Festival Programme
Friday's Events
| Event | Description | Time | Where |
|---|---|---|---|
| All Day Poetry Workshop | A workshop for developing writers who would like to explore the challenges of rhyme and repetition offered by forms such as the sestina, pantoum ... | 10:30 am | Anglia Ruskin University |
| All Day Fiction Workshop | Are you interested in writing fiction? If so, come along for an all day workshop with Kate Pullinger. Through a series of set tasks ... | 10:30 am | Anglia Ruskin University |
| Translation Workshop (French-English) | This lively, hands-on workshop about translating literature from French to English will be offered by expert translator Ros Schwartz and Franco-Algerian author Nadia Galy. ... | 10:30 am | The Fitzwilliam Museum |
| Janet Street Porter | Tighten your seat belts for what is sure to be a whirlwind start to this year’s festival. Janet Street-Porter has spent three decades at the forefront ... | 1:00 pm | ADC Theatre |
| A Different Point of View | This poetry workshop will use the collections in the Fitzwilliam to explore ways in which taking a new perspective can prompt fresh ways of ... | 1:30 pm | The Fitzwilliam Museum |
| Louis de Bernieres | One of Britain’s best-loved and bestselling authors makes his long awaited Wordfest debut. Louis de Bernières, author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and Birds Without ... | 2:30 pm | ADC Theatre |
| Oliver James | Celebrated psychologist Oliver James discusses his latest books Affl uenza and Selfi sh Capitalist. Food for thought on the demands of 21st century living form the author of ... | 4:00 pm | ADC Theatre |
| Sir David King | Free to speak out for the first time since publication of this highly anticipated book, the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser talks about what can ... | 5:30 pm | ADC Theatre |
| Wendy Cope | Proving that quality can also be popular, Wendy Cope is here to read from her forthcoming miscellany, Two Cures for Love. Indulge yourself for ... | 7:30 pm | ADC Theatre |
| Yasmin Alibhai-Brown | Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s poignant and impassioned one-woman show about a Ugandan in Britain, captures with warmth and grit how theatre and Shakespeare helped change her ... | 9:00 pm | ADC Theatre |
