Launceston’s Festival of Literature and the Arts 12 - 14 June 2015 Launceston Youth Council 12-14 JUNE 2015 A warm welcome to the sixth Charles Causley Festival. 2014 saw the most successful Festival yet, and we are sure that this year will prove to be even more successful. Each year has seen the Festival grow and this year is no exception with music, poetry, literature, film, exhibitions and workshops – something for everyone. We hope you will support and enjoy this year’s Festival. “ A truly delightful Festival in a gorgeous part of the world which rightly honours a wonderful poet and a true son of Cornwall.” Carol Ann Duffy – 15 June 2014 “The Charles Causley Festival is a bright beacon in the literary landscape honouring the memory of a wonderful poet, and doing great things for readers and writers” Sir Andrew Motion “How wonderful you have a festival for Charles! I read with him a few times and enjoyed his company. A lovely man. The best Poet Laureate we never had” Brian Patten Charles Causley. Photo: Mary Neal General Festival Information Launceston Tourist Information Centre, White Hart Arcade. The TIC will be selling copies of books featured in the Festival, and will be hosting book signings from other writers – see Festival website for more information. Lawrence House Museum. There is a small permanent exhibition on Charles Causley at the museum, open 10 am – 4 pm Monday-Friday and special opening on Saturday 13 June. Supported by: Arts Council England, FLIC, Launceston Youth Council and Launceston Town Council. Disclaimer The Festival Organisers will make every effort to ensure that performances take place as advertised, but reserve the right to alter the programme if necessary. In the event of a cancellation, a refund of the ticket value will be made, otherwise tickets cannot be exchanged or refunded once purchased. Front cover photo: Story Republic 2 – THE CHARLES CAUSLEY FESTIVAL 2015 www.charlescausleyfestival.co.uk Tickets are available from: Launceston Tourist Information TIC normal open hours: Monday - Friday 9am-5pm Saturday 10am-4pm TIC Charles Causley Festival open hours: Friday 12 June 9am-7pm Saturday 13 June 10am-7pm Sunday 14 June 10am-2pm Tickets can be booked in person at the TIC by phone or online. Tickets for free events should also be booked. Tickets will be posted at cost if requested and time allows or will be held at the TIC for collection. Tickets will also be sold on the door at venues subject to availability. Launceston TIC: www.visitlaunceston.co.uk Email:[email protected] Tel 01566 772321 Centre Cornish Riviera Box Office Available from the CRBO website: www.crbo.co.uk Charles Causley Festival Further information about all the events, artists and performers is available on the festival website: www.charlescausleyfestival.co.uk Email: [email protected] The Charles Causley Festival would like to thank the following for their support: Launceston Youth Council Neville Hovey Chartered Accountants Potter Baker Chartered Accountants Hodgsons Chartered Accountants Peters Langsford Davies Solicitors Graham Facks-Martin, MBE Mansbridge & Balment Estate agents Carn to Cove Launceston TIC All our committee members who have worked so hard over the past twelve months, and last but not least... all those appearing at the Festival. Car Parking Town centre car parking available. Cornwall Council car parks £1 for all day on Saturday and Westgate Street car park free on Sunday. Charles Causley walk with Rob Tremain - Friday 10:30 www.charlescausleyfestival.co.uk THE CHARLES CAUSLEY FESTIVAL 2015 – 3 EXHIBITIONS OPEN DURING THE FESTIVAL Cyprus Well Open every day Friday 12 to Sunday 14 June 2-5pm No 2 Ridgegrove Hill 3 Free Admission Photo © Jack Matthews MORDON an exhibition by Jack Matthews Friday 12 June - Sunday 21 June 10am - 11pm daily Cafe No. 8 9 Free Admission Do you grow tired sea? Are you weary ever When the storms burst over your head? ‘Morwenstow’ Charles Causley Jack Matthews has encapsulated his lifelong love of the sea in a new photographic series ‘Mordon’ (Cornish for sea wave). The series aims to explore the raw energy and beauty of the Cornish coastline, blurring the lines between land and sea, inviting the viewer to question the boundaries between photography and painting. Matthews completes his degree at Falmouth University this year. Visit Charles Causley’s house, Cyprus Well, which will be open especially for the Festival. The house was acquired by The Charles Causley