10am – UCF
Introduction to Storytelling: How to find, share and tell stories
£3
A workshop, lead by Gemma Hannah (professional storyteller, Once Upon A Story), designed to uncover the art of traditional storytelling and it’s influence on performance, education and communication.
11am – Quarterhouse
A Tale of Two Cities
Festival Read Film Screening
£3.50 Advance / £4.50 On The Door
1958 adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale of love set against the backdrop of the French Revolution starring Dirk Bogarde and Dorothy Tutin.
11am & 1.30pm – The Brewery Tap
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
£1 per child / adult
An interactive storytelling session which includes interactive games and songs, all themed around the world’s bestselling picture book The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Devised and presented by professional storyteller Justine de Mierre and suitable for children aged 2+.
3.15pm – Quarterhouse
Sir Ian Kershaw – The End: Hitler’s Germany, 1944-45
£8 full / £7 conc. / £6 Friends
Sir Ian Kershaw presents his new book The End: Hitler’s Germany 1944-1945. In contrast to recent chronicles of the last days of the Third Reich, Kershaw focuses not only on the reasons why it failed but why it took so long to fall, and the resulting impact on German society and Europe as a whole.
5pm – Quarterhouse
Johnny Ball – Ball of Confusion
£7 full / £6 conc. / £5 Friends
Johnny Ball started his career as a comedian in the late 1960s. By the 1980s he had become the face of Maths and Science for a whole generation, presenting the iconic Think of a Number and Johnny Ball Reveals All.
Currently presenting a popular slot, Ball of Confusion, on Zoe Ball’s Saturday Morning Show on Radio 2, Johnny joins us to talk about his new book.
6.15pm – The Brewery Tap
Nick Ewbank – Adventures in Regeneration
FREE (Booking required)
Founding Director of the Creative Foundation Nick Ewbank presents an insider’s account of the first decade of Folkestone’s groundbreaking regeneration project.
Part memoir, part exemplar of arts-led regeneration, his new book Adventures in Regeneration is crammed full of colour photographs of the town, its people and places past and present.
7.30pm – Quarterhouse
Barry Cryer
Butterfly Brain
£15 / £13 conc. / £12 Friends
A stream of unconsciousness and sit down comedy!
An alphabetical, hypothetical journey from A to Z.
Have you noticed that all the letters in the alphabet are in the right order? Come with him as he embarks on an odyssey of oddities from Aardvark to Zulu…
For the first time, Barry can claim to be a man of letters, including X and next to him you will spot Colin Sell at the P & O!
The Folkestone Book Festival is a Creative Foundation Project.