[Ely Events] T S Eliot Festival at Little Gidding: 27 and 28 June

[Simon Kershaw]

Fourth Annual
T S ELIOT FESTIVAL

Little Gidding
Saturday 27 June and Sunday 28 June 2009

There are still some tickets left for this year's T S Eliot Festival at 
Little Gidding -- the acclaimed festival celebrating the life and work 
of one of the 20th century's greatest poets, churchwarden and Nobel 
laureate T S Eliot, a weekend of talks, discussion, readings and music 
that offer the othat offer the othat of-goers to share their interests 
and enthusiasms amidst the splendid setting of Little Gidding.

Speakers on Saturday 27 June include Hugh Haughton, professor at York 
University, and Dr Anne Stillman, fellow at Clare College, Cambridge. 
The evening concert features Riprap (including Malcolm Guite) who bring 
their exciting blend of jazz and poetry to Steeple Gidding Church.

On Sunday 28 June the main speaker is Ronald Schuchard, professor at 
Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, followed by a reading of the poem 
'Little Gidding' by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney and the academic and 
poet Robert Crawford.

For details of the speakers, poets and musicians see the programme 
<http://www.littlegidding.org.uk/eliotfestival/programme> for the weekend.

Tickets are available for each day, or for the weekend at a generous 
discount. See the details of tickets 
<http://www.littlegidding.org.uk/eliotfestival/tickets>.

You can also download an order form for tickets 
<http://www.littlegidding.org.uk/sites/default/files/eliot-festival-flier.pdf>, 
and a poster 
<http://www.littlegidding.org.uk/sites/default/files/eliot-festival-poster.pdf>.
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The T S Eliot Festival is organized by the Friends of Little Gidding and 
the T S Eliot Society, with financial support from Old Possum's 
Practical Trust.


-- 

Simon Kershaw

simon at kershaw.org.uk <mailto:simon at kershaw.org.uk>

Saint Ives, Cambridgeshire


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