Category: Kent
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Call out: Performers to join us at the Dickens Festival
This year’s Garden Party is again a little different – we’re taking up residence at the Dickens Festival from 3-5 June, with activities ongoing throughout the three days to celebrate our most famous writer.
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The City of Rochester Society support for ‘The Turtle Moves’
More good news for us – the brilliant City of Rochester Society – who do so much to conserve the character and heritage of our fair city – have very generously awarded us a £500 grant towards expenses and materials for this year’s festival.
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Meet our Patron – Lisa Cutts, crime author
A fortuitous meeting in support of a book shop in Maidstone, and a conversation with a mutual friend in Medway Libraries, saw destiny strike while searching for a suitable Patron for our festival. Lisa Cutts is a new star of the crime writing genre, with her third novel, Mercy Killing…
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Hanging Pockets
February half term is almost with us – incredibly, since the younglings have only just gone back to school – and we’re very happy to be running a joint event with the beautiful new Huguenot Museum.
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Live Art at ‘Live’n’Local’
The 2015 festival may be over but we’ve an unusual reminder of what took place, courtesy of the lovely Julie Bradshaw, who joined us for the day at Sun Pier House.
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Kent Life Short Story Competition
Calling all Medway writers – let’s show the rest of Kent what we’ve got! Kent Life magazine is running a short story competition, judged by recent Live’n’Local speaker, Truda Thurai.
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Cloaked Tales – Joseph Coelho
Awarded the CLPE 2015 Children’s Poetry Award for his first book Werewolf Club Rules, Joseph Coelho has been busy producing his latest performances ‘Cloaked Tales’.
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Introducing: The Safe and Sound Project
The background to our playwriting workshop is all too relevant to what’s happening all over the world, with the suffering of refugees bringing it home to us every day.
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WANTED! For Live’n’Local #RLF2015
With just three weeks to go, the final phase of this year’s festival is kicking in. Roughly translated, that means WE NEED YOU! Whether you’re feeling generous or want a chance to perform, WE WANT YOU!
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Get Creative – Get Writing!
We’re hosting 4 themed writing workshops during our 2015 festival, Live’n’Local, as part of the BBC’s Get Creative campaign – a year-long celebration of British arts, culture and creativity.
Rochester Literature Festival 