Lewes Live Literature Autumn Season
Friday, September 21 2007 @ 04:46 PM BST
Author: Dan
All eyes and ears on Lewes this October with the 12th annual Lewes Live Lit festival, featuring an eclectic mix of words, music, cabaret and film at venues across the town.
This year the festival has a special focus on new writing and performance and starts with a series of one day workshops for budding writers, lead by top fiction and poetry tutors.
The
live programme then launches on 23 October and takes in venues across the town
with both day and night time events.
Highlights of the 2007
autumn festival include popular TV actress Paula Wilcox playing acerbic New
York wit Dorothy Parker in a show with live music set in a New York bar.
In another first, internationally
renowned playwright Howard Barker, with 10 actors from his
ensemble The Wrestling School, offers a preview of a new work-in-progress,
Actress With An Unloved Child.
Ingenious writer, musician,
broadcaster, cartoonist and visual artist Peter Blegvad will lead
guided tours of The Milk Museum.
Writer Yasmin Alibhai-Brown
presents Nowhere to Belong - Tales of an Extravagant Stranger, her
autobiographical one woman show about her Ugandan Asian upbringing and lifelong
love of Shakespeare.
The Dogfather of performance
poetry Adrian Mitchell will perform in a pub on his 75th birthday.
And artist Peter Messer talks audiences inside the world of his hallucinatory Lewes paintings at the
launch of a book, On The Way To Work, that collects the best of them.
Lewes Live Lit is known for
its innovative programming and draws an audience from across the south east
region and features writers, artists and musicians from across the globe.
Artistic Director and
founder Mark Hewitt comments: 'Lewes Live lit is not a conventional literature
or book festival and we make no apologies for that. We offering a distinctively
curated, diverse programme with an independent approach. This year is set to be
one of our best.'
Events will be held at
Pelham House, The Royal Oak and Lewes Town Hall.
Tickets are available from the
Lewes Lit website, the Brighton Dome Box Office on 01273 709709 and Rik's Discs
in Lewes.
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