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25-29 SEPTEMBER
5 PROGRAMME
ANNIVERSARY
TH
www.jerseyfestivalofwords.org
FEATURING: SIR MICHAEL PARKINSON JENNY ECLAIR
SIR ROBIN KNOX-JOHNSTON LOUISE MINCHIN
LEAH HAZARD FRIEDA HUGHES KONNIE HUQ + MANY MORE
5th Anniversary Jersey Festival of Words 2019
A warm welcome to the fifth Jersey Festival of Words
VOICES from a momentous century echo loud and A five-day feast of ideas and Once again, the public events are Festival of Words to announce its first
entertainment also ranges from complemented by a stimulating patron. Cathy Rentzenbrink, who
clear through the Jersey Festival of Words 2019. Premier League lawyer Daniel schools programme, sponsored by interviews, writes and broadcasts on
Geey’s insights into football’s Santander International, and including books and writers around Britain as
One hundred years on from the In an inimitable career throughout finance, Done Deal, to former Blue Peter star Konnie Huq. well as being the best-selling author
epoch-making drama that first television’s golden age, 20th century Jersey teacher Bram Wanrooij’s of The Last Act of Love and A Manual
enfranchised female voters in Britain, legends such as Nelson Mandela, examination of the refugee crisis and for Heartache, has been a friend of
an inspiring parade of ghosts from Muhammad Ali, Miss Piggy, Michael its impact on Europe and from Red the Jersey festival from its optimistic
history are summoned to join the Caine, Spike Milligan, Victoria Noise, a hybrid of stand-up comedy, beginnings and we are proud and
powerful ranks of modern women Beckham and Paul McCartney were poetry and theatrical monologue delighted that she has agreed to
who inherited the new world they among the hundreds of stars who by Edinburgh Fringe First winner become its patron. (See below)
fought for. opened up in the long-running series Owen O’Neill to an adventurous new
he will be recalling on the Opera children’s show for Dr Who. A celebration of women has emerged
A distinct feminist slant is House stage. as a timely festival theme this year
nevertheless just one element of the but far from exclusively. As the old
particularly eclectic and wide-ranging There is little doubt that, had their Jersey-based poets, playwrights, saying goes, there is much, much
programme with which we celebrate eras coincided, the Parkinson show novelists and short story writers will more to catch the attention of book-
our festival’s fifth year. would have featured appearances play a full part too, as will the Island’s lovers of all tastes, all ages and all
by the leaders of the suffragette such names as those of comedian resurgent native language, Jèrriais, genders. You can read all about it
And what better person could movement whose courage and and novelist Jenny Eclair, talking and aspiring entrants to the various in the following pages and we hope
there be to redress the gender passionate determination won votes about her new book Inheritance; TV literary competitions now firmly up you will agree that, five years in,
balance a touch than the century’s for women in England in 1918, with presenter turned triathlete Louise and running in association with the the Island’s own book festival has
greatest television interviewer, the Jersey following not far behind 100 Minchin; Raynor Winn, whose festival. created a valuable addition to its
legendary Sir Michael Parkinson? years ago this year. long, life-changing coastal walk vibrant, flourishing and distinctive
Journalist, raconteur, incomparable after becoming homeless resulted With an ever-widening circle of cultural scene.
communicator… Sir Michael will Instead, those magnificent in the best-selling The Salt Path; partners, sponsors and venues and
share memories from his years of campaigners have been brought Leah Hazard, who swapped a a clear vision established, this also
revelatory on-screen conversation irresistibly to life for new generations television career for a new role as a seems like a good time for the Jersey
with the biggest personalities of the by festival author Diane Atkinson’s midwife, movingly and entertainingly
age in showbusiness, culture, sport definitive history of the movement, described in Hard Pushed; and,
and politics. Rise Up, Women! making a welcome return to Jersey,
Janet Hoggarth, whose new novel’s This year Jersey Festival of Words celebrates its fifth birthday and I am delighted
Another century-spanning female title, The Single Mums’ Mansion, and honoured to have been made a patron. I fell in love with Jersey the first time
collective is convened in She is gives the clue to its subject. I visited and always long to come back. I love the friendliness of the people, the
Fierce: Brave, Bold and Beautiful sense of well-curated history, and I always feel very well at home. Literary festivals
Poems by Women. Its editor, Ana Humanity’s are life-affirming experiences. There is something so cheering about the way local
Sampson, will be on stage to discuss relationship with communities work hard to bring authors together for a few days to exchange ideas
her anthology of women’s poetry the oceans is and information and to, above all, have a good time while talking about books.
through the ages, from well-loved another big issue
classics to innovative current writing adding to the rich I’m looking forward to interviewing Sir Robin Knox-Johnston about his long and
and with local poets joining her to variety of our fifth eventful sea-faring life, Leah Hazard about her role as a midwife, and Graham
help with the readings. festival, graced Farmelo who has a knack for making maths accessible even to those of us who
50 years on from do not think of ourselves as mathematicians. And I’ll be sitting in the audience, too,
Poetry is strongly his first single- for Raynor Winn, Bram Wanrooij, Frieda Hughes and Ana Sampson. I already
represented in handed, non-stop circumnavigation know I will hugely enjoy the fifth year of Jersey Festival of Words. I hope you do too,
this year’s festival, by the legendary sailor Sir Robin and look forward to seeing you there.
to which we also Knox-Johnston, whose insatiable
have the pleasure appetite for life, challenge and Cathy Rentzenbrink Festival Patron
of welcoming Frieda Hughes, a adventure shines through the
renowned literary figure in her own pages of his new autobiography,
right as well as by association with Running Free; and also featuring a
her late parents, feminist icon Sylvia presentation on his book The Deep All festival details and ticket bookings available at
by leading marine biologist Alex
www.jerseyfestivalofwords.org
Plath and Ted Hughes.
Rogers, a consultant to Sir David
Women’s writing of all kinds features Attenborough’s visually stunning
prominently throughout the five days BBC series Blue Planet II.
