Having just purchased my ticket for the Sally Wainwright event, I thought my followers would like details of the Ilkley Literature Festival Spring Series of events, plus a chance to win a mini break with their new short story and poetry competition:
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If you can't wait until October to get your Festival fix, you won't
want to miss out on tickets for our Spring Series, featuring three
events designed to inspire, provoke and engage.
The Spring Series starts on Wednesday 19 April with BAFTA winning
writer and director Sally
Wainwright, followed by former Conservative Party
Chair Baroness
Warsi on Thursday 20 April and concludes with former
Deputy Leader of the Labour Party Harriet Harman on Tuesday 9
May.
 The Brontë
Parsonage Museum and Ilkley Literature Festival Present: An
Evening with Sally Wainwright and Ann Dinsdale
A special evening with BAFTA winning
writer and director Sally Wainwright as she discusses her fascination
with the Brontë family and acclaimed TV drama, To Walk Invisible,
with Principle Curator of the Brontë Parsonage Museum, Ann Dinsdale.
Wednesday 19
April, 7.30pm, Kings Hall, Ilkley, LS29 8HB, £14/12
 Baroness
Sayeeda Warsi: The Enemy Within
Britain’s first Muslim cabinet
minister discusses her new book, The
Enemy Within, which explores British attitudes and policy
towards Islam and unpicks the challenges for British Muslims with
brutal honesty, offering solutions to the big issues of our time with
much-needed clarity and humour.
Thursday 20
April, 7.30pm, Kings Hall, Ilkley, LS29 8HB, £12/10
 Harriet
Harman: A Woman’s Work
The former Deputy Leader of the
Labour Party talks frankly about everything from campaigning with
small children to increasing the number of women in Parliament and
tackling a parliamentary culture which made no allowance for family
life.
Tuesday 9 May,
7.30pm, Kings Hall, Ilkley, LS29 8HB, £12/10
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McCarthy and Stone Sponsor Ilkley Literature Festival!
We are
delighted to announce that McCarthy and Stone are joining us as a
headline sponsor!
McCarthy and Stone are the UK’s leading builders of retirement
properties and are committed not just to providing luxury flats and
assisted living facilities for the over 55’s but to being a real part
of the communities around their developments. And with their new
retirement apartments in Ilkley set to be named after much loved
authors we know they share our passion for literature!
Win a Mini
Break With Our New Short Story and Poetry Competition!
 To celebrate
our partnership, McCarthy and Stone are launching a new writing
competition with the chance to win some fantastic prizes.
Using the theme ‘View From The Window’, the competition is open to
anyone over 18 from the Yorkshire Region. Entries should be no more
than 500 words or 20 lines of poetry and the closing date is 27
March.
First prize is dinner for two and an overnight stay at the luxurious
Devonshire Arms hotel. Runner-up prizes include afternoon tea at
Bettys and tickets to the opening night of the 2017 Festival. The
winners will be announced at an Evening with Sally Wainwright and Ann
Dinsdale on Wednesday 19 April.
Entries should be emailed to mccarthyandstone@mccann.com, with
the subject header, ‘View from the Window Ilkley’. For full terms and
conditions visit: https://www.mccarthyandstone.co.uk/ilf-competition/
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Other Arts Events You May Enjoy...
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OBRA THEATRE
COMPANY presents
Gaudete
Adapted from
the work by Ted Hughes
The life of a Yorkshire village is shattered when elemental spirits
replace the parish priest with his double. Alternative realities
collide as this changeling interprets the gospel of love in his own
alarming fashion. What goes on at the WI meetings?
7.30pm,
Tuesday 14 and Wednesday 15 March, at the Lawrence Batley Theatre,
Queen's Square, Huddersfield, HD1 2SP, £16 - 10.
Click here for more information and to book.
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Photo credits:
Sally Wainwright and Ann Dinsdale c. Michael Prince
Sally Wainwright c. BAFTA/ Richard Kendall
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