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Principal Partner<br />
Education Partner<br />
SHAPE<br />
things<br />
COME<br />
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15 – 24<br />
NOVEMBER<br />
<strong>2019</strong>
<strong>Folkestone</strong> <strong>Book</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
Welcome to <strong>Folkestone</strong> <strong>Book</strong><br />
<strong>Festival</strong> <strong>2019</strong>: The Shape of<br />
Things to Come<br />
Thank you to our generous sponsors:<br />
Our theme for this year and beyond is Futures.<br />
We were led to this by H G Wells’ association<br />
with Sandgate and <strong>Folkestone</strong> (1896–1909).<br />
Wells was an extraordinarily prescient writer<br />
and the themes that preoccupied him are the<br />
same ones that preoccupy us today:<br />
globalisation, technology, biological issues,<br />
nationalism, war, migration, ecology, etc. Wells<br />
wasn’t just interested in how we live but how<br />
we might live. And so the speakers at this<br />
year’s festival will, in one way or another,<br />
engage with our myriad possible futures.<br />
Inspired by Wells’ The Time Machine, we<br />
travel back in time in Strange Concords to<br />
alight on seminal artistic creations that once<br />
shaped our cultural future. This inspired us to<br />
bring together words and music in what are<br />
at times surprising, but exciting, conjunctions.<br />
Another strand, Words from a Wider World,<br />
celebrates Wells’ internationalism, bringing in<br />
international voices without the carbon footprint.<br />
These live link-ups extend the possibilities for<br />
artists participating in the festival.<br />
Principal Partner<br />
Also Supported By<br />
Education Partner<br />
One of our festival themes is Globalisation,<br />
Nationalism & Migration, inspired by Wells’<br />
quote, ‘Our true nationality is mankind’ and<br />
the other is Climate Change & the<br />
Environment inspired by his quote ‘History is<br />
becoming a race’ between education and<br />
catastrophe. When we began planning the<br />
festival last December little did we know how<br />
events would lead to the emergence of<br />
Extinction Rebellion and the luminous<br />
leadership of the young Greta Thunberg.<br />
We’re grateful to Creative <strong>Folkestone</strong> and<br />
their wonderful team for inviting us to take the<br />
<strong>Folkestone</strong> <strong>Book</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> in a new direction.<br />
We would also like to acknowledge the great<br />
work of our predecessor, Geraldine D’Amico.<br />
We hope over the coming years, with your<br />
continued support and commitment, that<br />
the festival under the theme of FUTURES<br />
will develop into one of the most stimulating<br />
literary festivals in contemporary Britain.<br />
Event Sponsors<br />
Jenner<br />
RSM<br />
Wells had a rare ability to capture his thinking<br />
within a sentence or an epigram and we’re<br />
using a few of these as springboards for<br />
discussion in a programming strand called<br />
Wells Said.<br />
Liam Browne and Seán Doran<br />
Arts Over Borders<br />
© Matthew Andrews<br />
© Bobbie Hanvey<br />
Support our Schools Programme<br />
Every time you book your tickets online,<br />
over the phone or in person, please donate<br />
towards our programme of events for schools.<br />
Your support will ensure that we continue to<br />
offer these events for free to all schools.<br />
The festival is supported by the Canterbury<br />
Christ Church University <strong>Book</strong>shop. Signed<br />
copies are available at almost all events, and<br />
key titles include a special discount for all<br />
festival goers. You’ll find the <strong>Festival</strong> bookshop<br />
in The Clearing at Quarterhouse, where books<br />
can be purchased for events taking place at<br />
other locations.<br />
@cccubookshop<br />
www.canterbury.ac.uk/bookshop<br />
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Friday 15 Friday 15<br />
Ben Okri<br />
Prayer for the Living<br />
Prayer for the Living, the new collection<br />
from the <strong>Book</strong>er Prize-winning author<br />
Ben Okri, brings together stories from<br />
different worlds that blur the lines between<br />
illusion and reality. He discusses the role of<br />
fiction in these difficult times.<br />
Ben Okri was born in Minna, Nigeria.<br />
His childhood was divided between Nigeria,<br />
where he saw first-hand the consequences<br />
of war, and London. His novel The Freedom<br />
Artist was published by Head of Zeus in <strong>2019</strong>.<br />
7pm | £9, £7 Members & concessions |<br />
<strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Creative Quarter Christmas Lights<br />
Switch-On!<br />
It’s the time of year that sees the return of silly jumpers,<br />
Michael Bublé playlists and the Creative Quarter Christmas<br />
lights switch-on!<br />
What better way to kick off the festive season and<br />
this year’s <strong>Folkestone</strong> <strong>Book</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>, than with an evening<br />
of light, song and cheer. We’re delighted to be joined<br />
by <strong>Book</strong>er Prize-winning author Ben Okri, who will be<br />
counting us down to the big switch-on and launch of<br />
the <strong>Book</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>.<br />
To get you in the festive spirit, local choirs and a brass<br />
band will be bringing the streets to life with live music,<br />
and creative businesses will be wowing crowds with<br />
their Christmas window displays – pop in to discover<br />
that perfect gift for someone special.<br />
Join us for this thoroughly joyous evening, meeting<br />
at the top of The Old High Street on Friday 15 November<br />
at 5.30pm<br />
First Reformed (cert 15)<br />
Climate Change & the Environment<br />
Written & directed by Paul Schrader.<br />
Starring Ethan Hawke & Amanda Seyfried.<br />
Academy Award nominee for Best Original Screenplay,<br />
First Reformed sees the pastor of a small church in<br />
upstate New York spiral out of control, after a soulshaking<br />
encounter with an unstable environment<br />
activist and his pregnant wife.<br />
Paul Schrader wrote or co-wrote screenplays for<br />
four Martin Scorsese films: Taxi Driver, Raging Bull,<br />
The Last Temptation of Christ and Bringing Out the Dead.<br />
This mesmerizing drama of a pastor’s crisis of faith feels<br />
like the movie Paul Schrader was put on this planet to make.<br />
Washington Post<br />
In this age of numbing Hollywood formula, ‘First Reformed’<br />
offers a kind of salvation - it’s a movie that matters.<br />
Rolling Stone<br />
‘First Reformed’ asks us to take another look at what<br />
we think we know about politics, religion and other things<br />
we like to argue about, and asks nothing more than our<br />
quiet attention. New York Times<br />
9pm | £5, £4 Members & concessions | The Tin Tabernacle,<br />
4 Portland Road, Hythe, CT21 6EG<br />
Live Link-up<br />
Paul Schrader will be in conversation in a live link-up at<br />
<strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse on Monday 18 November at 6pm.<br />
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Saturday 16 Saturday 16<br />
1876 – USA & Russia<br />
Strange Concords:<br />
Words & Music Time Machine Events<br />
The Seasons by Petyr Ilych Tchaikovsky for<br />
solo piano, performed by Saskia Giorgini<br />
and readings of Leaves of Grass, poems<br />
by Walt Whitman.<br />
Saskia Giorgini is a Bosendorfer artist<br />
and the winner of the 2016 International<br />
Mozart Competition in Salzburg. Describing<br />
her playing, the eminent violinist Salvatore<br />
Accardo wrote unerring technique, a beautiful<br />
and moving sound, a phrasing full of fantasy<br />
and a pure musicality.<br />
10.30am & 1pm | £15, £13 Members &<br />
concessions | Holy Trinity Church,<br />
Sandgate Road, <strong>Folkestone</strong>, CT20 2HQ |<br />
Duration 75 mins<br />
Don’t miss<br />
Insight: Discussion on Whitman and<br />
Tchaikovsky, 12pm at Holy Trinity Church<br />
between the performances. Free to attend,<br />
booking essential.<br />
Laura Barton & Barney Hoskyns<br />
The Future of Music<br />
When music is discussed, the same words keep coming<br />
up: “streaming”, “playlists”, “distribution”, “sampling”,<br />
“platforms”, “tech”. But does any of this change our<br />
elemental pleasure in making and listening to music?<br />
Laura Barton and Barney Hoskyns offer their thoughts.<br />
Laura is a freelance music journalist, features writer and<br />
best-selling author. A go-to for all thing’s music, she regularly<br />
contributes to publications including The Guardian,<br />
The Observer, Q Magazine and The New York Times.<br />
Rock historian Barney Hoskyns is the author of nine books<br />
and has written about music and pop culture for numerous<br />
publications including NME, The Times, The Guardian,<br />
Vogue and Mojo, of which he was Associate Editor.<br />
12pm | £9, £7 Members & concessions | <strong>Folkestone</strong><br />
Quarterhouse<br />
Don’t miss<br />
Laura Barton will also be DJing at 9pm in The Clearing<br />
(first floor, <strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse). Free to attend,<br />
no booking required.<br />
Caroline Lucas<br />
Climate Change & the Environment<br />
The Future is Green<br />
At a time of ecological and political crises, both nationally<br />
and globally, Caroline Lucas discusses the challenges that<br />
face us and the possible futures that may lie ahead.<br />
Caroline Lucas was first elected as Member of<br />
Parliament for Brighton Pavilion in 2010. She served as<br />
leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2008<br />
to 2012, and Co-leader from 2016 to 2018. Caroline is Chair<br />
of the All-Party Parliamentary Groups on Climate Change<br />
and Limits to Growth.<br />
Caroline’s book, Honourable Friends?: Parliament and<br />
the Fight for Change, details her first parliamentary term<br />
as a fresh, green voice to the House of Commons.<br />
2pm | £12, Members & concessions | <strong>Folkestone</strong><br />
Quarterhouse<br />
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Saturday 16 Saturday 16<br />
Carrie Gracie<br />
Equal<br />
Carrie Gracie was part of a high-profilegroup<br />
of BBC women who challenged<br />
the national broadcaster over equal pay.<br />
Her protest triggered a parliamentary<br />
inquiry into BBC pay, and eventually she<br />
won a public apology and pay parity.<br />
In her new book, Equal, Gracie tells<br />
her own story and explores why it is often<br />
so hard for women to assert their value in<br />
the workplace.<br />
Prior to becoming the BBC China editor<br />
in 2014, Carrie Gracie was the BBC’s Beijing<br />
reporter. She currently presents for the BBC<br />
News Channel.<br />
6pm | £12, £10 Members & concessions |<br />
<strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Anthony Seldon<br />
& Isabel Hardman<br />
Wells Said: “Leaders should lead<br />
as far as they can and then vanish.<br />
Their ashes should not choke the<br />
fire they have lit.”<br />
Plan Your Exit!<br />
In politics they say timing is everything.<br />
Anthony Seldon and Isabel Hardman explore<br />
the role of leadership and those leaders’<br />
ability to recognise when their time is up.<br />
In a period of huge political turmoil, how<br />
do our contemporary politicians compare<br />
to their predecessors?<br />
Anthony Seldon has written political<br />
biographies of Margaret Thatcher, John<br />
Major, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and David<br />
Cameron. Isabel Hardman is Assistant Editor<br />
of The Spectator and presenter of Radio 4’s<br />
The Week in Westminster.<br />
3.30pm | £9, £7 Members & concessions |<br />
<strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Laura Barton<br />
After Hours DJ Set<br />
Laura Barton selects ground-breaking music from<br />
previous years that is still influential and plays the<br />
sounds that she thinks will influence our future.<br />
9.30pm | Free | The Clearing, <strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Don’t miss<br />
Laura Barton is also participating in a discussion<br />
with Barney Hoskyns earlier in the day, 12pm at<br />
<strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse.<br />
Elif Shafak<br />
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in<br />
This Strange World<br />
Elif Shafak’s new novel, 10 Minutes 38<br />
Seconds in this Strange World, which has<br />
been short-listed for the <strong>2019</strong> <strong>Book</strong>er Prize,<br />
is an extraordinary, at times bleak and<br />
relentless, but ultimately life-affirming<br />
portrayal of violence, heartbreak and grief.<br />
Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-<br />
Turkish novelist. Her work has been translated<br />
into fifty languages. An advocate for women’s<br />
rights, LGBTQ+ rights and freedom of speech,<br />
Shafak is an inspiring public speaker and a<br />
TED global speaker. In 2017 she was chosen<br />
by Politico as one of the twelve people who<br />
would make the world better.<br />
One of the best writers in the world today.<br />
Hanif Kureishi<br />
8pm | £9, £7 Members & concessions |<br />
<strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
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Sunday 17 Sunday 17<br />
Hannah Lee<br />
My Hair<br />
My birthday’s coming up so soon, I’ll need new clothes to wear.<br />
But most of all, I need to know, how shall I style my hair?<br />
Hannah Lee’s new book, My Hair, captures the excitement of getting<br />
ready for a celebration. Join Hannah to create and illustrate your own<br />
favourite hairstyles in this free drop-in workshop for all the family!<br />
11am-1pm | Free | Drop-in | Block 67, 67 Tontine Street,<br />
<strong>Folkestone</strong>, CT20 1JR<br />
William Feaver<br />
The Lives of Lucian Freud<br />
Lucian Freud (1922–2011) is one of the great painters of the twentieth<br />
and twenty- first centuries. Though ferociously private, he spoke on<br />
the phone almost daily for many years to his close confidante and<br />
collaborator William Feaver – about painting and the art world, but<br />
