Lowdham Book Festival

Lowdham Book Festival
Friday 17th – Saturday 25th June 2016
Lowdham, Nottinghamshire
www.thebookcase.co.uk
Tickets: The Bookcase, Lowdham 0115 9663219
Friday 17th June
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Hello and welcome to Lowdham Book Festival 2016. This is our 17th year and we very much look forward to welcoming
you to our lovely mix of big names and local authors, to our very popular Reading Group morning, our annual Cricket
Evening, and a fantastic line-up at our Day of Crime. We are remembering Shakespeare, Capability Brown and Rudyard
Kipling, and delving into the worlds of wool, dinosaurs, and gardening. With an eclectic mix of talks, music, film and
discussions, we hope there will be something for everyone at this year’s festival – do come along and join the fun!
Jane Streeter and Ross Bradshaw
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Friday 17th June
6–8pm St Mary’s Church, Church Lane,
Lowdham, Notts NG14 7BQ
East Midlands Book Award
2016 ceremony
We are delighted to launch the festival
with this special evening of readings
and celebration as we present the East
Midlands Book Award to the region’s
Best Book published in 2015. Our
judges – novelist Alison McQueen,
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short story
writer Dan
Powell,
and The
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owner, Jane
Streeter, will
select the
winner from
a shortlist of six titles: A Killing Moon by
Steven Dunne, The Boy in the Mirror by
Tom Preston, Melissa by Jonathon
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Taylor, Burning Books by Jess Green,
The Spice Box Letters by Eve Makis, The
Princess and the Giant by Caryl Hart
and Sarah Warburton.
EMBA is administrated
by Writing East Midlands,
the writer development
agency for the region.
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Saturday 18th June
10.45am–1pm Lowdham Village
Hall, Main Street, Lowdham,
Notts NG14 7BD
Reading Group Morning
– with Joanna Trollope
We are thrilled to welcome Joanna
Trollope as our Reading Group
author this year. As well as her many
bestselling novels, Joanna has written
a study of women in the British Empire,
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and 10 historical novels under her
pseudonym, Caroline Harvey. She was
appointed OBE in 1996, a trustee of
the National Literacy Trust in 2012,
and has chaired and judged many
literature prizes. Her latest novel,
Balancing Act, is included in the
ticket price, and her new novel,
City of Friends, will be published
early in 2017.
NB – you don’t need to belong to a
reading group to come along to this
lovely event!
Tickets: £15 including a copy of
Balancing Act and all refreshments.
Saturday 18th June
8pm Lowdham Village Hall
Tony Christie and Ranagri
Tony Christie and Ranagri have joined
forces to produce an album of 12
of the most well-loved Irish folk songs.
Tony grew up in South Yorkshire, and
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was introduced to these songs by his
musical Irish grandparents. Ranagri
is a folk band of Irish and English
heritage. This album is the realisation
of a dream – to explore a shared
cultural history in song. An evening
of wonderful music is assured.
A Warthog Promotions event
Tickets: £20
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Sunday 19th June
Sunday 19th June
Lowdham Village Hall, Main Street,
Lowdham, Notts NG14 7BD
A Day of Crime
11.30am–12.45pm Criminal Women
Elly Griffiths and Sharon Bolton
Join us for a fascinating
discussion with Elly
Griffiths (also writing
as Domenica de Rosa),
author of the Norfolkbased Dr Ruth Galloway
series and the 1950s-set
Stephens and Mephisto novels, and
Sharon Bolton, award-winning crime
writer whose books include the
Lacey Flint series, and
her latest, Daisy in
Chains.
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2–3.15pm Death in Derbyshire…
Stephen Booth, Steven Dunne and
Sarah Ward
Meet award winning local
crime writer Stephen
Booth, with his latest
novel in the very popular
Cooper and Fry series,
Steven Dunne with his
latest DI Brook thriller,
and Sarah Ward, crime
writer, and blogger, with
her debut novel In Bitter
Chill. All set their fiction
in the atmospheric Peak
District so we learn why (and how
much) location matters.
