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The Grand Opening Feast
With Char March
Come and enjoy the opening event of the very first Otley Word Feast.
Meet the Feast's workshop leaders and authors,hear the winning competition entries and be entertained by award winning poet, writer and performer Char March, plus local writers and musicians.
A delicious vegetarian curry will be served.
Korks Wine Bar, Friday 9th March, 7.30 - 11.00, over 18s |
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Kickstart your Writing Breakfast
Can you talk and eat breakfast at the same time?
Come to The Bowling Green (Wetherspoon's) and discuss how you get from the blank page to the finished manuscript or poem. Local writers will be starting off the discussion. Let us know if you would like to be one of them.
The Bowling Green, Saturday 10th March, 9.30 - 10.30, over 18s |
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Ways into Creative Writing
with James Nash
This could be the workshop for you if you've always wanted to write, improve your writing, find inspiration, or try out your ideas in a supportive atmosphere.
Otley Courthouse, Saturday 10th March, 10.15 - 12.15 |
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Story Time for Children
Two sessions for young children in the library
Age 3- 5 at 10.30
Age 5-7 at 11.30
Otley Library, Saturday 10th March |
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Follow your Dream
Join Author Eileen Taylor and Illustrator Lisa McNamara as they share their successful step by step process of writing, illustrating and publishing their children's book series, "The Adventures of Betty Bunratty" and" The Adventures of Eddy Moneypenny".
A talk on how to develop merchandise will include showing the Betty and Eddy dolls.
Question and answer session will take place along with tips on marketing your book after publication.
Labour Rooms, Saturday 10th March, 11.00 - 12.00 |
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Children's Competition Prize-giving
Come and hear the winning entries from the children's and young people's writing competition
Prizes will be awarded by the Otley Town MayorChildren's Prize-giving
Otley Library, Saturday 10th March, 12.30 - 1.00. |
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A Stupid Thing to Do!
Meet author Noel Whittall and the 1918 Trusty Triumph H model motorbike he rode from Leeds up to John O'Groats and down to Land's End.
Noel’s latest book is ‘A Stupid Thing to Do’, published by Propagator Press. As he puts it, this is “The story of an old bloke meandering up and down Britain on an even older motorcycle”, but there’s rather more to it than that, with laughs along the way.
Korks Wine Bar, Saturday 10th March ,1.30 - 2.30
more about Noel |
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Sensations!
Poetry Writing Workshop
with Pat Borthwick
Suitable for both new and experienced writers
Pat will use a variety of starting points to inspire ‘sensational’ new writing. There will be published poems available as models and the session will include some quiet time to develop one or two of your starting points further. The last hour will be set aside for readback/feedback time so that your poem gets its first public airing. Constructive comments will be encouraged so that writers take home from the workshop ideas for ways to further improve their poems.
Otley Courthouse, Saturday 10th March, 1.30 - 3.30
more about Pat |
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Telling Stories with (funny) Pictures
with Kate Pankhurst
Create your own weird and wonderful characters, make your friends and family laugh uncontrollably by creating your own amazing illustrations and gain an insight into the job of a children’s book illustrator. An opportunity for young people aged 8-13 to take part in a fun and active illustration workshop to:
Develop their drawing skills by drawing unusual things, with unusual objects!
Make a hilarious flip-book containing illustrated characters;
Design their very own set of weird and wonderful characters!
Otley Library, Saturday 10th March, 1.30 - 3.30. |
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Developing Characters
with Glynis Charlton
Create believable characters who are completely new to you, or develop one you want to take further. Try different ways of bringing them to life!
Otley Courthouse, Saturday 10th March, 1.30 - 3.30 |
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The woman without a number
with Iby Knill
After sixty years, Iby Knill broke her silence about her extraordinary wartime experiences, surviving the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps, when she was featured in the BBC programme 'My Story'.
Iby will talk about 'the past is other countries' and her book The Woman Without a Number.