also about his life and loves. Feaver wrote down their conversations<br />
immediately and typed up his hand-written account the next day.<br />
William Feaver brings Freud’s genius to life in his definitive biography,<br />
and in this illustrated talk he traces Freud’s life up to the age of 46 -<br />
celebrating the artistic development of a painter whose work would<br />
prove so influential in the contemporary art-world.<br />
William Feaver was art critic for The Observer for 23 years, as well<br />
as working extensively as a painter, curator, broadcaster and filmmaker.<br />
He has curated exhibitions in London, New York and Paris.<br />
12pm | £9, £7 Members & concessions | <strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
1966 – Caribbean & England<br />
Strange Concords: Words & Music Time Machine Events<br />
Excerpts of Wide Sargasso Sea are read by Imogen Stubbs and Alex Jennings:<br />
Ruby Philogene MBE sings black spirituals and a DJ will mix music mentioned<br />
in the novel with sounds from the year of its publication, 1966.<br />
Imogen Stubbs’ impressive theatre experience includes the RSC, Royal<br />
National Theatre, The Old Vic and various West End productions. Her films<br />
include Sense & Sensibility, Stake Out and Jack & Sarah.<br />
Alex Jennings has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare<br />
Company and Royal National Theatre. A three-time Olivier Award-winner,<br />
he won for Too Clever by Half, Peer Gynt, and My Fair Lady. Film roles include<br />
The Lady in the Van, The Queen and Babel.<br />
Ruby Philogene is a first prize winner of the Kathleen Ferrier Award and<br />
has sung at the Royal Opera House London, Deutsche Opera Berlin and La<br />
Monnaie Royal Opera Brussels. Ruby’s parents are from Dominica where<br />
Jean Rhys grew up and where the novel is set.<br />
3pm | £15, £13 Members & concessions | Lympne Castle, The Street, Lympne,<br />
Hythe, CT21 4LQ | Duration 70 mins<br />
8pm | £15, £13 Members & concessions | <strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse |<br />
Duration 70 mins<br />
Don’t miss<br />
Insight: Discussion on Jean Rhys and Charlotte Brontë, 2pm at Lympne Castle<br />
ahead of the performance. Free to attend, booking essential. You may arrive<br />
from 1pm to view the castle and grounds beforehand.<br />
Paul Mason<br />
Globalisation, Nationalism & Migration<br />
Clear Bright Future<br />
Have capitalism and technology stripped us of our common humanity?<br />
In an age of crisis, Paul Mason calls for a new humanism. His new<br />
book, Clear Bright Future, explores how, during the preceding decades,<br />
the free-market system reduced us to two dimensional consumers.<br />
He argues that we have the power to imagine a new system, at the<br />
heart of which is a reassertion of our common humanity. But will we<br />
accept the machine control of human beings, or will we resist it?<br />
Paul Mason was previously economics editor of Channel 4<br />
News and his books include the best-selling PostCapitalism.<br />
2pm | £9, £7 Members & concessions | <strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
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Sunday 17 Monday 18<br />
Rabbi Baroness Neuberger DBE<br />
Globalisation, Nationalism & Migration<br />
Antisemitism: What It Is. What It Isn’t.<br />
Why It Matters.<br />
There has been a disturbing rise in antisemitism in Europe<br />
over the last fifteen years. More recently, the Labour party<br />
has come under fire for engaging in antisemitic abuse.<br />
Yet despite the dramatic increase in debate there is<br />
a general sense of confusion about what should and<br />
shouldn’t be defined as antisemitism – and particularly<br />
around the state of Israel. In her new book, Antisemitism:<br />
What It Is. What It Isn’t. Why It Matters, Rabbi Julia<br />
Neuberger unpacks what constitutes antisemitism.<br />
Julia Neuberger is Senior Rabbi at West London<br />
Synagogue and a cross bench member of the House<br />
of Lords.<br />
Passionate, principled and necessary –<br />
a book for our times. Philippe Sands<br />
4pm | £9, £7 Members & concessions |<br />
<strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Lindsey Hilsum<br />
Wells Said: “I would rather be<br />
called a journalist than an artist.”<br />
In Defence of Journalism<br />
In association with English PEN<br />
With journalists across the world under threat today<br />
and with the very centralities of journalism, indeed the<br />
very nature of truth itself, challenged, Lindsey Hilsum<br />
celebrates the crucial role that journalists continue to play.<br />
Lindsey Hilsum is Channel 4 News’ international Editor<br />
and has covered many of the conflicts of recent years<br />
including in Syria, Ukraine and the Arab Spring. She<br />
was in Baghdad for the 2003 US invasion of Iraq, and<br />
in Belgrade for the 1999 NATO bombing. In 1994, she<br />
was the only English-speaking correspondent in Rwanda<br />
when the genocide began. Her most recent book is In<br />
Extremis – the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin.<br />
6pm | £9, £7 Members & concessions |<br />
<strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Ali Sparkes<br />
Primary schools’ event<br />
Cryobaby<br />
In a special event focused on the festival theme of ‘futures’ Ali Sparkes<br />
focuses on her award-winning Frozen in Time (the world as seen from<br />
1956); and gives us a glimpse of her work-in-progress, Cryobaby,<br />
which explores the world fifty years from now.<br />
Ali Sparkes is the author of children’s books including the Monster<br />
Makers, Shapeshifter and S.W.I.T.C.H. series. Frozen in Time won the<br />
Blue Peter <strong>Book</strong> of the Year Award in 2010.<br />
11.30am & 1.30pm | <strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Paul Schrader<br />
Words from a Wider World<br />
Word and Vision<br />
Paul Schrader is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic.<br />
In a special live link-up he discusses his most recent film, First Reformed,<br />
and the role that the environment crisis played in the making of it.<br />
Paul Schrader wrote or co-wrote screenplays for four Martin<br />
Scorsese films: Taxi Driver. Raging Bull, The Last Temptation of Christ,<br />
and Bringing Out the Dead. He has also directed 18 feature films,<br />
including Cat People, American Gigolo, Light Sleeper, Affliction and First<br />
Reformed, the latter earning him his first Academy Award nomination.<br />
6pm | £12, £10 Members & concessions | <strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Don’t miss<br />
First Reformed is being screened at The Tin Tabernacle on Friday<br />
15 November at 9pm.<br />
Granta<br />
Best of Europe II<br />
In 1990 Granta published a groundbreaking issue called New Europe!<br />
which looked at how Europe had changed since 1989. Thirty years on,<br />
what does Europe mean now? With the publication of New Europe! II<br />
join literary agent Laurence Laluyoux, translator Daniel Hahn and<br />
novelist Andrew Miller, to discuss the forging, fracturing and<br />