@JerseyWordFest JerseyFestivalofWords
of the festival. It includes
5th Anniversary Jersey Festival of Words 2019
Schools Programme
LAURA CORYTON YASMIN RAHMAN CHRISTOPHER LLOYD
KS2
SPEAK UP! ALL THE THINGS KS5 ABSOLUTELY
WEDNESDAY 25 SEPTEMBER WE NEVER SAID EVERYTHING!
BEAULIEU SCHOOL HIGHLANDS COLLEGE OPERA HOUSE KS3
13.55 KS4 FRIDAY 27 SEPTEMBER FRIDAY 27 SEPTEMBER
10.45 12.00
Speaking up can be difficult,
but did you know just how KS2
Written in three points of view, A History
powerful your own voice a moving and impactful debut of Earth,
can be? KS3 exploring the life-saving power Dinosaurs,
of friendship. Rulers, Robots
Speak Up! addresses what it means
and Other
to stand up for what you believe A.F. HARROLD KONNIE HUQ 16-year-old Mehreen’s anxiety and Things Too
in on both a public and personal MIDNIGHT FEASTS COOKIE depression, or ‘Chaos’, as she calls
Numerous
level. Laura Coryton explores how it, has taken over her life. So she
to make sure your voice is heard,
OPERA HOUSE OPERA HOUSE CATHY CASSIDY to Mention.
THURSDAY 26 SEPTEMBER THURSDAY 26 SEPTEMBER joins MementoMori, a website that
as well as what happens when your
10.00 12.00
SAMI’S SILVER LINING matches people with partners and
voice is challenged by others. She Join best-selling non-fiction author
OPERA HOUSE allocates them a date and method of
tackles tricky subjects like feminism, death. Mehreen is paired with Cara Christopher Lloyd on his latest and
consent, online bullying and self- Returning to Jersey Festival Get ready to meet KS2 FRIDAY 27 SEPTEMBER greatest voyage through the 13-billion
and Olivia, two strangers dealing with
confidence in a meaningful but of Words is the hugely Cookie Haque – funny, 10.00 year story of Absolutely Everything!
their own serious issues.
accessible and entertaining way. entertaining poet A.F. Harrold. science-obsessed and from the beginning of time to the
ready to take on the
KS3 The must-have second present day.
Laura Coryton is an inspirational book in the brilliant KS2
Midnight Feasts is a tasty anthology world!
young woman who led the for children, edited by A.F. Harrold Lost and Found series
international campaign against and beautifully illustrated by Katy from Cathy Cassidy,
tampon tax, which gained over a Join author,
Riddell, featuring poems about food broadcaster bestselling author of the KS3
quarter of a million signatures and from a diverse range of poets from
has led to changes both in UK and and beloved Chocolate Box Girls.
William Carlos Williams and Imtiaz former Blue Peter
European law. Laura was featured in Dharker to Joseph Coelho and
the BBC’s 100 Women series of 2016. presenter Konnie Forced to flee his
Sabrina Mahfouz. Huq as she home in Syria for
introduces you to safety in England, Using a giant 25-foot-long timeline
One thing that unites us all – across Cookie and her Sami attempts
time, nations and peoples – is food. As they secretly meet over the as a backdrop, and his signature
adventures in the to begin a new coat of many pockets, Christopher
From chocolate, rice pudding and first of a sparkling life but struggles coming days, Mehreen develops a
sandwiches to breakfast in bed, strong bond with the only people will stop off at 15 defining moments
new 7-12-year-old series. Cookie has to overcome that have shaped all history – natural,
banana phones and the fruit of a never quite felt as if she fits in – a the pain of the who seem to understand what she’s
mythical jelabi tree. going through. But soon, the thing stone age, ancient and modern. Each
quirky girl with a touch of the geek, past. Memories moment is represented by a different
from a Bangladeshi family, and with of the long and that brought them together has also
Harrold’s new novel The Afterwards created a supportive friendship that everyday object that represents a
an uncanny ability to get herself into dangerous theme as significant to explaining the
is a powerful, poignant, darkly comic almost constant scrapes. Populated journey across icy waters, armed makes them realise that maybe life
and deeply moving story about could be worth living. It’s not long past as it is pertinent to determining
by a hilarious cast of characters, the with only his dad’s old coat, a flute, the future.
friendship at its most extraordinary. Cookie books will strike a chord with and the hope of a brighter future, are before all three want out of the pact
anyone who’s ever been to school. never far away. Can his new friends they made. But in a terrifying twist of
and a blossoming romance melt his fate, the website won’t let them stop,
With live draw-alongs, brain-busting frozen heart, or is it too late to find a and an increasingly sinister game
quizzes and games galore – prepare silver lining? begins …
for non-stop comedy fun.
Entry is FREE for all students. Please email info@jerseyfestivalofwords.org to book.
All events sponsored by Santander International
5th Anniversary Jersey Festival of Words 2019
EVE SIMMONS &
KS4
DANIEL GEEY SIR ROBIN KNOX-JOHNSTON Celebrating the lives of the women THE GRUFFALO
LAURA DENNISON who answered the call to ‘Rise Up’ -
DONE DEAL RUNNING FREE a richly diverse group of actresses IN JÈRRIAIS
EAT IT ANYWAY OPERA HOUSE OPERA HOUSE and mill-workers, teachers and VICTORIA COLLEGE
VICTORIA COLLEGE / THURSDAY 26 SEPTEMBER THURSDAY 26 SEPTEMBER doctors, boot-makers and sweated GREAT HALL
WEDNESDAY 25 SEPTEMBER / 18.00 - 19.00 / £8 20.00 - 21.15 / £15 workers, Rise Up, Women! is a SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER
14.30 (JCG + VCJ KS4 only) stirring chronicle of their grace, 10.00 - 11.30 / £5
Event sponsored resilience and determination that
Sponsored by Saltgate by Voisin Law changed the world for ever.
