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Longest bunting plan for Lydiard Big Arts Day
A one-day festival celebrating all things artistic and creative in Swindon takes places at Lydiard Park on 10
July with performances, exhibitions, and taster sessions in arts activities, as well as a fi nale show to amaze,
say organisers from Swindon Council’s arts services. Swindon‛s
It will be a big participation day, continuous bunting. you have to do is make bunting Check
widest choice
but beforehand Helen Miah, head of She said she is coordinating the triangles from any kind of material out our widest choice
of discounted
Culture Swindon, wants help with an experiment voluntarily and aims to you like and then string them all prices of discounted
attempt to create the world’s longest achieve the record at no cost. “All together. Art, Craft and
Art, Craft and
“I’m a bit of a knitter so I’m going
to knit mine, but they could be made Framing products
Literature to the fore in May from anything and decorated in all Lots of extra bargains
sorts of ways.”
When it’s Spring in Swindon, it’s also the start of the festival season Swindon Does Arts is asking Framework Art & Craft
and tickets are now on sale for events at the 17th Swindon Festival of readers to get involved in a wide Unit 35 BSS House
Literature, writes organiser Matt Holland. range of ways, as performers, group Cheney Manor, Swindon
With its line up of nov- organisers, as well as visitors.
elists, poets, politicians, Download a bunting template or Ample free parking
philosophers, scientists, register your arts organisation to Tel/Fax 01793 513069
storytellers, sportsmen, take part by mailing: hello@swin- Email: [email protected]
historians, comedians, art- dondoesarts.co.uk www.facswindon.co.uk
ists and activists, it will put www.swindondoesarts.co.uk
a spring in your step and
give you a head start.
The festival is a celebra-
tion of ideas: serious, fasci-
nating, and funny. Also, you
get to meet people, new
authors, and new ideas.
Going to the festival is
like opening a book, when Launching the festival: director Matt Holland gets
you start reading, you never help from Sarah Nichols and Jennifer Ockwell
quite know what you will discover. fun and the rising sun, at dawn on
By the time you do, it’s too late, that high ridge overlooking the town
you’re hooked. in Lawn Woods - on Spring Bank
In its attempt to hook you, this Holiday, Monday 3 May!
year’s Swindon Festival of Literature And on each subsequent day,
offers tremendous entertainment, there will be events at midday, tea-
exploration, and ideas galore, for time, and in the evening, carefully
all ages and tastes. It sets out to spaced and placed to enable you
prove that when readers meet to attend almost every one, should
writers, and writers meet readers, you have the stamina.
enjoyable, interesting, challenging, The 40 page festival programme
worthwhile, unpredictable, funny, is available from libraries and infor-
and memorable things happen. mation centres, and the events diary
The festival begins, as ever, with is published on the next two pages.

Radio 4 favourite at
festival in association
with Swindon Link
Author of four books, tireless campaigner
for women’s rights, a UK Broadcaster of
the Year, Jenni Murray OBE has presented
Woman’s Hour since 1987.
She is one of the nation’s best-loved
broadcasters, and most recently, author
of Memoirs of a Not So Dutiful Daughter.
Jenni Murray will be talking about her
life and answering questions at Swindon
Arts Centre on Wednesday 5 May, 6.30pm.

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