Sunday 23 June 2013

Hebden Bridge Arts Festival

Well I am back from Barcelona and I had a wonderful time.  The weather was kind and we managed to fit in all the sights - even if I did, and still feel like I did, walk for about 7 hours each day.  I will post a potted review of my trip (including details of the brand new Poblenou Travelodge Barcelona and some pictures) in a later post.

Whilst I was away, I received some very informative emails about writing events that I will be posting the details of for my followers and I thought I would start with this one, as the Hebden Bridge Arts Festival is on at the moment:



 

Rosie Garland

performing with

The Palace of Curiosities Theatre Troupe

 

Upstairs @ The Birchcliffe Centre, 5pm £8(£6)

 

Roll up! listen to poet Rosie Garland read from her luminous and bewitching novel, hailed by Sarah Waters as ‘A jewel-box of a novel’!

Marvel at the delights in the Victorian cabinet of mysteries with all the atmosphere, wonderment and fun of a Victorian travelling fairground curiosity sideshow. 


“... reminds me of Angela Carter.” Jenni Murray

 

“Gentlemen and Ladies! How happy I am to welcome you to this Palace of Curiosities on such an auspicious occasion.  What luck! What serendipity! For tonight we have mirth! Wit! And Jollity! See The Lion-Faced Woman and The Marsyas of Modern Times, Star Attractions at Professor Arroner’s Astonishing Marvels!”

 

About the author:

Born in London to a runaway teenager, Rosie has always been a cuckoo in the nest. She is an eclectic writer and performer, ranging from singing in Goth band The March Violets through touring with the Subversive Stitch exhibition in the 90s, to her current incarnation as cabaret chanteuse, incomparable compere and electrifying poet. She has published five solo collections of poetry and her award-winning short stories, poems and essays have been widely anthologized. Rosie won the inaugural Mslexia Novel Competition in 2012, and The Palace of Curiosities is her debut novel.

 

 

Tickets from the Hebden Bridge Arts Festival box office or online http://hebdenbridgeartsfestival.co.uk/rosie-garland-palace-of-curiosities/

 

 

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