** VIEW THE SWADLINCOTE FESTIVAL OF WORDS PRINTED PROGRAMME ONLINE **
THURSDAY
20 MARCH 2025
VARIOUS VENUES
10:00 Rhyme Time @ Swadlincote Library
10:00 Think Like a Tree Workshop @ Rosliston Forestry Centre
12:30 Forest Bathing: Using Words in Nature @ Rosliston Forestry Centre
14:00 Five In Harmony Presenting Local Songs & Monologues @ Sharpe’s Pottery Museum
16:00 An Afternoon of Film & Stories iThe Attic @ Sharpe’s Pottery Museum
** EVENT CANCELLED **
17:30 In Conversation with Joanna Cannon @ Swadlincote Library
18:00 Celebrating WAYANNAEYINANYONNIT with the Youth Landscaper's Collective & The Coal Tits @ Sharpe’s Pottery Museum
19:00 Swad Spoken Word Open Mic Night @ Pegg’s Bar & Street Food
19:30 Richard Felix’s Ghost Stories @ Sharpe’s Pottery Museum
FRIDAY
21 MARCH 2025
SWADLINCOTE
TOWN HALL
10:00 Story Time @ Swadlincote Library
11:00 A Guide to Self Publishing with John Delaney, Author of the Jurassic Jemma Trilogy
12:30 Poetry Workshop for Adults With Dawn Jutton
14:00 Writing for Wellbeing with Belinda Richards & Debbie Davies
16:00 Flash Fiction Workshop with Rob Walton
19:30 A Whimsical Wordy Quiz
SATURDAY
22 MARCH 2025
SWADLINCOTE
TOWN HALL
10:00 Word Crafts Inspired by our Forest Friends
13:00 Slugs and Snails with Allotment Tales by The Potty Plotters
14:00 Dawn Jutton Presents Extraordinary Worlds, a World Poetry Day Celebration
15:00 An Afternoon with Laura Pearson, Number One Best Selling Author
16:00 Comedy Workshop with Colin Etches
20:00 Attention Deficit – The Comedy Chaos of Colin Etches!
SATURDAY
22 MARCH 2025
FAMILY DAY AT
ROSLISTON FORESTRY CENTRE
Rosliston Forestry Centre Book Trail
Wildlife & Wings with Honeycraft
Story Telling with the Hazel Twigg Collective
12.30 Think Like a Tree Workshop
14:00 Forest Bathing: Using Words in Nature
SUNDAY
23 MARCH 2025
SWADLINCOTE
TOWN HALL
10:00 Wobbly Words with Poet, Attie Lime
11:00 Children’s Short Story Competition Prize Giving
11:30 Meet Steve Smallman, Award Winning Author of Poo in the Zoo and Maggie Sparks
12:30 Scribbles & Giggles with Chris White, Writer, Illustrator & Performance Poet
16:00 & 18:00 Children’s Theatre Show ‘Mr Sleepybum’ (Two Shows)
16:00 An Audience with Tony Hawks, the Comedian, Author, Writer and TV Personality @ Oakland Village
19:00 Pints and Poems @ Pegg’s with Writer and Poet, Sophie Sparham
Tickets are available from www.ticketsource.co.uk/swadlincotefestivalofwords
This project is part-funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund #UKSPF
