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Mad Hatters at Felixstowe Triangle

June 13, 2015 By HR

13/06/2015 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – Come and get in the festival mood on Saturday 13th June! We’ll be joined by local actors who will be treating you all to some al fresco drama as they enact the Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. This begins our celebrations of 150 years of children’s classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Children who turn up wearing a […]

Crossing Borders

June 20, 2015 By HR

20/06/2015 @ 11:00 am – 5:00 pm – Celebrating community with stories, music, dancing, drama and food. Fun for all the family!   free events, normal entry fees to Fort apply  

A Midsummer Day’s Dream

June 24, 2015 By HR

24/06/2015 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm – “I know a bank where the wild thyme blows…” Music in Felixstowe invite you to get into book festival mood with this delightful confection of words and music by Shakespeare – and others! Well-known actor Brian Ralph and local actor-singer Emily Bennett weave together song and the spoken word in a celebration of how authors, playwrights, […]

Felixstowe Scribblers

June 27, 2015 By HR

27/06/2015 @ All Day – Felixstowe Scribblers will be in attendance throughout the Book Festival and will discuss the value of writing groups. They will share their stories with readings every hour on the hour from 10.00 am until 4.00 pm. They will also host a live flash fiction event, in collaboration with Ed Broom – winner of last year’s short story competition.

In the Margins Art Exhibition

June 27, 2015 By HR

27/06/2015 – 28/06/2015 @ All Day – New for this year is a small exhibition of paintings by a group of local artists working on the Festival theme of ‘in the margins’. Felixstowe resident Ken Cuthbert runs an informal art group where he sets the artists a theme each month and they discuss their work at the following meeting. When it was […]

The Write Coach

June 27, 2015 By HR

27/06/2015 @ All Day – An opportunity to take time out to think about your writing goals. Are you achieving what you want from your writing in 2015? If not, what’s getting in the way and what will you do about it? Qualified coach, Jane Bailey, will be providing individual 30 minute taster coaching sessions. Jane works with writers across the UK […]

Delaine Le Bas

June 27, 2015 By HR

27/06/2015 – 28/06/2015 @ All Day – Delaine Le Bas is an English Multi Media Artist from a Romany background who has shown her art extensively both in UK and internationally, including at the Venice Biennale. For centuries Romani people and other Travellers have been making enormous contributions at the cutting edge of artistic culture. For Felixstowe Book Festival she will be bringing the ongoing library of books […]

Oggy Boytchev

June 27, 2015 By colneis

27/06/2015 @ 9:30 am – 10:30 am – Oggy Boytchev, journalist and author of Simpson & I, opens Felixstowe Book Festival with a talk about what it’s like to work as a journalist in the most dangerous places on earth. With astonishing revelations about how stories are discovered and reported, he shares with us the often nail-biting, sometimes touch-and-go moments behind the camera, as […]

Book Swap

June 27, 2015 By HR

27/06/2015 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – You are cordially invited to take part in our Book Swap! Simply bring along a book (or several!) to donate and choose a new story to dive into in return. We’ll have a delectable pool of books for all ages at the beginning of the day. This is a fantastic way of gaining new reading […]

Book Trail

June 27, 2015 By HR

27/06/2015 – 28/06/2015 @ 10:00 am – 4:00 pm – On the weekend of the festival we are hiding nine different children’s books in a variety of shop windows in the town centre, can you find them all? Collect your form of clues from Felixstowe Triangle (on the Saturday) or Felixstowe Library (any time), locate the books and fill in all the book titles. Then […]

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