Following the
in association with Victoria College success in
LA POÈT’TIE OPEN MIC 2018 of J’allons
SOCIÉTÉ JERSIAISE à la chasse
MEMBERS’ ROOM à l’ourse, a
FRIDAY 27 SEPTEMBER Jèrriais version
of Michael
19.00 – 21.00 / FREE
Rosen’s We’re
Going on a Bear Hunt, the Jèrriais
Join Juliette Hart of La Poèt’tie and
DIANE ATKINSON Teaching Service is looking to repeat
Ben Spink of L’Office du Jèrriais for
the success in 2019 with a translation
RISE UP, WOMEN! a special session of Jersey’s own
of another classic children’s story,
monthly poetry open mic collective.
OPERA HOUSE The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson.
FRIDAY 27 SEPTEMBER All are invited to read, perform and
Join the little brown ‘souothis’ as we
18.00 - 19.00 / £8 take a stroll through the deep dark
appreciate any and every style of
‘bouaîs’sie’.
Eve Simmons and poetry. They are a very friendly and
Laura Dennison, First published welcoming group which celebrates
to coincide with To celebrate the launch of Lé
co-founders of the the spoken word.
the centenary of Gruffalo, we invite families to come
acclaimed website and enjoy storytelling and Gruffalo-
Not Plant Based, British women There is just one rule: for those
gaining the vote themed craft activities. There’s
are on a mission to bringing their own poem it should
in February 2018, even a chance you may get to say
help you love food When Robin Knox-Johnston sailed include at least one word of Jèrriais,
Rise Up, Women! has cemented ‘bouônjour’ to the Gruffalo himself.
again. The principle in to Falmouth in April 1969 on board s’i’ t’pliaît!
is very simple: his 32-foot yacht Suhaili, he made Diane Atkinson’s status as the most
eat what you like An insider’s guide to history. He had become the first man authoritative voice writing on the
and don’t worry about it. This is a football contracts, ever to circumnavigate the globe suffrage movement today.
game-changing narrative for anyone multi-million pound non-stop and single handed. His
who has struggled to find a balance transfers and Premier journey had lasted 312 days, and
between healthy and happy, empty League big business. he’d had to battle against storms and SIR MICHAEL PARKINSON Event sponsored by:
and full. huge waves to make his way home. AN EVENING WITH SIR MICHAEL PARKINSON
What really happens inside a club on OPERA HOUSE
PLAYS ROUGH transfer deadline day? Are football Fifty years on
from that record-
FRIDAY 27 SEPTEMBER
agents overpaid? And which team’s
TAKING THE FIFTH players can never wear red boots? breaking voyage, 20.00 - 21.15 / £25
16 NEW STREET Running Free is
WEDNESDAY 25 SEPTEMBER Knox-Johnston’s An Evening with Sir Michael Parkinson celebrates
Written by leading Premier League
the life and career of a man who has interviewed
19.00 + 20.00 (TWO SESSIONS) lawyer Daniel Geey, who has dealt vivid account of a
life lived to the full, over 2000 of the most important cultural figures
£10 with all these incidents first hand,
of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Done Deal explores the issues – from an action-packed,
The Georgian pitch to boardroom – that shape the rollercoaster ride
across the high seas, where mistakes In conversation with his son Mike, and showing
House will be modern game and how these impact
can prove fatal. Knox-Johnston highlights from the Parkinson archive, this
cuddling three leagues, clubs, players and fans.
writes with pride about Britain’s great is a unique opportunity to get an intimate,
short plays from entertaining and informative look at his
Plays Rough; Featuring insider anecdotes and maritime tradition, and his insatiable
appetite for life shines through on remarkable journey from a pit village in Yorkshire
there is no ghost expert contributions, Done Deal
every page. to the top of those famous stairs, while reliving
in the kitchen as a modern day provides football fans with a fresh
the best moments from a show that for many
archaeological architect finds out to and authoritative perspective on all
defined their Saturday night.
his cost, an 18th century reflection off-field football matters.
on the scurrilous French on the first Included in the ticket price will be a signed
floor, and an explosive marriage paperback copy of Michael Parkinson’s
taking off on the top level as man new book George Best: A Memoir.
walks on the moon.
Venue Key: Opera House Opera House Studio Arts Centre Arts Centre Maria Ritchie Room Jersey Library School Events Miscellaneous Venues (Check individual listing for specific location details)
5th Anniversary Jersey Festival of Words 2019
FRIEDA HUGHES commissioned to A Sunday Times bestseller and Traci O’Dea is an American writer Graham Farmelo is an award-winning
write The Poppy Field shortlisted for the 2018 Costa living in Jersey. Her work has been science writer and biographer,
ALTERNATIVE VALUES to commemorate Biography Award, The Salt Path published in international poetry specialising in physics and
OPERA HOUSE the centenary of is a beautiful, powerfully honest magazines, on posters in Washington physicists.
SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER the end of the First and deeply moving memoir about DC, in the anthology Where I See
10.00 - 11.00 / £10 World War and is overcoming adversity, the redemptive the Sun: Contemporary Poems of EMILY LEARY
now working on a qualities of walking and nature, about the Virgin Islands, and in the Jersey
Born in London in 1960, Frieda series. She also writes survival, the meaning of ‘home’ and Evening Post.
GET YOUR KIDS
Hughes is a painter and poet. psychological thrillers for Hera Books above all, about love. TO EAT ANYTHING
She has also written children’s as Ella Drummond and contemporary GRAHAM FARMELO SAMARÈS SCHOOL
books, articles for magazines and romance series for Green Shutter LEAH HAZARD SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER
newspapers, and was the Times Books as Georgina Troy. THE BLONDE PLOTTERS
THE UNIVERSE SPEAKS
Poetry columnist from 2006-2008.
HARD PUSHED IN NUMBERS
14.00 - 15.00 / FREE
RAYNOR WINN OPERA HOUSE MYVLF – VIRTUAL
ARTS CENTRE Sponsored by
THE SALT PATH
SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER LITERARY FESTIVAL SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER Caring Cooks
12.00 - 13.00 / £8 ARTS CENTRE MRR
ARTS CENTRE 14.00 - 15.00 / £8
SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER Join Emily Leary and discover her
SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER Leah Hazard’s life on the NHS
12.30 / £5 wonderfully practical approach to
11.00 - 12.00 / £8 frontline, working within a maternity
fussy eating.
