Festival Programme
Festival launch party: with Catherine Blyth, Victoria Moore and Andrew Motion
Join us to launch the festival in the company of two authors whose combined mission is to improve how we converse and how we drink, two activities that we know literary enthusiasts enjoy! Victoria Moore, author of the wonderful How to Drink, will be mixing up a special literary-themed cocktail while Catherine Blyth, author of the acclaimed The Art of Conversation, will be getting us talking. Ticket price includes a free drink. With special guest Andrew Motion, our Festival Laureate, who will be reading a new poem to launch the festival. Ticket price includes a free drink made by Victoria Moore.
With special thanks to Bramley and Gage for sponsoring the greengage, plum and quince liqeurs at the launch.
Friday 23 October
Gala Theatre, 5pm-7pm
Tickets: £12/£10 (Concessions)
Gala Theatre and Studio
1 Millennium Place
Durham
DH1 1WA
Tel: 0191 332 4040
www.galadurham.co.uk
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