Two more Lowdham
Festival favourites, Chris
Ewan (The Good Thief’s
Guide series plus several
stand-alone thrillers) and
Anne Zouroudi (The
Greek Detective series) in discussion
with Robert Thorogood, creator of the
hit BBC One series, Death in Paradise,
and author of The Killing
of Polly Carter, a brand
new ‘whodunit’ with red
herrings galore, said to
be perfect for fans of
Agatha Christie and
Sherlock Holmes.
Tickets £6 full, £5 Concessions,
£4 Festival Friends
Tickets £6 full, £5 Concessions,
£4 Festival Friends
Day Ticket – make a day of it
and save money!
£15 Full, £12 Concessions,
£10 Festival Friends
Hot and cold drinks and homemade cake
will be available throughout the day.
Tickets £6 full, £5
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£4 Festival Friends
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4–5.15pm
Crime in Foreign Climes
Chris Ewan, Anne
Zouroudi and Robert
Thorogood
10–4 Mon to Sat
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Monday 20th June
2–4pm Bromley House Library,
Angel Row, Nottingham NG1 6HL
Capability Brown
and Belvoir Castle
Come and meet the Duchess of
Rutland, as she talks about her new
book on the magnificent gardens at
Belvoir Castle designed by Capability
Brown, published to coincide with
the tercentenary of his birth.
Tickets: £6 full, £5 concessions,
£4 Festival Friends
Monday 20th June
7.30–9pm St Mary’s Church, Church
Lane, Lowdham Notts NG14 7BQ
Walking Home - An Evening
with Simon Armitage
What a joy to be welcoming Simon
Armitage to Lowdham. After walking the
Pennine Way as a modern-day
troubadour, this most well-travelled
poet swapped the moorland uplands of
the North for the coastal fringes of
Britain’s South West, taking his poetry
into distant communities and tourist
hot-spots.
From the surreal pleasuredome of
Butlins in Minehead to a smoke-filled
roundhouse on the Penwith Peninsula
and on to the Isles of Scilly, Simon
Armitage tackles this personal odyssey
with all the poetic reflection and
personal wit we’ve come to expect of
one of Britain’s best loved and most
popular writers. Simon will also talk
about his latest book, a new version of
the Middle English poem Pearl
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Tickets: £10.00 full,
£9 concessions,
£8 Festival Friends
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Tuesday 21st June
Tuesday 21st June
Celebrating 400 years
of Shakespeare!
2–4pm
WI Hall, Main Street, Lowdham,
Notts NG14 7AB
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combining a live cookery
demonstration with some
Shakespearean drama.
Tickets: £5 Full,
£4 Concessions,
£3 Festival Friends
Cook&Book:
‘Supping with Shakespeare’
8–9.15pm
St Mary’s Church, Church Lane,
Lowdham Notts NG14 7BQ
Jackie Skinner and Julia Pirie invite you
to eat and be merry in celebration of
the Bard. Book sets the scene and
introduces some dramatic guests.
Cook uses her magical culinary skills to
create a variety of deliciously playful
dishes for you to taste. And a secret is
revealed...! A dynamic performance
Shakespeare in Song with
Concert Trio ‘In Voice and Verse’
to enthral audiences with their
combination of words and music.
2016 is the 400th anniversary of the
passing of William Shakespeare.
Concert trio 'In Voice and Verse'
celebrate his words and the wonderful
music to which they have been set.
They have visited venues across the
country from the National Gallery to
the Buxton Festival and Durham
Cathedral to the Edinburgh Fringe.
The programme features a glorious
collection of settings from across the
centuries. Composers include Pelham
Humfrey, Arne, Sullivan, Rossini,
Quilter, Parry and Madeleine Dring.
‘In Voice and Verse’ formed in 2008
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Lance is a professional actor and
poetry performer, Belinda has sung
professionally throughout the world,
and Heather is an accomplished
pianist and teacher.
Tickets: £6 Full, £5 Concessions,
£4 Festival Friends
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Wednesday 22nd June
2–4pm
Reward for Winter Farm Tour
with Di Slaney – a Trip to
Hooligan Yarns at Bilsthorpe!
