FREE EVENTS: Cheltenham Literature Festival
comes to the Brewery

Saturday 10th and Saturday 17th October 2009 
11am-5pm

As proud sponsors of the Cheltenham Literature Festival 2009, the Brewery is delighted to host a whole variety of events each Saturday throughout the Literature Festival.  From 11am til 5pm there will be performers, entertainers and activities on site, all absolutely free for visitors to the Brewery.  See below for the treats on offer each Saturday throughout the festival, live here at the Brewery.

Voices Off - Live literature at a the Brewery

Voices off is about literature that’s alive – fun, exciting, different, quirky, eccentric, inspiring. Sometimes the Festival fringe, other times more mainstream – voices off is truly indefinable! With its unique identity and maverick style, it’s a performance programme that occupies a special place at the heart of the Festival. Check out the prize poets, stunning storytellers, adventurous authors and thrilling thespians appearing in a variety of venues and make up your own mind!

Word On The Street

A fantastic free-for-all around the town on each Saturday of the Festival! Roving minstrels, transcontinental troubadours, wacky wordsters, street theatre, dancers, circus artistes, musicians, stiltwalkers – words are on the move so get into the groove!

Free Speech

It’s loud, it’s exciting and it’s all happening over at the voices off Stage! A plethora of poets and performers entertain the crowds and YOU on the hour from 11am – 5pm. Make sure you clock them!

What's on offer...

Sample a lunar scribble-nibble from Thom Moon 10 . He’s a one-man intergalactic festival, so don’t miss his uni-verse!

Engage the verse-services of Emergency Poet On Call Marcus Moore . Look out for his trademark top hat and tails in Dwell at 11.30am and Habitat at 12.30pm!

Let vision-in-pink chanteuse Sally Crabtree serenade you while you recline under her copper poet-tree.  She’ll be in Dwell at 1.30pm. Lovely!

Don’t miss the unpredictable mayhem of cling-film guy Gareth Jay as he demonstrates alternative ways of using cellophane…

Hollie McNish , Rachel Pantechnicon , Simon Lee , Johnny Fluffy Punk , Ash Dickinson and Spoz – brilliant performance poets taking the page to the stage!

Catch street dancers CoadyCrew and Sculpture Motion performing their own style of moves and grooves!

Word On The Street artistes will be entertaining the crowds at The Centaur over the course of the weekend!

Timetable of events, Saturday 10th October

Voices Off Stage - The Brewery Free

11am Thom Moon 10 - A cosmic poetic treasure

12pm Hollie McNish & Rachel Pantechnicon Slam-winning, crowd-twinning poetry

12.30pm Sculpture Motion

1pm Simon Lee & Johnny Fluffy Punk Witty wordsters who shoot from the lip

1.30pm Sculpture Motion

2pm Ash Dickinson & Spoz A pair of gert lush, bostin poets

2.30pm CoadyCrew

3pm Gareth Jay - The cling-film guy is back!

3.30pm CoadyCrew

4pm Open Mic - If you want to perform, sign up at the Stage on the day

For further details of these and other Cheltenham Literature events, please visit http://cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature/