[Ely Events] T S Eliot Festival at Little Gidding: 9 and 10 July 2011

[Simon Kershaw]

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**Sixth Annual T S ELIOT FESTIVAL


    Little Gidding : Saturday and Sunday 9 and 10 July 2011

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The Sixth Annual T S Eliot Festival at Little Gidding will take place on 
Saturday 9 July and Sunday 10 July 2011.

The Festival is a major literary celebration of the life and work of 
Nobel Prize winning writer Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888--1965). Last 
year's Festival was an outstanding success, and this year promises to be 
at least as good if not even better. We have the usual mix of experts 
and enthusiasts, talks, discussions, readings and meals that together 
offer the opportunity for festival-goers to share their interests and 
enthusiasms amidst the splendid setting of Little Gidding. This year 
also features a Saturday evening concert.

Brief details of the weekend are below, and for further details of the 
speakers and talks see the programme 
<http://www.littlegidding.org.uk/eliotfestival2011/programme>.

Tickets for the weekend are £45 (/early booking discount price of £40 
extended to 15 June/); tickets for Saturday or Sunday are £25 per day, 
including refreshments and meals as applicable. For booking information 
and to download a flyer and order form 
<http://www.littlegidding.org.uk/files/eliot-festival-2011-flier.pdf> 
for tickets see www.littlegidding.org.uk/eliotfestival 
<http://www.littlegidding.org.uk/eliotfestival>. /To ensure the discount 
price please email to reserve tickets as soon as possible; reserved 
tickets will be held for a week to allow time for payment to arrive,/


    Festival overview


	*Saturday 9 July*
  2.00 	'The Waste Land': a reading
Peter Cochran and Jenny Sargent read 'The Waste Land'
  2.40
	'The Waste Land': poem of hope or despair?
Talk and discussion between *Nick Sagovsky* and *Hugh Black-Hawkins* 
followed by questions.
  3.30
	Afternoon Tea
  4.15 	Annual Little Gidding Lecture of the T S Eliot Society
*ELIOT AND THE EARTH*
Professor *Steve Ellis*
  5.15
	MY FAVOURITE ELIOT
Festival-goers are invited to read a short piece or extract from the 
works of T S Eliot.
  6.00
	Supper
  7.15
	EVENING CONCERT
Continuing the day's theme of early Eliot, *Jonathan Cohen* and his 
'Time Loves Changes' jazz trio together with local poet *Malcolm Guite* 
present an evening of Eliot poetry with jazz and swing music from the 
1920s and early 1930s.
  8.45
	End of Saturday's programme

	

	*Sunday 10 July*
11.30
	Welcome drinks
12.00
	'Little Gidding'
Poets *Simon Armitage* and *Robert Crawford* read 'Little Gidding'
12.30
	Lunch
  1.45
	Publishing update
Professor *Ronald Schuchard* and others give the latest details of the 
publication of the complete works.
  2.15
	On Reading 'Little Gidding' at Little Gidding
*Simon Armitage* and *Robert Crawford* discuss with the audience their 
thoughts and feelings on reading the poem.
  3.00
	Annual Little Gidding Lecture of the International Summer School
Professor *Daniel Albright*.
  4.00
	Afternoon Tea
  4.30
	*Festival Choral Evensong* in Little Gidding Church
  5.15
	End of Festival programme


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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.
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Simon Kershaw

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

Saint Ives, Cambridgeshire

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