April 10-12:30 Hand Lettering Stratford Railway Station Tuesday 24 April 2-4:30pm Hand Lettering THE Monday 23 April 5:30pm Amanda Craig and Diana Evans with Libby Purves STRATFORD WHITE is 10 minutes’ walk from Monday 23 April 6pm Marcel Theroux and Hector Macdonald Wednesday 25 April 10-12pm Writer’s Bootcamp ARTS HOUSE SWAN Monday 23 April 7:30pm Sir John Tusa with Libby Purves Wednesday 25 April 5pm How To Draw Anything Stratford ArtsHouse. Tuesday 24 April 4pm Paula Byrne, Lyndall Gordon and Fiona Sampson Thursday 26 April 10am-3pm Poetry Writing There are several car parks Tuesday 24 April 5:30pm Jonathan Bate and Paula Byrne Thursday 26 April 5-6pm Writing to Communicate Tuesday 24 April 5:30pm Festival Book Group Friday 27 April 10am-3pm Effective Storytelling in Fiction in the town within BEAR PIT Tuesday 24 April 7pm Open Mic Evening Friday 27 April 2-4:30pm Bookmaking THEATRE Tuesday 24 April 7pm Peter Snow and Ann MacMillan Events for Children walking distance of the Tuesday 24 April 8:30pm John Finnemore’s Late Night Out Sunday 22 April 2pm and 4pm Playbox Theatre ArtsHouse. Go to Wednesday 25 April 4pm Alex Langlands Monday 23 April 9-11:30am Pre Schooler Activities www.visitstratforduponavon.co.uk/ Wednesday 25 April 5pm Scriberia Tuesday 24 April 9-11:30am Pre Schooler Activities Wednesday 25 April 5:30pm Wendy Cope Wednesday 25 April 9-11:30am Pre Schooler Activities stratford-parking Wednesday 25 April 5:45pm Afua Hirsch and Mike Wendling Thursday 26 April 9-11:30am Pre Schooler Events FALCON Wednesday 25 April 7:30pm Ruth Jones Thursday 26 April 1:30 and 4:30pm Sarah and Duck HOTEL for details. Wednesday 25 April 8:30pm Don Paterson Friday 27 April 9-11:30am Pre Schooler Events Stratford ArtsHouse is Thursday 26 April 4pm Aida Edemariam and Tara Westover CROWNE COX’S Saturday 28 April 10am Galdo’s Gift Workshop YARD Thursday 26 April 5pm Sam Leith THE - PLAZA accessible for those with Saturday 28 April 11am Harry Hill TOWN HOTEL Thursday 26 April 5:15pm Dr Rangan Chatterjee Saturday 28 April 12, 2 and 4pm Aardman Model Workshop HOUSE mobility problems and the Thursday 26 April 6:30pm Stephen Bayley Saturday 28 April 12:15pm Mrs Noah’s Pockets SHAKESPEARE Thursday 26 April 7:45pm Jeremy Vine HOTEL THE Saturday 28 April 3:30pm The Knight Who Took All Day RSC main auditorium has Thursday 26 April 8:30pm Robert Minhinnick and Eamon Bourke GUILD THEATRE Friday 27 April 3:30pm Samantha Harvey, Katherine Clements and Rory Clements Children’s Day HALL a hearing loop. Friday 27 April 3:30pm Tim Marshall Sunday 29 April 10am The Owl Who Was Afraid of The Dark Friday 27 April 5:30 Simon Scarrow Sunday 29 April 10am So You Think You Know About Dinosaurs? Friday 27 April 6pm Greg Wise and Kathryn Mannix Sunday 29 April 10am Little Fish Storytelling THE Friday 27 April 7:30pm Alan Johnson Sunday 29 April 11:30am Julius Zebra ARDEN Friday 27 April 8:30-10:30pm Insomniacs Night Out Sunday 29 April 11:30am Luna and The Moon Rabbit HOTEL Saturday 28 April 10am-3:45pm Scratch Choir Sunday 29 April 11:30am Pip and Posy Saturday 28 April 11:30am Meet The Editor Sunday 29 April 1:30pm Lost and Found - Love From Lexie Saturday 28 April 12, 2 and 4pm Aardman Model Workshop Sunday 29 April 1:30pm Mr Penguin and Claude Saturday 28 April 1:45pm Rose Tremain with Jane Garvey Sunday 29 April 1:30pm Nibbles The Book Monster Saturday 28 April 2pm Jackie Morris and Alex Preston Sunday 29 April 3pm The Big Draw Saturday 28 April 3pm Chris Fowler and Oliver Tearle Sunday 29 April 3pm The’Tiger Who Came To Tea’ Tea Party Box Office:01789 207100 or online at stratfordartshouse.co.uk | stratlitfest.co.uk All you need to know about everything that matters Join over 344,000 readers of The Week magazine

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