Trust in 2007 as a centre to celebrate his life and writing and promote new literature activity in the community and region in which he lived. Seeing Words, Marking Time Gwynngala Exhibition of Arts and Crafts Friday 12 June - Sunday 14 June 10 am - 4 pm daily Otho Peter Room, Town Hall 6 Free Admission Established in Launceston in 1996, the Gwynngala group of artists has exhibited extensively in and around Cornwall and Devon. A regular feature of the Charles Causley Festival, the group’s exhibition will feature an inspiring and varied collection of work including painting, sculpture, jewellery and ceramics. Art Exhibition Thursday 28 May - Monday 6 July 10am - 5pm daily Terre Verte contemporary art gallery, Altarnun 14 Free Admission A special exhibition to coincide with the Festival by artists who use words - inspired by poetry, slogans or history; the aesthetics of letterpress, sketch notes to self, a diary; tracking the moon or the shipping forecast; and a 15-year old collection of words as a personal enquiry. Pop-Up Gallery 5-13 June Launceston TIC 12 Free Admission Figures full of colour, movement and wit, in room and landscape. Paintings, drawings and prints for sale by local artists Stephen Keyworth, Nicola Johnson and Peter Davies, in a bite-sized pop-up gallery upstairs at Launceston TIC. Seeing Words, Marking Time 4 – THE CHARLES CAUSLEY FESTIVAL 2015 www.charlescausleyfestival.co.uk F R I D AY 12 J U N E Poetry Writing Workshop with Indian King Poets Friday 12 June 10am-12pm, followed by a poetry reading at 1pm Launceston Library 8 £3 Though we sail the seas together Each of us must sail alone ‘Nelson Gardens’ Charles Causley Join the Indian King Poets in a two-part workshop where you will have the chance to read Charles Causley’s poems and follow his method of falling in love with a poem. The Indian King Poets formed 20 years ago in Camelford, and will use their experience and knowledge to help you develop your own poetry writing skills. Taking some of Causley’s phrases as a starting point, this workshop is for both experienced poets who seek new challenges and adults with little or no experience of writing poetry. The second part of the workshop will enable you to read your poems aloud to the public should you wish to. This workshop is aimed at adults. Booking signing with Jill Batters Friday 12 June 10-2pm Launceston TIC 12 FREE Indian King Poets Launceston Walk Charlotte Dymond field trip with Rob Tremain Friday 13 June 10.30 am Launceston Castle Lodge 1 Donations to the Festival Launceston Town Crier Rob Tremain’s extensive knowledge of the town will bring its history to life. Join Rob on a walk around the historic streets of Launceston and learn of the influence of Richard of Cornwall; see the deprivation suffered by George Fox and meet the ghost of the martyr St Cuthbert Mayne (not guaranteed). This walk will involve steep hills around the town. with Jane Nancarrow Friday 12 June 11am-3:30pm Bus leaves from Westgate Street, Coach park, Launceston £10 (bring your own picnic lunch). Ticket includes transport. Join us on an intriguing field trip with writer Jane Nancarrow to Davidstow Church where Charlotte Dymond is buried, and a walk on Rough Tor, one of the highest points in Cornwall. ‘Sons of Jamaica Inn’ A story of adventure and intrigue inspired by Cornwall’s infamous Jamaica Inn and its equally famous Trelawny family. The new novel covers a period of over 250 years and is set on Bodmin Moor and around Looe and the south east coast of Cornwall. ‘Sons of Jamaica Inn’ is her third novel in the past four years. She has built herself a reputation for her excellent books, each of which is based around stories from a Cornwall of the past. www.charlescausleyfestival.co.uk Sons of JAMAICA INN by Jill Batte rs Adventure and intrigu by Cornwa e inspired ll’s infamo and its equ ally famous us Jamaica Inn Trelawny family Bring your own picnic for lunch on the Tor, within view of Charlotte Dymond’s memorial stone (subject to weather) and listen to Jane Nancarrow’s reading of Charles Causley’s ‘The Ballad of Charlotte Dymond’ and extracts from Nancarrow’s book ‘Stones and Shadows’ based on Dymond’s life and death. THE CHARLES CAUSLEY FESTIVAL 2015 – 5 F R I D AY 12 J U N E Nasty Pasty Jon Cleave’s vision of Cornwall 12 June 12.45 - 1.45pm Town Hall 6 £3 performance / £5 performance to include a pasty Story Republic Story Republic Stories, poems and songs Friday 12 June 11am Castle Grounds 1 12 noon