Line-ups, news and updates for Port Eliot festival 2011.
Where: Port Eliot, St German, Cornwall
When: 21st - 24th July 2011
How Much: Adult £140, child £70
Port Eliot Festival is a cultural buffet in Cornwall. Laid on for your delectation is a selection of literature and talks, poetry, comedy, music, art and above all, colourful, inspirational fun. Now in its ninth year, the event was formerly called Port Eliot Lit Fest - but changed its name because really, it is a very different approach to a straight-up literary festival.
The team behind it believed there was room for a new kind of literary event - one with engaging literary content but the vibe of a music festival. The writers, poets and journalists attending were asked to perform material they would not be given the opportunity to present at a standard literary festival. Something beyond reading from a book and taking questions from the floor. The brief was merely to 'do something different with words'. The result was spontaneous, original and exciting - and the Port Eliot festival sprirt was born.
The festival occurs in the grounds of a beautiful stately home - former site of the now legendary Elephant Fayre. The line-up spans authors, novelists, fashionistas, musicians, poets, artists and gardeners. There will also be amazing food courtesy of a selection of chefs (and talks by food writers), Martin Scorcese's Outdoor Cinema, kids entertainment, cabaret, colour and more.
The line-up so far:
Authors:
Tiffany Murray, Tahmima Anam, Hugo Williams, Edmund de Waal, Tom Shone, Helen Walsh, Tim Clare, Daisy Goodwin, Sarah Winman, Mick Brown, Sam Bain & Jesse Armstrong, Hari Kunzru, Hanif Kureishi, Jon Ronson, Katie Kitamura, Rosie Boycott, A.C. Grayling, Oliver Burkeman, Lucy Siegle, Gillian Slovo, Kevin Sampson, Luke Wright, Caitlin Moran, Emma Kennedy , Patrick French, Matthew de Abaitua, Roy Hutchins, Simon Garfield, Owen Sheers, Katie Hickman, Rob Young, Joe Dunthorne, James Attlee
Music:
James Walborne, Colorama Gravenhurst, The Secret Sisters, Caitlin Rose, British Sea Power, Andrew Weatherall, Sea of Bees , Rob Pursey (Southern Hospitality), Jonny Trunk , Hannah Peel , Geoff Travis , Conquering Animal Sound, Chris Yates, Trevor Moss and Hannah Lou , Andy Childs, Willy Vlautin , Stephen Parker, The Rockingbirds, Gaggle, Treecreeper, Seahawks , Richard King , Ceri Levy, Harriet Mead, Stephen Moss, Dr Rob Lambert, Mark Cocker, Errol Fuller, Charles Rangeley-Wilson , Jon Berry, John Andrews
Music & Cabaret:
Lush Life, Mad Dog Mcrea, Glenn Tilbrook, Jim Jones Revue, The Half Sisters, Frootful, Deaf School, Bellowhead, Laetitia Sadier, The Langley Sisters, Kit and The Widow, Ed Harcourt, John Cooper Clarke, Simon Munnery, John Hegley, Louis Eliot & The Embers, Murray Lachlan Young, Lulu & The Lampshades, Wilfredo, The Severed Limb, Mik Artistik's Ego Trip, Frank Turner, The Diamond Family Archive, Manière des Bohémiens, Guy Pratt, A Beach Supreme, RSVP, Geraint Watkins , The Fifty Degrees Choir
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