reimagining of the old continent.<br />
8pm | £9, £7 Members & concessions | <strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
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Tuesday 19<br />
Tuesday 19<br />
Joseph Coelho &<br />
Sheena Dempsey<br />
Primary schools’ event<br />
How to Create Characters<br />
Performance poet and playwright, Joseph<br />
Coelho, and author and illustrator, Sheena<br />
Dempsey, come together to build a story.<br />
With your help, they create adventures about<br />
the robots Tap and Switch in their home city<br />
of Amp-hamton; and have your say in<br />
developing the story about a bad robot!<br />
11.30am & 1.30pm | <strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Nick Fraser<br />
Say What Happened<br />
Documentary films are the rock and roll of our times.<br />
Why are they made? Who is in the tribe of documentary<br />
filmmakers? Do their films really change the world?<br />
Eighteen years ago, Nick Fraser created BBC Storyville,<br />
producing films that won Oscars, BAFTAs, and Peabody<br />
Awards. In a world beset with ‘fake news’, Nick Fraser<br />
argues that documentaries are better at expressing the<br />
verities about life and death and that new journalism will<br />
come from films made using new technology.<br />
Nick Fraser is creative director of the documentary<br />
streaming service and production house Docsville.<br />
6pm | £9, £7 Members & concessions |<br />
<strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Event sponsor<br />
Adrian Dunbar &<br />
Catherine Heaney<br />
Seamus Heaney: A Living Legacy<br />
Part of the legacy of a great writer is that the work lives<br />
on and continues to move and inspire both readers and<br />
writers. That’s certainly the case with Seamus Heaney.<br />
Catherine Heaney discusses the role of Seamus Heaney’s<br />
family in shaping his legacy, and actor Adrian Dunbar<br />
explains why the poetry means so much to him.<br />
Adrian Dunbar’s films include The Crying Game and<br />
Hear My Song, and most recently on television he has<br />
played Superintendent Ted Hastings in Line of Duty.<br />
Catherine Heaney is the daughter of Seamus Heaney<br />
and Director of her father’s literary estate.<br />
In the din of acclaim, he never lost his clarity of perception,<br />
nor as a poet among poets his generosity of spirit. He gave<br />
us what he once said he looked for in Mandelstam, “poetry<br />
that is not only pleasurably right but compellingly wise”.<br />
Gerard Smyth on Seamus Heaney, Poetry Ireland<br />
4pm | £12, £10 Members & concessions | <strong>Folkestone</strong><br />
Quarterhouse<br />
Siri Hustved<br />
Words from a Wider World<br />
Memories of the Future<br />
In Siri Hustvedt’s most recent novel, Memories of the Future,<br />
a character comments ‘I am writing not only to tell. I am writing<br />
to discover.’ It’s a phrase that encapsulates Hustvedt’s approach<br />
to her work – ever curious, ever challenging. In a special live link-up<br />
from New York, she discusses fiction, memory, the condescension of<br />
men towards women as explored in Memories of the Future, and of<br />
how a woman might live well in today’s world.<br />
Siri Hustvedt is the author of poetry, essays and non-fiction,<br />
and her novels including the international bestsellers What I Loved<br />
and The Summer Without Men. The Blazing World won the 2014<br />
Los Angeles <strong>Book</strong> Prize for fiction. In 2012 she was awarded the<br />
International Gabarron Prize for Thought and Humanities. She is<br />
a lecturer in psychiatry at Weil Cornell Medical College in New York.<br />
Her work has been translated into over thirty languages.<br />
Few contemporary writers are as satisfying and stimulating to read<br />
as Siri Hustvedt. Her sentences dance with the elation of a brilliant<br />
intellect romping through a playground of ideas, and her prose is just<br />
as lively when engaged in the development of characters and story.<br />
Washington Post<br />
Reading a Hustvedt novel is like consuming the best of David Lynch<br />
on repeat. Financial Times<br />
8pm | £12, £10 Members & concessions | <strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
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Wednesday 20 Thursday 21<br />
Yomi Ayeni<br />
Secondary schools’ event<br />
The Future of the Story<br />
Yomi Ayeni is an award-winning transmedia creator, producer,<br />
filmmaker, and storyteller. A recent project, Clockwork Watch is a<br />
multi-cultural retro-futurist steampunk story told across graphic novels,<br />
interactive theatre, online, and film. The project has spawned eight<br />
graphic novels, a fictional newspaper, immersive live events and<br />
exhibitions. Yomi lectures in Transmedia Storytelling at the Royal<br />
College of Arts and believes mapping stories to everyday life creates<br />
experiences that bring audiences closer to the heart of a narrative.<br />
11.30am & 1.30pm | <strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Charles Moore<br />
Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone<br />
How did Margaret Thatcher change and divide Britain? How did<br />
her model of combative female leadership help shape the way we<br />
live now? How did the woman who won three general elections in<br />
succession find herself pushed out by her own MPs? In the third and<br />
final volume of his biography of Margaret Thatcher, Herself Alone,<br />
Charles Moore tells the story of her last period in office.<br />
Charles Moore joined the staff of The Daily Telegraph in 1979. He<br />
was editor of The Spectator 1984-90; editor of the Sunday Telegraph<br />
1992-95; and editor of The Daily Telegraph 1995-2003, for which he is<br />
still a regular columnist. The first volume of his biography of Margaret<br />
Thatcher, published in 2013, won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for<br />
Historical Biography, the HW Fisher Best First Biography Prize and<br />
Political <strong>Book</strong> of the Year at the Paddy Power Political <strong>Book</strong> Awards.<br />
6pm | £9, £7 Members & concessions | <strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Nicholas Crane<br />
Climate Change & the Environment<br />
You Are Here<br />
In You Are Here: A Brief Guide to the World, Nicholas<br />
Crane explores how one word binds us all: geography.<br />
We are all geographers, human beings who care about<br />
the places we think of as ‘home.’ And yet we have lost touch with the<br />
connection between our actions and the state of the planet. We need a<br />
new narrative. In this distillation of a lifetime’s work, Nicholas Crane makes<br />
the compelling case that geography has never been so important.<br />
His previous books include The Making of the British Landscape.<br />
He has presented the BBC series Coast and Great British Journeys.<br />
8pm | £9, £7 Members & concessions | <strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Nesrine Malik<br />
Toxic Myths<br />
We are in a unique moment as it is becoming clear that the old frames<br />
of reference are not working. That the narratives used for decades<br />
