Durham Book Festival 13-16 October

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Big Ideas at Durham Book Festival!   Join us at Durham Book Festival where we are inviting leading thinkers and authors to start conversations and share ideas. From investigating how England has changed through key news stories of recent times with Jason Cowley, to the current political situation between Russia and Ukraine with Fiona Hill. Lisette Auton pushes the creative boundaries of access, words and kindness, while Jeroen van Hunen and Dr Charlotte Adams explore whether the North East could be the future of green energy.      Join in-person or live-stream Thanks to our sponsors Swinburne Maddison and the Boshier Hinton Foundation, events at the Gala - both live and live-streamed - will be captioned by StageText.   Laura Bates: Fix the System, Not the Women Friday 14 October,    7pm–8pm,  Gala Theatre Combining first-hand accounts with shocking evidence, Fix the System, Not the Women is a blazing examination of the societal systems that fail to protect women, and a rallying cry for reform. Too often, we blame women: for walking home alone at night; for not asking, or asking forcefully enough, for a seat at the table...read more Disabled Artists' Networking Event with Lisette Auton Saturday 15 October, 10.15am–11.15am, Gala Theatre Studio Join us and writer and activist Lisette Auton at a networking breakfast event for disabled artists and writers working in the North East. This session is for creatives who identify as disabled, who are working in any art form at any stage in their career. We invite you to connect and collaborate over coffees and pastries...read more Writing the Missing – Folding Water: Film Premiere Saturday 15 October, 11.30am–12.30pm, Gala Theatre Studio Following the success of Durham Book Festival- commissioned films  Writing the Missing – The River Cycle and Writing the Missing – All At Sea, Lisette Auton and Rob Irish come together for the final time in the Water Trilogy to push the creative boundaries of access, words and kindness...read more   Jason Cowley and Alex Niven: Who Are We Now? Saturday 15 October, 3.30pm–4.30pm,  Gala Theatre Studio Join Jason Cowley and Alex Niven as they consider a nation poised on the brink of enormous change. In Who Are We Now? Jason Cowley examines contemporary England through key news stories of recent times to reveal what they tell us about the state of the nation...read more Marina Hyde: What Just Happened?! Saturday 15 October, 5pm–6pm, Gala Theatre We are delighted to welcome Guardian columnist Marina Hyde to Durham Book Festival to introduce What Just Happened?!: Dispatches from Turbulent Times.  Drawn from her spectacularly funny Guardian columns, Marina slashes her way through the hellscape of politics, where the chaos never stops...read more Green Energy in the North East Saturday 15 October, 5.30pm–6.30pm,  Gala Theatre Studio Could the North East be the future of green energy? Geothermal energy is little developed in the UK but we are sitting on an unlikely resource – mines. Abandoned mines have huge potential for decarbonising heat, and our historic mining infrastructure could put the region at the forefront of the green revolution...read more   Festival Laureate: Hannah Lowe Sunday 16 October, 1pm–2pm,  Gala Theatre This year's Festival Laureate is the award-winning poet and writer Hannah Lowe, whose latest collection The Kids, inspired by her career as a teacher, won the Costa Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2021. Hannah Lowe is the author of three poetry Chick (2013), Chan (2016) and The Kids (2021)...read more The New Great Britons Sunday 16 October, 1.30pm–2.30pm,  Gala Theatre Studio In 2002, the BBC ran a campaign to find the Greatest Briton. 20 years on, in this event writers and academics will champion some northern, working-class figures whose stories rarely make it into the traditional canon of 'greatness'. This event will be chaired by Durham University’s Dr Natalie Mears whose research re-evaluates the representation of Elizabeth I, voted seventh Greatest Briton...read more   Fiona Hill: From Durham to DC Sunday 16 October, 3pm–4pm,  Gala Theatre Join us for an afternoon with Fiona Hill, as she joins us live via video link from Durham's twin city Tübingen, Germany. Fiona will be talking about the current political situation between Russia and Ukraine as well as her recent book There is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the 21st Century, and reflecting on her inspiring career and her journey...read more           Share     Tweet     Share     Forward   New Writing North PO Box 1277, Newcastle upon Tyne NE99 5BP Tel: 0191 204 8850 office@newwritingnorth.com