Event sponsored
system at breaking point, is more
The Blonde Plotters will be talking by JICAS
In one devastating week, Raynor extreme than you could ever imagine.
about MYVLF, how it benefits readers Get Your Kids to Eat Anything is
and her husband Moth lost their From the bloody to the beautiful,
and authors, and their next virtual How Modern Maths Reveals an achievable ‘how to’ for parents
home of 20 years, just as a terminal from moments of vulnerability to
event coming in November. Nature’s Deepest Secrets - a thrilling in the battle to overcome picky
diagnosis threatened to take away remarkable displays of human
exploration of the relationship eating. Emily Leary’s unique 5-phase
their future together. With nowhere strength, from heart-wrenching grief
The Blonde Plotters are three local between physics and maths, and programme looks at the issue of
else to go, they decided to walk the to the pure, perfect joy of a new-born
authors, Gwyn Garfield-Bennett, the leaps of imagination that have ‘fussy eating’ in a holistic way that
South West Coast Path: a 630-mile baby, Leah has seen it all.
Kelly Clayton and Deborah Carr. In enriched our understanding of the links imagination with food, and
sea-swept trail from Somerset to
April they revealed a project they had universe. which situates parents alongside –
Daughter of renowned poets Sylvia Dorset, via Devon and Cornwall.
spent eighteen months developing: not in opposition to – their children.
Plath and Ted Hughes, Frieda
MYVLF.com is the first global virtual
Hughes will be sharing some of her
literary festival venue – connecting Emily Leary is a multi-award-
experiences and observations in a
readers and authors. In June, they winning writer, presenter, blogger
reading from her recently published
held their inaugural event hosting and a married working mum of two
selected poems Out of the Ashes.
author speakers including Peter children. In 2011 she launched her
James, Tess Gerritsen, C L Taylor blog, A Mummy Too, which has
Frieda Hughes’s fable-like poems
and Barbara Erskine. become one of the most popular
draw on her early years in Devon and
websites in the UK for parents and
Yorkshire, a life-long engagement
TRACI O’DEA is consistently listed in the top 10
with nature and itinerant wildlife,
in UK blogging charts.
and later experiences when living in POETRY LUNCH
Australia, London, and most recently OPERA HOUSE STUDIO
Wales. SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER
13.30 - 14.30 / £5
DEBORAH CARR
MY PUBLISHING Join poet Traci
O’Dea for a
JOURNEY poetry reading
ARTS CENTRE MRR with a difference.
SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER This ancient, wind-
The audience is
battered landscape
10.30 - 11.30 / £5 invited to listen
stripped them of every
to Traci’s poems
comfort they had
Join local author Deborah Carr, while sampling Many of the world’s leading
previously known. With Moving, compassionate and intensely
who will be talking about her route dishes inspired by them. One poem, physicists are confident that they
very little money for food or shelter, candid, Leah’s novel Hard Pushed is
to publication and how she organises File Between Leaves & Reams, are on track to discover a new
Raynor and Moth carried everything a love letter to new mothers and to
her time writing for different which mentions such diverse fare as understanding of the universe which
on their backs and wild camped on her fellow midwives – there for us at
publishers. spinach, peanuts and oysters, won will entail a complete rethink of
beaches and clifftops. But slowly, the most challenging, empowering
third prize in last year’s inaugural gravity, space and time. Always lively
with every step, every encounter, and and defining moments of our lives.
Deborah Carr writes historical fiction Jersey Festival of Words Poetry and authoritative, Farmelo navigates
every test along the way, the walk set Join her as she discusses her book
for HarperCollins’ romance imprint, competition. through some of the most exciting
them on a remarkable journey. with writer Cathy Rentzenbrink.
HarperImpulse. She was developments and controversies in
modern thought.
Venue Key: Opera House Opera House Studio Arts Centre Arts Centre Maria Ritchie Room Jersey Library School Events Miscellaneous Venues (Check individual listing for specific location details)
5th Anniversary Jersey Festival of Words 2019
10.00 10.30 11.00 11.30 12.00 12.30 13.00 13.30 14.00 14.30 15.00 15.30 16.00 16.30 17.00 17.30 18.00 18.30 19.00 19.30 20.00 20.30 21.00 21.30
Laura Coryton / Speak Up!