to stave off progressive causes are in danger of being exposed as<br />
falsehood. That the myths, be it of sexual liberation or of white nonidentity,<br />
are at odds with the lived experience and in urgent need<br />
of revision. In her new book, We Need New Stories: Challenging the<br />
Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent, Nesrine Malik investigates<br />
a range of stories used to maintain the status quo. As the centre ground<br />
is being eroded, she challenges us to find new narrators whose stories<br />
can fill the void and unite us behind a shared progressive vision.<br />
Nesrine Malik is a British Sudanese columnist and features writer<br />
for The Guardian. She was named Society and Diversity Commentator<br />
of the Year at the 2017 Comment Awards.<br />
4pm | £9, £7 Member & concession | <strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Tim Bouverie & Timothy Garton Ash<br />
History Lessons<br />
More than ever, we are advised that we must learn from history.<br />
Historians Tim Bouverie and Timothy Garton Ash consider key<br />
moments of the twentieth century and their influence on our world today.<br />
Tim Bouverie’s Appeasing Hitler is a compelling new narrative history<br />
of the disastrous years of indecision, failed diplomacy and parliamentary<br />
infighting that enabled Nazi domination of Europe. In The Magic Lantern<br />
Timothy Garton Ash creates a stunningly evocative portrait of the<br />
revolutions that swept Communism from Eastern Europe in 1989<br />
and whose after-effects will resonate for years to come.<br />
6pm | £9, £7 Member & concession | <strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Nicci Gerrard & Sara Imarisio<br />
Dementia – Britain’s Biggest Killer<br />
After her father’s death from dementia, writer and campaigner Nicci<br />
Gerrard set out to explore the illness that now touches millions of us,<br />
yet which we still struggle to speak about. By 2030 the numbers of<br />
people suffering from dementia is expected to double, but what does<br />
dementia mean for those who live with it, and for those who care for<br />
them? Her new book, What Dementia Teaches Us About Love, is an<br />
attempt to understand.<br />
Nicci is joined by Sara Imarisio, Head of Research at Alzheimer’s<br />
Research UK, who will explain what we currently know about dementia<br />
and where the complex field of dementia research is heading.<br />
8pm | £9, £7 Members & concessions | <strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
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Saturday 23<br />
Event sponsor<br />
James Burke<br />
Words from a Wider World<br />
The World Tomorrow<br />
Broadcaster and science historian James Burke became<br />
well known to TV viewers as the presenter of the BBC’s<br />
landmark science show Tomorrow’s World; his science series<br />
Connections; and as host for the Apollo moon landings.<br />
In a special live link-up he gives the festival audience his<br />
thoughts on the role of science in shaping our future.<br />
4pm | £12, £10 Members & concessions | <strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Gavin Esler<br />
Globalisation, Nationalism & Migration<br />
Brexit Without the Bullshit<br />
Gavin Esler is an award-winning television and radio broadcaster,<br />
writer and journalist. His latest book, Brexit Without the Bullshit,<br />
examines in rigorous, insightful and revealing detail the facts<br />
about how Brexit will affect our daily lives. It’s not about the Brexit<br />
you were told you were getting, it’s about the one that is arriving.<br />
Gavin was the BBC’s Chief North America Correspondent and<br />
part of the presenting team on the BBC’s flagship news and current<br />
affairs programme Newsnight. He is currently Chancellor of the<br />
University of Kent and a visiting lecturer in various academic<br />
institutions, large corporations, and public service organisations.<br />
6pm | £9, £7 Members & concessions | <strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Damian Collins &<br />
Peter Pomerantsev<br />
Globalisation, Nationalism & Migration<br />
The Truth Is Not Propaganda<br />
When information is a weapon, everyone is at war.<br />
Damian Collins and Peter Pomerantsev discuss the<br />
role of truth and lies in the politics of tomorrow.<br />
Damian Collins has been the MP for <strong>Folkestone</strong> and Hythe<br />
since 2010 and is Chair of the House of Commons Culture, Media<br />
and Sport Select Committee. Peter Pomerantsev is an awardwinning<br />
contributor to the London Review of <strong>Book</strong>s and his new<br />
book is This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality.<br />
8pm | £9, £7 Members & concessions | <strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
2003 & 1723 –<br />
England & Germany<br />
Strange Concords:<br />
Words & Music Time Machine Events<br />
Readings of Campo Santo by W G Sebald and selected<br />
Cello Suites by J S Bach, performed by Natalie Clein.<br />
At the age of 16, Natalie Clein sprung to fame winning<br />
the BBC Young Musician of the Year and the Eurovision<br />
Competition for Young Musicians in Warsaw. She has since<br />
performed with many of the world’s great orchestras and<br />
musicians including Martha Argerich, Leif Ove Andsnes<br />
and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Natalie plays a 1777<br />
Simpson Guadagnini cello.<br />
10.30am | St Dunstan Church, Snargate,<br />
Romney Marsh, TN29 0EW<br />
2.30pm | St Eanswith Church, Brenzett,<br />
Romney Marsh, TN29 0BL<br />
£15, £13 Members & concessions | Duration 60 mins<br />
PLEASE NOTE: There is no parking at the churches.<br />
Ticket includes a return coach from Dymchurch beach<br />
car park (Martello Tower) at 10am for 10.30am<br />
performance; and 2pm for 2.30pm performance.<br />
Tickets to the 10.30am performance also includes<br />
entry to an Insight: Discussion on Sebald and Bach<br />
at 12.15pm at St Thomas à Beckett Church, Fairfield,<br />
Romney Marsh, TN29 9RY.<br />
Story Machine Productions:<br />
Kerry Hudson & Sam Ruddock<br />
Writing Your Life workshop<br />
Join bestselling author Kerry Hudson and<br />
publisher and producer Sam Ruddock to<br />
explore how you can bring your past to<br />
life. Whatever your life story, regardless of<br />
whether you’ve ever seen it in books before,<br />
they will take you through exercises and share<br />
experience and expertise to help you unlock<br />
the power of writing your story.<br />
11am | £12, £10 Members & concessions |<br />
<strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse | Duration 120 mins<br />
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Richard Dawkins<br />
Outgrowing God<br />
Should we believe in God? In his new book,<br />
Outgrowing God: A Beginner’s Guide, written<br />
for a new generation, the brilliant science<br />
writer and author of The God Delusion<br />
explains why we shouldn’t. Do we need God in<br />
order to explain the existence of the universe?<br />
Do we need God in order to be good? For<br />
anyone hoping to grapple with the meaning<br />
