Book & Media Festival 2010 April 8 May 17 John Hegley, Musharah Lyrically Amazing Showcase The Big Screen Comedy Workshops, Performance Childrens Theatre BOOK & MEDIA FESTIVAL Key These keys are used throughout the booklet 2010 to indicate areas of interest and age groups. Welcome Film The Arts Development Team and Library Service are proud Book, Magazine & Literature to present the 8th annual Redbridge Book and Media Festival: 8 April to 17 May. It will take place in libraries, cinema, community Performance/Show centres and colleges across the Borough. Music We have a fantastic programme of screenings, performances, theatre, workshops and author events. Highlights will include Suitable for children visits from John Hegley who will launch the festival this year, actress Lynda Bellingham, biographer Michael Holroyd, novelist Suitable for teenagers Angela Huth (author of The Land Girls) and the most popular of all writers for young people, Darren Shan. Suitable for adults If you love the arts, Redbridge is the place to be this spring. Suitable for families Entry is FREE! Festival enquiries: 020 8554 5000 or email: arts&[email protected] See the back page for full venue details Thursday 8 April Friday 9 April Festival Launch: The Big Red Read John Hegley 2010 Launch The Adventures of Monsieur Robinet The Big Red Read is Redbridge’s “Booker Prize”! Enjoy an evening John Hegley is a regular sell-out at of literary discussion and fun in the The Edinburgh Festival. He has company of last year’s winning author performed at the Montreal Comedy Bernardine Evaristo (pictured), author Festival, the USA Comedy Festival in and library campaigner Tim Coates, Aspen, with Ulrika Jonsson & Anita Redbridge favorite Jean Fullerton Dobson in The Pyjama Game and on and others. Look out for the return BBC R4’s Hearing With Hegley. John of the famous book quiz! Hegley is widely known as one of the country’s most innovative comic poets with several best-selling volumes of poetry to his name. A must for fans of comedy and performance poetry. ‘Just because he is one of the funniest men alive, do not underestimate his dedicated gentleness.’ - Poet Adrian Mitchell ‘One of the funniest men alive’ New Statesman Admission: £7 premier tickets and £5 for stalls and standing (£5 Leisure Pass Holder) Limited spaces. Early booking advised. Time: 7.15pm Admission: FREE Venue: IF Bar Time: 7 to 9.15pm Bookings: 020 8708 3370 Venue: Fullwell Cross Library Fully licensed bar and food available for purchase on the night. Enquiries: 020 8708 9281 BOOK & MEDIA FESTIVAL, BOOK & MEDIA FESTIVAL, BOOK Tuesday 13 April will send you spiraling into a poetry revolution! Engaging and interactive … revealing Theatre of the Widdershins everything that poetry is and can be. presents Arabian Nights Suitable for children 4+ The Lost Tales of Sheherazade “I thought it was BRILLIANT! Because you never got bored, and all of the poems + stories made you picture the words in your head like stories, magic!” It’s amazing what you can find audience member when you really look hard! Here we Apples & Snakes is the leading have three tales from the Queen organisation for performance poetry. of all storytellers – the incredible www.applesandsnakes.org Sheherazade. The first tale she found Admission: £2.50 was hidden in the sands of the desert; Time: 7.30 to 9.15pm the second at the bottom of the ocean, and the third she heard straight from Venue: The Foyer, Ilford Central Library the donkey’s mouth! Bookings: 020 8708 2737 or 020 8708 2537 Genies, camels, flying carpets, and suspicious ne’er-do-wells – welcome to Wednesday 14 April the world of the Arabian Nights. Thursday 15 April Theatre of Widdershins takes you on Neel Mukherjee an exciting journey through roasting In partnership with Apples & Snakes present deserts, sand dunes, scented markets and fish filled seas, using puppets, Constable And Robinson Ltd SPIN masks, storytelling and wonderfully Whirling, twirling, twisting tales atmospheric music. Reeling rhythm, giddy rhymes Playful poems pirouette Published in India first as Past Listen as we spin some sounds Admission: £4.75 Continuous in 2008, A Life Apart won £2.50 Leisure Pass holders the Vodafone Crossword Award for Admission: £4.75 Time: 2pm fiction – the Indian ‘Booker’. London- £2.50 Leisure Pass holders based Neel Mukherjee was born in Join Apples & Snakes word-wizards as Venue: St Pauls Community Centre Calcutta and recently won the GQ they cook up wonderful ways to play Time: 2pm (India) ‘Writer of the Year’ award in Bookings: 020 8708 3370 with words, showing just what you can the magazine’s inaugural ‘Men of do with them. Venue: Wanstead House the Year’ Awards. Top-class rappers, poets and storytellers Bookings: 020 8708 3370 each with their own distinct style BOOK & MEDIA FESTIVAL, BOOK & MEDIA FESTIVAL, BOOK Saturday 17 April Sunday 18 April IROKO Mystery for Teens Theatre Workshop Lyrically Amazing Musharah Industry