WEDNESDAY
Jacky Hyams Plays Rough / Taking The Fifth
KS4 Beaulieu School (13.55 start)
Main stage / Library 16 New Street £10 (19:00 start)
FREE for students
KS4
Eve Simmons & Laura
Dennison / Eat It Anyway Plays Rough / Taking The Fifth
Victoria College (JCG + VCJ) 16 New Street £10 (20:00 start)
FREE for students
10.00 10.30 11.00 11.30 12.00 12.30 13.00 13.30 14.00 14.30 15.00 15.30 16.00 16.30 17.00 17.30 18.00 18.30 19.00 19.30 20.00 20.30 21.00 21.30
A.F. Harrold / Midnight KS2 Konnie Huq / Cookie KS2 It Started With A Mystery The Alan Whicker Archive Sir Robin Knox-Johnston
Hidden Treasures
THURSDAY
Feasts / Opera House Opera House By Agatha Christie… By Catherine Kirby, Running Free
KS3 Falle Room / Library KS3
FREE for students FREE for students Meeting room 1 / Library Archivist / Reference Library Opera House £15
Daniel Geey
Discover Your Family History DIY Book Production With Patrick Cahill
Done Deal
Open Learning Centre / Library Meeting room 2 / Library
Opera House £8
10.00 10.30 11.00 11.30 12.00 12.30 13.00 13.30 14.00 14.30 15.00 15.30 16.00 16.30 17.00 17.30 18.00 18.30 19.00 19.30 20.00 20.30 21.00 21.30
Cathy Cassidy Christopher Lloyd Diane Atkinson An Evening With
KS2 KS2
Sami’s Silver Lining Absolutely Everything! Rise Up, Women! Sir Michael Parkinson
Opera House KS3 Opera House KS3
FREE for students FREE for students Opera House £8 Opera House £25
FRIDAY
Yasmin Rahman / All The Things
La Poèt’tie Open Mic
We Never Said / Highlands College
Société Jersiaise Members’ Room Free
FREE for students KS5
Martin Toft Film Screening And Panel Discussion
Calligraphy Workshop With Adele Dark DIY Book Production With Patrick Cahill
On Mãori Culture H Is For Harry
Meeting room 2 / Library Meeting room 2 / Library
Meeting Room Reference Library
10.00 10.30 11.00 11.30 12.00 12.30 13.00 13.30 14.00 14.30 15.00 15.30 16.00 16.30 17.00 17.30 18.00 18.30 19.00 19.30 20.00 20.30 21.00 21.30
Frieda Hughes Raynor Winn Leah Hazard Traci O’Dea Barbara Kendall-Davies Kate Nash Dreena Collins Louise Minchin Jenny Eclair
Alternative Values The Salt Path Hard Pushed Poetry Lunch Truth Will Find A Way The Bestselling Novel Writing Short Stories Dare To Tri Inheritance
Opera House £10 Arts Centre £8 Opera House £8 Opera House Studio £5 Arts Centre MRR £5 Opera House Studio £8 Arts Centre MRR £5 Opera House £10 Opera House £15
The Blonde Plotters / MyVLF Graham Farmelo Richard Roper and Nick Duerden Owen O’Neill Bram Wanrooij
The Gruffalo In Jèrriais
– Virtual Literary Festival The Universe Speaks In A Life Less Lonely Red Noise Displaced
Victoria College Great Hall £5
Arts Centre MRR £5 Numbers / Arts Centre £8 Victoria College £8 Arts Centre £12 Arts Centre £8
Deborah Carr Emily Leary / Get Your Kids Emily Leary Linda Rose Parkes
SATURDAY
My Publishing Journey To Eat Anything Cooking Demo For Kids This Close
Arts Centre MRR £5 Samarès School Free Samarès School £15 Opera House Studio £5
Janet Hoggarth Andrew Lownie Kate Thompson / Secrets
Hidden Treasures
The Single Mums’ Mansion The Mountbattens Of The Homefront Girls
Falle Room
Opera House £8 Arts Centre £8 Main Stage / Library
Sienna The Surfer: David Solomons / Doctor
Edward Blampied
Authors And Illustrator Who: The Secret In Vault 13
Children’s Library
Children’s Library Opera House £8
Creating A Children’s Book: Heroines, Histories
Calligraphy Workshop With Adele Dark
Panel Discussion With And Handmade Books
Meeting room 2 / Library
Penny Byrne / Library Main Stage / Library
10.00 10.30 11.00 11.30 12.00 12.30 13.00 13.30 14.00 14.30 15.00 15.30 16.00 16.30 17.00 17.30 18.00 18.30 19.00 19.30 20.00 20.30 21.00 21.30
Adam and Charlotte Guillain Polyglot Creative Writing Ana Sampson Jersey Festival Of Words Alex Rogers
Mermaid And Pirate For Non-writers She Is Fierce Poetry Competition The Deep
SUNDAY
Mash-up / Arts Centre £6.50 Arts Centre MRR £15 Arts Centre £8 Prizegiving / Arts Centre (BG) Arts Centre £10
JEP Writing Competition Jèrriais Singing Workshop
Prizegiving With Badlabecques
Arts Centre (BG) Arts Centre MRR £5
Venue Key: Opera House Opera House Studio Arts Centre Arts Centre Maria Ritchie Room Jersey Library School Events Miscellaneous Venues (Check individual listing for specific location details)
5th Anniversary Jersey Festival of Words 2019
BARBARA KENDALL-DAVIES friends and family members to masterclass, creating your own DREENA COLLINS
teenagers who manage their social rainbow pizza which will be cooked
TRUTH WILL lives through the glow of a mobile on site in the wood-fired oven and
WRITING SHORT
FIND A WAY phone, it can affect anyone and consumed by YOU! STORIES
ARTS CENTRE MRR everyone, irrespective of age, race ARTS CENTRE MRR
SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER or class. ANDREW LOWNIE SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER
14.30 - 15.30 / £5 THE MOUNTBATTENS 16.30 - 17.30 / £5
Join author Richard Roper
(Something to Live For) and journalist ARTS CENTRE
Set in Mayfair, Truth Join us for a journey
Will Find a Way
Nick Duerden (A Life Less Lonely) SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER in creative writing and
features a group
for a discussion on the effects of 16.00 - 17.00 / £8 publishing. Dreena
isolation and a call to arms about
of friends whose Collins will share her
how we can end the stigma attached Prize-winning
private lives are experiences, tips and
to loneliness. The event will conclude and bestselling
as unconventional lessons learnt, as well
with tea and cake for all attendees. historian Andrew
as those of the as read extracts from her work, in this
Bloomsbury Set. The group’s Lownie returns to interactive session.
linchpin, Lady Monica Montford, KATE NASH Jersey Festival
runs the Gayton Art Gallery, a THE BESTSELLING of Words with a
nuanced portrayal
Dreena Collins is
central meeting place for the a local author who
friends when they visit the capital.
NOVEL of two very unusual people and their has been listed in
The interweaving of their personal OPERA HOUSE STUDIO complex marriage. numerous writing
relationships is as complex as a SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER DAVID SOLOMONS competitions,
game of chess; will they all remain 15.30 - 16.30 / £8 including the
JANET HOGGARTH on good terms?
DOCTOR WHO: THE Mslexia short
THE SINGLE Leading literary SECRET IN VAULT 13 story prize.