of life and what to believe, Outgrowing God<br />
is a challenging, thrilling and revelatory read.<br />
Richard Dawkins is the bestselling author<br />
of The Selfish Gene, The Blind Watchmaker<br />
and Unweaving the Rainbow.<br />
12pm | £15, £13 Members & concessions |<br />
Saga Pavilion, Enbrook Park, Sandgate High<br />
Street, Sandgate, CT20 3SE<br />
Anastasia Dukakis &<br />
Marijam Didžgalvytė<br />
The Future of Gaming<br />
From the early days of black and white<br />
2D games, to online games with incredible<br />
graphics, the gaming industry has been<br />
at the heart of technological evolution.<br />
Anastasia Dukakis and Marijam Didžgalvytė<br />
explore how narrative is explored within<br />
games and look at how, from the perspective<br />
of the player and the spectators, it varies from<br />
other media.<br />
Anastasia and Marijam are both part of<br />
the BAFTA Crew.<br />
12pm | £9, £7 Members & concessions |<br />
<strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Helen Czerski<br />
Wells Said: “Adapt or perish, now as ever,<br />
is nature’s inexorable imperative.”<br />
Exploring the Physical World<br />
Tim Waterstone<br />
The Face Pressed Against A Window<br />
Saturday 23<br />
Helen Czerski discusses the urgency of education, both in<br />
terms of imminent threats to the planet, but also in conveying<br />
the wonder and beauty of life on Earth.<br />
Helen Czerski is a physicist, oceanographer and television presenter<br />
with a mission to broaden our understanding of the physics of the<br />
everyday world. Helen regularly presents BBC programmes on physics,<br />
the ocean and the atmosphere, including Colour: The Spectrum of<br />
Science, Operation Iceberg and Dara O’Briain’s Science Club.<br />
2pm | £9, £7 Members & concessions | <strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Tim Waterstone is one of Britain’s most successful businessmen,<br />
having built the Waterstones empire that started with one shop<br />
in 1982. In his memoir, The Face Pressed Against a Window, he<br />
explores his formative years leading to an epiphany while studying<br />
at Cambridge, which set him on the road to Waterstones’ bookshops.<br />
In conversation he discusses his memoir and gives his thoughts on<br />
the future of books and bookselling.<br />
‘The Face Pressed Against a Window’ confirms one’s sense that this<br />
extraordinarily energetic and well-meaning man has been, and still is,<br />
a force for good. Literary Review<br />
4pm | £12, £10 Members & concessions | <strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Sponsored by the Friends of the <strong>Folkestone</strong> <strong>Book</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
Lowborn (Down the Chipper)<br />
Story Machine Productions<br />
Written and performed by Kerry Hudson<br />
When Kerry Hudson was born, she was destined to be the latest<br />
in a long line of Aberdeen fishwives. But Kerry had bigger dreams<br />
and the fight, humour and strength of her community to back her up.<br />
Now a bestselling author and social activist, Kerry Hudson dons a<br />
chip-shop apron to give an intimate one-woman performance of<br />
stories from her working-class childhood. Arrive early to order your<br />
fish and chips, before settling in for an event unlike anything you have<br />
ever been to before.<br />
4pm | £9, £7 Members & concessions | Harbour Fish Bar, 1-3 Lower<br />
Sandgate Road, <strong>Folkestone</strong> CT20 1QJ | Duration 35 mins<br />
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Saturday 23<br />
Lemn Sissay<br />
My Name Is Why<br />
Johny Pitts<br />
At the age of seventeen, after a childhood of<br />
being fostered, followed by six years in care<br />
homes, Norman Greenwood was given his<br />
birth certificate. He learned that his real<br />
name was Lemn Sissay. He was British and<br />
Ethiopian. In My Name is Why, Lemn Sissay<br />
recounts his life story, a story of neglect and<br />
determination, misfortune and hope, cruelty<br />
and triumph.<br />
Lemn Sissay is an award-winning writer<br />
and popular broadcaster. Earlier this year<br />
he was announced as the winner of the <strong>2019</strong><br />
PEN Pinter Prize.<br />
I have never read a memoir like it...<br />
Grips like a thriller. Astounding. Matt Haig<br />
8pm | £9, £7 Members & concessions |<br />
<strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Globalisation, Nationalism & Migration<br />
Afropean: Notes from Black Europe<br />
TV presenter, photographer and writer, Johny Pitts sets<br />
out to explore “black Europe from the street up” in his<br />
new book, Afropean: Notes from Black Europe. Dissatisfied<br />
with the limits imposed on his identity and the framing of<br />
his black experience, Johny is a nomadic writer in search<br />
of his tribe. He claims membership of a collective black<br />
community in Europe that offers a sense of belonging more<br />
nourishing than the reductive nationalism of individual<br />
European countries. But what is it to be Afropean?<br />
Fascinating, urgent and stirring. His humility and honesty<br />
are wonderfully refreshing and by the end of the book our<br />
perception of the old continent has been challenged and<br />
reimagined. Bernardine Evaristo<br />
6pm | £9, £7 Members & concessions |<br />
<strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Philip Hoare<br />
Climate Change & the Environment<br />
Facing the Sea<br />
John Browne<br />
Globalisation, Nationalism & Migration<br />
Engineering the Future of Civilisations<br />
Sunday 24<br />
From the edge of England, in a special festival commission,<br />
Philip Hoare reads his address to one of his great passions<br />
- the sea. Philip Hoare’s books include Leviathan or,<br />
The Whale; The Sea Inside; and RISINGTIDEFALLINGSTAR.<br />
This is an outdoor, standing event, so please dress<br />
for the weather and bring a fold up stool if required.<br />
Limited seating will be available. After the talk Philip<br />
will lead a swim in the sea (weather permitting).<br />
9.30am | £5 | The Ledge (Bill Woodrow sculpture on<br />
Mermaid Beach) | Duration 20 mins<br />
Make, Think, Imagine: Engineering the Future of Civilisation<br />
is an impassioned defence of progress and innovation<br />
by engineer, businessman and former CEO of BP, John<br />
Browne. It explores the relationship between innovation<br />
and our more urgent current dilemmas, including climate<br />
change, connectivity, defence and artificial intelligence.<br />
Addressing the mistakes and abuses of technological<br />
change, it provides an eloquent blueprint for how we<br />
can continue to thrive.<br />
John Browne was CEO of BP from 1995 – 2007.<br />
He was knighted in 1998 and made a life peer in 2001.<br />
A feast of stimulating and significant ideas.<br />
Andrew Adonis, Financial Times<br />
12pm | £12, £10 Members & concessions |<br />
<strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
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Sunday 24<br />
1819 – England & Austria<br />
Strange Concords:<br />
Words & Music Time Machine Events<br />
