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Dates for your diary and some advance information.
YOU CAN NOW DOWNLOAD THE FULL FESTIVAL PROGRAMME AS A PDF FILE CLICK HERE
Coleford Festival of Words 2009 will be held from 29th June to 4th July. ALL TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE ON-LINE BOOK ON-LINE HERE
THE AFTER WORDS CAFE
Or before Words if you wish. Enhance your Words experience with a visit to the fesival AFTER WORDS CAFE at the Baptist Church, Coleford. To download opening times and a delicious gourmet menu CLICK HERE
The Main Attractions so far:
 JOHN HEGLEY 29th June
John Hegley is a frequent performer at many festivals and is a regular sell-out at The Edinburgh Festival. He has performed at the Montreal Comedy Festival, the USA Comedy Festival in Aspen, with Ulrika Jonsson & Anita Dobson in The Pyjama Game and on BBC R4's Hearing With Hegley. He is widely known as one of the country's most innovative comic poets with several best-selling volumes of poetry to his name. BOOK ON-LINE HERE
 BARRY NORMAN Wednesday 1st July
Barry Norman on Cricket. 7.30 pm Wed. July 1. Venue to be confirmed. (Sponsored by Quercus Books)
Barry Norman delivers a wealth of information about every aspect of the world's most popular summer game: how its rules developed from its 18th-century beginnings; its pre-World War I 'golden age' and international expansion in step with the onward march of Britain's empire; the growth of test match cricket (and of Anglo-Australian 'Ashes' rivalry in particular); the emergence of the English county championship and of Australia's state competition; profiles of great players past and present; the modern phenomenon of one-day cricket and the cricket World Cup; legendary matches (from attritional test match classics to limited-overs thrillers); cricket crises and controversies (from Bodyline to Muralitharan and from chucking to sledging); bizarre facts and records; cricket's rich and intriguing vocabulary of words and phrases (from Yorker to doosra); memorable cricket quotes (including, of course, 'the bowler's Holding, the batsman's Willey') BOOK ON-LINE HERE
 KATE ADIE 3rd July
Kate Adie began work as a journalist in regional TV joining BBC TV News in London in 1979. Although she covered some overseas stories, she also spent two years as a court correspondent. Her coverage of the 1980 siege of the Iranian embassy changed all that. It brought her to prominence as one of the few women reporting difficult and dangerous stories at the time. Kate Adie became the BBC's chief news correspondent in 1989. She again came to the fore when covering the brutal suppression of the student uprising in Tiananmen Square. Her honours include three RTS awards, the Bafta Richard Dimbleby Award, and the Broadcasting Press Guild's Award for Outstanding Contribution to Broadcasting. She was awarded an OBE in 1993 BOOK ON-LINE HERE
There will be a celebration of books written by Forest authors, a project to create books written by children and young people and their parents. Various live performances including Bristol based story tellers Head 'n' Tales, and a new play 'A walk on The Severn' written by award-winning poet Alice Oswald.BOOK ON-LINE HERE
A link with Open Studios will bring writers and artists together to bounce off each others ideas, words and images and share the results.
Coleford based authors Shoo Rayner whose new children's book features the Forest of Dean and Andrew Taylor, recently celebrated by a Cartier Diamond Dagger for his body of work in Crime writing, will also be appearing in a week-long journey of words and writing. There will be a return visit by John Hegley himself who breaks off from a national tour, to visit the Forest. BOOK ON-LINE HERE
'A Sleepwalk on the Severn'
a show based on a poem by Alice Oswald
Doug McLean ‘Adventures in the Book Trade: 50 years in the book business'. Doug talks entertainingly about the mysteries, quirks, past events and future trends of the British Book trade. BOOK ON-LINE HERE
'The Last Word' end of festival finale with dialect Poet Keith Morgan and singer songwriter Dick Brice BOOK ON-LINE HERE
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Authors include
Julia Gregson winner of book of the year award,
John Griffiths talking about his book on Afghanistan
GF Newman tv crime scriptwriter
Shoo Rayner – one man children’s story planet
Andrew Taylor winner of the Cartier Diamond Dagger award
Writers & Artists exploring images and words
There will be daily evening cabarets withappearances from The Pukes, Fi Benson, There will be workshops, readings, exhibitions. Other plans include film screenings, links to Open studios plus 'Chalk Word' sessions in centre of town
We also have a strand ' Where I Live' where we invite local people to talk about their experiences...
Last year there were 21 events involving 500 people. Since then, monthly cabarets have been whetting local appetites and offering a platform for poets, musicians and performers. BOOK ON-LINE HERE
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