MUMS’ MANSION Barbara Kendall-Davies is the author agent Kate Nash OPERA HOUSE Dreena has been
of the seminal, two-volume biography explains the SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER published in
OPERA HOUSE The Years of Fame and The Years of key ingredients periodicals and magazines, as well as
SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 16.00 - 17.00 / £8
Grace of the French singer, composer that bestselling the Eyelands 2018 story anthology.
14.00 - 15.00 / £8 and teacher Pauline Viardot Garcia, novels share and In 2019, she self-published two short
as well as a family history, The Food how publishers, story collections: The Blue Hour and
After her of Love, set at the beginning of the agents, retailers The Day I Nearly Drowned.
husband Second World War, and an esoteric and authors all Sponsored by Fairway Group
leaves, exploration of life after death, Life Is work together to make a novel a LINDA ROSE PARKES
Amanda Wilkie Everlasting. commercial success.
unexpectedly
Jump into the TARDIS and head on THIS CLOSE
an intergalactic journey with David OPERA HOUSE STUDIO
finds herself Kate will share her top tips for finding Solomons, who has written a laugh-
alone with her and securing the right literary agent SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER
out-loud Doctor Who adventure
three children and explain how literary agents work featuring the Thirteenth Doctor and 18.00 - 19.15 / £5
in a rambling to find the right publisher for a book. her companions. Can you win the
Victorian house Going behind the scenes in the world Join acclaimed poet Linda Rose
(re)generation game or save the
in London. of publishing, this is a talk that any Parkes as she reads from her latest
world by identifying a predator from
aspiring author shouldn’t miss. a pot plant? Learn about creating collection, This Close, and other new
A few months later, Amanda’s heavily Earl Mountbatten of Burma is one of poems.
the major British historical figures of new worlds and new stories in this
pregnant friend, Ali, crashes into RICHARD ROPER EMILY LEARY the 20th century (and a central figure interactive, high energy and hilarious
her kitchen announcing her partner Linda will be
AND NICK DUERDEN COOKING DEMO in The Crown) whose career included event.
is also about to abscond. Once joined by poets
Ali’s baby Grace is born, Amanda A LIFE LESS LONELY FOR KIDS being Supreme Allied Commander
David Solomons Sandra Noel, Nicky
encourages them to move in. When VICTORIA COLLEGE of South East Asia during World War Mesch, Linda Lock,
SAMARÈS SCHOOL Two and the last Viceroy of India. is the best-
Jacqui, a long-lost friend and fellow SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER Juliette Hart and
SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER Once the richest woman in Britain selling author of
single mum, starts dropping by daily, 15.00 - 17.00 / £8 Sharon Champion
15.45 - 17.00 / £15 and a playgirl who enjoyed numerous the My Brother
the household is complete… performing some of
affairs, Edwina Mountbatten emerged is a Superhero
Sponsored by Saltgate books, and won their own work, with
Join Janet Hoggarth as she Sponsored by from World War Two as a magnetic
in association with Victoria College the 2018 Laugh music from Mike
discusses her bestselling novel The Caring Cooks and talented charity worker loved
Out Loud Awards Freeman on saxophone, and vocals
Single Mums’ Mansion, based on her around the world. Their lives provide and guitar from Martin Greene.
For kids who love to cook, or parents an opportunity to look at the most (Lollies) with the second book in this
experiences of living communally as
who want to encourage their kids to important and controversial issues of series, My Gym Teacher is an Alien
a single parent. Loneliness has reached the levels Intense, daring yet never solemn...
become more passionate about food the last century. Overlord.
of an epidemic in the UK. From the come and be immersed in a
– join Emily Leary, author of Get Your
bullied child to the new parent, from polyphony of voices.
Kids to Eat Anything for an alfresco
the pensioner who has outlived
Venue Key: Opera House Opera House Studio Arts Centre Arts Centre Maria Ritchie Room Jersey Library School Events Miscellaneous Venues (Check individual listing for specific location details)
5th Anniversary Jersey Festival of Words 2019
OWEN O’NEILL LOUISE MINCHIN ADAM AND CHARLOTTE
RED NOISE DARE TO TRI GUILLAIN
ARTS CENTRE OPERA HOUSE MERMAID AND
SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER PIRATE MASH-UP
18.00 - 19.30 / £12 18.00 - 19.00 / £10 ARTS CENTRE
SUNDAY 29 SEPTEMBER
Join Owen O’Neill for 90 minutes of
Red Noise – a hybrid of stand-up
10.00 - 11.00 / £6.50
comedy, theatrical monologue and
Event sponsored
poetry, blended to perfection.
by ECOF
Event sponsored by Canaccord
Owen O’Neill has toured the Genuity Wealth Management BRAM WANROOIJ Join Adam and Charlotte Guillain for
world with his one-man shows
accumulating a string of awards One of the UK’s best-known news DISPLACED a musical, interactive family event
including three Fringe Firsts at presenters and television broadcasters, ARTS CENTRE with puppets, focusing on their two
SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER bestselling series, Molly’s Magic
the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Louise Minchin has been the anchor of
Wardrobe and George’s Amazing
the Edinburgh Critics Award for BBC Breakfast for the past six years. 20.30 - 21.30 / £8
Adventures.
best comedy, the Angel Award for Following a fun televised cycling stunt
best one-man show, the Time Out in 2012, she embarked upon a sporting Event sponsored
Molly’s Magic Wardrobe: The POLYGLOT CREATIVE
Comedy Award, Best Actor at the journey culminating in her wearing the by JCRAG
2010 1st Irish Theatre Festival in New colours of Great Britain at the World
Mermaid Mission. In this rhyming WRITING FOR
adventure full of magic, Molly visits
York City and Best Short Film award Triathlon Championship in 2015. Join former Jersey resident, Bram
the enchanted dressing-up wardrobe NON-WRITERS
at the Boston Film Festival 2008. Wanrooij, who has recently published ARTS CENTRE MRR
in her Granny’s house. Today she’s
Dare to Tri is the story of how a newly discovered sport became a passion and Displaced, on Europe and the global
going to be… a mermaid! Molly dives SUNDAY 29 SEPTEMBER
True stories from his life include: then an obsession, charting Minchin’s progress as she takes her first tentative refugee crisis.
