Swindon Spring Festival
About Swindon Spring Festival
A May festival showcasing literature, the arts and ideas from Swindon and elsewhere. Was Swindon Festival of Literature until 2018.
Swindon Spring Festival Description
A May festival that brings people together in Swindon to enjoy things well-thought, well-written, and well-said. Posts by Pete Davison and Louisa Davison.
Reviews
Tongue Fu, one of the UK's leading spoken word and improvised music shows, live from Arnolfini, Bristol to celebrate National Poetry Day.
With Chris Redmond, Salena Godden, Toby Campion and Amerah[Soul'Poet].
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Brilliant stuff, Mike!
Last Lower Shaw Farm Wednesday Cafe of the summer tomorrow! And there will be a circus show from our resident performers. In the barn at 12 noon! Free, (but they will pass a hat!)
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... and is space even, technically, "up"?
Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't after you – Joseph Heller, Catch-22.
It's good to be challenged...
"The tall, casually dressed figure loomed over the Festival lectern and explained that he understood that people came to such events via any number of different motivations, but that perhaps most audience members at least had some sense of Will Self, the author of ‘difficult’ books."
Pam Ayres tackles the prickly subject of endangered hedgehogs. And this blog gets right to the point.
Our 25th anniversary seemed a fitting time to pay tribute to our first guest author, who graced the stage in 1994 and continued to support us until his death in 2014. His words will always be with us.
It'll be all over by Christmas. In fact there's only one action-packed week of Festival left to go! But this was a great event with which to mark our half way point.
We've had some years when we've seemed to have forty days' and forty nights' worth of rain for our Children and Families Day. Thankfully, the sun shone for our talk about the Great Flood.
This is my first Swindon literature festival, but will definitely come again next year. Great job you guys do! I did a review on Francesca Martinez, it's on my profile. (Catherine Mayer coming shortly.) Hope you like it!
This is my first Swindon literature festival, but will definitely come again next year. Great job you guys do! I did a review on Francesca Martinez, it's on my profile. (Catherine Mayer coming shortly.) Hope you like it!
This is my first Swindon literature festival, but will definitely come again next year. Great job you guys do! I did a review on Francesca Martinez, it's on my profile. (Catherine Mayer coming shortly.) Hope you like it!