IT'S COMING - NOT LONG NOW - ESSEX BOOK FESTIVAL 2021
Essex Book Festival 2021 - hope to see you there?
With less than two weeks to go before we launch this year’s extended Essex Book Festival #WordsMatter, a fabulous mix of 100+ digital, in person and on foot events in 40+ venues across Essex taking place between 6th June and 29thAugust, it gives me great pleasure to invite you to attend any of the four events detailed below, which will be taking place during our launch week.
All you need to do is send an email to hello@essexbookfestival.org.uk outlining which ones you are interested in attending, and we will send you the relevant zoom (s) or other link (s) closer to the time. Tickets are limited so it will be on a first come basis.
Here goes!
2.30PM: 6 JUNE - We Need To Talk About Essex Girls - an online panel discussion with three amazing Women of Essex: Sarah Perry, Syd Moore and Sadie Hasler who will be discussing what it means to be an Essex Girl: the jokes, the misconceptions, and the strengths and growing movements that are starting to challenge these preconceptions.
4PM: 6 JUNE – Poland Today: Women, Censorship and Human Rights – an online conversation in partnership with Index on Censorship Magazine with UK-based Polish writer Agnieszka Dale, Warsaw-based Sylwia Chutnik, and Leah Cross, Editor of index on Censorship.
7PM: 8 JUNE – Gavin Esler How Britain Ends: English Nationalism and the Rebirth of Four Nations – an online in conversation between award-winning TV and Radio presenter and journalist Gavin Esler and Professor Lorna Fox O’Mahony hosted in partnership with University of Essex.
7.30PM: 10 JUNE – Craig Brown 1,2,3,4: The Beatles In Time, Winner of Baillie Gifford prize 2020, the top prize for UK non-fiction – an online in conversation between best-selling author, satirist and critic Craig Brown and BBC Essex’s Tony Fisher hosted in partnership with Anglia Ruskin University.
For information about the above events, and/or to download a digital copy of this year’s brochure, go to www.essexbookfestival.org.uk. The digital brochure is in the top right-hand corner.
See you there
Ros
Ros Green
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