Talk, Performances Urdu Poetry Event Do you enjoy solving mysteries? Come and join us for a murder mystery night and Showcase The return of the spectacular IROKO to test your detective skills. Theatre. This the latest in a series of A poetry symposium conducted in a workshops in Redbridge with IROKO. Admission: FREE centuries old tradition of the Indian Look forward to storytelling, This year Lyrically Amazing is stepping sub-continent. The Musharah combines breath-taking performance, Time: 5.30 to 7.30pm it up! Are you ready? the beauty of poetic language with the drumming, workshops and much Venue: Fullwell Cross Library You will be treated to live performances passion, enthusiasm and joy that you more in this special event for all by Michelle Escoffery, Ivor Novello might expect to find at a great sporting the family! Enquiries: 0208 708 9067 award winning singer songwriter plus event! All communities and all ages are Children must be accompanied surprise special guest. Vibe off industry invited to attend and enjoy the poetry by an adult. Friday 16 April professionals and hear from them first and the entertainment of an event that hand what it’s really like out there and brings joy to lovers of literature. how you can make it. Then it’s your turn! Mystery for Teens Get noticed and get involved! Admission: FREE Limited spaces. Early booking advised Time: 3.30 to 6.30pm For details see event above. Venue: Gloucester Room, Admission: FREE Ilford Central Library Time: 5.30 to 7.30pm Enquiries: Mr K.Perwiz, Secretary of the Redbridge Literary Society: Venue: South Woodford Library 020 8599 5203 or [email protected] Enquiries: 0208 708 9067 or Mina Rehman: Admission: FREE. Limited spaces. 020 8708 7750 or 020 8708 2537 Early booking advised [email protected] Times: 3 to 4.30pm: talk & performances Admission: FREE Limited spaces 5pm: Showcase Time: 2 to 4.30pm Venue: IF Bar Venue: Keith Axon Centre Enquiries: 020 8708 2857 Enquiries: 020 8708 0790 BOOK & MEDIA FESTIVAL, BOOK & MEDIA FESTIVAL, BOOK Tuesday 20 April Denise has worked in the industry for a number of years, ex fashion editor of Touch Magazine she has styled Kanye Fatima Bhutto West, Rhianna, Mr Hudson, T.I, Young Nate, Ironic, Getts Leathel Bizzle Tia Cruise, Jamelia, New Era clothing, RWD magazine and is the current fashion Songs of Blood and Sword tells the story editor of Flavour Magazine and designer of one of the world’s most famous of her own clothing label DJM CLOTHING. political dynasties and how tragedy You will find out about the industry from has followed the Bhuttos with the the inside. Kevin Joseph from Response murder of Fatima’s father in 1996 Photographic will also be there to give and the assassination of her aunt, the photographers side of the ‘Stylists’ Benazir in 2007. business. Denise will bring down a rail Fatima Bhutto is an Afghan born of the latest trends. You will then style Pakistani poetess and writer. an outfit and get critique from one of She currently writes columns for London’s finest! The Daily Beast, New Statesman Unmissable for anyone interested and other publications. in fashion, the magazine industry, and photography. Admission: £5 Time: 7 to 8.45pm Venue: Gloucester Room, Ilford Central Library Bookings: 020 8708 2737 or 020 8708 2537 Wednesday 21 April Denise Brown, Stylist to the Stars. Masterclass Admission: £4 and Discussion Time: 6.30 to 9.30pm Venue: Redbridge College Bookings: 0208 708 3370 BOOK & MEDIA FESTIVAL, BOOK & MEDIA FESTIVAL, BOOK Friday 23 April Shelina Janmohamed Poetry in the Library Shelina is keeping a very surprising secret under her headscarf - she wants to fall in love and find her faith. She decides to If you like poetry, Ilford Central Library follow the arranged-marriage route to is the place to be! Two of London’s finding Mr Right, Muslim-style. Shelina’s hottest poets, Natalie Fiawoo and Yomi journey begins as a search for the one, Sode (G.R.E.E.D.S - Generating Rhymes but along the way she also discovers to Engage the Enlighten D Soul) will herself and her faith. A memoir with entertain and enthrall! a hilarious twist from one of Britain’s leading female Muslim writers, Love in a Headscarf is a fresh and unmissable insight into what it means to be a young British Muslim woman. Thursday 22 April Ag and their search for love and life after the end of the Second World War. Angela is a well-known journalist and Angela Huth broadcaster and has written eleven In partnership with novels and four short-story collections Constable And Robinson Ltd as well as TV, radio and stage plays. Admission: £2.50 Admission: FREE Admission: £2.50 Time: 7.15 to 9pm Angela’s latest book Once a Land Girl, Time: 6.30 to 8pm Time: 7.15 to 9pm is the sequel to international bestseller, Venue: The Keith Axon Centre Land Girls – which was made into a film Venue: Ilford Central Library Venue: Goodmayes Library Bookings: 020 8708 0790 starring Anna Friel and Rachel Weisz.