earlier today we found out that the Lichfield Festival and our long-term Principal Partner BMW Plant Hams Hall have been shortlisted in the Sustained Partnership category for this year's Jaguar Land Rover Awards for Arts & Business. All shortlists will be announced in The Birmingham Post next week, and winners will be announced at Birmingham Town Hall on 15 October.
as a sneaky wee peek for those that read this blog, the lichfield literature brochure can be found here although it has yet to go up on the festival website...
and, as at close of play today, I will be out of the office for the next two weeks doing this here.
Friday, 11 September 2009
Thursday, 10 September 2009
lichfield literature
This morning the last seven tickets for Katie Adie were grabbed, which means we've sold out within a week, and we've just added another Very Hungry Caterpillar show due to demand, so over 60% of the available seats have already been booked over the four performances.
Other authors speaking include David Aaronovitch on the role of conspiracy theories in modern history; historical novelist Barbara Ewing; Lawrence Goldman, editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; crime crime writers Sophie Hannah and Peter Robinson in a Lichfield Library double bill; Tobias Hill discussing his latest novel The Hidden; historian Robert Hutchinson on the Dukes of Norfolk; Andrew Lambert on Captain John Franklin's doomed expedition (perfect, I think, for a city that honours doomed captains); Stephen Lyttelton discusses collating his father's last writings, David Charles Manners speaks about the impact of India on his life, David Nokes speaks his new biography of Samuel Johnson as a nod to the tercentenary, mathematician Ian Stewart, explorer Sara Wheeler on the arctic, Frances Wilson on Dorothy Wordsworth; and Matthew Yeo on the history of the book.
We are also holding an Open Mic event for local authors to come and share their writings.
Tickets will probably go on sale on Tuesday, but keep an eye on the festival website to be certain.
Other authors speaking include David Aaronovitch on the role of conspiracy theories in modern history; historical novelist Barbara Ewing; Lawrence Goldman, editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; crime crime writers Sophie Hannah and Peter Robinson in a Lichfield Library double bill; Tobias Hill discussing his latest novel The Hidden; historian Robert Hutchinson on the Dukes of Norfolk; Andrew Lambert on Captain John Franklin's doomed expedition (perfect, I think, for a city that honours doomed captains); Stephen Lyttelton discusses collating his father's last writings, David Charles Manners speaks about the impact of India on his life, David Nokes speaks his new biography of Samuel Johnson as a nod to the tercentenary, mathematician Ian Stewart, explorer Sara Wheeler on the arctic, Frances Wilson on Dorothy Wordsworth; and Matthew Yeo on the history of the book.
We are also holding an Open Mic event for local authors to come and share their writings.
Tickets will probably go on sale on Tuesday, but keep an eye on the festival website to be certain.
Tuesday, 8 September 2009
should I be resisting twitter?
many months ago I grabbed @lichfieldfest as a twitter name, knowing full well that sending minute by minute updates from my mobile during the festival, while simultaneously running a blogsite, doing my job and looking after a six month old puppy just wouldn't happen. since then, and while I have yet to issue a single update via twitter, we've amassed 38 followers (I realise 'amassed' may not be the most appropriate word).
I've gradually updated the site every now and then (just worked out how to get my logo up today), but I just can't get beyond thinking that twitter as a vehicle of communication for a festival like Lichfield's just isn't the best way forward. The flipside of that argument, which I readily acknowledge, is that a festival like ours should use every possible way to communicate with as big an audience as possible.
On a quick trawl through similar festivals, it seems to be only significantly bigger ones that utilise twitter to any great effect, although @spitsmusic and @eastneukfest seem to be valiantly proving that statement to be incorrect:
The nearby Birmingham Book Festival (@bhambookfest) also seems to be puttings theirs to good use.
I've gradually updated the site every now and then (just worked out how to get my logo up today), but I just can't get beyond thinking that twitter as a vehicle of communication for a festival like Lichfield's just isn't the best way forward. The flipside of that argument, which I readily acknowledge, is that a festival like ours should use every possible way to communicate with as big an audience as possible.
On a quick trawl through similar festivals, it seems to be only significantly bigger ones that utilise twitter to any great effect, although @spitsmusic and @eastneukfest seem to be valiantly proving that statement to be incorrect:
The nearby Birmingham Book Festival (@bhambookfest) also seems to be puttings theirs to good use.
Thursday, 3 September 2009
adie on sale
tickets for the Lichfield Literary Dinner with Kate Adie as guest speaker went on sale at 9am this morning, and by noon half of the available seats had already sold. Go Kate! We may need to revisit this to see whether we can fit in a few more people than we were planning...
Having just returned from leave, I am belatedly at the final stages of scheduling the Lichfield Literature programme. While we'll be in a position to announce next week the full line up of speakers, one other event that we are already spreading the word about is a puppet show to mark the 40th anniversary of Eric Carle's masterpiece The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which continues our programming of events for families and young children. There will be three performances on Friday 9 October at Wade Street Church.
Having just returned from leave, I am belatedly at the final stages of scheduling the Lichfield Literature programme. While we'll be in a position to announce next week the full line up of speakers, one other event that we are already spreading the word about is a puppet show to mark the 40th anniversary of Eric Carle's masterpiece The Very Hungry Caterpillar, which continues our programming of events for families and young children. There will be three performances on Friday 9 October at Wade Street Church.
Wednesday, 19 August 2009
AAS0910
The new brochure for the Abbotsholme Arts Society has finally landed. While the website has yet to be updated, and the information has been available since before the Festival (ie, I could have easily listed it all here before now), below are scans of the full brochure detailing this season's events. For those that care about such things, the colour is Pantone 209 and is actually the last of a sequence of colours I chose back in 2005 leading up to this season.This year's artists include Alina Ibragimova and Cedric Tiberghien performing the complete Beethoven Violin Sonatas over three concerts, Stephen Hough with a programme linked to the year, the Schubert Ensemble, the Jerusalem Quartet, the inimitable Spiers & Boden doing an acoustic set, and the 2009 Gordon Clark Scholar Linda Barlund. Tickets for all events are available by calling the number detailed under General Information below.
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