Sunday is your last opportunity to join this year’s More Than Words Festival!
More Than Words…Pictures
Sat 11th 10-5pm
Sun 12th 10-5pm
The Porthole Room, The Pier
Pier entry charge
Sponsored by Greenfield Acupuncture +
Jo Shepherd will be exhibiting photographs of our Lest We Forget event in November 2021, photographs by Ian Knox of live music from our festival in June 2021 and by Chris Taylor of our Live Poetry event with Marvin Thompson in October 2021.
Jo will be displaying studies of venues and the people associated with them.
Exhibition of local artists’ works with Polodango
Sat 11th 10-4pm
Sun 12th 10-4pm
Polodango
31 Old Church Road, BS21 6NN
Free entry
Paul is an artist and bespoke professional furniture painter who displays contemporary local artworks throughout the year.
Artist in Residence
Clevedon Art Club, with support from the Clevedon Community Bookshop Cooperative, has appointed an artist-in-residence for the duration of the Literary Festival. The artist will be visiting various events, making sketches and taking notes, and using these to create artworks to be exhibited in the town later in the year. If you spot our artist-in-residence please feel free to ask about their work and this project.
“From fact into fiction: how travel and undercover journalism inspired adventure thriller-writing.”
EM Davey
Sun 12th
11am-12.30pm
Theatre Shop
Unit 5 Triangle Centre,
BS21 6HX
12yrs up
£5
E.M. Davey’s career as an undercover journalist has landed him in some sticky spots. He’s tracked down a corrupt supergrass in Brazil, been chased by an enraged hippopotamus in Sierra Leone and posed as a commodity trader to expose human rights abuses on palm oil plantations in Papua New Guinea, and and faced the threat of being ‘spiritually destroyed’ by voodoo priests in Benin. He also has a lifelong love of history, devoting his spare time to visiting archaeological sites around the world. Now Davey describes how his work – and deep understanding of modern espionage techniques – inspired a series of well-received action thrillers. Because sometimes, truth is indeed stranger than fiction…
Moderator : Ruth Bennett
E.M. Davey is a novelist and investigative reporter specialising in environmental crime and international corruption. He’s worked on investigations for BBC programmes such as Panorama and Newsnight. His thrillers mash up history and 21st century espionage, blurring the lines between reality and fiction.
The Super Greedy Caterpillar
Wild Words
Sun 12th
Theatre Shop
Unit 5 Triangle Centre
BS21 6HX
5yrs plus
Want to see puppets behaving badly; a man wearing fairy wings; and a 6-foot caterpillar who wants to eat the entire supermarket including your granny?!
Want to hear toe tapping tunes to dance to; singalong songs to join in with; and other silly serious business?
Wild Words aka Scruff and Ratty ably assisted by humans Michael Loader and Tom Veck bring you their new show and what is sure to be a new freaky family favourite with a serious message about the Environment… The Super Greedy Caterpillar!
Two funny puppets, two desperate men, live song and music, an undersized trumpet an oversized grub, glorious family theatre, participation galore and one giant Un-Eco friendly beast!