HLF2021 starts this week, full details of the events below:
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There will be a national minute's
silence at 12 noon on
Tuesday
23 March followed by:
Lockdown Poems & Open Mic event
1pm
On the
anniversary of the first lockdown, join multi-award-winning poet,
novelist and essayist Kei Miller (The Cartographer Tries
to Map a Way to Zion, Augustown, In Nearby Bushes),
poet and playwright Chérie Taylor Battiste (Lioness),
and poet, playwright and creative writing tutor Michelle
Scally Clarke (I
Am, She Is)
for a special online performance of poems about lockdown,
resilience and our Festival theme of ‘Escape’. Kei Miller appears
courtesy of Renaissance One.
The
event will include a Q&A with the poets and the premiere of
the second of three films in the #OutBreakOut series by Dark Horse Theatre, commissioned
by HLF for this year’s Festival.
From
2pm-3pm, there will a chance for participants to perform their
own work in a welcoming and friendly Open Mic session, led by the
Talking Zebras group.
Free event with optional donation
BOOK HERE
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Tuesday 23 March - Monday 5 April
Lockdown Lantern Installation
(keep an eye out for us on BBC Look North between
6.30pm-7pm
on 23 March)
Lawrence Batley Theatre Courtyard
Queen St, Huddersfield HD1 2SP
To commemorate a year since the first lockdown (23
March 2020), HLF has commissioned a stunning Lockdown Lantern
Installation: a giant metal tree festooned with lanterns and
displaying words of hope to inspire the local community as they
walk past.
The Installation, created by Huddersfield-based company AniMATronics, will be on display
in the Lawrence Batley Theatre courtyard from 23 March 2021 – a
year on from the first lockdown – to 5 April.
It will serve as a commemoration, a memorial and an inspiration
to remind us of the challenges we have faced in the past year -
and to look forward to more positive days ahead. The Installation
will light up every evening between 6pm and midnight with
lanterns created by local artist Angie Boycott-Garnett and
children from The Children's Art School.
With
thanks to our sponsors at 
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Wednesday 24 March 7pm Online 
Online
talk: Johny Pitts: Afropean
The award-winning writer, photographer and broadcast
journalist Johny Pitts talks
about his book Afropean: Notes from Black Europe, winner
of the prestigious 2020 Jhalak Prize.
Afropean is
an on-the-ground documentary of areas where Europeans of African
descent are juggling their multiple allegiances and forging new
identities. Here is an alternative map of the continent, which
presents Afropeans as lead actors in their own story.
A University of Huddersfield event. Booking is via
Eventbrite.
Free event - BOOK HERE
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Our festival brochure
is online this year with a great choice of free and paid
online events for you to choose from -
The theme
for this year's festival is ESCAPE - click on the image
below to read our brochure and dive into a world of crime and
cookery, fiction and film, poetry and performance ....
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Huddersfield Literature Festival · 39 Birklands Road · Huddersfield, HD2
2PF · United Kingdom
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