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Join us for an annual celebration of books and authors, poetry and performance.
Major authors and multi-arts events, comedy and creative writing, performance poetry and a Free Family Day – whatever you enjoy, you’ll find it here at the Huddersfield Literature Festival.
Our award-winning Festival takes place over 10 days in venues across Huddersfield, with community, accessibility and inclusivity at its heart.
We welcome performers and audiences from all sectors of society and many events are free or low-cost. There are events with live subtitling by Stagetext for those who are deaf, deafened and hard of hearing, and DisabledGo Access Guides to key venues.
Meet your favourite authors, discover new talent, hone your own skills or simply come along and enjoy the entertainment on offer.
Events to come
Three new dates for events postponed due to snow: Glint Open Day 9 May at 2pm-3.30pm, Stafflex Free Family Day 7 July, 10am-3.30pm, and Literary Afternoon Tea 11 November, 3-5pm. Glint Open Day is a free event: tickets will remain valid for the new date, you don't...
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PRESENTING HUDDERSFIELD FESTIVAL 2018…
A Taster of some of the events we have on offer. For a full listing click on our events tab or click here
Olga Tokarczuk's 'extraordinary' Flights wins Man Booker International prize
theguardian.com
The Polish novelist takes £50,000 prize, to be shared with her translator, for a story that moves from ‘wit and gleeful mischief to real emotional texture’RIP Philip Roth
Philip Roth: Portnoy's Complaint and American Pastoral author dies aged 85
theguardian.com
Chronicler of American politics, Jewishness and male sexual desire was widely regarded as one of greatest novelists of the 20th centuryThe Last Poets: the hip-hop forefathers who gave black America its voice
theguardian.com
It is half a century since the Last Poets stood in Harlem, uttered their first words in public, and created the blueprint for hip-hop. At an intimate open house session, they explain why their revolut...Could you be the new Chair of Trustees for Sound Connections? | Sound Connections
sound-connections.org.uk
Sound Connections is recruiting a new Chair of Trustees to succeed Katrina Duncan, who will be standing down in October after 12 years of service. The new ChairCelebrating the north
How the north of England got its groove back | Helen Pidd
theguardian.com
Ambitious young northerners used to head south for the best jobs. But now there’s been a cultural shift and they’re staying put, says Helen Pidd, the Guardian’s north of England editorIt's not every day you get an invitation to a free film premiere! Let's Go Yorkshire are doing just that for the film A New Life in Huddersfield - Memories of Partition and Migration on Tuesday 22 May, 3-5pm at Heritage Quay at the #Huddersfield University.
Read more and how to book at bit.ly/ANewLifeFilmPremier
UK's first sign language poetry slam - BBC Ideas
bbc.com
This is a video about deaf poets, who have been fighting it out in the UK's first ever poetry slam for users of sign language.OUR AWARDS
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