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events include the Annapurna Indian Dance Company, a Darwin Sea Shanty and a a talk from Jazz Summers, the former manager of Wham! Polari Up North will feature five major authors from the LGBT scene and a post-festival Literary Afternoon Tea will be held with Marina Lewycka and Matt Haig among others.
The 2014 Huddersfield Literature Festival looks set to be a major event Festival Director Michelle Hodgson, on the calendar next March – and local who also runs Key Words Copywriting businesses and organisations are Ltd, says: “This year the festival has making a major contribution. even more to offer with at least 25 The Festival, which runs from 6-16 events at around a dozen venues across March 2014 with a theme of Huddersfield, including several at the ‘Remembrance’, will feature major University of Huddersfield, recently names, including Booker Prize nominee voted University of the Year at the Jim Crace, local bestseller Joanne Times Higher Education Awards.” Harris, journalist Kate Adie, and festival She continued: “We are very grateful to patron and poet Lemn Sissay. the Arts Council, Kirklees Council and There will be storytelling, performance the University’s School of Music, poetry, an open mic event and a Meet Humanities & Media for additional the Agent & Editor event, as well as a funding for 2014 and we are partnering one woman show from Sunny Ormonde with a number of local businesses, – The Archers’ outrageous Lilian which are providing sponsorship Bellamy. support, including Wilkinson Woodward, Begbies Traynor, Ravenhall Returning events include the popular and Addy Murgatroyd. This allows us to Manga Con and PechaKucha and new
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keep ticket prices affordable, while offering a wider range of events.” The festival will once again work with environmentally friendly printers PrintPod. Based in the Media Centre, where some of the events will be taking place, PrintPod will design and print 30,000 Festival brochures, which will be available in the new year. Tickets for some events are already on sale from the LBT box office. For more information visit: W: www.litfest.org.uk
Festival patron and poet Lemn Sissay