Otley Courthouse, Saturday 10th March, 2.00 - 4.00
more about Iby |
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Sequential Storytelling
with Kristyna Baczynski
A practical comics showcase, from concept to print.
Kristyna Baczynski is an illustrator, designer and comic book artist with a Yorkshire accent and Ukrainian blood. Freelancing from her studio in Leeds, her work has been nationally and internationally exhibited, published and commissioned much to her delight.
She was the 2011 Though Bubble Artist in Residence and holds a 2008 Northern Design Award. She is happiest when she is drawing.
Labour Rooms, Saturday 10th March, 2.00 - 4.00
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Open Mic Competition
hosted by Siobhan Macmahon
You have three minutes to perform and convince us all that you deserve a cash prize!
Get your name down early as there is limited space!
Email:mic@otleywordfeast.org.uk or telephone: 01943 464440 to reserve a slot
Korks Wine Bar, Saturday 10th March, 3.00 - 5.00
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A Kitten in Daisy Street
with Pat Belford
For children ages 6 - 10. Pat will be reading her children's story which is set in Victorian Leeds. Hetty and her sisters and brothers all want to ride on the roundabout. Money is short and when Hetty finds an abandoned kitten she has to make a difficult choice
Discover how a local museum provided the inspiration for the book and get some ideas for writing a story of your own.
A Kitten in Daisy Street is published by Oxford University Press
Otley Library, Saturday 10th March, 3.30 - 4.00 |
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Our Father Who Art Out There, Somewhere
with Alison Taft
Come and listen to Alison talk about her debut novel - described as Chick Noir.
This event is suitable for teens and adults.
Otley Library, Saturday 10th March, 4.00 - 5.00 |
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Dancing with Mr Darcy
with Steph Shields
‘…I may safely promise you never to dance with him.’ (Elizabeth Bennet, Pride and Prejudice)
Perception, reality and how circumstances change us is the theme of Steph Shields’ session. Steph’s story ‘The Watershed’ was one of the winning entries in the Jane Austen Short Story Award. ‘Dancing with Mr Darcy’ is the anthology of these winning entries – selected by novelist Sarah Waters.
Steph will talk about her own writing, and about why Jane Austen still inspires 21st century writers - with extracts and insights from her own writing, and not a bonnet or bodice in sight. However, there will be tea!
Victoria Plum Cafe, Saturday 10th March, 4.00 - 5.00. |
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Edible Tent presents
Why do we write: to mourn loss, celebrate love, get famous, get even?
In an eclectic hour, with poems and songs about graffiti, Mad Men, plums, and writers' notebooks, plus musical settings of Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Christina Rossetti and Robert Browning, Scriptophilia is about the sickness, the business, frustrations, compulsions, flights, falls, highs and fives of writing.
Peter Spafford's work has been performed on radio, television, and on the streets; in theatres, art centres, community centres, hospitals, prisons, concert halls, and in the bath.
Otley Courthouse, Saturday 10th March, 5.30 - 6.15. |
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John Hegley: The Adventures of Monsieur Robinet
An Otley Courthouse event in partnership with Otley Word Feast.
Tales about a Frenchman with some unusual [but clean] habits, which include burying his dog's kennel and his own luggage pieces. The stories appear alongside other new works, which include an address to aliens on the subject of transport, a poem about a non-talking parrot and some animal impersonations with the aid of a handkerchief. The audience are invited to sing along. But not to dance. Much. Suitable for most people over seven.
Tickets: £11/£9 in advance from Otley Courthouse, £12/£10 on the door.
www.johnhegley.co.uk
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Walking & Talking
Sunday 11 March: a literary walk on the Chevin. Starting at 10.00 AM from the Buttercross in the Market Place, Otley, through the fields and, as gently as possible, up the Chevin. Bring walking boots, tea, coffee and lunch, and above all, a story or poem to read out during stops. The walk will be about 8 miles, and we aim to be back in Otley around 3 PM.
For information call Jur & Yvonne, 01943 850302
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