Odes by John Keats, read by Greta Scacchi and The Trout<br />
Quintet by Franz Schubert performed by Julius Drake<br />
(piano), Priya Mitchell (violin), Sascha Bota (viola),<br />
Brian O’Kane (cello), Steven Williams (double bass).<br />
Greta Scacchi is a highly acclaimed actress best known<br />
for her roles in films such as White Mischief, Presumed<br />
Innocent, The Player, Emma and Looking for Alibrandi.<br />
Julius Drake is a regular performer at the Wigmore<br />
Hall London, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Centre New York,<br />
La Scala Milan and the Edinburgh and Salzburg <strong>Festival</strong>s.<br />
The New Yorker recently described him the “collaborative<br />
pianist nonpareil”.<br />
2.30pm & 5pm | £15, £13 Members & concessions |<br />
St Mary & St Eanswythe’s Church, Church Street,<br />
<strong>Folkestone</strong>, CT20 1SE | Duration 60 mins<br />
Don’t miss<br />
Insight: Discussion on Keats and Schubert, 3.45pm<br />
at St Mary & St Eanswythe’s Church between the<br />
performances. Free to attend, booking essential.<br />
Dorian Lynskey<br />
Globalisation, Nationalism & Migration<br />
1984: Window to Our Future<br />
George Orwell’s 1984 has become one of the iconic<br />
narratives of the modern world. Its ideas have become<br />
part of the language - from ‘Big Brother’ to the ‘Thought<br />
Police’, ‘Doublethink’, and ‘Newspeak’ - and seem ever<br />
more relevant in the era of ‘fake news’ and ‘alternative<br />
facts’. In The Ministry of Truth Dorian Lynskey investigates<br />
the influences that came together in the writing of 1984.<br />
If you have even the slightest interest in Orwell or in the<br />
development of our culture, you should not miss this<br />
engrossing, enlightening book. John Carey, Sunday Times<br />
2pm | £9, £7 Member & concession |<br />
<strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Gaia Vince & Fred Pearce<br />
Futures: Climate Change<br />
& the Environment<br />
Our Changing Earth<br />
The changes we humans have made in recent<br />
decades have altered our world beyond<br />
anything it has experienced in its 4.6 billionyear<br />
history. As a result, our planet is crossing<br />
into the Anthropocene – the Age of Humans.<br />
As humans melt the Arctic, turn forests into<br />
grasslands and savannahs into deserts, and<br />
choke the seas with plastic waste, Gaia and<br />
Fred discuss how they see the future of our<br />
planet.<br />
In Adventure in the Anthropocene, Gaia<br />
Vince travels the world to explore how we are<br />
reshaping our living planet and what all those<br />
changes really mean. In When the Rivers Run<br />
Dry, Fred Pearce explores the growing world<br />
water crisis, from Kent to Kenya.<br />
4pm | £9, £7 Members & concessions |<br />
<strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Steve Jones<br />
Climate Change & the Environment<br />
Here Comes the Sun!<br />
Our sun drives the weather, forms the landscape, feeds<br />
and fuels – but sometimes destroys – the creatures that live<br />
upon it, controls their patterns of activity, makes chemicals<br />
in the skin that cheer up those who bask in its rays, and for<br />
the ancients was the seat of divine authority. In Here Comes<br />
the Sun, Steve Jones shows how life on Earth is ruled by our<br />
nearest star.<br />
Steve Jones is a Senior Research Fellow at University<br />
College, London. He gave the Reith Lectures in 1991 and<br />
appears frequently on radio and television.<br />
6pm | £9, £7 Members & concessions |<br />
<strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
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Sunday 24<br />
Insight: Requiem<br />
Hope For Our Future<br />
The Shape of Things to Come concludes with a film of one of the most<br />
profound, yet uplifting, ‘operatic’ achievements of our lifetime, Requiem.<br />
ARTE filmed the opening performance of one of Europe’s most radical<br />
artists, Romeo Castellucci, and his company, Societas Raffaello Sanzio’s<br />
production at the <strong>2019</strong> Aix-En-Provence Opera <strong>Festival</strong>.<br />
In a sublimation of music, chorus and song, dance, ritual, performance<br />
art, extraordinary tableaux and costuming and an atlas of great<br />
extinctions, Requiem is a paean to mankind’s creativity yet ultimately<br />
comes down on the side of hope, through the innocence of our children,<br />
beginning once again.<br />
‘Requiem’ has a radiant quality, celebrating the community bonds and<br />
cycles that undergird life and death. Castellucci suggests a benevolent<br />
nature which can heal the wounds of modern life, if we don’t destroy<br />
it...a remarkable experience...it is beautiful and cryptic...a revelation.<br />
Financial Times<br />
7.45pm | Free | <strong>Folkestone</strong> Quarterhouse<br />
Associated With<br />
In Partnership With<br />
Competitions & Other Events<br />
Short Story Competition<br />
This year, <strong>Folkestone</strong> Writers are running another short<br />
story competition, for stories of 1500 to 2000 words. See<br />
how to enter online at creativefolkestone.org.uk/<br />
folkestone-book-festival – deadline for entry Thursday 31<br />
October <strong>2019</strong>.<br />
Readings of winning stories and prize-giving will take<br />
place on Wednesday 20 November <strong>2019</strong> at 3pm at<br />
Sunflower House, 45 Foord Road, <strong>Folkestone</strong>.<br />
The Secret Postcard Show<br />
The Creative Quarter’s Secret Postcard Show returns for its<br />
fourth year. Inspired by the long-established RCA show,<br />
artists, designers and makers are invited to create new,<br />
thought-provoking work in the form of a postcard. Every<br />
original artwork will be available to purchase for £30 each,<br />
with money raised donated to a local charity. All the<br />
artworks are anonymously displayed but expect to see lots<br />
of familiar artists. Arrive early to avoid disappointment.<br />
Launch: Thursday 14 November, 5-8pm<br />
Friday 15 – Sunday 24 November, 10am-5pm<br />
Brewery Tap, 53 Tontine Street, <strong>Folkestone</strong>, CT20 1JR<br />
More info: creativefolkestone.org.uk<br />
Photo © Pascal Victor / Artcompress<br />
© <strong>Festival</strong> d’Aix en Provence<br />
Creative Quarter Carol Service<br />
The Creative Quarter’s fourth carol service will once again<br />
take place in the beautiful St Mary and St Eanswythe’s<br />
Church. This special evening is the perfect opportunity to<br />
celebrate the festive season over a mince pie and warming<br />
glass of mulled wine. The service will feature a programme<br />
of live music, readings and performances by members of<br />
the local community, alongside more traditional Christmas<br />
carols.<br />
Wednesday 11 December, 7pm<br />
St Mary and St Eanswythe’s Church<br />
Free and open to all<br />
More info: creativefolkestone.org.uk<br />
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Tickets & Venues<br />
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BUY TICKETS to be taken through to our<br />
secure online ticket office.<br />
In Person<br />
Quarterhouse<br />
Mill Bay, <strong>Folkestone</strong>, Kent CT20 1BN<br />