Museum Garden 7 2 pm Town Square 11 3pm Town Square 11 Free admission Story Republic cut quite a dash in the street dressed in their Sunday best, brandishing suitcases and performing poems on the spot. Their repertoire includes many of Charles Causley’s poems such as ‘Figgie Hobbin’, where a grumpy King pushes away all delicacies in favour of his prized Cornish pudding; ‘My Young Man’s a Cornishman’, where our ladies fight over a rather self satisfied young man; and ‘Timothy Winters’ the heart rending tale of a young, neglected boy. They will also rouse you with sea shanties, and lull you with stories. Suitable for all ages, especially children. Rising Ground Discovery of the spirit of place with Philip Marsden Friday 12 June 11.30am-12:30pm Launceston Guildhall 6 £3 Philip Marsden is the awardwinning author of a number 6 – THE CHARLES CAUSLEY FESTIVAL 2015 of works of travel, fiction and non-fiction, including The Bronski House, The Spirit-Wrestlers, The Levelling Sea and most recently, Rising Ground (Granta, 2014). Join us for a reading from Rising Ground by Philip Marsden as he explores the sense of Spirit which certain places evoke. From the Neolithic ritual landscape of Bodmin Moor to the Arthurian traditions of Tintagel, from the mysterious china-clay country to the granite tors and tombs of the far south-west, he assembles a chronology of our shifting attitudes to place. In archives, he uncovers the life and work of other ‘topophiles’ before him medieval chroniclers and Tudor topographers, eighteenth-century antiquarians, post-industrial poets and abstract painters. Drawing also on his own travels overseas, Marsden reveals that the shape of the land lies not just at the heart of our history but of man’s perennial struggle to belong on this earth. Picture this: Cornwall, 2013. The county is on a knife-edge, in imminent danger of becoming just another nondescript, leafy suburb of the Home Counties. Increasingly, the ethnic Cornish are being bought up and sold out, their dialect ridiculed and their accents punctuated by estuarine glottal stops, marginalised in their own land. Cup cakes and slices of quiche are rumoured to have been seen in a baker’s window in Truro. The tin mines have all closed. The Spanish are hoovering up the fish, Marks and Spencers are trying to make clotted cream, and now the greatest Cornish icon of them all, the pasty, is under threat. Join Jon Cleave, a member of Fisherman’s Friends, for a pasty lunch and his performative work, Nasty Pasty, a rich and fruity feast of contemporary Cornwall, every mouthful deliciously suffused with his wickedly bittersweet Cornish twistedness; it’s sure to make you chortle if it doesn’t choke you first… Jon Cleave www.charlescausleyfestival.co.uk F R I D AY 12 J U N E Sophie Hannah Sophie Hannah The new Poirot Friday 12 June 2-3pm Guildhall 6 £4 Sophie Hannah is an internationally bestselling writer of psychological crime fiction, published in 32 languages and 51 countries. In 2014, she published a new mystery novel starring Hercule Poirot, Agatha Christie’s famous detective. Hannah’s Poirot novel, The Monogram Murders, was written with the blessing of Agatha Christie’s Estate and was an international bestseller, reaching the top 5 in book charts in more than 15 countries. Hannah will read from The Monogram Murders’ and discuss the inspiration for her work. Simon Hall Simon Hall The TV Detective Friday 12 June 3.15-4.15pm Guildhall 6 £4 Simon Hall is the BBC’s Crime Correspondent for the South West and the author of The TV Detective novels, in which a television reporter and a detective work together to solve a series of extraordinary crimes. Hall will read from his new novel, The Dark Horizon, along with earlier novels revealing the sources for his ideas and inspiration. Frozen Grave Lee Weeks The Claws of Evil, book signing with Andrew Beasley Friday 12 June 6-7pm The Christian Bookshop 2 FREE Meet author Andrew Beasley and hear a short reading from his new children’s series, and get your own signed copy. Set in Victorian London, The Claws of Evil is Beasley’s first book for children. Come and hear his lifelong fascination with Victorian London and Sherlock Holmes, and how some aspects of life in London have not changed so very much since those times. Lee Weeks workshop Friday 12 June 4.30-5.30pm Guildhall 6 £4 Lee Weeks is the author of a crime series ‘Willis/Carter’ based on a fictitious London Murder Squad MIT17. Weeks will read excerpts