Theme : ‘Remains - the legacy that
Ted Hughes left’
To
request by email a copy of the full colour Festival Brochure
From 6th October tickets can be purchased
in person from Milly's Cafe and
The Erringden Room, St Michael's Church, in Mytholmroyd.
The Festival Shop and Cafe (in the Erringden Room at St Michael's Church) will be open
throughout the festival for information and bookings, light refreshments and
souvenirs. Also an opportunity to meet with other festival
goers and members of The Elmet Trust.
Ticket hotline: 07592 577482
Any remaining tickets for events during
festival week can be purchased at the Festival Shop.
Festival at a Glance
Wednesday 22nd October
7.00pm Presentation of The Ted Hughes Young
Poets Awards and the Ted Hughes Memorial Lecture by Andrew Motion
Thursday 23rd October
6.00pm Anne Stevenson and Keith Sagar
8.00pm A Mytholmroyd Odyssey - words and music
Friday 24th October
4.00pm Children’s Play Festival
6.15pm Dreaming of Foxes - play
8.00pm Frieda Hughes with The Elmet Poetry
Prize Awards
9.30pm Poetry slam
Saturday 25th October
10.30am Iron Giant
11.00am Opening of Art Exhibition and
Photographic Display
12.00pm Mark Piggott
1.00pm Boyhood Days - a guided walk
3.15pm Dreaming of Foxes - play
6.15pm Dreaming of Foxes - play
8.00pm Anthony Thwaite and Ian Duhig
9.30pm Shaggy Dog Storytellers
Sunday 26th October
10.50am Hughes on the Hills - a guided
walk
11.02am Poetry Train from Leeds to Mytholmroyd with John Siddique and
Amanda Dalton
12.30pm Talking about Ted - informal literary
lunch
2.00pm Junk Modelling Workshop
3.15pm Dreaming of Foxes - play
6.15pm Dreaming of Foxes - play
8.00pm Out of the Heart of the Star -
children’s opera
9.30pm Poetry slam
Monday 27th October
10.30am Shaggy Dog Storytellers
2.00pm A Sacred Place and In Search of the
Deadfall - films
3.30pm Poetry Performance workshop with Lemn
Sissay
6.00pm Lemn Sissay
8.00pm Glyn Hughes
Tuesday 28th October
10.30am Shaggy Dog Storytellers
11.00am A Laureate’s Landscape - a guided
walk
2.00pmA Sacred Place and In Search of the Deadfall - films
8.00pm The Elmet Suite by John Reeman and The
Ted Hughes Suite by Lawrence Killian