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ilkley literature festival 10<br />
with Skipton Building Society<br />
84.<br />
Saturday 9th October<br />
3.45–4.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Hello Mum:<br />
Bernardine Evaristo<br />
Knife crime is having a huge impact<br />
on young people, and not just in the<br />
large cities. Much praised poet and<br />
novelist Bernardine Evaristo talks<br />
about why and how she wrote Hello<br />
Mum – her new book for young<br />
people exploring this complex issue in<br />
a way teenagers find compelling and<br />
thought provoking.<br />
An event for young people and all<br />
those who care about their future.<br />
£5/3 Age 12–16 plus parents, adults<br />
working with young people and the<br />
public.<br />
Professor Avi Shlaim<br />
85.<br />
Saturday 9th October 4.30pm<br />
St Margaret’s Hall<br />
The Israeli-Palestinian<br />
Conflict: Avi Shlaim<br />
Conversations about Empires<br />
‘Avi Shlaim … writes about the Middle<br />
East with exceptional wisdom and<br />
insight.’ Max Hastings<br />
The Israel-Palestine conflict remains<br />
one of the most bitter, violent and<br />
intractable conflicts of our time. Avi<br />
Shlaim, Professor of International<br />
Relations at Oxford, one of the<br />
world’s leading authorities on the<br />
Middle East conflict and a ‘supreme<br />
scholar of Arab-Israeli negotiations’,<br />
investigates the key issues, fractured<br />
history and future prospects for<br />
peace.<br />
£5/3<br />
86.<br />
Saturday 9th October 5.30pm<br />
<strong>Ilkley</strong> Playhouse Wildman<br />
Maths for Mums and Dads<br />
If helping with maths homework<br />
fills you with panic this is the event<br />
for you! Maths whizz, author Rob<br />
Eastaway, guides you through the<br />
stuff that baffles many primary<br />
school parents, from chunking and<br />
partitioning to number lines and the<br />
grid method. Lots of opportunity to<br />
ask questions and banish your fear –<br />
forever!<br />
£5/3<br />
87.<br />
Saturday 9th October 6.45–<br />
7.15pm Otley Courthouse<br />
The Seven Deadly Sins<br />
Wickedly imaginative poetry and<br />
prose from the Courthouse Writers.<br />
FREE FRINGE EVENT<br />
See page 45 for full details.<br />
88.<br />
Saturday 9th October 7.30pm<br />
Otley Courthouse<br />
A Blood Wedding In<br />
Wensleydale<br />
A North Country Theatre<br />
collaboration with Harrogate<br />
Theatre<br />
Cold Comfort Farm meets Carmen!<br />
Lorca’s famous study of feuding<br />
families re-located to the farming<br />
communities of the Yorkshire Dales<br />
by one of the region’s most popular<br />
touring companies.<br />
When Leonard returns from fighting<br />
with the International Brigade he<br />
finds his childhood sweetheart about<br />
to marry an old rival … Between<br />
flamenco dancing sheep and hay<br />
throwing harvesters, the wedding<br />
celebrations descend into farce and<br />
then tragedy.<br />
£8/6<br />
Please note this is a full evening’s<br />
performance with an interval.<br />
In association with Otley Courthouse Arts<br />
Centre<br />
Peter Snow<br />
89.<br />
Saturday 9th October 7.30pm<br />
Kings Hall<br />
Peter Snow<br />
Peter Snow, for many years the<br />
indispensable face of election night<br />
TV, is an acclaimed broadcaster,<br />
presenter (Battlefield Britain,<br />
Newsnight, Tomorrow’s World)<br />
journalist and author. Tonight he<br />
introduces To War With Wellington,<br />
the story of how Wellington<br />
transformed an army of soldiers he’d<br />
described as ‘the scum of the earth’,<br />
into the finest fighting force of their<br />
time, able to defeat Napoleon at<br />
Waterloo.<br />
£9/7<br />
Sponsored by Audley Clevedon<br />
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