being struck by lightning at nine steps as a triathlete. Join her as she discusses her book and experiences with
below the sea and soon finds herself 11.30 - 13.30 / £15 (max 12)
on a mission: she must race to save
years old and being told he had the Festival of Words vice-chair Paul Bisson. Displaced attempts
the mermaids’ shipwreck from some This workshop is open to people
cure for cancer; being interrogated to answer the
pesky sharks! with little or no experience, who are
by an IRA man with a stammer (the question of why
interested in playing with words and
longest two hours of his life); how his JENNY ECLAIR the European
with the various languages spoken
feature film debut with Liam Neeson refugee crisis has
went horribly wrong; and being INHERITANCE escalated at this
inside the group of participants. We’ll
brought up in a family of 16 siblings OPERA HOUSE particular point in
use varied and playful techniques
and having to queue for breakfast. SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER to liberate our creativity and create
history, bringing
individual and collective texts,
20.00 - 21.15 / £15 together seemingly
making the most of our diversity and
separated themes
our imaginations. You only need to
Join acclaimed comedian Jenny Eclair of escalating inequality, declining
speak at least one of the following
as she discusses her heart-breaking new faith in institutions and politicians,
languages: English, Portuguese,
novel Inheritance, which combines an the retracting of governments from
French.
incredible poignancy and unforgettable public issues (deregulation), and a
characters with the author’s trademark marketization of politics and climate
Morgane Masterman is a translator
wit and observational humour. change.
and inter-cultural youth worker and
George’s Amazing Adventures: Pizza is one of the founders of Associação
Bram Wanrooij is an educator, activist
for Pirates. A boy called George had Faísca Voadora, a Portuguese non-
and researcher, currently living and
a wonderful plan – to search for a real profit organisation for inter-cultural
working in Hanoi, Vietnam.
pirate crew. So he packed up a pizza, exchanges and training.
Jenny Eclair is the Sunday
his favourite feast…
Times top ten bestselling
author of four critically
acclaimed novels. One of
the UK’s most popular
JEP WRITING JERSEY FESTIVAL
and successful comedians COMPETITION OF WORDS POETRY
of her generation, she PRIZEGIVING COMPETITION
helped develop and
ARTS CENTRE (BG) PRIZEGIVING
regularly appeared in the
show Grumpy Old Women SUNDAY 29 SEPTEMBER ARTS CENTRE (BG)
and a variety of successful 12.00 - 12.45 SUNDAY 29 SEPTEMBER
spin-offs, and was the first 15.00 - 15.45
woman to win Edinburgh’s
prestigious Perrier Award.
Venue Key: Opera House Opera House Studio Arts Centre Arts Centre Maria Ritchie Room Jersey Library School Events Miscellaneous Venues (Check individual listing for specific location details)
5th Anniversary Jersey Festival of Words 2019
ANA SAMPSON
JÈRRIAIS SINGING WORKSHOP The following JERSEY LIBRARY EVENTS are all FREE.
SHE IS FIERCE: BRAVE,
BOLD AND BEAUTIFUL WITH BADLABECQUES Please check event for booking details. Bookings can be made via www.culture.je.
ARTS CENTRE (MRR)
POEMS BY WOMEN SUNDAY 29 SEPTEMBER JACKY HYAMS DIY BOOK PRODUCTION
ARTS CENTRE 15.00 -16.30 / £5 MAIN STAGE WITH PATRICK CAHILL
SUNDAY 29 SEPTEMBER
WEDNESDAY 25 SEPTEMBER MEETING ROOM 2
13.30 - 14.30 / £8 This informal workshop will
18.00 - 19.00 THURSDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 14.00 - 17.00
give you the opportunity to
learn a bit of Jèrriais through FRIDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 14.00 - 17.00
Author and journalist Jacky Hyams will be discussing
song in the company of local
two of her World War 2 books, Spitfire Stories and
band Badlabecques. Lead Supported by the Société Jersiaise.
The Female Few. Both books focus on the female
singer Kit Ashton will give a
Spitfire pilots of the ATA (Air Transport Auxiliary) and the
brief outline of the story of This short workshop focuses on the principles of paper-
important role many thousands of women played behind
each song before proceeding based book production and exploring the structural
the scenes in the wartime story of the iconic plane.
to teach it to the audience. components of a book, their limitations, and pre-press
No prior knowledge of Jèrriais considerations, before introducing some basic binding
is necessary, just an open DISCOVER YOUR FAMILY HISTORY techniques through practical tasks. Tools, equipment
mind and enthusiasm for OPEN LEARNING CENTRE and materials will be provided.
learning our Island’s native THURSDAY 26 SEPTEMBER
language. There will be a short
interval to give you time to
10.00 - 12.00 THE ALAN WHICKER ARCHIVE
lubricate your vocal cords. Jersey Library’s staff will BY CATHERINE KIRBY, ARCHIVIST
show you how to discover REFERENCE LIBRARY
your family’s history, THURSDAY 26 SEPTEMBER
ALEX ROGERS using the broad range of 18.00 - 19.00
resources in the Library,
THE DEEP from newspaper archives Stories from the three-year journey through globetrotting
ARTS CENTRE and reference resources to journalist and Jersey resident the late Alan Whicker’s
SUNDAY 29 SEPTEMBER the latest online databases boxes of letters, telegrams, passports, newspaper
16.30 - 17.30 / £10 such as Ancestry UK and Forces War Records. cuttings, research notes, diaries, photographs and jigsaw
She is Fierce is a powerful collection puzzles. The talk is also a reminder of the ways we used
of 150 poems that celebrates the
Event sponsored by Ports of Jersey HIDDEN TREASURES to communicate before the invention of the internet.
