The latest New Writing North newsletter has details of commissions at Durham Book Festival:
The Durham Book Festival programme
is now live!
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Commissions at Durham Book Festival
What makes Durham Book
Festival truly unique? We think our original commissions really make us stand
out from the crowd!
Every year, the Durham Book
Festival programme features newly commissioned writing in a variety of genres
from great writers. This allows us to work with some amazing talent, and
gives us the opportunity to premier these exciting pieces to festival
audiences.
This year we are proud to
announce a diverse list of commissions. Our flagship commission sees four
outstanding writers, Petina Gappah, Benjamin Myers, Alexei Sayle and Lionel
Shriver, producing a piece of work in response to the extraordinary news
cycle of 2017. Our yearly children’s theatre production Do Not Enter the Monster Zoo,
is set to bring music, laughs and monsters to Durham. The talented graphic
novelist Una, will be bringing zine-making to the programme and embarking
upon a two-year graphic novel project to be inspired by the people and
landscape of Durham. We also have some truly terrific writers giving their
take on modern times, from gender-norm anxiety to the history of the Labour
Party in the North East.
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Zine-Making
in a Day with Una
Saturday 7 October,
10am–4pm, Empty Shop TESTT Space
We’re delighted to be
working with acclaimed graphic novelist, Una, over the next two years, on a
graphic novel to be inspired by the people of Durham and its landscapes.
Una will work with groups of women at Low Newton Prison and the Just...read
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Do
Not Enter the Monster Zoo
Sunday 8 October,
10.30am–11.20am, Gala Theatre Studio
From the creators of Hey, Presto!, Man on the Moon and The Worst Princess,
comes a mischievous tale that little monsters everywhere are sure to fall
in love with. The hero of our story has received an invitation to run a zoo
for a day. But this isn’t just any zoo, this zoo seems...read
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Drawing
on Life: Life Writing in Graphic Novels with Una and Mary Talbot
Sunday 8 October,
12pm–1pm, Palace Green Library
Join two acclaimed graphic
novelists to hear how their own lives and experiences have informed their work.
Una’s Becoming, Unbecoming,
is a devastating personal account of gender violence, set against the
backdrop of the 1970s Yorkshire Ripper...read
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Rachel
Reeves and John Tomaney: Labour in the North
Sunday 8 October,
1.30–2.30pm, Palace Green Library
This fascinating event will
explore the origins of Labour’s dominance in County Durham, what sustained
it and the current state of play. It will also look at how Labour built a
local social democracy that improved conditions for working class people
and ensured their support for generations. Rachel Reeves is...read
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A
Crisis in Masculinity? With Ross Raisin, Anoop Nayak, Lisa Davis and Nicole
Westmarland
Sunday 8 October,
4.30pm–5.30pm, Palace Green Library
Is masculinity in crisis in
the North East? If so, can this be linked to the de-industrialisation of
our region? The organisation Changing Relations is currently running an
arts project exploring a perceived crisis in masculinity in the North East,
working with men and...read
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Petina
Gappah, Benjamin Myers, Alexei Sayle, Lionel Shriver: The News as a Novel
Friday 13 October,
6.15pm–7.30pm, Durham Town Hall
Ten years ago, the late
Gordon Burn took the events of 2007 and during that year wrote and
published Born Yesterday: The News as a Novel, an ambitious and
experimental novel about the way news is made, and the way the media...read
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