In 2005, Di Slaney abandoned her
urban existence to become the
custodian of an ancient farmhouse in
Bilsthorpe, plus 150, mostly rescued,
animals. Di’s debut poetry collection,
Reward for Winter, tells her story of
novice smallholder, plus the history
of Bilsthorpe and the quirky biography
of one of the farm chickens.
Come and hear the poems, meet the
sheep and see Di’s
Hooligan Yarns range
of high welfare, single
sheep, speciality yarn.
There will be tea and
cake! And there may
also be mud,
so please dress
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accordingly. Di is an award-winning
poet and founded Nottingham
marketing agency Diversity alongside
co-owning Candlestick Press since 2010.
www.dislaney.com
Tickets: £5 each
Please note that this event is open to a
maximum of 30 people and there will be a
possibility of mini-bus transport at an
extra cost depending on numbers.
4–5pm
Lowdham Village Hall, Main Street,
Lowdham, Notts NG14 7BD
plus exclusive video
clips from The
Dinosaur That Pooped
creators, McBusted’s
Tom Fletcher and
Dougie Poynter. Any
books purchased at the event will
get a special stamp from Dino!
Tickets: £3 or £10 for groups of 4
Suitable for children aged 5+
7.30pm Festival Film Night
Lowdham Village Hall, Main Street,
Lowdham, Notts NG14 7BD
The Dinosaur That Pooped
The Lady in the Van
– A Show with Alastair Watson (12A, 1 hour 44 mins)
Created from the bestselling The
Dinosaur That Pooped picture book
series, host Alastair Watson brings
the books to life with help from The
Dinosaur himself! An interactive,
fun event that includes dinosaur
impressions, live drawing, a dinosaur
rhyme and gross games like Guess Poo,
Based on Alan Bennett’s real life
experience and starring Maggie Smith,
Alex Jennings and Jim Broadbent,
it tells the story of Alan’s unexpected
bond with a transient woman living
in her van parked in his driveway.
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Tickets: £6 full, £5 concessions,
£4 Festival Friends
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Thursday 23rd June
Thursday 23rd June
Southwell Road Community Room,
Magna Meadows, Old Tannery Drive,
Lowdham, Notts NG14 7PS
Two lovely events
for gardeners…
11.30am–12.45pm
Stuart Dixon – Gardens
of the National Trust
Stuart is a retired Horticultural
lecturer and owner of the lovingly
restored 18th century garden at
Hebb’s Farmhouse in Stoke Bardolph.
In this illustrated talk he will
introduce us to the
many beautiful
National Trust
gardens he has
visited.
Tickets: £6 full, £5
concessions,
£4 Festival Friends
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1.30–2.45pm
Jim Buttress – The People’s
Gardener: A Marvellous Life
from the Royal Parks and
RHS to Britain in Bloom
With his trademark bowler hat and
clipboard, Jim Buttress is a familiar
figure to garden lovers. As a judge of
the RHS, he presides over the country’s
favourite flower shows, including
Chelsea and Hampton Court. He also
judged the Britain in Bloom competition
for over twenty-five years, and appeared
on the BBC’s The Big Allotment Challenge.
But how did this practical gardener
from Purley go on to have one of the
most impressive careers in British
horticulture? In this warm and funny
memoir, Jim takes us from his boyhood
obsession with Percy Thrower to his
ten-year stint as Superintendent of
the Central Royal Parks.
Tickets: £7 full, £6 concessions,
£5 Festival Friends
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Save money with our Two Talks ticket: £12
full, £10 concessions, £8 Festival Friends
And for cricket-lovers…..
7.30–9pm
The Clubhouse, Caythorpe Cricket
Club, Caythorpe Lane, Caythorpe, Notts
NG14 7EB
Amazing Grace:
The Man Who Was W.G
with Richard Tomlinson
In this definitive biography of the
record-breaking cricketer, Richard
Tomlinson, historian and former
playing MCC
member, combines
his passion for
cricket and
historian’s eye to
connect Grace’s
astounding feats on
the playing field with
the private life he hid
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so well from the world. Richard will be
in conversation with Nottinghamshire
poet and publisher (and Lowdham
Festival cricket expert), John Lucas.