centenary of women’s suffrage. Join FALLE ROOM
Our oceans are facing a catastrophe and have already suffered irreparable
editor Ana Sampson as she talks
damage – this is the rallying cry for help from one of the world’s leading
THURSDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 11.00 - 12.00 CALLIGRAPHY WORKSHOP
about the anthology and hear a SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 11.00 - 12.00
selection of the poems. experts in marine biology, in a bid to help and repair our oceans. WITH ADELE DARK
MEETING ROOM 2
View the historical collection at
The collection contains an inclusive Professor Alex Rogers, who recently
the Jersey Library which includes
FRIDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 10.00 - 13.00
array of voices, from modern and served as a scientific consultant on SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 10.00 - 13.00
the BBC’s Blue Planet II series, has donations from the Reverend Philip
innovative poets such as Maya Falle, founder of Jersey’s Public
Angelou and Carol Ann Duffy to spent the past 30 years studying
Library, and Dr Daniel Dumaresq. Explore Roman Capitals and lettering during this
classic beloved poets from previous life in the deep ocean. Local ocean
workshop and design a panel to include your name and
centuries including Emily Dickinson, campaigner Matt Porteus will be
other words reflecting your loves and life. We will be using
Christina Rossetti and Charlotte talking to him about his new book IT STARTED WITH A MYSTERY square edged nibs and other writing tools. Inks and paper
The Deep, which brings us right to
Bronte. Each poem is accompanied
the edge of what is known about
BY AGATHA CHRISTIE… will be provided.
by a short biography of the poet.
our oceans today. ULVERSCROFT LARGE PRINT BOOKS
With poems on friendship, MEETING ROOM 1 MARTIN TOFT ON MÃORI CULTURE
resistance, protest, body image, Introducing us to glittering coral THURSDAY 26 SEPTEMBER MEETING ROOM
mental health, nature, joy, love, and gardens, submarine mountains and 14.00 - 15.00 FRIDAY 27 SEPTEMBER
from suffragettes to school girls, from a range of bizarre and breath-taking 13.00 - 14.00
spoken word superstars to civil rights sea creatures, many of which he Learn more about the history of large print
activists, from aristocratic ladies to discovered first-hand, Rogers not and audio books with Lorraine Whitehall In Te Ahi Kā – The Fires of Occupation photographer
kitchen maids, these are voices that only illustrates the ocean’s enormous and Mark Merrill from the Ulverscroft Martin Toft explores the deep physical and metaphysical
deserve to be heard. and untold impact on our lives, but Group. Hear how they bid for books against relationships between an ancestral river and its
also shows how we are damaging it various publishing houses, learn about their long-term indigenous people in New Zealand. He will discuss the
catastrophically through pollution, relationships with famous authors and see original artwork making of his critically acclaimed book spanning 20 years,
overfishing, and the insidious and for their book covers. including research in 19th century archives and his own
global effects of climate change.
spiritual kinships with a Maori tribe.
Venue Key: Arts Centre Arts Centre Maria Ritchie Room Jersey Library
5th Anniversary Jersey Festival of Words 2019
Victoria College
The following JERSEY LIBRARY EVENTS are all FREE.
Please check event for booking details. Bookings can be made via www.culture.je.
PANEL DISCUSSION WITH PENNY BYRNE:
CREATING A CHILDREN’S BOOK
REFERENCE LIBRARY
SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER
14.00 - 15.00
The pleasures and pitfalls of putting
together and publishing a children’s
book; a panel discussion of local
writers and illustrators hosted by
Arts Centre MRR
All festival details and ticket bookings available at
author Penny Byrne (Seymour’s
JerseyFestivalofWords
Arts Centre
Seaside Picnic).
www.jerseyfestivalofwords.org
HEROINES, HISTORIES
FILM SCREENING AND PANEL DISCUSSION:
AND HANDMADE BOOKS
H IS FOR HARRY MAIN STAGE
REFERENCE LIBRARY SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER
FRIDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 16.00 - 17.30
18.00 - 20.00
An entertaining and illuminating
Organised by Every Child Our Future. event presented by a mother and
daughter duo, poet Mary Thomson
Société Jersiaise
H is for Harry is a coming of age story about Harry, a and actress Cathy Sara. Through
charismatic 11-year-old boy, who arrives at secondary readings and conversation they
school in suburban London unable to read or write. With will explore themes linked to books
@JerseyWordFest
the help of his extremely dedicated teacher, can Harry
Library
and poetry and their individual and
overcome the illiteracy ingrained across generations of shared stories, including the artistry of acting and the
his family? The screening will be followed by a short panel creation of single poem ‘books’.
session to address the issues raised by the film.
16 New Street
KATE THOMPSON
SIENNA THE SURFER: SECRETS OF THE HOMEFRONT
AUTHORS AND ILLUSTRATOR GIRLS
CHILDREN’S LIBRARY MAIN STAGE
SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER
11.00 - 12.00 18.30 - 19.30
A special interactive session for primary
Opera House www.jerseyoperahouse.co.uk
school children with authors Angela
McKinlay and Kate Munrow, and illustrator
Société Jersiaise societe-jersiaise.org
Kaydia Torrell. Sienna the Surfer is
16 New Street www.nationaltrust.je
an exciting adventure story set in our
Opera House Studio
beautiful island of Jersey, celebrating the
Arts Centre www.artscentre.je
multitude of interests of young girls today.
Opera House
No booking required.
USEFUL CONTACTS:
EDWARD BLAMPIED
CHILDREN’S LIBRARY
SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER Award-winning journalist, ghostwriter and Sunday Times
bestselling novelist Kate Thompson discusses her latest
14.00 - 15.00
book Secrets of the Homefront Girls - the story of the
courageous women of World War Two, working in the
Local artist Edward Blampied introduces The Motor
Yardley Cosmetics factory in London’s East End - with
Mice, his new series of beautifully-illustrated children’s
local journalist and author Gwyn Garfield-Bennett.
books, and shares a story or two with children.
No booking required.5th Anniversary Jersey Festival of Words 2019
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