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| Special Event Blogs: Launch of Nottingham Festival of Words Posted: 13 Sep 2012 08:40 AM PDT
So armed with the published list of participants on my Ipad (I hate getting names wrong) I joined the capacity crowd and found a seat on the side, half behind a pillar. What follows is a selection of the tweets, re-arranged for artistic effect, with additional comments and links.
That is what their website said, but several speakers referred to the fortnight 9 to 24 February. Best to cancel all holiday during February.
Last night "love" got the majority of the time.
And, their preferred hashtag is as shown.
Many of the events will take place in the Newton Arkwright building at NTU in the centre of town, but references were made to a series of events at Newstead Abbey, exploiting the Lord Byron connection and the partnership of the City Council who own it. My impression was that this festival is still evolving, still growing and that the final list of events will not be known for some time. But it will be diverse, and massive. Just after 7.30 pm:
Robin Vaughan-Williams, Poet and Nottingham Writers' Studio Development Director did the introductions throughout the evening.
The tweet underestimates the warmth and pride in Ms Moore's presence here and on the Booker shortlist. She spoke for just a few minutes, revealing a more in depth knowledge of the programme than has been published. She remained in the audience for the entire event. Her novel, The Lighthouse, is a brilliant fiction, each chapter revealing layers of the history of the two main characters whose stories spiral toward a tragedy. One of my books for 2012. We then had samples of speakers who will be appearing in February. First up, with very artistic images of internet use and users was:
From the globe to the centre of the universe, Nottingham,
I know now that this was Larnelle and he and his fellow poets will deserve their billing in February. We had more poetry next, from the Nottingham Asian Arts Council:
The young girl was Anushka Shah, who read with self assurance and pride. The last "taster" session before the interval came from storytellers:
During the interval
It certainly felt like a room full of writers, in the widest sense, with possibly only me as a Reader. So I went to meet someone in person I had read about on Creative Nottingham:
At the start of the second half, an announcement was made by someone whose name is still un-known to me.
This very generous fund means nice prizes and a good competition for children, competing in age-banded groups. Keep your eye on the Festival website for more details. Next:
[The original tweet mis-spelt "Stephen", I hope no one tells him.] He eloquently spoke about his experience reading D H Lawrence's un-performed plays, and subsequently seeing them on stage. And made a case for Nottingham as the provincial city with a literary centre of gravity unlike any other.
Mahmoud tried to make the session interactive by reading sections of his story and asking the audience if they recognised the character. The link to the next performer was serendipitously his birthplace:
Greg Woods was profiled earlier this summer on Left Lion. Our last wordsmith of the evening gave us a multi-media "reading" with vivid abstract images mixed with words and music (full name Reuben da Cunha Rocha):
And the music continued:
After two hours:
 Sue sums it up John is one of our team of bloggers. He can be reached on john AT creativenottingham.com and followed on Twitter @johnwithbeard |
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