from the latest book in the series and lead participants through a short workshop giving tips on crime writing. Charles Causley www.charlescausleyfestival.co.uk [Photo of Charles Causley reproduced with the permission of Exeter University Library Special Collections] THE CHARLES CAUSLEY FESTIVAL 2015 – 7 F R I D AY 12 J U N E An Evening with Ian Dunlop a Godfather of Americana music Friday 12 June 8:30pm No 8 Café 9 £10 Murder Mystery Murder Mystery Sinister goings on... Friday 12 June 7.30 pm Town Hall 7 £15 (to include supper) A murder mystery based (loosely) on the Poldark theme. Who will the victim be - Ross? Demelza, George Warleggan - or perhaps the producer (one up on Top Grear!) Are you a Morse, Miss Marple, Poirot, or perhaps an Inspector Clouseau? Watch and listen carefully as the plot unfolds before your very eyes. At the end of the evening you will hopefully have worked out who the murderer is. Murder by Appointment are a professional Cornish theatre company formed in the early 1990’s, it rapidly gained a reputation for murder mystery productions and 2015 sees the company entering its twenty-first year of performances. Productions are regularly staged at theatres, hotels and other venues throughout the West of England from east Somerset to the far west of Cornwall. 8 – THE CHARLES CAUSLEY FESTIVAL 2015 Included amongst the wellknown venues have been the Theatre Royal, Plymouth, the Minack Theatre on the cliffs of west Cornwall and one open-air performance for the National Trust at Cockington Hall, Paignton for an audience of 2,500! The company has regularly appeared on both BBC and ITV as well as BBC Radio Cornwall. Ian Dunlop is one of the Godfathers of Americana music and author of the critically acclaimed book Breakfast in Nudie Suits. His essays, short stories and reviews have been published in various journals. Dunlop played alongside Gram Parsons in The International Submarine band in the 1960’s, and appeared in Peter Fonda’s cult film ‘The Trip’. Join us for an evening of music and stories of Ian’s musical adventures. Support for the evening will be Phil Lively-Masters, singersongwriter from the highlyrespected Canyon Ryde, a band whose music has been shaped by American West Coast country-rock. Ian Dunlop www.charlescausleyfestival.co.uk S AT U R D AY 1 3 J U N E Children’s Poetry workshop with Launceston Library Saturday 13 June 10.30am-12.30 pm Launceston Library 8 FREE Laurence Green ‘A Life on the Blue’ – Charles Causley in the Royal Navy and ‘All Cornwall Thunders at my Door’ with Armand Goulipian and Laurence Green Saturday 13 June 10.00-11.00am Guildhall 6 £3 An opportunity to hear two accounts of Charles Causley’s life ‘A Life on the Blue: Charles Causley in the Royal Navy’ will examine perhaps the most important period in Causley’s life - his service in World War II. Why did he join the Navy? Armand Goulipian will present a short appraisal of suffering and the fear of death in two poems; Philip Larkin’s ‘The Old Fools’ and Charles Causley’s ‘Ten Types of Hospital Visitor’. Gulipian will demonstrate how both Larkin and Causley, though their lives were quite different, could perhaps be brought together in their experience of suffering and fearing death. Each poet’s personality is revealed in his personal approach to these distressing circumstances. www.charlescausleyfestival.co.uk My room is a bright glass cabin, All Cornwall thunders at my door, And the white ships of winter lie In the sea-roads of the moor. The Seasons in North Cornwall Join the Children’s Librarian to explore the library’s poetry section and identify the different styles and types of poems. Think poetry is dull? Think again, we’ll show you how to write your own poem which will be displayed in the Library. The workshop includes a picture hunt, making inspiration sheets, puzzles and games and looking at everything from raps to limericks. All materials will be provided. This workshop is designed for children from 8 to 16 years. ’All Cornwall Thunders at My Door’ is a comprehensive biography of Causley’s life and work. Laurence Green will read excerpts from his book and present a succinct overview of Causley’s life in Launceston. Food & Drink Festival Market The Best of Cornwall Saturday 13 June 10am until 10pm Town Square 11 FREE The Food & Drink Drink Festival takes place alongside the monthly market in the middle of Launceston’s historic town centre, with performances by poets and musicians, and Cornish produce