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Welcome

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1 - 17 May 2003
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For the tenth time in ten years, we move into May
celebrating literature!
And coming to town to help in this celebration of words at
work and play is a terri fic line up of authors.These include
prizewinning novelists and poets, storytellers, philosophers,
diarists, columnists, activists, comics, performers, and
mischief-makers too.We even have the story of ping-pong,
the language of tennis, and a phenomenally friendly circus!
To get it all in, we have had to make this the longest
Festival yet: 17 days! It begins with fun and the rising sun, at
dawn on that high ridge overlooking the town in Lawn
Woods on May Day morning. And is followed by sixteen
days of literary treats for every age and taste, in one long
celebration of things well written and things well said.

Each day there will be three or more events, at midday,
teatime, and in the evening, carefully spaced and placed, to
enable you to attend almost every event, should you have
the stamina!

For the full at-a-glance Festival diary, see overleaf. Pick up a
full 32-page brochure at your local library or leisure
centre, or telephone 771080.
And then mark your own diary, so that during the first
seventeen days of May you join us, for heaps of happy
exploration, cartloads of cool communication, dollops
of dangerous discussion, loads of laudable lectures,
teasing talks and storywalks, comic guff and serious
stuff, all of which will help us celebrate life and love
literature, together.
Read on and come along!

MATT HOLLAND
Festival Director