Tickets: £7 full, £6 Concessions, £5
Festival Friends. Bar available
Friday 24th June
Harts Restaurant, Standard Hill,
Nottingham NG1 6GN 12 – 3.30pm
Nottingham Literary Lunch –
Judith Miller in Conversation
with BBC Radio Nottingham's
John Holmes
Friday 24th June
written more than 100 highly regarded
books. Judith is an expert on the BBC’s
Antiques Roadshow and has co-hosted
the popular BBC series The House
Detectives, ITV’s Antiques Trail, and
Discovery’s It’s Your Bid. She has also
appeared on US television on The
Martha Stewart Show and CNN. She is a
regular lecturer and contributor to
numerous newspapers and magazines,
including the Financial Times, Homes &
Antiques, House & Garden and the Daily
Telegraph and has lectured extensively,
including at the V&A in London and the
Smithsonian in Washington.
Judith Miller began collecting in the
1960s while a student at Edinburgh
University, and is now recognised as
one of the world’s
leading antiques experts.
In 1979 she co-founded
the international bestseller Miller’s Antiques
Price Guide and has since
Join us for a very special occasion and
hear about Judith’s latest book plus
stories from her amazing life - and feel
free to bring along one treasured item
for expert valuation!
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8pm Old Ship Inn, Main Street,
Lowdham
Ross Couper and Tom Oakes
This fiddle and guitar duo are deeply
rooted in the traditions of Scotland
and Ireland with a vital modernity
that chronicles their many musical
journeys so far. Expect their trademark,
unrivalled energy and virtuosity
interspersed with moments of spinetingling beauty, and a warmth and
humour that guarantees a smile
on the face.
A Warthog Promotions event
Tickets: £10
Tickets: £35 (includes Prosecco on arrival, a
two course lunch, a glass of wine & coffee).
Menu available on booking – dietary
requirements catered for.
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Saturday 25th June
Saturday 25th June, 10am–5pm
Village Hall, Main Street, Lowdham
All Day Book Fair and Café
Throughout the day the Village Hall
hosts a café run by mmm… deli,
serving hot and cold drinks, salads
and paninis, cakes and ice-cream. The
bookfair is spread over the Village
Hall, a marquee behind the hall, and
assorted gazebos. It features
publishers, charities, book trade
organisations, booksellers with new
and second-hand books, and cards.
There are displays of old-fashioned
letterpress printing equipment. Free
author talks and talks about books
will go on throughout the day. There
will be books for children and adults,
bargain books and books signed by
all the authors appearing during
the festival.
Entry is FREE to the bookfair
and all events. No tickets required.
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11–12.00: The Somme, with
Ivor F. Perry and Others
WI Hall, Main Street
Looking ahead to the 100th
anniversary on July 1st, Ivor Perry and
friends tell the story of The Somme
through the eyes of those who fought,
some of whom did not survive. There
will be battlefield artifacts on display.
Ivor Perry is the author of Bringing
Them Home: the story of the lost sons
of Wymeswold.
11–12.00: A Sky Full of Birds, an
Illustrated Talk by Matt Merritt
Methodist Chapel, Main Street
Matt Merritt is the
editor of Bird
Watching Magazine.
His book, A Sky Full
of Birds, takes us with
him to watch some
of the great avian
gatherings, from
ravens in Anglesey
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and raptors on the Wirral, to
nightingales in Kent and capercaillies
in Scotland.
11–12.00: Women’s Suffrage in
Nottingham, with Nottingham
Women’s History Group
Marquee behind the Village Hall
Nottingham was a centre for
campaigning for the vote, with many
women (and some men) risking all to
achieve women’s suffrage. The Group
has just published No Surrender!, which
tells the story of our local suffragettes.
11–12.00: Women of a Certain Age,
with Hilary Spiers
Committee Room, Village Hall
Hilary Spiers, author of Hester & Harriet,
is passionate about giving older
women their moment in the sun.
Widowed sisters Hester and Harriet are
driving to visit relatives when they
come across a young woman hiding
with her baby in a bus shelter. The pair
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take the strangers home with them
and then their truculent nephew turns
up and the sisters’ carefully crafted life
of peace and quiet rapidly falls apart...
fierce opponent of nationalism who
defined Englishness for a generation,
and whose work, from 1984 to Homage
to Catalonia is still essential reading.
