Havant Arts Centre

‘A FRESH PAGE’
Thursday 25 September, 6pm
Grand Opening and Prize-Giving Ceremony
The Festival kicks off with a Grand Opening ceremony in the Gallery. VIP guests will present prizes to the winners of the poetry, short story and children’s competitions. Everybody welcome!
FREE EVENT

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Thursday 25 September, 8pm
Tongues and Grooves
Starting with a special concert to mark the opening of The Havant Literary Festival with winning poems from the literary festivals Poetry Competition. The evening will feature nationally and internationally acclaimed writers and poets such as Rory Motion, Donald Gardner and Nick Evans among others

Rory Motion
Singer/songwriter, comedian, poet and tree impressionist.
Appearances include TV, radio, Glastonbury and other major festivals. Amongst the most popular and innovative performers on the national circuit.
‘An altogether unique perspective on the world’.

Donald Gardner
International poet and translator.
Performances worldwide, including the legendary reading at East Village Theatre, New York in 1967. His one-man performance, ‘Chicken with Madness’, was one of three poetry performances selected for Amsterdam’s year as cultural Capital of Europe. ‘One of the most exciting and surprising poets around’.

Nick Evans
Multi musician and nationally acclaimed pedal steel guitarist.

Guest appearances: John Haynes, winner of The Costa Award for Poetry, 2006; Bloodaxe Poet, Stephanie Norgate; Maggie Sawkins and Bernard Macdonagh, reading from ‘The Zig Zag Woman’.

£8, concessions £6.50
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Friday 26 September, 8.30pm
Murray Lachlan Young
A unique performer, stand up poet and satirist who combines the predatory humour of the Victorian cautionary tale and the pointed whimsy of Noel coward with a B-movie sensibility to create a unique atmosphere and a bizarre take on contemporary living. Murray has had his own shows on MTV USA and BBC2 and is currently a house poet on BBC Radio 4’s ‘Saturday Live’.

Bewitching the crowds with his shaggy-haired charm … top grade fodder
METRO ****

£8.50, £7.25 concessions, students £5
ONLINE PRICE: £7.70

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Friday 26 September, 10pm
Ghost Walk
Meet in Red Mango for a spooky promenade round Old Havant Town and a chilling tale of ghosts, ghouls and gargoyles. Not wholly accurate but 100% entertaining! Price includes hot chocolate, served in Filarinski’s candle-lit cellar café at the spine-tingling culmination of the walk.
£5, concessions £3.75

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Saturday 27 September,10.30am – 12.00noon
Pauline Rowson
UK Crime Writer, Pauline Rowson will be talking about her popular Marine Mystery fiction set in the Solent area. Pauline has written three crime novels featuring Detective Inspector Andy Horton, Tide of Death, Deadly Waters and the newly-published The Suffocating Sea in addition to two thrillers, In Cold Daylight, which was short-listed for the World Book Day Prize 2008, and In For The Kill. Pauline will be reading from her novels and taking questions. She will also be available to sign copies of her books.
£5

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Saturday 27 September, 10.30am
Children’s’ Storyteller
Bring along your children to a deliciously dramatic storytelling event. Expect super stories full of laughter and excitement!
Approx. 30 mins
Special offer for parents & guardians: purchase a tea or filter coffee and a yummy muffin for just £1.50 - available before or after the storytelling
FREE EVENT

Saturday 27 September, 12.00noon – 2.00pm
Eat Your Words!
We won’t be using alphabetti spaghetti but look out for the literature links while enjoying an amusing cabaret by the Bench Theatre - an irresistible literary luncheon.

Saturday, 27 September, 1.00pm
How I Got Published
Local authors Tim Stretton, (The Dog of the North, Dragonchaser) Tim Bouquet (Cold Steel) and Tom Cain (The Accident Man, The Survivor) describe their individual journeys on the road to getting published. They will share the benefits of their collective experience and take questions from the audience.
£4

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Saturday 27 September, 3.45pm
Writing about Nature – A Talk with Brian Clarke
Brian Clarke’s work as a journalist with The Times has taken him to some of the most remote and beautiful places on earth, where he has witnessed the natural world under pressure. His environmental novel The Stream won the international Natural World Book Prize. Brian will use The Stream as a backdrop to discuss threats to the environment - and how writers can “get inside nature” to draw attention to them.
£4

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Saturday 27 September, 6pm
The Art of Wodehouse
An exploration of the life, work and local connections of the enduringly popular comic writer and one-time Emsworth resident, PG Wodehouse. The art of this unique talent - Evelyn Waugh called him the best writer of the first half of the 20th century - will be illustrated with quotations from some his books, plays and song lyrics. This talk is by Tony Ring, the foremost UK authority on all things Wodehouse.
£5

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