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Commissions and
residencies at Durham Book Festival
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Durham Book Festival is renowned for its original work from writers
and performers, and this year is no exception. Musician Kathryn Williams
has collaborated with a group of exceptional poets and novelists on a
special project, the results of which will premier at the Gala Theatre on Saturday 15 October.
Kathryn will also perform her album Hypoxia
at Durham Town Hall on Saturday 8 October,
originating from songs that she originally wrote as part of a commission
at Durham Book Festival in 2013.
Hey, Presto!,
our touring theatre production for children under seven and their
families, is well underway—with performances taking place in County
Durham, Cumbria, Manchester and Northumberland over the coming week. To
find a performance near you, visit www.heyprestotour.com.
Along with our original commissions, this year we have gone all out to
bring you a publisher in residence (Unbound), a reader in residence (Andy Miller) and
a songwriter in residence (Kathryn Williams). Behind the scenes our
reviewers in residence and vlogger in residence will be capturing some of
the atmosphere of the festival.
We hope that you can join us to enjoy some of these extraordinary
original commissions and residencies.
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Unbound: The Wisdom
of Crowds
Sunday 9 October,
11am-12pm, Durham Town Hall (Burlison Gallery)
Publisher John Mitchinson talks to Unbound authors Nikesh Shukla and
Alice Jolly about the trials and tribulations of crowd-funding a book. Is
fiction harder than nonfiction? Do readers want their books with a side
of dosa? And just how much tweeting is...read more
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Backlisted Podcast:
Live!
Saturday 8 October,
1.30pm-2.30pm, Gala Theatre Studio
Backlisted is a popular literary podcast that gives new life to old
books. Join Unbound publisher and QI co-creator John Mitchinson,
publisher Mathew Clayton, and our Reader in Residence, Andy Miller, plus
a special guest for a fascinating and funny discussion of a...read more
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Nikesh Shukla, Coco
Khan and Miss L: The Good Immigrant
Sunday 9 October,
2.30pm–3.30pm, Durham Town Hall
Durham Book Festival is proud to present this extraordinary state of
the nation collection, from 21 diverse and exciting British BAME voices.
The collection was crowd-funded by Unbound in just three days, with
widespread...read more
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Kathryn Williams: Hypoxia
Saturday 8 October,
7.30pm-8.30pm, Durham Town Hall
In 2013 Durham Book Festival commissioned acclaimed musician Kathryn
Williams to write a sequence of songs inspired by Sylvia Plath’s novel The Bell Jar to
mark its 50th anniversary. Over the next two years, this...read more
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Songwriter in
Residence: Kathryn Williams and Friends
Saturday 15
October, 4pm–5.30pm, Gala Theatre
This year’s major book festival commission brings together a group of
leading singer-songwriters with a group of exceptional poets and
novelists to...read more
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Knee Deep
Saturday 15
October, 7.15pm-8.15pm, Empty Shop HQ
Poet Jasmine Simms and theatre director Tess Denman-Cleaver curate
readings by local young poets who are challenging the way poetry is
performed, exploring what it means to write for performance rather than
the...read more
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Festival Laureate:
Helen Mort
Saturday 15
October, 6pm–7pm, Palace Green Library
Each year Durham Book Festival works in partnership with Durham
University to invite an acclaimed poet to fulfil the role of Festival
Laureate. This year we are delighted...read more
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Kes introduced by Andy Miller
and Stephen Regan
Monday 10 October,
2pm-4.30pm, Gala Theatre
Join our Reader in Residence Andy Miller and Durham University’s
Professor Stephen Regan who will introduce a special screening of Kes, directed by Ken
Loach. Andy and Stephen are both huge fans of the film and will talk
about...read more
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Andy Miller: What
Makes a Classic?
Sunday 9 October,
10.30am–11.30am, Durham Town Hall
Why do some books become classics and others fall by the wayside? Who
decides what makes a great book – critics or the public? What are the
classics of the future? Join Andy Miller, our Reader in Residence and
author of...read more
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An Hour of Reading
Dangerously: 10 Great Books in 55 minutes with Andy Miller
Saturday 8 October,
11.30am–12.30pm, Palace Green Library
At last year’s festival, author Andy Miller delivered his hilarious
motivational lecture Read
Y’self Fitter to a packed house. He...read more
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Matt Miller: Sticking
Sunday 9 October,
1.30pm-2.30pm Gala Theatre Studio
A solo spoken word theatre show about moving away from home for the
first time. Are we stuck with who we are or can we dive into the unknown
and become someone else? Drawing on the artist’s experience of his first
three months...read more
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TippingPoint: Climate
Change and the Stories We Tell
Sunday 9 October,
11am-12pm, Palace Green Library
We hear many stories about climate change – from scientists,
economists and environmentalists. But what can the worlds of fiction,
poetry...read more
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Where Does The Power
Lie in The Media?
Saturday 8 October,
1.30pm-2.30pm, Palace Green Library
This event explores where the power currently lies in the media we
consume, particularly in the North of England. Northern Correspondent
editor Ian Wylie presents a newly commissioned essay and will be joined
by...read more
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Carmen Marcus: The Book
of Godless Verse
Saturday 8 October,
3.30pm-4.30pm, Durham Town Hall (Burlison Gallery)
In 2015 Carmen Marcus was named a BBC Radio 3 Verb New Voice for her
project The Book of
Godless Verse. As a lapsed Catholic, Carmen wanted to find a
way to witness the everyday...read more
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Kamal Kaan: As the
Cloud Takes its Last Breath
Saturday 8 October,
At 10, 30 and 50 minutes past the hour between 11am-1pm and 2pm-4pm, St
Chad's College Chapel
Durham Book Festival invites you to take some time out of your busy
lives and to step into the tranquil surroundings of St Chad’s...read more
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