12.30–1-30: Pint to Pint,
with Chris Arnot
Marquee behind the Old Ship Inn
Chris is a Lowdham
regular! This session will
feature him talking
about the best pubs in
Britain, drawing on the
Daily Telegraph book Pint
to Pint, where he is the
contributor with the
most entries. Come along and argue for
your favourite pub. Why not bring a pint
from the Ship with you to this session!
12.30–1.30: Shoestring Spectacular,
with David Belbin (Short Fiction),
Matthew Barton and Jane Owen (Poetry)
Methodist Chapel, Main Street
David Belbin’s newly published
Provenance collects fourteen stories
from the last thirty years and adds four
substantial new ones. Matthew Barton’s
Family Tree casts an eye over family
relationships, his observation benefiting
from his background in family care. Jane
Owen’s Wicked Limericks - unlikely as it
seems - reflects on Baudelaire’s Les
Fleurs du Mal in limerick form. The
12.30–1.30: George Orwell: English
Rebel, an Illustrated Talk by Robert Colls
WI Hall, Main Street
A journey through the life, the writing,
and the thoughts of George Orwell, a
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event will be introduced by John Lucas,
who will read from his new Nottingham
novel Plotting.
12.30–1.30: Shakespeare’s Women
with Sheelagh Gallagher and
Deirdre O’Byrne
Marquee behind the Village Hall
We trust that “two women placed
together makes cold weather” is not
true as Sheelagh and Deirdre discuss
some well-known and less well-known
women in Shakespeare’s plays. You can
be sure that neither speaker “speaks
small like a woman” though!
12.30–1.30: The Pentrich Uprising
1817, with Julian Atkinson
Committee Room, Village Hall
In 1817 a few hundred poor people
from Derbyshire planned to march to
London to introduce universal suffrage
and to form a Government that would
feed the women and children. This is
a story of bravery and deception.
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Saturday 25th June
2–3.00: The University of Nottingham:
This is Your life, with John Beckett
WI Hall, Main Street
From its beginnings in 1881 the
university college first established by
Nottingham City Council has grown
into an international university with
44,000 students and campuses on
three continents. John Beckett is
Professor of English Regional History at
the University and author of a new
history.
2–3.00: A Palace for Our Kings,
with James Wright
Methodist Chapel, Main Street
At Clipstone in Sherwood Forest, one
of the very largest royal palaces ever to
have graced the Mediaeval landscape
stood between the twelfth and
fifteenth centuries. It was visited by
eight kings, who assembled
parliament, held tournaments, met
traitorous barons, went hunting and
listened to poets. James Wright’s book
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on one of the great lost buildings of
Britain is launched today.
2–3.00: David Bowie and Fan Culture,
a Sound Illustrated Talk by Nick
Stevenson
Marquee behind the Village Hall
The story of David Bowie involves youth
culture, history, racism, gender and
sexual politics. And music and imagery.
Nick Stevenson explores celebrity
culture through a detailed exploration of
the life of the recently-deceased Bowie.
2–3.00: Murder, Mystery, Mayhem and
the Plain Ordinary – Local History in
Arnold, Mapperley and the Villages,
an Illustrated Talk by Bob Massey
Committee Room, Village Hall
Bob Massey teaches courses on local
history and delivers talks around the
country. He is the author of popular
local history columns in NG3, NG5 and
NG14 which has led to a successful
collection of essays about the area,
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Snippets from History, ominously subtitled Volume One! As well as local stories
from the area’s past, he talks about how
to put the very local into local history.
2–3.00: Garry Martin
Reading from The Parisian Quartet
Marquee behind the Old Ship Inn
Garry Martin will be reading from his
Parisian Quartet of books: 'Eagles
without a Cliff', 'A Black Violet', 'Sylvia
Beach and the Melancholy Jesus' - the
three volumes of 'Beneath Napoleon's
Hat' and the brand new novel
'Patchwork'.