Opening times<br />
Monday to Saturday – 10am to 5pm<br />
Sunday – Closed (except on event days)<br />
Box Office reopens at 6pm on event nights<br />
Telephone<br />
01303 760750<br />
Payment<br />
Cheques to be made payable to Creative<br />
<strong>Folkestone</strong> and can only be used in person<br />
at the Box Office.<br />
Ticket Collection<br />
Tickets that are paid for in advance can be<br />
collected on the day, up to 30 minutes prior<br />
to the event. Tickets can also be posted to you<br />
at an additional charge of 50p. Please check<br />
your tickets on receipt.<br />
Refunds<br />
We regret that tickets cannot be exchanged<br />
or money refunded, except in the case of a<br />
cancelled event.<br />
Access<br />
Quarterhouse is a fully accessible venue. Please<br />
inform the Box Office of your requirements.<br />
Concessions<br />
Concessionary rates apply where stated<br />
to under 21s, full time students, registered<br />
unemployed and registered disabled.<br />
Just show us a proof of status!<br />
Disclaimer<br />
All details are correct at time of publishing (Sept 19). The Creative <strong>Folkestone</strong><br />
reserves the right to change the programme and introduce special offers and<br />
discounts without prior notice. These will not apply to tickets already purchased<br />
before the announcement. Updates will be available on the Creative <strong>Folkestone</strong><br />
website and at the Quarterhouse Box Office. Latecomers will not be allowed<br />
into their seats until a suitable break in the performance. Audio recorders,<br />
cameras and mobile phones may not be used in the venue. The management<br />
reserves the right to refuse admission. All tickets are non-transferable and will<br />
be void if re-sold. Some performances may contain strong language and adult<br />
themes, we reserve the right to decline refund requests on the basis of event<br />
content being deemed inappropriate.<br />
How to find Quarterhouse<br />
By Train<br />
High speed trains run regularly from London St<br />
Pancras International (journey time 57 Minutes).<br />
The last return train from <strong>Folkestone</strong> to London<br />
is at 22:56. <strong>Folkestone</strong> Central Station is<br />
a short walk from the centre of town and<br />
approximately 15 minutes from Quarterhouse.<br />
National Railway Enquiries – 08457 484 950 or<br />
www.nationalrail.co.uk<br />
By Car<br />
From the M20, turn off at junction 13 and follow<br />
signs to the Harbour. SAT NAV USERS – CT20 1BN<br />
Parking<br />
Parking is available at Quarterhouse (50 Spaces).<br />
Parking permits can be purchased from the pay<br />
and display machine located in the Quarterhouse<br />
car park. Prices are £1 per hour, up to £5 for the<br />
day. Parking is free after 6pm. For more<br />
information please call Quarterhouse Box Office.<br />
Other parking includes, Tram Road (2mins), Payers<br />
Park (2mins) and the Harbour car park (5mins).<br />
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<strong>Folkestone</strong> <strong>Book</strong> <strong>Festival</strong><br />
15 – 24 November <strong>2019</strong><br />
Futures<br />
Climate Change & the Environment<br />
Globalisation, Nationalism & Migration<br />
Strange Concords: Words & Music Time Machine Events<br />
Wells Said<br />
Words from a Wider World<br />
Fri 15, 5.30pm Creative Quarter Christmas Lights Switch-On! Launch p.4<br />
Fri 15, 7pm Ben Okri: Prayer for the Living Talk p.4<br />
Fri 15, 9pm First Reformed (cert 15) Film p.4<br />
Sat 16, 10.30am & 1pm 1876 – USA & Russia performances Words & Music p.6<br />
Sat 16, 12pm Insight: Discussion on Whitman and Tchaikovsky Words & Music p.11<br />
Sat 16, 12pm Laura Barton & Barney Hoskyns: The Future of Music Talk p.7<br />
Sat 16, 2pm Caroline Lucas: The Future is Green Talk p.7<br />
Sat 16, 4pm Anthony Seldon & Isabel Hardman: Plan Your Exit! Talk p.8<br />
Sat 16, 6pm Carrie Gracie: Equal Talk p.8<br />
Sat 16, 8pm Elif Shafak: 10 Minutes 38 Second in This Strange World Talk p.9<br />
Sat 16, 9pm Laura Barton: After Hours DJ Set Music p.9<br />
Sun 17, 11am Hannah Lee: My Hair Family Workshop p.10<br />
Sun 17, 12pm William Feaver: The Lives of Lucian Freud Talk p.10<br />
Sun 17, 2pm Paul Mason: Clear Bright Future Talk p.10<br />
Sun 17, 3pm & 8pm 1966 – Caribbean & England performances Words & Music p.11<br />
Sun 17, 2pm Insight: Discussion on Jean Rhys and Charlotte Brontë Words & Music p.11<br />
Sun 17, 4pm Rabbi Baroness Neuberger DBE: Talk p.12<br />
Antisemitism: What It Is. What It Isn’t. Why It Matters.<br />
Sun 17, 6pm Lindsey Hilsum: In Defence of Journalism Talk p.12<br />
Mon 18, 11.30am & 1.30pm Ali Sparkes: Cryobaby Schools’ event p.13<br />
Mon 18, 6pm Paul Schrader: Word and Vision Talk p.13<br />
Mon 18, 8pm Granta: Best of Europe II Talk p.13<br />
Tue 19, 11.30am & 1.30pm Joseph Coelho & Sheena Dempsey: How to Create Characters Schools’ event p.14<br />
Tue 19, 4pm Adrian Dunbar & Catherine Heaney: Talk p.14<br />
Seamus Heaney: A Living Legacy<br />
Tue 19, 6pm Nick Fraser: Say What Happened Talk p.15<br />
Tue 19, 8pm Siri Hustvedt: Memories of the Future Talk p.15<br />
Wed 20, 11.30am & 1.30pm Yomi Ayeni: The Future of the Story Schools’ event p.16<br />
Wed 20, 6pm Charles Moore: Margaret Thatcher: Herself Alone Talk p.16<br />
Wed 20, 8pm Nicholas Crane: You Are Here Talk p.16<br />
Thu 21, 4pm Nesrine Malik: Toxic Myths Talk p.17<br />
Thu 21, 6pm Tim Bouverie & Timothy Garton Ash: History Lessons Talk p.17<br />
Thu 21, 8pm Nicci Gerrard & Sara Imarisio: Dementia – Britain’s Biggest Killer Talk p.17<br />
Fri 22, 4pm James Burke: The World Tomorrow Talk p.18<br />
Fri 22, 6pm Gavin Esler: Brexit Without the Bullshit Talk p.18<br />
Fri 22, 8pm Damian Collins & Peter Pomeranstev: The Truth Is Not Propaganda Talk p.18<br />
Sat 23, 10.30am & 2pm 2003 & 1723 – England & Germany performances Words & Music p.19<br />
Sat 23, 12.15pm Insight: Discussion on Sebald and Bach Words & Music p.11<br />
Sat 23, 11am Kerry Hudson & Sam Ruddock: Writing Your Life workshop Workshop p.19<br />
Sat 23, 12pm Anastasia Dukakis & Marijam Didžgalvyte: The Future of Gaming Talk p.20<br />
Sat 23, 12pm Richard Dawkins: Outgrowing God Talk p.20<br />
Sat 23, 2pm Helen Czerski: Exploring the Physical World Talk p.21<br />
Sat 23, 4pm Tim Waterstone: The Face Pressed Against A Window Talk p.21<br />
Sat 23, 4pm Lowborn (Down the Chipper) Performance p.20<br />
Sat 23, 6pm Johny Pitts: Afropean: Notes from Black Europe Talk p.21<br />
Sat 23, 8pm Lemn Sissay: My Name Is Why Talk p.21<br />
Sun 24, 9.30am Philip Hoare: Facing the Sea Performance p.21<br />
Sun 24, 12pm John Browne: Engineering the Future of Civilisation Talk p.21<br />
Sun 24, 2.30pm & 5pm 1819 – England & Austria performances Word & Music p.24<br />
Sun 24, 3.45pm Insight: Discussion on Keats and Schubert Words & Music p.11<br />
Sun 24, 2pm Dorian Lynskey: 1984: Window to Our Future Talk p.24<br />
Sun 24, 4pm Gaia Vince & Fred Pearce: Our Changing Earth Talk p.25<br />
Sun 24, 6pm Steve Jones: Here Comes the Sun! Talk p.25<br />
Sun 24, 7.45pm Insight: Requiem Screening p.26