including locallybrewed beers and ciders. Enjoy the convivial atmosphere, a well-earned treat after exploring the Festival. THE CHARLES CAUSLEY FESTIVAL 2015 – 9 S AT U R D AY 1 3 J U N E Alyson Hallett & Kathryn Simmonds Two poets in residence Saturday 13 June 12noon Launceston Guildhall 6 £4 Luke Thompson Man of Clay The poetry and prose of Jack Clemo by Luke Thompson Walk with Jane Nancarrow Charles Causley Walk with Jane Nancarrow Saturday 13 June 10.30am-12.30pm Meet at Eagle House Hotel 3 Castle Street PL15 8BA Donations to the Festival Jane Nancarrow’s walks have proved hugely popular. Stroll around the town with an animated tour by Nancarrow and see the locations that inspired some of Charles Causley’s best-loved poems including the National School, and visit St Thomas’s Church where Causley is buried. Nancarrow, who was taught by Causley, reads his poems with empathy and genuine enthusiasm. The walk will involve several steep hills in the town and is subject to changes in the weather. Charles Causley (L) with Jack Clemo 10 – THE CHARLES CAUSLEY FESTIVAL 2015 Saturday 13 June 11.00 am Launceston Guildhall 6 £4 Jack Clemo was blind and deaf for much of his adult life. His only means of communication was for someone to trace out letters on the palm of his hand, and yet he became one of the most important of Cornwall’s writers and poets. His work is steeped in the culture of the clay country around mid-Cornwall. Join us as Luke Thompson examines this extraordinary man’s life and looks at his friendships with other writers including Charles Causley. Luke Thompson is currently writing a biography of Jack Clemo and has discovered numerous unpublished poems by Clemo. Part of the proceeds from this event will go towards supporting the Sir Arthur Quiller Couch Memorial Fund, which is better known as ‘The Q Fund’ (Charity No. 306599). Kathryn Simmonds was the first Charles Causley Trust Poet in Residence in 2014. In 2008, she won the Forward Best First Collection Award with Sunday at the Skin Laundrette, described in the Guardian as a “playful and knowing first collection fuelled throughout by a strong sense of lyricism.” While living in Launceston Simmonds finished her first novel, Love & Fallout. Dr Alyson Hallett was the second Charles Causley Trust Poet in Residence in 2014 and the first to live in Causley’s home, now managed by the Charles Causley Trust, Cyprus Well. She is a prizewinning poet whose latest book of poetry is Suddenly Everything. Join us for a revealing discussion about their experiences as Poet in Residence at Cyprus Well. Alyson Hallett Kathryn Simmonds www.charlescausleyfestival.co.uk S AT U R D AY 1 3 J U N E This follows the special screening of Edward Woodward’s film ‘A Congregation of Ghosts’ which was filmed on location in rural Cornwall and shown at last years festival. Horrible Science! with Nick Arnold Jenny Balfour Paul Jenny Balfour Paul Tracing Thomas Machell Saturday 13 June 1-3pm The Tamar Room, White Hart Hotel 13 £7 to include a sandwich lunch, pay bar Jenny Balfour Paul, writer, artist, international lecturer and intrepid traveller, is author of two books on Indigo. Jenny is an Honorary Research Fellow at Exeter University and President of the UK’s Association of Guilds The author’s quest begins when the word ‘indigo’ draws her to the illustrated journals, now in the British Library, of Victorian traveller Thomas Machell. This intriguing odyssey, set on the edges of time, encompasses biography, memoir, detective story, travelogue and history to tell a remarkable tale of East-West connections and a mysterious love. Join us for a lunchtime talk with Jenny Balfour Paul. Book signing with Carolyn McGivern Saturday 13 June 2pm-2:30pm & 4-5pm Town Hall 6 FREE ‘Starring Edward Woodward’ is the new biography of Edward Woodward by author Carolyn McGivern. Join us for a special book signing with Carolyn at the Festival. www.charlescausleyfestival.co.uk Saturday 13 June 2.30pm-4pm Launceston Town Hall 6 £2 Join amazing author Nick Arnold for outrageous hair-raising highlights from the multiaward winning Horrible Science series including Really Rotten Experiments! Get ready for evil experiments, scary stories and queasy quizzes. With woeful water experiments, foul factoids and the odd putrid poem this is roof-raising family fun with extra squishy bits. Not to be missed! This event is programmed specially for children. Horrible Science with Nick Arnold Horrible Science at the Festival