The Ted Hughes Festival 2008

22-28 October

 

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

2.00pm A 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