Hebden Bridge Gigs, Events & Festivals Guide

Ted Hughes Festival 2008

Theme : ‘Remains – the legacy that Ted Hughes left’
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.

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

Booking Details

Tickest for the events will be available Monday 6th October from Milly’s Cafe (9 til 3, Mon-Fri, and 10-12 on Sat) and at the Erringden Rooms at St. Michael’s Church (4 til 7, Mon-Fri).

Telephone bookings can also be made on 07592 577842.