is supported by Peters Langsford Solicitors Script and Story Scriptwriting workshop with Stephen Keyworth Saturday 13 June 4 - 6 pm Guildhall 6 £4 Interested in writing for television, radio or theatre? Or learning more about the tools of storytelling and how to write good dialogue? This practical workshop by scriptwriter and comedian Stephen Keyworth aims to set you on the right track, whether you’re a beginner or someone with a few scripts under your belt. Keyworth has written plays for Radio 4 and the stage, as well as episodes of EastEnders, Casualty and Doctors. In 2011 he won Shine Pictures Big Idea prize, and worked on forthcoming film Breaking The Bank starring Kelsey Grammer. He is currently mentoring MA students at Central School of Speech and Drama, and worked for many years as a stand-up comedian. Charles Causley A memoir and an appreciation Saturday 13 June 5-6pm Cyprus Well, 2 Ridgegrove Hill 3 £2 Join Barry Newport for a candid reflection on his 28-year friendship with Charles Causley, in the poet’s former home at Cyprus Well Newport will share his recollections of numerous visits to Launceston, meeting Causley at many readings and events, and their mutual friends and acquaintances who were part of Causley’s life story. Barry Newport is a retired GP with a passion for books and literature. He has contributed to a numerous journals, including The Thomas Hardy Society Journal, and was a speaker at the 2014 Thomas Hardy Conference. He published an article and a select bibliography in Causley at Seventy (1987), and edited A Hand and Flower Anthology, (a celebration of the Hand and Flower Press), in 1980. Please note, there are a limited number of tickets for this event due to capacity at Cyprus Well Please park in town and walk to Cyprus Well. Note the house is on a steep hill. THE CHARLES CAUSLEY FESTIVAL 2015 – 11 S AT U R D AY 1 3 J U N E Brian Patten An evening with Brian Patten and the Bookshop Band Saturday 13 June 7:30pm until 10pm Launceston Town Hall 6 £10 Brian Patten made his name in the 1960s as one of the Liverpool Poets, alongside Adrian Henri and Roger McGough. Their main aim was to make poetry immediate and accessible for their audience, and their joint anthology, The Mersey Sound (1967), has been credited as the most significant anthology of the 20th century for its success in bringing poetry to new audiences, and is now a Penguin Modern Classic. The Bookshop Band write songs inspired by books, most of the songs start their life at author events at their local bookshop, Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath. Beth Porter has been recording 12 – THE CHARLES CAUSLEY FESTIVAL 2015 and performing for over 10 years with over 60 album credits, and plays regularly with a number of artists, including Eliza Carthy and Newton Faulkner. Ben Please spent 10 years with indie folk band Urusen as a singer and guitarist and has worked with legendary producer Steve Osborne (Elbow, KT Tunstall). The Bookshop Band www.charlescausleyfestival.co.uk S U N D AY 14 J U N E Charles Causley Walk With Arthur Wills Sunday 14 June 10.30am St Thomas Church, Newport 10 Donations to the Festival Arthur Wills was a close friend of Charles Causley and is also a noted local historian. Walk with Arthur and explore the area where the poet was born and brought up in the Newport area of Launceston. The Emperor’s New Clothes Leading street theatre with Launceston Youth Theatre Sunday 14 June 11.00am Town Square 11 12.00am Priory Park 10 Free Charles Causley wrote this version of The Emperor’s New Clothes and this will be it’s first performance since 1991. Based on the tale by Hans Christian anderson, this tale of perception over reality is very appropriate in today’s celebritydominated world, produced by Launceston Youth Theatre. Launceston Youth Theatre www.charlescausleyfestival.co.uk Bagas Degol Salt Road Music and Stories with Anna Maria Murphy and Bagas Degol Sunday 14 June 12.30 pm No. 8 Cafe 9 Adult £8, Children/Concessions £6 Writer Annamaria Murphy (Kneehigh Theatre, BBC Radio 4) and Musicians/Composers Bagas Degol 2nd collaboration. Cod Joliff, fisherman , finds a mysterious diary written by his great great great Grandfather, Ebeenezer Joliff, who had gone with his two brothers to preach in Tierra Del Fuego. Cod goes on an epic journey to discover the secrets hidden in the diaries pages. Come to Salt Road and find out who kissed like a limpet and what Caleb Joliff saw in an iceberg. A lunchtime of original stories and music about the sea and how it shapes us, those who leave, stay behind and come back. A Cornish Odyssey around our coasts and Salt Roads. Made specially for Cornish feasts, halls, festivals, sundry venues both usual and unusual. ‘Barefoot in Ruins’ Sunday 14 June 2:30pm onwards Priory Ruins, St Thomas Church 10 Free Join Barefoot at The Poetry Tent for an Open Mic session and enter the Turnip Prize competition created for the festival. The Priory Ruins stand behind St.Thomas Church and form a delightful outdoor setting . Everyone is welcome and should bring poetry, stories, songs, music and maybe food, drink and a blanket and brolly . . . as the weather suggests. Enter this year’s Turnip Prize Competition ‘Local’. Entries are free, and can be anything you want to express your own thoughts on ‘Local’, for example, writing, cooking, drawing, knitting or use any other appropriate means. Only original work will be eligible but of course you can work with others to produce it! Bring your creations to the Priory Ruins on Sunday afternoon and read/ exhibit/ perform your piece. The Golden Turnip THE CHARLES CAUSLEY FESTIVAL 2015 – 13 S U N D AY 14 J U N E Celebrating 20 years of Launceston in Bloom Winning Flower Displays with Alison Penno, Flower Scene Sunday 14 June 1:30-3.00pm Guildhall 6 £1 Gardeners’ Question Time - Meet the experts Sunday 14 June 3-4.30 pm Launceston Town Hall £2 Bring along your queries, sickly plants and tales of woe and our panel of professionals Johnny Mann (Chair), John Harris, Sarah Chesters and Michael Taylor will offer advice and support. (Please bring any plants in sealed plastic bags.) Learn from the experts, join us for a flower arrangement demonstration with award winning florists from Flower Scene, accompanied by local author, Jane Nancarrow reading Charles Causley’s poems. L to R: John Harris, Sarah Chesters, Micheal Taylor and Johnny Mann Alison Penno Flower Scene, established in Launceston in 1984 regularly enter competitions at all levels, including Royal Horticultural Show, British Florist Association and National Association of Flower Arrangement Societies. In 2010 they won Silver Gilt and Silver medals at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. John Harris, known as the ‘Moon Gardener,’ is Head Gardener of a Cornish estate which includes one of the last remaining working Victorian walled kitchen gardens in the south west. He is an author and a regular on BBC Radio Devon’s “Potting Shed”. Sarah Chesters now combines a job as Education and Learning Manager at RHS Garden Rosemoor with a regular presenting slot on BBC Radio Devon. Michael Taylor was until very recently proprietor of Endsleigh Gardens Nursery at Milton Abbot. A gardener all his life, Taylor had worked on large estates such as Floors Castle and Sandringham but always said that Endsleigh was the best. Johnny Mann is a retired local vet, with a lifelong interest in horticulture and wildlife, and opens his extensive garden, described as a ‘hardy plantsman’s garden’ for charity. He has a keen interest in hellebores and was previously Chairman of the Cornwall’s Hardy Plant Society. OPEN GARDENS Sunday 14 June All Free 2-3pm Kensey Foods garden, Pennygilliam Industrial Estate, Launceston, PL15 7AF. Meet the gardener Peter Wilton and pick up a map and wander the trail at your leisure. 2:30-3:30pm Manaton, Dunheved Road, Launceston, PL15 9JE. Collect a plan of the garden and wander at your leisure. 2-4pm The Holt, 2 Wooda Lane, Launceston, PL15 8JB Launceston in Bloom Best Overall Garden 2014, no access to the garden, to be viewed over the wall. Parking at the Old National School or on the road. 11am-4pm Lawrence House Museum, Castle Street, Launceston. Enjoy tea in the gardens of the museum. FORTHCOMING EVENT: Sunday 21 June Charles Causley Trust, Midsummer Garden at Penheale, Egloskerry with poetry readings by Anna Maria Murphy. 