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Education Partner<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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in memory of Nick Spurrier<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 />

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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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Saturday 23<br />

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 />

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Sunday 24<br />

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 />

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Tickets & Venues<br />

Online<br />

www.creativefolkestone.org.uk<br />

Please click on the event name and then<br />

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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work, create, play, learn and perform.<br />

As a charity, we rely on your generosity<br />

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Discounts<br />

• On selected Quarterhouse<br />

performances<br />

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(two tickets per member per performance).<br />

• 10% off food and drinks at<br />

The Clearing café<br />

(excluding pop ups).<br />

• 10% off in participating shops,<br />

cafes, restaurants and galleries<br />

in the Creative Quarter<br />

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• Invitations to members only events<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

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