Festival of books, art and music based in Knighton in the beautiful Teme Valley. Full programme at https://teapawt.net/t.co/q1trvRgnp6
Knighton, Powys
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There's a celestial highlight on Sunday (Oct 22) as Cardiff Astronomy Professor Jane Greaves will tell us how to build a habitable planet and Dr Jo Marchant will talk about her new book 'The Human Cosmos', tracing our relationship with the heavens from prehistoric times.
Martin Rees, the Astronomer Royal will be joining us via Zoom on Saturday at 1.30pm to talk about whether there is life in the Cosmos
The Festival is delighted to host The Tree of Life exhibition featuring work from ten artists, celebrating trees and tree planting. The show starts on Friday 28th October in the library atrium at the Comm
@TheArborealists @CeliadeSerra @paulnewmanart stellacarr@artlandscape
Not long to go till the Festival begins! Just launched our new website knightonfestival.wales
Take a look at the exciting programme we have lined up later this month
@knightonrotary @LitWales @KnightonMuseum
Looking forward to hosting a special St David’s Day concert at the Comm on 6th March. Our first IRL event for 2 years! #welshmalevoicechoir #Stdavidsday
Support your local bookshop #NationalBookshopDay - books featured in our Festival on sale at @gallery_tower @AardvarkEthel @SerenBooks @parthianbooks
Great to speak to authors @Alis_Hawkins @InspectorChard @K_Stansfield and poets @emergencypoet @Soozerama @GaryRaymond_ at our Festival on #NationalBookshopDay
We celebrated #NationalPoetryDay enjoying readings from the lovely Marches Poets, eating a spectacular cake donated by the Knighton Library friends. More poetry to come on Sat with Deborah Alma and Susie Wild
#Welshpoets @emergencypoet #litfest @parthianbooks
Don't miss out! For free tickets to our fantastic line-up of Welsh writers poets and artists this Saturday go to eventbrite.co.uk/e/knighton-…
Really looking forward to our Crime Cymru panel this Saturday!
I'll be living on the edge with @Alis_Hawkins & @InspectorChard at the @KnightonFestiv1 on Saturday morning - do join us online!
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COVER REVEAL 🪞
We’re excited to announce our Land of Poets anthology will be published this November. The collection features work from young poets winning and highly commended in Wales Young Poets Award and Gwobr Beirdd Ifanc Cymru
Preorders now open: poetrywales.co.uk/product/la…
ALT Book cover. Features stylistic hills, sun and sky. Reads: Land of Poets, edited by Eurig Salisbury with shortlisted poems from Wales Young Poets Award 2020
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Wow. The #BettyCampbell bust unveiled this morning in #Cardiff is magnificent. And big. A brilliant piece of public art for a confident multicultural capital city. Images: @monumentalwelshwomen; @itsoncardiff. Congrats to all involved, esp @UKSculpture.
Looking forward to our Crime Cymru panel on Sat Oct 9th and finding out why crime writing is booming in Wales!
More event news!
On Oct 9th at 10am you'll be able to sit over a late breakfast and watch me online at Knighton Festival 😃 as I chat all things historical crime fiction with two other @CrimeCymru authors, @K_Stansfield and @InspectorChard.
Tickets here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/knighton-…
For free tickets to our online Festival Climate Change day go to eventbrite.co.uk/e/knighton-…
Our free online Festival begins on Saturday with a lively discussion of #ClimateEmergency featuring energy experts Peter Harper @GabrielleWalk3r and climate activist @angie_zelter. Get your tickets now!
eventbrite.co.uk/e/knighton-…
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And yet more event news! I'm so looking forward to talking to my @CrimeCymru pals @Alis_Hawkins & @InspectorChard at the Knighton Festival on 9th October - also online!
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All welcome to attend the FREE performance of a brilliant opera about climate change and the history of carbon written by local musician and activist Camilla Cancantata, 2.30pm on Sunday 15 August at Pinner's Hole in Knighton. Extracts will be shown during the Festival on 2 Oct
Dr. Gabrielle Walker, author of "The Hot Topic, how to avoid global warming while still keeping the lights on" will join our panel of experts discussing climate change on Sat 2 Oct. A self-confessed “ice addict” she has made more than a dozen trips to both poles. Brrr!
The 2021 Festival takes place from 1st -10th October and we have an exciting mixture of on-line and live events planned. The theme for the first weekend is Climate Change and the Environment - watch this space!
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On this Spring Equinox, we are delighted to share with you the beautiful cover for Noel Streatfield's The Growing Summer, illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
Pre-order your copy here: uk.bookshop.org/books/the-gr… @hilary_mckay