14 – THE CHARLES CAUSLEY FESTIVAL 2015 www.charlescausleyfestival.co.uk S U N D AY 14 J U N E Foraging for wild food With Rachel Lambert Sunday 14 June 4.30-5.30pm Launceston Guildhall 6 £3 Come and meet Forager and Wild Food Guide Rachel Lambert for tips on identifying wild foods to forage from local walks across fields, along hedgerows and onto beaches. Lambert prides herself in offering accessible and hands on foraging experiences, introducing the wonders of wild food foraging to all ages and abilities, and will share her knowledge and experience of foraging in Cornwall. Wild food with Rachel Lambert literary. This project has involved interviews with over 20 people including friends from Launceston and major poets including Roger McGough, Simon Armitage and Andrew Motion. Produced by Jane Darke and Andrew Tebbs of Boatshed Films, this promises to be a film to place Causley and Launceston firmly on the map. Testament of Youth film Sunday 14 June 7.30pm Launceston Town Hall 6 Adults £5, Concessions £4 Charles Causley with his mother [Reproduced with the permission of Exeter University Library Special Collections] Poet Testament of Youth is a searing story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain which became the classic testimony of the war from a woman’s point of view. A powerful and passionate journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again; a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times. Certificate 12. Supper will be available between films 7-7.30pm £3 per plate, bar open Festival Closing Party at Firebrand Sunday 14 June 9pm until late Firebrand Free, pay bar Join us for the closing party and meet many of the people involved in the festival at Firebrand. A film about Charles Causley Sunday 14 June 5.45-7pm Launceston Town Hall 6 Adults £4, Concessions £3 Join us for a special preview of Jane Darke’s new film (currently in production) about Charles Causley, much of which was filmed in the town. Poet is about the life and work of Charles Causley as seen through the eyes of his friends - both local and www.charlescausleyfestival.co.uk Testament of Youth THE CHARLES CAUSLEY FESTIVAL 2015 – 15 Charles Causley was born in Launceston in 1917 and is acknowledged as one of the very finest Twentieth Century English poets. He lived in Launceston all his life, apart from six years in the Royal Navy. and brought him many awards; among them The Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry and The Ingersoll/ TS Eliot Award. He was made a CBE in 1986 and a Royal Society of Literature ‘Companion of Literature’ in 2000. He received an Hon DLitt from the University of Exeter, where his archive is now held. Charles Causley died in 2003 and is buried next to his mother in St. Thomas Churchyard, barely 100 yards from where he was born. Charles Causley lived and worked at No.2 Cyprus Well in Launceston. Grants from Arts Council England and Cornwall Council and in-kind support from Launceston Town Council and Literature Works to The Charles Causley Trust has enabled the renovation of Charles Causley’s House. Cyprus Well has become a venue for a writer in residency scheme with an associated activities programme. After World War II Charles Causley worked as a teacher in Launceston. He was a popular and admired figure and this admiration is evident in the great affection in which his memory is held today. Charles Causley was also highly regarded by his fellow poets. Ted Hughes wrote: “Before I was made Poet Laureate, I was asked to name my choice of the best poet for the job. Without hesitation I named Charles Causley... a poet for whom the title might have been invented afresh.” Charles Causley’s poetic reputation was worldwide D TLE CAS MA S R OA D C A S T L E ST NO RT HG HIL L ILL LH AN GE E HIG HS T CAST LE DY K RD WE S TGAT E ST ER ST BOUNSALLS LANE ST FO 8 4 E AT D MA HG W UT de 12 L E AN EXET SO rc a ST 2 tA E TGAT WES 9 Har DO CK EY 13 D G RID ST ite 14 D NR ER 6 T ES AD Wh NR ER ST WE ST O BR T T 11 3 HS 1 CH UR C Castle MA RK E 5 VE ATE ST THO D ER CR KA OC 7 Festival Venues Launceston D ST W R DA OO GR O 10 E 1 Castle Green 2 Christian Bookshop, 9 Westgate Street PL15 7AB 3 Cyprus Well, No 2 Ridgegrove Hill 4 Firebrand, 5-7 Southgate Street PL15 9DP 5 Launceston Castle 6 Town Hall/Guildhall, Western Road, PL15 7AR 7 Lawrence House Museum, 9 Castle Street PL15 8BA 8 Library, Bounsalls Lane PL15 9AB 9 No 8 Cafe, 8 Westgate Street PL15 7AB 10 The Priory Ruins, St Thomas’ Church 11 Town Square 12 Launceston Tourist Information Centre (TIC), White Hart Arcade, Broad Street, PL15 8AA 13 White Hart, 15 Broad Street PL15 8AL Altarnun (9 miles from Launceston on the A30 Bodmin road) 14 Terre Verte Gallery, Pooleys, Altarnun, Launceston PL15 7SJ Further information about all our events, artists and performers is available at the Festival website: www.charlescausleyfestival.co.uk Launceston Youth Council Designed by David Eno | Printed by Four Way Print, Launceston
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