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Swindon Wide Swindon Festival of Literature: 1- 13 May
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For further information pick up a programme at any of the venues below or visit www.swindonfestivalofliterature.co.uk . For venue details not listed see page 24
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Wednesday 1 May, 5.30am! Dawn Chorus— minstrels, musicians, poets, performers. Lawn Woods, High Street, Old Town. Free Wednesday 1 May, 1pm Poems That Could Save Your Life — useful verse. Swindon Museum & Art Gallery. £3 (£2) Wednesday 1 May, 6pm Terry Pratchett OBE, master storyteller, — in conversation. Main Hall, University Campus, Marlowe Ave. Tel: 614837. £5 (£4) Thursday 2 May, 1 pm Sunbathing In The Rain — Award winning poet, Gwyneth Lewis being cheerful about depression. Swindon Museum & Art Gallery. £3 (£2) Thursday 2 May,6pm Clive Brain Memorial Lecture: Is Man just another Animal? Professor of Genetics Steve Jones sets out to prove the facts of evolution. Swindon College. Tel: 498300. Free
Monday 6 May, 2pm to 4pm Storywalk in Ravensroost Woods — in glades, among bluebells. Ravensroost Woods, Minety. Tel: 771080. £3 (£2) Monday 6 May, 8pm Pulsar Live Mic Poetry — read your own, friendly and together. Riffs Bar, Greatfield,Near Purton Tel: 875941 or 778304. Free
Fed up with busy high street salons?
Saturday 11 May & Sunday 12 May Writing Workshop—two days, doing it, together! Lower Shaw Farm, West Swindon. Tel: 01793 771080. £45 Saturday 11 May, all day Steam Lines —a trip down the sidings of railway verse. STEAM Saturday 11 May, all day Local Authors and Local History Day. STEAM. Free Saturday 11 May, 1 pm Sarah Miles — actor and writer, in conversation. Swindon Museum & Art Gallery. £4 (£3)
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Saturday 11 May, 8pm Swindon Poetry Slam! Nationally renowned rumble of performances, points. pints, prizes! Serious stanzaic fun. Town Hall. £5 (£4) Sir Bernard Ingham replacing Margaret Thatcher on 13 May Tuesday 7 May, 1pm Primo Levi - a life. Swindon Museum & Art Gallery. £4 (£3)
Thursday 2 May,7.30pm Branching Out. Writing workshop inspired by nature. Town Council Tuesday 7 May, 7.30pm Chambers, Highworth. Tel: 762377. Mo Mowlam. One of the more respected figures in British politics £5 talks with candour and humour. Thursday 2 May, 8pm Wyvern Theatre. £10 (£9) Matthew Collings —on art, then and now! Swindon Museum and Art Wednesday 8 May, 1pm Magnus Mills. Booker short author Gallery. £5 (£4) on being a working writer! Swindon Friday 3 May, 1pm Museum & Art Gallery. £4 (£3) Howard Jacobson. Controversial Wednesday 8 May, 7pm columnist talks about humour as a serious business. Swindon Museum John Humphrys—interview sponsored by The Link. Arts Centre. £7 (£6) & Art Gallery. £4 (£3) Thursday 9 May, 1pm Friday 3 May, 7.30pm International Evening. Former Linda Grant —and the Orange Prize! Observer editor Will Hutton talks Swindon Museum & Art Gallery. £4 (£3) about the state of the world. Music, Thursday 9 May, 6pm stories and poems from Jessica Aesop's Fables — a talk about wood D'Este and Inez Aponte. Town Hall, engravings. Arts Centre. Free Regent Circus. Tel: 463210. £5 (£4) Thursday 9 May, 7pm Steam Locomotives —an ill ustrated Friday 3 May, 7.30pm Thomas Hardy: Village Atheist or talk. STEAM. £4 (£3) Distracted Preacher? asks Bishop of Thursday 9 May, 8pm Swindon Michael Doe. Swindon Will Self — in conversation. Arts Museum & Art Gallery. £3 (£2) Centre. £7 (£6) Saturday 4 May, 10am - 5pm Friday 10 May, 1 pm Children's Day - live authors, lively David Lodge —on good reading and workshops, bear necessities! STEAM writing. Swindon Museum & Art Gallery. £4 (£3) Saturday 4 May, 4pm Chimney Sweeping — through the Friday 10 May, 7.30pm centuries! STEAM £4 (£3) Postcolonialism — cultural identity. New ideas about culture and identity Saturday 4 May, 8pm Poems and Pints — rhyme. rhythm, from Professor Robert Young. Swindon and refreshment. Town Hall, Regent Museum & Art Gallery. £3 (E2) Circus. £5 (£4) Friday 10 May, 6.30pm Japanese fil m — and a lecture, by Sunday 5 May, 12.30pm Literary Lunch — with Chris Wood- Keiichi Ogata. cre8 Studios, Town head: Class Wars. De Vere Hotel, Hall. Tel: 01793 463210. £4.50 (£3) Shaw Ridge. Tel: 614837.L'25 Friday 10 May, 8pm Jenny Eclair & Arthur Smith . Wit, Sunday 5 May, 7pm Campfire Storytelling — stories, wisdom and wicked laughs from round the fire with Cat Weatherill, Britain's most ballsey female comic under the stars. Lower Shaw Farm. and broadcaster and raconteur Arthur Smith. Arts Centre. £8.50 (£7.50) Tel: 771080. £3 (£2)
Most standard treatments
Sunday 12 May, 7pm Getting Into Print—journalism: tips and information. Lower Shaw Farm, West Swindon. £5 (£4) Monday 13 May, 1pm Lauren Roche — an extraordinary life. Swindon Museum & Art Gallery, £4 (£3) Monday 13 May, 7.30pm Sir Bernard Ingham — in conversation, in place of Margaret Thatcher. Wyvern Theatre. £8 (£7)
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