3.30–4.30: Nottingham Does Comics!,
an Illustrated Talk with John Stuart
Clark and Others
WI Hall, Main Street
Nottingham Does Comics presents an
illustrated panel discussion on
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‘The Literary Art of Cracking Comics’
featuring Matt Green from the
University of Nottingham, Derby
creator Sally Jane Thompson and from
comics retailers Page 45, Jonathan
Rigby. Chaired by James Walker of
Dawn of the Unread.
3.30–4.30: Nottingham in Old Postcards,
an Illustrated Talk by Brian Lund
Methodist Chapel, Main Street
Brian Lund, from Reflections of a Bygone
Age, shows the unusual, the usual, the
surprising and the forgotten in this talk
which indicates what our predecessors
thought worth preserving or showing
to their friends and relatives.
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3.30–4.30: Homintern: How Gay
Culture Liberated the Modern World,
with Gregory Woods
Marquee behind the Village Hall
Homintern was launched with
four pages in the Guardian, a feature
on Radio 4’s Today and reviews galore.
This is the story of the networks
connecting gay writers, actors, artists,
musicians, dancers, filmmakers,
politicians and spies.
3.30–4.30: The Company of
Comedians, with Michael Payne
Committee Room, Village Hall
Local theatre historian Michael Payne
has turned his knowledge to use in
publishing a novel set in the Theatre
Royal in St Mary’s Gate in the 18th
century, when it was the town’s main
place of entertainment. This illustrated
session will include material on local
theatrical history as well as a reading
from the novel itself.
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Saturday 25th June 10.30am–4pm
Tents behind Lowdham Village Hall
FREE Family Fun at the
Festival!
This year we are
celebrating
Rudyard
Kipling’s Jungle
Book in style
with crafts, a
treasure hunt,
dressing up
and, of course,
cake!
There will be lots of other fun
activities to join in with, plus
storytelling and music in the
beautiful Bell Tent.
More details will be on
www.thebookcase.co.uk
nearer the time.
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Lowdham Festivals and The Bookcase presents:
First Fridays June – December 2016
Friday 3rd June
Friday 7th October
Shakespeare the Man
– with Judith Hedley
Around the World in 80 Days
– A travel talk with a literary
twist with Sue Ablett
Friday 1st July
The Silk Factory
– with Judith Allnatt
Friday 2nd September
Cook&Book: ‘A Yorkshire Tea’
A celebration of Charlotte
Bronte’s 200th anniversary
Friday 4th November
No Surrender! Women's
Suffrage in Nottinghamshire
– with Rowena Edlin-White
Friday 2nd December
Christmas Poems –
– with Jenny Swann
All First Friday talks take place in Lowdham Primitive Methodist Chapel,
Main Street, Lowdham, 2 – 3.30pm.
Tickets: £6 full, £5 concessions, £4 Festival Friends (always including tea & cake!)
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Ticket information
Travel information for Lowdham
Tickets are available from
The Bookcase, 50 Main Street,
Lowdham NG14 7BE over the
counter, by mail or by credit
card over the phone (Festival
Box Office is 0115 966 3219
10am–4pm Monday–Saturday)
or, subject to availability, on the
door at events.
Lowdham is off the A6097 (Bingham to Doncaster) and
A612 (Nottingham to Southwell) between Newark and
Lowdham.
If ordering by post please
enclose a first class SAE and
include a contact telephone
number. Cheques are payable
to Lowdham Festivals Ltd. There
is a 75p surcharge for postage
on credit card telephone
bookings. Tickets are not
required for free events.
Lowdham railway station: A brisk ten minute walk
from the main Festival site.
Lowdham bus stop: Pathfinder 100 buses drop off
ONLY at the bottom of Main Street by the cricket
ground/war memorial, seven minutes from the main
Festival site.
Car parking: There is car parking at the Village Hall and
on and off Main Street. There is limited car parking at
the Methodist Chapel and the WI Hall and opposite the
Library on Francklin Road. There is a car park at the
Southwell Road Community Building.
Note: car parking fills up quickly at popular events –
please allow time to park. If you require disabled parking,
please contact the Festival Box Office in advance.